Paying Traffic Fines Makes Turn for the Worse

Power Rationing Propels Cement Prices Higher

Power Rationing Propels Cement Prices Higher

Abraham Ebisa, general manager of AHZ Construction Plc, was in Gurd Shola cement and building materials market in the middle of last week to buy cement. Abraham, a 2017 gra...

Power Outages Ignite Generator Business

Power Outages Ignite Generator Business

June 8 , 2019 . By KALAEB GIRMA

Since last month, Addis Abeba has been unusually besieged by the sounds of generators, including one that thunders from the vicinity of Oboda Bore Barber Shop around Adey Abeba on Sierra Leone Street. Young Oboda is a...

Legal Battles Rage in Flight 302 Crash Aftermath

Legal Battles Rage in Flight 302 Crash Aftermath

June 4 , 2019 . By KALAEB GIRMA

It has been almost three months since Konjit Shafi lost her younger brother, 31-year-old Sintayehu Shafi, on the fateful crash of Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302, a Boeing 737 Max 8 that plunged into a farm field a few min...

Low Wages Cast Shadow on Industrial Parks

Low Wages Cast Shadow on Industrial Parks

May 25 , 2019 . By NOEL MINWAGAW

In her mid-20s, Tizita Eyamo  is one of 25,172 workers at the nation’s flagship industrial park in Hawassa, capital of the Southern Nations, Nationalities, & Peoples’ Region. Originally fr...

In her mid-20s, Tizita Eyamo  is one of 25,172 workers at the nationâ...

Got Milk? Not Lately in Addis

Got Milk? Not Lately in Addis

May 18 , 2019

Samson and Kidus Belayneh, 12 and nine years old of Biret Dildy, in Yeka district, were out looking for milk on a Wednesday afternoon right after school. They were sent out to buy milk by their aunt f...

Samson and Kidus Belayneh, 12 and nine years old of Biret Dildy, in Ye...

Medical Interns Past Compromise

Medical Interns Past Compromise

May 11 , 2019 . By Kaleab Girma

For Abel Temesgen, 24, an incident that took place at Jimma University Specialised Hospital a month ago was one in a long line of abuses the medical field has been inflicting on practitioners. The...

For Abel Temesgen, 24, an incident that took place at Jimma University...

Private Colleges in Web of Violation of Accreditation and Permit Rules

Private Colleges in Web of Violation of Accreditation and Permit Rules

May 4 , 2019 . By KALAEB GIRMA

Mebruk Mohammed,in her early 20s, is a second-year nursing student at Kea-Med Medical College. Having graduated from a private secondary school in her neighbourhood, it was her placement in Dilla Univ...

Mebruk Mohammed,in her early 20s, is a second-year nursing student at...

Hopes, Aspirations of Addis Residents

Hopes, Aspirations of Addis Residents

April 26 , 2019 . By Kaleab Girma

Aklilu Wolde was born and raised in Addis Abeba. A seventh child for his parents, he grew up around Taiwan Market in Merkato, officially known as Addis Ketema District. He had to leave the city in...

Aklilu Wolde was born and raised in Addis Abeba. A seventh child for h...