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COVID-19 UPDATES: All the stories and commentaries on Coronavirus, in one place

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Korean Business Association, NGO Donate 40,000 Medical Masks

April 3 , 2020

Featured

Tech Teams Join Hands to Fight COVID-19 Threat

March 28 , 2020 . By MAYA MISIKIR

Virtual meetings are taking place across...

Headline Inflation Hits 22.6pc Rate

The cost of living keeps spiking and reached the highest rate in a six-year period by increasing 22.6pc last month, according to the latest Consumer Price Index from the Central Statistical Agency (CSA). Dri...

Covid-19

Korean Business Association, NGO Donate 40,000 Medical Masks

April 3 , 2020

The Korean Business Association and Good Neighbors, a Korean NGO, have donated 40,000 medical masks for employees working at the city and federal governments in order to protect them from the...

Editorial

Economic Disaster Looms Large, Fiscal Response Plan Can't Come Earlier

March 28 , 2020

In September 2005, the World Bank commissioned a futuristic study to see the loss in human life and cost to the global economy should there be a global outbreak of a virus. The finding was to...

Exclusive Interviews

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 r...

The Fineline

Touted by the Americans, Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed has been...

March 28 , 2020

Touted by the Americans, Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed has been the darling of the West. Never mind that the Middle Eastern emirs are behind his off the budget indulgence in paying for the passionate projects of his...

Agenda

Ethiopia's Flower Market at Dead End

March 28 , 2020 . By GELILA SAMUEL

It was such an outrageously windy and sunny day in March; the clouds on the horizon were shaded with blighted, glaring white. The day was both a majestic mixture of patches of clouds with the sun; it was suppose...

March 7 , 2020 . By TEMESGEN MULUGETA

Coronavirus Already Infecting Economy

February 29 , 2020 . By TEMESGEN MULUGETA

Excise Tax Pounds Beer Market Hard

Editorial

Economic Disaster Looms Large, Fiscal Response Plan Can't Come Earlier

In September 2005, the World Bank commissioned a futuristic study to see the loss in human life and cost to the global economy should there be a global outbreak of a virus. The finding was too terrifying to contemplate. Tens of millions could die acr...

Editorials

With Coronavirus, Overreact and Be Wrong

March 21 , 2020

It was with a sense of despondency that the brand new minister of Health, Lia Tadesse (MD), gave a press briefing on the first confirmed case of the Novel Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19)...

Sunday with Eden

In Crisis, Human Dignity Shines Bright

March 28 , 2020 . By Eden Sahle

In Crisis, Human Dignity Shines Bright

March 28 , 2020 . By Eden Sahle

The terrifying fact about life is how little control we have, especially during times of crisis. It is comforting though to observ...

Let's Rise Above COVID-19, with Love, Respect

March 21 , 2020 . By Eden Sahle

Any kind of discussion these days tends to devolve into the N...

Awareness: Best Weapon Against COVID-19

March 14 , 2020 . By Eden Sahle

The news of the month is the outbreak of the Novel Coronaviru...

Caleb Embodies the Human Capital Cost of Traffic Accidents

March 7 , 2020 . By Eden Sahle

Private Healthcare Industry Throws Hippocratic Oath Out the Window

February 29 , 2020 . By Eden Sahle

Growth Does Not Need to Be Foul

February 22 , 2020 . By Eden Sahle

To Silence the Guns, Walk the Talk

February 15 , 2020 . By Eden Sahle

This week's print version

Agenda

Ethiopia's Flower Market at Dead End

It was such an outrageously windy and sunny day in March; the clouds on the horizon were shaded with blighted, glaring white. The day was both a majestic mixture of patches of clouds with the sun; it was supposed to be a good day. But not for Abebech...

Agenda

COVID-19 Hits Some Businesses Hard, Yet Blesses Others

March 21 , 2020 . By SEBLE WONDEMAGEGN

In the mid-afternoon of Wednesday, March 18, 2020, Kenema Public Pharmacy, located around the stadium near Ghion Hotel was busy serving people from all walks of life, from teenagers to the elderly. The pharmacists, sporting face masks and gloves, were very bus...

Life matters

It's Corona Time

March 28 , 2020 . By Kidist Yidnekachew

A few days ago, I was at home listening to the radio and plotting ways of getting back at the power authorities for taking away the electricity at a time when most of us are forced to stay home as a result of the Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19). They le...

No Better Time to Fact Check

March 21 , 2020 . By Kidist Yidnekachew

Fact-checking has never been my strong suit. My trusting nature and rainbow and butterfly outlook on life has made me complacent in this area. But with current advancemen...

‘For Now, It’s Fine’

March 14 , 2020 . By Kidist Yidnekachew

A few days ago, travelling on the long road that links Bole Michael to Bole Bulbula, we came across a traffic pile up. The accident was at a curve in the new road that ha...

Verbatim

"We've not seen its true scale."

