Former high-level Officials of the Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF), Sebhat Nega and his comrades, including Abay Woldu, former President of Tigray, and Abraham Tekeste, Ex-Minister of Finance, appeared before the Arada Branch of the Federal First Instance Court.
Expressing its concerns for a regional spill-over, the European Union said Eritrean troops are involved in military operations in Tigray.
Businesses in Mekelle are contending with an acute shortage of cash due to the daily withdrawal limit put on depositors, The Reporter has learnt.
Revenues of Ethiopian licensed oil suppliers from the sale of lubricants declined as “illegal importers wreak havoc on the market.”
Ethiopia plans to provide over one billion seedlings for at least six neighboring nations in the forthcoming summer season. This is estimated to be worth a minimum of 800 million Birr.
Proceeds from the partial privatization of Ethio-Telcom will be deposited in the Industrial Development Fund account opened by the Ministry of Finance (MoF), The Reporter has learnt.
A new tech firm, e-tech, is set to be established with a capital of 200 million birr in a bid to invest in the ICT sector.
Interview
Fitsum Tilahun is a medical doctor based in New York. He is a co-founder of Yetenaweg, a self-described “evidence-based medical information” platform targeting Ethiopians everywhere.
Tourism is one of Ethiopia’s important sectors bringing much needed foreign exchange and a chance to introduce Ethiopian culture to the world.
Nathan Damtew is founder and CEO of BeBlocky, a gamified programming learning app for kids, and founder and managing director of Yenetta Code, a Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) education center based in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
Yohana Ermias is co-founder and Chief Technology Officer (CTO) of a new company, Equb (eQub), set to become operational this month.
Nadia Hardman is a Refugee and Migrant Rights Researcher with Human Rights Watch, one of the world’s leading human rights organizations. She reflects with The Reporter’s Samuel Getachew on a recent report on the worsening situation Ethiopian migrants held in Saudi Arabia are under, on HRW’s latest on Ethiopian migrants in North Yemen and more.
Wuleta Lemma (PhD) is a healthcare entrepreneur honored as a PITCH winner and currently shortlisted on Jack Ma Foundation’s Africa Netpreneur Prize Initiative.
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