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Sep 27 , 2025

Commodity Exchange Struggles to Hold Ground as Direct Trade Surges

Seventeen years after its inception as a flagship market reform for agricultural modernisation, the Ethiopian Commodity Exchange (ECX) is wrestling with a crisis of fade in practicality. Once haile...

Sep 27 , 2025

Construction Authority Rolls Out Licensing Regime for Elevator Indus-try

The elevator industry is bracing for sweeping reforms as construction regulators are to impose the first comprehensive licensing and inspection regime on companies installing, maintaining, and inspect...

Sep 27 , 2025

Customs Commission Unshackles Container Deposits

The Ethiopian Customs Commission (ECC) has ended its long-standing policy requiring importers to lodge large cash deposits or financial guarantees before moving shipping containers from ports into the...

Sep 27 , 2025

Drug Makers Left in Limbo as Macroeconomic Reforms Bite

The pharmaceutical industry, which has long been championed as a vehicle for import substitution and national self-reliance, is facing mounting pressures. Currency shortages, rigid procurement fram...

Sep 27 , 2025

Authority's Drive to Clean Up Agriculture Faces Uphill Battle Over Cost, Compliance

The federal government is to inject nearly 31 million dollars into a sweeping overhaul of the country's plant health regime, a strategy authorities hope will safeguard farmers, revive export credibili...

Sep 21 , 2025

Eyob Steps into the Hot Seat with Reform on His Mind

Eyob Tekalegn (PhD) assumed the governorship of the National Bank of Ethiopia (NBE) last week with a pledge to overhaul the Central Bank into “a regulatory body fit for purpose in a modern economy.â...

Sep 21 , 2025

Ministry Moves to Bridge Graduate-Employer Gap with Mandatory Employment Centres

The Ministry of Education is proposing a comprehensive overhaul to address the growing crisis of graduate unemployment. A draft directive currently under review would require all public universities a...

Sep 21 , 2025

Ethiopia Faces Debt Turmoil as Recovery Hopes Dim

Ethiopia has reached a critical juncture after years of aggressive borrowing to fund a state-led growth model. It now finds itself in the crosshairs of global financial scrutiny, following last week's...

Sep 21 , 2025

Cracking Neighborhood Exposes Addis Abeba's Deep Fault Lines

A cluster of condominiums and a public school in Addis Abeba have become the epicentre of a growing urban crisis, as structural cracks have forced authorities to fence off the premises and residents i...

Sep 21 , 2025

Audit Sector Buckles Under Weight of Global Standards

The Ethiopian Accounting & Auditing Board (AABE) has laid bare a sector struggling with the contradictions of ambition and reality. The Board's audit quality review, years in the making and now ha...

Sep 21 , 2025

Fed Ramps Up Climate Spending While Debt, Social Services Strain

The federal government is staking a growing share of its expanding budget on climate resilience, an act seen as a political will that may double as economic self-harm, a new cross-country analysis by...

Sep 21 , 2025

Bitcoin Miners Hit Power Wall as Power Company Prioritises Grid Access Over Digital Gold Rush

Executives at the Ethiopian Electric Power (EEP) have ruled out any new electricity allocations for Bitcoin mining firms, closing the door, at least temporarily, on expansion plans by global heavyweig...

Sep 15 , 2025

Monument to National Ambition, Geopolitical Agency

The Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD), Africa's largest hydroelectric power project, was formally inaugurated last week, ending a 14-year journey marked by intense national pride, financial impro...

Sep 13 , 2025

MEGA-DAM POWERS UP

The initial budget in 2011 was 80 billion Br, but this figure swelled to a revised cost of 240 billion Br by 2024, a challenge that was exacerbated by currency depreciation and devaluation which saw t...

Banks Face Mounting Pressure to Embrace Sustainability as Capital Market Opens

Banks are facing growing pressure to make sustainability central to their operations as regulators and international partners push for stronger disclosure and transparent reporting. Lenders are being...

Sep 15 , 2025

City Cabinet Overhauls Construction Rules Despite Developer Frustration

The Addis Abeba City Cabinet has enacted a landmark reform to its long-contentious setback regulations, a policy city officials say is meant to modernise urban governance and unlock long-stalled devel...


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