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NOW IN ADDIS
14:00
Quiet hours
Rail service ended at 23:00. Stories wait for morning.
Morning in Addis
Café openings, market stalls and the first rail departures.
Piassa heritage walk
Sat 09:30 · Free · Book ahead
Coffee cupping, Bole
Sun 11:00 · ETB 300 · QR ticket
Lunch across eight sub-cities
Verified cafés and restaurants near you.
Evening plans
Pick tonight from 312 experiences chosen for you.
Jazz night, Kazanchis
Fri 19:00 · ETB 450 · 38 left
Last rail at 23:00
Evening service now runs later on the east–west line.
THE CITY, RIGHT NOWLIVE
CITY HIGHLIGHTS
1.2M
monthly views — residents keeping up with their city
8
sub-cities covered
3
events this weekend, 2 ticketed
312
experiences picked just for you
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01OUR VISION

“To cultivate absolute trust and digital dignity for the citizens of Addis Ababa, empowering them with a secure, transparent, and seamless ecosystem that redefines their everyday lived experience of their city.”

02FOUR PROMISES WE HOLD OURSELVES TO
PROMISE 01 / 04VERIFIED BEFORE IT GOES LIVE
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Trust

Verified venues, verified events, verified stories. Whether it is a café, a ticket or a story about your street, what you see on Hey Addis has been checked.

PROMISE 02 / 04NO COLD CALLS · NO SOLD DATA
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Respect

Your time, your data and your safety are treated as the highest priority on the platform.

PROMISE 03 / 04SECURE QR TICKETING
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Peace of mind

Clear prices, secure payments and real people behind every booking, so you can plan with confidence.

PROMISE 04 / 04STORIES FROM EVERY SUB-CITY
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Voice

A place to celebrate what your neighbourhood does well and raise the challenges it is living through — and to see both acknowledged by the people around you.

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03SERVICESHUMAN TEAMS · CONTRACTED WORK

Services built on top of the app

The app is self-service. These are the engagements where our teams do the work for you.

SERVICE 01 · VIA CITY APP

For business

Get your venue, event or brand in front of residents who are already planning their week in the app.

  • 01Verified merchant profiles and ticketing
  • 02Partnered advertising across the app
  • 03Campaign planning and creative production
  • 04Branded storytelling with Hey Addis: Media
  • 05Neighbourhood and short-form video placements
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SERVICE 02IN THE WORKS

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Further services open alongside new parts of the platform.

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SERVICE 03IN THE WORKS

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Further services open alongside new parts of the platform.

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SERVICE 04IN THE WORKS

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Further services open alongside new parts of the platform.

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SERVICE 05IN THE WORKS

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Further services open alongside new parts of the platform.

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04COMING NEXTIN THE WORKS

More digital products

We are building more digital products for the city. Each launches when it meets the same standard as Hey Addis.

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EVERY NEW PRODUCT IS HELD TO THE SAME FOUR PROMISESእምነትTrustክብርRespectሰላምPeace of mindድምፅVoice
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05.1

From Hey Addis: Media

STORIES
NEIGHBOURHOOD SPOTLIGHT · 4 MIN
What Piassa keeps: the shopfronts still standing on Adwa Avenue
ARCHITECTURE · 6 MIN
The new towers of Bole, reviewed floor by floor
INTERVIEW · 8 MIN
A gallerist on why she stayed in Kazanchis
Have you ever calculated how much it costs you a month when…
Has the city admitted its mistake? Land-audit complaints go under review
One flame lights the next, and tonight Meskel Square carried thousands of them…
FRI 04 SEP · 19:00
Jazz night, Kazanchis
ETB 450 · 38 LEFT
SAT 05 SEP · 09:30
Piassa heritage walk
FREE · BOOK AHEAD
SUN 06 SEP · 11:00
Coffee cupping, Bole
ETB 300 · QR TICKET
THIS WEEK IN THE CITY
1.2M
monthly views across short-form channels
86K
followers on TikTok, Instagram and Telegram
3
events sold out through the app this month
42%
of new sign-ups arrive from a video
05.2ADDIS PULSESELECTED NEWS · UPDATED DAILY

Addis Pulse

The city stories worth your time this week, selected by the Hey Addis newsroom.

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EDITOR’S PICK · TRANSPORT · 30 SEP
Light rail extends evening service to 23:00 on the east–west line
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The later timetable starts on Monday and runs every 15 minutes after 20:00, with extra staff at the busiest stops.

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CULTURE · 29 SEP
National Theatre opens its autumn season with six new Amharic productions
P. 3

Tickets for the first three plays go on sale this week, with student prices on weekday evenings.

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CITY · 29 SEP
A new 2 km stretch of the riverside park opens along the Kebena
P. 4

The path links two existing sections and adds lighting, seating and a small playground near the bridge.

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ECONOMY · 28 SEP
Coffee exporters report a strong September as harvest season begins
P. 5

Exporters in the city point to early demand from new buyers and better prices for specialty lots.

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SPORT · 27 SEP
Registration opens for the November city run
P. 6

Places are released in stages, with a separate start wave for first-time runners and families.

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FOOD · 26 SEP
Five kitchens in Piassa that have been cooking the same dish for decades
P. 7

Our reporters spent a week eating their way through the neighbourhood and talking to the families behind the counters.

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ABOUT HEY ADDIS · OUR MISSION

To build the primary digital and transactional infrastructure for Addis Ababa’s citizens, visitors, and investors — building a secure, modern, and unified city experience under one account.

GOAL 01
Trust & verification

Check every venue, event and story before it reaches you, so what you see on Hey Addis can be relied on.

GOAL 02
Zero-friction discovery

Consolidate fragmented city data — venues, menus, public events and local stories — into one place you can trust.

GOAL 03
Community-led growth

Grow through hyper-local media and community voices, so the platform stays accountable to the people using it.