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Nov 4, 2026•Kana Newsroom

Happening Now: Ethiopia’s Economy Jumps 59.2% to $201.4 Billion After Historic GDP Rebasing

Nov 2, 2026•Kana Newsroom

Half-Price Bus Fares and Cheaper Homes: Inside Ethiopia’s Shift from Imported Diesel to Local Natural Gas

Oct 28, 2026•Kana Newsroom

Ethiopia and Canada Sign Trade Deal to Help Ethiopia Join the World Trade Organization

Oct 26, 2026•Kana Newsroom

Why Addis Ababa Prioritized a 10-Kilometer River Corridor

Economics Why Kenya’s New $16 Billion Refinery Matters for Everyday Ethiopian Drivers Ethiopia Opens Doors to Foreign Banks: Central Bank Reviews First Two Greenfield Subsidiary Applications

Selling to the People: Why African Countries Are Letting Citizens Buy Government Companies

Blocked by strict international borrowing limits and rising debt, countries in Africa are turning to local stock markets to raise cash, fund new projects, and shift ownership to regular citizens.

Ethiopia Launches $50 Million Mega-Refinery at Bole Lemi to Rewrite Regional Precious Metals Trade

Ethiopia Scales Up Subsidized Health Coverage in Bid to Shield Working Class from Medical Shocks

Zambia Asks Farmers to Stop Selling Maize Because of El Niño

Ethiopia Will Guarantee State Company Contracts to Attract Infrastructure Lenders

UAE’s Elite Agro Invests $38 Million to Build Export-Driven Mega-Farm in Morocco

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UAE’s Elite Agro Invests $38 Million to Build Export-Driven Mega-Farm in Morocco

New $10 Million Fund Helps East African Agribusinesses Grow Without Heavy Bank Collateral

EIH Advances $55 Million Hilton Expansion to add to Addis Ababa's COP32 Hospitality Capacity

What Is FaydaVerse? The Ethiopian National ID Program That Became a Company — And How It Plans to Make Money.

Happening Now: Ethiopia’s Economy Jumps 59.2% to $201.4 Billion After Historic GDP Rebasing

Half-Price Bus Fares and Cheaper Homes: Inside Ethiopia’s Shift from Imported Diesel to Local Natural Gas

Ethiopia and Canada Sign Trade Deal to Help Ethiopia Join the World Trade Organization

Why Addis Ababa Prioritized a 10-Kilometer River Corridor

Mobilizing the Masses: The Massive Push to Educate Voters for Ethiopia’s High-Stakes Election

Inside ‘Mirchaye’: How a New App Digitally Registered Millions of Ethiopian Voters for the First Time

High Turnout and Big Expectations: Ethiopians Flock to Polling Stations for Historic Election

How Ethiopia Plants 800 Million Trees in a Single Day

Ethiopia Becomes the First Country to Have Carbon Credits Verified Under the World Bank’s Forest Landscape Programme. The Credits Are Worth Up to $372 Million.

COP32 Leadership Engages Global Finance Community at London Climate Action Week Opening

Ethiopia is planting 8 trees for every person on earth before it hosts the Global Climate Summit

Ethiopia.gov.et Brings the Country’s Heritage, Development, and Investment Opportunities Together

Ethiopia Scales Up Subsidized Health Coverage in Bid to Shield Working Class from Medical Shocks

Ethiopia Will Guarantee State Company Contracts to Attract Infrastructure Lenders

Ethiopian Capital Market Clears Way for Everyday Savers to Pool Funds into Prime Real Estate and Stocks

Zambia Asks Farmers to Stop Selling Maize Because of El Niño

Russia Negotiates to Expand Fertilizer Exports to Ethiopia After Shipping 500,000 Tonnes

Ethiopian Airlines Holds Stakes in Six African National Carriers. Namibia Is in Talks to Become the Seventh.

Uganda Airlines Tells Parliament 80% of Its Fleet Was Grounded This Year — But Revenue Still Grew 22%.

Instant ID, No Fraud: Ethiopia Opens Its Massive Identity Network (Fayda) to Local Tech Builders

Here Is How Google and the Gates Foundation’s $100 Million AI Push Will Actually Reach African Farmers

Tony Blair Visits Ethiopia's AI Institute as IMF Report Says Artificial Intelligence Could Add 4 Percent to Sub-Saharan Africa's Economy.

