Total cases Reported In Ethiopia: 72700
New cases Reported In Ethiopia: 527
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Active cases Reported In Ethiopia: 41504
New Deaths Reported In Ethiopia: 10

Total Deaths Reported In Ethiopia: 1165
Total Recovered Reported In Ethiopia: 30029
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MUTED MESQEL

The Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak and a major construction project on Mesqel Square have meant that the annual religious festivities of Mesqel was likely to be underwhelming. The celebrations did not di...


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COVID-19 Puts Damper on Mesqel Celebration, Shoe Market

September 27 , 2020 . By HAGOS GEBREAMLAK

Desalegn Wondimu joined a shoe retail business close to two decades ago as a retailer. He then opened a shop that sells traditional shoes in Merkato with 1,500 Br in capital six ye...



Editorial

Ethiopia's Bleak Politics Can Use Invigorating Constitutional Renegotiation

In a series of opinion pieces on the state of democracy in Africa The Economist magazine is publishing, the first was by an African leader, Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed (PhD). No doubt, his rise to power - and no less his rhetoric - excited the global c...

Editorials

With New Notes, Few Guarantees Exist

September 19 , 2020

Few have had their work cut out for them as Yinager Dessie (PhD), governor of the National Bank of Ethiopia (NBE). As economic policies are refocused from state-led, demand-side economics to...

Sunday with Eden

When the Bureaucrats Fail to be Rational

September 27 , 2020 . By Eden Sahle

For the past two months, my family and I have been frequenting the offices of the state monopoly Ethio telecom to fix our interrup...

The What-Would-People-Say Syndrome

September 19 , 2020 . By Eden Sahle

Those that have attempted to meet people’s expectations qui...

Trust: as Indispensable to Relationships as to Politics

September 11 , 2020 . By Eden Sahle

A colleague of mine came to work last week looking distraugh...

The Ills of the Country Start at Home

September 6 , 2020 . By Eden Sahle

Federal Prosecution's New Face Promising for the Justice System

August 29 , 2020 . By Eden Sahle

The Best Treatment for COVID-19: Strength of Mind

August 22 , 2020 . By Eden Sahle

Bad Politics, Poor People

August 16 , 2020

This week's print version

Viewpoints

Ineffective Boards: At the Root of Unsuccessful Organisations

September 27 , 2020 . By Halima Abate (MD)

Public policies, precise in their formulation, might be executed to produce unintended effects or fall prey to corruption and ineptitude. The problem might, in the end, be attributed to lack of resources or political mal...

Are Intellectuals Killing Convergence?

September 27 , 2020 . By Arvind Subramanian and Josh Felman

How the Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic will affect develop...

As Ethiopia Denominates Higher, Gov't Should Tread Lightly

September 19 , 2020 . By Marew Abebe and Andualem Assefa

Last week, the government unveiled changes to the...

Making the WTO Work for Africa

September 19 , 2020 . By Hippolyte Fofack

As COVID-19 Bites, DFIs become Increasingly Relevant

September 11 , 2020 . By Vivianne Infante

Egypt's Strategy for Water Hegemony Gets Old by the Decades

September 11 , 2020 . By Lemma Teklehaimanot

Ethiopian Potential for Labour Export Requires More Nuanced Lense

September 11 , 2020 . By Adel A. Misri

In-Picture

Sanctioned Graffiti

June 20 , 2020

PART RECREATION

March 14 , 2020

BUS STOPS

March 7 , 2020

PEACOCK GATES

April 4 , 2020

GOOD SAMARITAN

April 4 , 2020


Editors' Pick

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...

Editors Picks

Restaurants Wither as Government Hits Tax Target

September 27 , 2020 . By MAYA MISIKIR 

A large green cedar tree, a symbol of the Lebanese flag, is displayed on the wall behind where the band plays in Allebnany Restaurant, located in the neighbourhood commonly known as haya-arat. The entrance to the restaurant is as grand as the place itself, which can seat over 300 people c...


Agenda


Restaurants Wither as Government Hits Tax Target



A large green cedar tree, a symbol of the Lebanese flag, is displayed on the wall behind where the band plays in Allebnany Restaurant, located in the neighbourhood commonly known as haya-arat. The entrance to the restaurant is as grand as the place...

Agenda

Heavy Rain Pelts Down Lives, Animals with Flash Flood

September 19 , 2020 . By MAYA MISIKIR 

If someone was to visit the huts located in Amibara Wereda at night during the rainy season, that person would find themselves occupied with mostly women and children. The men and young boys, who live in this Weredalocated in Afar Regional State, spend their n...

