Business

City Provides Plots for 7500 Street Vendors (ena)—-Addis Ababa October 03//2018 Some 7500 street vendors were official given plots of land where they could conduct their business in different parts of the capital city. The [Read More]

Ethiopia: Mesenbet Becomes First Female President of City Chamber ROLLING COVERAGE : (addisfortune)-Mesenbet Shenkute, former president of Abay Bank, becomes the first female president of the Addis Abeba Chamber of Commerce & Sectoral Association by winning  419 votes. Selahedin Kelifa, president of [Read More]

Hiking the rooftop of Africa: Ethiopia’s remote and beautiful Bale Mountains National Park Lizzie Pook treks through the remote Bale Mountains, where the landscape has been unchanged for millennia Hyenas are trying to eat our horses. [Read More]

Facebook security breach: Up to 50m accounts attacked By Dave Lee Facebook has said “almost 50 million” of its users were left exposed by a security flaw. (bbc.)—The company said attackers were able to exploit [Read More]

Infogram: World Bank’s revamped support for Somalia and Ethiopia                       The World Bank has made two significant moves in the Horn of Africa in the [Read More]

Rebels in Gas-Rich Ethiopian Region in Talks With Government By Nizar Manek Meeting may help end three-decade insurgency by rebel group Leaders discussed ‘modalities’ for more substantive talks (bloomberg)—A rebel group in eastern Ethiopia’s gas-rich Somali [Read More]

China, Ethiopia – it’s complicated … Ethiopia is a leading investment destination in Africa, particularly for China. (moneyweb)—The 2018 Beijing Summit of the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation (Focac) held early in September saw Africa’s top diplomats meet [Read More]

Ethiopia announces four more industrial parks as debt fears grow Ethiopia has announced plans to commission four Chinese-built industrial parks by the end of the year as concerns grow over the level of debt the [Read More]