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UNLOADING

January 19 , 2019

A truck carrying grain was stopped after youth in Bahir Dar, capital of the Amhara Regional State, blocked it last week. The youth began unloading the grain the truck was...

Ethiopia Avails Solar Projects for PPP

January 19 , 2019

The Ministry of Finance is set to float a tender for the construction of six mega-solar projects in three regions with an estimated cost of 795 million dollars. The pr...

Ketera

January 19 , 2019

Women are playing the traditional musical instrument, Masinqo, and singing in Amist Kilo on Ketera, the day before the Ethiopian celebration of epiphany, Timqet. On the day, a tabot, a religious representation of the Ark of the Covenant, is carried from churches along w...

Innovation Ministry Set to form ‘Government Network’

January 19 , 2019

The Ministry of Innovation & Technology is set to formulate a Government Network composed of the leader of the federal and regional governments. ...

Enterprise Bags 131m Br in Half Year

January 19 , 2019

The Ethiopian Toll Road Enterprise earned 131 million Br in revenue during the first half of the current fiscal year. The Enterprise earned the income from the four-ye...

Amateur Road Paint

January 19 , 2019

A young man is amateurishly painting part of the street in Qera, which he hopes will help commuters queue in an orderly manner while waiting for public transport. It is also defacement of public property, something that is more commonly seen on walls and electric poles...

Coffee, Tea Exports Plummet

January 19 , 2019

Ethiopia has earned 334 million dollars from the export of 103,108tn coffee in the first half of the current fiscal year. The revenue is 29pc short of the governmentâ...

Utility Collects Outstanding Electric Bills

January 19 , 2019

Ethiopian Electric Utility collected half of the 700 million Br still outstanding in electric bills from its customers in the first half of the current fiscal year. â...

Local Firm Steps into Continental Market

January 19 , 2019

The Ethiopian Construction Design & Supervision Works Corporation has consulted on two African countries’ construction projects for an estimated fee of two million...

Legislators Approve $88m Loan from IDA

January 19 , 2019

Parliament approved a loan agreement of 88.33 million dollars signed between the government of Ethiopia and the International Development Association (IDA). The IDA ex...

QUALITY AWARD

January 12 , 2019

President Saheleworq Zewde and Hiruit WoldeMariam, minister of Science & Higher Education, attended the award ceremony of the sixth Ethiopian Quality Awards at the Jubilee Palace on January 10, 2018. With 54 organisations in competition, 40 were awarded with the fir...

Candle Factory Goes Up in Blaze

January 19 , 2019

An accidental fire fully engulfed and destroyed the Intema Candle Factory, found on the outskirts of Addis on the way to Burayu overnight on January 15, 2019. The fire...

Continental Conference Comes to Addis

January 12 , 2019

The sixth African Trade & Finance International Conference will be held in Addis Abeba for the first time on April 11 & 12, 2019. The conference, which had bee...

EMPTY CONTAINERS

January 12 , 2019

Yellow containers usually used for storing edible oil are mostly seen being transported around in trucks. These ones, having been carefully packed by a vendor close to National Theatre, are collected from houses and eateries, which are sold to firms that engage in recyc...

Editorial

Ethiopia’s Humanitarian Crisis: the Elephant in the Room

January 18 , 2019

Like many instabilities around the world, the worrying state of a country rarely gets...

It`s About Time to Start Debate on Constitutional Amendments

January 12 , 2019

An expected consequence of the growing rift between the constituent parties of the ru...

The Republic Could Be No More

January 5 , 2019

A crowd, gathered outside  Independence Hall in Philadelphia where representatives of 13 newly formed states had signed a historical docume...

Transport Authority Needs to Step Up its Game

December 29 , 2018

Faced with a continued breakdown in the rule of law, it is easy to miss the stagnant state of economic fu...


