News Ethiopia: Winter storm: Life-saving flight of doctors, nurses heading to Ethiopia delayed at Atlanta airport
ATLANTA — Poor weather conditions have delayed a medical team’s life-saving flight to Ethiopia. The team of doctors and nurses were set to fly out from Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport ...
News Ethiopia: Ethiopia's financial system achieves "remarkable growth" despite global challenges: central bank
ADDIS ABABA, March 17 (Xinhua) -- National Bank of Ethiopia said Tuesday that Ethiopia's financial system remained stable and recorded "remarkable growth" during the 2024/2025 fiscal year despite a ...
News Ethiopia: Ethiopia offers scant hope of financial liberalization
When members of Ethiopia’s banking and business community gathered in the glitzy Sheraton Addis for an audience with the reform-minded new prime minister, Abiy Ahmed, in the middle of April, any hopes ...
News Ethiopia: Ethiopia’s Amhara Region Introduces Mobile Money Tax Payments via M-Pesa
M-Pesa Ethiopia partners Amhara to enable digital tax payments Safaricom expands services aligning with national digital strategy Platform reports 5 million users, trailing Telebirr’s 58.6 million ...
News Ethiopia: Sahle announces Ethiopia squad for São Tomé and Príncipe doubleheader
Newly appointed Ethiopia coach Yohannes Sahle has named a 23-man squad for the upcoming 2027 African Cup of Nations preliminary round doubleheader against São ...
News Ethiopia: The New Geography: Cities as Creators of Jobs
Dire Dawa, a fast-growing Ethiopian city on the Addis–Djibouti corridor, shows how connectivity fuels urban jobs. As automation reshapes factory work, employment increasingly emerges from supplier networks, logistics, and services around industrial hubs. The feature highlights three priorities—skills, SMEs, and efficient urban logistics—and shows why Africa’s medium-sized cities are central to the continent’s employment future.
News Ethiopia: NBE Pushes for Bank Consolidation, Spotlights Market Share Disparity
Regulators at the National Bank of Ethiopia (NBE) are pushing commercial banks to consolidate, citing in a new report that 25 of the country’s 31 banks ...
News Ethiopia: Ethiopia’s Central Bank Reports Strong Financial Stability Amid Global Pressures
National Bank of Ethiopia (NBE) has released its third Financial Stability Report, highlighting the resilience of Ethiopia’s financial system despite a challenging global economic environment.
News Ethiopia: Ethiopian banks deliver biggest-ever earnings as sector expands
Ethiopia’s banking sector expanded strongly in the 12 months to June 2025, recording its highest-ever profit alongside rapid balance sheet growth, even as the central bank flagged rising concentration risks within the industry, according to the latest Financial Stability Report.
News Ethiopia: 5 Ways Bitcoin Mining Benefits Ethiopia
Ethiopia is emerging as Africa’s most promising bitcoin mining hub, poised to claim a significant share of the global hashrate as the hum of miners reverberates across the globe. – Jaran Mellerud & ...
News Ethiopia: Best ethereum ETFs of 2024
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News Ethiopia: At 10 years old, Ethereum's future is brighter than ever despite recent setbacks
The current Ethereum bull run has done a 180 from the last, fueled by institutions and digital dollars instead of meme coins and NFTs. Until very recently investors struggled to understand its purpose ...
News Ethiopia: 'You are not scaling Ethereum': Vitalik Buterin issues a blunt reality check to the biggest crypto networks
The roadmap in place doesn't make as much sense because progress among layer-2s toward later stages of decentralization has been slower and more difficult, and Ethereum itself is now scaling directly on layer-1.
News Ethiopia: Ethiopia grants first financial services licence to foreign firm
Ethiopia’s central bank granted a financial services licence to a foreign-owned company for the first time last week, as the government begins to open up the economy of Africa’s second most populous ...
News Ethiopia: Enhancing financial inclusion of older urban poor in Ethiopia
This policy brief focuses on enhancing financial inclusion for Ethiopia’s older urban poor, emphasising the importance of access to formal financial services like banking, savings, loans, and ...
News Ethiopia: EthSwitch Launches National Instant Payments, Unifying Ethiopia’s Digital Economy on BPC SmartVista
EthSwitch, Ethiopia’s national switch owned by all public and private banks together with the National Bank of Ethiopia has launched the country’s National Instant Payment System powered by BPC’s next-generation SmartVista platform. The system was officially launched at the Ethiopia Digital Payment Conference 2.0 in December 2025, opened by H.E. Dr. Eyob Tekalign, Governor of
News Ethiopia: Big win for Kenyan banks as Ethiopia removes last hurdle for foreign lenders
Ethiopia's capital Addis Ababa. The country's population of over 120 million offers a huge market for Kenyan banks looking to expand regionally. [Courtesy] Ethiopia has proposed new banking laws that ...
News Ethiopia: Reaffirming Ethiopia’s Sovereign Right and the GERD Reality
The geopolitical landscape of Northeast Africa has reached a historic inflection point, characterized by the final dismantling of colonial-era hydro-hegemony ...