Cursor AI Hackathon Opens This Weekend at Adwa Victory Memorial Park in Addis Ababa.

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Oct 13, 2026•Kana Newsroom

Instant ID, No Fraud: Ethiopia Opens Its Massive Identity Network (Fayda) to Local Tech Builders

A new public 'sandbox' allows startups and innovators to freely plug their apps directly into the national identity system, transforming Fayda from a simple database into the digital backbone of the economy.

Oct 9, 2026•Kana Newsroom

Here Is How Google and the Gates Foundation’s $100 Million AI Push Will Actually Reach African Farmers

A massive joint fund aims to reach 200 million smallholders with local-language phone alerts, accurate weather forecasts, and satellite maps that unlock bank loans.

Oct 7, 2026•Kana Newsroom

New $10 Million Fund Helps East African Agribusinesses Grow Without Heavy Bank Collateral

A new financing agreement signed in Kigali bypasses the punitive short-term lending of local commercial banks, utilizing development capital to absorb initial risks and unlock private investment for agricultural SMEs.

Oct 2, 2026•Kana Newsroom

EIH Advances $55 Million Hilton Expansion to add to Addis Ababa's COP32 Hospitality Capacity

A new 150-key Hilton Garden Inn and wellness complex will rise within the existing Hilton compound by late 2027, upgrading the capital’s diplomatic infrastructure ahead of the UN climate summit.

Sep 28, 2026•Kana Newsroom

Ethiopian Capital Market Clears Way for Everyday Savers to Pool Funds into Prime Real Estate and Stocks

The new legal framework lets citizens with modest savings pool their cash to become fractional owners of commercial high-rises and corporate shares with mandatory dividend payouts.

Sep 25, 2026•Kana Newsroom

What You Need to Know About the $660M EIH-Dangote Pipeline Restructuring Ethiopia's Fuel Logistics

A shorter route and massive border storage replace a decade of stalled pipeline mega-projects, cutting the capital bill by nearly a billion dollars against the last attempt in 2015.

Sep 23, 2026•Kana Newsroom

Ethiopia's Fayda ID System Takes Runner-Up Honors at Two Global Digital Awards in New York.

The biometric platform placed second at both the Digital@UNGA Awards (behind Ukraine’s Diia) and the 50-in-5 Awards, global recognition for a system Ethiopia built entirely without purchasing foreign software.

Sep 22, 2026•Kana Newsroom

Ethiopia's Afar Region, Known for Its Arid Plains, to Host the Date Palm Festival for the Second Time

Local harvests slash foreign procurement expenditures from $9.8 million down to $650,000 as the UAE-backed agricultural initiative eyes a 25,000-hectare expansion across the lowlands.

Sep 22, 2026•Kana Newsroom

Russia Negotiates to Expand Fertilizer Exports to Ethiopia After Shipping 500,000 Tonnes

Agriculture Minister Oksana Lut confirmed ongoing negotiations to scale up deliveries, positioning Moscow to capture a larger share of Ethiopia's 2.5 million-tonne annual agricultural input requirement.

Sep 14, 2026•Kana Newsroom

Megech Dam Nears Completion After 19-Year Delay to Water Gondar

New Contractor pushes the stalled 33-million-cubic-meter reservoir to 94 percent completion, securing drinking water and 17,000 hectares of irrigation for the Amhara region.

Sep 10, 2026•Kana Newsroom

Mojo Inland Port Adds 1 Million-Container Capacity to Anchor the DESSU Trade Corridor

The 60-hectare logistics expansion introduces Ethiopia's first rail-mounted gantry cranes, shifting bulk packaging inland to cut foreign exchange payments to coastal transit hubs.

Sep 9, 2026•Kana Newsroom

Ethiopian Airlines Holds Stakes in Six African National Carriers. Namibia Is in Talks to Become the Seventh.

Namibia's transport ministry says the discussions are exploratory and non-binding.

Sep 9, 2026•Kana Newsroom

Ethiopia's 31.8 Million-Tonne Wheat Harvest is 6 Million Tonnes Heavier Than the Renaissance Dam

Official Ministry of Agriculture data records a 318.4 million quintal haul across irrigated and rain-fed acreage, eliminating $1 billion in foreign exchange expenditures as domestic currency floats.

