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Jul 24 , 2021

TOXIC RIVER

Birds are finding out the hard way that their natural habitat has changed for the worst, with river being polluted by waste especially single use plastics and plastic bottles. Located near Ghion Hotel...

Jul 24 , 2021

POLE DOWN FOR CONSTRUCTION

The sight of a fallen streetlight pole is not rare. But neither are they known to be put to use after they have done as such. This pole on Sierra Leone Street, commonly known as Debreziet Road, has a...

Jul 24 , 2021

Gov't Receives $118m in AfDB Grants

The Ethiopian government and the African Development Bank Group (AfDB) have signed an agreement for two separate grants worth 118 million dollars, aimed at supporting agro-industrial parks, Ethiopia-D...

Jul 24 , 2021

Ministry Collects 279b Br in Revenue

The Ministry of Revenues collected 279 billion Br in revenues over the just-ended fiscal year. The figure represents 96 pc of its target, and a 19.6pc increase from last year. More than half of the...

Jul 24 , 2021

Yonsei, Health Ministry to Launch $1.7m Project

Yonsei Global Health Centre, a South Korean public health institute, and the Ministry of Health have signed a Memorandum of Understanding to kick off a 1.7 million dollar project aimed at improving aw...

Jul 24 , 2021

Amhara Region Opal Industry Generates $3.6m

Opal sourced from mines in Amhara Regional State generated 3.6 million dollars in export revenue last year, according to the Amhara Mines Agency. The figure is 1.4 million dollars higher than the year...

Jul 24 , 2021

Dire Dawa Inaugurates 80m Br Transport Terminal

The Dire Dawa City Administration inaugurated a transport terminal that cost an estimated 80 million Br to build this past week. The bus terminal rests on 39,000sqm of land and the construction took a...

Jul 24 , 2021

City Admin Reports Lower Road Accident Casualties

The number of casualties from traffic accidents in the capital has shown a slight decline in comparison to last year, according to the Addis Abeba Traffic Management Agency. A total of 389 people lost...

Jul 24 , 2021

Abyssinia, MFIs Ink 600m Br Loan Agreement

The Bank of Abyssinia has agreed to provide 600 million Br in loans to four microfinance institutions (MFIs) as part of its efforts to comply with the central bank's policies. Facilitated by the Ma...

Jul 18 , 2021

DRAIN AWAY FLOOD

This neigbourhood close to the headquarters of the African Union in Qera is the scene of flooding during the rainy season. The house's main line of defence is this stone wall, which has tubes fitted t...

Jul 18 , 2021

RAINY DAY COMMUTERS

Few, if any, commuters enjoy standing in queues to wait for public transportation, but the growing population in Addis Abeba has normalised this for many residents. Sometimes it gets worse though, esp...

Jul 18 , 2021

BUSY STORAGE FACILITY

A bird's-eye view of a storage facility for a construction company shows a rather disorderly asortment of pieces of construction equipment. Located in Lideta, most of the materials are steel, necessar...

Jul 18 , 2021

NBE Launches Digital Payment Strategy

The National Bank of Ethiopia (NBE) has officially kicked off the implementation of a national digital payment strategy that has been in the making for over a year with the support of the United Natio...

Jul 18 , 2021

Heineken, Football Federation Renew Sponsorship Agreement

Heineken Breweries S.C. and the Ethiopian Football Federation announced that they have signed a four-year sponsorship agreement worth 64 million Br for the men's national footbal team. The sponsorship...

Jul 18 , 2021

Ethiopia Secures $77m from Oil Seed Export

The export of oil seeds, pulses and edible oil products brought in 77 million dollars over the first 11 months of the just-ended fiscal year. The export of processed oil seeds and unprocessed avoca...

Jul 18 , 2021

ECX on Verge of Mineral Trading

Opal, emerald, and sapphire, will be traded on the floors of the Ethiopian Commodity Exchange (ECX) beginning next year. The Exchange has already prepared a manual to begin trading the minerals and...


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