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FISH ON THE SLIDE

Abiy Tsome, the major Ethiopian Orthodox fasting season that lasts for nearly two months, is usually a boon for the fish industry, but not this year. Retailers, restaurants and fishermen are all complaining abo...


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Fortune News

Sugar Corporation Looks for Private Partners

April 13 , 2019 . By BERHANE HAILEMARIAM


Featured

Featured

Temporary Lots Alleviate Parking, Financial Problems

March 30 , 2019 . By BERHANE HAILEMARIAM

Benyam Tekleberhan, 26, graduated two years ago from Admas U...



Editorial

Protect Free Speech, Tolerate Hate Speech

Years after a contested election, the former Prime Minister Meles Zenawi defended before parliament the now infamous legislation designed to fight terrorism. It was a passionate advocacy of a flawed law as “flawless”, and a claim that it was bett...

Editorials

Minority Investors’ Rights as Crucial as Boards’ Rule

April 6 , 2019

With high national debt levels, double-digit inflation and disappointing domestic tax revenues, assuming more loans and printing money have become all the more complicated. In this atmosphere...

Sunday with Eden

Poor Human Resources Frustrates Tourism Sector

April 13 , 2019 . By Eden Sahle

Institutions dedicated to encouraging the growth of the tourism sector lack the skill and sophistication needed to protect natural...

Productivity, Ethiopia’s Achilles Heel

April 6 , 2019 . By Eden Sahle

Last weekend, I met a car importer who has sent his only daug...

A Malnourished Nation

March 30 , 2019 . By Eden Sahle

From time to time on Fridays when schedules permit, my younger brother, who is in his clinical year...

PM Abiy Should Look at Economic Problems as Well

March 23 , 2019 . By Eden Sahle

Bereavement, Hope on Heels of Flight 302

March 16 , 2019 . By Eden Sahle

Violence, Contemporary Ethiopian Weakness

March 9 , 2019 . By Eden Sahle

The Economic Roots of Sociopolitical Problems

March 2 , 2019 . By Eden Sahle

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Agenda


Fasting Season, No Longer Boon for Fish Industry



Yaqob Workneh, 42, a legal expert, has been a connoisseur of fish for the past 15 years, especially during fasting seasons like  Abiy Tsome, the Ethiopian Orthodox Lent. He visits Seble Fish Restaurant in Arat Kilo once every month on normal occa...

Agenda

Forex Crunch Marginally Improves, while Businesses Teeter

April 6 , 2019 . By KALAEB GIRMA

Amrin Ahmed, who is in her early 20s, is a self-described businesswoman. Growing up in the culture of a family-owned business, she started selling cosmetics and women's products while she was still in college. Soon after graduating from Debre Birhan Univers...

Life matters

Hate under Suppression

April 13 , 2019 . By Tsion Fisseha

Hate is a strong emotion, often manifested through actions or words. It is a popular opinion that hate, if not a completely factual one, is the most unnatural of emotions for living things. It is something we learn through time, perhaps beginning on...

Till Death Do Us Part

April 6 , 2019 . By Tsion Fisseha

Social media was recently flooded with the untimely death of Nipsey Hussle, aka Ermias Asghedom, an Eritrean American rapper who was shot and killed in Los Angeles last S...

The Technological Scourge

March 30 , 2019 . By Tsion Fisseha

The answers to how to get pearly whites, lose weight in 30 days or the inner workings of a light bulb are a click away in this day and age, thanks to a marvellous inventi...

Verbatim


Exclusive Interviews


Betty G- Engages Positively

Bruktawit Getahun, Betty G for her fans, would have loved to be around for the Battle of Adwa and thinks of robots as square and scary. Third daughter to her parents, anchored but not confined, there is not a challenge in her life she would rather not have faced. She waxes philosophically to describ...



Bruktawit Getahun, Betty G for her fans, would have loved to be around for the Battle of Adwa and thinks of robots as square and scary. Third daughter to her parents, anchored but not confined, there is not a challenge in her life she would rather not have faced. She waxes philosophically to describ...

Exclusive interview

Despite Hurdles, the Future Spells Promise for Africa

November 21 , 2018

Fortune: You have said that you are not here [the Africa Investment Forum] for the sound bites. You have been talking about deal-making and transactions, and have signed a memorandum of understanding with Power Africa. But what else are you here for? Admass...


Viewpoints

The Subtle Tricks Social Roles Play

April 13 , 2019 . By Michael G. Behailu

I came across Joseph Arrington Jr’s, also known as Joe Tex, song “Hold On to What You’ve Got” the other day. It is one of the singer’s well-known works, albeit with lyrics that have not aged accordingly. He...

The Precarious Strings behind Ethiopia’s Politics

April 13 , 2019 . By Abdi Zenebe (PhD)

The current Ethiopian political landscape is characterised by the...

Only Private Sector Can Halt Macroeconomic Crisis

April 6 , 2019 . By Asseged G. Medhin

Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed’s (PhD) year-long stay...

