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Mar 27 , 2021

SESSION OF RECKONING

Speaker Tagesse Chafo (left) walks Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed (PhD) out after a session with members of parliament where the latter had to answer for one of the most challenging periods the country has...

Mar 27 , 2021

Idled Factory Disrupts Oxygen Supply amid Medical Demand Surge

A production disruption at the city's primary supplier of medical oxygen, Chora Gas Factory, has fueled the severe shortage of oxygen in the midst of what experts dub the third wave of the Novel Coron...

Hit by Supply Shortage, Textile Industry Eyes Salvation in Cotton Imports

Ethiopia is importing 20,000tn of cotton, representing close to 40pc of the textile industry's annual demand, after floods damaged plantations in the main growing regional state and caused shortages i...

Mar 27 , 2021

No Love Lost Between Tsehay Real Estate, Homeowners

The relationship between a real estate developer and hundreds of homebuyers has not been warm and sunny of late. Embroiled in a series of issues from title deed issuance to manners in which shared pro...

Mar 27 , 2021

Messebo Resumes Production, Cement Saga Continues

Shocked by the escalating price of cement, authorities at the Ministry of Trade & Industry have begun to take a series of measures hoping to discipline the battered cement industry and supply chai...

Mar 27 , 2021

Disgruntled Labourers Walk Out at Coca-Cola Addis Abeba Plant

Almost one-third of employees at the Addis Abeba plant under East Africa Bottling S.C. have staged a walkout over a dispute with annual bonuses and unanswered requests about incentives and workplace c...

Mar 27 , 2021

Overseas Wheat Supplier Emerges Triumphant over Litigation

A wheat supplier based in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) cannot be held liable for additional costs incurred by a federal public procurement agency in sourcing wheat at a more expensive price after th...

Mar 27 , 2021

Planning Commission Drops 16pc of Ministry-proposed projects

Several public projects under review by the federal planning commission failed to receive a positive nod due to an inability to meet the commission's criteria and priorities. Close to 16pc of the ...

Mar 20 , 2021

ELBOW BUMP TO ENTREPRENEURSHIP

Filsan Abdullahi Ahmed (left), minister of Women, Children & Youth, elbow bumps President Sahle-Work Zewde before launching a continental networking platform for women entrepreneurs at the Skyligh...

Mar 20 , 2021

Agency, Health Ministry Officials in Deadlock over Competence Examination

Officials at the Ministry of Health and a federal agency in charge of quality education in higher learning are at loggerheads over the readiness of new graduates joining the medical industry to sit fo...

Mar 20 , 2021

Beverage Companies Win Favorable Verdict over Disputed Merger

A federal consumer protection agency has lost a bid to stop a merger of two companies in the beverage industry after a legal battle of 44 months came to an end last month. Justices at the Supreme C...

Mar 20 , 2021

Contractors Association Decries Shortage, Soaring Prices

Construction industry leaders have urged policymakers to “immediately” intervene in what they say are “untenable problems” besieging their industry, particularly concerning cement availability...

Mar 20 , 2021

Ministry to Open Unprecedented Transport & Logistics Areas to Foreign Investment

A series of industries in the transport and logistic sectors are now open to foreign direct investment, joint ventures with local businesses, and public-private partnerships (PPP). Authorities at t...

Mar 20 , 2021

Committee Gears Up for Chemical Disposal

A committee has been set up by the Federal Public Procurement & Property Administration Agency to conduct a study on how to effectively dispose of expired and toxic chemicals stockpiled at governm...

Mar 20 , 2021

Dire Dawa Hospital Scheduled to Close for Delinquent Taxes

A private hospital in Dire Dawa is threatened with a sudden closure due to a dispute over tax arrears claimed by the federal government. The management of Bilal General Hospital says it is only day...

Mar 20 , 2021

Agency to Begin Food Security Survey

The federal agency responsible for national statistics will give a closer look at how well the fourth round of the Productive Safety Net Programme (PSNP IV) has fared over the past five years in meeti...


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