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City Rolls Out Schools, Hospitals Renovation Project

Fifteen-year-old Bitania Zerihun hoped to join Black Lion Secondary School for high school studies when she completed her elementary class at Frehiwot Primary School. Bitania's wish came true, and she joined th...


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Fortune News

Fortune News

Bunna Joins Interest-Free Banking Service

July 20 , 2019 . By BERHANE HAILEMARIAM


Featured

Featured

State Bank Gobbles UP Utility Payment Services

July 13 , 2019 . By BERHANE HAILEMARIAM

Berhanu Regassa, 40, an employee of Awas...



Editorial

Welcome to Trickle-Down Economics, is Ethiopia Ready?

Prime Minster Abiy Ahmed (PhD), while defending a budget bill tabled by his administration in parliament, indicated that the macroeconomic policy his governing coalition has been following for the last 15 years would be changing. It is perhaps the fi...

Editorials

Missing Voices of Elders Against Radical Pluralism

July 6 , 2019

The events of June 22, 2019, have wholly altered the country’s mood. The high expectations and hope following the changes in the spring of 2018 are being replaced by doubt and apprehension...

Sunday with Eden

Africa Needs Selfless Leaders

July 20 , 2019 . By Eden Sahle

Last week I was privileged enough to be invited to a high-level conference where academics, high ranking government officials from...

National Values To Bind Divided Nation

July 13 , 2019 . By Eden Sahle

If there is one thing that is a must when it comes to what dr...

In Search of Ethiopian Heroes

July 6 , 2019 . By Eden Sahle

Ever notice that as Ethiopians, we don’t have too many heroes who can be role models? We lack so m...

Life is Short, Be Good

June 29 , 2019 . By Eden Sahle

Africans, Let Down by Their Leaders

June 22 , 2019 . By Eden Sahle

Say Enough! Ethiopians

June 15 , 2019 . By Eden Sahle

Open Mindedness Makes for a Better Society

June 8 , 2019 . By Eden Sahle

This week's print version

Viewpoints

Populism, Radicalism Feeds on Constant Coverage

July 20 , 2019 . By Christian Tesfaye

Two years ago, I was a sentimentalist. I saw a nation in disarray - groups without representation, broken government machinery and large masses of youth with no sense of direction. The answer seemed relatively straigh...

Ethiopia; Embrace Business Process Outsourcing

July 20 , 2019 . By Haben Mehari

Former President George W. Bush, in his autobiography Decision Po...

Getting African Women into the Boardroom

July 13 , 2019 . By Marcia Ashong

By 2050, one-quarter of the world’s population w...

Easy Way to Keep Healthy

July 13 , 2019 . By Kidist Yidnekachew

No Condition is Permanent

July 6 , 2019 . By Teodros Kiros (PhD)

Grow Up, EPRDF!

July 6 , 2019 . By Hintsa Andebrhan

Women, Not Baby Factories

June 29 , 2019 . By Kidist Yidnekachew

In-Picture

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

June 15 , 2019

VENDING

April 26 , 2019

PARKED

April 6 , 2019

PLASTIC LIGHT

June 8 , 2019

Girl Power

May 25 , 2019


Editors' Pick

TRAGEDY & TRAUMA

Shock and grief engulfed the nation last week as news spread that top military officers in Addis Abeba and high ranking politicians in Bahir Dar were assassinated. A nation grieved with family members see during the farewell in Addis Abeba (above) an...

Editors Picks

Bunna Joins Interest-Free Banking Service

July 20 , 2019 . By BERHANE HAILEMARIAM

At a time when the central bank has authorised full-fledged interest-free banking (IFB) services, an 11th commercial bank has secured a license to operate IFB window service. Bunna International Bank, one of the later entrants to private banking, secured the license from the central ban...


Agenda


City Rolls Out Schools, Hospitals Renovation Project



Fifteen-year-old Bitania Zerihun hoped to join Black Lion Secondary School for high school studies when she completed her elementary class at Frehiwot Primary School. Bitania's wish came true, and she joined the secondary school last year. "I appl...

Agenda

Youth Fund: Ray of Light for Unemployed Youth

July 9 , 2019

The 26-year-old Zena Tekeste graduated in theatrical arts in 20017 from Wegagen Film & Theatrical Art College with the ambition of becoming an actor. However, the reality he faced in the entertainment industry after his graduation was different, since he h...

