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Nov 6 , 2021

BASF Finds in Ethiopia Opportunity to Diversify its Chemical Empire

Fortune: How is your project in Ethiopia and what has been the biggest challenge? Juliana Hosken Wernek: Ethiopia is a very important country for us. We are happy to be doing business here. It is g...

Oct 9 , 2021

Middle-income Status For the Taking in Ethiopia, with Emphasis on Political Openness

The Legatum Institute, a London-based think-tank, recently released an economic case study of Ethiopia, titled, "Pathway to Prosperity." The report focuses on the economic planning and growth outcomes...

Dec 12 , 2020

Rockstone's Dietrich Rogge Looks to Fit into Addis

Dietrich Rogge, founder and CEO of Rockstone, a German-based real estate developer and investment company, did not want an Anglo-Saxon name for the project it embarked on in Ethiopia. A rare European...

Aug 10 , 2019

Constitutional Tailor Would Prefer Constitutional Court

Hardly anyone matches the intellectual repository and experience of constitution making in Ethiopia as Fasil Nahum (PhD). He was involved in the drafting of three constitutions since the Imperial days...

Feb 15 , 2020

What Keeps AfDB's President up at Night?

The African Development Bank (AfDB) recently published its flagship annual report, the African Economic Outlook 2020, in time for the African Union Summit of Heads of State, where it testified to the...

Feb 8 , 2020

The Minimum States Can Do

Companies, in manufacturing as well as the extractive industries, are no strangers to allegations of human, economic and environmental rights abuses. Weak regulatory capacity and economic and politica...

Jan 4 , 2020

PERSONAL REGRETS, FEARS & WISHES: INSURERS OPEN UP

When insurers are not at their day jobs, controlling risk and ensuring stability, they are engaging in a rich social and personal life. Unlike their colleagues in the banking sector, presidents of Eth...

Jan 5 , 2020

INSURERS OPEN UP: Shimeles Gedlegeorgis, CEO of Ethio Life & General Insurance

Shimeles Gedlegeorgis, 53, married and a father of two, is an economics graduate of Addis Abeba University (AAU). He obtained his master's degree in business management and marketing from a university...

Jan 5 , 2020

INSURERS OPEN UP: Meseret Bezabih, CEO of United Insurance

Meseret Bezabih, aged 54, married and a mother of three, studied for her first degree in economics from Addis Abeba University. She also earned her second degree with a master's of business administra...

Jan 5 , 2020

INSURERS OPEN UP: Kassa Lisanework, CEO of Tsehay Insurance S.C.

Kassa Lisanework, 49, is married and a father of three. He earned a BA degree in accounting from Addis Abeba University (AAU) in 1994. He has worked in the insurance industry for 23 years, starting hi...

Jan 5 , 2020

INSURERS OPEN UP: Yared Mola, CEO of Nyala Insurance S.C

Yared Mola, 50, is married and a father of four. He holds a bachelor of arts degree in management from Addis Abeba University. He also holds a master's of business administration from the University o...

Jan 5 , 2020

INSURERS OPEN UP: Nigus Anteneh, CEO, Nile Insurance Company

The 42-year-old CEO is married and has three children. Nigus studied economics at Addis Abeba University and attended another undergraduate programme in business administration & information syste...

Jan 5 , 2020

INSURERS OPEN UP: Zufan Abebe, CEO, Nib Insurance SC

The 46-year-old Zufan is one of the few female CEOs in the insurance industry. Zufan, a mother of two daughters, studied economics in her undergraduate programme and then completed an executive MBA, b...

Jan 5 , 2020

INSURERS OPEN UP: Tesfaye Debela, CEO of National Insurance Company of Ethiopia (NICE)

A 57-year-old insurance executive, Tesfaye, is married and a father of four children. He earned a diploma in insurance and a first degree in economics. He has worked in the insurance industry for a to...

Jan 5 , 2020

INSURERS OPEN UP: Tibebe Tesfaye, CEO of Global Insurance

A 47-year-old insurance executive, Tibebe is married and a father of two children. He studied his first degree in mathematics from Addis Abeba University. He earned his master's of business administra...

Jan 5 , 2020

INSURERS OPEN UP: Tefera Wondimu, CEO of Lucy Insurance

Tefera Wondimu, 60, married and a father of three, is a law graduate of Unity University in 2014. Before joining Lucy Insurance two years ago, he worked at Ethiopian Insurance Corporation for 18 years...

Columns

Commentaries | Jul 31,2026

The Rains May Fail, Policy Dare Not

Weldu Yiheysh has not read the Pacific temperature charts. He does not need to. In Shibta...

Editorial | Jul 31 , 2026

SMALL-NOTES SQUEEZE WORN, TORN, NEVER RETURNED

For Hirut Ayalew, a small shop owner around Ferensay Legasiyon, the shortage of usable sma...

Featured | Aug 1 , 2026 . By BIZUAYEHU ABIY

Tax Bills Outrun the Metre, Stalling Taxi-hailing Drivers

Elbeletel Tilahun was among the ride-hailing drivers startled by this year's tax assessmen...

Agenda | Aug 1 , 2026 . By BEZAWIT HULUAGER

Right-sizing Tests Addis Abeba University’s Promise for Autonomy

Addis Abeba University set out to win its institutional autonomy. Two years in, that freed...

Fortune News | Aug 1 , 2026 . By NAHOM AYELE