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May 18 , 2019

Leaders Named to New Commission

Parliament approved Tassew Gebre (PhD) as commissioner of Administrative Demarcations & Identity Issues Commission; and also approved Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed's (PhD) recommendation to make Ustaz...

May 11 , 2019

TRENDY BINS

The beautifying of public trash bins has taken off in Addis Abeba, with some even being used for advertisements. This one featured an ad for a concert by Gossaye Tesfaye. On the bin are directions for...

May 11 , 2019

INTERNATIONAL AGRO FAIR

Mesenbet Shenkute (centre), president of the Addis Abeba Chamber of Commerce & Sectoral Association, and Ayanalem Nigussie (right), state minister of Agriculture, visited displays at the 12th edit...

May 11 , 2019

STAND FOR PEACE

One of three winners of the “I stand for peace” video competition organised by the United States Embassy stands with US Ambassador Michael Raynor (second from right) and Kefeyalew Tefera (second f...

May 11 , 2019

Court Rejects Ex-Tiret Execs Objections

Judges at the Regional Supreme Court in Bahir Dar rejected the preliminary objections of Tadesse Kassa, former CEO, and Bereket Simon, former board chairperson, of Tiret Corporate. The two defendan...

May 11 , 2019

Tax Generates 145.7b Br in Nine Months

Government revenue collection has reached 145.74 billion Br in the first three quarters of the current fiscal year. The revenue was collected from taxes, customs, custom duties and national lotteri...

May 11 , 2019

Authority Disposes of Unsafe Food, Drugs

The Ethiopian Food & Drug Administration Authority confiscated and disposed of food and medicinal items that it deemed unsafe for public consumption in the first nine months of the current fiscal...

May 11 , 2019

Commodity Transactions Hit 3.3b Br

The value of commodity trading on the floor of the Ethiopian Commodity Exchange (ECX) hit 3.3 billion Br last month. The value was obtained from the transaction of 72,756tn of agricultural commodit...

May 11 , 2019

CBE Blesses Sheger Project with 500m Br

The state giant, Commercial Bank of Ethiopia, has pledged half a billion Birr for a project that intends to beautify Addis Abeba. The board of directors of the bank approved a contribution to the p...

May 11 , 2019

Ministry Adjusts Fuel Prices

The Ministry of Trade & Industry adjusted retail fuel prices upward effective May 8, 2019. Following the adjustment, the price for a litre of benzene went up to 21.53 Br from 20.19 Br, while bl...

May 11 , 2019

EU Commits 33m for Risk Reduction

The European Union has pledged 33.5 million euros to be used for disaster risk reduction project. Admasu Nebebe, state minister for Finance, and Erik Habers, head of Cooperation for the European Un...

May 4 , 2019

PRESS FREEDOM DAY

Vera Songwe, executive secretary for the United Nations' Economic Commission for Africa, Tomas Kwesi Quarty, deputy chairperson of the African Union, President Sahle-work Zewde and Audrey Azoulay, dir...

May 4 , 2019

Blocked

A vehicle operated drilling device on a low bed truck hit the fence of the main street's divider in Leghar. Passerby gathered as the construction team from a nearby building helped, and traffic was di...

May 4 , 2019

COLOURFUL VENDING

Different colours and sizes of shoelaces and shoe soles are displayed for sale in the middle of the street near Ambassador Theater. One of the tent's strings is attached to a facility of a police stat...

May 4 , 2019

Ministry Waives Taxation on Crust

The Ministry of Finance has waived the 150pc taxation imposed on the export of semi-finished leather. The taxation was imposed on the export of crust leather, the leather that has dried after tanni...

May 4 , 2019

Addis Gets Cardiac Care Centre

A cornerstone was laid to build a specialised cardiac care centre at Black Lion Hospital for 40 million euros. Expected to take two years to complete, the project is financed by the Dutch and Ethio...


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