HAGOS GEBREAMLAK

Dispute Deepens at Addis Chamber as Abera Abegaz Challenges Election

Feb 2 , 2025 . By HAGOS GEBREAMLAK

The controversy surrounding the Addis Abeba Chamber of Commerce & Sectoral Associ...

Turning Pages, Breaking Barrier

Jan 5 , 2025 . By HAGOS GEBREAMLAK

Ten entrepreneurs reveal the ups and downs of building businesses. From turning coffee waste into oil products to digitizing traditional equ...

Conflicts Exacerbate Food Security Threat

Dec 5 , 2020 . By HAGOS GEBREAMLAK

Kuyso Kuse resides in Fuchucha Kebele, Karat Zuria of Konso Special Zone in Southern...

Hospitality Firm Embarks on Packaging Business

Dec 5 , 2020 . By HAGOS GEBREAMLAK

A local firm primarily engaged in the hospitality industry has ventured into the prod...

Instability Casts Shadow on Sesame Market

Nov 21 , 2020 . By HAGOS GEBREAMLAK

He was a farmer who came to the city looking for international buyers for his crops....

Oromia Insurance Picks Chinese Firm to Build HQs

Nov 21 , 2020 . By HAGOS GEBREAMLAK

A Chinese state-owned firm that is constructing major buildings in the country has ju...

Pandemic Pushes Activate Button for Innovation

Nov 21 , 2020 . By HAGOS GEBREAMLAK

Abel Hailu was a second-year student when the Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic s...

Coffee Firm Jumps into Takeaway Box Production

Nov 14 , 2020 . By HAGOS GEBREAMLAK

Haro Coffee, one of the local coffee processing firms, has started the construction o...

Institute Purveys Leather Machines to Fill Gap

Nov 14 , 2020 . By HAGOS GEBREAMLAK

The Leather Industry Development Institute has begun supplying locally-made machinery...

German, Turkish Firms Win Scrimmage for Wheat Contract

Nov 7 , 2020 . By HAGOS GEBREAMLAK

Two overseas firms have secured contracts to supply 600,000tn of wheat for a total of...

Institute Builds Specialised Water Testing Lab

Nov 7 , 2020 . By HAGOS GEBREAMLAK

The Ethiopia Water Technology Institute is constructing a specialised laboratory for...

Law Arrives to Govern Off-grid Electricity Systems

Nov 7 , 2020 . By HAGOS GEBREAMLAK

The Ethiopian Energy Authority has drafted a directive to govern off-grid electricity...

Used Public Vehicles to be Scrapped

Oct 31 , 2020 . By HAGOS GEBREAMLAK

Used vehicles from public offices that are ready for disposal cannot be used for transportation or for personal uses, ac...

Institute Revamps Vocational Training Curricula

Oct 31 , 2020 . By HAGOS GEBREAMLAK

A federal training institute has revised its curricula, as well as increasing the per...

Wheat Supplier Leverages Court Battle on Supply Ban

Oct 31 , 2020 . By HAGOS GEBREAMLAK

A Dubai-based wheat supplier, which has been wrangling in court with the federal proc...

Authority to Give Star Ratings to Transporters

Oct 24 , 2020 . By HAGOS GEBREAMLAK

Based on the quality of their services, transportation service providers will get sta...

Local E-Commerce Industry Making up for Lost Time

Oct 25 , 2020 . By HAGOS GEBREAMLAK

After moving to Addis Abeba a year and a half ago, Abiy Selassie was genuinely surpri...

MIDROC Introduces Pivot Irrigation System to Ethiopia

Oct 17 , 2020 . By HAGOS GEBREAMLAK

MIDROC Ethiopia Investment Group has contracted a Saudi Arabian company to supply 24...

GIZ, Authority Team up to Support Bamboo Makers

Oct 17 , 2020 . By HAGOS GEBREAMLAK

The government of Germany and Ethiopia have partnered to launch a project to finance...

Cotton Growers in Awash Valley Bet the Farm

Oct 11 , 2020 . By HAGOS GEBREAMLAK

Mohammed Ahmed's parents possess 75ha in Lower Awash Valley, an area that is known to...

First Batch of Mentors Join Business Arena

Oct 3 , 2020 . By HAGOS GEBREAMLAK

The Centre for African Leadership Studies has graduated the first 30 business mentors...

City to Provide Elementary Students with Shoes, Bag

Oct 3 , 2020 . By HAGOS GEBREAMLAK

Close to three dozen leather manufacturers will start supplying bags and shoes to stu...

It’s Time for African Prints

Oct 3 , 2020 . By HAGOS GEBREAMLAK

Aida Tadesse, 38 years old and founder of Aidesho's Design, has loved drawing pictures and painting since her childhood. She sketches, draws...