President Sahle-Work Zewde said on her Twitter page, warning that the number of confirmed Coronaviru...

"We cannot take this number as [reported]."

Tedros Adhanom, director-general of the World Health Organisation (WHO), said during a media briefin...

"We need every drop of the Nile."

Ali Abdel-Aal, Egypt's speaker of parliament, was quoted by the online branch of Al-Ahram, an Egypti...

"Move on."

Jawar Mohammed, politician and activist, said last week on his Facebook page a day after the annive...

"It's very easy."

Bulcha Demeksa, prominent politician, told Addis Admas, about the challenges Ethiopia is facing, add...

"Where is Team Lemma?"

Debretsion Gebremichael (PhD), deputy president of the Tigray Regional State, said at a press briefi...

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...

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...

Viewpoints

When it Comes to COVID, Caution but Also Some Sense

March 28 , 2020 . By Shimelis Araya

Contrary to standard economic theory, behavioural economics outlines paradoxical “errors” we commit in our daily lives. We have a psychological makeup that leads us to have a higher fear of something, without cons...

US Can Still Salvage GERD Negotiation

March 14 , 2020 . By Fasil Yenealem

Late last month, the United State’s Department of Treasury rele...

Hydro Hegemony: Linchpin of the GERD Dispute

March 7 , 2020 . By Dejen Yemane

It has been nine years since Ethiopia launched the...

Ethiopia Could become 21st Century Colony of Egypt

February 29 , 2020 . By Jesse Jackson

Ethiopian Needs To Empower Its ‘Paid Robots’

February 29 , 2020 . By Yeshiwas Fentahun

Othering: Virus More Dangerous than COVID-19

February 22 , 2020 . By Andrew DeCort

Free, Fair Election, but also Peaceful

February 22 , 2020 . By WUBESHET TIRUNEH

In-Picture

PART RECREATION

March 14 , 2020

Street Books

February 22 , 2020

Plastic Hat

February 22 , 2020

BUS STOPS

March 7 , 2020

To the Brim

February 22 , 2020

Films Review

Enena Bete, Small but Innovative

March 28 , 2020 . By Christian Tesfaye

TEZA: THE SON, THE MOTHER AND THE NATION

March 21 , 2020 . By Christian Tesfaye

ONWARD: A RARE DISNEY ORIGINAL

March 14 , 2020 . By Christian Tesfaye

THE VISIBLE WOMAN

March 7 , 2020 . By Christian Tesfaye

Radar

SUPPORT FOR THE FIGHT

March 28 , 2020

Left to right, Minister of Peace Muferia Kamil, Attorney General Adanech Abebe, and Netsanet Lemessa, CEO of Ethiopian Insurance Company (EI...

Three E-commerce Platforms Availed Alternative Transactions

March 28 , 2020

Ministry Launches Workplace Response Protocol

March 28 , 2020

BETWEEN THE DEBRIS

March 28 , 2020

Property Disposal Generates 1.8m Br

March 28 , 2020

The fineline

Touted by the Americans, Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed has been...

March 28 , 2020

A farewell party for Bacha Gina

March 14 , 2020

Senior executives of the state-owned Commercial Bank of Ethiopia (CBE) were asked to contribute 5,000 Br each to pay for a farewell party for Bacha Gina, gossip...

Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed (PhD) frequents...

February 29 , 2020

Lately, Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed (PhD), chairman of the incumbent Prosperity Party (PP), frequents several towns in the Southern Regional State during his visi...

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

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

February 8 , 2020

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

January 25 , 2020

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

January 11 , 2020

News Analysis

View from arada

Brace for Cultural, Socioeconomic Adjustment

The world is almost at a standstill as it grapples with an impending tragedy. What started out as the spread of an unknown respiratory virus in a Chinese city most of us had never heard of b...

Survival of the Considerate

March 21 , 2020 . By Hanna Haile

It may have taken some time, but the global pandemic of the Coronavirus disease has reached Ethiopia. Unsettling feelings of panic are just beginning to hit home. As stated in the weeks before the first case was confirmed, the government health institutions have been...

Delicate number

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total expenditure, in Birr, by the federal government for the health sector in the current fiscal year. Sixteen percent of this is for recurrent spending...

Commentaries

In the Fight Against COVID-19, Everyone Should Enlist

Mar 28,2020 . By Fikru Maru

The response and serious commitment by all to contribute to the resolution of the Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) crisis is overwhelming. There is thus no better time to consider what worries us most and...

The Eco, a Promise toward Monetary Union

March 28 , 2020 . By Mhraf Worku

For three decades, the Economic Community of West African Countries (EC0WAS), the regional bloc of c...

The More Complex Path to Asset Financing

March 14 , 2020 . By Getachew Asfaw

There are two outstanding theories of money supply. The first, the Keynesian school, led by the grea...

My Opinion

How Much for the GERD, Trump?

