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Sep 26 , 2021

IGAD Launches 4m Euro Project in Moyale

The Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD) has launched a four million euro project aimed at improving the wellbeing of households living along the Ethio-Kenyan border. The project, whic...

Sep 26 , 2021

Ministry Kicks Off Black Lion Hospital Renovation

As part of its health centre renovation programme, the Ministry of Health has kicked off a project to renovate the five decade old Black Lion Hospital. The teaching hospital operating under Addis A...

Sep 26 , 2021

Investing on Food Fortification can Save Millions, Study Reveals

Investing 3.8 million dollars in food fortification would help Ethiopia to save losses of over half a billion dollars spent on averting vitamin deficiencies, according to a new study by the Global All...

Sep 26 , 2021

Rammis Bank Receives Green Light

The country's third full-fledged interest-free bank, Rammis, has been given the go ahead to proceed with establishment. Its first general assembly is to take place at the beginning of October 2021. ...

Sep 26 , 2021

Week Sees Record COVID-19 Deaths

Last week saw 216 lives lost to COVID-19, the highest death toll since the pandemic took hold in March 2020. September 22, 2021, alone saw 47 deaths, equalling the previous peak recorded during the...

Sep 26 , 2021

Ministry Plans to Issue 30m National IDs in Six Months

The Ministry of Peace announced its plans to register and issue national identification cards to 30 million citizens over the coming six months. Muferiat Kemil, minister of Peace, made the statemen...

Sep 26 , 2021

Community Lodges to be Constructed at Five Sites

Tourism Ethiopia plans to construct five lodges at remote tourist hotspots and popular attractions in a bid to boost visitor numbers. Dubbed 'community lodges', the first phase plans to undertake t...

Sep 18 , 2021

Commercial Banks to Secure $500m from Afreximbank

The African Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank) is to avail half a billion dollars to 18 commercial banks in Ethiopia through its Afreximbank Trade Facilitation (AfTRAF) programme. The programme aims to...

Sep 18 , 2021

CORN LEAF RECYCLING

Horse-drawn carriages are still in use in most parts of the country, as is the case in Hawassa. This one is transporting corn leaves, the part that is not used for consumption after the removal of the...

Sep 18 , 2021

ENTREPRENEURS OF AHUN

Nigusu Tilahun, head of the Jobs Creation Commission, talks to entrepreneurs at the graduation ceremony of an incubation program, Ahun, on September 17, 2021, at the Ethiopian Skylight Hotel. Chosen f...

Sep 18 , 2021

FROM ANOTHER ERA

The glory days of this Volkswagen Beetle are far behind it. Like many of its kind, it can no longer take on the streets, which has been taken by younger fitter versions of Volkswagens, but mostly Asia...

Sep 18 , 2021

World Bank Scraps Doing Business Report

The World Bank ceases publishing its annual Doing Business Report, after irregularities were discovered in the reports published in 2018 and 2020. The report was among policy tools adopted by authorit...

Sep 18 , 2021

Aid Trucks Remain Unaccounted For

The UN has expressed its concern that hundreds of trucks carrying aid to Tigray Regional State are not returning. "Only 38 out of 466 trucks that entered Tigray since 12 July have returned," said a...

Sep 18 , 2021

Exports Generate $676m in Two Months

Export revenues for the first two months of the existing fiscal year have totalled 676 million dollars. The figure represents a 16pc jump from last year. Coffee, horticultural products and khat com...

Sep 18 , 2021

Germany Donates AstraZeneca Jabs

The German government has handed over 271,200 doses of the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine to the Ministry of Health. The donation was made through the COVAX facility amid a surge in infections and death...

Sep 18 , 2021

Japan Grants 7.9m Br to Schools

Two schools in the Southern and Sidama regional states are the recipients of a 7.9 million Br grant from the Japanese government. Part of the Japanese Grant Assistance for Grassroots Human Security...


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