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BusinessEthiopian Airlines approaches a Deal for Up to 10 Boeing Freighters Amid Expansion
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BusinessEthiopian Commodity Exchange Trades 48.83 Billion Birr in 2025/26, Exceeding Target by 67.8%
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Deep DiveBirr Liquidity Squeeze Lifts Ethiopia’s Interbank Rates Off the Corridor Floor
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Monday Breakfast Stories
The week in Ethiopian markets, over buna.
What Got Paid, What Got Built
Two numbers frame this week, and they are almost the same size. The first is 126.9 billion birr. That is what Ethio telecom’s plan puts on the table for the 2026/27 fiscal year: 83.8 billion in direct and indirect taxes, and 43.1 billion in dividends. The tax goes to the treasury. The dividend
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Somebody has to go without. That is the sentence underneath almost every story this week. The state power producer looked at the water coming into its dams, decided a dry period was on the way, and cut its single largest revenue-generating customer by 75 percent before the shortage arrived. The central bank sold
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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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Ethiopian Airlines approaches a Deal for Up to 10 Boeing Freighters Amid Expansion
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Deep Dive
Longer reads on the forces behind the numbers.
- Deep Dive9 min readPaying More, Getting Less: The Hidden Inflation Squeezing Ethiopian ConsumersEthiopia’s headline inflation rate for July 2026 was 15.3%, up from 11.7% in April and 9.4% in March, according to the Ethiopian Statistical Service (ESS). Food inflation alone reached 15% year on year. That number is real, and it is already painful. But here is the uncomfortable question: does 15.3% actually capture everything you areRead
- 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
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