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Sep 27 , 2025 . By Mekonnen Solomon

Flower Boom Rises Abroad While Domestic Markets Struggle to Bloom

Methera once shimmered like a Dutch postcard tucked into Ethiopia's Rift Valley. Officially called Merti-Methera, the town 193Km southeast of Addis Abeba, was designed in the 1950s by Handelsvereniging Amsterdam, popularly known as HVA, after the Dut...

Sep 27 , 2025 . By Fiona Watson

On Climate Change, the Market Is Wrong Again

As business, government, and nonprofit leaders debate the future of climate action ahead of the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP30) in Brazil, the global economy remains vulnerable to acute and chronic climate-driven shocks whose impact could be more severe than that of the 2008 global financial crisis. At a time when many governments...


Sep 27 , 2025 . By Gabriel Mekbib

A Decade After Addis Abeba Pledges, Africa Faces Debt Strains, Dwindling Aid

Ten years ago, Ethiopia hosted a major United Nations conference on financing for development, with global leaders gathering in Addis Abeba to sign what became known as the "Addis Abeba Action Agenda." At the time, the agreement was viewed as a milestone, with many hoping it would attract substantial private investment and help countries achieve th...


Aug 9 , 2025 . By Mulay W. Asegahegn

A Bold Tax Reform for A Better System

The federal government has recently implemented a key reform to keep the economic reform program alive at a time when the world's supply of foreign capital is drying up, while demand for resources to finance the increasing economic and social development is higher. In the three years beginning in 2020, external financial flows to Latin America a...




Commentary

Sandford School's Tax Battle Signals a Reckoning for Nonprofit Sector

Aug 3 , 2025      |      By Belete A Yemata      |      3661 Views

When Sandford International School (SIS) opened its doors in Addis Abeba more than seven decades ago, few would have predicted that its largest challenge would come not from the rigours of education but from th...

Climate-Driven Hunger Fuels the Next Migration Crisis

Jul 26 , 2025      |      By Hermione Dace      |      2025 Views

In the first half of this year, nearly 20,000 people crossed the English Channel to the United Kingdom (UK) in small boats, a 48pc increase from the same period last year. In Greece, arrivals from Libya have su...

What Happens Next to Globalization?

Despite the handwringing about US President Donald Trump's tariff war, which many claim sounds the death knell for the world's trading system, and worries about heightened geopolitical tensions, globalisation is not ending. But it is being fundamentally restructured by geopolitic...

Jul 19 , 2025      |      By Zia Qureshi      |      1766 Views

The BRICS+ Should Not Miss the Africa Opportunity

The 10 current BRICS+ members, more than most countries, can empathise with the economic and political injustices that Africans have experienced over the years. Many of them, including the continent's three members – South Africa, Egypt, and Ethiopia – are all too familiar wi...

Jul 13 , 2025      |      By Ameenah Gurib- fakim      |      1336 Views

How to Put Development Finance Back on Track

lobal growth this year is expected to slow to its lowest rate (outside of a crisis) since 2008. The outlook is especially problematic for developing countries that are already growing well below historical averages, and for those 35 countries, mostly in Africa, that are already i...

Jul 5 , 2025      |      By Carlos Cuerpo and Joseph E Stiglitz      |      2129 Views

Ditching Carbon Pricing Reckless Bet with the Planet

In 2009, US President Barack Obama appointed Harvard Law School Professor Cass Sunstein to serve as the administrator of the White House Office of Information & Regulatory Affairs (OIRA). Sunstein was the co-author, with the Nobel laureate economist Richard Thaler, of "Nudge...

Jun 28 , 2025      |      By Peter Singer and V K Rajah Visiting      |      2132 Views

What Happens Next to Globalization?

Despite the handwringing about US President Donald Trump's tariff war, which many claim sounds the death knell for the world's trading system, and worries about heightened geopolitical tensions, globalisation is not ending. But it is being fundamentally restructured by geopolitic...

Jul 19 , 2025      |      By Zia Qureshi      |      1766 Views

The BRICS+ Should Not Miss the Africa Opportunity

The 10 current BRICS+ members, more than most countries, can empathise with the economic and political injustices that Africans have experienced over the years. Many of them, including the continent's three members – South Africa, Egypt, and Ethiopia – are all too familiar wi...

Jul 13 , 2025      |      By Ameenah Gurib- fakim      |      1336 Views

How to Put Development Finance Back on Track

lobal growth this year is expected to slow to its lowest rate (outside of a crisis) since 2008. The outlook is especially problematic for developing countries that are already growing well below historical averages, and for those 35 countries, mostly in Africa, that are already i...

Jul 5 , 2025      |      By Carlos Cuerpo and Joseph E Stiglitz      |      2129 Views

Ditching Carbon Pricing Reckless Bet with the Planet

In 2009, US President Barack Obama appointed Harvard Law School Professor Cass Sunstein to serve as the administrator of the White House Office of Information & Regulatory Affairs (OIRA). Sunstein was the co-author, with the Nobel laureate economist Richard Thaler, of "Nudge...

Jun 28 , 2025      |      By Peter Singer and V K Rajah Visiting      |      2132 Views

Africa's Debt Is an Opportunity

Almost every debate about African public finance centres on “Africa's debt burden” as its primary topic. The numbers are stark: the median African country now carries debt worth 60pc of GDP, double the ratio of 15 years ago. It devotes twice as much of every tax dollar to int...

