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THE TURKISH DILEMMA

The top five companies holding the highest portfolios of non-performing loans at the Development Bank of Ethiopia (DBE) are all Turkish owned. Together with one other Turkish company, six foreign companies owe...


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Fortune News

Fortune News

The Turkish Dilemma

February 16 , 2019 . By FASIKA TADESSE


Featured

Featured

Banks Clamour to Entice Unbanked

February 16 , 2019 . By TEMESGEN MULUGETA

Aklilu Ayenew, born in Wolaita Sodo and in his mid-20s, has...



Editorial

Ethiopia Needs a Fresh Economic Order to Weather the Storm Ahead

This year, 2019, will be defined by global economic factors of slowdowns and trade wars in major markets in the US, EU and China. The US Federal Reserve will be pressured to increase interest rates to fend off inflation fears fueled by failing prices...

Editorials

With Law Enforcement, Bad Habits Die Hard

February 9 , 2019

Issayas Dagnew, a senior executive at Ethio telecom, is a brother to Kinfe Dagnew, a high brass military general who was also the founding CEO of the state-owned Metals & Engineering Corp...

Sunday with Eden

Beyond Partisanship, toward Comprehension

February 16 , 2019 . By Eden Sahle

We live in an era when tribalism has been elevated to dominate national discourse. It controls how people think and talk and deter...

Meek MPs Attract Domineering Executive Body

February 1 , 2019 . By Eden Sahle

Beyond the timeless architecture and history of the Westminst...

It Takes a Village, but Mainly Parents

January 26 , 2019 . By Eden Sahle

Almost every parent hopes their children will turn out to be...

Technology, the World Pass by Ethiopia

January 18 , 2019 . By Eden Sahle

Faith-based Institutions: Way to Ethiopians Heart to Uphold Moral Compass

January 12 , 2019 . By Eden Sahle

Overconfidence, Not Always Bad

January 5 , 2019 . By Eden Sahle

The Diaspora Delusion

December 29 , 2018 . By Eden Sahle

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Viewpoints

Bureaucrats’ Lack of Revolutionary Zeal

February 16 , 2019 . By Tibebu Bekele

Recently, I had to go to a kebele office to obtain a permit to shore up a fence. What I noticed was a clear change in the way the service-needing public is treated. There is much more civility and friendliness on the...

Lessons from Highs, Lows of African Exchanges

February 16 , 2019 . By Haben Mehari

An anticipated and significant announcement was made as a one-pag...

Democracy Can Hurt the National Interest

February 9 , 2019 . By Austine Sequeira

Zimbabwe has seen one of its most divisive electio...

Ethiopians’ Deeply Held Perception of Integrity

February 9 , 2019 . By Habtamu Girma

In the World of Hedge Funds, Retain Capital Controls

February 1 , 2019

What We Can Do for Our Country

February 1 , 2019 . By Hintsa Andebrhan

Social Issues Society Refuses to Acknowledge

January 26 , 2019 . By Belay Abera

In-Picture

Welcoming Dance

February 16 , 2019

Ketera

January 20 , 2019

QUALITY AWARD

January 12 , 2019

Pizza Hut Triples Branches

February 2 , 2019

TRAFFIC HICCUP

January 26 , 2019


Editors' Pick

Informal Decision Dashes Employment Hopes

Samson Mekonnen, born and raised in the Ras Desta Hospital area of Arada District and a graduate of General Wingate TVET College in carpentry, is now in his 30s. For years he worked on various temporary jobs but was hard-pressed to land permanent...

Editors Picks

Bookish, Politicking Diplomat Rests

February 16 , 2019

Dawit Yohannes was a reader. He loved all things political, as might have been evident from the fact that he was the first speaker of parliament with the advent of the federal republic system. He loved reading to the point that he took up four books at a time. He would read one at his personal library; another at the dining...


Agenda


Informal Decision Dashes Employment Hopes



Samson Mekonnen, born and raised in the Ras Desta Hospital area of Arada District and a graduate of General Wingate TVET College in carpentry, is now in his 30s. For years he worked on various temporary jobs but was hard-pressed to land permanent...

Agenda

Wheat Supply Shortage Disrupts Bakeries in Addis

February 9 , 2019 . By KALAEB GIRMA

When Sultan Redi was just 10 years old, his father established Abo Bakery Shop in Asko, Kolfe District, in 1969. A fourth child, he grew up helping in the shop, and by the time he was an adult he had learned the particulars of the trade. His father passed a...

Commentaries

Africa: From Scramble to Theatre of Rivalry for Global Superpowers

Feb 09,2019 . By Solomon Ayele (PhD)

Writing in the March 1983 edition of the New York Timesunder the intriguing headline of “Africa: From Cold War to Cold Shoulders” John Holmes summed up aptly the treatment the continent endured in...

Is the Honeymoon over for the New Prime Minister?

February 9 , 2019 . By Dereje Gizaw

Having started from within and having learned the ropes in the embrace of EPRDF politics, Prime Mini...

Long-term Economic Wellbeing above Ideology, Politics

February 1 , 2019 . By Asseged G. Medhin

The image Ethiopia has been radiating for the past few years was bound to create certain assumptions...

