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Premier Appoints Teklewold Atnafu to Chair CBE Board

Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed (PhD) named Teklewold Atnafu, former governor of the central bank, as board chairperson of the Commercial Bank of Ethiopia (CBE). Abiy directly appointed Teklewold even though the nami...


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Reformation with Smiles

February 15 , 2020


Featured

Featured

Digital Magazines: Media Industry's Next Curve

February 1 , 2020 . By DIBORA SAMSON

On weekday evenings and weekends, people...



Editorial

Politics Dominates National Discourse, to the Detriment of the Economy

Senior government officials of African countries recently descended on Addis Abeba to attend the annual African Union (AU) Summit of Heads of State and Government. As was usual with these meetings, there was more fluff than substance. But there was a...

Editorials

History Will Judge Negotiators on GERD

February 8 , 2020

Belatedly, negotiators over the Great Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (DERD) took the rare gesture in explaining to the public the positions they have taken during tough talks with their counterpar...

Sunday with Eden

To Silence the Guns, Walk the Talk

February 15 , 2020 . By Eden Sahle

African leaders have failed Africa. From staggering mismanagement of welfare, fiscal and monetary policies to weak institutions, c...

Cheer Up, There's More to Life

February 8 , 2020 . By Eden Sahle

Four years ago, I met a couple through a project I was workin...

Violence Meets Vacuum of Information

February 1 , 2020 . By Eden Sahle

From murders and abductions to the destruction of property an...

What We want to See in Politicians

January 25 , 2020 . By Eden Sahle

Children Need Freedom to Escape Generational Poverty

January 18 , 2020 . By Eden Sahle

Work Hard, Envy Less

January 11 , 2020 . By Eden Sahle

Mob Justice Perpetuates Injustice

January 4 , 2020 . By Eden Sahle

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Viewpoints

With Fewer Children Comes Development

February 15 , 2020 . By Clay Webster

Much of the well-trod terrain is covered on the dangers of unconstrained population growth in a recent piece headlined, “Marshall Plan for Africa Now or Doom by 2050,” [Volume 20, No 1026, December 29, 2019], by Yona...

Beware the Secret Weapon of Desensitisation: Repetition

February 15 , 2020 . By Etenat Awol

It is fascinating how conditioned human beings can become to acce...

The Abysmal History of Political Transformations

February 8 , 2020 . By Shewangezaw Seyoum

The political reform, as the sociopolitical and ec...

The Cost of the Breakdown of Rule of Law

February 8 , 2020 . By Sileshi Yilma Reta

Subtler Censorship through Discrimination

February 1 , 2020 . By Sileshi Yilma Reta

The Good 'Us', the Bad 'Them'

February 1 , 2020 . By Etenat Awol

The New Norms that Blight the Nation

January 25 , 2020 . By Sileshi Yilma Reta

In-Picture

Sign of the Times

February 15 , 2020

Bob 75

February 8 , 2020

Salvageable Waste

February 8 , 2020

Fallen Fence

February 15 , 2020

Ghanian Cornerstone

February 15 , 2020


Editors' Pick

History Will Judge Negotiators on GERD

Belatedly, negotiators over the Great Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (DERD) took the rare gesture in explaining to the public the positions they have taken during tough talks with their counterparts from Sudan and Egypt. They faced a select group of peopl...

Editors Picks

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 challenges such as economic inequ...


Agenda


ET Maintains China Flights, while Ethiopia Braces for Coronavirus



On the late afternoon of Tuesday, February 4, 2020, over a hundred people milled about inside Addis Abeba Bole International Airport waiting for family, friends or relatives returning from abroad. Some were restless from the long wait, while other...

Agenda

Bank Robbery Rampant as Police Fail to Arrest Perpetrators

February 1 , 2020 . By TEMESGEN MULUGETA

Elias Fikadu is one young person who has benefited from the aggressive branch expansion of banks in recent years, which has seen the industry litter their storefronts across nearly every neighbourhood of the capital. Elias, who is married and in his early ...

Commentaries

Liquidity Crisis Hits the Fan

Feb 15,2020 . By Abdulmenan Mohammed

Liquidity problems have hit the banking industry since mid-November of last year. The liquidity crunch has caused glitches in the inter-bank settlement process at the central bank and complicated the...

Africa Must Choose Renewables Over Coal

February 15 , 2020 . By Carlos Lopes

African heads of state are convening at the annual African Union (AU) summit, and issues related to...

