Total cases Reported In Ethiopia: 5846
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Active cases Reported In Ethiopia: 3311
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Total Deaths Reported In Ethiopia: 103
Total Recovered Reported In Ethiopia: 2430
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NO GASOIL! WHY?

June 27 , 2020 . By SEBLE WONDEMAGEGN


Featured

Featured

Ethiopia Grapples with Flood Amid COVID-19 Pandemic

May 31 , 2020 . By HAGOS GEBREAMLAK

On a Friday afternoon, April 24, 2020, t...



Gasoil Shortage Irks Drivers, Gas Stations

Over the last week, main roads of the capital were crowded and the traffic was heavy since most of the roads were blocked by long queues of vehicles at gas stations to fill up on gasoil. On the evening of Ju...


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Editorial

With Cat out of Bag, Better to Double Down on Statehood

In the popular imagination, Ethiopia's current federal organisation was the brainchild of leaders of an assortment of highly ideological liberation movements whose prime objective it was to reject the prevailing socio-political construction. It is th...

Editorials

Egypt Changes Water Security Strategy, the Answer to Nile Dispute

June 20 , 2020

The messages from Washington, DC are unambiguous. They urge Ethiopia to relent to Egypt's demand for a deal before it starts filling the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) next month. Glo...

Sunday with Eden

All the Single Male Parents

June 27 , 2020 . By Eden Sahle

Men and women, one much more than the other, are biased against women. This is one of the key reasons fundamental improvement has...

Health Professionals: Let's Reciprocate the Care

June 20 , 2020 . By Eden Sahle

There is a friend of mine who knows about sleep deprivation l...

In the Face of Child Abuse, Society Tries to Save Face

June 13 , 2020 . By Eden Sahle

Despite any level of socioeconomic progress, abuse is the one...

One Person's Violence, Everyone's Trauma

June 7 , 2020 . By Eden Sahle

COVID-19 Pandemic Threatens to Roll Back Women's Hard-won Gains

May 31 , 2020 . By Eden Sahle

The Infodemic Can Kill

May 23 , 2020 . By Eden Sahle

Blood, the Scarcest of Commodities in COVID-19 Era

May 16 , 2020 . By Eden Sahle

This week's print version

Viewpoints

The Global Economic Order's Implication on the GERD Dispute

June 27 , 2020 . By Mesenbet Assefa (PhD)

As the debate over the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) rages, what fails to be contextualised is the normative and political implications of Ethiopia’s right to development within the global economic and politic...

Social Media Activism against Gender Inequality Won’t Cut It

June 27 , 2020 . By Makeda Kefetew

Undoubtedly, Ethiopia’s feminist movement, in its current form...

Constitutional Interpretation: the Topsy-turvy Way Out

June 20 , 2020 . By Marew Abebe

It was only a couple of weeks after the first case...

Sudan’s Delicate Dance Over the Blue Nile

June 13 , 2020 . By Yonas Biru (PhD) and Yohannes Gedamu (PhD)

COVID-19 Worsens the Digital Divide, Delivers Blow to Women's Health

June 13 , 2020 . By Metsehate Ayenekulu

Ethio Telecom's Privatisation Plan Requires Reset

June 7 , 2020 . By Terrefe RasWork

Gov't Needs to Act Before Employees Get Short End of Stick

June 7 , 2020 . By Brook Kebede

In-Picture

Sanctioned Graffiti

June 20 , 2020

PART RECREATION

March 14 , 2020

BUS STOPS

March 7 , 2020

PEACOCK GATES

April 4 , 2020

GOOD SAMARITAN

April 4 , 2020


Editors' Pick

NIPPED IN THE BUD

For the past five years, Adanech Kumela (left) and Werqe Girma have cut roses at the Yassin Legesse Johnson Flower Farm for export to mainly European and North American markets. The roses not only fetch revenue for the company but much-needed foreign...

Editors Picks

NO GASOIL! WHY?

June 27 , 2020 . By SEBLE WONDEMAGEGN

Ethiopia is no stranger to the shortage of fuel. But drivers have lately been greeted by a sign that reads “No Gasoil” at gas stations, referring to a type of fuel that is often available even when benzene is scarce. Drivers used to the general availability of gasoil, which accounts for two-thirds of the petroleum import...


Agenda


Gasoil Shortage Irks Drivers, Gas Stations



Over the last week, main roads of the capital were crowded and the traffic was heavy since most of the roads were blocked by long queues of vehicles at gas stations to fill up on gasoil. On the evening of June 26, 2020, one of Total Ethiopia's gas...

Agenda

Onion Price Rises as Supply from Farmers, Sudan Falls

June 20 , 2020 . By HAGOS GEBREAMLAK

On the sunny Wednesday afternoon of May 17, 2020, the newly opened vegetable market in Jan Meda, which recently replaced the Atkilit Terra vegetable market, received few customers and fewer transactions. Vegetable retailers met only a handful of buyers. Abe...

Commentaries

Out with the Old, In with Telecom's New

Jun 27,2020 . By Abebe Gashaw

The views expressed in the opinion piece headlined, “Ethio Telecom’s Privatisation Plan Requires Reset,” [Vol. 21, No. 1050, June 07, 2020], diverges from the effort by which the government beli...

Plastic: The Next Stage in Banknote Evolution

June 27 , 2020 . By Alen Tesfaye Bruss

The creeping depreciation of the Birr and the high amount of circulation outside the banks has led i...

With Cool Heads, Pragmatic Actions, COVID-19 Will be Overcome

June 20 , 2020 . By Daniel Taye

The spread of the Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic was attended by stark warnings and dire esti...

