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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...

Feb 28 , 2026

ETHIOPIAN HALTS FLIGHTS AMID MIDDLE EAST WAR

Ethiopian Airlines has indefinitely suspended flights to four Middle Eastern destinations (Tel Aviv, Dammam, Amman and Beirut), attributing its decision to regional security risks after U.S.–Israel...

Feb 28 , 2026

Fertiliser Chain on Trial as Prosecutors Allege $40m in Losses

Two federal government officials walked into a federal courtroom last week as prosecution witnesses in a case that has become one of the government's biggest public corruption trials in years. Test...

Mar 7 , 2026

Quarterly Profit Tax Schedule Starves Businesses of Cash

Federal tax officials have begun shifting profit tax collection onto a quarterly calendar under a revised income tax law that took effect last July, converting what used to be a once-a-year settlement...

Feb 28 , 2026

Ethiopian Plots a Move to a Bishoftu Mega-Airport in Four Years

Senior executives at Ethiopian Airlines Group (EAG) are weighing a decisive move in 2030, shifting international operations from Bole International Airport to a planned new airport near Bishoftu town...

Feb 28 , 2026

Authority Opens Contract Manufacturing to Shore Up Drug Supply

Federal drug regulators are rewriting the rules for how medicines are made. After years of insisting that manufacturers handle all stages of production under one roof, they are now opening the door to...

Feb 28 , 2026

Addis Abeba Wants Roof-top Farms But Its Growers Need Clean Water First

On the edge of Addis Abeba's expanding suburbs, 29-year-old Abnet Melaku has built what looks like a small success. From a plot in the Jemo area, he raises poultry and grows vegetables, taking in more...

Feb 28 , 2026

Health Official Race to Turn Outbreaks into Data Before Turning Deadly

Public health institutes are trying to make the next outbreak a data problem before it becomes a crisis. According to officials of the Ethiopian Public Health Institute (EPHI), they now have consol...

Feb 21 , 2026

BALLOTS LOOM YOUTH LOOK AWAY

The approaching national election is unfolding in a subdued atmosphere, especially among younger voters for whom politics barely intrudes. What once animated streets and campuses now passes as backgro...

Feb 21 , 2026

Judges Reject Bid by Lawyers to Freeze Controversial VAT Directive

A legal battle over who should register for value-added tax (VAT) has widened inside the legal profession, but it is tightening in court. A bid by 89 lawyers to stop a tax directive that compels le...

Authority Widens Narcotics Controls in Bid to Shut Down Diversion Networks

Federal drug authorities have rewritten the rules on how narcotic and psychotropic medicines move through the health system, tightening control from the moment a shipment enters the country to the poi...

Feb 21 , 2026

Leather Export Machine Being Regulated into Retreat

The leather industry, once the second-largest export earner, is edging toward collapse. Industry officials say only a few tanneries operate nationwide, down from 35 a few years ago, and leaders of the...


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