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Jun 21 , 2026

Capital Market Surge Hits a Back-Office Bottleneck

The fledgling capital market is producing the headline numbers its architects hoped for. In a single week, trading cleared more than one billion Birr in shares for the first time, and the shareholder...

Jun 21 , 2026

New Tax System to Let the State Watch Every Sale, in Real Time

Nightly "Z-report" summaries from physical cash registers are to be replaced by real-time data transmission to the Ministry of Revenues before any payment is finalised or a receipt is issued. The fede...

Jun 21 , 2026

South Ethiopia Bets on Brick. Residents Foot the Bill

In the fast-growing towns of South Ethiopia, the cost of progress is arriving one corrugated iron sheet at a time. Regional authorities have ordered municipalities to stop issuing construction perm...

Jun 21 , 2026

Exporters Square Off With Federal Officials Over Tax Levied Before Profits

Leaders of a sector that brings some of the scarcest hard currency are warning that new tax measures could force companies to shrink operations, lay off workers or shut down, opening a fresh fault lin...

Jun 14 , 2026

Parliament Receives Biggest Budget Bill, Debt Already First in Line

Finance Minister Ahmed Shide walked into Parliament on Thursday, June 11, 2026, with the largest budget bill the country has ever seen, a 2.34 trillion Br plan burdened by weight. Behind the record...

Jul 2 , 2026

Ethiopian Airlines Seeks Saudi Fuel Lifeline as Costs Threaten Its Expansion

Ethiopian Airlines' effort to tame its largest operating pressure has taken it to Saudi Arabia, where the carrier is preparing a three-month fixed marginal price fuel deal less as a bet on cheaper fue...

Jun 14 , 2026

ASKY Bets Big on West African Aviation Hub as Costs Climb Faster Than Planes

ASKY Airlines is trying to make the leap from regional carrier to aviation platform. From Lomé, the Togolese airline wants to double its fleet, open long-haul routes, build maintenance and training c...

Jun 14 , 2026

Homebuyers Crowd Court as Key Housing Fight Deepens

The crowd arrived before the judges did, turning the quiet civil benches at the Lideta Division of the Federal High Court, on Bekele Weya (Dej.) St., into a stage for a dispute over housing finance, c...

Jun 14 , 2026

Smart Plates Bring a Fear of Being Priced Off the Road

A regulatory change presented by city transport officials as vehicle modernisation has landed in Addis Abeba as a bill that vehicle owners protest they cannot afford. What began as a delayed licenc...

Jun 14 , 2026

Berhan Bank Allowance Dispute Shifts from Pay Claim to Union Standing Fight

Berhan Bank's three-year dispute with thousands of non-clerical workers over a housing allowance has shifted from a claim for arrears into a contest over union representation. Leaders of a newly forme...

Jun 7 , 2026

National Census Delay Opens a New Fight Over Who Controls the Facts

The long-delayed census has returned to Parliament not as a counting exercise, but as a fight over who should command the country's numbers. The Ministry of Planning & Development has introduce...

Jun 7 , 2026

City Secures Qoshe, Displaces the Shadow Workforce

The Addis Abeba City Administration has begun securing and physically fencing "Qoshe's" perimeter, changing what long functioned as an open dumping ground into a controlled municipal utility. Accor...

Jun 7 , 2026

Ethiopia Risks Creditor Lawsuit as Talks Imperil IMF Reform Drive

Ethiopia's debt talks have reached a precarious juncture, where a stalled billion-dollar Eurobond restructuring threatens to collide with the country's IMF-backed reform programme. The Internationa...

Jun 7 , 2026

Vote Counts Give Way to Complaints Over Credibility

The national elections held last week have moved from counting to contestation, after Melatwork Hailu, chief of the National Election Board of Ethiopia (NEBE), disclosed that over two dozen contesting...

Jun 3 , 2026

Ethiopians Voted in the Millions, But Not Everywhere: IGAD

Millions cast ballots, while security concerns prevented elections from being conducted in 38 constituencies in the Tigray and eight in the Amhara regional states, leaving a substantial portion of the...

Jun 2 , 2026

Electoral Board Rushes to Defend Vote Count Amid Delays, Disputed Videos

The national electoral board has dismissed two employees for procedural violations while counting continues in the Amhara, Somali, Gambella and Sidama regional states as well as Addis Abeba. The di...


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