Etenat Awol

Tech Non-Profit A2SV Leaving Addis for Kigali Amid Fallout with Abrehot Library

Africa to Silicon Valley (A2SV), a well-known tech nonprofit that upskills promising students and links them to international tech jobs plans to close its Addis offices and move to Kigali, Rwanda.

Ethiopian Gynecologist's New Tele-Med Platform Might Treat Both Patients, Underpaid Doctors

Amid mounting calls for increased doctors’ salaries, a new telemedicine platform launched last week, allowing physicians to keep 80% of fees earned from video consultations.

EdTech Startup Henon Resumes Adaptive Learning Ambitions After Detour in School Management Systems

Five years after operating as a provider of school management platforms (SMS), Henon Edtech Solutions is circling back to its founding mission to be a premier hub for E-learning.

Ethiopia’s 7-Month-Old Rising Star, Better Auth, Joins Y Combinator, Secures $500,000

Better Auth is developed by Bereket Engida and Kinfemichael Tariku, a duo in their early 20s who swapped college classrooms for coding.

Moody’s Expects Losses to Ethiopia’s Private Creditors as Government Pursues Debt Restructuring

Ethiopia has been pursuing debt restructuring under the G-20 Common Framework (CF) since February 2021 with a creditor committee comprising 12 countries.

Ethiopia Lightly Treads Crypto Prospects as Foreign Investors Eye Bitcoin’s Next Darling

The rapid growth of Bitcoin mining in Ethiopia has caught the attention of several prospective investors looking to establish a foothold in the country.