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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...

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Housing Corp Set to Build Apartments for 2b Br

September 14 , 2019 . By TEMESGEN MULUGETA

September 14 , 2019 | View From Arada

Bunker Mentality

Fortune News

Housing Corp Set to Build Apartments for 2b Br

September 14 , 2019 . By TEMESGEN MULUGETA

The Federal Housing Corporation is gearing up to construct four mixed-use apartment buildings in the capital for an estimated two billion Birr investment. Three of the apartment buildings will each have 10 st...

Editorial

From an Activist State to Economic Liberalism. Welcome!

September 14 , 2019

The administration of Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed (PhD) has begun rolling out a transitional economic reform programme its authors have dubbed the “Homegrown Economic Reform Agenda.” Last week, in the presence...

Exclusive Interviews

Constitutional Tailor Would Prefer Constitutional Court

August 10 , 2019

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...

The Fineline

Addis Abeba branch of the Amahara Democratic Party (ADP)...

September 14 , 2019

The rank and file officials assigned to the Addis Abeba City Administration, representing the ruling coalition, are the most illustrative of the sort of chaos in which the EPRDF finds itself, gossip observed. Go...

Agenda

Palm Oil Imports Cook Up Controversy

September 14 , 2019 . By TEMESGEN MULUGETA

August 31 , 2019 . By TEMESGEN MULUGETA

Nation Resets Education Policy

Editorial

From an Activist State to Economic Liberalism. Welcome!

The administration of Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed (PhD) has begun rolling out a transitional economic reform programme its authors have dubbed the “Homegrown Economic Reform Agenda.” Last week, in the presence of the Prime Minister, State Minister...

Editorials

Challenging Year Ahead Not Insurmountable

September 7 , 2019

It is in tradition to reflect on passing years and contemplate what the years ahead would bring individuals and society. Especially those at the helm of power know that one of the burdens of...

Sunday with Eden

Find Meaning in Daily Life

September 7 , 2019 . By Eden Sahle

Find Meaning in Daily Life

September 7 , 2019 . By Eden Sahle

One of the best decisions I ever made about my life is not to evaluate myself on a yearly basis. I have discovered that when I giv...

A Call for Decency

August 31 , 2019 . By Eden Sahle

I sometimes struggle with how to respond to people who believe it is their right to mistreat and di...

The Art of Contentment

August 24 , 2019 . By Eden Sahle

Our pampered human culture today is obsessively focused on material accumulation and fake egotistica...

The Problem of Inefficient Workers

August 17 , 2019 . By Eden Sahle

All Humanity Bound Together

August 10 , 2019 . By Eden Sahle

Discern Blame from Responsibility

August 3 , 2019 . By Eden Sahle

Don’t Add Salt to Ethiopia’s Wounds

July 27 , 2019 . By Eden Sahle

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Agenda

Palm Oil Imports Cook Up Controversy

On the morning of September 11, 2019, the eve of the Ethiopian New Year, Ali Abasora, in his mid-30s, was at a kiosk under Yenegew Tesfa Consumers Cooperative Union located in Wereda 03 of Kirkos District. Located around Agona Cinema on Sierra Leo...

Agenda

Lifestyle Change Fosters Flat-pack Furniture Business

September 7 , 2019 . By TEMESGEN MULUGETA

Hana Tadele, a housewife and a mother of two children, lives in an apartment next to Hilton Hotel on Menelik II Avenue. Owned by the Federal Housing Corporation, the apartment has 82 housing units including Hana's. Due to the small sizes of the rooms, her f...

Life matters

Contemplation in Gonder

September 14 , 2019 . By Tsion Fisseha

With an attempt to expand my horizon and also spend some quality time with my friend, I made my way up to one of the most historical cities in Ethiopia, Gonder. The first thing I noticed when I got there was the pure love the people of Gonder have...

New Year’s Resolutions

September 7 , 2019 . By Tsion Fisseha

The Ethiopian year is almost over and the New Year is around the corner. Ethiopia’s 2012 is almost here with all the hopes of prosperity and happiness. The New Year, be...

Migration Here to Stay

August 31 , 2019 . By Tsion Fisseha

Just last week, I went to the immigration bureau, because I had to get my passport renewed. Given the fact that I have heard horror stories about this particular office,...

Verbatim

“We don’t want to be part of an election where EPRDF will be the only winner.”

