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Jan 10 , 2026

DEPOSITS TAKEN. TRUST WITHHELD

They sit in plain sight on Addis Abeba's streets, yet rarely feature in official speeches about modernisation. Rows of blue-and-white Lada taxis, with their dented frames and fading paint, bear witnes...

Jan 10 , 2026

Chaltu Pushes to Modernise Infrastructure Ministry

Chaltu Sani, minister of Urban & Infrastructure Development, has launched a comprehensive competency-based assessment program targeting thousands of employees under her Ministry's purview. The ini...

Jan 10 , 2026

National Bank Clamps Down on CAD Payments to African Countries

The National Bank of Ethiopia (NBE) has restricted the use of Cash Against Documents (CAD) payment terms for exports to a select group of African countries, citing persistent failures to repatriate fo...

Jan 3 , 2026

PANORAMA OF LITERARY VOICES

A chorus of Ethiopian writers reflected, skeptically and often intimately, on why they write at all. Across novels, poetry, short stories, and memoirs, few claim the grand ambition of changing society...

Commodity Exchange Buckles Under Coffee Price Controls Weight

The Ethiopian Commodities Exchange (ECX), once a flagship institution for transforming the country's agricultural market, is undergoing a protracted institutional and operational decline, exposed by f...

Jan 7 , 2026

Ethiopia’s Oilseed Exporters Face Off with State Over Hoarding Clampdown

The once-thriving pulses and oil seeds export sector, long a pillar of foreign currency earnings, is facing a critical moment. A sharp decline in export volumes, mounting pressure from regulatory auth...

Jan 4 , 2026

Ride-hailing Drivers Hit Roadblock in Addis Abeba's Urban Overhaul

Ride-hailing drivers in Addis Abeba are increasingly finding themselves on the wrong side of the city's rapid urban transformation, caught between aggressive corridor development and a regulatory abse...

Jan 4 , 2026

Ethio-Re Capital Shrinks as Forex Reform Bites

Ethiopian Re-Insurance S.C. (Ethio-Re), the country's sole reinsurer and a critical backstop for domestic insurers, has recorded a sharp erosion in its paid-up capital following foreign-exchange regim...

Dec 27 , 2025

Oromia State Puts New Fee on Coffee Bean Sales

Officials in the Oromia Regional State have imposed a levy on coffee bought for export, targeting thousands of producers in a bid to restructure longstanding inequities in the sector's value chain. ...

Dec 27 , 2025

Left to Starve in Silence, Aid Fails the Displaced

In the war-scarred northern regions, a humanitarian emergency is unfolding in slow motion, marked by rising starvation, eroding health conditions, and a sharp decline in international assistance. C...

Dec 31 , 2025

New Customs Rules Put Importers Anxious

Importers are voicing growing frustration over a new customs valuation directive that sets a 15-day window for challenging base prices set by the Ethiopian Customs Commission. The directive, which...

Dec 27 , 2025

Addis Rings in the New Year at a Premium

As the world prepares to usher in the New Year, Addis Abeba, Africa's diplomatic capital, is already in full celebratory mode. Across the city, hotels, restaurants, and entertainment venues are racing...

Dec 27 , 2025

Coffee Exporters Face Squeeze Amid Projection on Production Surge

As global coffee production surges to record levels, Ethiopian exporters are facing collapsing margins and rising uncertainty. A confluence of record harvests from top producers, softening internat...

Dec 27 , 2025

Ministry Digs Deep to Fix Farming While Fertiliser Costs Soar

Officials at the Ministry of Agriculture are setting in motion a strategy to reverse decades of soil degradation and unlock higher crop productivity, with the proposed establishment of a federal agenc...

Dec 20 , 2025

Djibouti Turns the Screw on Ethiopia's Freight Overhaul

Djibouti's unanticipated move to bar non-vessel-owning multimodal transporters from issuing bills of lading has sent tremors through the newly liberalised logistics industry, throwing into sharp relie...

Dec 24 , 2025

Fed Wants Cuts from Digital Creators

The federal government is preparing to formalise the taxation of an emerging digital content economy, targeting influencers and content producers operating across platforms such as TikTok, YouTube, an...


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