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Birr Metrics
A packed night in Addis Ababa suggests that combat sports may have a market. Turning noise into a durable business will be the harder contest. On August 27th the Adwa Victory Memorial Museum in Addis Ababa acquired an unlikely new exhibit: a cage. Twenty-two athletes contested 11 bouts of boxing, Muay Thai and mixed martial...
DW Amharic
ዩናይትድ ስቴትስ ለተባበሩት መንግስታት ድርጅት የፀጥታው ጥበቃ ምክር ቤት ካቀረበችው የማዕቀብ ማሻሻያ በተጨማሪ በተናጥልም የጣለችው ማዕቀብ አለ።
Birr Metrics
The Trade and Development Bank is eyeing a new fertilizer project in Ethiopia as part of a pipeline of regional investments in energy, aviation and agricultural inputs, according to Admassu Tadesse, the bank’s president and chief executive. The chief executive mentioned the planned Ethiopian project while discussing the bank’s pipeline of investable...
DW Amharic
ፍራንክ ጋርሺያ ወደ አዲስ አበባ የሚያቀኑት አገራቸው አሜሪካ የኢትዮጵያ ፌድራል መንግሥትና የትግራይ ክልል ውጥረት እንዲረግብ ከፍተኛ ጥረት እያደረገች በምትገኝበት ወቅት ነው።
BBC Amharic
The Reporter
Ethiopia has voluntarily agreed to nearly double its annual contribution to the budget of the African Union (AU), following in Kenya’s footsteps in upgrading its scale of assessment to the Tier-One category as the continental bloc finds itself in dire need of financing. The decision was announced during the 49th AU Ordinary Session of the […]
BBC Amharic
The Reporter
Alarmed by growing security issues along the Red Sea trade corridor, Ethiopian officials have proposed the establishment of a National Maritime Information Centre. The proposal and requests were made by Captain Kibru Mesfin of the Ethiopian Maritime Authority during a regional summit held in Nairobi this week. The fifth Regional Maritime Law Enforcement...
The Reporter
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) is set to replace Ethiopia’s existing macro-economic forecasting model by September 2026. The IMF is replacing it with a dynamic alternative it dubs the Comprehensive Adaptive Expectations Model (CAEM) following a request from Ethiopian authorities, according to a statement from the Fund. CAEM is a macroeconomic...
The Reporter
Ethiopia’s second-largest hydropower project, the Koysha Hydroelectric Project, requires an additional €500 million to reach completion, even as the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) generated 52 percent of the nation’s total electricity in the 2018 Ethiopian Fiscal Year (EFY). Briefing reporters on Friday, Ethiopian Electric Power (EEP) Chief...