March 7 , 2020 . By Christian Tesfaye

We have suddenly found ourselves gripped with patriotic fervour to defend Ethiopia’s sovereign rights over the filling and operation of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD). #ItsMyDam is trend...

Revolution Will Doom Us All

February 29 , 2020 . By Christian Tesfaye

The events of the past two years have provided us with a rare opportunity to examine our society. This is the time to as...

Ignorance Isn't Bliss

February 22 , 2020 . By Christian Tesfaye

Two years ago, Simegnew Bekele, chief engineer and lead project manager of the Great Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD), w...

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NIPPED IN THE BUD

For the past five years, Adanech Kumela (left) and Werqe Girma have cut roses at the Yassin Legesse Johnson Flower Farm for export to mainly European and North American markets. The roses not only fetch revenue for the company but much-needed foreign...

Zemen Bank Cuts Loan Interest Rate to Zero for Horticulture Industry

April 3 , 2020

Executives at Zemen Bank took the banking industry by surprise, cutting interest on commercial loans for borrowers in the horticulture industry to zero. The new rate applies to loans and advances taken for the period between April 2, and June 30, 202...

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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COVID-19 UPDATES: All the stories and commentaries on Coronavirus, in one place

News Alert

Korean Business Association, NGO Donate 40,000 Medical Masks

Tech Teams Join Hands to Fight COVID-19 Threat

Headline Inflation Hits 22.6pc Rate

The cost of living keeps spiking and reached the highest rate in a six-year period by increasing 22.6pc last month, according to the latest Consumer Price Index from the Central Statistical Agency (CSA). Dri...

Korean Business Association, NGO Donate 40,000 Medical Masks

Economic Disaster Looms Large, Fiscal Response Plan Can't Come Earlier

What Keeps AfDB's President up at Night?

Touted by the Americans, Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed has been...

Ethiopia's Flower Market at Dead End

Economic Disaster Looms Large, Fiscal Response Plan Can't Come Earlier

In September 2005, the World Bank commissioned a futuristic study to see the loss in human life and cost to the global economy should there be a global outbreak of a virus. The finding was too terrifying to contemplate. Tens of millions could die acr...

With Coronavirus, Overreact and Be Wrong

In Crisis, Human Dignity Shines Bright

In Crisis, Human Dignity Shines Bright

Let's Rise Above COVID-19, with Love, Respect

Awareness: Best Weapon Against COVID-19

Caleb Embodies the Human Capital Cost of Traffic Accidents

Private Healthcare Industry Throws Hippocratic Oath Out the Window

Growth Does Not Need to Be Foul

To Silence the Guns, Walk the Talk

Ethiopia's Flower Market at Dead End

It was such an outrageously windy and sunny day in March; the clouds on the horizon were shaded with blighted, glaring white. The day was both a majestic mixture of patches of clouds with the sun; it was supposed to be a good day. But not for Abebech...

COVID-19 Hits Some Businesses Hard, Yet Blesses Others

It's Corona Time

No Better Time to Fact Check

‘For Now, It’s Fine’

"We've not seen its true scale."

"We cannot take this number as [reported]."

"We need every drop of the Nile."

"Move on."

"It's very easy."

"Where is Team Lemma?"

What Keeps AfDB's President up at Night?

The Minimum States Can Do

When it Comes to COVID, Caution but Also Some Sense

US Can Still Salvage GERD Negotiation

Hydro Hegemony: Linchpin of the GERD Dispute

Ethiopia Could become 21st Century Colony of Egypt

Ethiopian Needs To Empower Its ‘Paid Robots’

Othering: Virus More Dangerous than COVID-19

Free, Fair Election, but also Peaceful

PART RECREATION

Street Books

Plastic Hat

BUS STOPS

To the Brim

Enena Bete, Small but Innovative

TEZA: THE SON, THE MOTHER AND THE NATION

ONWARD: A RARE DISNEY ORIGINAL

THE VISIBLE WOMAN

SUPPORT FOR THE FIGHT

Three E-commerce Platforms Availed Alternative Transactions

Ministry Launches Workplace Response Protocol

BETWEEN THE DEBRIS

Property Disposal Generates 1.8m Br

Touted by the Americans, Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed has been...

A farewell party for Bacha Gina

Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed (PhD) frequents...

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

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

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

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

Brace for Cultural, Socioeconomic Adjustment

Survival of the Considerate

12

In the Fight Against COVID-19, Everyone Should Enlist

The Eco, a Promise toward Monetary Union

The More Complex Path to Asset Financing

How Much for the GERD, Trump?

Revolution Will Doom Us All

Ignorance Isn't Bliss

NIPPED IN THE BUD

For the past five years, Adanech Kumela (left) and Werqe Girma have cut roses at the Yassin Legesse Johnson Flower Farm for export to mainly European and North American markets. The roses not only fetch revenue for the company but much-needed foreign...

Zemen Bank Cuts Loan Interest Rate to Zero for Horticulture Industry

IN-PICTURE: LAUREATE'S RECEPTION

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