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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...

Jul 9 , 2022

Sidama Microfinance Receives Banking License

Regulators at the central bank have granted Sidama Microfinance Institution a banking license, finalising its transition into Sidama Bank. Tadesse Hatiya, the Bank's founding president, leads it in...

Jul 9 , 2022

American, Indian Firms Ink Industrial Park Lease Agreement

Two private manufacturing firms have inked deals with the Industrial Parks Development Corporation (IPDC) for space inside two industrial parks. Parker Clay, based in the US, has leased space in Ad...

Jul 9 , 2022

UNICEF Warns of Imminent Famine

The United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) warns the drought in the country's east and south could turn into a full-blown famine without immediate action. The agency says it is facing difficulties...

Jul 9 , 2022

Parliament Nods to Federal Budget Bill

Last week, Parliament approved the 786.6 billion Br federal budget bill for the 2022/23 fiscal year. The budget bill is 40pc higher than what lawmakers had approved for 2021/22 and around 16pc high...


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