May 20

• Ethiopia: Farmers Co-Op Seat Auction Postponed At ECX

  The Ethiopian Commodity Exchange (ECX) has postponed the bid opening date of the auction of thirty membership seats it floated exclusively for farmers' cooperatives, to May 16,... Read more »

May 15

• Ethiopia: First Court Appearance for Suspected Gov't Officials and Businessmen

  The Second Criminal Bench of the Federal High Court has adjourned the hearing of detained businessmen and top level officials from the Ethiopian Revenues and Customs Authority... Read more »

May 14

• Ethiopia: Africapitalism

  My latest holiday shopping took me to one of the largest supermarkets of Addis Abeba, located on Africa Avenue. The place was lit with the radiance from the numerous bulbs fixed on... Read more »

• Ethiopia: Needle Me This

  The fashion driven need for resizing new clothes has opened up the chance for Tewodros, to run his own company within five years. Read more »

• Ethiopia: Unattained MDGS

  The 10th edition of the Global Monitoring Report (GMR) was launched on Tuesday May 7, 2013 at the Addis Abeba University's Faculty of Business and Economics. The report was... Read more »

• Ethiopia: Opposition Parties - Right? Left? Center? [opinion]

  In one of the televised debates in the run-up to the national election in 2005, Bereket Simon, the-then Minister of Information (MoI) and now head of the Government Communications... Read more »

• Ethiopia: All Banks Must Report Suspected Fraud in Five Days

  The National Bank of Ethiopia (NBE) will soon start requiring all banks operating in Ethiopia to report actual or attempted fraud to them within five days. Read more »

• Ethiopia: Great Effort but Little Reward

  In March 2010, 44 year old Muder Kemal, the father of two, banded together with seven of his friends and formed an enterprise. They named it Selam Leather Enterprise. Read more »

• Ethiopia: CBEs VP Leaves to Commodities Exchange

  Belay had been with the CBE for 13 years, starting out as a clerk three years after graduating from Addis Abeba University. He got his Master's degree in Business Administration... Read more »

• Ethiopia: Ethiopian to Commence Flights to Seoul

  Ethiopian Airlines announced last week it's plans to commence four weekly flights to Seoul, South Korea, the fourth largest metropolitan economy in the world, starting June 18,... Read more »

• Ethiopia: Sri Sai Ordered to Stop Long Distance Registrations

  The seven storey main campus building of Siri Sai College located off Bob Marley Square on the Ring Road in Gergi. Read more »

• Ethiopia: I Would Have Not Liked to Be Associated With It.

  Tedros Adhanom (PhD), minister of Foreign Affairs (MoFA), said this while explaining about a possible measure he would have taken had EPRDF been intentionally targeting and... Read more »

• Ethiopia: A World Without GDP Is No Better [analysis]

  Even in good financial times, development aid budgets are hardly overflowing. Government leaders and donors must make hard decisions about where to focus their limited resources. Read more »

• Ethiopia: EEPCO to Pay Compensation for Hawassa Power Surges

  The Hawassa branch of the Ethiopian Electric Power Corporation (EEPCo) is to pay compensation to close to 300 households and a private company, Awassa Greenwood Plc, for damages... Read more »

• Ethiopia: Govt Must Display Sufficient Political Commitment to Standardise Its Books

  Keeping government within limits is certainly a tough task. As the powerhouse of public resources and power thereof, government is one of the most authoritative poles of a given... Read more »

• Ethiopia: Insensible Banks Drive Money Scarcer [opinion]

  The compelling directive of the National Bank of Ethiopia (NBE) that requires private commercial banks to set aside 27pc of their new disbursements for bill purchase has brought a... Read more »

• Ethiopia: Addis Abeba a City of Obstructions

  Addis Abeba has become a city where ongoing construction projects, such as the light railway project depicted in the photographs, have become obstructions for the free mobility of... Read more »

• Ethiopia: Run At Meskel Square!

  Meskel Square once again swarms with athlete hopefuls in-training after the partitions blocking off the traditional training area was removed. The partitions were placed to lay... Read more »

• Ethiopia: UK to Assist Ethiopia in Tax Collection

  A new tax capacity building programme funded by the UK's Department for International Development (DfID) is planning to work with the Ethiopian government to put in place a more... Read more »

• Ethiopia: Making Them Like They Used to

  Though the Ethiopian Standard Agency has set a mandatory national standard for about 221 basic food commodities, consumers still claim that the quality and the quantity of the... Read more »

• Ethiopia: When China Lumbers, Africa Ascends

  Which is more probable: Africa becomes a virtual international province of China, the main source of its sub-soil assets, and the major component of China's strategy for its own... Read more »

• Ethiopia: Are Business Associations Charities? [opinion]

  It has been reported recently that the Ethiopian Charities & Civil Societies Agency (ECCSA), declined the registration of associations of the private sectors widely known as... Read more »

• Ethiopia: Minister Brehan Fired Moments After Progress Report to Parliament

  Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn has dismissed Brehan Hailu, minister of Justice, on Thursday, May 9, 2013 Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn has dismissed Brehan Hailu,... Read more »

• Ethiopia: Land Auction Draws Over One Thousand Bidders

  Double bidders to be disqualified, some plots fail to draw interest while a bole plot nabs almost 2.3m Br. The Addis Abeba Land Bank & Transfer Agency has drawn well over a... Read more »

• Ethiopia: Moving Japanese Art

  The launch of the Japanese Design Today 100 Exhibition was held on Thursday May 9, 2013 at the Alliance Ethio Française. The event was organized by the Japan Foundation as... Read more »