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IMF Meets Wednesday on $3b for Ethiopia

December 14 , 2019 . By FASIKA TADESSE


Featured

Featured

Unregulated Phone Screen Coating Business Booms in Addis

December 14 , 2019 . By SEBLE WONDEMAGEGN

On the evening of Tuesday, December 4, 2019, the walkways of...



LAUREATE'S RECEPTION  

Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed (PhD) was warmly welcomed and congratulated by his cabinet members and others ministers, including Hirut Zemene, state minister for Foreign Affairs, Ergoge Tesfaye (PhD)(middle), minis...


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Editorial

A Rare Honour to Be Earned

By any measure, starting life in the small town of Beshasha, a town with no running water or electricity, as Abiy Ahmed (PhD) recalled, with little privileges to give him a leg up in life, to be bestowed arguably the most respected award and recognit...

Editorials

What's Good for Farmers Should Be Good for the Government

December 7 , 2019

In the little over 100 years since the introduction of the first vehicle to Ethiopia, the advancement in science and technology has been nothing short of astounding. Humans have landed on the...

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

Motherhood, Not Just a Woman’s Burden

December 14 , 2019 . By Etenat Awol

Maternity remains the ultimate emotional attachment of both nature and society. Beyond all good and voracious pleasures of worldly accomplishments, motherhood possesses an exceedingly gratifying means of absolute belongi...

Decolonising African Scholarship

December 7 , 2019 . By Kenneth Amaeshi

Although deeper scholarly interest in the continent of Africa is...

The Challenges of Stabilisation and Reform in Ethiopia

November 30 , 2019 . By Yonas Biru (PhD)

If I were Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed, I would publi...

Not Easy to Look the Other Way

November 23 , 2019 . By Etenat Awol

Sub-aggregated Data Useful Tool in Reporting

November 16 , 2019 . By Million Fikru

The Forgotten Commercial Code Revision

November 9 , 2019 . By Dawit Tadesse

How Noble is the Nobel Award?

November 9 , 2019 . By Austine Sequeira

In-Picture

LIFTING THE CUP

December 14 , 2019

THE PLASTIC HOUSE

November 16 , 2019

BAG TIME

October 26 , 2019

A Rare Moment

November 28 , 2019

SHOP ON WHEELS

November 16 , 2019


Editors' Pick

Central Bank Opens Treasury Bill Market

As of next month, interested individuals and financial institutions can buy treasury bills from the National Bank of Ethiopia (NBE) through an auction. The central bank has also decided the market will determine the yield rate of the bill to attra...

Editors Picks

A Rare Honour to Be Earned

December 14 , 2019

By any measure, starting life in the small town of Beshasha, a town with no running water or electricity, as Abiy Ahmed (PhD) recalled, with little privileges to give him a leg up in life, to be bestowed arguably the most respected award and recognition on the world stage is a big achievement. Congratulations are in order for P...


Agenda


Birr Depreciation Brings Mixed Feelings to Businesses



At the edge of Addis Abeba Abattoir Enterprise, alongside the sheep sale yard, different car dealerships are lined up one after the other on Alexander Pushkin Street. Elias Kedir, in his late 20s, is a salesperson at one of these car dealerships n...

Agenda

Public Campus Chaos Unlocks Business Opportunity for Private Colleges

December 7 , 2019 . By TEMESGEN MULUGETA

On the afternoon of December 3, 2019, Sumeya Menegistu, a 22-year-old student, was sitting alone outside of a classroom in the large compound at St. Mary’s University, which is located in Mexico, waiting for the bell to ring. Dropping out from public univ...

Commentaries

Road Safety in Ethiopia: The Need for a Shift in Emphasis

Dec 07,2019 . By Henok Girma and Matts-Åke Belin (PhD)

In a recent article published on Addis Fortune[vol. 20 No.1021] on the increasingly worrisome state of traffic safety in Ethiopia, Hanna Haile claimed "There may be many factors that cannot be changed...

Changed Directive Demands Capable Central Bank

November 30 , 2019 . By Abdulmenan Mohammed

Last week, the National Bank of Ethiopia (NBE) announced that it lifted the requirement imposed on p...

Meditating about leaders: Quintessentially Indifferent

November 2 , 2019 . By Dawit Wondimagegn

As I sit in my office and scribble this, I felt with overwhelming clarity that the quintessential na...

My Opinion

Cloudy With Brilliant Sunrise

November 30 , 2019 . By Tibebu Bekele

I am not a big fan of importing cultural holidays from the West and commercialising them here in Ethiopia. But I also realise in this 21st century globalised world, it is impossible to stop the cross...

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...

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...

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Films Review

HUMAN AMBITION V CORPORATE GREED

December 7 , 2019 . By Christian Tesfaye

CHARLIE’S ANGELS: NOTHING ANGELIC ABOUT IT

November 23 , 2019 . By Christian Tesfaye

DARK FATE: ONE OF THE BETTER TERMINATORS

November 9 , 2019 . By Christian Tesfaye

DE-AGED MAN

October 19 , 2019 . By Christian Tesfaye

Radar

USAID, Awash Join Hands to Fund Microfinance

December 14 , 2019

The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and Awash Bank S.C. have announced a 6.4-million-dollar p...

LANDSLIDE

December 14 , 2019

BOOKS ANYONE?

December 14 , 2019

Niger Seed Joins ECX Floor

December 14 , 2019

Tax Revenues Generate 19.2b Br

December 14 , 2019


Exclusive Interviews


AFC Courting Ethiopia for Sovereign Membership

First established in 2007 with a one-billion-dollar contribution from the Central Bank of Nigeria, the African Finance Corporation (IFC) has become one of the prominent development lending institutions in Africa. It is expanding its shareholder base with the addition, two weeks ago, of the Africa De...



First established in 2007 with a one-billion-dollar contribution from the Central Bank of Nigeria, the African Finance Corporation (IFC) has become one of the prominent development lending institutions in Africa. It is expanding its shareholder base with the addition, two weeks ago, of the Africa De...

Exclusive interview

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 radically different regimes. Never entangling him...


The fineline

A Pronouncement of Political Dissent by Lemma Megersa...

November 30 , 2019

The public's attention, if not space, has been overwhelmed since late last week by a pronouncement of political dissent by Lemma Megersa, a once ardent ally of Abiy Ahmed (PhD). The coup de cœur of t...


The last executive committee meeting of the EPRDF...

The last executive committee meeting of the EPRDF, as it has been known for the past three decades, was held over the wee...

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 o...

The turn now appears between the TPLF and the ODP

More worrying to Abiy may come from his own backyard

September 28 , 2019

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

News Analysis




View from arada

Greatness is all Around Us

A coat of pride engulfs Ethiopia once again, as two international awards shine their lights on the country. Freweini Mebrahtu was chosen as CNN Hero of the Year and Ethiopia’s Prime Minis...

Generation Equality Against Rape

December 7 , 2019 . By Hanna Haile

He was her cousin, not a stranger but someone she had grown up with. He sexually assaulted her for months. These incidents, she confides, continue to affect her intimate relationships. This is a story of survival she has shared with friends and never uttered in the pres...

Delicate number

25

Budgeted to service government debt in Birr in fiscal year 2019/20...

Life matters

Is Love Really Enough?

December 14 , 2019 . By Kidist Yidnekachew

I have met many people on many occasions who think they know what is best for the greater society, who think they are privileged to pull strings and make the call for other people. These people have the audacity to consider themselves morally right....

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...

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.”...

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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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