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Jan 7 , 2022

Germany Donates 7m Doses of J&J Vaccine

The government of Germany has donated around 7.2 million doses of the Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine to Ethiopia via the COVAX facility. The Portuguese government has also donated a further 1...

Jan 7 , 2022

Authority Bans Dozens of Food Brands

The Ethiopian Food & Drug Authority has issued a ban on no less than 63 brands comprising eight food types in Addis Abeba and surrounding areas. Half of the brands are iodised salt products, wh...

Jan 7 , 2022

Pandemic Death Toll Exceeds 7,000 Mark

The COVID-19 pandemic has taken over 7,000 lives since the first case was identified in the country nearly two years ago. The highest number of deaths recorded in a single day was 49 on September ...

Jan 7 , 2022

Second Quarter Loans and Grants Register at $255m

The federal government received 255.6 million dollars in loans and grants during the second quarter of this year, according to a report from the Ministry of Finance. A further 364 million dollars was...

Jan 7 , 2022

November Export Revenues Ring In at $334m

Export revenues for last November registered at 333.9 million dollars. The figure is less than 0.05pc from the plan officials at the Ministry of Trade & Regional Integration has set and nearly...

Jan 7 , 2022

Addis Credit Nets Half a Billion Birr in Profits

Addis Credit & Saving Institution S.C. netted 490 million Birr in profits during the last fiscal year. The figure represents a 64pc increase from its performance in the preceding year. The micr...

Jan 7 , 2022

Central Bank Awards Second Payment Operator License

The National Bank of Ethiopia (NBE) has awarded Sunpay, a fintech firm, a payment operator license. The firm can now embark on its operations as a Point of Sale (POS) and payment gateway operator....

Jan 1 , 2022

FILM LIST

Gone are the days when video stores were the source of neighbourhoods' entertainment. In the age of the internet and digital, they are passing curiosities overseen usually by youth still in school. Th...

Jan 1 , 2022

BUBBLY EXPO

Potential buyers visit a booth dedicated to Metropolitan Real Estate, one of the participants at the fourth edition of the ET Real State & Home Expo on January 1, 2022. Held at the Hilton Hotel an...

Jan 1 , 2022

SERVE ON THE GO

Normally brick and mortar food establishments have gradually taken to offering their products in food trucks in limited locations, including at Mesqel Square for the occasion of Christmas bazaar takin...

Jan 1 , 2022

Health Ministry Project Seeks to Ease Medical Graduate Unemployment

The Ministry of Health has embarked on a project that is hoped to create job opportunities in regional and city administration health bureaus for 6,000 medical graduates. The project is scheduled t...

Jan 1 , 2022

Sugar Corp Signs Deal for 3.6b Br HQ Construction

The Sugar Corporation has inked agreements with the Chinese-owned Qingjian Group and TNT Construction, a domestic contractor, to erect a 35-storey headquarters building in the Mexico area. Slated t...

Jan 1 , 2022

Addis Abeba Sees Largest Library Inaugurated

Abrehot Library, the largest facility of its kind in the country, was inaugurated on January 1, 2022, in the presence of senior government officials including Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed (PhD) and Mayor...

Jan 1 , 2022

Ethiopian to Reintroduce Boeing 737 MAX

The executives of Ethiopian Airlines have announced plans to reinstate Boeing 737 MAX aircraft in the national carrier's fleet for the first time since the crash in March 2019 that took the lives of ...

Jan 1 , 2022

Manufacturing Generates $203m Export Revenues

Export proceeds from manufacturing were recorded at 203 million dollars over the first five months of the fiscal year, according to the Ministry of Industry. The figure is 94pc of the target set out b...

Jan 1 , 2022

ZamZam Raises Paid-up Capital by 30pc

The paid-up capital of ZamZam Bank increased by 30pc to 1.23 billion Br from the 876 million Birr the interest-free bank had registered when it began operating six months ago. The Bank had 1.6 bill...


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