ADDIS’S CONSTRUCTION CLUTTER

ADDIS’S CONSTRUCTION CLUTTER

In recent years, Addis Ababa is experiencing a capacious construction mania. A pragmatic focus has b...

Falcon petroleum sells its concessions in Ethiopia

Africa Oil takes over White Nile’s blocks

By Kaleyesus Bekele

Falcon Petroleum Ltd, a company register...

Accounting practice to be accountable to new national board

Financial reporting bill to go before next parliament

By Asrat Seyoum 

The National Accounting and Aud...

Nani Blg. to be inaugurated in September

Nani Blg. to be inaugurated in September

Project delay costs company hundreds of millions of birr

By Hayal Alemayehu

Nani building, a twenty-tw...

CBE's employees unhappy with new salary scale

By Kaleyesus Bekele

Employees of the Commercial Bank of Ethiopia (CBE) are expressing their disappoin...

Ethiopian investor buys Ghion Hotel

-  USD 510 mln to be spent for construction of two new hotels

By Meirafe Berhane

The Privatization and Public Enterprises Supervising Agency (PPESA) reached a decision for a joint ownership of the 59-year old Ghion Hotel yesterday with an Ethiopian inv... Read More...

Firm, wise foreign policy needed

Firm, wise foreign policy needed

Developments presently unfolding themselves around Ethiopia pose a potential threat to its national security. This requires a firm yet wise foreign policy and relevant measures.

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Problem of succession in Africa

Why do leaders cling to power?

By Tesfaye Habisso

The declared aim and ideal of African liberation and pro-democracy movements toward democratic transitions fall in three broad categories. Read More...

ADDIS’S CONSTRUCTION CLUTTER

ADDIS’S CONSTRUCTION CLUTTER

By Asrat Seyoum and Dawit Taye

Bizunesh Goba, a young woman in her late twenties, is busy in the late morning hours of the rainy season at the Summit construction site close to the CMC area in Addis Ababa. She is sweating it out carrying her wheelbarr...

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Tight Hours Saturdays with Tadios Getachew

Tight Hours Saturdays with Tadios Getachew

By Hayal Alemayehu

Tadios Getachew, a diaspora returnee engaged in various business activities in the hospitality industry, wakes up at 5:00 am on Saturdays.

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Changing lives in southern Ethiopia

Changing lives in southern Ethiopia

By Jonathan Erridge

Down a muddy track, in a secluded little corner of Sodo (population 53,000), in south central Ethiopia, there exists a remarkable institution where the lives of Ethiopian orphans are being transformed in an amazing way.

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Duty-free privileges are high-risk areas of tax offence

Duty-free privileges are high-risk areas of tax offence

Melaku Fenta, director general, Ethiopian Inland Revenue and Customs Authority (ERCA), spoke to Meirafe Berhane and Wudineh Zenebe of The Reporter on the overall performance of the Authority and other related issues Excerpts.

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HEADACHE

(By Daniel Tesfaye, MD, Greensboro, NC USA)

Headaches are one of the most common medical problems that human beings have been dealing with since our presence on this planet. Read More...

Caster Semenya set to make her Diamond League debut

Caster Semenya set to make her Diamond League debut

Controversial world 800m champion Caster Semenya will make her debut on the Diamond League stage at the series-ending meeting on Friday in Brussels.

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To the Editor-in-Chief

The Embassy has read the article entitled "Iran's failing "Mullahnomics" (The Reporter, March 27) published in your esteemed newspaper. Read More...