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Nov 29 , 2025

Special Economic Zones Falter as Investment Plans Miss the Mark

The federal government's drive to accelerate industrialisation through Special Economic Zones (SEZs) stumbled early in the current fiscal year, revealing cracks in the Ethiopian Investment Commission...

Nov 29 , 2025

Europe Extends Forest Rule Deadline But Ethiopia’s Coffee Sector Still Feels the Heat

The European Union (EU) has once again extended the deadline for its regulations on deforestation, offering another year for businesses to align with rules in keeping products linked to forest loss ou...

Nov 29 , 2025

Legislative Turf War Unfolds Over New Plant Protection Regime

As federal lawmakers review the most ambitious overhaul of its plant protection and quarantine framework in over half a century, a growing institutional rift is threatening to derail the process. A...

Nov 22 , 2025

AWASH BANK BREAKS AWAY FROM PACK

Awash Bank, under the stewardship of Board Chairman Gure Kumsa (Left) and its President Tsehay Shiferaw, delighted its shareholders at a meeting at Skylight Hotel on Saturday, November 22, 2025, with...

Nov 26 , 2025

Taxi Drivers Brace for Fresh Costs as Speed Control Rule Nears

A proposed regulation mandating the installation of GPS-enabled speed-limiting devices on all vehicles has triggered widespread concern across the commercial transport sector, as drivers and associati...

Nov 22 , 2025

Soaring Cooking Oil Prices Squeeze Households, Expose Market Fault Lines

In a troubling divergence from official inflation data, the cost of everyday essentials is climbing with unnerving speed, reshaping household habits and revealing deep inefficiencies in the import-dep...

Nov 22 , 2025

Agency Turns to Shareholder Farming in Bid to Reshape Rural Economy

A federal agriculture agency sets an ambitious plan to transform the agricultural sector, creating private agricultural business companies across cluster farming areas. Developed by the Agricultura...

Nov 22 , 2025

Minister Melaku to Suspend Raw Leather Exports Amid Industry Crisis

The federal government is preparing to impose a ban on the export of raw leather, a decisive intervention by Industry Minister Melaku Alebel sought to revive a domestic tanning industry in freefall. ...

Nov 15 , 2025

Soaring Bids, Shrinking Plots Reshape Addis Abeba's Land Market

Addis Abeba's latest land lease auction, its seventh in the current cycle, has offered fresh insight into the changing dynamics of the capital's volatile property market. The lease offer of 274 plo...

Nov 15 , 2025

Teaching Hospitals Buckle Under Budget Strain

Teaching hospitals, once bastions of clinical training and community care, are now operating under binding financial distress, threatening their core mandates of education, treatment, and research. ...

Nov 15 , 2025

A New Rule Changes the Pulse of Trade

A sweeping regulatory directive has rattled the multi-billion Birr oilseed and pulse export sector, with the government mandating that all payments between exporters and suppliers be channelled exclus...

Nov 16 , 2025

Rehab Centres Buckle Under Strain as Health System Sidelines the Disabled

Rehabilitation centres are facing a crisis of capacity and care, buckling under a rising tide of demand, dwindling human resources, and increasingly unaffordable material costs. The growing dysfunc...

Nov 16 , 2025

Central Bank Opens Door to Fintech Innovation While Keeping a Foot on the Brake

Financial regulators have taken a step toward nurturing fintech innovation with the release of a draft directive for a regulatory sandbox. The initiative forms part of a broader government push tow...

Nov 8 , 2025

COURIERS AT THE CROSSROADS

Once the fleet-footed antidote to Addis Abeba's traffic paralysis, motorcycle couriers now find themselves sputtering toward obsolescence. A pandemic-era ban on passenger services throttled their earn...

Nov 8 , 2025

Ministry Revamps Special Needs Education Promising Inclusion

The Ministry of Education has unveiled a long-overdue plan to transform the country's fragmented approach to special needs education. The proposal establishes a new and autonomous department for sp...

Nov 8 , 2025

High Voltage Meets Low Capacity in EV Conversion Drive

Federal transportation authorities are pushing for the conversion of old, fuel-powered cars to electric vehicles, expecting about 15pc of the country's vehicle fleet to undergo the shift. However, the...

Columns

Commentaries | Aug 22,2026

Exports Record Worth Having. They Worth More as a Beginning

A record is a strange thing to worry about. Federal trade officials have booked the best e...

Editorial | Aug 22 , 2026

SMALL-NOTES SQUEEZE WORN, TORN, NEVER RETURNED

For Hirut Ayalew, a small shop owner around Ferensay Legasiyon, the shortage of usable sma...

Featured | Aug 1 , 2026 . By BIZUAYEHU ABIY

The City Wants to Widen Its Tax Net. Shops Feel It Tighten

The tax bill that reached Ferdos Debebe this year left little room in the tight finances o...

Agenda | Aug 22 , 2026 . By ABDUREUF JUHAR and FITSUM TADESSE

Central Bank Writes Rulebooks for Billion-Birr Market Already Exists

The forthcoming strategy for interest-free finance will place Sharia-compliant financing o...

Fortune News | Aug 22 , 2026 . By BEZAWIT HULUAGER