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Jun 12 , 2023

Ethiopian Women Envisage Menstrual Hygiene Products

Over five million women across the regional states foresee sanitary pad supply with a 146 million Br project. Launched by the French Development Agency (AFD), East African Gate (Eastgate) and Ethio...

Jun 12 , 2023

City Administration Embarks on Interconnecting Public Offices

Over 44 bureaus from 58 sectors under the Addis Abeba City Administration are set to be inter-connected through a main data centre in the next four months. The networking system is launched with a...

Jun 12 , 2023

UNDP Panel Underscore Capital Markets' Potential to Attract Investors

A bill for public offerings and trading is underway by the Ethiopian Capital Markets Authority, which will restrict offering shares to the public to its purview and regulation. Brook Taye (PhD), di...

Jun 12 , 2023

Capital Ushers Civil Society Organisation Exhibition

Over 75 local and international civil society organisations including professional associations, labour unions and charity organizations gathered at Ghion Hotel for a three-day exhibition and panel di...

Jun 3 , 2023

LOFTY CONSTRUCTS

A painting depicts traditional farming equipment at the Science Museum around the Arat Kilo area. Since the seizing of power by the current administration, large-scale architectural projects marked by...

Jun 3 , 2023

CLEAN BILL

A queue for diagnostics at the nation's largest state-owned hospital, Black Lion. As the health sector is largely funded by development partners from abroad, decreased support as donors shied away due...

Jun 3 , 2023

ACRID GROUNDS

A street vendor puts up pepper for sale around the Lideta area. With agricultural produce accounting for the largest share of the nation's GDP at around 40pc, setbacks in the delivery of fertilizer ha...

Jun 3 , 2023

Regional States Foresee Rehabilitation Scheme to Promote Sanitation

Over 64,000 residents in Afar and the Southern regional states foresee a rehabilitation scheme through a three-year project with a 7.6 million euro deal to promote health care, education, clean water...

Jun 3 , 2023

City Hosts Digital Consumer Security Discourse

Concerns over the guaranteed safety of user data in the digital economy were discussed amongst participants from legal firms, commercial banks and the National Bank of Ethiopia (NBE) last week. Ensu...

Jun 3 , 2023

Continent-wide Tax Policy Calls for Revenue Mobilisation

The African Tax Administration Forum (ATAF) partners with the African Union Commission citing a potential to fight illicit financial flows and help mobilize domestic resources efficiently. The two...

Jun 3 , 2023

Parliament Ratifies Bilateral Tax Treaties

Parliamentarians greenlighted a tax treaty agreement with Switzerland and Luxembourg, expanding the number of countries with bilateral tax treaties with Ethiopia to 20. Tax treaties entail the wavi...

Jun 3 , 2023

Farm Africa Ethiopia Signs 30 million Deal with Swedish Embassy

A three-year project to combat soil acidification and erosion through nature-based solutions was availed last week. It was spearheaded by Farm Africa Ethiopia with financial assistance from the Swedis...

Jun 3 , 2023

Sudan's War Heighten the Humantarian Crises in Ethiopia

Over 18,000 children under five and more than 4,000 women in displacement sites in Amhara Regional State require supplementary feeding due to malnutrition, according to United Nations Office for the C...

May 27 , 2023

HEFTY GREEN

Street vendors around the Shola area take a rest in the shades of the capital's newly planted trees. Upon reporting on its 10-month performance before Parliament, the Agriculture Minister, Girma Ament...

May 27 , 2023

DAMP DENIMS

Residents of communal houses around the Weji area hang their clothes on the fences outside. Textile manufacturing accounts for 87pc of Ethiopia's products from industrial parks. Expulsion from the Afr...

May 27 , 2023

PRICY PLEASURES

Vendors put traditional beauty products from the Somali Regional State for sale around Mexico area. In November of last year, the Ministry of Finance banned imported goods under 38 categories, includi...

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Will Community Health Insurance Falter Under Its Ambitious Weight?

For Germans, Otto von Bismarck is first remembered as the architect of a unified nation. H...

Editorial | Aug 30 , 2025

Ashenda Grows Louder

The late-season drizzle that falls on Addis Abeba each August does little to dampen the mo...

Featured | Aug 23 , 2025 . By RUTH BERHANU

School Bells Ring as Wallets Snap Shut

The rainy season was losing its grip on Addis Abeba. Patches of pale sky opened between br...

Agenda | Aug 30 , 2025 . By RUTH BERHANU

DASHEN BANK'S NEW REMITTANCE GATEWAY ENTERS THE RING

At a high-profile event held at the Sheraton Addis last week, the launch of Dashen Bank's...

Fortune News | Aug 30 , 2025