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May 20 , 2023

Ahadu Bank Enter the Digital Financing Market

Ahadu Bank partners with financial technology service providers to develop digital payment gateways. The Bank sealed a partnership agreement with Chapa and Trusted Tech financial technology compani...

May 20 , 2023

Tech Innovation Competition Comes to Life

A project that aims to energise the business community launched a competition to spotlight young startups with innovative ideas last week. It strives to register over 1,800 people from Addis Abeba...

May 20 , 2023

Veteran, Novice Financial Institutions Forge Alliance

An alliance that aims to transfer knowledge and enhance domestic capacity in fintech was made between Hibret and ZamZam banks. According to Melaku Kebede, president of Hibret Bank, such kind of par...

May 13 , 2023

DUSTY DAWNS

A woman collects remnants of her former business amidst the rubble around the Mebrat Hail area. A task force swept through the capital last week, demolishing what it considers informal and illicit ven...

May 13 , 2023

PHANTOM SUMMERS

Youth around the Bole area brush a hopeful hew to the grey highways. With as little as three percent out of a million high school graduates passing the college entry exams this year, gloomy horizons a...

May 13 , 2023

STAPLE WHEELS

Injera is distributed to small cafes around the Mexico area at dawn. The staple food made out of Teff is a part of nearly every meal in the Ethiopian diet. Last month, the US Department of Agriculture...

May 13 , 2023

Ethipia Strives to Liberalise Continental Air Transport Market

Africa accounts for one percent of the global air service market, despite 23 years since the Yamoussoukro Decision that called for full liberalization of intra-African air transport services regarding...

May 13 , 2023

Telebirr Surpasses 1b Br Mark in Digital Fuel Payment

Over one billion Birr fuel transactions have been made through Telebirr since the mandatory cashless transaction began two weeks ago. The Ministry of Trade & Regional Integration has announced...

May 13 , 2023

UNOCHA Suspends Food Aid Distribution Pending Invesigations

A temporary pause of food dispatch and distributions in the Tigray Regional State has been decided in response to the reports of its diversion to the local market, according to the United Nations Offi...

May 13 , 2023

Suspected Outbreak Grips Afar Regional State

Over 1,000 suspected Dengue cases in Mile and Adar towns of Afar Regional State have been estimated in late April. Emerging phenomena in the region include a Dengue Fever outbreak, which requires a...

May 13 , 2023

Industry Players Counter the Chambers' Proposed Reform

The national and city chambers and sectoral associations pleaded their case on the proposed amendment of the bill for their re-establishment which has been in the making for the past three years. T...

May 13 , 2023

Transport Associations Bewildered Amid Reestablishment

Reestablishing transport associations under commercial entities has created confusion among the associations over the implementation. The Ministry of Transport & Logistics put forth a proclamat...

May 6 , 2023

KALEIDOSCOPIC POLAROIDS

Youth draped in colourful embroidery marched the streets of the Arat Kilo area during Patriots' Day celebrations. The day commemorates the victory of Ethiopians over Italian forces for the second time...

May 6 , 2023

VESTIGIAL GEARS

An eight-wheeler drags an even older pickup truck to chop shops around the Qera area. The excise tax proclamation three years ago levied steep duties on older cars with rising rates as the production...

May 6 , 2023

Kick-Push-Roll

A group of teens around the Meskel Square area get ready to hop on their old skateboards- the area is one of the few places in the capital convenient for the growing trend. With about 70pc of the nati...

May 6 , 2023

WHO Director Declares Covid-19 a Non-Emergency Threat

The Covid-19 pandemic is no longer a global emergency threat, according to Tewodros Adhanom (PhD), director general of the World Health Organization. The director, however, warned countries not to...

Columns

Commentaries | Jun 06,2026

The Elections Offered Order at the Centre, Silence at the Edges

For a political veteran as controversial as Getachew Reda, last week's national elections...

Editorial | Jun 6 , 2026

Addis Abeba Pours a New Story in Every Cup, Where Tradition Meets Global Influence

Customers settle into a carefully curated space of dark wood, black accents, muted green f...

Featured | May 31 , 2026 . By HELINA HADGU

THE GOLD RUSH RUNS OUT OF FUEL

Zenebe Girja used to sit close to the centre of the formal gold trade, where sacks of raw...

Agenda | Jun 7 , 2026 . By MASTEWAL ZEMENE

National Census Delay Opens a New Fight Over Who Controls the Facts

The long-delayed census has returned to Parliament not as a counting exercise, but as a fi...

Fortune News | Jun 7 , 2026 . By NAHOM AYELE