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BusinessEthiopia’s Inflation Hits 14.9% in September, Up 1.7 Percentage Points Year on Year
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Ethiopia’s Expanded FX Auction Programme Opens Oversubscribed as Demand Returns
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Capital MarketEthiopia opens door to Dangote IPO for qualified investors
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BusinessKEFI Resumes Development at Ethiopia’s Tulu Kapi Gold Project After Fatal Incident
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EconomyHow Two Economists Taught Policymakers to Steer by the Future
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Capital MarketDagmawit Shiferaw Takes the Helm at ECMA as Hana Tehelku Moves to Investment Commission
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Monday Breakfast Stories
The week in Ethiopian markets, over buna.
☕ Monday Breakfast Stories: The Guest List
Pour the buna. This week’s number is 100. That is the maximum number of Ethiopian investors who can buy into Africa’s largest-ever IPO, under the notice the Ethiopian Capital Market Authority issued on Tuesday. The Dangote Petroleum Refinery offer is open in Addis Ababa until October 23, at ETB 74.90 a share, but only to
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☕ Monday Breakfast Stories: The New Line-up
Pour the buna. This week’s number is 22. That is how many federal ministries Ethiopia’s new Council of Ministers will run, after the House of Peoples’ Representatives approved Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed’s cabinet on Wednesday. Nine of the 22 ministers are women, including three of the four who sit at the centre of fiscal and
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The Fine Print
Pour the buna. This week’s number is eight. That is how many companies the Ethiopian Capital Market Authority registered shares for on a single day, Tuesday, September 30: six banks, two insurers and, for the first time in a while, a petroleum company. Together that is roughly 243 million shares brought inside the regulator’s fence
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Business
Ethiopia’s Inflation Hits 14.9% in September, Up 1.7 Percentage Points Year on Year
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Banking & Finance
Ethiopia’s Expanded FX Auction Programme Opens Oversubscribed as Demand Returns
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Capital Market
Ethiopia opens door to Dangote IPO for qualified investors
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Business
KEFI Resumes Development at Ethiopia’s Tulu Kapi Gold Project After Fatal Incident
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Deep Dive
Longer reads on the forces behind the numbers.
- Deep Dive10 min readThe Impatient Economy: Ethiopia’s New Monetary Framework Meets the Problem of TimePart one looked at how Ethiopia’s new money system is built. This part looks at time. The system works, but slowly, and almost everyone in the economy wants results now. Imagine you need 10,000 birr today, but you will only have it next year. Someone lends it to you, and a year later you payRead
- Capital Market5 min readEthiopian Securities Exchange Crosses Half a Billion Birr in Weekly Value Traded, but One Stock Did Almost All the WorkThe Ethiopian Securities Exchange (ESX) recorded ETB 510.05 million in equity turnover for the week of September 28 to October 2, 2026, across 525 trades and 215,325 shares in its seven listed securities. The half-billion-birr total is the headline. Underneath it, the week was mostly the story of one stock trading heavily and six tradingRead
- Deep Dive10 min readWhy being poor in Ethiopia costs moreWalk into a mini shop in Addis Ababa and look at the sizes on the shelf. Sugar by the quarter kilo. Quarter kilos of onions. One bread roll. Charcoal by the tin. All of those things exist in bigger, cheaper packs a few kilometres away. What the mini shop is really selling is the rightRead
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Banking & FinanceOromia Bank Launches Three Tiers of International Visa Payment Cards
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Banking & FinanceAwash Bank Launches Five New Card Services in Partnership with Mastercard
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Capital MarketAbay Bank Reports Birr 6.22 Billion Profit Before Tax, Up 47.6%
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EconomyAfrican Union Launches Continent’s First Credit Rating Agency
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