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Mar 18 , 2023

ARCANE MARKERS

Hamere Berhan' at the old post office prints books using ancient paper made from animal skin called 'Birana'.  It is part of the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahdo Church which has had scribes for close to...

Mar 18 , 2023

GREEN SHIFT

A palm tree is moved to a new location for replanting around Meskel square. The global effort to battle man-made climate change has gained steam over the last few years. African countries have shifted...

Mar 18 , 2023

STRUCTURAL MAKEOVER

The area around Ambassador, famous for its souvenir shops, is getting demolished for real estate development. The Addis Abeba City Administration has ramped up efforts to remodel the city's architectu...

Mar 18 , 2023

Ahadu Bank Begins Payment Gateway Partnership with ECX

Ahadu Bank joins the Ethiopian Commodity Exchange (ECX) payment system as the 21st member. The Bank signed a memorandum of understanding focused on the payment and transaction entity for the exchange...

Mar 18 , 2023

Economics Association Devises Development Index

Ethiopian Economics Association developed a multi-dimensional development index to assess the country's economic progress. Degye Goshu (PhD), director of research & policy analysis in the Assoc...

Mar 18 , 2023

Switch Operator Executives Aspire 3b Br Capital

Shareholders of EthSwitch decided to raise its capital to three billion Birr in the next five years during the general assembly held at Sheraton Hotel last week. Chaired by Solomon Desta, the Natio...

Mar 18 , 2023

African Member States Pledge for Nuclear Energy Accession

Members of African states pledged to nuclear energy accession following the five-day conference held in the capital. One of the foreseen endorsements is the establishment National Steering Committe...

Mar 18 , 2023

Amhara Bank Launches Interest Free Banking Service

Amhara Bank clients will get interest-free banking (IFB) which allows them to have segregated transactions with regular bank accounts. The Bank launched a separate core banking system (multi-company m...

Mar 18 , 2023

State-owned Telecom Partners with Samsung

Ethio telecom, the state-owned telecommunications provider, has teamed up with Samsung Electronics Company to launch an initiative aimed at boosting smartphone usage among its customers. This comes...

Mar 18 , 2023

Blinken Puts Ethiopia on Notice for Reinstatement to AGOA

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken underscored the need for Ethiopia's leaders to meet clear benchmarks in order to be reinstated to AGOA and expressed his concerns that the exit of external forces...

Mar 18 , 2023

African Finance Ministers Point Fingers Elsewhere

African ministers of finance attribute the poor economic performance of the continent to the worldwide pandemic and the war between Russia and Ukraine at the 55th session of the Economic Commission fo...

Mar 11 , 2023

HOT WHEELS

A truck catches fire after ramming into a metal partition last week, around the Welo Sefer area on Africa Avenue (Bole Road). Traffic accidents are a common sight in the streets of the capital, where...

Mar 11 , 2023

OMNI MART

A man around the post office in Piassa offers up a multitude of services from one tree shed. Sidewalks around the capital are ubiquitous with vendors that also shine shoes. With over four million peop...

Mar 11 , 2023

AQUA FLESH

A man chops up fish around Atkilt Tera, the hub for fishmongers in the capital. With one of the major fasting seasons by Orthodox Christians currently at hand, culinary offerings see a shift in the co...

Mar 11 , 2023

Tikur Anbessa Hospital Lauds Half a Century of Service

Tikur Anbessa Hospital, the largest specialized hospital in the country, celebrated 50 years of service at an event held this week. The college of health science located in the hospital compound is...

Mar 11 , 2023

Addis Abeba Bans Three-Wheeled Vehicles

Banning three-wheeled vehicles on Addis Abeba streets has resulted in lengthy queues at public transport terminals, impacting the over 2.7 million residents who depend on the city's public transport s...


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