July 07

• Ethiopia: Ever Since Taking Up Residence, Nine Months Ago...

  Ever since taking up residence, nine months ago, at the State House in Arat Kilo, Hailemariam Desalegn and his political allies have been plotting their path to rearranging the... Read more »

• Ethiopia: Kindness of Strangers

  A day labourer, Ermias Oudelou, was injured while working at a building under construction on the road from Atlas to Bole Medinhalem at 10:00pm. Ermias fell from the top of the... Read more »

• Ethiopia: Time to Walk the Walk On Economic Policy Promises

  There has never been a week that Prime Minister Hailemariam has been placed in the limelight quite as much as last week. His presence graced the Public Private Consultative Forum... Read more »

• Ethiopia: Thoughtless Money-Makers [opinion]

  There seems to be no task more important, in this era of economic monetisation, than learning the art and science of moneymaking. Human beings strive endlessly to grasp whatever... Read more »

July 02

• Ethiopia: PM to Appoint City Official to Head Justice Office

  Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn is to appoint Getachew Ambaye, deputy mayor of Addis Abeba, to serve as a minister of Justice, sources disclosed to Fortune. Read more »

June 30

• Ethiopia: New Directive to Improve Farmer Input Purchasing

  The current situation, which sees different regions implementing different strategies, is problematic in meeting farmers' demands Read more »

• Ethiopia: Commission to File Charges Against Four Managers of Assela Malt Factory After 10 Days

  After 28 days of investigation, the Federal Ethics & Anti-Corruption Commission (FEACC), represented by Berhanu Abate, told the Federal High Court's second criminal bench that... Read more »

• Ethiopia: A Daring Climate Quest Timely [opinion]

  While the unfortunate deterioration of the health of the late Meles Zenawi was at its climax, the first ever cross-country energy exchange Clean Development Mechanism (CDM)... Read more »

• Ethiopia: Lifan Motors Moves Home

  Lifan Motors Plc, the Ethiopian subsidiary of its Chinese namesake, is moving to the Eastern Industrial Zone, located in Dukem town, with the 1.4 million dollar acquisition of a... Read more »

• Ethiopia: Adama Gets New Mayor, Again

  Abraham Adole, the former deputy head of Eastern Shewa Zone, has been appointed as Mayor of Adama Town - a post vacated by Beker Shale when he was appointed as the director general... Read more »

• Ethiopia: Banking Technology Collaboration Expands

  Berhan's entry to PSS was marked at a reception at Hilton Hotel on June 27, 2013, where Berhanu Getaneh, president of United Bank and founder of PSS presented Solomon Mammo,... Read more »

• Ethiopia: Govt Accepts - No Tax On Undistributed Dividends

  Senior government officials have reassured members of the business community that dividends, which remain undistributed to shareholders, will not be taxed. Tax on dividends should... Read more »

• Ethiopia: Liberalising Agricultural Input Market Vital to Reversing Productivity Decline

  As the EPRDFites were preparing to convene at Bahir Dar - the beautiful lakeside capital of the Amhara Region - the policy environment was tense with so much uncertainty. Pundits... Read more »

• Ethiopia: Enough Room?

  It is the express wish of Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn that the manufacturing sector, which contributes 13pc to the nation's gross domestic product (GDP), receives more... Read more »

• Ethiopia: Saving for Nothing [editorial]

  Ethiopians love government. They see it as an ultimate authority with infinite resources to solve problems. They could not think of any other comparable force with the ability to... Read more »

• Ethiopia: The Less Ideological Foremost

  If anything is to be made from the series of engagements Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn embarked upon last week, with members of the private sector and the media, it is his... Read more »

• Ethiopia: Ethiopian Secures U.S. $130 Million Loan From U.S. Ex-Im Bank

  The Export-Import (EX-IM) Bank of the United States has authorised a loan of 135 million dollars to Ethiopian Airlines for the purchase of a B-777 200LR aircraft, with an installed... Read more »

• Ethiopia: Shrinking Potatoes

  Mohammad Sani, 32, a father of seven, is a farmer in Girawa Wereda, 75km from Harar, in the eastern Hararge Zone, Oromia regional state. He was digging his quarter hectare land in... Read more »

• Ethiopia: It Is Not Only Few of Us Who Are Drenched in Grand Corruption [I Think].

  Sebhat Nega, a veteran TPLF member and executive director of the Ethiopian International Institute for Peace & Development (EIIPD), said this describing the extent of grand... Read more »

• Ethiopia: United to Expand ATM Services

  United Bank, two weeks ago, awarded a contract to the Lebanese-based, Computer Business Machine (CBM), for the supply of 50 Automated Teller Machines (ATM). Read more »

• Ethiopia: Ethiopia Blends Br7.9 Milliom Litres of Ethanol With Benzene

  Close to 7.9 million liters of ethanol has been blended with benzene and supplied to local markets during the past 11 months of the current fiscal year. Read more »

• Ethiopia: No More Lionisation

  The practice of lionisation that was once popular in Ethiopia has now become rare. In the past, however, naming institutions after the king of the wilderness was popular with one... Read more »

• Ethiopia: Returning the Favour

  Ibrahim Jiru, general manager of Agro Industries Plc, was one of exporters who received awards from Peter Schotten, (middle) vice president of Saudi Cargo. Ken Mbogo , regional... Read more »

• Ethiopia: Finally, the Much Expected Restructuring of Federal Agencies...

  Finally, the much expected restructuring of federal agencies and reshuffling of their ministers and director generals, by the administration of Hailemariam Desalegn, appears to... Read more »

• Ethiopia: Enterprise to Inaugurate Bole Airport Expansion Project

  The Bole International Airport apron expansion project constructed with 1.2 billion Br will be officially inaugurate within the coming few weeks although it has begun providing... Read more »