Ethio telecom generated 85 billion Birr in revenue over the first half of the fiscal year, which also saw transactions valued at nearly two trillion Birr ...

It is bold indeed for any jazz artist to evoke Miles Davis' landmark album Sketches of Spain. But Mulatu Astatke, like Miles, is a true original. The music Astatke first imagined 40 years ago sounds ...

Mulatu Astatke experienced his musical conversion as a teenager while supposedly studying engineering abroad, mastering piano, vibraphone and Latin percussion in London, Boston and New York. After he ...

Ethiopian telco Ethio Telecom has announced the final plan for its copper switch-off initiative. The carrier revealed plans to transfer the remaining 100,000 customers on its copper network over to ...

Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed launched the Ethiopian Securities Exchange (ESX), his office announced, describing the move as a "major step toward modernizing the country's financial sector." ...

TO WESTERN EARS, the music seems both foreign and familiar. Its mood stretches from sultry and haunting to upbeat and vibrant. Soulful Western undertones are audible, yet the overall impression is ...

ADDIS ABABA, Feb 12 (Reuters) - Ethiopian state-owned telecoms firm Ethio Telecom recorded half-year revenue of 61.9 billion birr ($491.57 million), up more than 40% on the same period a year earlier, ...

Ethiopia has resumed the process of selling a 40 percent stake in its state-owned operator Ethio Telecom. The process has also been opened up to international investment, notes Reuters, which signals ...

You’d expect a conversation with Mulatu Astatke to be about music. He is, after all, the father of a musical genre: Ethio-jazz. But when he talks about the art form, he tends to focus on its ...

NEW YORK & ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia--(BUSINESS WIRE)--African Asset Finance Company Inc. (“AAFC”), a U.S.-based non-bank financial and equipment leasing firm, today announced the appointment of Fregenet ...