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Sep 28 , 2019

ODDA Transport Kicks off Operations

ODDA Integrated Transport S.C., the economic wing of the Oromia Regional State, started transport services with 50 cross-country buses. Bought for 400 million Br from Volvo, the 50 buses start serv...

Sep 28 , 2019

NEIGHBOURLY BUSINESS

Ahmed Shide, minister of Finance, and Ethiopia's special envoy Mahmoud Dirir visit the products display at the Ethio-Sudan Business Forum held at the Sheraton Addis Hotel on September 26, 2019. The de...

Sep 28 , 2019

WB Supports Ethiopia's Data System

The World Bank closed a 15-million-dollar, five-year project that aimed at modernising the statistical data recording of the country. Dubbed the Statistics for Results Facilities, the project built...

Sep 28 , 2019

NGOs Join Hands to Assist Universities

United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and Save the Children launched a two-million-dollar project to support higher education institutions in Ethiopia. To be implemented by Save t...

Sep 28 , 2019

OPEN MARKET

In what once used to be the heart of nightlife in Addis, the centre of Kazanchis, the former watering holes have been demolished to give way to development. In the meantime the City Administration has...

Sep 28 , 2019

Kudu Ventures Launches $1m Investment Fund

Kudu Ventures, a United States-based venture capital firm, announced a female-focused investment fund. Kudu Ventures will invest one million dollars for Kudu Women, which will be led by Betelhem De...

Sep 28 , 2019

BULLFIGHTING

This is not in Spain, and those are no matadors trying to fight the bull. It is in Mesqel Square right here in Addis Abeba in the middle of Mesqel celebrations. A stray bull ran right into the middle...

Sep 21 , 2019

SINKING IN

Sidewalks in Addis Abeba are notoriously unfriendly to pedestrians. A lot of them are unpaved and full of holes and ditches. Navigating them, especially at night, is an art form the people of the city...

Sep 21 , 2019

DISCUSSION

Zeynu Jemal (left), state minister of peace, engages with Hilary Onek (right), Ugandan minister of relief, disaster preparedness and refugees, on September 16, 2019 in Addis Abeba during IGAD's Second...

Sep 21 , 2019

NEGLIGENCE

On an electric pole near the Hilton Hotel, electrical wires are protruding out of the casing pointing in all directions.  Were it not for the unprofessionalism and gross negligence that is common in...

Sep 21 , 2019

Ethiopia Refutes Egypt’s Water Filling Proposal

Ethiopia rejected Egypt's proposal for the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) that suggested that the country should release 40 billion cubic metres of water every year, while the Aswan Dam will o...

Gates Foundation Launches Livestock Medicine Supply

Al-Impex Import & Export has begun distributing livestock medicine supplied by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Al-Impex Import & Export, which is the correspondent for Zoetis, the...

Sep 21 , 2019

Sweden Seeds $3.6m for Good Governance

Sweden pledged a grant of 3.6 million dollars to Ethiopia to support new and existing governance reform initiatives, including the justice system reform. Pledged through the United Nations Developm...

Sep 21 , 2019

Japan Finances Water Project in Bahir Dar

A water project that is fully financed by the government of Japan was kicked off in Bahir Dar City, Amhara Regional State on September 19, 2019. Expected to consume half a billion Birr, the project...

Sep 21 , 2019

Japanese Product Penetrates Ethiopia’s Market

Rohto Pharmaceutical Co., a Japanese fast-moving consumer goods and pharmaceutical products manufacturer, has begun sales of “Rohto Ice” eye drops in Ethiopia. Ethiopia is the first destination...

Sep 21 , 2019

Garment College Puts Down Roots in Meqelle

The United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) has built a leather centre of excellence and garment college at Meqelle, Tigray Regional State. The centre of excellence can enroll 2...


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