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TIZITA SHEWAFERAW

Fortune Staff Writer

TIZITA SHEWAFERAW's Articles

Siinqee Bank Accelerates Growth, Struggles to Convert Scale into Profit

May 11 , 2025 . By TIZITA SHEWAFERAW

Siinqee Bank has burst confidently from microfinance trenches into the competitive co...

Sidama Bank's Bold Start into Commercial Banking Meets a Tough Reality

Apr 27 , 2025 . By TIZITA SHEWAFERAW

Sidama Bank entered the competitive banking industry in 2022, emerging from microfina...

Elizabeth Woldegiorgis, Who Brought Ethiopia's Forgotten Modernists Back to Light, Dies at 69

Apr 27 , 2025 . By TIZITA SHEWAFERAW

Elizabeth Woldegiorgis (PhD) began the morning of September 11, 2001, like any other...

Amhara Bank Grows Fast with Slow Dividends

Apr 19 , 2025 . By TIZITA SHEWAFERAW

Amhara Bank's performance in the financial year 2023/24 is an illustration of how new...

CBE's Profit Soars as Costs Climb, Capital Cushion Thins

Apr 6 , 2025 . By TIZITA SHEWAFERAW

The performance of the Commercial Bank of Ethiopia (CBE) in the 2023/24 financial yea...

Addis Bank Races Ahead, Yet Trails Industry Peers

Mar 30 , 2025 . By TIZITA SHEWAFERAW

In an industry characterised by tight liquidity, regulatory pressures, and growing cr...

ZamZam Bank's Profit Soars, But High Liquidity Looms Large

Mar 16 , 2025 . By TIZITA SHEWAFERAW

ZamZam Bank demonstrated measured growth and cautious risk management, placing it in...

Lion Bank's Profit Roars, but Can It Claw Its Way to the Top?

Mar 9 , 2025 . By TIZITA SHEWAFERAW

Lion International Bank's comeback after a difficult stretch during the civil war in...

Yayehyirad Alamrew, the Shadow Lyricist Who Shaped Sound, Identity, Dies at 66

Mar 9 , 2025 . By TIZITA SHEWAFERAW

Ethiopia's music scene usually shines a spotlight on singers and bands, but one figur...

Bunna Bank's Asset Surge, Credit Jump Cloak Profit Squeeze During Inflation Strain

Feb 23 , 2025 . By TIZITA SHEWAFERAW

Bunna Bank, in its 15th year of operation, has posted noteworthy gains in deposits an...

Enat Bank Expansion Bid Strains Profitability Due to Surging Costs

Feb 16 , 2025 . By TIZITA SHEWAFERAW

Enat Bank closed its 2023/24 financial year with considerable growth in assets, depos...

Hibret Exhibits Growing Balance Sheet, Thinner Margins, a Precarious Credit Surge

Feb 9 , 2025 . By TIZITA SHEWAFERAW

Hibret Bank ended its 2023/24 financial year with a strong performance, reporting tot...

Commentaries

Productivity Gains Depend on Bold Firms, Not Broad Reform

Few doubt that productivity growth is good for society. It generally translates into...

War on Malaria Winnable But Africa Needs a Plan to End It

Despite being preventable and curable, malaria has continued to claim African lives....

Fineline

Leaders of the National . . .

Leaders of the National Election Board are in a charm offensive mood, of a sort. Last week, they organised a rare tour for members of the me...

When the country’s most. . .

When the country's most senior diplomats and envoys return back to their posts after two-week debriefings, they leave behind a point or two...

Editorial

Courting Foreign Buyers of Properties While Land Remains State-Owned

May 31 , 2025

It is seldom flattering to be bracketed with North Korea and Myanmar. Ironically, Eth...

A Country on Life Support Must Not Neglect Its Healers

May 24 , 2025

Public hospitals have fallen eerily quiet lately. Corridors once crowded with patient...

Researchers Churn Out Studies by the Ton. Quality Checks are Causality

May 17 , 2025

Ethiopia pours more than three billion Birr a year into academic research, yet too mu...

Ethiopia's Aid Reckoning Demands a Homegrown Rescue Plan

May 10 , 2025

Federal legislators recently summoned Shiferaw Teklemariam (PhD), head of the Disaste...

Gallery

Parliament Approves New Cabinet Members

Oct 6 , 2021

Parliament Approves New Cabinet, Incorporates Opposition Leaders Lawmakers have approved today the nominations of 22 ministers, including three opposition leaders. Two MPs have voted against, while 12 abstained...

2020 in Posterity

Jan 5 , 2021

TIGRAY VOTES DESPITE "NULL & VOID" THREAT

Sep 9 , 2020

IN-PICTURE: LAUREATE'S RECEPTION  

Dec 14 , 2019

PM Abiy Ahmed (PhD) at a Gala Dinner Called for the Awarding of the Félix Houphouët-Boigny Peace Prize

May 6 , 2019

Faces, Voices of Addis Abeba

Apr 26 , 2019

Sunday With Eden

A Dream Taxed to Death

Six years ago, a dear friend took a leap. He poured his life savings into building a business not for quick profits, but to create something...

The Subtler African Stories Lodged in Luxury

Every family has its ritual, one that bookmarks the year and brings everyone back to center. For ours, it...

Life Matters

The Dangers We Brew

It is unsettling how often news surfaces of everyday household items leading to accidents, some unexpected, others devastating. A recent rep...

Healing the Healers

Reliable information about the recent strike by health professionals in Ethiopia has proven elusive. The public discourse is muddied by sens...