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Nov 4 , 2023

GOOFY PLUGS

An electronic board around Merkato is used to hang printed advertisements. Aside from a recent directive by the Addis Abeba Construction Permits & Control Authority, there has been minuscule regul...

Nov 4 , 2023

PARCHED BATCHES

An aged lorry carries a pile of crushed plastic bottles to a recycling factory around the Gebrael area. With close to 15 million liters of bottled water consumed every day in Ethiopia, concerns over b...

Nov 4 , 2023

Ethiopian Securities Exchange Appointsits Lead

A month after unveiling its board of directors, the Ethiopian Securities Exchange appointed Tilahun Kassahun (PhD) as its Chief Executive Officer during their first head-on meeting last week. Tilah...

Nov 4 , 2023

Awash Launches Electronic Outlets

Awash Bank executives inaugurated three virtual branches in Addis Abeba and Adama (Nazareth) cities last week. Most banking services including statement printing, creating an account, cardless tran...

Nov 4 , 2023

State-owned Interest-Free Banking Marks a Decade

An interest-free banking service provided by the Commercial Bank of Ethiopia (CBE) recently celebrated its 10th anniversary. CBE Noor amassed 98 billion Br in deposits, with a network of 1,934 bran...

Nov 4 , 2023

Ethiopian Airlines Powers Self with New Plant

Ethiopian Airlines inaugurated its nine million dollars worth of electrical power plant near the Bole Airport terminal last week; five years after its inception. Two transformers of 40MW each are s...

Nov 4 , 2023

Voluntary City Patrol Nears Half a Million

Nearly half a million volunteers dubbed "peace army" operate across the capital, according to the quarterly report of the Addis Abeba Peace & Security Bureau. Headed by Lidya Girma, the Bureau...

SASSY STROKES

Two freshly graduated architects entertained attendees with whimsical caricatures at the European Film Festival last week on Cape Verde Street. Artistically endowed college graduates have increasingly...

Oct 28 , 2023

GRIM GREENERY

The roundabout around the Sheraton Addis located across Friendship Park is under renovation. Many people prefer the location for a photoshoot due to its visuals. Addis Abeba's landscape has been refur...

Oct 28 , 2023

AMBIENT FLICKERS

Left to right) Germany Ambassador Stephen Auer, Minister of Finance Ahmed Shide and Minister of Women & Social Affairs Ergoge Tesfaye (PhD) attend the German Unity Day at the Embassy. It is celeb...

Oct 28 , 2023

Zemen Inks Integration Deal With Safaricom

An interoperability and integration partnership was inked between Safaricom Ethiopia and Zemen Bank executives allowing the bank to work as a super agent for the M-Pesa mobile money platform last week...

Oct 28 , 2023

British Council Invests in Ethiopia's Education Quality

In the wake of a mere 24pc of teachers passing the qualification exam which revealed severe incompetency, English language proficiency training to enhance their skills was piloted on 375 principals an...

Oct 28 , 2023

Medical Entrepreneurs Victorious in Tech Competition

A year-long competition challenging skills such as pitching business ideas, interpersonal communication and impactful mentoring was completed last week. Dashen Bank has rewarded a one million Birr pri...

Oct 28 , 2023

Officials Gear Up for Refugee Forum

Six pledges were identified at the validation workshop organised by Ethiopian Refugees and Returnees Services (RSS) in Bishoftu (Debrezeit), Oromia Regional State last week to endorse the government's...

Oct 28 , 2023

Dashen Maintains Financial Dominance Boasting 3.5b Br Profit

Dashen Bank has registered another record-high profitable year netting 3.5 billion Br. Total assets soared over 144 billion Br during a year in which the bank wrapped up its five-year strategic plan....

Oct 28 , 2023

Ethiopia Bolsters Resilience with African Risk Capacity Treaty

A treaty to enable preparation, planning and response to extreme weather events and natural disasters was signed with the African Union Agency and African Risk Capacity Insurance (ARC). The ceremon...


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