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Deloitte to Map Out Awash Insurance's Strategic Plan

January 23 , 2021 . By ABDUREZAK LESMAN

Awash Insurance Company (AIC) has come to an agreement with Deloitte East Africa for the latter to design a 10-year strategic plan and a 10-year performance road map dubbed "T...

Local App Joins CBE to Digitise Agriculture

January 23 , 2021 . By EMRAKEL SILESHI

The state giant commercial bank has partnered with a local company that works on agricultural mechanisation and solutions for transforming the way farmers in rural areas procu...

Nib Surpasses Industry Average Growth Rate

January 23 , 2021 . By FASIKA TADESSE

Nib International Bank registered a remarkable profit growth in the last fiscal year, surpassing the industry average growth rate of 33pc. Its net profit expanded by 44pc to ...

Berhan Amps Up Profit, Shareholder Return

January 23 , 2021 . By FASIKA TADESSE

Berhan Insurance, one of the latest entrants in the insurance industry, registered remarkable growth over the past fiscal year. Its net profit reached 33.7 million Br, marking a 27.6pc rise from the p...

Berhan Insurance, one of the latest entrants in the insurance industry...

CEMENTED FATE

January 16 , 2021 . By MAYA MISIKIR

Bags of cement are stacked up high in Megenagna, one of the more famous retailing areas in Addis Abeba. But the closed warehouses in the photo betray the turbulence of a market where production is low...

Bags of cement are stacked up high in Megenagna, one of the more famou...

Universities to Undergo Accreditation Assessments

January 16 , 2021 . By MAYA MISIKIR

The federal agency in charge of education quality assurance has begun reviewing the quality of all 51 public universities in the country for accreditation. The universities have been operating without...

The federal agency in charge of education quality assurance has begun...

EDUCATION MINISTRY CANCELS MASK ORDERS

The Ministry of Education has cancelled the contract it gave to five plants at industrial parks to supply 50 million face masks to be disbursed to schools after the plants supplied a little over half...

The Ministry of Education has cancelled the contract it gave to five p...

MIDROC Foundation, Ex-manager Dispute Continues

January 16 , 2021 . By FASIKA TADESSE

A dispute between MIDROC Foundation Specialist and a former employee and shareholder continues even after a court closed the six-year-old legal wrangling. Although the Court ordered the company to pay...

A dispute between MIDROC Foundation Specialist and a former employee a...

January 16 , 2021 . By HAWI DADHI

Bank of Abyssinia has replaced its former mobile wallet appl...

January 16 , 2021 . By FASIKA TADESSE

Bunna International Bank netted 440.3 million Br in profit d...

January 16 , 2021 . By FASIKA TADESSE

Reduced claims and improved investment income ushered Abay I...

January 16 , 2021 . By MAYA MISIKIR

A federal agency in charge of overseeing higher education an...

Columns

Editorial

Famine: Terrible Hole in Country's Conscience

January 23 , 2021

Usually, millions facing food insecurity in Ethiopia does not make headline news. Not...

How to Counter Rising, Unbridled Nationalism

January 16 , 2021

It was a sunny day on September 12, 1974. A machine gun mounted on top of a tank was...

Not to Undo Abiy Ahmed's Pledge for Credible National Elections

January 9 , 2021

There is something curious about elections that have been conducted in Ethiopia since...

To Millions Suffering, IGAD Continues to be a Disappointment

January 2 , 2021

One by one, Workneh Gebeyehu (PhD), executive secretary of the Intergovernmental Auth...

Sunday With Eden

Kindness' Risk-Reward Ratio

A friend of a friend recently went into a series of difficult spells in his life. First, his wife left for another country, leaving him beh...

January 23 , 2021 . By Eden Sahle

From the US to Ethiopia, the Need for Accountability

We witnessed hitherto unthinkable violence erupting in Washington, DC at Capitol Hill on January 06, 202...

January 16 , 2021 . By Eden Sahle

Life Matters

Communication Breakdown, as Bad for Cooking Videos as Politics

It is not a new term. It is actually a quite common one, especially to those who have the experience of j...

January 23 , 2021 . By Kidist Yidnekachew

Country of Negative Nellys

I was a month postnatal when I discovered a familiar way of communicating in Ethiopia. Many visitors came to see me, as they often do after...

January 16 , 2021 . By Kidist Yidnekachew

Agenda

New Dawn, New Day, Less Pay

January 23 , 2021 . By HAWI DADHI

It was a quiet, bitterly cold morning atop Entoto, the tallest mountain in the capital and namesake of the recently opened Entoto Park. The...

Cement: Construction Industry's Catch-22

January 16 , 2021 . By MAYA MISIKIR

His phone is tightly wrapped up in a plastic bag and tied around his neck. The bag is meant to keep dust...

A Not So Merry Market

January 9 , 2021 . By MAYA MISIKIR

A myriad of loud sounds are competing to be heard over one another in Mercato, the largest open-air market on the continent. Multiple speak...

2020: A Series of Unfortunate Events

January 2 , 2021 . By MAYA MISIKIR

Every year, during the harvest season, a care package of barley grain makes its way from Adwa to Addis Ab...

Gallery

2020 in Posterity

January 5 , 2021

With an election initially expected to be held in 2020, the past year was supposed to be eventful. It did not disappoint. In fact, it outpaced expectations. Much of 2020 was talked about, analysed and debated. And thanks to technology, it was caught...

TIGRAY VOTES DESPITE "NULL & VOID" THREAT

September 9 , 2020

IN-PICTURE: LAUREATE'S RECEPTION

December 14 , 2019

PM Abiy Ahmed (PhD) at a Gala Dinner Called for the Awarding of the Félix Houphouët-Boigny Peace Prize

May 6 , 2019

Faces, Voices of Addis Abeba

April 26 , 2019

Mourning Nation, Grieving World

March 17 , 2019

Commentaries

Far-sighted Policies, Down to Earth Planners Can Revitalise Agriculture

Agriculture, the major sector of the economy in terms of export promotion and intensi...

January 23 , 2021 . By Ayele Tirfie Woldemichael

How to Tackle Vulnerable Countries’ Triple Crisis

The year 2020 changed everything. The world now faces interconnected health, economic...

January 23 , 2021 Manish Bapna and Muhammad Musa

Fineline

Leaders of the National . . .

Leaders of the National Election Board are in a charm offensive mood, of a sort. Last week, they organised a rare tour for members of the me...

When the country’s most. . .

When the country’s most senior diplomats and envoys return back to their posts after two-week debriefings, they leave behind a point or tw...

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TIMKET BLASTS

January 23 , 2021

With celebrants dressed in white, prominently carrying the flag of the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church, horns were blared and drums struc...

Ethio Telecom Hires Business Valuator

January 23 , 2021 . By FASIKA TADESSE

Ethio telecom, the lone telecom operator, hired KPMG East Africa to conduct its business valuation. Kicke...

Stock Exchange to be Operational through PPP

January 23 , 2021 . By FASIKA TADESSE

The first securities exchange, where traders can buy and sell securities such as company stocks and bonds...