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Contractors Dry Out of Collaterals

Contractors are apprehensive about buying a policy from insurance companies as the requisite for collateral is half the performance bond. After insurers started to require collateral for policies, the...

Jan 21 , 2023

Venerated Institutions Get New, Younger Chiefs

Two federal offices of the highest stature saw newly appointed young leaders installed last week. Parliament has approved in two-thirds of the votes the appointment of a chief and deputy justices for...

Jan 21 , 2023

Ethiopian Embroils in Lawsuit Over Bids to Acquire Stake in Nigeria Air

Ethiopian Airlines' entry seems to have irked domestic airlines in Nigeria the wrong way, as they came together in November, filing a lawsuit against the Airline and three parties to halt Nigeria Air...

Jan 21 , 2023

Coffee Roasters Leap to Domestic Trade

Value-added coffee exporters will be allowed to sell their products with foreign currency in the local market if the bill prepared by the Ethiopian Tea & Coffee Authority sees the light of day. ...

Jan 14 , 2023

IT'S ONE AFTER THE OTHER

The gradual and discriminatory phasing out of subsidies on fuel prices may have helped the federal authorities save billions of Birr. Despite their pronounced policy measure to shield the poor and tho...

Jan 14 , 2023

Joint Legislative Grant Regional States Edict Property Taxes

The right to impose taxes on property ownership is granted to regional states after a joint session of legislative houses passed a resolution on January 11, 2023. Co-chaired by Tagesse Chaffo and A...

The Chronicles of Higher Institutions

Close to 50 private higher education institutions have been found to register beyond their capacity, following the end of a one-month notice given by the Federal Education & Training Authority to...

Jan 14 , 2023

Fed Institutions Embark on Digital Mapping

A digital land-holding map of 126 federal institutions in Dire Dewa City Administration, Harari and Somali regional states has been prepared after collecting information from 72 institutions in Harari...

Jan 14 , 2023

The Dream Project Becomes Reality

Nine project sites in the Amhara, Oromia, Sidama, and Southern regional states will be introduced to solar mini-grids and electric irrigation as a pilot program of Distributed Renewable Energy-Agricul...

Jan 14 , 2023

Nib Insurance Headquarters Construction Drags Another Year

The 18-storey Nib Insurance S.C. headquarters construction is in limbo due to a falling out with the China Communications Construction Company (CCCC), marking two years in May 2023. The insurance c...

Jan 14 , 2023

Riverside Project Halt as Fund Disbursements Impede

The rehabilitation and restoration project of the Kebena River has been discontinued for four months following the delay of a 3.5 million euro disbursement from the Italian Agency for Development Coop...

Jan 7 , 2023

SAGGED HOLIDAY MARKET GRIPS CAPITAL

Despite the futile attempt to control unabated inflation and stabilize holiday markets, the cost of living that has gone through the roof keeps consumers away from the market. While traders are on edg...

Jan 7 , 2023

United Insurance Rewards Shareholders with Bounteous Results

Executives of United Insurance have rewarded shareholders with generous results from last year's operation, making them bag 15pc more earnings per share (EPS) than the previous year. EPS surged by 55...

World Bank Report Slams Industrial Parks Performance

Ethiopian industrial parks have underperformed by half a billion dollars, despite successfully constructing 10 public and five private industrial parks, which are operational. The parks have generated...

Jan 7 , 2023

Ministry Embrace Digital Tourism

The Ministry of Tourism and the Ethiopian Space Science and Geospatial institute, teaming up with the Commercial Bank of Ethiopia, introduced a tourist smart card to the tourism market last week. A te...

Jan 7 , 2023

Capital Builds Smart Traffic Management Center

The Addis Abeba City Transport Bureau has finished constructing an underground smart traffic management centre financed by the World Bank. The center's construction was handled by CCCC(China Communica...


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