Investments in Resilience, Food Security lead to Peace

February 8 , 2020 . By Abebe Haile-Gabriel

In a region beset with conflict, the uptick of numbers paint a grim foreboding. Hunger is on the ris...

My Opinion

Glass Actually All Empty

February 15 , 2020 . By Christian Tesfaye

A feeling of doom and gloom casts a long shadow over Ethiopia. People are terrified. They are unnerved by what they see in the country. The threat of violence, disorder and chaos have us appreciating...

Education Relevance

February 8 , 2020 . By Christian Tesfaye

I was a senior year student when our Amahric teacher asked us to read Fiqer Eske Meqabir, Haddis Alemayehu’s 1968 nove...

The Average Abebe's Responsibility

February 1 , 2020 . By Christian Tesfaye

I attended an informal gathering of minds over the weekend. We were a small group of individuals with diverse background...

Fortune video

Films Review

BIRDS OF PREY: THE ANTI-JOKER

February 15 , 2020 . By Christian Tesfaye

THE OSCAR: HITS AND MISSES

February 8 , 2020 . By Christian Tesfaye

1917: GIMMICKY CINEMATOGRAPHY, GREAT STORY

February 1 , 2020 . By Christian Tesfaye

BAD BOYS NO MORE

January 25 , 2020 . By Christian Tesfaye

Radar

Abyssinia Bank Opens Full-fledged IFB Branch

February 15 , 2020

Bank of Abyssinia (BoA) has launched a full-fledged, interest-free banking branch called Ameen at Belay Zeleke Building...

Ministry Loses Case to Solar Panel Supplier

February 15 , 2020

Donors Avail $165m for Displaced Kids Schooling

February 15 , 2020

Court Orders Ayka to Pay 6m Br to Amibara

February 15 , 2020

Agency Invests 10m Br in Vehicles

February 15 , 2020


Exclusive Interviews


What Keeps AfDB's President up at Night?

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 challenges such as economic inequality. Tam...



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 challenges such as economic inequality. Tam...

Exclusive interview

The Minimum States Can Do

February 8 , 2020

Companies, in manufacturing as well as the extractive industries, are no strangers to allegations of human, economic and environmental rights abuses. Weak regulatory capacity and economic and political policies designed to accommodate Ethiopia's developmental...


The fineline

The squabbling within the negotiating team comes primarily from lack of clarity on who is in charge in providing leadership, claims gossip...

February 15 , 2020

There has hardly been any issue that has galvanized Ethiopians - despite their many differences and sources of polarisation - as much as the Great Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) does. For many, the...


A feud is raging between government through the liberalisation process...

February 8 , 2020

A feud is raging between government through the liberalisation process and officials with oversight...

The rank and file of the incumbent Prosperity Party (PP) have...

January 25 , 2020

The rank and file of the incumbent Prosperity Party (PP) have convened in the town of Adama, Nazareth...

The relationship Lady Birtukan has with the Prime Minister...

January 11 , 2020

The post-EPRDF politics began last week...

January 4 , 2020

A Pronouncement of Political Dissent by Lemma Megersa...

November 30 , 2019

The last executive committee meeting of the EPRDF...

January 15 , 2020

News Analysis



View from arada

The Women in the Household

Self-help books will have us believe that time management is one of the major factors for success. If this is the case, then it is a tragedy for many Ethiopian girls and women in households...

Corona's Global Pandemic of Panic

February 8 , 2020 . By Hanna Haile

I was away for months in the rural parts of Ethiopia before I returned to Addis Abeba a year ago. What I found on the streets of Addis shocked me. Syrian refugees had flooded the streets and mothers and their children were asking for money from strangers. They did n...

Delicate number

18

revenue, in dollars, from the export of minerals in the first six months of the current fiscal year, according to the Ministry of Mines & Petroleum...

Life matters

Unwary Tribalists

February 15 , 2020 . By Kidist Yidnekachew

It is hard to forget a teacher who makes an impression on us. I had one of those, and I would never forget his colourful eye-catching slides and PowerPoint notes and the profound remarks he used to make in the classroom. Once, he discussed tribali...

Sleep, Eat Well before the Children Come

February 8 , 2020 . By Kidist Yidnekachew

I was washing my son’s milk bottles and pacifiers furiously when my husband interjected. “Stop washing his pacifier every other second,” he said. “He needs to...

Handle the Truth

February 1 , 2020 . By Kidist Yidnekachew

In the finale of one of the most popular TV shows of all time, Game of Thrones, one of the characters, a strong-willed woman with great ambitions, has a line that says a...

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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