Sep 9, 2026•Kana Newsroom

AlphaGeo Ranks Addis Ababa Behind Chicago as the Second Most Climate-Resilient Major City Out of 72

An AI spatial risk assessment places the Ethiopian capital next to the US metro across a pool of the world's largest cities, shielding local commercial real estate from rising global insurance premiums.

Sep 3, 2026•Kana Newsroom

Ethiopia and IFC Sign Deal to Build the Country's First Mortgage Refinance Company.

A 100 billion Birr wholesale lender won't hand a single Ethiopian a mortgage directly, it exists to fix what's stopping banks from offering longer, cheaper home loans in the first place.

Aug 31, 2026•Kana Newsroom

Gold Has Overtaken US Treasuries as the World's Top Reserve Asset, the ECB Says.

Central banks now hold more gold, as a share of reserves, than US government debt for the first time since the dollar era began — and Ethiopia's own gold boom is riding the same price rally that helped get them there.

Aug 31, 2026•Kana Newsroom

Uganda Airlines Tells Parliament 80% of Its Fleet Was Grounded This Year — But Revenue Still Grew 22%.

The Ethiopian Airlines veteran hired to steady Uganda's carrier told lawmakers how close it came to collapse — and how cleared engine bills, new routes, and ticketing issues now steer its recovery.

Aug 28, 2026•Kana Newsroom

Ethiopia's Grade 12 Pass Rate Is Four Times Higher Than Four Years ago.

Zero-scoring schools halved, perfect scores rose, and most candidates now test digitally — the clearest signs that a bruising four-year reform of Ethiopia's university entrance exam is showing results.

Aug 26, 2026•Kana Newsroom

Ethiopia's Creditors Clear the Last Big Hurdle on Its $1 Billion Bond Restructuring.

Approval by a China- and France-led committee ends three years of missed payments, guiding Ethiopia toward lower debt, repaired credit, and global bond markets.

Aug 26, 2026•Kana Newsroom

Ethiopia's Nile Dam Produced Nearly 11,000 Tons of Fish Last Year About a Fifth of the Country's Total Fishery Potential

A lake that didn't exist a decade ago is now a food-security asset in its own right: 46 fishing associations, hundreds of young people in steady work, and a catch already rivalling entire river systems.

Aug 21, 2026•Kana Newsroom

Ethiopia Signs Its 10th WTO Trade Deal in Five Months — This One With the UK.

The agreement caps the fastest run of bilateral deals in Ethiopia's 23-year bid to join the WTO, and lands as UK-Ethiopia trade grew nearly a third in a single year.

Culture

Ethiopia's Bakers Get a New Stage: Arada Park to Host the Addis Cake & Bake Expo

From August 21–23, the expo will bring together bakers, ingredient suppliers, equipment manufacturers, packaging companies, cafés, hotels, and pastry brands.

Aug 20, 2026•Kana Newsroom

Aug 18, 2026•Kana Newsroom

Ethiopia's New Cybersecurity Law: What Banks, Hospitals and Power Companies Now Have to Do

A proclamation two years in drafting gives INSA audit power over 12 sectors, a licensing regime for private cyber firms, and a fund fed by fines up to 2 million birr — with one year for institutions to comply.

Aug 17, 2026•Kana Newsroom

Addis Ababa Just Added 24 Olympic Pools of Water a Day to its Supply.

The city has switched on a new drinking water project and the Koye Wastewater Treatment Plant, adding a combined 60,000 cubic metres of clean water and 20,000 cubic metres of wastewater treatment to its daily totals.

Aug 15, 2026•Kana Newsroom

Fewer than 2 in 100 African infrastructure projects Default, the Lowest Rate of Any Region on Earth

AFDB says only 1.9% of African infrastructure projects fail to pay back the banks and governments that built them.

Aug 15, 2026•Kana Newsroom

Ethiopia Plans to Export 26% More Than Last Year

Ethiopia exceeded its 2025/26 export target by 14%, providing the basis for the government’s 26% increase in the 2026/27 target.

Aug 12, 2026•Kana Newsroom

Friendship Park Nears a Billion Birr in Revenue in 48 Months

A 46-hectare green space—roughly 65 football pitches—helping cool the city and manage stormwater beyond its aesthetic value.

Aug 11, 2026•Kana Newsroom

Ethiopia's National Dialogue Set to Conclude Delegate Sessions Within Two Weeks

National Dialogue shifts from divergence to convergence as delegates consolidate competing positions into shared national priorities.

