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Jan 7 , 2022

November Export Revenues Ring In at $334m

Export revenues for last November registered at 333.9 million dollars. The figure is less than 0.05pc from the plan officials at the Ministry of Trade & Regional Integration has set and nearly...

Jan 7 , 2022

Addis Credit Nets Half a Billion Birr in Profits

Addis Credit & Saving Institution S.C. netted 490 million Birr in profits during the last fiscal year. The figure represents a 64pc increase from its performance in the preceding year. The micr...

Jan 7 , 2022

Central Bank Awards Second Payment Operator License

The National Bank of Ethiopia (NBE) has awarded Sunpay, a fintech firm, a payment operator license. The firm can now embark on its operations as a Point of Sale (POS) and payment gateway operator....

Jan 1 , 2022

FILM LIST

Gone are the days when video stores were the source of neighbourhoods' entertainment. In the age of the internet and digital, they are passing curiosities overseen usually by youth still in school. Th...

Jan 1 , 2022

BUBBLY EXPO

Potential buyers visit a booth dedicated to Metropolitan Real Estate, one of the participants at the fourth edition of the ET Real State & Home Expo on January 1, 2022. Held at the Hilton Hotel an...

Jan 1 , 2022

SERVE ON THE GO

Normally brick and mortar food establishments have gradually taken to offering their products in food trucks in limited locations, including at Mesqel Square for the occasion of Christmas bazaar takin...

Jan 1 , 2022

Health Ministry Project Seeks to Ease Medical Graduate Unemployment

The Ministry of Health has embarked on a project that is hoped to create job opportunities in regional and city administration health bureaus for 6,000 medical graduates. The project is scheduled t...

Jan 1 , 2022

Sugar Corp Signs Deal for 3.6b Br HQ Construction

The Sugar Corporation has inked agreements with the Chinese-owned Qingjian Group and TNT Construction, a domestic contractor, to erect a 35-storey headquarters building in the Mexico area. Slated t...

Jan 1 , 2022

Addis Abeba Sees Largest Library Inaugurated

Abrehot Library, the largest facility of its kind in the country, was inaugurated on January 1, 2022, in the presence of senior government officials including Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed (PhD) and Mayor...

Jan 1 , 2022

Ethiopian to Reintroduce Boeing 737 MAX

The executives of Ethiopian Airlines have announced plans to reinstate Boeing 737 MAX aircraft in the national carrier's fleet for the first time since the crash in March 2019 that took the lives of ...

Jan 1 , 2022

Manufacturing Generates $203m Export Revenues

Export proceeds from manufacturing were recorded at 203 million dollars over the first five months of the fiscal year, according to the Ministry of Industry. The figure is 94pc of the target set out b...

Jan 1 , 2022

ZamZam Raises Paid-up Capital by 30pc

The paid-up capital of ZamZam Bank increased by 30pc to 1.23 billion Br from the 876 million Birr the interest-free bank had registered when it began operating six months ago. The Bank had 1.6 bill...

Jan 1 , 2022

COVID-19 Positivity Rate Reaches Zenith as Fourth Wave Sets In

The Ethiopian Public Health Institute announced that the positivity rate for COVID-19 has reached up to 89pc in select areas of Addis Abeba where it conducted surveys. People have been flocking to...

Dec 25 , 2021

RARE SPACE

As Addis Abeba becomes populated much faster than regulated urban growth can keep up, parking space is becoming ever valuable. Sometimes, it is even a side business for buildings still under construct...

Dec 25 , 2021

NARROW SHOPPING

In the middle of this marketplace in Qality, every bit of space is utilised for the sale of merchandise. The space between rows of vendors is so narrow that only one person at a time can comfortably p...

Dec 25 , 2021

CART LINE UP

A mode of transport for goods still in demand even in Addis Abeba is two-wheeled carts. Most are made of wood but these ones have steel structures. They are lined up waiting to be utilised in one of t...

Columns

Commentaries | Jul 25,2026

Cost Recovery by Public Institutions Becomes a Hidden Tax

Ideally, citizens who have paid income tax all year should not have to reach for their wal...

Editorial | Jul 25 , 2026

Chasing Excellence in the Summer, Raising Questions Over Who It Leaves Behind

For as long as her daughter had been in school, the summer break belonged to the family. E...

Featured | Jul 25 , 2026 . By BIZUAYEHU ABIY and TIGIST MEKONNEN

Shematera Weavers' Chain Meets the VAT Line

The footsteps, bargaining voices and rustle of cotton cloth that once filled Shematera in...

Agenda | Jul 25 , 2026 . By NAHOM AYELE

Global Bank Board Suspends 18 as Deposit Probe Widens

Global Bank's Board of Directors have overhauled top management, after suspending several...

Fortune News | Jul 25 , 2026 . By BEZAWIT HULUAGER