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LEADING THE WAY

President Sahle-Work Zewde launched a five-year national road map to end child marriage and female genital mutilation (FGM ) with Yalem-Tsegay Asfaw, minister of Women, Children & Youth, in a ceremony held...


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Fortune News

Fortune News

City Reclaims Real Estate Firms' Land

August 17 , 2019 . By TEMESGEN MULUGETA


Featured

Featured

Ban on Unlabeled Foods Despairs Manufacturers

August 17 , 2019 . By YOSEPH MERGU

On a sunny Thursday at the beginning of this month, dozens of people were shopping at the Shoa Supermarket on Africa Avenue (Bole Road). Some seemed familiar with what they are...



Editorial

International Community’s Shilly-Shally Engagement Not Helping Ethiopia

The coming months pause an acid test for the administration of Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed (PhD). Having been swept into power by the widespread call for change, Abiy’s is an administration overburdened by expectations, perhaps unrealistic in many in...

Editorials

Electoral Contests Need Moderation in Civic Discourse; The Alternative is Bad

August 10 , 2019

Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed (PhD), in the press conference he gave last week, communicated the decision of the EPRDF to hold the 2020 elections on schedule. That means there is now less than a...

Sunday with Eden

The Problem of Inefficient Workers

August 17 , 2019 . By Eden Sahle

Procrastination is the enemy of success. And I believe this is one of the main reasons why we are poor as a nation. The country is...

All Humanity Bound Together

August 10 , 2019 . By Eden Sahle

Today, we are living in a toxic social environment where peop...

Discern Blame from Responsibility

August 3 , 2019 . By Eden Sahle

My childhood took a sudden unexpected turn about the time I t...

Don’t Add Salt to Ethiopia’s Wounds

July 27 , 2019 . By Eden Sahle

Africa Needs Selfless Leaders

July 20 , 2019 . By Eden Sahle

National Values To Bind Divided Nation

July 13 , 2019 . By Eden Sahle

In Search of Ethiopian Heroes

July 6 , 2019 . By Eden Sahle

This week's print version

Viewpoints

How Africa Can Adapt to the Digital Revolution

August 17 , 2019 . By Kartik Akileswaran and Georgina Hutchinson

The Fourth Industrial Revolution is reshaping the world of work. While policymakers in the West are struggling to respond, the task facing African governments appears even more daunting. In navigating the challenges and...

Change is Inevitable. Embrace it, Ethiopia

August 17 , 2019 . By Asseged G. Medhin

The financial sector in Ethiopia has shown growth, but as compare...

Private Sector Solutions for Infrastructure Problems

August 3 , 2019 . By Getachew Yilma

The recent move by the Ethiopian government to fac...

Next Business Challenge for Ethiopia

August 3 , 2019 . By Asseged G. Medhin

How Africa Measures Up on Governance

July 27 , 2019 . By Marie Laberge

Robust Science Diplomacy for Africa

July 27 , 2019 . By Mekonnen Teshome

Populism, Radicalism Feeds on Constant Coverage

July 20 , 2019 . By Christian Tesfaye

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


Editors' Pick

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 enta...

Editors Picks

International Community’s Shilly-Shally Engagement Not Helping Ethiopia

August 17 , 2019

The coming months pause an acid test for the administration of Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed (PhD). Having been swept into power by the widespread call for change, Abiy’s is an administration overburdened by expectations, perhaps unrealistic in many ins...


Agenda


Int'l Price Cut, Illicit Trade Cripple Coffee Exports



Mathewos Lankemu, a farmer in his early 40s, was born and raised in Nekiya Kebele, Sidama Zone, one of the major coffee producing regions in the country. Born into an extended family, he was the sixth child to his family. In his early days, Mathew...

Agenda

Media Recession: Layoffs Follow in Wake of TV, Print Super Cycle

August 10 , 2019 . By KALAEB GIRMA

For a young man who was born and raised in the capital and always had the itch for journalism, the media was enticing. He wanted to be part of the media, because of the power it has in providing the public with the right information and its ability to put g...

