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Jul 23 , 2022

Formal Remittance Registers at $4.2b

Remittance through formal channels last year registered at 4.2 billion dollars, according to the Ethiopian Diaspora Service. Mohammed Idris, deputy head of the Service, said the value is five perce...

Jul 23 , 2022

Federal Tax Authorities Laud 'Improvement' in 337b Br Revenues

The federal government collected close to 337 billion Br from taxes and duties in the fiscal year that ended earlier this month. It is a little over a fifth higher than revenues collected the year pri...

Jul 17 , 2022

ABANDONED

It is usual to see horses standing in the middle of highways and roads. The horses are abandoned as they outlive their use due to disease in the eyes of their owners, who promptly leave them to fend f...

Jul 17 , 2022

LONG RIDE

A woman is driving her three donkeys carrying sacks of coal to be sold in the city. It is the livelihood of women in some parts of Addis Abeba. Driving their donkeys for kilometres, it is not a job fo...

Jul 17 , 2022

JOB AWAQI

Muferihat Kamil (left), minister of Labour & Skills, and Samuel Yalew (right), country head at the Mastercard Foundation, officially launched Awaqi, an online platform aimed at facilitating youth...

Jul 17 , 2022

June Headline Inflation Registers at 34pc, Food Inflation at 38pc

Year-on-year inflation, which has clocked in at above the 30pc mark for 11 consecutive months beginning last August, registered at 34pc last month. It represents a decrement for the first time since F...

Jul 17 , 2022

Judge Grants Police Two-Week Custody of Commissioner Mitiku, Son

Mid last week, a judge at the Federal First Instance High Court granted federal investigators 14-day custody of Mitiku Kassa, head of the National Disaster Risk Management Commission. Mitiku and hi...

Jul 17 , 2022

Agriculture Ministry Inks Djibouti Port Deal for Livestock Exports

Oumer Hussein, minister of Agriculture, last week signed a memorandum of understanding with his counterpart in Djibouti to use the latter's Doraleh Port as a terminal for the Ethiopian livestock expor...

Jul 17 , 2022

Export Revenues See 14pc Growth

The export of goods over the 2021/22 financial year brought in 4.12 billion dollars, nearly 14pc higher than revenues generated the year before. Agricultural commodities account for close to three...

Jul 17 , 2022

IMF Urges Creditor Committee for Quick Decisions

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has called on the creditor committee for Ethiopia to hasten negotiations with federal authorities and reach an agreement for the debt restructuring process under...

Jul 17 , 2022

Manufacturing Exports Generate $500m Despite Trade Restrictions

The export of manufactured goods brought in half a billion dollars of revenues in the financial year ended this month, according to the Ministry of Industry. It is over 100 million dollars more tha...

Jul 17 , 2022

City Admin Annuls Condominium Lottery Draw

Addis Abeba Mayor Adanech Abiebie has annulled the outcome of a lottery drawing for the transfer of condominium units that took place earlier this month. The decision came less than a week after the l...

Jul 9 , 2022

ADDIS BUILD AT MILLENNIUM

Chaltu Sani (left), minister of Urban & Infrastructure Development, and Ben Greenish, vice president of DMG Events, an events organiser, were at Hyatt Regency to announce The Big 5 Construct Ethio...

Jul 9 , 2022

SHEGER'S VEGETABLES

Outlets for the sale of subsidised bread from Sheger Bakery, constructed out of containers, are popping up in different parts of Addis Abeba. It is a departure from old repurposed Anbessa buses that h...

Jul 9 , 2022

RIVER BREAK

A young man is taking a break on the bank of Koka River in the south-central part of Ethiopia, in the Oromia Regional State, under a warm sun. He has finished washing up his clothes in the river and i...

Jul 9 , 2022

Lottery Draw Sees 25,000 Condominium Units Assigned

A lottery draw last week saw close to 25,000 condominium units assigned to Addis Abeba's residents under the municipality's troubled low-cost housing scheme. The scheme began in the late 1990s afte...


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