Business | The Reporter Ethiopia English

| 11 July 2020

Cement sales goes online

A local online trading company – Dumbulo Shopping Solutions – has begun selling cement online.

| 11 July 2020

PM confident over national debt

Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed (PhD) expressed his confidence over his government’s ability to manage Ethiopia’s overall debt stress, as his administration presented a total budget outlay of 476 billion birr for the upcoming Ethiopia budget year, early this week.

| 11 July 2020

Petroleum enterprise seeks fund for new fuel depot

The Ethiopian Petroleum Supply Enterprise (EPSE) is looking for funds for the construction of a new national fuel depot.

| 11 July 2020

Phasing out GTP, ushering in prosperity

A lot has happened and a number of scholars have written about the grand economic plans the Government of Ethiopia put in place. The Growth and Transformation Plans (GTP), a two-term five-year economic plan was being implemented.

| 27 June 2020

Breaking bread

Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed (PhD), on Thursday, inaugurated Sheger Bread Factory, which was constructed by MIDROC outlaying 900 million birr. The Factory has the capacity to produce 1.5 million loaves of bread a day and 80,000 an hour.

| 27 June 2020

Slew of telecom operators vie for Ethiopian market

In a bid to allow two new telecom operators join the Ethiopian telecommunications market, the Ethiopian Telecommunications Authority (ECA), together with the Ministry of Finance, have received expression of interests from major telecom companies.

| 27 June 2020

Accusation hits NTE for breaching ban on tobacco advertising

The tobacco monopoly in Ethiopia, National Tobacco Enterprise (NTE), is accused of breaching the total ban placed on the advertisement and promotion of tobacco products in the country, The Reporter has learnt.

| 20 June 2020

CBE undergoes another restructuring

The giant state-owned bank, the Commercial Bank of Ethiopia (CBE) has rolled out a new organizational structure, the second one since the administration of Abiy Ahmed (PhD) took office in 2018.

| 20 June 2020

Midroc splits leadership, restructure

Midroc Technology Group, owned by Sheik Mohammed Alamoudi, an Ethiopian-born Saudi Business Tycoon, has decided to implement a new, restructured governance system, splitting the leadership into four major administrative scopes and Chief Executive Officers (CEOs), The Reporter has learnt.