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Flour, Biscuit Factory Emerges in Awash

Jan 5 , 2019 . By MIHRET G. KIRISTOS

A local trading company has invested 200 million Br to set up separate flour processi...

X-Mass Gift Packages, New Tradition

Jan 5 , 2019 . By MIHRET G. KIRISTOS

Last Sunday, Bethlehem Berhane and her five-year-old daughter, Natania Habtamu, were watching a cooking programme on Eth...

Shareholders Disrupt Hidasie's Assembly

Dec 29 , 2018 . By MIHRET G. KIRISTOS

The general assembly of Hidasie Telecom, a local telecom products and services distri...

Authority Shuts Nightclubs Down for Noise Pollution

Dec 27 , 2018 . By MIHRET G. KIRISTOS

Following grievances lodged by residents, Bole District Environment Protection Author...

Rigorous Law Approaches to Dispirit Tobacco, Alcohol Use

Dec 19 , 2018 . By MIHRET G. KIRISTOS

A bill, which has stringent rules on the use, sale, advertisement and retail of tobac...

Authority Eases Registration, Licensing for Medicine

Dec 10 , 2018 . By MIHRET G. KIRISTOS

The Food & Drug Authority, the nation's food and medicine regulator, has issued a...

Telecom Tariffs Recede, Demand Surges, Service Plumets

Nov 27 , 2018 . By MIHRET G. KIRISTOS and NOEL MINWAGAW

Simon Derge has been running his small cyber cafe, Simon Internet Café, located arou...

Commentaries

The Geopolitical Battle Over Monetary Infrastructure

The development of payment infrastructure in emerging-market economies (EMEs), from i...

Making Roads Pathways of Progress, Not Corridors of Grief

For decades, Ethiopia's roads have been described through the language of fate. The d...

Fineline

Leaders of the National . . .

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 me...

When the country’s most. . .

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...

Editorial

Every Encounter with the State Should Not Become an Invoice

May 9 , 2026

The Ethiopian state appears to have discovered a fiscal instrument that is politicall...

National Dialogue Has Everything But the Trust It Needs

May 2 , 2026

By the time Ethiopia's National Dialogue Commission (ENDC) reached the end of its fir...

Addis Abeba's Roads Reveal a Country Where the Powerful Drive Through the Law

Apr 25 , 2026

In a political community, official speeches show what governments want their citizens...

Ethiopia's New Diplomacy Essence Could Be About Shielding Sovereignty

For much of the past three decades, Ethiopia occupied a familiar place in the Western...

Gallery

Parliament Approves New Cabinet Members

Oct 6 , 2021

Parliament Approves New Cabinet, Incorporates Opposition Leaders Lawmakers have approved today the nominations of 22 ministers, including three opposition leaders. Two MPs have voted against, while 12 abstained...

2020 in Posterity

Jan 5 , 2021

TIGRAY VOTES DESPITE "NULL & VOID" THREAT

Sep 9 , 2020

IN-PICTURE: LAUREATE'S RECEPTION  

Dec 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

Apr 26 , 2019

Sunday With Eden

The Silence That Leadership Can't Keep

A few days ago, I attended a virtual conference in Canada that stayed with me, not be...

Development That Redraws the Rent Line

Urban renewal is often sold as a promise: cleaner streets, safer neighbourhoods, bett...

Life Matters

Motivation Drops as the Day Begins in Sleepwear

We have all seen the aesthetic. The “work from home” dream usually comes packaged...

The Final Exam No One Prepared For

The first time I heard about the “Mesob” one-stop service initiative, relief came quickly. It sounded like a promise to citizens worn do...