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Columns

Commentaries | Jan 18,2019

Stock Markets, Not as Pertinent as They Sound

Life Matters | Jan 18,2019

Nation of ‘Hoarders’

My Opinion | Jan 18,2019

From the Horse’s Mouth

Sunday with Eden | Jan 18,2019

Technology, the World Pass by Ethiopia

Agenda | Dec 25,2018

Civil Societies Welcome Bill, with Reservations

Editorial | Dec 29,2018

Transport Authority Needs to Step Up its Game

Sunday With Eden

Technology, the World Pass by Ethiopia

From off-grid solar power to mobile money solutions for the unbanked, technology is a...

Faith-based Institutions: Way to Ethiopians Heart to Uphold Moral Compass

I spent a great deal of time in church when I was a child. Unfortunately, it was an...

Life Matters

Nation of ‘Hoarders’

We like to preserve our culture and identities in every means possible. Not just our cultures though but anything that we think has sentimen...

Actions Speak Louder

There is hope in Ethiopia. But where we are is nowhere in the realm of where we ought to be. The amount of resources that are available h...

Agenda

Days of Fuel Shortages Wrench Capital

January 19 , 2019 . By BERHANE HAILEMARIAM

Menna Gizaw, 33, was one of the thousands of drivers that queued at a fuel filling st...

Electric Tariff Increase Sends Shockwave Through Consumers

January 12 , 2019 . By MADEBO GIRMA

The past two weeks did not bode well for the relationship between landlord Getaneh Ge...

Gena Arrives With Stable Prices in Local Markets

January 6 , 2019 . By KALAEB GIRMA and MADEBO GIRMA

The last item on Askalech Debele’s holiday shopping list is chicken, and she needs...

Commercial Properties See Rate Hikes: Indignation, Resignation by Tenants

December 29 , 2018 . By BERHANE HAILEMARIAM

Alemayehu Befikadu, a deputy manager for a plastics manufacturing factory, was busy o...

Gallery

IN PICTURE: Betty G.

January 10 , 2019

Bruktawit Getahun, Betty G for her fans, would have loved to be around for the Battle of Adwa and thinks of robots as square and scary. Third daughter to her parents, anchored but not confined, there is not a challenge in her life she would rather no...

Passport Tease: New Requirements For Passports Create Outrage

December 10 , 2018

The week in picture

December 10 , 2018

Commentaries

Stock Markets, Not as Pertinent as They Sound

Debates around the establishment of a stock market have recently become common after...

The Seal of Transparency, Efficiency on Sino-African Relations

China, the world's second-largest economy, is now the largest foreign economic power...

Fineline

The tale of two dispositions could be what best describes Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed...

The tale of two dispositions could be what best describes Prime Minister Abiy Ahmedâ...

Who it is that midwifed the rapprochement between Ethiopia and Eritrea...

Who it is that midwifed the rapprochement between Ethiopia and Eritrea is a matter of...

Fortune news

DEVELOPING STORY: Regional State Probe Leads to Bereket, Tadesse Arrest

January 23 , 2019

The arrests of Bereket Simon and Tadesse Kassa was an operation led by the Amhara Reg...

Bereket Simon Arrested

January 23 , 2019

Bereket Simon, a founding member of the EPRDF and a former senior government minister, has been arrested by the Federal government this morn...

Former TIRET Chief Arrested

January 23 , 2019

Tadesse Kassa, a.k.a Tinkishu, former CEO of TIRET, has been arrested this morning at his residence in Addis Abeba. His arrest was made abou...

RUNNING OUT OF GAS

January 19 , 2019

Fuel lines around gas stations, longer queues for public transport commuters and fewer vehicles on the roads characterised Addis Abeba last...

In-Picture

QUALITY AWARD

January 12 , 2019

DRAGONS AND EXPORTS

January 11 , 2019

Iconic moment, Eritrean sanction lift

November 21 , 2018

Ketera

January 20 , 2019

Women are playing the traditional musical instrument, Masinqo, and singing in Amist Kilo on Ketera, the day before the Ethiopian celebration of epiphany, Timqet. On the day, a tabot, a religious representation of the Ark of the Covenant, is carried f...

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