Jun 28 , 2025      |      By Sufian Ahmed      |      2075 Views

The Right Not to Be Lied to by the Powerful

Hardly a week goes by without a new piece of misinformation circulating online, from the freshet of conspiracy theories unleashed by the attempt on former President Donald Trump's life to Elon Musk tweeting the far right's false claim that the United Kingdom (UK) has a two-tier p...

Sep 8 , 2024      |      By Geoffrey Heal      |      3941 Views

China's Economic Paradox

Western observers often view China as either a rising superpower on the cusp of global dominance or a fragile country on the brink of collapse. These contradictory takes amplify only one side of China's economic trajectory: a tech boom alongside a growth slump. This paradox can b...

Sep 8 , 2024      |      By Yuen Yuen Ang      |      3573 Views

Policymakers Should Be Cautious While Banking on Franco Valuta Scheme

The federal government's recent introduction of the Franco Valuta (FV) scheme clearly acknowledges the country's acute foreign currency shortage. While this measure may provide some immediate relief, it risks entrenching the market distortions it seeks to ease, raising concerns t...

Sep 1 , 2024      |      By Tesfaye B Lelissa (PhD)      |      4637 Views

Kenya's Lesson on Curbing Debt-Fueled Unrest in Emerging Markets

The effects of recent contractionary monetary policy in the United States (US) are still playing out. It has often been said that the world catches a cold when the US sneezes. More broadly, advanced economies can easily spread economic " pathogens, " especially to small, open dev...

Aug 25 , 2024      |      By Vera Songwe and Ishac Diwan      |      4808 Views

Powering the Forgotten, the Urgent Race to Electrify a Warming World

Although we are fast approaching five years until the deadline for the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), we are still far from achieving SDG7, which calls for universal access to clean, affordable energy. Worse, we are in the middle of yet another year that will shatter heat...

Aug 18 , 2024      |      By Woochung Um      |      4823 Views


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The Vanishing Sound of Joy

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Editorial

Exam Policy Fails the Test of Justice, Deepening Inequality, Disillusion

Sep 27 , 2025

Four years into an experiment with “shock therapy” in education, the national moo...

Addis Abeba's Setback Rules Leave Homes Flattened, Voices Silenced

Sep 20 , 2025

Getachew Reda's return to the national stage was always going to stir attention. Once...

In Climate Talks, Africa Mortgages Tomorrow Simply to Survive Today

Sep 13 , 2025

At its launch in Nairobi two years ago, the Africa Climate Summit was billed as the f...

Ethiopians Celebrate Big Dreams, While Everyday Realities Cast Shadow

Sep 6 , 2025

The dawn of a new year is more than a simple turning of the calendar. It is a moment...

Sunday With Eden

The Vanishing Sound of Joy

A sound is vanishing from everyday life. Not the static of landline phones or the chime of notifications, but something far more vital, laug...

Untangling the Diet Confusion

Walk into any bookstore or scroll through Netflix, and you'll be confronted with a tidal wave of certainty about what we should or shouldn't...

Life Matters

Fear, Fines, and Forced Obedience

The question of how to make people follow rules has always fascinated me. Governments and societies have wrestled with it for centuries. We...

Thesis of the Heart, Research That Solves Problems

I remember, the glow of my laptop was the only thing keeping me company in a dark room, a tiny lighthouse...

Agenda

Addis Abeba's Transport Gridlock Wears Commuters Thin

Sep 27 , 2025 . By YITBAREK GETACHEW and BEZAWIT HULUAGER

Crowds swell before dawn at some of Addis Abeba's busiest intersections, and the tens...

After the Exam Shake-Up, a Generation Left Behind

Sep 21 , 2025 . By NAHOM AYELE

Haimanot Yonas discovered her exam result at dawn last week, squinting at a flickerin...

Student Tax ID Push Triggers Logjam

Sep 13 , 2025 . By NAHOM AYELE and YITBAREK GETACHEW

The yellow flush of Aday Abeba flowers has returned to Addis Abeba, heralding the arr...

As Holidays Near, Addis Abeba's Markets Thrum with Hope, Hardship

Sep 7 , 2025 . By AMANUEL BEKELE

As the holiday nears, the markets of Addis Abeba thrum with anticipation and anxiety...

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

Commentaries

Flower Boom Rises Abroad While Domestic Markets Struggle to Bloom

Methera once shimmered like a Dutch postcard tucked into Ethiopia's Rift Valley. Offi...

On Climate Change, the Market Is Wrong Again

As business, government, and nonprofit leaders debate the future of climate action ah...

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...

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IN MESQEL SQUARE, FAITH ENDURES!

Sep 27 , 2025

Meskel Square turned into a rolling wave of colour and sound on Friday, September 26, 2025, as thousands pressed toward the annual bonfire c...

Unity University Hikes Tuition Fee, Students Push Back

Unity University has increased tuition fees sharply, jolting students and families alike, drawing critici...

Commodity Exchange Struggles to Hold Ground as Direct Trade Surges

Sep 27 , 2025 . By BEZAWIT HULUAGER

Seventeen years after its inception as a flagship market reform for agricultural modernisation, the Ethio...

Construction Authority Rolls Out Licensing Regime for Elevator Indus-try

Sep 27 , 2025 . By BEZAWIT HULUAGER

The elevator industry is bracing for sweeping reforms as construction regulators are to impose the first...