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- 11 Jan 2024
Is Ethiopia Africa’s sleeping fintech giant?
By Yohannes Tsehai - Country Manager Onafriq Ethiopia The fintech sector has been one of Africa’s biggest technology success stories. According to one report, the continent’s 678 fintech startups…
- 22 Sept 2020
4G Advancement in Ethiopia: A Milestone in the Country’s Telecom Landscape
By Abiye Yeshitila Ethiopia is on the verge of massive digital transformation, as one of the fastest growing economies in Africa, which is being led by consumers who, today, have access to more…
- 22 Sept 2016
HomeSend, Mastercard to Transform $3Bn Remittance Industry in Ethiopia
HomeSend and the Commercial Bank of Ethiopia (CBE) have announced a new remittance service at the US-Africa Business Forum, that will allow more than 100 million Ethiopians to send funds directly to…
- 23 May 2021
Flutterwave Partners Amole to Boost Digital Payment in Ethiopia
Flutterwave, Africa’s leading payments technology company, has partnered Amole, Ethiopia’s largest mobile digital wallet platform, to boost remittances. Flutterwave’s Founder and Chief Executive…
- 15 Oct 2021
Nigeria, Ethiopia Ripe for Datacentre Development
COVID-19 has fast-tracked digital transformation and will drive utilisation and the case for increased investment in datacentres across Africa, with countries like Ethiopia and Nigeria identified as…
- 17 Jun 2019
Gwandu Urges Ethiopia to Learn from Nigeria's Telecom Deregulation
Dr. Bashir Gwandu, non-executive chair of the Commonwealth ITU Group (CIG) and the former commissioner of the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC), has advised Ethiopia to learn from Nigeria as…
- 20 Feb 2019
AfDB Begins Electricity Cooperative Feasibility Studies in Nigeria, Ethiopia
The African Development Bank has kicked off a feasibility study to explore the potential of electricity cooperative business models in Nigeria and Ethiopia. The effort is part of the Bank’s goal of…
- 5 Aug 2019
Oromia International Bank in Ethiopia Goes Live with ICSFS’ IFB Software
ICS Financial Systems Limited (ICSFS), the global software and services provider for banks and financial institutions, and Oromia International Bank S.C (OIB), one of the most profitable banks in…
- 6 Sept 2019
CFA to speak at Afrilabs annual gathering in Ethiopia
Chukwuemeka Fred Agbata Jnr ‘CFA’, a pan-african technology evangelist has been invited to speak at the forthcoming 2019 Afrilabs Annual Gathering. “CFA”, has a pedigree and vast experience in…
- 7 Aug 2019
African Union Backs AfriLabs’ 2019 Annual Gathering in Ethiopia
AfriLabs , the largest pan-African network of 158 technology and innovation centers in 45 African countries has announced its partnership with the Division of Human Resource and Youth Development in…
- 23 Aug 2021
Hijra Bank Selects Path Solutions Core Banking Platform
After receiving the green light from the National Bank of Ethiopia (NBE), Hijra Bank, the second fully-fledged interest-free bank in the country has engaged in a highly competitive bidding and…
- 16 Feb 2026
African Leaders Highlight Africa’s AI Ambitions
African leaders used the AU Summit in Addis Ababa over the weekend to sharpen the continent’s technology agenda, with Ethiopia positioning artificial intelligence (AI), digital infrastructure and…
- 29 Jun 2022
Cloudmania Bags Microsoft Partner of the Year Award
Cloudmania, an exclusive provider of cloud partner programme in Africa, announced its big win as the Microsoft Partner of the Year for 2022 in Ethiopia. The company has opened its doors to 16…
- 22 Jan 2020
Paga Acquires Ethiopian Software Company Apposit; Plans to Enter Mexico
Paga, a Nigerian mobile payments company, has acquired an Ethiopian software company, Apposit for an undisclosed amount. This acquisition is part of its strategy to commence operations into Ethiopia…
- 24 Aug 2021
Nisir Microfinance Institution Goes Live in 70 Days on ICS BANKS
Nisir Microfinance Institution (Nisir MFI), an innovative and growing microfinance institution in Ethiopia, has successfully gone live, in a record time of 70 days, on ICS BANKS from ICS Financial…