Aug 7, 2026•Kana Newsroom

Senegal's Sovereign Fund Invests $1.4 Million in a Green Dialysis Center and a Recycling Company

WE! Fund, part of Senegal's state investment fund FONSIS, signs two agreements.

Aug 6, 2026•Kana Newsroom

What Is FaydaVerse? The Ethiopian National ID Program That Became a Company — And How It Plans to Make Money.

Ethiopia spun its 50-million-user Fayda identity system into a state-owned company on August 4, 2026, with four revenue lines and MoUs in twelve African countries.

Sports

Canal+ Wins Exclusive Rights to Broadcast European Football in 40 African Countries Until 2031.

In the Ethiopian market nothing changes hands: SuperSport, the sports channel under Canal+'s own MultiChoice subsidiary, simply keeps rights it already held.

Aug 6, 2026•Kana Newsroom

Aug 4, 2026•Kana Newsroom

Ethiopian Electric Power Earned $475.5 Million in Foreign Currency This Fiscal Year, Data Centers the Largest Source

Sales to technology and crypto-mining operations reached $335.5 million in the 2018 Ethiopian Fiscal Year, more than the company earned from exporting power to three neighboring countries

Aug 3, 2026•Kana Newsroom

S&P Global Buys Majority Stake in Africa's Agusto & Co. Rating Agency

The stake in Nigeria's Agusto & Co. lands as the continent's own rating project misses its second launch date

Jul 31, 2026•Kana Newsroom

How Ethiopia Plants 800 Million Trees in a Single Day

A year-round supply chain of 120,000 nurseries, pre-dug planting holes, GPS-mapped land, and digital survival tracking produces the conditions for one day's planting.

Jul 30, 2026•Kana Newsroom

Oxano Capital Backs Kenyan Fintech Sevi, Which Lets Small Shops Order Stock on Credit and Pay When They Sell It

Kenya has 1.5 million kiosks, but most lack bank loans. Sevi embeds credit into supply chains so a Kibera shopkeeper can order stock on Tuesday and pay on Friday after selling. Oxano Capital bought equity in the model.

Jul 29, 2026•Kana Newsroom

EU and Germany Put €31 Million Through Ethiopia’s Development Bank to Reach Businesses in Afar, Amhara and Tigray

The loan is channelled through four commercial banks and one microfinance institution at a subsidised interest rate. Businesses in conflict-affected regions are commercially unfinanceable under standard terms.

Jul 29, 2026•Kana Newsroom

Jazeera Airways Will Fly Kuwait to Addis Ababa Three Times a Week From September 7

Kuwait's largest private carrier is chasing a 70,000-strong Ethiopian community into a capital where foreign arrivals climbed 15 percent last year

Ethiopia's Industrial Parks Export a Record $266.9 Million, 2.5 Percent of National Total

IPDC's record year traces to a 2014 developmental-state model, a 2022 AGOA suspension, and an economy that has since reformed around it

Jul 28, 2026

Jul 27, 2026•Kana Newsroom

AFRICOM Brings 40 Countries to Addis Ababa for Africa’s First Combined Logistics and Communications Military Symposium.

The Africa Logistics Symposium and Africa Endeavor are merging into a single event for the first time. Representatives from 40 countries and 26 industry partners arrive in Addis Ababa from July 27 to 31.

Jul 26, 2026•Kana Newsroom

Ethiopia’s National Dialogue Enters Convergence Phase on Day 17 as 4,000 Participants Move Toward Monday’s Full Assembly.

Small groups of 10 have completed their brainstorming and are presenting to groups of 50. From Monday July 28, those 50-person groups consolidate and present to groups of 250.

Jul 23, 2026•Kana Newsroom

Tony Blair Visits Ethiopia's AI Institute as IMF Report Says Artificial Intelligence Could Add 4 Percent to Sub-Saharan Africa's Economy.

IMF says that with the right power, internet, and skills infrastructure, Ethiopia can create an additional 4 out of every 100 birr in economic growth over the next ten years.

Jul 23, 2026•Kana Newsroom

Cursor AI Hackathon Opens This Weekend at Adwa Victory Memorial Park in Addis Ababa.

Cursor is a $60 billion AI tool used by 64 percent of Fortune 500 companies. Ethiopian developers are building with it this weekend, at a venue named after Africa’s most famous military victory over a colonial power.

