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The missing middle of manufacturing is not finished goods. It is the spare parts, supplier firms and applied knowledge that keep factories alive. On a factory floor at the edge of one of Ethiopia’s industrial zones, a machine stops. The immediate cause is ordinary: a worn bearing, a cracked mould, a dull blade, a broken...
The Reporter
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Lake Hashenge was chosen to die. Now its people are fighting to bring it back to life. From space, it still looks like a lake, a blue eye set high on the Raya plateau, cradled by the Rayan chain mountains above 3,400 meters, commanding a rare 360- degree horizon. But the data tells a different...
The Reporter
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Climate finance in Ethiopia is often discussed as if the central problem is money. The country needs more concessional finance, more adaptation funding, more private capital, more green investment and more predictable international support. All of that is true. But a more uncomfortable question sits behind the numbers: who can actually see the money? That...
BBC Amharic
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Ethiopia’s climate finance debate often begins with the size of the gap. The country needs far more money than it currently receives. That is true. But it is not the whole story. The harder problem is not only that climate finance is insufficient; it is that climate finance does not yet have clear institutional ownership....
BBC Amharic
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Almost two years after becoming the first country in the world to ban the import of gasoline and diesel vehicles, Ethiopia is widening its environmental push from roads to shops, markets and factories. On January 31, 2026, the government began enforcing a nationwide ban on the production, sale and use of single-use plastic bags, following...
BBC Amharic
