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Mar 27 , 2021

Agri Value Chain Dev't Receives South Korean Support

Ongoing work on landscape restoration and promoting climate-resilient projects in Ethiopia has received 12 million dollars of support from the Korean government. However, almost one-third of the 32-mi...

Mar 27 , 2021

$1m to Help People in Qoloji Camp

A one-million-dollar project to improve water access and sanitation at a camp for internally-displaced persons in Somali Regional State has been launched. Jointly supported by the Japanese Embassy...

Mar 27 , 2021

Lawyers Association Inaugurates National Hotline

In collaboration with Ethio telecom, the Ethiopian Women Lawyers Association launched a toll-free, national hotline for sexual and gender-based violence reports last week. The initiative cost 1.3 m...

Mar 27 , 2021

Development Bank Initiates Small Business Support Programme

Business people who run micro, small and medium enterprises will benefit from training on planning, management, finance and accounting if selected by the Development Bank of Ethiopia (DBE). Ethiopia's...

Mar 27 , 2021

Parliament Amends Six-Decade-Old Commercial Code

Members of parliament unanimously ratified a revised Commercial Code earlier this week, marking the first time in over six decades that the Code has seen any major changes. Efforts to amend the Cod...

Mar 20 , 2021

Election Ads

The election season is in gear with campaigning having started and candidate registration having been finalised. Here, in Kazanchis, passersby stop to read the names of candidates on a board. But thes...

Mar 20 , 2021

Shop Dismantling

Wood lies on the ground as what comprises small shops are dismantled in Saris Adey Abeba. Owners of the shop look on with detachment as every bit of the city keeps changing its face with continuous de...

Mar 20 , 2021

Enat's Design

Hana Tilahun (left), board chair of Enat Bank, gives a tour to Chief Justice Meaza Ashenafi, president of the Federal Supreme Court, of the contending architectural designs for a headquarters the Bank...

Mar 20 , 2021

Japan to Fund Portable Geothermal Power Plant

With the capacity to produce five megawatts of power, a portable geothermal power plant will soon be introduced with the help of the Japanese International Cooperation Agency (JICA). Japan has agre...

Mar 20 , 2021

Tourism Ethiopia Partners with Facebook

Tourism Ethiopia is partnering with Facebook on a project aimed at alleviating the detrimental effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on the tourism industry. Dubbed "Boost with Facebook for Tourism Ethi...

Mar 20 , 2021

RedFox Commences Data Centre Project

A new data centre at the Addis Abeba ICT Park, in a joint venture with a German-based company, is on the way. Early last week, RedFox Solutions Group broke ground on the construction of its private da...

Mar 20 , 2021

European Aid Organisation Completes Year-Long Project

People in Need (PIN), a non-governmental organisation founded in 1992, has announced the completion of a year-long project that aided more than 100,000 internally-displaced people, returnees and host...

Mar 20 , 2021

Jazeera Airways Marks Inaugural Flight

Jazeera Airways, a Kuwaiti carrier, has launched a twice-weekly flight service between Addis Abeba and Kuwait. The service was launched early last week on Tuesday, March 16. The new route will oper...

Mar 20 , 2021

Ginchi Power Station Inaugurated

Last week saw the inauguration of Ginchi Power Distribution Station in West Shoa Zone, Oromia Regional State. Built at the cost of 8.4 million dollars, the station has the capacity to carry 100MW of p...

Mar 20 , 2021

UK Proscribes Commercial, Private Flights From Ethiopia

Aviation authorities in the United Kingdom have barred Ethiopian Airlines from conducting commercial flights to England for an unspecified amount of time. Ethiopia is among the four countries added...

Mar 20 , 2021

WHO Regional Director Urges Vaccination Push

International health officials have called for the continuation of COVID-19 vaccination efforts in Africa, following news from Europe that the Oxford AstraZeneca vaccine may cause blood clots. Several...

Columns

Commentaries | Jun 06,2026

The Elections Offered Order at the Centre, Silence at the Edges

For a political veteran as controversial as Getachew Reda, last week's national elections...

Editorial | Jun 6 , 2026

Addis Abeba Pours a New Story in Every Cup, Where Tradition Meets Global Influence

Customers settle into a carefully curated space of dark wood, black accents, muted green f...

Featured | May 31 , 2026 . By HELINA HADGU

THE GOLD RUSH RUNS OUT OF FUEL

Zenebe Girja used to sit close to the centre of the formal gold trade, where sacks of raw...

Agenda | Jun 7 , 2026 . By MASTEWAL ZEMENE

National Census Delay Opens a New Fight Over Who Controls the Facts

The long-delayed census has returned to Parliament not as a counting exercise, but as a fi...

Fortune News | Jun 7 , 2026 . By NAHOM AYELE