Jul 23, 2026•Kana Newsroom

Gulf-Africa Economic Dialogue hosted by Ethiopia's Institute of Foreign Affairs in Addis Ababa, Ahead of 2027 GASPI Summit.

Ethiopia’s Institute of Foreign Affairs convened a high-level Gulf–Africa economic dialogue at the Sheraton Addis on July 22, ahead of the 2027 GASPI Summit in Abidjan.

Geopolitics

Why the Upstream Nile States Keep Voting the Same Way

Ethiopia, Tanzania, Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi and South Sudan Ratified the Nile Basin Cooperative Framework Agreement Between 2013 and 2024

Jul 22, 2026•Kana Newsroom

Jul 21, 2026•Kana Newsroom

Ethiopia Becomes the First Country to Have Carbon Credits Verified Under the World Bank’s Forest Landscape Programme. The Credits Are Worth Up to $372 Million.

The verified 12.4 million tonnes of emissions reductions are equivalent to taking every gas powered car in Addis Ababa off the road for more than four years.

Jul 20, 2026•Kana Newsroom

South Africa Presses Ahead With 5,200 MW of Nuclear Power Despite Safety Incidents.

Africa’s most industrialized economy South Africa and its second most populous, Ethiopia are both moving toward nuclear power, from opposite directions.

Jul 18, 2026•Kana Newsroom

Ethiopia National Dialogue: Day 4 Update — 7,000 on Site, Late-Joining Parties Welcomed, Full Sessions Start Monday.

With 7,000 participants now at the Addis International Convention Center, the Commission prepares to start thematic sessions on July 21 while keeping its doors open to holdout parties.

Bags of Ethiopian coffee beans ready for export

Jul 18, 2026•Kana Newsroom

Ethiopia Earns Record $11.2 Billion in Exports and Ships First Goods Under Africa’s Free Trade Agreement.

Ethiopia beat its export target by 19 percent and reported its first $15 million in shipments under the AfCFTA framework — 65 percent of all AfCFTA trade in the East African region during the fiscal year.

Jul 16, 2026•Kana Newsroom

Afreximbank Holds Strategic Plan 07 Retreat in Addis Ababa, Meets Ethiopian Leadership

The bank that underwrote $2.5 billion for Dangote, launched a trading house with former Shell traders, and now manages $48.5 billion in total assets is deciding where to put the next round of capital.

Jul 15, 2026•Kana Newsroom

Four years in the making: Inside Ethiopia’s Historic Quest for National Consensus.

Around 4,000 delegates from every region of the country and the diaspora are gathering at the Addis International Convention Center for three to four weeks of structured deliberation on eight national agenda items.

Jul 14, 2026•Kana Newsroom

Tanzania’s Richest Man Wants to Put $100 Million Into Dangote’s Proposed East Africa Refinery.

Aliko Dangote is planning a second mega-refinery on Africa’s east coast, likely in Lamu, Kenya. Mohammed Dewji of Tanzania wants in.

Jul 13, 2026•Kana Newsroom

Addis's Bus Fleet Grows to 1,628; City Orders 500 More

Public transport's share of the capital's trips has more than quadrupled in recent years, but the fleet still trails what planners have said the city needs.

Jul 13, 2026•Kana Newsroom

Debre Markos Airport Reopens After 30 Years. Ethiopian Airlines Now Flies There Three Times a Week.

The Negus Tekle Haymanot Airport in East Gojjam sat out of service for three decades. Upgraded now, its runway can handle a Boeing 737. The drive from Addis Ababa used to take seven hours.

Ethiopia's Avocado Harvest Starts in July. Peru's Runs Out in September. That Two-Month Window Is What the Country Is Building Its Export Strategy Around.

Ethiopia is Africa’s second largest avocado producer and exports at 15 to 25 percent below Kenya’s price. The Ministry of Agriculture has a plan to close that discount.

Jul 11, 2026•kana

Ethio Telecom's ultra-fast EV charging station

Jul 9, 2026•Kana Newsroom

Addis Ababa to Host Nordic-Africa EV Summit in September as Norway and Ethiopia Compare Notes on Electric Vehicles.

Norway got to 98 percent electric new car sales in 30 years through incentives.

Jul 8, 2026•Kana Newsroom

Africa's Green Economy Summit Connects 500 Investors to 140 Projects in First Impact Report.

Africa needs between $144 billion and $250 billion a year in climate financing to meet its energy transition and adaptation targets by 2030.

