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MAN OF PEACE

It is a long way from Beshesha, Ethiopia to Oslo, Norway. It is only a short 18 months since he became Ethiopia's Prime Minister. But that is all it took for the once obscure Abiy Ahmed (PhD) to cover the long...


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PM Abiy Becomes First Ethiopian Nobel Laureate

October 12 , 2019 . By FASIKA TADESSE


Featured

Featured

Mandatory GPS Installation Cheers Importers, Displeases Truck Owners

October 12 , 2019 . By TEMESGEN MULUGETA

Four months ago, Dawit Hagos, who runs his family's business, MICAS Construction Materials, decided to install Global Positioning System (GPS) satellite tracking on his company's ...



Editorial

The Role of Constitutional Institutions has Never Been More Crucial

On Monday, October 7, 2019, the joint session of the two chambers of Ethiopia's parliament, the House of People's Representatives and the House of Federation, heralded the opening of what should be the last term for legislators that came into office...

Editorials

The Elephant in the Room: Conflict and Violence

October 5 , 2019

There is an elephant in the Ethiopian political room: conflict and violence that may be sporadic but remains persistent. There is an understandable reluctance to discuss it. Understandable be...

Sunday with Eden

Irresponsible Public Servants Erode Trust in Public Institutions

October 12 , 2019 . By Eden Sahle

I often pass by Amora Building, owned by Metals & Engineering Corporation (METEC) located in the Gerji area. There is always...

Self-Worth does not Sprout from Families

October 5 , 2019 . By Eden Sahle

At some time or another, we all find our lives burdened with...

Antidote for Rumours: A Questioning Culture

September 28 , 2019 . By Eden Sahle

Now more than ever, it seems like most people run life on end...

Lessons from Prisoners

September 21 , 2019 . By Eden Sahle

Find Meaning in Daily Life

September 7 , 2019 . By Eden Sahle

A Call for Decency

August 31 , 2019 . By Eden Sahle

The Art of Contentment

August 24 , 2019 . By Eden Sahle

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Agenda


Pension Fund Mismanagement Sends Billions of Birr Down the Drain



Melaku Andualem spends his retirement days reading books, watching television and keeping up with the latest developments. The grandfather of six spent close to four decades working for several government institutions. His career began in his earl...

Agenda

Indoor Smoking Ban: Relief for Non-Smokers, Pain for Hoteliers

October 5 , 2019 . By YOSEPH MERGU

On the evening of the first Wednesday of this month, the DJ of Metro Club, the luxurious semi-open roof lounge, was playing different genres of music until the band took over the stage at 9:00pm. Metro is a club found at Hyatt Regency Hotel located at Meskel...

Life matters

Facing Up to Reality

October 12 , 2019 . By Tsion Fisseha

I had the chance to watch the Oscar-nominated Ethiopian movie a couple of days ago. In the interest of the people that have not had the chance to watch it yet, I will refrain from going into details. Instead, I will delve into the reason that made me...

Walking the Talk

October 5 , 2019 . By Tsion Fisseha

Having received a warning of the roads being closed on the day of "Damera," I left work early and headed straight home. When I got there, my mom was preparing our dinner...

Balancing Self-Love and Self-Sacrifice

September 28 , 2019 . By Tsion Fisseha

How does one know what one is willing to sacrifice? And how can one know for sure that it is worth it? What happens if it turns out that the sacrifice is worth nothing at...

Verbatim


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 the IMF Desires to See in Ethiopia

April 13 , 2019

Fortune: The outlook for the global economy brings growth down by 0.3 percentage points, while the outlook for Africa is up by 0.3 percentage points. What is missing here? It is not so much missing. Africa’s growth is not correlated with what goes on glob...


Viewpoints

Innovating the Developmental State Through Homegrown Economic Reform?

October 12 , 2019 . By Alemayehu G. Mariam (Prof.)

I have never subscribed to the developmental state model practised in the crucible of revolutionary democracy in Ethiopia. The prevailing developmental state ideology of the past 27 years was an attempt to Ethiopiani...

Afrocentripetalism: an African Viewpoint in the Test Tube

October 12 , 2019 . By Dejene Sakoume

Most attempts that have been tried to analyse and solve African p...

Epidemic Gone Unnoticed

October 5 , 2019 . By Ephraim Senbetta (PhD)

I felt compelled to write this article because of the pride I fe...

PM’s Vision Is Like a Ferrari With Borrowed Engine

October 5 , 2019 . By Yonas Biru (PhD)

Four Collision Courses for the Global Economy

September 28 , 2019 . By Nouriel Roubini

Bring Back the Monarchy

September 28 , 2019 . By Clay Webster

Energy, Employment, and Migration in Africa

September 21 , 2019 . By Kandeh K. Yumkella

In-Picture

Haile G.Sellasie Received a Silver Cup

August 3 , 2019

PLASTIC LIGHT

June 8 , 2019

Girl Power

May 25 , 2019

DANCING FOR TREES

July 27 , 2019

BULLDOZED! Buffet De La Gare. Alas, it is no more!

