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#EBR_News Oct 23, 2026 Dashen Bank has launched a co-branded Platinum prepaid Mastercard linked to Ethiopian Airlines’ ShebaMiles loyalty programme, combining payments, travel perks and rewards in a single product. The card was unveiled at…
#EBR_News Oct 30, 2026 Ethiopia has deployed a national digital platform to track coffee from farm to export, as buyers in Europe and elsewhere demand proof of origin and sustainable sourcing. The Ethiopian Coffee and Tea Authority said in…
#EBR_News Oct 29, 202 Ethiopia could lose export earnings equivalent to as much as 0.5% of its gross domestic product (GDP) if coffee from smallholder farms fails to meet the European Union’s new anti-deforestation rules, according to a…
#EBR_News Oct 26, 2026 The World Food Programme (WFP) says its Ethiopia operation faces a $251 million funding gap for the six months from November 2026 to April 2027, at a time when El Niño-related weather shocks, insecurity and…
#EBR_News Oct 20, 2026 Researchers at Addis Ababa Science and Technology University have developed a method of converting coffee parchment, a waste product that is largely burned in open fields, into high-purity microfibrillated cellulose,…
#EBR_News Oct 20, 2026 Ethiopia has been ordered to pay $213.7 million in net compensation to Turkish construction company Yapi Merkezi over the abandoned contract for the 392-kilometre Awash-Kombolcha-Harabegeya railway project, sharply…
#EBR_News Oct 19, 2026 Ethiopia is set to assume the Alternate Executive Director position of the World Bank Group’s Africa Group 1 Constituency on November 1, with Sandokan Debebe Jemaneh taking up one of the most influential posts…
Betegbar Yaregal #EBR_News Oct 15, 2026 Ethiopian investors with at least Br10 million in capital will be able to buy into the Dangote Petroleum Refinery initial public offering (IPO) through Ethiopian depository receipts priced at Br74.90…
Betegbar Yaregal #EBR_News Oct 15, 2026 Ethiopia is now the only country among six post-pandemic debt restructuring cases tracked globally that has yet to complete its bond exchange, according to the Global Sovereign Debt Roundtable (GSDR)…
Betegbar Yaregal #EBR_News Oct 13, 2026 Ethiopia’s origin-and-destination air passenger traffic is forecast to grow almost sixfold between 2025 and 2045, one of the strongest rates in Africa, according to Airbus’s latest Global Market…
Betegbar Yaregal #EBR_News Oct 12, 2026 Bank of Abyssinia’s (BoA) non-performing loans tripled to Birr 15.64 billion in the year ended 30 June 2026, from Birr 5.18 billion a year earlier, according to the bank’s audited annual report. The…
Betegbar Yaregal #EBR_News Oct 12, 2026 A total of 194 researchers affiliated with Ethiopian institutions appear in the single-year ranking of the Stanford/Elsevier “Top 2% Scientists” database, according to an Ethiopian Business Review…
#EBR_News Oct 10, 2026 Oromia Bank S.C. has reported a 49% rise in profit before tax to Birr 3.82 billion for the 2025/26 fiscal year, up from Birr 2.57 billion a year earlier, according to its annual report. The bank disclosed the results…
#EBR_News Oct 9, 2026 Awash Bank, Ethiopia’s largest private lender, has launched a five-card payment portfolio with Mastercard, aimed at customers ranging from high-net-worth individuals to ordinary account holders and corporate clients.…
Betegbar Yaregal #EBR_News Oct 8, 2026 Abay Bank posted a profit before tax of Birr 6.22 billion for the year ended 30 June 2026, up from Birr 4.22 billion a year earlier, according to its audited annual financial statements seen by EBR.…
Betegbar Yaregal #EBR_News Oct 7, 2026 Ethiopia’s Ministry of Planning and Development has been renamed the Ministry of National Strategy, the latest change of identity for an institution that has been reshaped repeatedly since the 1950s.…
Betegbar Yaregal #EBR_News October 7, 2026 Bank of Abyssinia (BoA) posted a profit before tax of Birr 15.85 billion for the year ended 30 June 2026, up 56.9 percent from Birr 10.10 billion a year earlier, according to its audited annual…
Natran Abdulfetah #EBR_News Oct 6, 2026 ZamZam Bank has launched ZamZam Remit, a digital payment platform designed to channel money sent by Ethiopians abroad into the formal financial system. The bank unveiled the service at its…
Betegbar yaregal #EBR_News Oct 6, 2026 Zemen Bank reported gross profit before tax, depreciation and amortization of about 10 billion birr for the 2025/26 fiscal year, up 9.7 percent from the previous year, as total assets climbed 31.9…
#EBR_News Oct 5, 2026 Most Ethiopian economists believe the tax and revenue measures introduced under the International Monetary Fund (IMF)-supported reform programme are pushing up prices, yet very few want the reforms slowed. According…
Betegbar Yaregal #EBR_News Oct 3, 2026 More than half of Ethiopian economists doubt that the country’s market-based exchange rate regime will survive the next two to three years. According to a new report by the Ethiopian Economics…
Betegbar Yaregal #EBR_News Sep 30, 2026 Akobo Minerals, the Swedish-registered company operating the Segele gold mine in Ethiopia, expects to make its first direct gold export in October or November as it prepares a refinancing of its…
Betegbar Yaregal #EBR_News Sep 24, 2026 Ethiopian Airlines is expanding its inflight catering production capacity from 60,000 to 150,000 meals per day, with the project set for completion within six months, Mesfin Abate, Director of…
#EBR_News Sep 19, 2026 Wegagen Bank S.C. reported profit before tax of 4.3 billion birr for the 2025/26 fiscal year, a 12 peercent increase from 3.85 billion birr the previous year,according to the bank’s financial performance presented at…
#EBR_News Sep 17, 2026 Ethiopia has slashed its legal date import bill from 9.8 million USD five years ago to just 650,000 USD last year, a drop of more than 90 percent, according to figures disclosed by the Ministry of Agriculture at a…
#EBR_News Sep 16, 2026 Ethiopia has achieved WHO verification of its National Emergency Medical Team, positioning the country as the first civilian Emergency Medical Team in the WHO African Region to attain international WHO…