Political Challenges, Chief Agenda in Current Ethiopia

April 6 , 2019 . By Tilaye Nigussie

Lack of Awareness Feeds the Autism Problem

March 30 , 2019 . By Getaneh Abera

The Misconceptions of Ethiopia’s Feminist Mov’t

March 30 , 2019 . By Etenat Awol

Nation Requires Clarity of Political Vision

March 23 , 2019 . By Hintsa Andebrhan

In-Picture

PARKED

April 6 , 2019

Welcoming Dance

February 16 , 2019

Pizza Hut Triples Branches

February 2 , 2019

CAR HAULER TRAFFIC JAM

March 23 , 2019

Busy Street

March 2 , 2019

Films Review

Shazam, Not with Lightening, but Charm

April 13 , 2019 . By Christian Tesfaye

Dumb And Dumbo

April 6 , 2019 . By Christian Tesfaye

United States: the Movie

March 30 , 2019 . By Christian Tesfaye

How to Train Your Dragon, and Lose It

March 23 , 2019 . By Christian Tesfaye

Radar

UMBRELLA MARKET

April 13 , 2019

Rain has become recurrent this past couple of weeks in Addis Abeba, in stark contrast to the warmness in the previous months. This has been...

CONSTRUCTION INCONVENIENCE

April 13 , 2019

FORGOTTEN

April 13 , 2019

Inflation Shows Slight Increase

April 13 , 2019

Enterprise Earns 200m Br

April 13 , 2019

The fineline

It is not normal for the good old Ethiopian state...

March 30 , 2019

It is not normal for the good old Ethiopian state to leave one of its crucial cabinet portfolios vacant for weeks now. Worqneh Gebeyehu (PhD), the minister of Foreign Affairs since 2016, surfaced in N...


The lovey-dovey relationship between Ethiopia’s Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed and ...

March 16 , 2019

The lovey-dovey relationship between Ethiopia’s Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed (PhD) and Eritrea’s Pre...

Frustration with Abiy Ahmed's (PhD) way of governance is building up...

March 9 , 2019

It appears that frustration with Abiy Ahmed's (PhD) way of governance is building up both within and...

Mustafa Omer, a.k.a. Cagjar, was on a visit to Somaliland...

March 2 , 2019

Abiy Ahmed (PhD) is an excellent illustration...

February 9 , 2019

The tale of two dispositions could be what best describes Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed...

January 19 , 2019

Finally, the Chinese government sent its senior diplomat to

January 5 , 2019

News Analysis




View from arada

Workers’ Safety: Awash in Danger and Neglect

The construction worker removing grit and paint from windows on a half-completed high-rise dangles from a ledge with a bucket of water and a short-handle brush in one hand and bracing himsel...

MERKATO: Pulsating, Throbbing and Mesmerising the Soul

April 6 , 2019 . By Ambessaw Assegued (assegued@anfilo.com).

A trip to the labyrinth world of Merkato has been planned by two friends and then postponed so many times that the fact that it took place recently is no small miracle. “I assure you there is a Gursha Terra there,” says one friend promising a somewhat mystical a...

Delicate number

12

loans and advances in Birr disbursed to the housing and construction industry in the last fiscal year, according to the National Bank of Ethiopia...

Commentaries

The Rights of Victim’s Families of Flight 302

Apr 13,2019 . By Shakespear N. Feyissa

There are already misunderstandings surrounding the unfortunate crash of Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302 on March 10, 2019. The case is unfolding in a way that risks harming the very people who are most...

The Affordable, Kenyan path to housing

April 13 , 2019 . By Haben Mehari

Nairobi and Addis Abeba have a great deal in common. Found in the same region, they are both headquarters of a plethora...

Financial Sector Liberalisation Curtails Industralisation

April 6 , 2019 . By Zinabu Samaro (PhD)

Ever since the Ethiopian Peoples’ Revolutionary Democratic Party (EPRDF) came to power in 1991, it has been under pres...

My Opinion

If Only We Had More ETs

April 13 , 2019 . By Christian Tesfaye

The unfortunate accident that befell Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302 will be one of the most important events of this year. It put a major airline manufacturer, Boeing, in an extremely precarious positi...

Citizens Will Choose Certainty, No Matter the Consequences

April 6 , 2019 . By Christian Tesfaye

Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed (PhD) is proud of his achievements during his year-long stay in office. Indeed, he should be....

A Soft, Misunderstood Drug

March 23 , 2019 . By Christian Tesfaye

Rarely is a cannabis story a source of discussion on the Ethiopian-populated part of social media. It is the sort of sub...

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Editors' Pick

Ethiopia Promises Rebalancing to a Bullish World

WASHINGTON, DC - The prospect of the world economy appears to be grim this year. The talk among leaders of global finance and development is overwhelmed by words such as “uncertain”, “precarious” and “delicate”. The outlook for Ethiopia,...

Editors Picks

FISH ON THE SLIDE

April 13 , 2019

Abiy Tsome, the major Ethiopian Orthodox fasting season that lasts for nearly two months, is usually a boon for the fish industry, but not this year. Retailers, restaurants and fishermen are all complaining about the dip in both demand and supply. The primary challenge is reported to be a significant fall in the production o...

Gallery

Mourning Nation, Grieving World

March 17 , 2019

Family members of the passengers and crew who perished aboard Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302 gathered to mourn their loved ones at the crash site in Tulu Fara Wereda, some 40Km south of the capital...

THE FINISH LINE

March 16 , 2019

Pizza Hut Triples Branches

February 2 , 2019

IN PICTURE: Betty G.

January 10 , 2019

Passport Tease: New Requirements For Passports Create Outrage

December 10 , 2018

The week in picture

December 10 , 2018

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