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Issue 263: Charged Corridors ⚡ Ethiopia eyes electric trucks on the Djibouti corridor. 🏦 Deposit insurance premiums hit Br2.6bn in Q1. 🌡️ Heat stress could cost Ethiopia $33.3bn annually by 2040. Stay Ahead with Shega Weekly shorturl.at/nRhBl

Michu has disbursed over 70 billion Birr since 2022. Coopbank and Kifiya are now taking its digital lending model into interest-free banking through Michu Mizan, which has already financed over 4,000 SMEs in its pilot. Read more. shorturl.at/yPEqc

September's EdTech Mondays episode explored whether public-private partnerships can help turn digital learning experiments into sustainable education services. Read more:shorturl.at/FP6Yh

Issue 262: Fiscal Friction Ethiopia’s coffee exporters have $453 million at stake in Europe. Digital creators face new tax rules CBE is moving into EV charging, while its employees have waited four months for a salary decision. Shega Weekly shorturl.at/Pqjyk

Ethiopia is facing drought in the north and potential flooding in the south as El Niño strengthens. Humanitarian access is constrained by conflict, and the country has no published response plan. Read more. shorturl.at/CKbRn

Tonight, EdTech Mondays Episode explores how digital learning, vocational training & mentorship can help out-of-school youth in Ethiopia build skills and access meaningful work. 📻 8:10 PM EAT | Fana FM 98.1 + 10 stations Read more. shorturl.at/RGB8G

Ethiopia’s new executive organs bill says a regulator should report elsewhere when a conflict with its ministry is foreseen. It then places the telecom regulator under the ministry whose minister now chairs Ethio telecom’s board. Full Analysis. shorturl.at/RlUGR

Ethiopia’s currency float ended years of dollar rationing, but the dollar now costs nearly three times what it did before the reform. Two years on, who is bearing the cost? Full Analysis & Data Dashboards shorturl.at/afeZY

Issue 262: Taxing Transitions A telecom leadership shuffle, a wider VAT net, Carrefour’s Addis debut and a Dangote refinery deal with room for just 100 Ethiopian investors. Stay ahead with Shega Weekly: shorturl.at/4WnD5

Ethiopia’s tax collections nearly tripled in two years, reaching Birr 1.518 trillion. But a weaker birr explains part of the surge, while new levies add to household pressures in a country where 90 million are multidimensionally poor. Read more. shorturl.at/3KGpH

At the Stark Official Hackathon, 79 submissions yielded five finalists and a pointed debate about AI-assisted coding. Judges worried that too many developers were outsourcing the thinking along with the code. Read more. shorturl.at/FTvoB

Dangote’s refinery swung to $1.82bn profit in H1 2026. It’s raising $1.56bn, about a tenth of the $14.3bn expansion it’s meant to fund. In Ethiopia, 100 investors may take part through an instrument that no local rulebook yet defines. Full analysis shorturl.at/yZaag

Issue 260: Ribbon Economics 💳 Visa and ETTA target 148,000 businesses for digital payments 🌾 Agricultural bank nears launch 🛣️ Ethiopia returns $109m in unused WB financing 🏙️ Addis tightens tax rules for unlicensed professionals Read more:shorturl.at/SUxVO

Ethiopia’s new cybersecurity law sets compliance obligations for critical infrastructure operators, with penalties for violations. Aman & Partners LLP and Shega examine what businesses and institutions need to know. Read more: shorturl.at/WgFLU

Digital sovereignty needs infrastructure and usable products. Four new offerings from ZERGAW Cloud, VP Solutions and Nuna Ethiopia target that gap, from local hosting and cloud storage to business accounting software. Read more: shorturl.at/bNj6S

A marble, a circle in the dirt and a game from Harar. That is where gheero begins. Today, the Ethiopian technology company works across AI, data and digital skills, guided by one lesson: understand the ground before making the move. Read more: shorturl.at/sNbdJ

Issue 259: Open Doors, High Hurdles 🏦 Two foreign banks seek entry 📊 Economists question inflation data credibility 🌍 Alibaba remains out of reach for exporters 💰 AAU has ETB537m in unsettled receivables Stay Ahead with Shega Weekly: shorturl.at/IFF5G

Ethiopia has made progress on financial access. But access is not the same as use. 66% of adults own an account, yet only 21% made transactions in 2025. Read more. shorturl.at/amOr6

Ethiopia has 1.1m+ refugees and asylum seekers and nearly 1.9m internally displaced people, many under 18. For displaced learners, education can be interrupted for years, not just a term. August’s EdTech Mondays episode asked what technology can do. shorturl.at/2Gmso

Issue 258: New Money, Old Ground 🏦 Youth investment bank targets 100+ startups 🌍 Ethiopia misses WEF tourism index 💰 AfDB readies USD 5.1bn emergency buffer 🏗️ Addis reviews 10,000 reclaimed plots Stay Ahead with Shega Weekly. shorturl.at/VK7QI