The national elections held last week have moved from counting to contestation, after Melatwork Hailu, chief of the National Election Board of Ethiopia (NEBE), disclosed that over two dozen contesting parties, including the incumbent, filed complaint...
Jun 7 , 2026
The long-delayed census has returned to Parliament not as a counting exercise, but as a fight over who should command the country's numbers. The Ministry of Planning & Development has introduce...
Jun 7 , 2026
Before sunrise in Addis Abeba's Lemi Kura District, charcoal braziers glowed beside Polling Sub-Station 120, their thin blue smoke drifting over a traditional coffee ceremony and a line of voters alre...
Jun 7 , 2026
The foreign-exchange market spent the first week of June moving, but not breaking. After weeks without a Central Bank forex auction, the Birr (the Brewed Buck) weakened modestly across commercial-bank...
Jun 7 , 2026
Millions cast ballots, while security concerns prevented elections from being conducted in 38 consti...
Jun 3 , 2026
The national electoral board has dismissed two employees for procedural violations while counting co...
Jun 2 , 2026
Zenebe Girja used to sit close to the centre of the formal gold trade, where sacks of raw ore, small-scale miners and state policy converged into one of the country's most important sources of foreign currency. A licensed gold trader based in Shak...
Jun 7 , 2026
For a political veteran as controversial as Getachew Reda, last week's national elections were never merely a contest over which name on the ballot commanded the larger support. It was also a gauge of public exhaustion with disorder, fear and the pol...
Jun 6 , 2026
Fortune: The African Union has made SAATM a priority for next year. Are you happy with the way the project is being handled by the AU and AFCAC? Kamil Al-Awadhi: The AU is talking about SAATM as a priority, but I do not think it will work the way it is being handled now. The AU nominated the proj...
Jun 7 , 2026
The value, in dollars, of gold export revenues for the 2024/25 fiscal year, which the Ministry of Mines (MoM) claimed grew by 22.5pc compared to the previous year. However, this figure directly conflicts with a November 2023 disclosure, in which the Ministry reported total mineral exports of 427 million dollars, including 408 million dollars from gold alone. If those earlier figures are used as the baseline, the growth would actually be about 2.8 times higher.
Jun 6 , 2026
Leaders of the National Election Board are in a charm offensive mood, of a sort. Last week, they organised a rare tour for members of the media, showcasing what polling stations will look like during the upcoming national elections; and they took the...
Oct 3 , 2020
Getachew Reda, advisor to the Prime Minister on East African Affairs, under a ministerial portfolio, responded to questions on TRT World about the fairness of last week's elections. He blamed the country's "first-past-the-post" electoral system for the overwhelming results being a natural byproduct.
Over the weekend on May 30, I joined a garage sale as a vendor inside Polish Garage in Hayahulet, in front of Arsho Medical Laboratories, bringing along a mix of old and...
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