Ana Mulatu

Ethiopian Entrepreneur Gives Araba Minch’s Forgotten Bananas Second Life

Banana chips are popular in southeast Asia, the Caribbean, and Latin America, where several prominent brands have established a strong market presence.

Ethiopian Health Facilities Adopt Pharmaceuticals Demand Forecasting Platform

Forlab+ combines consumption data with service data such as patient visits, treatments, and lab tests and analyzes historical patterns to forecast future demand.

AI Finds Place Beyond Work in the Lives of Ethiopia’s Youth

The AI companion market, focused on social interaction, venting, and companionship, is a billion-dollar industry with players like Character.AI, Replika, Anima AI and Pi.

Click, Apply, Scam: Fake Jobs Make Their Way to Ethiopian Digital Job Portals

Ethiopia’s youth unemployment crisis has become fertile grounds for fake jobs on digital platforms. Verified badges, big promises, small deposits; the traps are sophisticated, but the victims are not.

Ethiopian Trio Build Multilingual AI Assistant to Bridge the Language Gap

A new AI assistant trained in Ethiopia understands local slang, dialects, and culture. Built by three Ethiopian developers, Ras aims to remove the language barrier in accessing AI tools.

How Local Apps Are Guiding Students Through Ethiopia’s Education Reform

As Ethiopia’s universities tighten admissions, students are turning to EdTech apps developed by recent grads to get in the door. This just might be bottom-up innovation at its most relevant.