Tonight, EdTech Mondays Episode explores how digital learning, vocational training & mentorship can help out-of-school youth in Ethiopia build skills and access meaningful work. 📻 8:10 PM EAT | Fana FM 98.1 + 10 stations Read more. shorturl.at/RGB8G

Ethiopia’s new executive organs bill says a regulator should report elsewhere when a conflict with its ministry is foreseen. It then places the telecom regulator under the ministry whose minister now chairs Ethio telecom’s board. Full Analysis. shorturl.at/RlUGR

Ethiopia’s currency float ended years of dollar rationing, but the dollar now costs nearly three times what it did before the reform. Two years on, who is bearing the cost? Full Analysis & Data Dashboards shorturl.at/afeZY

Issue 262: Taxing Transitions A telecom leadership shuffle, a wider VAT net, Carrefour’s Addis debut and a Dangote refinery deal with room for just 100 Ethiopian investors. Stay ahead with Shega Weekly: shorturl.at/4WnD5

Ethiopia’s tax collections nearly tripled in two years, reaching Birr 1.518 trillion. But a weaker birr explains part of the surge, while new levies add to household pressures in a country where 90 million are multidimensionally poor. Read more. shorturl.at/3KGpH

At the Stark Official Hackathon, 79 submissions yielded five finalists and a pointed debate about AI-assisted coding. Judges worried that too many developers were outsourcing the thinking along with the code. Read more. shorturl.at/FTvoB

Dangote’s refinery swung to $1.82bn profit in H1 2026. It’s raising $1.56bn, about a tenth of the $14.3bn expansion it’s meant to fund. In Ethiopia, 100 investors may take part through an instrument that no local rulebook yet defines. Full analysis shorturl.at/yZaag

Issue 260: Ribbon Economics 💳 Visa and ETTA target 148,000 businesses for digital payments 🌾 Agricultural bank nears launch 🛣️ Ethiopia returns $109m in unused WB financing 🏙️ Addis tightens tax rules for unlicensed professionals Read more:shorturl.at/SUxVO

Ethiopia’s new cybersecurity law sets compliance obligations for critical infrastructure operators, with penalties for violations. Aman & Partners LLP and Shega examine what businesses and institutions need to know. Read more: shorturl.at/WgFLU

Digital sovereignty needs infrastructure and usable products. Four new offerings from ZERGAW Cloud, VP Solutions and Nuna Ethiopia target that gap, from local hosting and cloud storage to business accounting software. Read more: shorturl.at/bNj6S

A marble, a circle in the dirt and a game from Harar. That is where gheero begins. Today, the Ethiopian technology company works across AI, data and digital skills, guided by one lesson: understand the ground before making the move. Read more: shorturl.at/sNbdJ

Issue 259: Open Doors, High Hurdles 🏦 Two foreign banks seek entry 📊 Economists question inflation data credibility 🌍 Alibaba remains out of reach for exporters 💰 AAU has ETB537m in unsettled receivables Stay Ahead with Shega Weekly: shorturl.at/IFF5G

Ethiopia has made progress on financial access. But access is not the same as use. 66% of adults own an account, yet only 21% made transactions in 2025. Read more. shorturl.at/amOr6

Ethiopia has 1.1m+ refugees and asylum seekers and nearly 1.9m internally displaced people, many under 18. For displaced learners, education can be interrupted for years, not just a term. August’s EdTech Mondays episode asked what technology can do. shorturl.at/2Gmso

Issue 258: New Money, Old Ground 🏦 Youth investment bank targets 100+ startups 🌍 Ethiopia misses WEF tourism index 💰 AfDB readies USD 5.1bn emergency buffer 🏗️ Addis reviews 10,000 reclaimed plots Stay Ahead with Shega Weekly. shorturl.at/VK7QI

Ethiopia’s newest financial innovation may end up lending more money to the government. The country’s long-awaited investment-fund rules have arrived, permitting money market funds, mutual funds, ETFs and REITs. Read more: shorturl.at/1NYos

Medanit puts Ethiopia’s emerging digital health scene on the continental stage, joining the ADHN Startups Watchlist 2026. Read more. shorturl.at/mwlfx

From EdTech pilots to national scale: what makes public-private partnerships work? Tonight, 8:10 p.m. EAT on Fana FM 98.1 + 10 affiliates. Read more: shorturl.at/Oo6Gx

Issue 257: Regulatory Dice Roll Ethiopia prepares to relaunch sports betting under tighter rules. 🌫️ Addis faces a black-carbon problem 🏨 Sheraton Addis finds profit after 21 years ⚡ Power exports to Kenya are set to double Full Newsletter. shorturl.at/jZAdG

Ethiopia’s unemployment rate is 9.6%. But with 69.4% of employment in agriculture, average weekly hours at 31 and only 22.9% of workers earning wages. Read more. shorturl.at/yRqaG