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May 4 , 2026

Fed to Create Watchdog for Insurance Industry

The domestic insurance industry is approaching its largest regulatory overhaul in decades, with a bill set for this year that would transfer supervision from the National Bank of Ethiopia (NBE) to an...

May 3 , 2026

Africa's Airlines Boom, But its Stay Grounded

African aviation is entering a contradiction. The continent has the world's fastest passenger growth, yet its airlines remain among the least profitable, squeezed by high charges, expensive fuel, bloc...

Apr 25 , 2026

AWASH BANK RINGS IN A MARKET STILL LEARNING TO TRADE

Awash Bank's arrival on the Ethiopian Securities Exchange (ESX) last week placed one of the country's largest private banks at the centre of the nascent public securities trading, turning a bell-ringi...

Apr 25 , 2026

Addis Abeba Tightens Purse Strings to Curb Year-End Budget Rush

Officials of Addis Abeba's City Administration have ordered a freeze on new procurements across the bureaucracy, imposing a citywide spending clampdown as the capital enters the final quarter of the f...

May 9 , 2026

Irrigation Spending Leaves Parliament Searching for the Harvest

Abraham Belay (PhD), minister of Irrigation & Lowlands (MoIL), and his senior officials appeared before Parliament last week with the awkward balance sheet of a federal agency that had nearly exha...

Apr 26 , 2026

New Golden Visa Turns Residency Into a Bet on Foreign Capital

Ethiopia is preparing to introduce a “Golden Visa” scheme for foreign nationals willing to invest substantial capital in the country or pay for residency privileges in foreign currency, as the fed...

Apr 26 , 2026

Universities Win Autonomy Only to Find the Purse Strings Tightened

The Ministry of Education (MoE) plans a new block-grant budget regulation for autonomous universities, replacing discretionary allocations with a formula-based system, its officials believe will make...

Apr 18 , 2026

HEINEKEN PICHES BEER WITH SWAGGER

Bart De Keninck, managing director of Heineken Ethiopia Plc, was marking two decades in the brewery industry with the launch of a new agave-flavoured beer for local customers. Desperados, the world's...

Apr 27 , 2026

Debt Reprive Faces a New Reckoning as War Drives Up the Price of Survival

The federal government's attempt to emerge from debt distress is facing a new external shock, with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and World Bank preparing a Debt Sustainability Analysis (DSA) t...

Apr 19 , 2026

Carbon Market Plan Sparks a Bureaucratic Bickering

A battle over who gets to run Ethiopia's carbon market is no longer confined to memos. It has spilt into the open through a directive from the Ministry of Agriculture, setting off a turf battle with t...

Apr 19 , 2026

Student Funding Model Buckles Under Weak Repayment Record

For over two decades, the universities' cost-sharing system has run on a promise. Students can study first and pay later. The Ministry of Education's push to create a new entity to oversee this system...

Apr 19 , 2026

Coffee Hope Meets a Bitter Global Reckoning

Climate change is redrawing the map of global Arabica coffee production, and Ethiopia may emerge as one of the few countries to gain ground even as much of the world loses it. A report released in...

Apr 10 , 2026

FINANCE BELONGS TO MEN UNTIL WOMEN FORCE THE DOORS OPEN

In the domestic financial sector, a field defined by the pinstripes of a "boys' club," a cohort of women is rewriting the ledger. For this holiday edition, our focus shifts from earnings tables and bo...

Apr 18 , 2026

Fertiliser Push Runs into a Fuel Crunch

The federal government has secured tens of millions of quintals of fertiliser despite a shortfall of planned procurement for the current fiscal year, with less than a million quintals still offshore....

Apr 10 , 2026

Ethiopian Airlines Pushes Mega-Airport Plan While Keeping Debt in Check

Ethiopian Airlines Group is positioning Phase Two of the Bishoftu International Airport as a decisive second leap in a long-term aviation expansion strategy, with the next stage expected to begin two...

Apr 10 , 2026

Leather Industry Struggles to Balance Tax Policy, Capacity, Export Performance

The 150pc tax on raw hide exports has sharply impacted the leather sector performance, slashing export volumes by 22pc over the first eight months while boosting revenue 35pc through higher prices. Du...


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