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Mar 14 , 2026

TAX DEMANDS PUSH FIRMS UNDER

A crowded meeting at the Ministry of Finance on King George VI Street last Tuesday, March 10, 2026, laid bare the collision between tax enforcement and business survival. The Ministry's conference hal...

Mar 14 , 2026

National Vote Picks Up Speed as Gaps on the Ground Widen

Over nine million voters have registered by last week through manual and online systems, equal to 23.5pc of the total recorded during the last national election, as the country moved toward its sevent...

Record Coffee Export Boom May Run Into a Brazilian Glut

The national coffee boom is colliding with a global market reversal that now threatens to undo the windfall which only recently lifted export earnings to unprecedented levels. After two years in wh...

Mar 14 , 2026

Addis Abeba's Green Crackdown Trips Over Small Business

Environmental protection officials in Addis Abeba are preparing surveys to determine which businesses should submit mandatory environmental and social management plans, following confusion over letter...

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...


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