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IN HOPE OF A MIRACLE

One of the hot campaign issues of the 2005 elections was the condominium apartment housing projects. It was a novel idea at the time that was forwarded by the EPRDF as a solution to the acute housing problem of...


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Fortune News

Ethiopia Shirks 'Scale Up, Speed Up' Investment Forum

November 11 , 2019


Featured

Featured

Fueled by Passion and Addiction, Betting Businesses Flourish

November 9 , 2019 . By MESAY BERHANU

Yitbarek Nigussie, 24, was making a deposit for his bets for...



Editorial

Logistical Challenges Underestimated for the Upcoming Elections

Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed (PhD), in his address to members of parliament last month, gave what was an unambiguous signal that his government is determined to hold the national elections in 2020, as constitutionally mandated. It is telling that his st...

Editorials

Official Complacency in the Face of Terrifying Savagery

Yet again, Ethiopians in many parts of the country have endured unspeakable cruelty and violence for no reason other than their perceived identities. A regrettable outcome of a struggle be...

Sunday with Eden

Ethiopia: Valuing Life for Peaceful Coexistence

November 9 , 2019 . By Eden Sahle

An occasional outburst of respect, compassion and unity from society and its leaders is not enough to make citizens uphold a moral...

My Way or No Way: A Failed Creed

November 2 , 2019 . By Eden Sahle

While walking on the streets of London a few months back, I f...

Bad to Worse is Not Merit

October 19 , 2019 . By Eden Sahle

If you have visited district or weredaoffices needing some service, chances are you have experienced...

Irresponsible Public Servants Erode Trust in Public Institutions

October 12 , 2019 . By Eden Sahle

Self-Worth does not Sprout from Families

October 5 , 2019 . By Eden Sahle

Antidote for Rumours: A Questioning Culture

September 28 , 2019 . By Eden Sahle

Lessons from Prisoners

September 21 , 2019 . By Eden Sahle

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Viewpoints

The Forgotten Commercial Code Revision

November 9 , 2019 . By Dawit Tadesse

The current Ethiopian government has been working hard for the last year to reform the economic road map of Ethiopia. The Homegrown Economic Reform Agenda has been introduced. To implement this policy on the ground, the...

How Noble is the Nobel Award?

November 9 , 2019 . By Austine Sequeira

One of the world’s fastest-growing economies, India is basking...

Ethiopia in Trouble: No Time to Beat Around the Bush

November 2 , 2019

I wanted to react to what I thought was a very ba...

Give Abiy a Chance

November 2 , 2019 . By Habtamu Girma

Africa Must Shift to Mechanisation to Attain Sustainable Development

October 26 , 2019 . By Chimimba David Phiri (PhD)

Quit the Blame Game

October 26 , 2019 . By Kidist Yidnekachew

The Irrelevance of Formal Education in Ethiopia

October 19 , 2019 . By Daniel Hailu (PhD)

In-Picture

BAG TIME

October 26 , 2019

HEALTHY COOKING

October 19 , 2019

BEAUTIFYING ADDIS

October 19 , 2019

UNITY IS POWER

October 26 , 2019

POWER UP

October 19 , 2019


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

City Launches New Housing Projects as Enthusiasm for Condos Wane

November 9 , 2019 . By TEMESGEN MULUGETA

Solomon Tafese, a resident of Addis Abeba in his early 50s, always wanted a house of his own. Despite the multiple promises of successive City Administrations to address the housing demand, his dreams have still not come true. The father of two is...


Agenda


City Launches New Housing Projects as Enthusiasm for Condos Wane



Solomon Tafese, a resident of Addis Abeba in his early 50s, always wanted a house of his own. Despite the multiple promises of successive City Administrations to address the housing demand, his dreams have still not come true. The father of two is...

Agenda

Unrest Scares Businesses Away, Rouses Humanitarianism

November 2 , 2019 . By TEMESGEN MULUGETA

Fikre Seifu, a resident of Adama, received a phone call in the early morning hours of October 22, 2019. The call was from friends who told him that his shop had been set on fire. A father of one, Fikre, in his early 30s, headed to the shop he had rented at...