Commentaries

Saving the Ailing Ethiopian Economy

Aug 17,2019 . By Fiseha Haile

Responding to questions in parliament following the 2007 global financial crisis, the late Prime Minister Meles Zenawi argued that the crisis would not have drastic repercussions on Ethiopia, because...

Breaking the Impasse: A Plea to Feed the Good

August 10 , 2019 . By Seble Hailu

About seven years ago, I had a chance to visit Cape Town, South Africa. It is such a beautiful city...

How Not to Think About Job Creation

August 3 , 2019 . By Ricardo Hausmann

Just because a tire is flat at the bottom does not mean that the hole is there. The same can be said about labour market...

My Opinion

Don’t Turn Back the Clock

August 17 , 2019 . By Tibebu Bekele

This has been a turbulent week for the world economy. The US President Donald Trump announced via Twitter that his government would be adding a 10pc tariff to 300 billion dollars worth of Chinese good...

Good Will: The Missing Ingredient

August 3 , 2019 . By Tibebu Bekele

The past week has been dominated by the story of Ethiopia’s effort to break a tree planting world record in twelve hou...

Identity Politics, a Drag on the World

July 27 , 2019 . By Tibebu Bekele

Whether spoken in London, Washington DC or Addis Abeba, the speeches of populist nationalists have the same theme. It st...

Fortune video

Films Review

HORRIBLE FRANCHISE PRESENTS: HOBBS AND SHAW

August 10 , 2019 . By Christian Tesfaye

CRAWL

August 3 , 2019 . By Christian Tesfaye

THE LION KING, OR HOW I CAME TO HATE MOVIES

July 27 , 2019 . By Christian Tesfaye

Rocketman

July 20 , 2019 . By Christian Tesfaye

Radar

BUSING STONES

August 17 , 2019

Anbessa City Bus Service Enterprise and its employees are volunteering to help build houses for weak and older adults in the Saris area of t...

DRUMMING UP SALES

August 17 , 2019

A SECOND LOOK

August 17 , 2019

Commercial Bank Bags 17.9b Br Profit

August 17 , 2019

Lilac Eyes Partnership to Curb Forex Crunch

August 17 , 2019


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...

The fineline

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 the multiple political assassinations her...


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 legisl...

Ethiopia’s envoy to Kenya...

June 22 , 2019

Ethiopia’s envoy to Kenya, Meles Alem, was on the defensive last week, denying earlier reports by Kenyan media that the relationship between the two neighbour...

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

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

March 30 , 2019

News Analysis



View from arada

DATA MATTERS

My mother entrusted me with one of our family's prized possessions when I turned 10, a film photo camera. It was a clunky, solid, awkward piece of technology, and I was allowed the privilege of using the last four shots out of the 24 roll o...

Raising Ethiopian Food to Haute Cuisine

August 3 , 2019 . By Ambessaw Assegued (assegued@anfilo.com).

Sometime in the late 1970s and 80s, a certain enterprising Eritrean diaspora in Los Angeles opens a sprawling restaurant in the western section of the city that instantly develops a large client base. The Ethiopian and Eritrean communities flock to the restaurant, for i...

Delicate number

36

Expected tax revenue in Birr of Addis Abeba City Administration in the 2019/20 fiscal year...

Life matters

Make the World a No War Zone

August 17 , 2019 . By Tsion Fisseha

Protester dies, scores arrested in Kashmir lockdown. Pellet gun attack victims fighting for their lives. Sudan schoolchildren fired on during protest. Sudan protester ‘shot dead’ as talks stall. Hong Kong protests: Flights suspended, tear gas fir...

The Power of Ideas

August 10 , 2019 . By Tsion Fisseha

Black is the lack of colour. This was the statement that started a very long argument between my co-worker and me. We both went on explaining the idea from our point of v...

Help Them Grow

August 3 , 2019 . By Tsion Fisseha

In a country filled with differences, it is rare to see everyone come together, celebrating one cause. Last week the cause that brought people from across the spectrum to...

Verbatim

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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