Astatke's music was used in the soundtrack of Jim Jarmusch's "Broken Flowers" You’d expect a conversation with Mulatu Astatke to be about music. He is, after all, the father of a musical genre: ...

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 ...

ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) - State-run Ethio Telecom, which has invited private investors to buy a stake in it, reported a 18.4% rise in full year revenue to end-June to 56.5 billion birr ($1.29 billion), ...

ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) - Ethiopia on Monday launched a tendering process for the proposed sell-off of a 40% stake in state-owned carrier Ethio Telecom to private investors, part of the government's ...

State-owned Ethio Telecom launched pre-commercial 5G services in Ethiopia’s capital Addis Ababa, the latest major development in the country ahead of the market opening up to international players.

According to Huawei, it's the first deployment of its kind in Africa, and is part of Ethio's plans to push for cleaner energy applications. Multiple operators across the African continent have ...

Ethio Telecom expects 45% jump in full-year revenue, says CEO Ethio Telecom expects full-year revenue to jump by 45.5% in the year to June 2026, driven by increased customer numbers and higher data ...

Feb 20 (Reuters) - Ethiopia's government is discussing selling 10% of state-owned telecoms company Ethio Telecom via a local stock exchange that is being launched this year, Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed ...

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During the IPO, which commenced on October 16 and closed on February 14, Ethio Telecom sold 10.7 million shares out of 100 million on offer, Chief Executive Officer Frehiwot Tamiru said at a press ...

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Ethio Life and General Insurance S.C, (ELiG) a leading composite insurer in Ethiopia, providing innovative life and non-life insurance products in the ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The only foreign-owned financial services company operating in Ethiopia is pulling out of east Africa’s largest ...