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Mar 28 , 2026

Export-Zone Ambitions Collide With a Financing Squeeze

Senior executives of the Industry Park Development Corporation (IPDC), which is converting all industrial parks into special economic zones, have pressed for deeper financial engagement, where credit...

Mar 28 , 2026

Electric Vehicle Sales Scheme Draws Expanding Fraud Probe

What began as a promise to put affordable electric cars within reach of buyers has turned into an allegedly widening criminal case that has stretched beyond one company and its founders to a circle of...

Mar 21 , 2026

IN ADDIS FUEL STRAINS LIVELIHOODS

A fuel shortage in Addis Abeba is stripping drivers of hours and income who depend on their vehicles to survive, turning the daily search for petrol into a punishing wait. For an average taxi driver,...

Mar 21 , 2026

Djibouti Moves to Curb War Surcharges on Ethiopia’s Trade Lifeline

Djibouti has moved to draw a line under the costs of the Gulf crisis, telling shipping agents not to retroactively impose freight surcharges on cargo loaded before the war in Iran began. The order...

Mar 21 , 2026

Ethiopia Wins in The Hague But Not Without a Bill

After more than six years of legal wrangling, a foreign investment dispute that began on the outskirts of Addis Abeba's water reservoirs has ended with Ethiopia winning the case but ordered to pay mil...

Mar 21 , 2026

Shipping Lines to Demolish Derg-Era Headquarters

A six-storey building owned by the Ethiopian Shipping & Logistics Service Enterprise (ESLSE) on Gambia St., adjacent to Holy Saviour Catholic Church, will begin coming down this week. The build...

Mar 21 , 2026

Commisison Wants Customs Rules Loosened While Widening Dragnet on Contraband

The customs regime is edging toward its biggest legal overhaul in more than a decade, as federal officials seek to recast a system criticised as too rigid for traders and too weak against contraband....

Mar 14 , 2026

TAX DEMANDS PUSH FIRMS UNDER

A crowded meeting at the Ministry of Finance on King George VI Street last Tuesday, March 10, 2026, laid bare the collision between tax enforcement and business survival. The Ministry's conference hal...

Mar 14 , 2026

National Vote Picks Up Speed as Gaps on the Ground Widen

Over nine million voters have registered by last week through manual and online systems, equal to 23.5pc of the total recorded during the last national election, as the country moved toward its sevent...

Record Coffee Export Boom May Run Into a Brazilian Glut

The national coffee boom is colliding with a global market reversal that now threatens to undo the windfall which only recently lifted export earnings to unprecedented levels. After two years in wh...

Mar 14 , 2026

Addis Abeba's Green Crackdown Trips Over Small Business

Environmental protection officials in Addis Abeba are preparing surveys to determine which businesses should submit mandatory environmental and social management plans, following confusion over letter...

Mar 14 , 2026

Apartment Owners, Developer Fight Over Shared Space

Disputes over balconies, parking spaces, staircases, elevators, and decisions about hiring security personnel or janitors have begun to define Addis Abeba's residential life as apartment owners, devel...

Mar 7 , 2026

THE STATE COMES FOR THE INTERNATIONAL SCHOOLS

Education Minister Berhanu Nega's (Prof.) push to remake the international schools has opened a fierce contest over curriculum, identity and parental choice. These unsettling families pay heavily for...

Mar 7 , 2026

Service Eases a Procurement Rule Suppliers Blame for Choking

The federal agency in charge of public procurement has retreated from one of the most disputed provisions in its supply regime, cutting the deposit suppliers are required to immobilise a contract's va...

Mar 11 , 2026

Chamber Appeals to Prime Minister Over Mounting Loan Crisis in Tigray Regional State

Leaders of the Tigray Chamber of Commerce have taken their case to Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed (PhD), arguing that a war-induced debt crisis is now tipping businesses in the region toward collapse and t...

Mar 7 , 2026

Addis Abeba Seeks to Restore Order in Tax Receipt System

Officials of the Addis Abeba Finance Bureau have warned sector institutions and district offices against issuing withholding tax receipts without their approval, arguing that doing so violates the rev...


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Weeks after the Easter holiday, Addis Abeba has slipped back into its ordinary pace. The h...

Featured | Apr 26 , 2026 . By MASTEWAL ZEMENE and BEZAWIT HULUAGER

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Finance Minister Ahmed Shide entered the last quarter of the fiscal year with a budget und...

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