PM Abiy Ahmed attending a launch event for the "5 Million Ethiopian Coders Initiative"

Jul 7, 2026•Kana Newsroom

Ethiopia, UAE Expand Coding Initiative to Seven Million Participants

A UAE-backed push to train young Ethiopian coders hit its target early.

Dr Abiy Ahmed arriving at the Arba Minch Conference Resort inauguration

Ethiopia Opens Conference Resort With 1,300-Seat Hall and Floating Restaurant at Arba Minch — Two Hours From Addis Ababa, on the Edge of Africa's Rift Valley Lakes.

The Resort opened on July 4 as part of the Dine for Generation programme. Ethiopia hosted 204 international conferences last year and earned $5.2 billion from tourism.

PM Abiy Ahmed and IMF Managing Director Kristalina

IMF Sends Ethiopia $200 Million Early to Help with Middle East War-Related Costs

Early IMF disbursement helps Ethiopia absorb rising fuel and fertiliser costs linked to the Middle East conflict.

CBE Preps 1.09 Trillion Birr in Loans for New Budget Year, a 68.7 Percent Jump from last year.

CBE's new loan pool is worth roughly 57 cents of every birr in Ethiopia's national budget.

The World Bank Approves $750 Million for Kenya to Strengthen Public Financial Management and Governance.

Kenya's debt is 68% of GDP, with 86% of tax revenue going to debt, wages, and county transfers. The $750 million loan also comes with governance conditions.

Jul 1, 2026•Kana Newsroom

Ethiopia’s Railway to the Sea Carried 9 Percent of Its Exports Two Years Ago. Now It Carries 50 Percent.

The Ethio-Djibouti Railway is expanding with new wagons, a logistics hub near the coffee belt, and online bookings. Trucks still move 84% of Ethiopia’s trade.

Jun 29, 2026•Kana Newsroom

Addis Ababa Is Turning 47 Kilometres of Polluted River Into a Business District. Here Is the Economic Bet Behind It.

The Entoto-Kebena project spans 87.6 hectares, 10.5km and 50,330 trees. As Seoul and Singapore proved, restoring rivers grows property values and tax revenue - not just the environment.

Jun 29, 2026•Kana Newsroom

Ethiopia Spent $525 Million Subsidizing Fertilizer Imports This Year. A $4 Billion Plant Under Construction Could Change That.

The Ministry of Agriculture has distributed 10.7 million quintals of fertilizer this Meher season, more than any year before.

Jun 25, 2026•Kana Newsroom

Ethiopia’s 18-month-old Stock Exchange Has Four Listed Companies, 19,000 New Investors

The Ethiopian Securities Exchange is 18 months old. It has moved faster than most new exchanges on the continent.

Jun 23, 2026•Kana Newsroom

COP32 Leadership Engages Global Finance Community at London Climate Action Week Opening

Dr. Gedion Timothewos appeared at the London Stock Exchange on Monday to open London Climate Action Week, where global leaders are discussing how to direct more climate finance to lower-income countries.

Jun 18, 2026•Kana Newsroom

Ethiopia is planting 8 trees for every person on earth before it hosts the Global Climate Summit

Green Legacy 2026 — and the road to COP32 in Addis Ababa

Jun 16, 2026•Kana Newsroom

Draft Law to Make School Meals Mandatory in Ethiopian Government Schools Sent to Parliamentary Committee

A draft proclamation before the House of Peoples’ Representatives would mandate nutritious school feeding from pre-primary through middle school.

Jun 12, 2026•Kana Newsroom

Offline Artificial Intelligence Tool Launched to Help Ethiopian Secondary School Teachers Prepare Lessons and Exams Without Internet Access

The Ministry of Education has piloted an offline AI assistant for secondary school teachers that generates lesson plans and exams, bypassing the connectivity gap affecting 79% of Ethiopian schools.

Sports

DStv Just Made the World Cup an Addis Ababa Street Event

With exclusive rights to every FIFA World Cup match, DStv is turning Addis Ababa into a citywide fan zone through street activations, trivia challenges, decoder giveaways, and more.

Jun 9, 2026•Kana Newsroom

Addis is converting 2,000 diesel buses to run on Ethiopian gas.

Rising fuel costs, a widening subsidy bill, and global supply disruptions have pushed Addis to convert 2,000 city buses to run on Ethiopian gas. The question is who holds the margin when the fleet finally runs on it.

