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Dec 7 , 2019

Public Campus Chaos Unlocks Business Opportunity for Private Colleges

On the afternoon of December 3, 2019, Sumeya Menegistu, a 22-year-old student, was sitting alone outside of a classroom in the large compound at St. Mary's University, which is located in Mexico, wait...

Road Safety Lapses, Poor Driving Skills Give Rise to Deadly Traffic Accidents

Getenet GebreMariam received a phone call on the afternoon of November 24, 2019, from his brother. It was not good news. He was informed that there was a car accident along the Ambo-Addis Abeba roa...

Nov 23 , 2019

Fluctuating World Prices Bewilder Players in Coffee Value Chain

Tibebu Roba, a farmer in his mid-50s, has spent much of his career trying to stay one step ahead of the ever complicated coffee production and export business. Born and raised in Dilla town of the...

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...


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