June 15 , 2019

Films Review

JOKER GETS THE LAST LAUGH

October 12 , 2019 . By Christian Tesfaye

JOON-HU’S MAGIC TRICK

October 5 , 2019 . By Christian Tesfaye

RUNNING FOR THE OSCARS

September 21 , 2019 . By Christian Tesfaye

IT CHAPTER TWO, MUCH LIKE CHAPTER ONE

September 14 , 2019 . By Christian Tesfaye

Radar

PILED UP

October 12 , 2019

A big pile of trash is piled up on the side of a street around the goffa Mebrathaiel area in Addis Abeba. The garbage that is sort...

LEBAWI

October 12 , 2019

LEFT UNFINISHED

October 12 , 2019

Agency Partially Lifts Ban on Daytime Heavy Truck Mov't

October 12 , 2019

Zemzem Surpasses Minimum Paid-up Capital

October 12 , 2019

The fineline

More worrying to Abiy may come from his own backyard

September 28 , 2019

Abiy Ahmed (PhD), prime minister of Ethiopia elected under the EPRDF's platform, is doing everything he can to undo the very vehicle that propelled him to political power. He has been busy rewriting a...


The EPRDF Executive Committee...

August 10 , 2019

There is something eerie about the meeting that started late last week by members of the EPRDF Executive Committee. Not only was it the first to be held since t...

The coalition under the EPRDF as it has been known for the past three decades is over...

July 20 , 2019

On Monday, July 22, 2019, the legislative body of the Amhara Regional State is to convene. Its legislators will meet for...

Ethiopia’s envoy to Kenya...

June 22 , 2019

Jurisdictional matters may have survived successive administrations...

June 1 , 2019

The big dinner, which cost more than 200 wealthy people a fortune...

May 25 , 2019

The Executive Committee of the ruling EPRDF reveals

May 18 , 2019

News Analysis




View from arada

Modernising Community Values

A society consensus teaches citizens what it upholds. As one generation replaces another, societies develop and change. While change is inevitable, it is worth taking a moment to ask if we...

KILLING IT SOFTLY

September 28 , 2019 . By Hanna Haile

Haile Gerima, a prominent Ethiopian filmmaker, famously pointed out that groundbreaking artists are only recognized after foreign validation. Even though there have been attempts to dispute this sentiment, it is the truth. Contemporary arts in Ethiopia is yet to have a...

Delicate number

139

Ethiopia's capital expenditure in Birr for cyber warfare in the 2019/20 budget year.  ...

Commentaries

Ethiopia’s ‘Homegrown’ Economic Reform: An Afterthought

Oct 12,2019 . By Ayele Gelan (PhD)

It was within a few months of Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed (PhD)’s administration coming into office that a radical economic reform programme was launched. The government announced their decision to pr...

Meditating About Leaders: Is Personality the Issue?

October 12 , 2019 . By Dawit Wondimagegn

A face is deceptive. It is very hard to tell what a person will or will not do just from looking at...

The Puzzling Lure of Financial Globalisation

September 28 , 2019 . By Dani Rodrik and Arvind Subramanian

After holding off for decades, China has finally embraced fin...

My Opinion

Commendable, Proceed with Caution

October 12 , 2019 . By Tibebu Bekele

On Thursday, October 10, 2019, Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed (PhD) along with several neighbouring heads of state inaugurated Unity Park. As it is a project that is very near and dear to him, something h...

Compassionate Revolutionary Democracy

October 5 , 2019 . By Tibebu Bekele

The coming months and the year 2020 will be hosting a large number of national elections all over the world. To just men...

Multilateralism: Not en Vogue but Indispensable

September 28 , 2019 . By Tibebu Bekele

The 74th session of the United Nations General Assembly took place this week in New York. Nearly two hundred leaders fro...

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Editors' Pick

A $10 Billion Economic Reform Package

If former Minister of Finance Sufian Ahmed had said the foreign exchange shortage is structural and will remain with Ethiopia for decades to come, that is precisely what Eyob Tekaleign (PhD), state minister for Finance, would want to see changed. The...

Editors Picks

PM Abiy Becomes First Ethiopian Nobel Laureate

October 12 , 2019 . By FASIKA TADESSE

For the first time in Ethiopian history, Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed (PhD) won this year's Noble Peace Prize for his achievement in ending the two-decade standoff between Ethiopia and Eritrea. The war between Ethiopia and Eritrea, which caused a bloody two-year conflict, ended with the di...

Gallery

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

May 6 , 2019

Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed (PhD) took selfies, shook hands with admirers and had his hands kissed by an adoring fan on his way out of the Sheraton Addis Hotel, after addressing the international media corps at a gala dinner called for the awarding of...

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

IN PICTURE: Betty G.

January 10 , 2019

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