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Jun 27 , 2026

Thousands Homeowners Risk Losing Title Deeds as the City Chases Land Revenue

For thousands of Addis Abeba homeowners, a house they paid for years ago may still not belong to them in the eyes of the law. The city's Land Development & Administration Bureau has issued a fi...

Jun 27 , 2026

A Shareholder Sues as Homebuyers Close in on Key Housing Finance Solution

Shareholders and senior managers of Key Housing Finance Solutions Plc are turning on one another, as a wave of homebuyer lawsuits alleging "fraud" and heavy financial losses converges on a company tha...

Jun 27 , 2026

Smaller Fertiliser Bags Meet Bigger Doubts in the Fields

The federal government has begun distributing heavily subsidised fertiliser for the current production season, and has launched a study to introduce smaller bag sizes for female and smallholder farmer...

Jun 27 , 2026

Federal Court Sends Fuel-graft Case to Trial on Amended Charges

Federal prosecutors last week opened proceedings on an amended charge sheet at the Federal High Court's Lideta Division, on Dejazmach Bekele Weya St., narrowing one of the year's largest fuel-corrupti...

Jun 21 , 2026

AG MESERET MAKES AUDIT MISMATCH HARD TO DEFEND

Federal and regional authorities have spent months urging taxpayers to pay more into the treasury and brace for slimmer subsidies. Last week, in a closed Parliamentary session, the Federal Auditor Gen...

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...


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