First Coffee College Puts down Roots in Addis

Sep 27 , 2020 . By HAGOS GEBREAMLAK

The first institute of higher education that will deliver courses and conduct researc...

COVID-19 Puts Damper on Mesqel Celebration, Shoe Market

Sep 27 , 2020 . By HAGOS GEBREAMLAK

Desalegn Wondimu joined a shoe retail business close to two decades ago as a retailer...

Procurement Agency Reinstates Blacklisted Suppliers

Sep 27 , 2020 . By HAGOS GEBREAMLAK

The federal agency in charge of regulating public procurements has removed close to f...

Institute Breaks Ground on Research Centre in Wollo

Sep 19 , 2020 . By HAGOS GEBREAMLAK

The government is set to build the nation's 21st agricultural research centre in Sout...

Opposition Party Accuses City Officials of Land Grab

Sep 6 , 2020 . By HAGOS GEBREAMLAK

Ethiopian Citizens for Social Justice, known as Ezema, has accused City Administratio...

Global Pioneers Interest-Free Insurance Policy

Sep 6 , 2020 . By HAGOS GEBREAMLAK

Global Insurance has started providing insurance policies in which members contribute...

COVID-19 Weighs on Embattled Public Transportation Sector

Sep 6 , 2020 . By HAGOS GEBREAMLAK

Dawit Adugna, in his mid-20s, works at a restaurant located near Mexico Square, almos...

Ethiopia Lines 22 Irrigation Dams up for Construction

Aug 29 , 2020 . By HAGOS GEBREAMLAK

The newly established government agency to oversee the construction of irrigation dam...

Customs Commission Set to Go Online

Aug 29 , 2020 . By HAGOS GEBREAMLAK

As of the coming Ethiopian New Year, companies in the import and export business will be able to process and secure perm...

Institute Releases Improved Crop Varieties

Aug 29 , 2020 . By HAGOS GEBREAMLAK

The Ethiopian Institute of Agricultural Research has availed 28 new improved varietie...

Construction Ministry Tightens Grip on Expat Employees

Aug 22 , 2020 . By HAGOS GEBREAMLAK

Non-nationals who apply for a work permit to engage in the construction sector must g...

FAO Backs Fight to Contain Locust Invasion

Aug 22 , 2020 . By HAGOS GEBREAMLAK

The Ministry of Agriculture has received 40 pickup trucks in its fight against the sp...

Tax Exemption Catalyses Farm Mechanisation Growth

Aug 16 , 2020 . By HAGOS GEBREAMLAK

Derbe Asefa, a farmer from Asambitu village in Sinana Wereda of Bale Zone, Oromia Reg...

Tanneries to Start Recycling Waste for Profit

Aug 16 , 2020 . By HAGOS GEBREAMLAK

The Leather Industry Development Institute has released five industrial waste reutili...

Revenues Ministry Builds Branch Office in Bahir Dar

Aug 8 , 2020 . By HAGOS GEBREAMLAK

The Ministry of Revenues has started the construction of the fourth regional branch o...

Two-thirds of Nation’s Truck Scales out of Operation

Aug 1 , 2020 . By HAGOS GEBREAMLAK

Due to damage caused by power interruptions, two-thirds of the digital truck scales i...

Agency Drafts Standards to Raise Export Quality

Aug 1 , 2020 . By HAGOS GEBREAMLAK

The government has started preparing mandatory and voluntary standards for major expo...

Poultry Industry Incurs 123m Br in Losses

Jul 25 , 2020 . By HAGOS GEBREAMLAK

Fourteen poultry farms under the wing of the Ethiopian Poultry Producers & Proces...

Companies Jump into Seasonal Businesses to Stay Afloat

Jul 25 , 2020 . By HAGOS GEBREAMLAK

For the past four months, all of the campuses of Rift Valley University were empty wi...

Agency to Establish Landholding Adjudication Advisory Body

Jul 25 , 2020 . By HAGOS GEBREAMLAK

If approved by the parliament, an advisory body will be formed at all levels of gover...

Regional Organisation to Upgrade Ethio-Djibouti Corridor

Jul 18 , 2020 . By HAGOS GEBREAMLAK

The Ministry of Transport has partnered with a regional organisation that works on re...

Glass in Demand after Rioters Shatter Thousands of Windows

Jul 13 , 2020 . By HAGOS GEBREAMLAK

On the afternoon of Wednesday, July 8, 2020, the Kelifa Building near Atikilt Tera wa...

Massive Protest Drains Food Supply

Jul 10 , 2020 . By HAGOS GEBREAMLAK and MUHABA OUMER

On the afternoon of July 2, 2020, the shops and mini markets around Riche on Sierra Leone Street (Debre Z...

