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Sep 2 , 2023

A Silent Epidemic Strikes Loudly

Talal Hussien, 29, has a full health check-up every six months following the devastating car accident he sustained seven years ago. He has had a metal plate in his right leg following a four-month per...

Aug 26 , 2023

A Perfect Storm Pummels Khat Exports

At the crack of dawn when the forex surrender criteria was altered by the central bank, selected exporters from livestock, khat, pulse and oilseed sections were joined by authorities to discuss the en...

Aug 19 , 2023

A Bruised and Battered Behemoth

On windy weather a fortnight ago, an unprecedented loud noise came into effect as a segment of scaffolding nearly six meters high collapsed on one of the suburban houses around Derartu Roundabout a.k...

Aug 12 , 2023

Stuck in Passport Limbo

Long queues and chaotic scenes are common sites on Churchill Avenue to Zambia Road. Prospective travellers waiting in line either to renew their passports or apply for a new one at the Immigration...

Aug 5 , 2023

A Silent Health Threat Lurking in Plain Sight

The compound of Menelik II Referral Hospital is occupied by a large white tent that stands guard in front of an entrance to what reads Cholera Treatment Centre. The tent housed clothes for suspecte...

Jul 29 , 2023

Forex Crunch Births Labour Mass Exodus

Sara Markos was one of the Ethiopian migrants who had gone to Lebanon with hopes of changing her life. She had toiled for 13 years until her palms formed a rough callous texture from washing too ma...

Jul 22 , 2023

A Lose-Lose Gambit: Ethiopia's Persistent Youth Unemployment Crisis

Ethiopia's youth finds itself caught between a rock and a hard place with rapidly narrowing prospects in the formal education route and a policy that fails to accommodate entrepreneurial ambitions. ...

Fertiliser Supply Crunch Threatens to Upend Productivity, Food Security

In the verdant farming region of the Northern Shewa Zone of the Amhara Regional State, a crisis is silently unfolding. Amid the lush fields of onion, wheat, and teff, the subsistence farmers are findi...

Jul 8 , 2023

Upbeat Ministry, Bewildered Students, Unsettling Future

On the ground floor of Addis Abeba Institute of Technology (AAiT) hall, a quiet examination room awaited senior-year students tentatively making their way to take the model exit exam. The bright ro...

Jul 1 , 2023

Brace for Impact: Waddling through Austerity

Keeping up with the skyrocketing rent, medical costs, transport and commodity prices has become a struggle for a diabetic army veteran in his late 60s, Wondemagen Feleke. On average, he spends abou...

Jun 24 , 2023

The Burden of Soaring Property Taxes Dawns on Homeowners

Erget Tareke is one of the 4,000 residents of the Bole Bulbula condominium that penned a letter to the Addis Abeba Revenues Bureau pleading for postponement of the revised property tax. She became...

Jun 17 , 2023

Medical Brain Drain Frustrated Doctors, Poor Health Infrastructure

When Amanuel Hinsta (MD), 28, joined the Gonder University Medical School a decade ago, he was as hopeful as a young man with good grades can be. He envisioned a bright future with a prestigious caree...

Jun 10 , 2023

Polarity in Supply, Demand for Eggs Disenchant Poultry Farmers

The recent price fluctuation of eggs had Henok Yehualawork, manager of a small pastry shop, in a dilemma of increasing the price of cakes or altering his recipe. Either of the decisions impact the...

Social Media Restrictions Spur Unlikely Success in Digital Marketing

It has been four devastating months since the federal government's intelligence system blocked access to certain websites. The use of a Virtual Private Network (VPN) has become compulsatory to acce...

May 27 , 2023

Moving Woes

In the bustling streets of Addis Abeba, an undercurrent of unease shadows the necessary act of moving house. Siyoum Haile, a civil servant at a federal agency and father of two, became the latest entr...

May 20 , 2023

Private Schools Price Accession, Repercussions of High Inflation

On a rainy afternoon last week, Tesfalem Hailu, 48, was waiting by the door to pick his two children up from School of Tomorrow, Bole Michael branch. Tesfalem claims to have chosen the school for t...


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