Girma Bekele, vice chairman of the Joint Council of Political Parties, as quoted by Addis Admas, the...

“I don’t think the credibility and success of an election depends on the Electoral Board only.”

Solyana Shimelis, communication advisor of the National Electoral Board of Ethiopia, in an interview...

“We had many bad values, if they can be called values.”

Yeraswork Admassie (PhD), Executive Director of the think tank, Forum for Social Studies, in an inte...

“The Constitution should not be amended by the current EPRDF parliament.”

Chane Kebede (PhD), Vice Chairman of Ethiopian Citizens for Social Justice, in an interview with Ad...

“There is absolutely no change in Tigray.”

Aregash Adane former TPLF official and member of parliament, now a member of the leadership team of...

“They are misleading the society.”

Beyene Petros (Prof.), chairman of Ethiopian Social Democratic Party, told the Ethiopian Press Age...

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...

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

African Negotiation with China Requires Assertiveness

September 14 , 2019 . By Ahadu Y. Assefa

Africa has a huge infrastructure gap that reached 45.5 billion dollars in 2018. Between 2018 and 2040, this infrastructure investment gap is expected to stand at 1.6 trillion dollars. Developing infrastructure in the reg...

High Time for Electric Vehicle Policy in Ethiopia

September 7 , 2019 . By Clay Webster

The forex crunch. At this point, it has almost become an aftertho...

The Ethiopian Dream: Immigration

September 7 , 2019 . By Christian Tesfaye

As patriotic as Ethiopians may be, they are given...

The Grief Police

September 7 , 2019 . By Kidist Yidnekachew

Trump Good for Africa

August 31 , 2019 . By Hintsa Andebrhan

Making Migration Work for Everyone

August 24 , 2019 . By Md. Shahidul Haque

Responsible Emancipation

August 24 , 2019 . By Kidist Yidnekachew

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

IT CHAPTER TWO, MUCH LIKE CHAPTER ONE

September 14 , 2019 . By Christian Tesfaye

47 METRES DOWN: UNCAGED BANALITY

September 7 , 2019 . By Christian Tesfaye

TRILOGY HAS FALLEN

August 31 , 2019 . By Christian Tesfaye

ONCE UPON A TIME IN HOLLYWOOD WITH TARANTINO

August 24 , 2019 . By Christian Tesfaye

Radar

JUSTICE DAY

September 14 , 2019

Meaza Ashenafi (left), the President of the Federal Supreme Court, and Birhanu Tsegaye, the Federal Attorney General, stand outside Millenni...

ABEBAYEHOSH

September 14 , 2019

GREEN VIEW

September 14 , 2019

Saudi Firm Secures Nation’s First Solar Project

September 14 , 2019

Ethiopia, US Ally to End Tuberculosis

September 14 , 2019

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

June 29 , 2019 . By FASIKA TADESSE | News Analysis

Assassinations Cast Shadow on New Era

View from arada

Bunker Mentality

Human beings are both capable of building as well as destroying. At the scale of a society, this particular feature is best summed up with walls and bridges. Piling stone after stone, some build walls thinking they will feel safe and uni...

A FUTURE TO BELIEVE IN

September 7 , 2019 . By Hanna Haile

As the teacher calls on the raised hand in an Addis Abeba University classroom, the frustrated student begins, “Chewing khat is my culture, and you shouldn't prohibit me from using it!” As students berated each other back and forth about khat, the teacher ended the...

Delicate number

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Expected federal government revenue in Birr from excise taxes on locally manufactured tobacco & tobacco products in the 2019/20 fiscal year...

Commentaries

Psychological Reform: Weak Link in Ethiopia’s Reform

Sep 14,2019 . By Daniel Hailu (PhD)

In his Ethiopian New Year address to the nation on the eve of September 11, 2018, Ethiopia’s Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed(PhD) stressed the need to be imbued with a new and transformed mindset as we re...

Should We Worry About Income Gaps Within or Between Countries?

September 14 , 2019 . By Dani Rodrik

At the beginning of classes every autumn, I tease my students with the following question: Is it bet...

The Belt and Road Initiative and Africa: A Debt Trap?

September 7 , 2019 . By Ahadu Y. Assefa

An estimated 5,000 foreign officials and business delegates from 36 countries were in Beijing attend...