New Visa card from CBE and Ethiopian Airlines makes it easy for Ethiopians to pay for things when travelling or doing business overseas.

For decades, making a legitimate international payment from Ethiopia required documentation, bank queues, and frequent rejection. The new prepaid Visa card solves that.

This October at the African Energy Week 2026 Finance Summit, Afreximbank Will Reveal Where It Is Investing to Fix Africa's $50 Billion Energy Shortage

Afreximbank to Outline Where It Is Investing Across Africa's Energy Sector at Cape Town Summit.

Ethiopia's Development Bank to Offer Cheap Loans to Women and War-Affected Regions That Normally Can't Get Bank Financing

Two agreements signed on June 2 address the two groups least likely to access formal credit in Ethiopia: people in disaster-affected regions, and women.

Why Growing Truly Organic Coffee Still Forces Africa’s Women Farmers to Sell Dirt Cheap

The world is paying more for sustainably produced coffee, shea butter, and textiles. Across Africa, many of the women who make them cannot afford the certification needed to claim the premium.

Ethiopia's MESOB, Which Now Delivers 130 Government Services From One Centre, Holds Its First Board Meeting

MESOB replaces hundreds of services that once meant multiple offices, long queues, and often informal payments. Its first board meeting just happened. The scale of the change is the story.

Norway to Discuss Electric Vehicle Investment in Ethiopia at the Nordic-Africa EV Summit in Addis, Scheduled for September

The country that ended petrol as a mainstream product wants to invest in Ethiopia’s e-mobility sector. The gap between a Norwegian showroom and an Addis street is real. So is the opportunity.

The Cost of Fuel and the Cost of Borrowing Money Both Just Went Up in South Africa

As fuel tax relief expired and interest rates rose, consumers were left absorbing both shocks at once.

Jun 2, 2026•Kana Newsroom

Addis Ababa Opens 22 Kilometers of New Riverfront as Urban Renewal Efforts Accelerate

The 22-kilometer development combines recreation areas, river conservation initiatives, and public infrastructure as part of Addis Ababa's ongoing urban development efforts.

Jun 2, 2026•Kana Newsroom

Ethiopia's Central Bank Deploys $200 Million in Scheduled Foreign Exchange Auctions, Signaling Reform Momentum to Investors

$200 Million in Scheduled FX Auctions Underscores Ethiopia's Reform Momentum

Jun 2, 2026•Kana Newsroom

New Underwater Map of Ethiopia’s Blue Nile Reservoir Clears the Way for Commercial Fishing and Boat Transport

Arba Minch University hands over the country’s first bathymetric survey of Africa’s largest reservoir, giving engineers, fisheries authorities, and transport planners data they have never had before.

Ethiopian Airlines aircraft at Negelle Borena Geda Airport, highlighting new air connectivity between Addis Ababa and Ethiopia's remote Borena region.

From a 12-Hour Drive to a 1-Hour Flight: Ethiopia Opens Up Remote Border Region with New Airport

Ethiopian Airlines lands in Negelle Borena — a town most people have never heard of, in a region bigger than Switzerland, sitting on one of Africa’s largest pastoral economies.

Culture

From Speed’s Streams to Dylan Page’s Feed: Why the World’s Biggest Creators Are Flocking to Addis Ababa

From viral livestreams to influencer summits, a growing number of global creators are discovering a city that has been quietly reinventing itself for a decade.

Participants attend a voter education and election training session as part of Ethiopia's nationwide civic awareness campaign ahead of the 2026 elections.

Mobilizing the Masses: The Massive Push to Educate Voters for Ethiopia’s High-Stakes Election

Before June 1, Ethiopia deployed students across the country and flooded social media with ballot guides. In a nation where fewer than half of adults are formally literate, the design of democracy itself had to change.

The Mirchaye voter registration app, part of Ethiopia's digital election registration system built on Fayda digital IDs.

Inside ‘Mirchaye’: How a New App Digitally Registered Millions of Ethiopian Voters for the First Time

Ethiopia built its voter roll on a digital ID system that didn’t exist five years ago. The election is one use case. The registry is the real story.

An Ethiopian voter casts a ballot at a polling station during the country's electoral process.

High Turnout and Big Expectations: Ethiopians Flock to Polling Stations for Historic Election

Ethiopia votes. More than fifty million times.