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© The new obligation for all aircraft departing from Europe to incorporate SAF in their jet fuel should not pose any technical problems, according to TotalEnergies. Eric Piermont/AFP

Extra cost

Premium badgeEthiopian Airlines, Royal Air Maroc, Air Senegal: What SAF deal will mean for African aviation Starting in 2025, all aircraft departing from European airports must incorporate a proportion of sustainable aviation fuels (SAF) within their paraffi...
© Ethio Telecom employees stand next to a billboard during the launch of the 5G Internet service in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, May 9, 2022. REUTERS/Tiksa Negeri

Future Champions

Premium badgeEthiopia: Iceaddis, Mastercard Foundation partner on e-commerce start-ups Start-up incubator Iceaddis has partnered with Mastercard Foundation and the Ethiopian ministry of innovation and technology to back start-ups in the ...
© This image shows a building damaged during battles between the forces of two rival Sudanese generals in the southern part of Khartoum, on April 23, 2023. (Photo by – / AFP)

GENERALS’ WAR

Premium badgeSudan: As ceasefire falters, could the country be headed for Libyan-style partition ? The 72-hour ceasefire agreed between Sudan’s Rapid Support Forces (RSF) and the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) was violated less than 24 hours after it w...
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inner circle

Premium badgeEthiopia: Who’s who in Getachew Reda’s cabinet After being named head of the new interim administration governing Ethiopia’s war-torn Tigray region, Getachew Reda has appointed his cabinet. It cont...

Ethiopia top stories

© Farmers harvest wheat to increase local production of wheat and compensate for the shortage of wheat in Egypt. April 28, 2023. (Photo by Mahmoud Elkhwas / NurPhoto / NurPhoto via AFP)

harsh consequences

Premium badgeEgypt: Farmers bear brunt of climate change and dam project The Egyptian government has included small-scale farmers in its fight to counter the food crisis as it tries to feed over 100 million people amid a wo...
© File photo of Getachew Reda (L), leader of the new interim administration in Tigray, and former advisor and spokesman of the Tigray Region. (Photo by Yasuyoshi CHIBA / AFP)

Tigray turbulence

Premium badgeEthiopia peace deal offers Tigrayans hope but dilemmas persist Tigray’s political parties are determined to restore peace, rebuild the war-torn society, and strengthen democracy, but they don’t all share the same ...
© Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed (l) walks alongside Sudanese Army Chief Abdel Fattah al-Burhan (C) at Khartoum Airport during a welcome ceremony on January 26, 2023. (Photo by – / AFP)

BALANCING ACT

Premium badgeWhy Ethiopia’s Abiy opts for neutrality in Sudan’s war of the generals Just five days after Sudan’s rival generals started their war on 15 April, Ethiopia’s Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed dismissed what he called “false allega...

Ethiopia top stories

© Farmers harvest wheat to increase local production of wheat and compensate for the shortage of wheat in Egypt. April 28, 2023. (Photo by Mahmoud Elkhwas / NurPhoto / NurPhoto via AFP)

harsh consequences

Premium badgeEgypt: Farmers bear brunt of climate change and dam project The Egyptian government has included small-scale farmers in its fight to counter the food crisis as it tries to feed over 100 million people amid a wo...
© File photo of Getachew Reda (L), leader of the new interim administration in Tigray, and former advisor and spokesman of the Tigray Region. (Photo by Yasuyoshi CHIBA / AFP)

Tigray turbulence

Premium badgeEthiopia peace deal offers Tigrayans hope but dilemmas persist Tigray’s political parties are determined to restore peace, rebuild the war-torn society, and strengthen democracy, but they don’t all share the same ...
© Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed (l) walks alongside Sudanese Army Chief Abdel Fattah al-Burhan (C) at Khartoum Airport during a welcome ceremony on January 26, 2023. (Photo by – / AFP)

BALANCING ACT

Premium badgeWhy Ethiopia’s Abiy opts for neutrality in Sudan’s war of the generals Just five days after Sudan’s rival generals started their war on 15 April, Ethiopia’s Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed dismissed what he called “false allega...

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Profile

Premium badgeEthiopian Airlines boss Mesfin Tasew, man of few words and big feats In charge of Ethiopian Airlines (EA) new development plan, Mesfin Tasew, who took the helm at Africa’s largest national carrier last year, is as discr...
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Open for business

Premium badgeIMF, World Bank embrace Ethiopia after peace deal A resurgent Ethiopia returned to Washington this past week for the spring meetings of the World Bank and IMF with a message that the country is open f...
© Safaricom Ethiopia employees walk past a billboard during the Safaricom ceremony to officially launch its operations in Ethiopia, in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, October 6, 2022. REUTERS/Tiksa Negeri

Last Frontier

Premium badgeExclusive: Avanti in talks with Safaricom, Ethio Telecom on Ethiopia entry British satellite operator Avanti Communications aims to enter Ethiopia to increase the country’s Internet penetration, CEO Kyle Whitehill tells The A...
© The Renaissance Dam in Benishangul-Gumuz State, Ethiopia. Minasse Wondimu Hailu/Anadolu Agency via AFP

water war

Premium badgeEgypt powerless against Ethiopia and its dam Ethiopia is preparing to launch the fourth and final phase of filling the Renaissance Dam… without consultation or agreement with Sudan and Egypt, loc...
© File photo of an Ethiopian federal police officer during a Federal Police Force ceremony in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. (Photo: Amanuel Sileshi/AFP)

Armed forcing

Premium badgeEthiopia: Protests erupt over regional forces integration Parts of Amhara, Ethiopia’s second-largest state, were gripped by unrest as thousands protested a government decision to absorb regional armed forces ...
© FILE PHOTO: Commercial vessels including vessels which are part of Black Sea grain deal wait to pass the Bosphorus strait off the shores of Yenikapi during a misty morning in Istanbul, Turkey, October 31, 2022. REUTERS

'over-dependency on imports'

Premium badgeBlack Sea Grain Initiative: Renewal gives Africa a painkiller, not a remedy A March 18 deadline was signalling the end of an eight-month initiative that ensured the flow of grain exports from Ukraine and Russia – at war with e...