My Opinion

Bigotry Wrapped in a Flag

September 14 , 2019 . By Tibebu Bekele

It is usually three or four guests sitting beside a talk show host throwing them light, formulaic questions and an open microphone for them to ramble on and on for a long time. That is the usual forma...

Begin with the End in Mind

September 7 , 2019 . By Tibebu Bekele

Stephen Covey, in his widely read book The Seven Habits of Highly effective People, talks about how successful leaders s...

Reinventing the Wheel

August 31 , 2019 . By Tibebu Bekele

In February 2013, blaring headlines proclaimed “Ethiopia launches Africa’s first unified utility billing system”....

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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...

Palm Oil Imports Cook Up Controversy

September 14 , 2019 . By TEMESGEN MULUGETA

On the morning of September 11, 2019, the eve of the Ethiopian New Year, Ali Abasora, in his mid-30s, was at a kiosk under Yenegew Tesfa Consumers Cooperative Union located in Wereda 03 of Kirkos District. Located around Agona Cinema on Sierra Leone Street, the kiosk was serving six people who lined up to buy cooking oil. ...

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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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...

Housing Corp Set to Build Apartments for 2b Br

Housing Corp Set to Build Apartments for 2b Br

From an Activist State to Economic Liberalism. Welcome!

Constitutional Tailor Would Prefer Constitutional Court

Addis Abeba branch of the Amahara Democratic Party (ADP)...

Palm Oil Imports Cook Up Controversy

From an Activist State to Economic Liberalism. Welcome!

The administration of Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed (PhD) has begun rolling out a transitional economic reform programme its authors have dubbed the “Homegrown Economic Reform Agenda.” Last week, in the presence of the Prime Minister, State Minister...

Challenging Year Ahead Not Insurmountable

Find Meaning in Daily Life

Find Meaning in Daily Life

A Call for Decency

The Art of Contentment

The Problem of Inefficient Workers

All Humanity Bound Together

Discern Blame from Responsibility

Don’t Add Salt to Ethiopia’s Wounds

Palm Oil Imports Cook Up Controversy

On the morning of September 11, 2019, the eve of the Ethiopian New Year, Ali Abasora, in his mid-30s, was at a kiosk under Yenegew Tesfa Consumers Cooperative Union located in Wereda 03 of Kirkos District. Located around Agona Cinema on Sierra Leo...

Lifestyle Change Fosters Flat-pack Furniture Business

Contemplation in Gonder

New Year’s Resolutions

Migration Here to Stay

“We don’t want to be part of an election where EPRDF will be the only winner.”

“I don’t think the credibility and success of an election depends on the Electoral Board only.”

“We had many bad values, if they can be called values.”

“The Constitution should not be amended by the current EPRDF parliament.”

“There is absolutely no change in Tigray.”

“They are misleading the society.”

Constitutional Tailor Would Prefer Constitutional Court

What the IMF Desires to See in Ethiopia

African Negotiation with China Requires Assertiveness

High Time for Electric Vehicle Policy in Ethiopia

The Ethiopian Dream: Immigration

The Grief Police

Trump Good for Africa

Making Migration Work for Everyone

Responsible Emancipation

Haile G.Sellasie Received a Silver Cup

PLASTIC LIGHT

Girl Power

DANCING FOR TREES

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

IT CHAPTER TWO, MUCH LIKE CHAPTER ONE

47 METRES DOWN: UNCAGED BANALITY

TRILOGY HAS FALLEN

ONCE UPON A TIME IN HOLLYWOOD WITH TARANTINO

JUSTICE DAY

ABEBAYEHOSH

GREEN VIEW

Saudi Firm Secures Nation’s First Solar Project

Ethiopia, US Ally to End Tuberculosis

The EPRDF Executive Committee...

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

Ethiopia’s envoy to Kenya...

Jurisdictional matters may have survived successive administrations...

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

The Executive Committee of the ruling EPRDF reveals

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

Bunker Mentality

A FUTURE TO BELIEVE IN

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Psychological Reform: Weak Link in Ethiopia’s Reform

Should We Worry About Income Gaps Within or Between Countries?

The Belt and Road Initiative and Africa: A Debt Trap?

Bigotry Wrapped in a Flag

Begin with the End in Mind

Reinventing the Wheel

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...

Palm Oil Imports Cook Up Controversy

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

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