Commentaries

Not coming to Ethiopia to Invest

Jul 20,2019 . By Sophia Bekele

The National Bank of Ethiopia (NBE) passed a guideline about relinquishing shares in banks owned by foreign nationals of Ethiopian origin in 2016. The majority of the public, particularly the intellec...

Turning to Entrepreneurial Mindset

July 20 , 2019 . By Seble Hailu

Three weeks ago, a twenty-three-year-old orphan who was adopted by a couple from France about twenty years ago, came bac...

WTO, Less of a Priority for Ethiopia

July 13 , 2019 . By Dawit Tadesse

The Ethiopian government has announced that it is restarting the negotiation process to join the WTO within two years. T...

My Opinion

Value Your Life

July 20 , 2019 . By Tibebu Bekele

One of the most perceptive and persuasive advertising campaigns run in Ethiopia was the “value your life” ads that were run by DKT Ethiopia in the 1990s. The campaign was trying to educate primari...

Old Habits Die Hard

July 13 , 2019 . By Tibebu Bekele

They say change is inevitable. So is resistance to change. Whenever societies go through transformational change, the...

Ethiopia Needs Collective Healing

July 6 , 2019 . By Tibebu Bekele

One of the first feel good factors that accompanied the political reforms of the last couple of years was the release of...

Fortune video

Films Review

Rocketman

July 20 , 2019 . By Christian Tesfaye

SPIDER-MAN: FAR FROM HOME

July 13 , 2019 . By Christian Tesfaye

MEN IN BLACK INTERNATIONAL

July 6 , 2019

Toy’s Angst

June 29 , 2019 . By Christian Tesfaye

Radar

DELUXE SHOESHINE

July 20 , 2019

This shoeshiner in Gofa knows it is all about customer service. He has built a shade and furnished it with a sofa and cushioned chairs givi...

JOB FAIR

July 20 , 2019

BUILDING THE FUTURE

July 20 , 2019

City Hires Three Firms For Six Major Projects

July 20 , 2019

German Firm Secures Deal to Build Kegna Beverages

July 20 , 2019


Exclusive Interviews


What the IMF Desires to See in Ethiopia

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 globally. The main channel through which glo...



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 globally. The main channel through which glo...

Exclusive interview

Betty G- Engages Positively

January 6 , 2019

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 fac...


The fineline

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 neighbourly countries has strained. Prime Ministe...


Jurisdictional matters may have survived successive administrations...

June 1 , 2019

They say old habits die hard. The interagency turf war in the government over jurisdictional matters...

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

May 25 , 2019

The big dinner, which cost more than 200 wealthy people a fortune, has come to pass, leaving behind a...

The Executive Committee of the ruling EPRDF reveals

May 18 , 2019

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

March 30 , 2019

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

March 16 , 2019

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

March 9 , 2019

News Analysis



View from arada

Hallow Promises to Entice the Ethiopian Diaspora

The attempt by the government to draw the Ethiopian diaspora into investing in Ethiopia puzzles many, particularly those who some fifty years ago scattered into exile across Europe and Ameri...

A Veritable Shanty Town

July 13 , 2019

Whose idea is it to blanket the city streets with filth-ridden, threadbare and shabby plastic tarps; rusted corrugated metals; and twisted Eucalyptus lumber that houses street vendors, food stalls, coffee ladies and shoeshine boys across every nook and cranny of this ca...

Delicate number

1

Ethiopia’s estimated public external debt amortisation in fiscal 2020, in US dollars, according to Moody’s Investors Service...

Life matters

Let Them Fly

July 20 , 2019 . By Tsion Fisseha

The year was 2009. Michael Jackson had just died, and “This Is It”, the documentary film, was out. It was all the rage in the school that I went to. All week long everyone who was anyone was planning not only to watch it but contemplating how man...

The Inevitibility of Change

July 13 , 2019 . By Tsion Fisseha

The only thing that is consistent in this world is change. This statement is hard to swallow for a lot of people, including me. Change can be a sign of betterment, but re...

Tread Softly

July 6 , 2019 . By Tsion Fisseha

On a car ride with a friend, a conversation on the radio caught our attention. The radio hosts were talking about individuals who have lost their loved ones. They went on...

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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