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Jun 26 , 2021

WOODEN CAR

A Toyota sedan with an unusual look stops at a traffic light near the National Theatre. It has been customised to boast wooden features and carry on top of it what resembles to be a tiny garden. The c...

Jun 26 , 2021

Ministry, Mastercard Look to Bolster Leather Industry

The Ministry of Trade & Industry and the Mastercard Foundation have signed an agreement to enhance the competitiveness and growth of Ethiopia's leather industry by establishing a platform for job...

Jun 26 , 2021

PM Inaugurates Renamed Leadership Academy

The newly renamed African Leadership Excellence Academy in Sululta, Oromia Regional State inaugurated on Saturday, June 26, 2021, in the presence of Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed (PhD), Deputy Prime Minis...

Jun 26 , 2021

AfDB Says Continent Lost $190b to COVID-19

The African economy has lost over 190 billion dollars as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, said Akinwumi Adesina (PhD), president of the African Development Bank Group (AfDB), during the AfDB's 2021...

Jun 26 , 2021

Corporation Gets New Deputy CEO

The Ministry of Finance has named Mulualem Getahun as Deputy CEO of the newly-formed Liability & Asset Management Corporation. Mulualem has close to two decades of experience in finance and invest...

Jun 26 , 2021

Ministry Collects 259b Br in Eleven Months

The Ministry of Revenues has announced that it has collected over 259.3 billion Br over the course of the first 11 months of the current fiscal year. Over half of the revenues came from domestic taxes...

Jun 26 , 2021

Board Discloses Irregularities in Dire Dawa Polling Stations

The National Election Board of Ethiopia announced that voting for regional council seats has not been conducted in six polling stations in Dire Dawa City Administration. The stations were not provi...

Jun 26 , 2021

IPDC Signs Agreement with Awash and COOP

The Industrial Parks Development Corporation (IPDC) has partnered with Awash Bank and the Cooperative Bank of Oromia as its two sole financial service providers. The banks are expected to provide c...

Jun 26 , 2021

Bank of Abyssinia Rolls Out International Pre-paid and Debit Cards

Bank of Abyssinia has begun issuing e-commerce enabled domestic and international cards that customers can use to make online payments. The Bank has availed six types of Visa brand interest-free inter...

Jun 21 , 2021

Election Observes

Abera Hailemariam, acting director of Coalition of Ethiopian Civil Society Organisations for Election, and his team gave a press briefing on polling day at Golden Tulip Hotel on June 18, 2021. The bri...

Jun 21 , 2021

Hello Taxi-style Fueling

Hello Taxi lines up for a display at the newly revamped Mesqel Square its yellow and white locally assembled cars, which are to be handed over to buyers. The taxis are aimed at catering to tourists. O...

Jun 21 , 2021

Wood Merch

The demand for wood continues unabated in Ethiopia, as these two young street vendors in Debre Markos, a city in the Amhara Regional State, demonstrate. They lug around their merchandise in the city o...

Jun 19 , 2021

Ethio Telecom Takes 4G LTE to Jimma

Ethio telecom has taken its 4G LTE Advanced service to the country's Southwestern Region. The company continued its expansion campaign by launching the service in nine towns last week, namely Jimma, A...

Jun 19 , 2021

Coal Plant Construction Kicks Off

The Sunshine Investment Group has begun the construction of a 600 million Br coal washing plant in the Gurage Zone, bringing with it the potential to save over 65 million dollars a year that would oth...

Jun 19 , 2021

German Multinational Reaps First Fruits

BASF, a German agri-chem firm, has introduced the first seeds grown in its agricultural production facility in Amhara Regional State to the global market. The firm has done so through Nunhems Ethiopia...

Jun 19 , 2021

Camash-Koncho Road Project Construction Kicks Off

The construction of a 160Km road that links the Oromia and Benishangul-Gumuz regional states, Camash-Koncho asphalt concrete road, has kicked off. Projected to cost 4.2 billion Br fully covered by...


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