2 Sept 2026, 09:10 UTC541 views1 reactionsread 2 September 2026 Photo
Issue 254: Pressure Points
This Week in Shega Weekly 📰
🌾 Ethiopia saw the drought coming. The money did not.
💰 The AU asks more of Ethiopia as its finances tighten
🚢 Modjo is getting a USD 200m upgrade
🏥 Critical care remains out of reach for millions
💳 PSS steps into PoS and payment gateways
✈️ Ethiopian Airlines adds a new China-Africa cargo link
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1 Sept 2026, 15:43 UTC852 views4 reactionsread 2 September 2026 File
Power up your decision-making with the fifth edition of Shega's policy monitor. It's thinner than usual but packed with consequential changes.
Parliament rose on 7 July. It does not sit again until October. No proclamation could pass in August, and none did. Five instruments moved anyway.
A 112-article rewrite of how Addis Ababa procures, against a 502.27 billion birr budget. A central register of who actually owns…
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1 Sept 2026, 09:54 UTC929 views4 reactionsread 2 September 2026 Photo
The most valuable forecast is one that arrives before the crisis. But it only matters if someone acts on it.
Ethiopia has spent years building the machinery for anticipatory action: impact-based forecasting, early-warning triggers and regional response plans. This season, that machinery is producing clear signals.
June and July brought rainfall deficits of 40 to 70 percent across much of the country. Drought trigge…
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31 Aug 2026, 09:39 UTC≈1,150 views2 reactionsread 2 September 2026 Photo
How can technology reconnect young people who are outside the formal education system with learning, skills and jobs?
Tonight, EdTech Mondays Ethiopia explores how flexible, inclusive digital learning can create new pathways for out-of-school youth, including refugees and displaced learners.
🕗 8:10 p.m. EAT
📻 Fana FM 98.1 + 10 affiliated FM stations
Read more:https://shega.co/news/can-digital-learning-reach-ethiop…
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30 Aug 2026, 16:04 UTC≈1,260 views5 reactionsread 2 September 2026 Photo
Premier Switch Solutions spent nearly a decade and half building part of the infrastructure behind Ethiopia’s card payments.
Now rebranded and after securing a POS and payment gateway license from the NBE, it is expanding to the other side of the transaction.
Its SoftPOS product, PSS Pay, turns Android phones into card acceptance devices, targeting one of Ethiopia’s persistent digital-payment gaps: millions of digi…
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29 Aug 2026, 14:04 UTC≈1,370 views11 reactionsread 2 September 2026 Photo
Ethiopia’s EdTech sector is moving faster than the rules designed to govern it.
Startups are developing learning platforms, teacher-training tools and school-management systems, but there is still no dedicated approval process for EdTech products.
The challenge, as discussed in July’s EdTech Mondays episode, is not simply whether to regulate, but how to do so without slowing useful innovation.
Panelists argued for…
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26 Aug 2026, 10:33 UTC≈1,790 viewsread 2 September 2026 Photo
Issue 253: Central Shudders
A week of institutional shifts, regulatory changes and emerging risks in Ethiopia:
🏦 Insurance regulation is being rewritten.
☪️ Interest-free banking is getting a new central oversight structure.
💳 One of the architects of Ethiopia’s payments overhaul is leaving NBE.
🌾 The country is preparing for a future of shrinking aid.
🌧 El Niño brings a fresh threat to agriculture.
🛢 Dangote…
26 Aug 2026, 08:29 UTC≈1,770 views4 reactionsread 2 September 2026 Photo
Ethiopia is trying to do something few aid-dependent states attempt: build a disaster reserve without new donor money.
A draft regulation now with the Council of Ministers would create a domestically financed strategic reserve, stockpiling grain from farmers across ten regions, run by needs assessment rather than blanket appeals.
It's a real break from a 65-year pattern. USAID has operated in Ethiopia continuously …
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24 Aug 2026, 08:02 UTC≈1,930 views9 reactionsread 2 September 2026 Photo
An Acid Test for Industrial Policy?
Ethiopia wants its manufacturers to build the industrial base that cuts import dependence. It also wants them to help fund the country's disaster response as foreign aid dries up.
Those two goals just collided. Over 625 chemical manufacturers, producers of detergents, soaps, and paints, are now required to contribute 1% of monthly sales to a new Disaster Risk Response Fund. They …
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20 Aug 2026, 15:24 UTC≈2,420 views6 reactionsread 2 September 2026 Photo
Ethiopia’s banks are being asked to process more payments, across more rails, with systems that were often built for a different era.
ProgressSoft is betting banks will pay for better routing, monitoring and dispute workflows as payment systems become more complex.
Symbol Technologies is targeting merchant acceptance with a SoftPOS technology that turns Android phones into payment-acceptance devices, potentially lo…
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19 Aug 2026, 09:51 UTC≈2,360 views7 reactionsread 2 September 2026 Photo
ISSUE 252: Show, Don't Tell
What are the biggest signals from Ethiopia this week? 👇
📉 GDP: Nominal GDP fell by USD 50 billion after the birr float, according to a new EU Chamber report.
⚠️ Corruption: A national survey finds widespread concern that corruption has worsened.
🏥 Healthcare: Less than 1 in 5 health institutions assessed meet national standards.
⛽️ Fuel taxes: The government moves to enforce full stat…
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18 Aug 2026, 07:49 UTC≈2,390 views9 reactionsread 2 September 2026 Photo
MESOB has expanded from 12 institutions and 41 services to a nationwide digital public-service platform with more than 185 services.
But its biggest challenge may not be digitization. It is likely institutional power.
MESOB is mandated to oversee frontline staff, handle complaints, and monitor service delivery. Yet bringing parent institutions onto the platform largely depends on negotiated agreements.
That create…
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