- 9 Sept 2021
Path Solutions Completes Implementation of iMAL Islamic @ Hijra Bank
The newly formed interest-free Hijra Bank S.C. in Ethiopia has gone live successfully on iMAL Islamic core banking platform on September 4th, 2021, only one month after signing with Path Solutions,…
- 3 Apr 2020
HRW Wants End to Internet Shutdown to Manage COVID-19
HRW has urged governments such as Bangladesh, Ethiopia, India, and Myanmar, that are currently imposing an internet shutdown, to lift them immediately to save lives. During a health crisis, access to…
- 19 May 2022
OPay Partners Mastercard to ‘Open up e-commerce to Millions’ in Africa
Merchants and consumers from Nigeria, Algeria, Egypt, Ethiopia, Morocco, and South Africa now have another option to make payments worldwide through a Mastercard virtual payment solution powered by…
- 24 Jun 2025
15 African Startups Using AI Selected for Google Accelerator Cohort 9
Google today announced the selection of 15 promising tech startups for its Google for Startups Accelerator: Africa Class 9 program. These innovative startups, hailing from Ghana, Ethiopia, Kenya,…
- 26 Mar 2026
IFC Invests $45m to Green African Telecom Sites
Clean and reliable power for telecom networks in Ethiopia, Liberia, and Sierra Leone will be expanded following a $45 million investment by the International Finance Corporation (IFC) in IPT…
- 17 Aug 2018
Westcon Now Sole Distributor for Extreme Networks in Nigeria, Others
Westcon Sub-Saharan Africa, the value-added technology distributor, is pleased to announce it has secured the sole rights to distribute Extreme Networks in Kenya, Mauritius, Nigeria, Ethiopia,…
- 15 Jun 2010
Broadband will Trigger another Revolution -Bekele
Tadesse Bakele is country manager/managing director of Ceragon, a backhaul IP solution provider. He more of a Nigerian than his mother country Ethiopia, having spent over 12 year in the country.…
- 3 Feb 2015
AU Report Says N6.87Tr is Stolen from Nigeria Yearly
A High Level Panel on Illicit Financial Flows from Africa adopted on Sunday by African Union (AU) Heads of State and Government at their summit in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia said about $40.9billion (about…
- 24 Nov 2014
Africa Becoming Magnet for Foreign Investment, But- Deloitte
Rising consumer demand, aligned with annual growth of around eight per cent, is likely to add around $1.1 trillion to African GDP by 2019, with Ethiopia, Uganda and Mozambique among the fastest…
- 9 Sept 2014
AfDB Approves $150m Investments in Lekki Tolaram Port
The Board of Directors of the African Development Bank Group (AfDB) has approved a combined US $256 million for the financing of investments in Nigeria and Ethiopia as well as a multinational…
- 21 Mar 2019
How Untrained Pilot Killed 157 on Ethiopian Airways-Report
The captain of a doomed Ethiopian Airlines flight that killed 157 people when the plane crashed shortly after take-off in Ethiopia, did not practise on a new simulator for the Boeing 737 MAX 8, a…
- 10 May 2018
Amstel Malta Supports Okpekpe International Road Race 2018
All is set for the sixth edition of the Okpekpe Road Race scheduled to hold on Saturday May 12, 2018 in Edo state. The race will feature about 3,000 runners from Kenya, Eritrea, Ethiopia,…
- 14 Mar 2013
AFDB Launches Open Data Platforms for Nigeria, 19 Others
The African Development Bank (AfDB) has launched Open Data Platforms for the following 20 African countries: Algeria, Cameroon, Cape Verde, Democratic Republic of Congo, Ethiopia, Malawi,…
- 4 Nov 2021
Google Opens Applications for Startups Accelerator Africa programme
Applications for Google’s three-month virtual accelerator programme are now open to startups located in Algeria, Botswana, Cameroon, Côte d’Ivoire, Egypt, Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Morocco, Nigeria,…
- 1 Oct 2024
ALX Africa Leads Tech Innovation with New Batch of Pioneer African Data Scientists
ALX, Africa’s leading tech career accelerator, a few weeks ago announced the successful graduation of over 2,800 learners across Africa. The countries include Ghana, South Africa, Rwanda, Ethiopia,…