Getachew Kassaye, best known as the father of the auditing and accountancy profession in Ethiopia, has passed away yesterday. He has died at the age of mid 80s.

Nigeria’s largest mobile money operator, Paga, acquires Apposit, a US technology company based in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.

The council of Minister approves a new regulation that would allow the establishment of the first-ever artificial intelligence (AI) research centre in Ethiopia.

UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, and its partners, are asking for urgent international support for refugee operations in Ethiopia, seeking for USD658 million to assist over 735,000 refugees and more than half a million Ethiopian hosts in 2020.

Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) inflow to Ethiopia plummeted by USD1.5 billion since 2017, according to an UNCTAD Investment Trends Monitor published on January 20, 2020.

National Bank of Ethiopia (NBE) availed 1.2 billion dollars to Commercial Bank of Ethiopia (CBE) in the past six months.

Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed (PhD.) appointed three new ministers for trade & industry, education and innovation.

Eritrea and Nigeria are among countries that Donald Trump administration would like add to his travel ban list.

The Trump administration plans to add seven countries – Belarus, Eritrea, Kyrgyzstan, Myanmar, Nigeria, Sudan and Tanzania – to its travel ban list, Wall Street Journal reported on Tuesday.

Primary school dropout rate is rising alarmingly throughout Ethiopia, fueled by the political unrest that has haunted the East African nation over the past three years, a new report published by National Bank of Ethiopia (NBE) reveals. The dropout rate for primary school has reached 17.5Pct during the past fiscal year, climbing to its highest level in a decade, according to NBE’s report.

Desert Locusts infested more than 235,000 hectares of land in Ethiopia. The locust spreads across the Afar, Amhara, Oromia, Somali, Tigray, and Southern Nations, Nationalities, and Peoples’ (SNNP) regional states, as well as in Dire Dawa city.