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Agency Launches Data Management System

January 3 , 2021

The Central Statistical Agency (CSA) has launched an Integrated Management Information System, which will provide aggregated statistical information, during an event held...

Gold Boosts Mining Revenues

January 3 , 2021

Increasing market prices for gold, which accounts for over 90pc of mining exports, bolstered mining export revenue to 303 million dollars in the first five months of this...

Investments in Hospitality Get Profit Tax Lifted

January 3 , 2021

The government has introduced a five-year zero profit tax policy for new investments in the hospitality sector. The decision, which was made in the hope of encouraging private sector investment in the tourism industry, selected seven eligible sites in Tigray, Amhara, Af...

Norwegian Agency Proffers 91m Br to Universities

January 3 , 2021

The Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation has proffered 91 million Br to Gonder, Hawassa, Jimma, Debre Markos and Addis Abeba Science & Technology universities...

Ahadu Bank Gears Up for Service

January 3 , 2021

Ahadu Bank, one of the under formation banks, held its first establishment general assembly at Ghion Hotel this past Saturday. The Bank had received permission from th...

Another Beautification

December 26 , 2020

Beautification and green projects continue in the city, especially along the sites that have been identified as prime locations for leisure. One of these is this hilly space near Sheraton Addis, where day workers can be found laying concrete and affixing handrails. It i...

Parliament Delegates Task Force to Oversee Infrastructure Projects

December 26 , 2020

The parliament has called for establishing a federal task force that will be mandated to oversee and regulate infrastructure projects across the count...

Toll Road Enterprise Collects 147m Br

December 26 , 2020

The Ethiopian Toll Roads Enterprise, which administers the Addis Abeba-Adama and Dire Dawa-Dewele expressways, has generated 157 million Br in revenues within the first f...

WB Loans $100m for Women Entrepreneurs

December 26 , 2020

The World Bank has provided a 100-million-dollar loan to Ethiopia to finance the Women's Entrepreneurship Development Project (WEDP). The funds will be used to provide cr...

EFFORT Gets Board of Trustees

December 26 , 2020

A board of trustees for the Endowment Fund for the Rehabilitation of Tigray (EFFORT) has been established to address gaps created by the lack of leadership. The announcem...

Almost Man

December 26 , 2020

Along Africa Avenue near Flamingo Restaurant is a figure dressed in yellow, wielding a paint brush, standing atop a paint store. It can easily be confused for a person. But it is a mannequin being used by the store as a way of drawing attention...

Training Institute Receives Six Vehicles

December 26 , 2020

The Maastricht School of Management (MSM), one of the oldest business schools in the Netherlands, has donated six vehicles to the Federal Technical, Vocational Education...

COVID-19 Insurance Policy Covers Drivers, Assistants

December 26 , 2020

A life insurance policy for cross-border drivers and their assistants in relation to the Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) has been operational as of December 24, 2020. Announ...

Seregela’s Inauguration, Finally

December 26 , 2020

Adanech Abiebie (right), deputy mayor of Addis Abeba, attended the official inauguration of one of the several new taxi services that have popped up in the past few years, Seregela. Talking here to Elias Negash, founder of the taxi services, the inauguration took place...

Editorial

How to Counter Rising, Unbridled Nationalism

January 16 , 2021

It was a sunny day on September 12, 1974. A machine gun mounted on top of a tank was...

Not to Undo Abiy Ahmed's Pledge for Credible National Elections

January 9 , 2021

There is something curious about elections that have been conducted in Ethiopia since...

To Millions Suffering, IGAD Continues to be a Disappointment

January 2 , 2021

One by one, Workneh Gebeyehu (PhD), executive secretary of the Intergovernmental Auth...

Economic Planning Needs to Learn the Cost of Indiscipline

December 26 , 2020

It is refreshing to see a publicised high-level government meeting become somewhat co...

Columns

Sunday With Eden

From the US to Ethiopia, the Need for Accountability

We witnessed hitherto unthinkable violence erupting in Washington, DC at Capitol Hill...

January 16 , 2021 . By Eden Sahle

What It Takes to Not Repeat 2020

The COVID-19 pandemic, having seen over 126,000 cases reported across Ethiopia and leading to the deaths of around 2,000 people, had a silve...

January 9 , 2021 . By Eden Sahle

Life Matters

Country of Negative Nellys

I was a month postnatal when I discovered a familiar way of communicating in Ethiopia. Many visitors came to see me, as they often do after...

January 16 , 2021 . By Kidist Yidnekachew

The Dangers of Nocturnal Taxi Service

Recently, a friend left his job, bought a car and registered to work for a taxi-hailing service provider...

January 9 , 2021 . By Kidist Yidnekachew

Agenda

Cement: Construction Industry's Catch-22

January 16 , 2021 . By MAYA MISIKIR

His phone is tightly wrapped up in a plastic bag and tied around his neck. The bag is...

A Not So Merry Market

January 9 , 2021 . By MAYA MISIKIR

A myriad of loud sounds are competing to be heard over one another in Mercato, the largest open-air market on the continent. Multiple speak...

2020: A Series of Unfortunate Events

January 2 , 2021 . By MAYA MISIKIR

Every year, during the harvest season, a care package of barley grain makes its way from Adwa to Addis Ab...

Leather Industry Desperate to Save own Skin

December 26 , 2020 . By MAYA MISIKIR

Black and white markings on their legs and large semi-circular rimmed horns that stretch over a metre lon...

Gallery

2020 in Posterity

January 5 , 2021

With an election initially expected to be held in 2020, the past year was supposed to be eventful. It did not disappoint. In fact, it outpaced expectations. Much of 2020 was talked about, analysed and debated. And thanks to technology, it was caught...