My Opinion

Public Health Policy’s Implications

February 16 , 2019 . By Christian Tesfaye

The passing of the food and medicine bill in parliament early last month is indicative of the government’s stated interest to protect public health. There is undoubtedly a long way to go before enfo...

The Multiple Pronged Problem

February 9 , 2019 . By Christian Tesfaye

Ethiopia’s macroeconomic situation is as precarious as its political condition. There are hopeful developments. Geo...

The Millennial Manifesto

February 1 , 2019 . By Christian Tesfaye

The future is bleak. Millennials and younger generations who will inherit a planet low in natural resources and afflicte...

Fortune video

Films Review

The Lego Sellout

February 16 , 2019

Green Book: Road Movie beyond Formula

February 9 , 2019 . By Christian Tesfaye

With this Movie, It’s Forgiven

February 2 , 2019 . By Christian Tesfaye

Glass and the Flimsy Plot Twist

January 26 , 2019

Radar

Welcoming Dance

February 16 , 2019

A public diplomacy delegation from Eritrea arrived in Addis Abeba, at Bole Airport, on Thursday, February 14, 2019. They were received by an...

Shades

February 16 , 2019

US-Africa Forum

February 16 , 2019

Ethiopia, Djibouti Ink Deal to Install Gas Pipeline

February 16 , 2019

Enterprise Adjusts Addis-Adama Expressway Fee

February 16 , 2019


Exclusive Interviews


Betty G- Engages Positively

Bruktawit Getahun, Betty G for her fans, would have loved to be around for the Battle of Adwa and thinks of robots as square and scary. Third daughter to her parents, anchored but not confined, there is not a challenge in her life she would rather not have faced. She waxes philosophically to describ...



Bruktawit Getahun, Betty G for her fans, would have loved to be around for the Battle of Adwa and thinks of robots as square and scary. Third daughter to her parents, anchored but not confined, there is not a challenge in her life she would rather not have faced. She waxes philosophically to describ...

Exclusive interview

Despite Hurdles, the Future Spells Promise for Africa

November 21 , 2018

Fortune: You have said that you are not here [the Africa Investment Forum] for the sound bites. You have been talking about deal-making and transactions, and have signed a memorandum of understanding with Power Africa. But what else are you here for? Admass...

The fineline

Abiy Ahmed (PhD) is an excellent illustration...

February 9 , 2019

The aura of power changes people. Abiy Ahmed (PhD) is an excellent illustration of this. Barely a year in the most powerful office in the country, he has evolved so much since beginning as a political...


The tale of two dispositions could be what best describes Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed...

January 19 , 2019

The tale of two dispositions could be what best describes Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed’s public perfor...

Finally, the Chinese government sent its senior diplomat to

January 5 , 2019

Finally, the Chinese government sent its senior diplomat to Addis Abeba with a large entourage of aid...

The lovey-dovey relationship that has evolved...

December 25 , 2018

Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed (PhD) has been busy...

September 24 , 2018

On Saturday, Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed (PhD) inaugurated ...

December 10 , 2018

The Office of the Prime Minister has...

November 27 , 2018

News Analysis



View from arada

Time to Examine the Sino-Ethiopian Relationship

At the central courtyard of the immigration office on Churchill Road, a group of Chinese labourers in khaki, tunic suits that appear a bit too large on them, and tacking oversized flip-flops...

The Failures of the Ethiopian Professional Class

February 9 , 2019 . By Ambessaw Assegued (assegued@anfilo.com).

The contrast between what boils outside the trimmed walls of a medical clinic compound in Cherkos and the clean, swept and manicured landscape inside is a jolt of reality that is hard to shake. Inside the gates, a whiff of sage flower scent begins to soothe the nose of...

Delicate number

126

kilometres of completed roads in Ethiopia, by the end of the last fiscal year, according to the National Bank of Ethiopia. It was just 44,559Km a decade ago...

Life matters

Saintly, Lovely Day

February 16 , 2019 . By Tsion Fisseha

Legend has it that over a millennium ago, a priest performed particular actions that led to the birth of a date celebrated across the globe today. The cleric, now better known as St. Valentine, was said to have signed a letter “Your Valentine” to...

Freedom of Mind

February 9 , 2019 . By Tsion Fisseha

Prime Minster Abiy Ahmed (PhD) has changed Ethiopian politics. Since his inauguration, words such as reform, hope and unity have been frequent. One other word that has ga...

The World of Thought

February 1 , 2019 . By Tsion Fisseha

On a recent lazy Sunday afternoon, I came across a TV show where a speaker who seemed to be in his late 30s was discussing the power of positive thinking and how they hav...

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Gallery

Pizza Hut Triples Branches

February 2 , 2019

Pizza Hut Ethiopia has launched its third outlet in Addis Abeba, this one entirely run by women. The joint venture franchise agreement between YUM! Restaurants International and Belayab Foods Production Plc opened the new Pizza Hut branch in Centu...

IN PICTURE: Betty G.

January 10 , 2019

Passport Tease: New Requirements For Passports Create Outrage

December 10 , 2018

The week in picture

December 10 , 2018

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