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BusinessEthiopia Eyes Stake in Dangote’s Planned $17 Billion Kenya Refinery
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EconomyEthiopia’s Inflation Accelerates to 15.3% in July, Highest Since January 2025
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EconomyOfficial Creditors Back Ethiopia’s $1 Billion Bond Restructuring, Raise Warrant Concerns
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BusinessEthiopia Secures Over $340 Million in Export Deals at ‘Export to China’ Forum
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Capital MarketWegagen Capital posts ETB 141m revenue, ETB 46.6m pre-tax profit in first full year
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Banking & FinanceNBE Sells USD 500 Million in Special Auction as Birr Firms to 160.21 Birr/USD
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Monday Breakfast Stories
The week in Ethiopian markets, over buna.
The Cost of Holding the Line
There is a number under almost every story this week, and it is a price. The central bank sold half a billion dollars in a single sitting to pull the birr back from a record low, and the market read the size, not the signal. Inflation answered with 15.3 percent. Official creditors blessed
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The Narrow Top
Here is the week in one number. Ten companies paid 254.44 billion birr in tax last fiscal year. That is 48.71 percent of everything Ethiopia’s Large Taxpayers Branch Office collected, from ten names out of 746 on its books. Ethio Telecom alone paid more than every bank and insurance company in the country
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The Handover
The Ethiopian Securities Exchange changed chief executives on Friday. Tilahun Esmael Kassahun (PhD), who carried the exchange from a project office in 2022 to a working securities market in January 2025, is out. Yodit Kassa, who joined in late 2023 and worked her way from Chief Business Development Officer to Chief Operating Officer,
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Business
Ethiopia Eyes Stake in Dangote’s Planned $17 Billion Kenya Refinery
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Economy
Ethiopia’s Inflation Accelerates to 15.3% in July, Highest Since January 2025
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Economy
Official Creditors Back Ethiopia’s $1 Billion Bond Restructuring, Raise Warrant Concerns
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Business
Ethiopia Secures Over $340 Million in Export Deals at ‘Export to China’ Forum
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Deep Dive
Longer reads on the forces behind the numbers.
- Deep Dive6 min readAre Ethiopians Unwilling to Work Or Is Work Unwilling to Pay?Somewhere along the way, Ethiopia’s stalled job market became a story about laziness. It’s a familiar narrative, usually aimed at the young and the unemployed. And repeated so often it started to sound intuitive, but does Ethiopia’s labour market actually support it? In this article we’re finding out. The theory goes something like this: theRead
- Deep Dive10 min readThe Free Labor Economy In EthiopiaInside Ethiopia’s internship machine, where a generation works for nothing, learns even less, and the bill lands on everyone. The minibus from Ayat to Bole costs more than 30 birr each way. Hiwot, a composite of the many graduates who tell some version of this story, pays it twice a day, five days a week,Read
- Deep Dive7 min readThe Role of Capital Markets in Ethiopia’s Economic TransformationFor the past five decades, banks have been a one-stop shop for Ethiopian businesses to get financing. Before this, Ethiopia had a short-lived stock market in the 1960s and early 1970s called the Share Dealing Group, which operated under the imperial regime. Following the Derg regime, the financial system that followed consolidated almost entirely aroundRead
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OpinionFor Whom Are We Building This?
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