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MOMENT TO PONDER

President Sahle-Worq Zewde (left) and Dima Negewo (PhD), veteran opposition leader, were in an animated discussion during a tea break at the two-day forum Addis W’eg, held at the Sheraton Addis, on March 22,...


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Fortune News

Contentious Waste Power Plant to Resume Operations

March 23 , 2019 . By TEMESGEN MULUGETA


Featured

Featured

Insecurity, Sewage Overflow Plagues Legetafo Residents

March 23 , 2019 . By BERHANE HAILEMARIAM

Bishop Hiruy Tsige’s family of five are new residents to the luxury development of Ropak Real Estate homes in Legetafo Legedadi town, 11 km outskirts of Addis Abeba, Oromia Regio...



Editorial

The Foundation for a State in Peace with Itself

On March 14, 2018, 107 of the nation’s political parties reached a milestone. They signed a document that codified their relationship between each other and their conduct. The document created a council, represented by one delegate from each party...

Editorials

Media Reforms? There Are Better Ways, Mr. Prime Minister

March 16 , 2019

The first newspaper ever published in Amharic, also the first ever in an African language, was issued in Addis Abeba. Although a progressive move at that time, it was not far removed from wha...

Sunday with Eden

PM Abiy Should Look at Economic Problems as Well

March 23 , 2019 . By Eden Sahle

Almost every conflict has come to be framed in terms of identity issues lately. It is not something to take lightly, but neither i...

Bereavement, Hope on Heels of Flight 302

March 16 , 2019 . By Eden Sahle

Life is unpredictable. It can change in fractions of a second...

Violence, Contemporary Ethiopian Weakness

March 9 , 2019 . By Eden Sahle

The situation in Ethiopia at a national level is disconcertin...

The Economic Roots of Sociopolitical Problems

March 2 , 2019 . By Eden Sahle

Small Acts of Compassion that Save Lives

February 23 , 2019 . By Eden Sahle

Beyond Partisanship, toward Comprehension

February 16 , 2019 . By Eden Sahle

Meek MPs Attract Domineering Executive Body

February 1 , 2019 . By Eden Sahle

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Agenda


Unplanned Rehabilitation Project Comes Unglued



The earliest childhood memory of Dawit Gezahegn, who is in his early 20s, is being in an orphanage. Adopted at a young age, he never knew who his biological parents were. He was fortunate enough to grow up in a non-profit organisation working with...

Agenda

Prices of Secondhand Cars Race Ahead

March 16 , 2019 . By KALAEB GIRMA

Last Tuesday, March 12, 2019, 20-something Selam Tadesse was in Haya Hulet with a cousin and her younger brother to purchase a new car. For the last four years, she has been sharing a car with her father but now believes she needs her own. “It is a necess...

Life matters

The Awra Amba Experience

March 23 , 2019 . By Tsion Fisseha

In an interview conducted two years ago, Zumra Nuru, founder of the Awra Amba community in the Amhara Regional State, said that at a very young age he began to sincerely observe his community. It was one infested with gender inequality. With that...

What Does Not Kill Us

March 16 , 2019 . By Tsion Fisseha

A tragic plane crash of an Ethiopian Airlines flight not far from the capital took the lives of all its 157 passengers and crew members last Sunday. Stories flooded in af...

Age Only Matters to Cheese

March 9 , 2019 . By Tsion Fisseha

Birthdays are special. They highlight the miracle - despite the seven billion plus humans in the world, life is still a miracle that science cannot explain - that a baby...

Verbatim


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...


Viewpoints

Nation Requires Clarity of Political Vision

March 23 , 2019 . By Hintsa Andebrhan

I remember reading an article regarding Former Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn when he first came to power seven years ago. It was an interesting piece that told us about his rapidly evolving political career and ac...

Food Insecurity, Multi-dimensional Phenomenon

March 23 , 2019 . By Belay Abera

Food is vital for life, and no one knows this more than citizens...

Our Intellectual Laziness Encourages Political Theatrics

March 16 , 2019 . By Tibebu Bekele

The polarisation of society into different identit...

The Least We Can Do About Climate Change

March 16 , 2019 . By Girma Feyissa

The True Power of Strict IP Enforcement

March 9 , 2019 . By Yared Assefa

Walk the Talk on Tenants of the Adwa Victory

March 9 , 2019 . By Michael G. Behailu

The Fixable University-Industry Chasm

March 2 , 2019 . By Haben Mehari

In-Picture

CAR HAULER TRAFFIC JAM

March 23 , 2019

Pizza Hut Triples Branches

February 2 , 2019

TRAFFIC HICCUP

January 26 , 2019

Busy Street

March 2 , 2019

Welcoming Dance

February 16 , 2019

Films Review

How to Train Your Dragon, and Lose It

March 23 , 2019 . By Christian Tesfaye

Captain All-powerful

March 16 , 2019 . By Christian Tesfaye

Poor Replica of Good Sci-fi Movies

March 9 , 2019 . By Christian Tesfaye

Alita: the Death of Human Film Stars

March 2 , 2019 . By Christian Tesfaye

Radar

BURIAL

March 23 , 2019

A funeral ceremony was held a week ago at the Holy Trinity Cathedral, where victims of the Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302 were laid to rest....

