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Ethiopia Appoints New Ambassador to Egypt, Us Halts Aid Over Dam Dispute

New Ethiopian Ambassador to Egypt Markos Tekle has presented his credentials to the Egyptian Foreign Ministry to start his duties yesterday, August 27, 2020, officially. The Ethiopian Embassy in Cairo had no appointed Ambassador since mid-June 2020 as the previous Ambassador Dina Mufti concluded his tenure and was reappointed as the new spokesperson for the

August 28, 2020 • By Addis Insight

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Long-Delayed Drone Law to Turn into Effect

The Ethiopian Civil Aviation Authority (ECAA) has finalized the remotely piloted aircraft draft directive that will enable it to control the importation and operations of drones in the country. The directive that spent seven years in the making will allow the Authority, the sole government agency responsible for administering all air transport and operations in

August 27, 2020 • By Addis Insight

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Rediet Abebe Wins World’s Finest Dissertation Award

Ethiopian computer scientist, Rediet Abebe, who is also an assistant Computer Science professor at the University of California at Berkeley, wins the Doctoral Dissertation Award from ACM SIGKDD, world’s largest computing organization. Special Interest Group on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (SIGKDD), on its twitter page, announced that Rediet has won the prestigious thesis award

August 27, 2020 • By Addis Insight

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First Virtual Job Expo to take Hold

Dereja, who has been hosting annual job expos in the past, has taken a different approach this year due to the impact of Covid-19 and will hold the first virtual job expo in Ethiopia tomorrow, August 27, 2020. The virtual career expo organized in partnership with the Job Creation Commission office and the Mastercard Foundation’s

August 26, 2020 • By Addis Insight

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Ethiopian American Businesswoman Named Among Top 20 African Heroes

Ethiopian-American businesswoman Dr. Wuleta Lemma has been named in the top 20 Africa’s Business Heroes by The Chinese billionaire Jack Ma’s philanthropy program, Africa Netpreneur Prize Initiative (ANPI). The competition announced recently that the 20 finalists selected from the pool of over 22,000 applicants and they have passed to the semi-final of the competition. Dr.

August 26, 2020 • By Addis Insight

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Church Ventures Into New Area To Amass Funds

The Ethiopian Evangelical Church Mekan Yesus, with the goal of allocating 200 million birr fund, is selling 100 birr lottery tickets. The ticket that will be used to support the Church’s various missionary activities was issued after the approval of the National Lottery. The lottery tickets have eight different apartments in Addis Ababa as prizes

August 25, 2020 • By Kaleab Girma

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New Attorney General Picks Fighting Disinformation as First task

The Federal Attorney-General has taken to Facebook to denounce fake social media accounts opened in the Federal Attorney-General Gedion Timothewos (Ph.D.) name. The Attorney in its post published today have stated that there are no social media accounts opened or run by the new attorney general who replaced the outgoing general Adanech Abebe last week. The

August 24, 2020 • By Kaleab Girma

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INSA Reports 1078 Cyber Attacks, 75 Percent Thwarted

Information Network Security Agency (INSA), cybersecurity organization of Ethiopia, has reported 1078 cyber attacks on private and public institutions in the past year showing an increase from previous years. The attacks targeted key infrastructures and institutions in the country and 75percent of the attacks were foiled, and 167 attacks haven’t been addressed because of unspecified

August 24, 2020 • By Addis Insight

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U.S. Names Museum After Black-American Aviator Who Fought For Ethiopia

A new aviation museum is set to be opened in Mississippi, USA, to honor the American aviator John Charles Robinson who had voluntarily joined the Air Force of Ethiopia to fight against Italian invaders in 1935. The Brown Condor, Mississippi Aviation Heritage Museum, is named after Robinson’s heroic title “Brown Condor,” which was given to

August 20, 2020 • By Addis Insight

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Central Bank To Licence Non-Bank E- Payment Companies

The National Bank of Ethiopia (NBE) has introduced a new guideline to license companies to provide electronic payment services outside of banks and financial institutions aiming at expanding electronic payment culture in the country. Once licensed non-bank companies are allowed to provide ATM, POS, Switch Operation, and Gateway Operation services which have currently been limited

August 19, 2020 • By Addis Insight