Last week, the National Bank of Ethiopia introduced a new rule that forces depositors make a maximum of five transactions per week.

A decade ago, ETB17 was equivalent to a dollar. As the years rolled and following the repeated devaluation of the currency in order to boost the international competitiveness of the import-dependent country, the value of the Birr has been reduced by as much as 130%.

The Coronavirus pandemic and the heightened level of natural disasters across the world prompted people from across the globe to be a bit superstitious about the year. Downtoearth.org reported that there was an increase of at least 27 percent in natural disasters in the first half of 2020 than recorded during the same time in 2019.