DRY CLOTHE

March 23 , 2019

CAR HAULER TRAFFIC JAM

March 23 , 2019

Ethio-Re Nominates Nib Exec to Chair Board

March 23 , 2019

Ethiopia Leads Black Box Data Analysis of Fight 302

March 23 , 2019

The fineline

The lovey-dovey relationship between Ethiopia’s Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed and ...

March 16 , 2019

The lovey-dovey relationship between Ethiopia’s Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed (PhD) and Eritrea’s President Issayas Afeworqi appears to have come down to its realistic state, gossip observed. Understa...


Frustration with Abiy Ahmed's (PhD) way of governance is building up...

March 9 , 2019

It appears that frustration with Abiy Ahmed's (PhD) way of governance is building up both within and...

Mustafa Omer, a.k.a. Cagjar, was on a visit to Somaliland...

March 2 , 2019

The vice president of the Somali Regional State, Mustafa Omer, a.k.a. Cagjar, was on a visit to Somal...

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

February 9 , 2019

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

January 19 , 2019

Finally, the Chinese government sent its senior diplomat to

January 5 , 2019

The lovey-dovey relationship that has evolved...

December 25 , 2018

News Analysis



View from arada

Ethiopian Funerals, a Way of Life

Ethiopians, notoriously lax about keeping appointments, are as punctual as a German engineer when it comes to funerals. “Do not be late,” warns a colleague to a man procrastinating ab...

RIVERS, SOULS OF A CITY

March 16 , 2019 . By Ambessaw Assegued (assegued@anfilo.com).

An American visitor recently confined his confusion and dismay about the state of affairs in Ethiopia to his local colleague. Conversing on the proposed Riverside Revitalisation Project proposed for Addis Abeba, he was perplexed and mystified. The visitor  should know...

Delicate number

12

price in Birr of jet fuel imports in the last fiscal year, according to the National Bank of Ethiopia.    ...

Commentaries

Forest Conservation, More Urgent than Ever

Mar 23,2019 . By Justin Irvine

The world marked the International Day of Forests on March 21. The occasion was proclaimed by the United Nations General Assembly in 2012 to celebrate and raise awareness of the importance of all type...

The Financial Sector, and All It Can Offer Ethiopia

March 23 , 2019 . By Asseged G. Medhin

Ethiopia, Africa’s second most populous nation, and one of the biggest economies on the content, h...

Where the Diaspora Can Really Help

March 16 , 2019 . By Haben Mehari

The current administration has been commendably focused on bringing the diaspora community on board with Ethiopia’s ec...

My Opinion

A Soft, Misunderstood Drug

March 23 , 2019 . By Christian Tesfaye

Rarely is a cannabis story a source of discussion on the Ethiopian-populated part of social media. It is the sort of substance that inspires secrecies more than level-headed discussion - a matter that...

The Abyss, Closer by the Day

March 16 , 2019 . By Christian Tesfaye

Last Sunday saw tragedy. One-hundred-and-fifty-seven passengers and crew abroad Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302 lost their...

A More Practical Development

March 9 , 2019 . By Christian Tesfaye

There is a simple, straightforward and yet effective tool that the Addis Abeba City Traffic Management Agency used to ad...

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Editors' Pick

Mourning Nation, Grieving World

Last Sunday, March 10, 2019, began as an ordinary day for Yammani Geleta, a 57-year-old farmer and father of six living in Tulu Fara wereda, a border village between Amhara and Oromia regional states. Being a Sunday, he woke up early in the mornin...

Editors Picks

The Foundation for a State in Peace with Itself

March 23 , 2019

On March 14, 2018, 107 of the nation’s political parties reached a milestone. They signed a document that codified their relationship between each other and their conduct. The document created a council, represented by one delegate from each party, which elects a chairperson and a secret...

Gallery

Mourning Nation, Grieving World

March 17 , 2019

Family members of the passengers and crew who perished aboard Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302 gathered to mourn their loved ones at the crash site in Tulu Fara Wereda, some 40Km south of the capital...

THE FINISH LINE

March 16 , 2019

Pizza Hut Triples Branches

February 2 , 2019

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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