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Ethiopian-Built PrepX Is Rethinking How Students Prepare for the National Entrance Exam
The bootstrapped startup combines offline learning, curriculum-based practice, student competition and AI tutoring — built specifically around Ethiopia’s Grade 9–12 curriculum.
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A Payment Gateway Is Not a Remittance Licence
Amein Eskinder
September 16, 2026
What Payza and Ping Express teach us about card-funded remittances, regulatory responsibility, and the questions every customer and partner should ask.
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From Operational Ruin to Economic Engine: Inside MIDROC Investment Group’s Turnaround
Once weighed down by stalled projects, unpaid obligations and fragmented management, MIDROC Investment Group says a sweeping internal restructuring has transformed Ethiopia’s largest private...
How Ethiopian Airlines Built an African Empire Emirates and Qatar Still Struggle to Match
Ethiopian Airlines does not have Dubai’s wealth or Doha’s luxury image. Yet across Africa, it has built something richer Gulf carriers have struggled to...
CBE Raises Mobile Banking Transfer Limit to Birr 1.5 Million Per Day
The Commercial Bank of Ethiopia has more than doubled its daily mobile banking transfer limit for individual customers, allowing users to move as much...
Ethiopia’s Deal Maker: How Tewodros Ashenafi Built a Career at the Center of Big Business
From oil exploration and Ambo Mineral Water to a billion-dollar tobacco privatization and private digital finance, Tewodros Ashenafi’s career offers a revealing window into...