BEZAWIT HULUAGER


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BEZAWIT HULUAGER's Articles

Addis Abeba's Messy Taxi Overhaul Leaves Riders Waiting, Veterans Sidelined

Jun 21 , 2025 . By BEZAWIT HULUAGER and AMANUEL BEKELE

Around 5:00pm, a time when most civil servants spill out of office towers and scrambl...


Real Estate Faces Sweeping Regulatory Overhaul

Jun 21 , 2025 . By BEZAWIT HULUAGER

Officials of the Ministry of Urban & Infrastructure have tabled a draft regulatio...


Billions Unaccounted as Auditors Watch Recovery Rates Stall in Bureaucratic Quagmire

Jun 15 , 2025 . By BEZAWIT HULUAGER

A three-year effort by the Audit Stakeholders Forum to restore fiscal discipline acro...


Unilever Gains First-Mover Edge as Market Barriers Fall, Fears Rise

Jun 15 , 2025 . By BEZAWIT HULUAGER

Unilever, the British-Dutch multinational, has become the first foreign company licen...



Central Bank Moves to Erase Paper Bonds Betting on Digital Overhaul

Jun 8 , 2025 . By BEZAWIT HULUAGER

Investors will soon find that physical paper certificates for government bonds and Ce...


Real Estate Developers Build a Lobby as Rules Tighten

May 31 , 2025 . By BEZAWIT HULUAGER

Real-estate developers have formed a new lobbying group, the Ethiopian Real Estate De...


Central Bank Orders Banks to Map Their Own Safety Net

May 31 , 2025 . By BEZAWIT HULUAGER

Regulators at the National Bank of Ethiopia (NBE) have issued a notice to commercial...


NBE Plans Insurance Overhaul After Years of Regulatory Drift

May 31 , 2025 . By BEZAWIT HULUAGER

The federal government is to establish an independent regulator for the insurance ind...



Visa Trap Leaves South Sudanese Students Stranded from Going Home

May 24 , 2025 . By BEZAWIT HULUAGER

When Moses Akuei received his geology degree from Wolaita Sodo University, the 27-yea...


Central Bank Pushes to Till New Ground in Farm Finance

May 24 , 2025 . By BEZAWIT HULUAGER

The Central Bank is launching a sweeping initiative to overhaul the agricultural fina...


Sovereign Fund Dips Into T-Bills Stirring Markets Long Left Dormant

Jun 13 , 2025 . By BEZAWIT HULUAGER

Ethiopian Investment Holdings (EIH) has stepped into the Treasury Bill (T-bill) marke...


Tourism Ambitions Hit Roadblocks as Violence, Red Tape Undermine Recovery

May 17 , 2025 . By BEZAWIT HULUAGER

The tourism sector, battered by security risks, bureaucratic slowdowns, and infrastru...




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