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Aug 17 , 2025

Ministry Casts Reform Net, Fishermen Face a Tide of Uncertainty

The federal government, led by the Ministry of Agriculture, is finalising a sweeping licensing regime that will introduce formal regulation to a predominantly subsistence-based fishing sector. The...

Aug 17 , 2025

Civil Servants Rush to Secure Digital Certificates, Skills Take a Back Seat

More than 120,000 government employees in Addis Abeba are racing to collect coding certificates under a citywide digital training initiative, part of a sweeping national goal to produce “five millio...

Aug 17 , 2025

New Entrants Rattle Insurance Industry, But Old Constraints Persist

Two new insurance companies, Standard Insurance and Was Insurance, are poised to join the fragmented and slow-growing domestic insurance industry, eyeing to carve out niche offerings in a market long...

Aug 17 , 2025

Siinqee Bank Makes Foray into Investment Banking

Siinqee Bank is set launch an investment banking subsidiary with a registered capital of 497 million Br. The new company, which finalized application for registration with the Ethiopian Capital Market...

Aug 17 , 2025

Mesob Pushes Digital Platform to Meet Entrenched Resistance

The federal government is formalising the legal scaffolding for the Mesob One-Stop Centre, a digital hub launched in Addis Abeba six months ago, in a fresh salvo against a deeply entrenched bureaucrac...

Aug 17 , 2025

Addis Abeba's Budget Discipline Collides with Hotel Industry Survival

The Administration of Mayor Adanech Abiebie has imposed a sweeping ban on the use of hotel venues for government meetings, workshops, trainings, and evaluations, in an aggressive bid to slash bureaucr...

Aug 17 , 2025

LOST IN TRANSMISSION

With connections collapsing at peak hours and “unlimited” packages proving anything but, digital workers struggle to convince global clients they can deliver. Software developers are painfully fam...

Aug 10 , 2025

Capital Market Tribunal Steps onto the Field

After four years of legislative gestation and eight months of bureaucratic buildup, the first dedicated capital markets court, the Ethiopian Capital Market Administrative Tribunal (ECMAT), is on the b...

Aug 9 , 2025

Minister Alemu Sets to Pull Polluting Cars Off Roads in Looming Emissions Purge

All diesel and gasoline vehicles will be barred from operating without an official emissions certificate or approved emission-reduction technology in two months, according to the Ministry of Transport...

Aug 9 , 2025

Gov't to Pour Billions Into Horticulture Dream With Stakes as High as the Harvest

Federal agriculture authorities have unveiled their most ambitious horticulture drive yet, pledging to invest 24.5 billion dollars over the next seven years in a bid to transform a largely domestic an...

Aug 9 , 2025

Parents Push Back as Elite School's Tuition Hike Spurs Dispute

An elite private school has sparked controversy over fees after its Administration more than doubled tuition for the 2025/26 academic year. Lebawi International Academy (LIA), renowned for its high...

Aug 9 , 2025

Ethiopians Among Top Visa Overstayers in U.S.

A Department of Homeland Security (DHS) data places Ethiopia among the global hotspots for B1/B2 visa overstays, uncovering the growing tension between migration pressures at home and tightening immig...

Aug 9 , 2025

Ethiopian Airlines Cruises High Altitude while Parts Shortages, Price Surges Bite

Ethiopian Airlines is facing an operational and financial balancing act, with its supply-chain bottlenecks now persisting for a fifth year since the pandemic. The shortage of aircraft spare parts has...

Aug 2 , 2025

Ahadu Bank Taps Veteran Banker During Capital Countdown

Regulators at the National Bank of Ethiopia (NBE) have confirmed the appointment of Mulugeta Beza as Ahadu Bank's third president in as many years. The appointment marks a crucial leadership transitio...

Aug 2 , 2025

New Directive Mandates Central Oversight, Digital Integration for SOEs

A sweeping new directive has been issued, marking a shift in the governance of state-owned enterprise (SOE) procurement. This directive brings over 40 major enterprises under unified oversight and dig...

Aug 2 , 2025

False Banana to Get Real Following Ministry's Enset Investment Plan

Federal authorities in the agricultural sector are placing a strategic bet on an indigenous crop that has been overlooked mainly beyond its traditional highland roots. Enset, also known as “false ba...


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