No one-size-fits-all solution to ease COVID-19 impact!

As mobility of people and goods almost comes to a pause, COVID-19 pandemic is brining economies into their knees with multinational companies ceasing production. Economies are plunging into one of the great... Read more »

The other grim face of COVID-19 continuous recovery, customized responses needed as COVID-19 poses unprecedented economic fallout

As Sub-Saharan African economy is waking up to its first recession in 25 years due to COVID-19, Ethiopia faces an imminent economic crisis in which experts say could be eased if the... Read more »

E-Transaction draft bill awaiting parliamentary approval

ADDIS ABABA – Ethiopia is moving forward in facilitating e-transection with new e-transaction bill, green lighted by Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed’s cabinet last April 6, 2020, awaiting for parliamentary approval. The bill... Read more »

Association to support COVID-19 containment efforts

Young Mens Christian Association of Ethiopia (YMCA) announced a plan to support the government and non-government organizations’ effort towards fighting COVID-19 spread. Association’s Director, Dagmawi Selama said YMCA has always been by... Read more »

Ministry says working to increase testing capacity

ADDIS ABABA – The Ministry of Health said it has been quickly responding to stem the spread of COVID-19 particularly in maximizing testing capacity. Speaking to The Ethiopian Herald, Public Relations Director... Read more »

Amb. Teshome Toga says Chinese unity of purpose worth emulating • Call for countering xenophobia

The unity of purpose among the Chinese government, people and health workers, individuals and the like in containing the spread and worst impacts of COVID-19 is worth emulating, said Teshome Toga Chanaka,... Read more »

The Entebbe agreement; history in the making

Outlining principles, rights, and obligations on the use and development of the waters of the Nile, the Nile riparian states have declared the start of the dawn of a new era as... Read more »

158 tourism investment projects well underway

 ADDIS ABABA – The service sector, mainly tourism, has been luring local and multi-national investors following the favorable incentives introduced by the government, the Ethiopian Investment Commission (EIC) announced. EIC Public Relations... Read more »

Gov’t should come up with measures to rescue economy: Expert

ADDIS ABABA – The government should come up with an alternative and urgent measures than closing businesses to rescue the economy from collapse in the effort to contain COVID-19, advises Kebour Ghenna,... Read more »

Abiy sets two challenges for nation: Share a meal a day, find out local innovate solutions

 Under the national efforts Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed leads to contain COVID-19, he called upon Ethiopians and non-Ethiopians to feed the needy at least once a day and to come up with... Read more »