ABN# Just when many companies are finally starting to understand millennials, a new generation is starting to emerge. Generation Z—people who were born from 1995 onwards—is making its presence known as people from this generation are starting to enter the workforce and earning their own income. Marketers and market researchers still have a […]
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ABN# The Ethio-UAE Business Forum opened in Addis Ababa today in the attendance of representatives of more than 60 business and government delegations, who seek to invest in various investment areas in Ethiopia. In his opening remarks, State Minister of Foreign Affairs, Dr. Akililu Hailemichael noted the two countries’ long-standing […]
ABN# Europe and Canada said they would seek their own guarantees over the safety of Boeing’s 737 MAX, further complicating plans to get the aircraft flying worldwide after they were grounded in the wake of two accidents killing more than 300 people. As the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) analyses […]
ABN# Japan’s government downgraded its assessment of the economy in March for the first time in three years, blaming a bruising U.S.-China trade war for slumping exports and industrial output. The Cabinet Office, which helps coordinate government policy, said on Wednesday the economy is in gradual recovery, but exports and […]
Sub-Saharan Africa is likely to miss poverty targets: ABN# Sub-Saharan Africa has little or no chance of achieving the UN target of having not more than three percent of its population living in extreme poverty by 2030, according to a new World Bank report. While rates […]
TEFF back home BY ABN # The Ethiopian government is celebrating a major victory in a long-running dispute over who owns the patent for products made from teff – an ancient grain that forms the basis of Ethiopia’s staple food, injera. Fitsum Arega, an Ethiopian diplomat who is the current […]
33 ways Davos 2019 made an impact on the world ABN# Shaping the Global Agenda Prime Minister Abe of Japan used a special address to commit his country’s G20 Chairmanship to launch an agenda for global data governance. Abe said that the process, dubbed the Osaka track, would work the auspices of […]
Climate shocks threaten gains against HIV in Africa, researchers say ABN# By Inna Lazareva YAOUNDE, Jan 31 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Teenage girls growing up in areas hit by harsh drought and other climate shocks in Lesotho are more likely to drop out of school, start having sex earlier and […]
In Side the Ethiopian Christmas By Aklile Tsige /ABN / If Western-style December hi jinks are not enough, why not head for the Ethiopian cities and towns, and join the country’s January Christmas celebration-and take in a trekking holiday while you are at it? Ethiopia, one of the oldest nations […]
Ethiopian Inaugurates Airport Terminal Expansion and New Hotel BY ABN Ethiopian Airlines Group, the largest aviation group in Africa, inaugurated astate-of-the-art passenger terminal and its Skylight Hotel on 27 January 2019. FDRE Prime Minister H.E. Dr. Abiy Ahmed; African Union Chairperson H.E. Moussa Faki; Group CEO Tewolde GebreMariam; Ministers; high-level government […]