Pharmaceutical giants and rich nations need to collaborate with African countries to improve access to mpox vaccines, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus told Semafor Africa.

Only 5.4% of Ethiopia’s high school students passed this year’s university entrance exams after reforms were implemented to raise standards.

The policy switch enabled Addis Ababa to secure loans from the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank.

Ethiopia has allowed its currency to be traded on the open market instead of at a fixed rate as part of reforms aimed at securing loans from international lenders.

Boeing pleaded guilty to a criminal fraud conspiracy charge in a deal that has sparked anger among relatives of people killed in the Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302 crash five years ago.

Ethiopia is expected to approve a bill that would pave the way for increased foreign ownership in its banking sector.

Ethiopia has inaugurated its biggest electric vehicle factory as part of an ambitious strategy to turn the country into a leading player in green mobility on the continent — but its plans face economic headwinds.

Ethiopia’s plan to allow foreigners to buy real estate in the country for the first time is the latest move aimed at opening up its beleaguered economy and attracting foreign investment.

The bank said it plans to start posting names and images of the perpetrators as a way to force them to return the funds, in addition to pursuing legal avenues.

Ethiopia is grappling with a chronic foreign currency deficit that has made it hard to secure the dollars needed to import lifesaving medicine.

Ethiopia hopes to turn Addis Ababa into an African medical tourism hub with a $400 million hospital complex but critics say the plan doesn’t address the needs of most people in a country with a crumbling health system.

The editor of The Reporter in Addis Ababa said his publisher pulled an interview with an IMF official after the official complained.