My Opinion

The Pull of the Past, in Ethiopia as in the US

June 7 , 2020 . By Christian Tesfaye

The hold of history on any society is profound. Ethiopia is no different. Our historical memory has been constructed so deficiently and poorly it lies at the crux of the injustices perpetuated by our...

No One Knows

May 31 , 2020 . By Christian Tesfaye

If there is a social media page that has everyone’s attention these days, it belongs to Lia Tadesse (MD), minister of...

Did We Beat COVID-19?

April 25 , 2020 . By Christian Tesfaye

On March 13, 2020, the first case of the Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) was confirmed in Ethiopia. It was not welcome news...

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Films Review

HOLLYWOOD’S SPIELBERGIAN RECOVERY

June 27 , 2020 . By Christian Tesfaye

Rick and Morty: A Back to the Future Fitting of the Times

June 20 , 2020 . By Christian Tesfaye

THE WILLOUGHBYS AND RICKY GERVAIS

May 23 , 2020 . By Christian Tesfaye

EXTRACTION, POLITICALLY PROBLEMATIC BUT BRILLIANT ACTION FLICK

May 2 , 2020 . By Christian Tesfaye

Radar

NEW DIRT

June 27 , 2020

As the previous vegetable market, Atakilt Tera, was moved to Jan Meda out of precaution over COVID-19. At Jan Meda in Sidist Kilo, the place...

SPACE PROBLEMS

June 27 , 2020

ADDIS HALL

June 27 , 2020

Regional Enterprise to Build Dam for 1.5b Br

June 27 , 2020

Commission Avails 10-Year Plan for Consultation

June 27 , 2020


Exclusive Interviews


Constitutional Tailor Would Prefer Constitutional Court

Hardly anyone matches the intellectual repository and experience of constitution making in Ethiopia as Fasil Nahum (PhD). He was involved in the drafting of three constitutions since the Imperial days but under radically different regimes. Never entangling himself in party membership, he always cher...



Hardly anyone matches the intellectual repository and experience of constitution making in Ethiopia as Fasil Nahum (PhD). He was involved in the drafting of three constitutions since the Imperial days but under radically different regimes. Never entangling himself in party membership, he always cher...

Exclusive interview

What Keeps AfDB's President up at Night?

February 15 , 2020

The African Development Bank (AfDB) recently published its flagship annual report, the African Economic Outlook 2020, in time for the African Union Summit of Heads of State, where it testified to the promising rate of growth by African countries as well as cha...


The fineline

Old habits die hard, so they say. The TPLF's leadership community...

Old habits die hard, so they say. The TPLF`s leadership community - the existing alike the former - is back to its old self, bickering and infighting. This time the squabbling is over the broadcast of...


Yinager Dessie (PhD), governor of the central bank...

Yinager Dessie (PhD), governor of the central bank, convened bank presidents and board directors in his office two weeks...

In the absence of a hegemonic political force...

May 2 , 2020

In the absence of a hegemonic political force on the horizon, Ethiopia has entered into its most consequential phase, gossip observes. The fate of a country res...

For countries like Ethiopia where scarcity of resources...

April 25 , 2020

Ethiopia is bracing for a potential constitutional crisis...

April 4 , 2020

Touted by the Americans, Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed has been...

March 28 , 2020

A farewell party for Bacha Gina

March 14 , 2020

News Analysis



View from arada

Museums Should House Relics, Not Become Them

Recently, I was talking with a friend when she mentioned her experience of going to the National Museum in Addis Abeba. She had taken some friends with her as well. “We left after 10 mi...

George Floyd Introspective, All the Way from Addis

June 7 , 2020 . By Mhraf Worku

For over a week now, social media platforms have been flooded by posts and news about the protests taking place across the United States. Sparked by the death of George Floyd, an unarmed African American male killed in police custody on May 25, 2020, protests and riots...

Delicate number

513

Birr worth of personal protective and medical equipment distributed in the country since the outbreak of COVID-19 in Ethiopia, according to the Ethiopian Public Health Institute (EPHI)...

Life matters

The Hypocrite's Dilemma

June 27 , 2020 . By Kidist Yidnekachew

In the early hours of a misty morning, two middle-aged female residents of the poorly electrified condominium of Bole Bulbula sit on their stoop contemplating and discussing what is happening before their eyes. Through the fog in the distance, they s...

Crime, the Crime of Society

June 20 , 2020 . By Kidist Yidnekachew

It is rare to find a meaningful debate over issues on Tv considering the competition for securing short attention spans with sentimental, political or flashy topics. But...

White Women in Ethiopia: The Double Whammy

June 13 , 2020 . By Kidist Yidnekachew

I recently met up with a non-national friend of mine. Having moved here with her family two decades ago, she is currently living in Addis Abeba with her granddaughter. Sh...

Verbatim

Gallery

IN-PICTURE: LAUREATE'S RECEPTION  

December 14 , 2019

President Sahle-Work Zewde hosted a state dinner reception to congratulate and welcome the Prime Minister on his return home from Oslo, Norway, where he accepted the 2019 Nobel Peace Prize two days earlier...

PM Abiy Ahmed (PhD) at a Gala Dinner Called for the Awarding of the Félix Houphouët-Boigny Peace Prize

May 6 , 2019

Faces, Voices of Addis Abeba

April 26 , 2019

Mourning Nation, Grieving World

March 17 , 2019

THE FINISH LINE

March 16 , 2019

Pizza Hut Triples Branches

February 2 , 2019

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