Theft Leaves Bole-Lemi Industrial Park in Dark

Jun 27 , 2020 . By HAGOS GEBREAMLAK

An incident that caused damage to power transmission towers left 22 companies operati...

Danish Firm to Assess Ethiopia’s Road Mgmt System

Jun 27 , 2020 . By HAGOS GEBREAMLAK

NTU, a Danish consultancy company, has secured a contract to conduct a road traffic c...

Ministry to Institutionalise Building Permit Process

Jun 27 , 2020 . By HAGOS GEBREAMLAK

The Ministry of Urban Development & Construction has drafted a proclamation that...

ONION TEARS

Jun 20 , 2020 . By HAGOS GEBREAMLAK

They may be few in number, but consumers are venturing to the vegetable market in Qera to buy basic food items at prices that are becoming m...

Onion Price Rises as Supply from Farmers, Sudan Falls

Jun 20 , 2020 . By HAGOS GEBREAMLAK

On the sunny Wednesday afternoon of May 17, 2020, the newly opened vegetable market i...

Setit Water Joins Thriving Bottling Business

Jun 20 , 2020 . By HAGOS GEBREAMLAK

Adas Trading Plc, a local livestock export company, has started bottling Setit Purifi...

Commission Procures Vehicles for Water, Sanitation Programme

Jun 20 , 2020 . By HAGOS GEBREAMLAK

newly established Water Development Commission has procured 53 Toyota Land Cruiser do...

Cement Demand Meets Truck Shortage

Jun 14 , 2020 . By HAGOS GEBREAMLAK

Addis Abeba is facing a severe cement supply shortage now that the stocks of many retailers and wholesalers are depleted because of disrupti...

MIDROC’s Industrial-Scale Bakery Reaches Final Stage

Jun 7 , 2020 . By HAGOS GEBREAMLAK

Sheger Bread & Flour Factory, an industrial-scale bakery built by MIDROC's Horizo...

Transport Ministry Starts COVID-19 Safety Inspection

Jun 7 , 2020 . By HAGOS GEBREAMLAK

The Transport Ministry has deployed a team of professionals tasked with ensuring the...

Ethiopia Grapples with Flood Amid COVID-19 Pandemic

May 31 , 2020 . By HAGOS GEBREAMLAK

On a Friday afternoon, April 24, 2020, the bodies of two individuals, 19 and 45, were...

Chinese Firm Seals Deal to Power Railway Project

May 23 , 2020 . By HAGOS GEBREAMLAK

The government has hired a Chinese company to build four power substations for the Aw...

Commission Launches Irrigation Dam Worth 4.3b Br

May 23 , 2020 . By HAGOS GEBREAMLAK

The Irrigation Development Commission has hired two local companies to build the Kaza...

Ethiopia Scales Up Urban Productive Safety Net Project

May 9 , 2020 . By HAGOS GEBREAMLAK

The government and the World Bank have scaled up the Urban Productive Safety Net Proj...

Temporary Shelter for Homeless Opens in Meqelle

May 9 , 2020 . By HAGOS GEBREAMLAK

The joint efforts of local NGOs and Meqelle University has established a temporary sh...

Enterprise Backs Industry Battling Input Shortage

May 2 , 2020 . By HAGOS GEBREAMLAK

Three food processors that have been challenged by shortages of raw materials due to...

New Poverty Figures Shed Light on Rural-Urban Divide

May 2 , 2020 . By HAGOS GEBREAMLAK

In early April, as the World Bank Group (WB) was busy throwing lifelines to governmen...

Agency Pleads for 3b Br Bailout for Small, Medium Enterprises

Apr 25 , 2020 . By HAGOS GEBREAMLAK

The federal agency that oversees small and medium enterprises has asked for a three b...

Poultry Industry Catches COVID-19 Flu

Apr 17 , 2020 . By HAGOS GEBREAMLAK

For the past couple of weeks, employees of SW Poultry Farm have added an additional a...

Authority Bans Almeda’s Mask from Pharmacy Shelves

Apr 12 , 2020 . By HAGOS GEBREAMLAK

The Federal Food & Drug Authority (FDA) has banned Almeda Textiles Factory fromÂ...

Midre Geez Enters Microfinance Arena

Apr 4 , 2020 . By HAGOS GEBREAMLAK

Midre Geez Microfinance S.C. became the 40th microfinance institution in the nation a...

Businesses in Tigray to Bid for Welkait Sugar Estate

Apr 4 , 2020 . By HAGOS GEBREAMLAK

The Tigray Chamber of Commerce & Sectoral Associations has started mobilising inv...

Local Firm to Operate Restaurant, Cinema in Ghion Hotel

Mar 28 , 2020 . By HAGOS GEBREAMLAK

Das Engineering Plc, a company co-founded by local filmmaker Tewodros Teshome, is bui...