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Sep 21 , 2019

Wolkite Gets New Hospital

A local construction company, Yohannes Haile Building Contractor, secured a deal to construct a hospital in Wolkite town in Gurage Zone. The agreement was signed between the contractor and the Sout...

Sep 21 , 2019

Coffee Export Generates $183.6m

Coffee exports in the first two months of this fiscal year generated 183.6 million dollars. The value was obtained from the export of 52,300tn of coffee, 6,585tn higher than the same period last ye...

Sep 14 , 2019

JUSTICE DAY

Meaza Ashenafi (left), the President of the Federal Supreme Court, and Birhanu Tsegaye, the Federal Attorney General, stand outside Millennium Hall on September 11, 2019. They were there to celebrate...

Sep 14 , 2019

ABEBAYEHOSH

September begins the new year in the Julian calendar. It is a time for change for both the calendar year and also the season. The arrival of September announces the end of the rainy season and the beg...

Sep 14 , 2019

GREEN VIEW

Those in charge of running the city of Addis Abeba are finally understanding the need for open green spaces. It is a welcome relief to see this serene, beautiful green park in the middle of the city....

Sep 14 , 2019

Saudi Firm Secures Nation’s First Solar Project

The Ministry of Finance approved the financial offer placed by a Saudi Arabian energy company to generate and sell solar power to the government from two farms in Somali and Afar regional states. T...

Sep 14 , 2019

Ethiopia, US Ally to End Tuberculosis

The United States and Ethiopia signed a new partnership agreement to end tuberculosis (TB) across the country. Lia Tadesse (MD), state minister for Health, and Sean Jones, mission director of the U...

Sep 14 , 2019

Commodity Transactions Hits 2.4b Br

Ethiopian Commodities Exchange (ECX) has transacted 2.4 billion Br from 41,339tn of commodities in August. Out of the transacted value, coffee covers 61pc of the total volume and 80pc of the value...

Sep 14 , 2019

Customs Seizes 1.6b Br worth of contraband

Ethiopia Customs Commission seized 1.6 billion Br worth of contraband smuggled in and out of the country in the past fiscal year. The Commission also arrested 1,775 suspects and took measures again...

Sep 14 , 2019

Pastoralists Receive Insurance Payouts

Following extremely poor rains this year, 3,000 pastoralists in Borana, Oromia Regional State, received 4.9 million Br in insurance payouts from Oromia Insurance S.C. for the calamity of the drought....

Sep 14 , 2019

Police Identify Remains of ET Crash Victims

After six months of investigation, the identification of human remains from the crash of Ethiopian Airlines Flight is completed, Endeshaw Tassew, commissioner of Federal Police Commission, announced e...

Sep 14 , 2019

Chinese Firm Set to Double Investment

Sunshine Ethiopia Wool Textile Plc, a Chinese textile manufacturer, is set to increase its investment portfolio to 980 million dollars. The textile firm, which has been operating in Adama Industry...

Sep 14 , 2019

Administration Bans 17 Edible Oils

The federal Food & Drug Administration (FDA) urged the public not to use 17 cooking oil brands, which were found in the market without labels. In a survey conducted by the Administration, the p...

Sep 8 , 2019

ABANDONED

In the Mebrat Hayel condominium compound, there is a fleet of trucks and cars that have been left to rot for a very long time. So long that grass is growing around and on them. Still, the compound's s...

Sep 8 , 2019

BUSY

Some intersections in Addis are so busy with the sidewalk business spilling into the road, that cars are forced to stop anyway, whether there is a stop sign or not. This street corner in Yeka is a goo...

Sep 8 , 2019

BREAK TIME

A group of shoeshine boys are gathered in Mesqel Square in the early morning, taking a break from work and enjoying each other's company. A few metres away, walkers and joggers are doing their exercis...


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