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Apr 8 , 2023

Supreme Court Leaps to Digital Court System

A digital court system moves one step closer to the realisation as the E-court system foresees instalment following the partnership between the Supreme Court and Ethioteleco during the signing ceremon...

Apr 8 , 2023

Ministry Supports Trade Relations in Tigray Regional State

Trade activities are expected to resume in Tigray Regional State following the announcement of the Ministry of Trade & Regional Integration of its plan to speed the process. Officials in the Mi...

Apr 8 , 2023

African Development Bank Obtain $90m Project to Support Agricultural Efforts

The production of wheat through an irrigation scheme foresees support as the Africa Development Bank plans to intervene in the agricultural sector with a 92-million-dollar project which is expected to...

Apr 3 , 2023

TIGHT TRACKS

A herd of donkeys are squeezed through a rail crossing around Debre Zeit road. The light railway system built with Chinese financial aid for 475 million dollars came to a grinding halt two months ago...

Apr 3 , 2023

TOURIST FANCIES

A row of electric bicycles around Meskel square charges 20 Br per round trip for prospective passengers. While these bicycles require the issuance of IDs as collateral, digital payments are what it ta...

Apr 3 , 2023

EXORCISED HISTORY

Seytan Bet' which translates as 'Devil's Pit' was the name given to the first cinema in the country around Churchill road. It garnered the name after attendees to the first few screening attributed t...

Apr 3 , 2023

Autism Care Centers Call for Notice

Centres tasked with providing care for children with autism reproach government stakeholders from Education and Health ministries for overlooking related issues. Owners and managers of several cent...

Apr 3 , 2023

Ethio-Djibouti Railway Resume Operation After Two Days Hiatus

Traders were apprehensive last week as the Ethio-Djibouti railway stopped operation for two days due to security concerns and railway line maintenance issues. Jeylan Abdi, head of federal police commu...

Apr 3 , 2023

Prime Minister Reports to Parliament

Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed (PhD) showed up to Parliament last week to present a six-month report. He called for "a new normal" to survive the tectonic aftershock from the changing global order, whose i...

Apr 3 , 2023

Parliament Inquires Ministry Minimum Wage Law Status

The delay in the implementation of the minimum wage law that has been in the making for several years was questioned by members of Parliament during the eight-month performance report last week. Mu...

Apr 3 , 2023

Waryt Avails Digital Gift Cards

Customers of Waryt Furniture will be treated to digital gift cards as the company partnered with Dashen Bank last week. The service was revealed at the event held at the headquarters of the company on...

Apr 3 , 2023

Climate Financing Garners Little Attention

Ethiopia has 14 times less climate finance than it requires, according to research conducted by FSD Africa partnering with Climate Policy Initiative (CPI). An average of 1.7 billion dollars, which...

Apr 3 , 2023

Parliament Approves Digital ID Resolution

Parliamentarians approved the proposed bill to issue Digital Identity Cards with a majority voting for and one abstention. While the idea has been floated for a few years, the standing committee on Le...

Apr 3 , 2023

Trade Ministry Foresees Mandatory Cashless Fuel Payment Systems

Cashless transactions will be mandatory when filling up a fuel tank at gas stations beginning next year. Payment through the digital system will start operation for residents of the capital this month...

Mar 25 , 2023

CHERRY PICKING

Women around the Koshe area hunt through piles of trash to find scraps of metal to sell. With close to three million people unemployed in the country and a headline inflation of 33pc, unskilled labour...

Mar 25 , 2023

JUNGLE CREW

An old wooden car that was part of a commercial campaign by a furniture company around the Beherawi Theatre area. Ethiopia's forest coverage to national land size has been registered at 15pc to the la...

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

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