Commentaries

Meditating about leaders: Quintessentially Indifferent

Nov 02,2019 . By Dawit Wondimagegn

As I sit in my office and scribble this, I felt with overwhelming clarity that the quintessential nature of our leaders, from all sides of the political field, past and present, is indifference to dea...

Meditating About Leaders : the Ones We See

October 26 , 2019 . By Dawit Wondimagegn

Reality is prone to illusory manipulations. Leaders, in general, are torn between the poles of reali...

Addressing Ethiopia's Winter of Despair: Abiy's Home Work

October 19 , 2019 . By Solomon Ayele Dersso (PhD)

If the mood in Ethiopia was to be represented in a graph after the announcement of the Nobel Peace P...

My Opinion

Federation not Confederation

November 9 , 2019 . By Tibebu Bekele

The 1994 Ethiopian Constitution has been a bone of contention going on for more than two decades and a half now. Perhaps that should not come as a big surprise and should actually be expected. After a...

Nuance Needed

November 2 , 2019 . By Tibebu Bekele

It is not that simple. It is not black or white. It is all kinds of shades of grey. That is life. It is hard. But eve...

Misunderstanding Civil Disobedience

October 26 , 2019 . By Tibebu Bekele

I have a distinct memory of a conversation I had with a friend many moons ago. He is a few years older than myself and s...

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Films Review

Radar

TRAIN GRAVEYARD

November 9 , 2019

The Leghar compound that used to house the offices of the Ethio-Djibouti Railway company has now turned into a graveyard for old locomotives...

SIDEWALK NEWS STAND

November 9 , 2019

KNOCKED DOWN

November 9 , 2019

Export Revenue Shows First Increase in Years

November 9 , 2019

New Hospital Breaks Ground for $300m

November 9 , 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

Leaders of the parties in the ruling coalition are playing chicken...

November 2 , 2019

Abiy Ahmed (PhD), chairman of the ruling coalition, is determined to go full speed ahead in forming a unified party out of the ashes of what has been the EPRDF. Persuading or co-opting - depending on...


The turn now appears between the TPLF and the ODP

After a long internal feud, members of the ruling coalition of the EPRDF are now out in public, exchanging communiqués harshly critical of each other. It is no...

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 v...

The EPRDF Executive Committee...

August 10 , 2019

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

July 20 , 2019

Ethiopia’s envoy to Kenya...

June 22 , 2019

Jurisdictional matters may have survived successive administrations...

June 1 , 2019

News Analysis




View from arada

Change Begins at Home

A friend stands up, loudly declaring, “pain is opportunity,” as he walks away. Knowing he would not be rejoining us, the interpretation was left to those of us left behind. It took me a step toward thinking what the opposite of pain is...

Home Peace Home

November 2 , 2019 . By Hanna Haile

A Rwandan friend who was visiting Addis Abeba this week sat across from me and said, “When I read about Ethiopia today, I think of what happened to my country.” Many people have made this comparison in the past two years. Life in Ethiopia has become unpredictabl...

Delicate number

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The federal government's expected revenue in Birr from excise taxes on locally manufactured soft drinks in the 2019/20 fiscal year...

Life matters

Memes: Not Funny Sometimes

November 9 , 2019 . By Tsion Fisseha

How far can funny pictures on the internet go? And how much of them are socially conscious? The internet has officially become a middle-aged adult. And if the internet is anything like a human being, this is when it should be going through a mid-life...

Not Dumb to Ask for Help

November 2 , 2019 . By Tsion Fisseha

It was early in the morning, and I was barely awake. My dad, the surprisingly loud and chirpy morning person, comes and sits beside the bed and says, “Good morning.”...

Different Shades of Grey

October 26 , 2019 . By Tsion Fisseha

It is never all about the matter of fact but the matter of one’s perspective. That is why the German philosopher, cultural critic, composer, poet, philologist, and Lati...

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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