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Jun 1 , 2019

Innovation Ministry to Launch 150 E-services

The Ministry of Innovation & Technology is set to launch 150 electronic public services in the coming six months. The services are part of the planned 320 online services to be launched by next...

May 25 , 2019

Waste, Ruin

Four concrete pipes sit idle and forgotten, blocking a sidewalk in Megenagna. The blocks have damaged the cobblestones and force those waiting for a taxi to stand in the road. Lack of coordination bet...

May 25 , 2019

Girl Power

Haile G. Sellasie, athlete and businessperson, shows solidarity with a group of schoolgirls at Plan International's - a development and humanitarian organisation that works in 71 countries in the worl...

May 25 , 2019

Exports Keep Falling

Ethiopia earned just under 2.2 billion dollars from exports of commodities in the first ten months of this fiscal year, an 8.4pc decrease from the same period last year. This is despite the governm...

May 25 , 2019

Council Approves Bill to Improve Land Compensation

The Council of Ministers is pushing a bill that determines compensation rates for occupants during relocation from their land tenures. The draft proclamation is aimed at revising the 13-year-old co...

May 25 , 2019

Menswear Company Starts Exporting

An American menswear clothing company, Trybus Group, began exporting from the Kombolcha Industrial Park. The company exported 4,000 sets of men's suits. The company has hired and trained 533 people...

May 25 , 2019

Local Pharma Companies Perform Way Below Capacity

The local pharmaceutical manufacturing companies are producing only 33pc of their targeted production capacity, reports Ethiopian Pharmaceuticals Fund Agency. Lack of foreign exchange is one of the...

May 25 , 2019

Ministry Collects 163.3b Br in Tax Revenue

The Ministry of Revenues collected 163.3 billion Br in revenues in the first 10 months of the current fiscal year, a 9.8pc increase compared to last year. The Ministry, which plans to collect 235 b...

May 25 , 2019

Addis Collects 25.3b Br in Three Quarters

Addis Abeba City's Revenue Authority collected 25.3 billion Br in revenues, of which 17 billion Br was from employment income taxes. Revenue collected from value-added taxes (VAT) accounted for 7....

May 25 , 2019

Oromia State Launches 210m Br Water Project

The Oromia Region, Water & Sewerage Authority has invested 210 million Br for a water project in Fiche town. The project will supply clean water to 180,000 people in Fiche, Semien Showa Zone of...

May 25 , 2019

Regional Bank Endows Ethiopia with $1m

Sustainable Energy Fund for Africa, a trust fund administered by the Africa Development Bank (AfDB), gave a grant of one million dollars to upgrade the procurement framework for independent power prod...

May 18 , 2019

Closed

One of Addis Abeba's light rail trains slows down as it reaches this junction in front of Saint Michael Church around CMC, in the Bole district, which pedestrians use to cross the street. In the past...

May 18 , 2019

ON AGRICULTURE

Alan Jonson (far right), senior operations officer at the International Finance Corporation (IFC), moderated a panel discussion on digital disruption in agriculture. The discussion was part of the Dig...

May 18 , 2019

Airport’s CEO Leaves for Meqelle

Tewodros Dawit, CEO of Ethiopian Airports, has been appointed deputy mayor of Meqelle. Tewodros served at the Ethiopian Airports for 15 years, six of which as CEO after replacing Shiferaw Alemu. He...

May 18 , 2019

Tantalum Joint Investment Attracts Only One Offer

African Mining & Energy Pty Ltd, a mining company representing Australian companies engaged in the development of Africa's resource industry, became the only company to submit its offer for a lith...

May 18 , 2019

Africa Agriculture Project Launches in Ethiopia

A 10-year-old agriculture project has been launched in a partnership between Canada and Australia with seven African countries including Ethiopia. The Cultivate Africa Future Fund project is worth 34...

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The Rent Law Protects No One Well. Time to Rewrite It.

The federal legislative house rushed through one of the country's most contentious housing...

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