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Dec 20 , 2025

Rising Fertiliser Prices Leave Farmers Counting the Cost

Farmers are facing a sharp rise in the cost of imported fertilisers, with global prices for Urea and Diammonium Phosphate (DAP) increasing by more than 40pc year-on-year. International Urea prices...

Dec 20 , 2025

Flipper School Faces Teachers' Push Back on Pay, Pressure

The labour union representing more than 300 employees at Flipper International School threatens to strike over pay disparities and mounting job demands. However, the planned strike was quickly bloc...

Dec 20 , 2025

Illicit Trade, Policy Drift Unsettle Spice Market

The spice markets are undergoing a period of exceptional volatility, with the price of cardamom, a.k.a Korerima, more than doubling in a matter of days, exposing structural inefficiencies in the suppl...

Dec 20 , 2025

Ethiopian Airlines Unlocks Trapped Funds, Though $140m Remains Abroad

Ethiopian Airlines Group has repatriated almost two-thirds of roughly half a billion dollars previously trapped overseas since July, marking a notable improvement in a long-running liquidity challenge...

Dec 13 , 2025

Central Bank Tries to Break Cash Habit, Cutting Cost of Going Digital

Central Bank officials have drafted a sweeping digital payment strategy, mandating that payment providers disclose, through the simple text-based mobile interface, a.k.a USSD, all fees and slashing ch...

Dec 17 , 2025

Capital Market Regulator Eases Pressure After Share Registration Deadline Ends

The capital market is entering a critical moment as regulators ease enforcement for companies that missed a share registration deadline. The move denotes a notable shift in tone for the Ethiopian C...

Dec 13 , 2025

Ministry Phases Out Manual Receipts in QR Codes Favour

Federal tax authorities are pushing the final phase of their QR-coded receipt initiative, an ambitious overhaul that will make traditional manual receipts obsolete by the end of the month. The policy...

Dec 13 , 2025

Flipper International’s Lancia Campus Risks Shutdown

Flipper International School's Lancia campus is facing closure after over a decade, following city officials' order to vacate the compound to make way for the expansion of the Oromia Police Commission...

Dec 13 , 2025

National Theatre Tests Higher Prices as Audiences Drift Away

The National Theatre, Addis Abeba's cultural and artistic landmark for seven decades, has embarked on a bold pricing overhaul, raising ticket and hall rental fees in what is being described as the mos...

Dec 6 , 2025

WHERE NO TEXT TRIGGERS DEBT

Addis Ababa's notoriously snarled traffic has become the testing ground for a new digital ticketing system that promised convenience yet has instead trapped thousands of motorists in an expensive limb...

Dec 6 , 2025

AfDB Commits Over $214m to Second Phase Horn of Africa Transport Corridor

The African Development Bank (AfDB) has approved a 214.47 million dollar concessional loan package to finance the South Sudan-Ethiopia-Djibouti Transport Corridor Project. The investment marks the...

Network Trouble Casts Shadow Over M-PESA Ethiopia’s Fintech Foray

M-PESA Ethiopia's new “Lehulum” digital wallet app, launched on December 1, 2025, promised seamless financial transactions for users across all mobile networks. However, within days, subscriber...

Dec 6 , 2025

Addis Abeba Taxi Fares Stay Frozen While Fuel Costs Soar

A long-promised revision of transport fares in Addis Abeba remains in limbo, heightening tensions in a city already strained by the high cost of living, fuel price hikes, and a transport system buckli...

Dec 6 , 2025

Electric Vehicle Drive Jolts Importers with New Mandates

Federal transport authorities are steering the vehicle import market into uncharted territory with sweeping regulatory changes that are triggering alarm among importers. In a bold attempt to modern...

Dec 6 , 2025

A Landmark Hotel Loses Its Past as a Clinic Claims Its Future

The Harambe Hotel, a mid-20th-century landmark on Ras Desta Damtew St., is undergoing extensive renovations to house the second branch of St. Urael Internal Medicine Speciality Clinic, a known health...

Nov 29 , 2025

Ethiopia Secures $4.8b Debt Pledge for Africa's Largest Airport

When Finance Minister Ahmed Shedie strode into one of the six boardrooms at the plush Sofitel Jardin des Roses in Rabat, Morocco, last week, he did so carrying the burden of an ambition, and the hopes...


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Weeks after the Easter holiday, Addis Abeba has slipped back into its ordinary pace. The h...

Featured | Apr 26 , 2026 . By MASTEWAL ZEMENE and BEZAWIT HULUAGER

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