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Amhara Fano militia fighters inside a ransacked terminal at Lalibela airport in 2021. (Solan Kolli / AFP)

protracted conflict

Premium badgeWill the Fano drag Ethiopia back into civil war?

Nearly two months after militia fighters briefly seized control of several cities across Amhara, the fate of the region hangs in the balance. Is Ethio...

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Seeking FX

Premium badgeEthiopia: Dashen Bank hires PwC to advise on stock-market listing Dashen Bank CEO Asfaw Alemu talks about plans to list on Ethiopia’s coming stock market, the country’s FX needs and digital versus bricks and mortar c...
African Development Bank headquarters in Abidjan. REUTERS/Luc Gnago

'immense opportunity'

How East Africa’s investment drive trickles down the rest of continent The whole continent is bound to benefit from the East African region’s impressive run.
View shows trucks queuing with sacks of grains at the grain market in Merkato neighbourhood of Addis Ababa © African Renaissance sees Ethiopian logistics as a key growth market. REUTERS/Tiksa Negeri

Problem Solvers

Premium badgeAfrican Renaissance considers second East Africa venture capital tech fund African Renaissance Partners believes venture-capital investment is set to take off in east Africa.

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Amhara Fano militia fighters inside a ransacked terminal at Lalibela airport in 2021. (Solan Kolli / AFP)

protracted conflict

Premium badgeWill the Fano drag Ethiopia back into civil war? Nearly two months after militia fighters briefly seized control of several cities across Amhara, the fate of the region hangs in the balance. Is Ethio...
The logo of accounting firm PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) is seen on the top of a Brussels’ office of the company in Diegem © REUTERS/Yves Herman

Seeking FX

Premium badgeEthiopia: Dashen Bank hires PwC to advise on stock-market listing Dashen Bank CEO Asfaw Alemu talks about plans to list on Ethiopia’s coming stock market, the country’s FX needs and digital versus bricks and mortar c...
View shows trucks queuing with sacks of grains at the grain market in Merkato neighbourhood of Addis Ababa © African Renaissance sees Ethiopian logistics as a key growth market. REUTERS/Tiksa Negeri

Problem Solvers

Premium badgeAfrican Renaissance considers second East Africa venture capital tech fund African Renaissance Partners believes venture-capital investment is set to take off in east Africa.

Ethiopia top stories

Amhara Fano militia fighters inside a ransacked terminal at Lalibela airport in 2021. (Solan Kolli / AFP)

protracted conflict

Premium badgeWill the Fano drag Ethiopia back into civil war? Nearly two months after militia fighters briefly seized control of several cities across Amhara, the fate of the region hangs in the balance. Is Ethio...
The logo of accounting firm PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) is seen on the top of a Brussels’ office of the company in Diegem © REUTERS/Yves Herman

Seeking FX

Premium badgeEthiopia: Dashen Bank hires PwC to advise on stock-market listing Dashen Bank CEO Asfaw Alemu talks about plans to list on Ethiopia’s coming stock market, the country’s FX needs and digital versus bricks and mortar c...
View shows trucks queuing with sacks of grains at the grain market in Merkato neighbourhood of Addis Ababa © African Renaissance sees Ethiopian logistics as a key growth market. REUTERS/Tiksa Negeri

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Premium badgeAfrican Renaissance considers second East Africa venture capital tech fund African Renaissance Partners believes venture-capital investment is set to take off in east Africa.

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The Wider Image: Ethiopia’s new leader relies on support from youth © Kacha is targeting small Ethiopian farmers with its mobile money offering. REUTERS/Tiksa Negeri

Pyramid Base

Premium badgeEthiopia: Kacha targets stock market listing to drive mobile-money adoption The company is targeting mass adoption of mobile money with a target of 5 million customers by 2025.
Farm workers in Cape Town, South Africa, January 24, 2023. REUTERS/Esa Alexander

Microfinance Fantasy

Book Review: Colonial practices affect poverty alleviation today Nick Bernards shows long-term failures of microfinance in his book ‘A Critical History of Poverty Finance: Colonial Roots and Neoliberal Failures’.
Workers remove coffee beans that did not meet the necessary grading in Holiso cooperative of Shebedino district in Sidama © Agricultural workers at the Holiso cooperative in Shebedino district in Sidama, Ethiopia November 30, 2018. REUTERS/Maheder Haileselassie

Breaking Logjam

Premium badgeEthiopia: BII-FMO lending facility to Dashen Bank can be catalyst for Ethiopian exports The initiative targets agriculture, which accounts for about 90% of Ethiopia’s foreign currency export earnings, employs 80% of the population and con...
Dr Stanford Chidziva of the University of Western Cape looks at hydrogen electrolyser unit at Namakwa Engineering, where Keren Energy first proved green hydrogen production was possible. (REUTERS/Esa Alexander)

Greener Pastures

Premium badgeExclusive: Ethiopia, Angola to join Africa Green Hydrogen Alliance The announcement, to be made at the Africa Climate Summit in Nairobi, shows confidence in green hydrogen’s potential, says Jonas Moberg, CEO of the Gl...
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Least Dirty

Premium badgeEnlarged BRICS faces uphill battle to dethrone dollar as trading currency BRICS countries have struggled to reduce their reliance on the dollar and the alternatives remain limited.
China-Africa Leaders’ Roundtable Dialogue

bigger club

BRICS hails ‘historic’ entry of new members amid bloc rivalry BRICS leaders announced on Thursday the “historic” admission of six new countries, including Egypt and Ethiopia, as the bloc seeks to reshape the West...