Commentaries

COVID-19 Reminds of Need to Humanise Global Patent System

Sep 27,2020 . By Bereket Kefyalew and Rahel Kassa

The Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic has disrupted the economic and political status quo besides its immediate health impacts. It has exposed the gaps and weaknesses of our national and internati...

In the Era of Mega Risks, Insurance Must Rise to Occasion

September 27 , 2020 . By Asseged G. Medhin

In as far as humans have existed, they have faced risks to their lives and the resources they depend...

To Become Digital Society, ICT Ecosystem Comes First

September 19 , 2020 . By Fisseha Mekuria (PhD)

Transforming Ethiopia into a digital society, where all sectors of the economy benefit from the avai...

My Opinion

Overconsumption - As Bad as It Sounds

September 19 , 2020 . By Christian Tesfaye

Few terms describe the current state of humanity as "overconsumption." It is a phenomenon that is taking place in Ethiopia as elsewhere. It applies to the economic as well as the socio-political spher...

Efficiency vs. Justice: The Economic Debate

September 11 , 2020 . By Christian Tesfaye

One of the more exciting developments to have come with the premiership of Abiy Ahmed (PhD) is a reo...

Ethiopia's Grim Routes to Democracy

July 13 , 2020 . By Christian Tesfaye

It has been over a century, and Ethiopia is still teetering on the edge of dissolution. The reason for this depends on t...

Fortune video

Films Review

Residue: Spiritual Sequel to Teza

September 19 , 2020 . By Christian Tesfaye

SWEETNESS IN THE SIDE-STORY

September 6 , 2020 . By Christian Tesfaye

A Space Odyssey: Lessons on What Makes for an Endlessly Repeatable Movie

July 10 , 2020 . By Christian Tesfaye

HOLLYWOOD’S SPIELBERGIAN RECOVERY

June 27 , 2020 . By Christian Tesfaye

Radar

BOOKS ON WHEELS

September 27 , 2020

Stubbornly, the book vending business remains vibrant in Addis Abeba, especially for a market of second-hand paperbacks. But books being wei...

'EXCELLENT' COFFEE

September 27 , 2020

CAMEL'S MILK IN BOTTLES

September 27 , 2020

National Bank Relaxes Currency Changeover Rules

September 27 , 2020

Central Bank Activates Loans Against Movable Collateral

September 27 , 2020


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...



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 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 rate of growth by African countries as well as cha...


The fineline

When the country’s most. . .

September 19 , 2020

When the country’s most senior diplomats and envoys return back to their posts after two-week debriefings, they leave behind a point or two by way of emphasis, claims gossip. Ethiopia’s dealings w...


Old habits die hard, so they say. The TPLF's leadership community...

Old habits die hard, so they say. The TPLF`s leadership community - the existing alike the former - i...

Yinager Dessie (PhD), governor of the central bank...

Yinager Dessie (PhD), governor of the central bank, convened bank presidents and board directors in his office two weeks...

In the absence of a hegemonic political force...

May 2 , 2020

For countries like Ethiopia where scarcity of resources...

April 25 , 2020

Ethiopia is bracing for a potential constitutional crisis...

April 4 , 2020

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

March 28 , 2020

News Analysis




View from arada

In Defense of the Infamous Eucalyptus Tree

Confused with my earlier dotty categorisation of trees, as though they all are the same, except in looks, I was at an impasse to tell what differentiates them. Then I started to vet what com...

The Old Meets the New in Addis' City Planning

September 19 , 2020 . By TADESSE TSEGAYE

One can draw any kind of picture on a clean slate and indulge every whim in the wilderness in laying out a new city. But when operating in an overbuilt metropolis, one has to hack away with a meat axe, at least according to Robert Mosses, "master builder" of modern New...

Delicate number

986

broad money supply, in Birr, in the third quarter of the past fiscal year, according to the National Bank of Ethiopia (NBE)...

Life matters

Like sheep to the slaughter Media

September 27 , 2020 . By Kidist Yidnekachew

The media can be quite addictive. But we cannot help but participate in perpetuating its profound entanglement with our daily lives, spending our precious time glued to our screens when we could be living our lives. A week ago, I had the chance to...

Party Time for COVID-19

September 19 , 2020 . By Kidist Yidnekachew

Many changes have been witnessed since the Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic started wreaking havoc across the world, on economies as well as on social relations. ...

An Ocean of Inequality in Addis

September 11 , 2020 . By Kidist Yidnekachew

Day after day, the gap between the poor and the rich in Addis Abeba is widening. It has gone from a puddle to a deep and wide ocean. It is not uncommon to see people s...

Verbatim

Gallery

TIGRAY VOTES DESPITE "NULL & VOID" THREAT

September 9 , 2020

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IN-PICTURE: LAUREATE'S RECEPTION  

December 14 , 2019

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

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