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Nov 16 , 2019

Locust Invasion: Since June, Pests Threaten Farm Livelihoods in North, East

Saturday was not a good day for Chekol Mestet, 50, a farmer and father of five in Girara Kebele of Amhara Regional State. Early in the morning, he found the hectare of land he ploughs three times a ye...

Nov 9 , 2019

City Launches New Housing Projects as Enthusiasm for Condos Wane

Solomon Tafese, a resident of Addis Abeba in his early 50s, always wanted a house of his own. Despite the multiple promises of successive City Administrations to address the housing demand, his dreams...

Nov 2 , 2019

Unrest Scares Businesses Away, Rouses Humanitarianism

Fikre Seifu, a resident of Adama, received a phone call in the early morning hours of October 22, 2019. The call was from friends who told him that his shop had been set on fire. A father of one, F...

Oct 26 , 2019

Water Crisis Triggers Rationing Schedule in the Capital

Hanna Desta, in her mid-30s, lives at Semen Mazegaja, the capital. Born and raised in Addis, she has three children. For Hanna, water shortages are a common thing she experiences all the time. Hann...

Oct 19 , 2019

Street Vendors Return to Streets Amid City Effort

The current season when high school graduates join universities opens a seasonal business opportunity for Muluneh Belay, who sells various items on the streets of the capital. Muluneh, one of the i...

Oct 12 , 2019

Pension Fund Mismanagement Sends Billions of Birr Down the Drain

Melaku Andualem spends his retirement days reading books, watching television and keeping up with the latest developments. The grandfather of six spent close to four decades working for several gov...

Oct 5 , 2019

Indoor Smoking Ban: Relief for Non-Smokers, Pain for Hoteliers

On the evening of the first Wednesday of this month, the DJ of Metro Club, the luxurious semi-open roof lounge, was playing different genres of music until the band took over the stage at 9:00pm. Met...

Sep 28 , 2019

Custom Tariff Revision Hits Computer Market Hard

What he had expected to be a thrilling day was not turning out as planned for high school student Hailmikael Adugna. A computer technician in his spare time, Hailmikael had just purchased a used HP la...

Sep 21 , 2019

City's Move on Taxi Hailing Services Faces Strong Backlash

Nego'o Gowumssa, who was born in Addis Abeba but grew up in Woliso, moved to his birthplace two years ago. The young man in his mid-20s and the last child in a family of 10 graduated in auto mechan...

Sep 21 , 2019

Reform Agenda Neither Homegrown nor Pathway to Prosperity

The administration of Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed (PhD) inherited an economy with many serious problems. These included high levels of unemployment, high rates of inflation, stagnant, declining export e...

Sep 14 , 2019

Palm Oil Imports Cook Up Controversy

On the morning of September 11, 2019, the eve of the Ethiopian New Year, Ali Abasora, in his mid-30s, was at a kiosk under Yenegew Tesfa Consumers Cooperative Union located in Wereda 03 of Kirkos Dist...

Sep 7 , 2019

Lifestyle Change Fosters Flat-pack Furniture Business

Hana Tadele, a housewife and a mother of two children, lives in an apartment next to Hilton Hotel on Menelik II Avenue. Owned by the Federal Housing Corporation, the apartment has 82 housing units inc...

Aug 31 , 2019

Nation Resets Education Policy

Seid Mohammed, in his mid-20s, is an assistant lecturer at Wolaita Sodo University. Born and raised in Gonder City, 727Km north of the capital, Seid attended his primary and secondary school in his ho...

Aug 24 , 2019

Electric Billing Gets Worse Before it Gets Better

On the morning of August 21, 2019, Mekdes Tuffa, 40, a housewife and a mother of one, stood in a long queue at the Ethiopian Electric Utility Addis Abeba District, the seventh customer service branch...

Aug 17 , 2019

Int'l Price Cut, Illicit Trade Cripple Coffee Exports

Mathewos Lankemu, a farmer in his early 40s, was born and raised in Nekiya Kebele, Sidama Zone, one of the major coffee producing regions in the country. Born into an extended family, he was the si...

Aug 10 , 2019

Media Recession: Layoffs Follow in Wake of TV, Print Super Cycle

For a young man who was born and raised in the capital and always had the itch for journalism, the media was enticing. He wanted to be part of the media, because of the power it has in providing th...


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