The city of Addis Abeba gets the former head of Addis Abeba Water & Sewerage Authority as its manager, replacing Haile Fissiha who has been in that position since 2010. Awoke Hailemariam assumed his position last...

Design mismatches, cracked and unfinished walls, broken and fissured tile work, unsealed doors, leaky ceilings, inappropriate plumbing, peeling paints and a myriad of other problems are facing Ethiopian Airlines employee...

Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed (PhD) has formed a new National Tourism Board to replace the board disbanded  by the former Minister of Culture & Tourism, Hirut Woldemariam (PhD). The board was re-formed this month wit...

China Communications Construction Company Ltd edged closer to undertaking construction and restoration work along the BantyaketuRiver, stretching from UrmaGarage toAfincho Ber, in Addis Abeba. China Communications gav...

Eleven companies are competing to supply 338 elevators for middle-income housing units. This tender is the third attempt by the city administration after the cancellation of two earlier bids. The initial tender, float...

Bahir Dar University, one of 36 public universities in Ethiopia, has obtained a specialised teaching hospital at a cost of 207 million Br. Amhara Region Health Bureau initially began construction of the hospital. Afte...

Lensa Mekonnen, an event organiser and consultant, has become Ethiopian Tourism Organisation's third CEO. Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed (PhD) assigned Lensa for the position two weeks ago, replacing Yohannes Tilahun, who...

Bank of Abyssinia, one of 16 private commercial banks, is all set to open its third special branch in two weeks. The new branch rests on a 492sqm area and is located inside the Sunshine Building on Africa Avenue.  th...

Judges at the adjudicative tribunal of the consumer protection authority have ruled in favour of eight pharmaceutical product distributors and retailers charged with alleged price gauging. The tribunal rejected the ch...

The Ethiopian Toll Road Enterprise, the operator of Addis-Adama Expressway, installed 19 weigh-in-motion sensors that will detect overloads throughout the expressway entrances. Since its launch in 2014, enterprise  o...

Tents could be spotted for much of July across the 10 districts of Addis Abeba. They were set up for the purpose of accommodating the thousands of category “C” taxpayers that made their way to their respective wereda...

The Ministry of Health is collaborating with partners to develop and apply drone technology to distribute medical supplies and equipment to remote parts of the country. The ministry will begin a pilot project in Septe...

Though Djibouti has rebuffed the trial and its outcome, an arbitration tribunal in London upheld the validity of the concession agreement DP World has with the nation to operate the Doraleh Container Terminal. Djibouti c...

Haile & Alem International Plc, the operator of Haile Hotels & Resorts, is opening its ninth property in Debre Berhan, 130km northeast of of Addis Abeba, in Amhara Regional State. Owned by the celebrated long-...

500 Newly-installed bus shelters in Addis Abeba will acquire maps showing routes and current locations. A local information technology firm, Bandira Addis Map Entertainment Plc, will create the maps using an applicati...

Sheba Leather Industries, one of 16 companies under the conglomerate of Endowment Fund for Rehabilitation of Tigray, has resumed exporting footwear after a five-year hiatus. In its first shipment since ceasing operati...

Bon Hotels, a South Africa-based hotel management company, has partnered with a local property developer to triple its presence in Addis Abeba. Ayal Tizaz, a local businessman, invested 300 million Br to construct the...

Even though headline inflation has shown a slight dip in July 2018, reaching 14pc, it surpassed the average rate of the recently concluded fiscal year by one percentage point. The rate, which is an indicator of the co...

Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed (PhD) set up an advisory council, consisting of 21 members.  The council will advise the government on the process of privatising state-owned enterprises. Council members, formed on Friday A...

Diageo Ethiopia Plc, the owner of Meta Abo Brewery and representative office of Johnnie Walker Scotch Whisky, has introduced a new application to confirm products imported by authorized channels. The application enabl...

Ethiopians are in shock and in a state of disbelief following the tragic death of Semegnew Bekele, chief engineer of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam.  He was found dead in his car and shot near his right ear at Mesq...

Ethiopia is constructing the first eight medical waste incineration centres, disposal facilities of medicine and clinical wastes, for a total investment of 440 million Br. Financed by Global Fund, the turnkey project...

The government is investing 360 million Br to construct 100 health posts across nine regional states and in one city administration. The Ministry of Health will undertake the project with financing from the government...

The government of Djibouti and DP World, the UAE port management company, are embroiled in a tense dispute, unable to see eye to eye on the most fundamentals issues in the disputes over the concession to run the Doraleh...

The Document Authentication & Registration Agency is set to erect a new 21-storey headquarters on a 2,800sqm lot in Mexico Square along Tessema Aba Kemaw street. The Construction Project Office of the Federal Gove...

The former head of Adiss Abeba Investment Agency, Kidanemariam Berhe, has invested five million Birr to set up a honey processing plant in Tigray Regional State. Sitting on a 1,000sqm plot of land, the new plant will...

Keriya Ibrahim, the Speaker of the House of Federation, has concluded the four-year trademark proprietorship saga by handing the copy of the judgment to the lawyer of Six Continents Hotel, Mehrteab Leul & Associates,...