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Fauci Warns Against Opening The US Too Soon

Fauci Warns Against Opening The US Too Soon

May 14 , 2020

Anthony Fauci warned Congress that opening the U.S. too early could lead to additional coronavirus outbreaks. The leading U.S. infectious disease expert said states should fol...


IMF Approves $411m in Emergency Assistance

IMF Approves $411m in Emergency Assistance

May 1 , 2020

The Executive Board of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) has assented to 411 million dollars under the Rapid Financing Instrument (RFI) to address urgent balance of paymen...


Tech Savvy Firm Crafts Close Contact Detector App

Tech Savvy Firm Crafts Close Contact Detector App

April 17 , 2020 . By GELILA SAMUEL

The year 2020 has welcomed the world with the turmoil of the Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19), which started in China and has spread rapidly across the world. All the New Year...

COVID-19 Strains Fragile Drug Supply Chain

COVID-19 Strains Fragile Drug Supply Chain

April 17 , 2020 . By SEBLE WONDEMAGEGN

When it was first reported in Wuhan, China, on December 31, 2019, the last day of last year, no one gave any attention to Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19). Since then, the virus has spread rapidly and bee...

When it was first reported in Wuhan, China, on December 31, 2019, the...

Tigray State to Start Door-to-Door Screening for COVID-19

Tigray State to Start Door-to-Door Screening for COVID-19

April 11 , 2020

Officials in the Tigray Regional State are set to start door-to-door monitoring for signs of Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) for residents across the Regional State. Hagos Godefey (PhD), head of the R...

Officials in the Tigray Regional State are set to start door-to-door m...

Ethiopia's Parliament Ratifies Emergency Decree Away from Live Transmission

Ethiopia's Parliament Ratifies Emergency Decree Away from Live Transmission

April 10 , 2020

Members of parliament have voted in favour of the state of emergency with only one vote abstaining during a session not broadcast live as the case had been with previous such sessions. Media crews...

Members of parliament have voted in favour of the state of emergency w...

Ethiopia's Emergency Decree to Stay for Five Months

Ethiopia's Emergency Decree to Stay for Five Months

April 8 , 2020

The state of emergency Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed (PhD) announced today will remain enforced for five months, according to informed people within the administration. The fourth decree in four years...

The state of emergency Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed (PhD) announced today...

Ethiopian Premier Declares State of Emergency

Ethiopian Premier Declares State of Emergency

April 8 , 2020

Ethiopia's Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed (PhD) took the country by surprise today by announcing on Twitter the declaration of a state of emergency. The statement attached to his Twitter post attributes th...

Ethiopia's Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed (PhD) took the country by surpris...


April 8 , 2020

Ethiopia is likely to host a centre for one of the task forc...


April 7 , 2020

Hyatt Regency, one of the 10 internationally franchised hote...


April 4 , 2020

Abay Bank has waived fees that have been imposed on loan res...


April 3 , 2020

The cost of living keeps spiking and reached the highest rat...


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Bereft of Popular Mandate, Hard to Keep the State Viable

May 31 , 2020

Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed (PhD) has come a long way since his spectacular arrival at...

Speed, Agility Lacking in Administration's Stimulus Package

May 23 , 2020

Countries in Africa are the least prepared to deal with the health and social consequ...

Public Space, Even on 'Mind-blowing' Projects, Means No Private Realm

May 16 , 2020

In November 2019, the Mayor of Washington, DC, Muriel Bowser, visited Addis Abeba for...

Amendment, the Less Travelled, Least Unpleasant Way Forward than Interpretation

May 9 , 2020

The unsavoury position Ethiopia finds itself in today was best described by Moussa Ad...

Sunday With Eden

COVID-19 Pandemic Threatens to Roll Back Women's Hard-won Gains

There has never been a great time to be a woman. The Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) pan...

The Infodemic Can Kill

I was walking home on a late Friday afternoon when I came across a pregnant lady who was carrying a large bag of groceries. Clearly, she wa...

Life Matters

Home Together: The Power Dynamics

Although it is crucial, and we should heed the calls for social distancing and home quarantining from health professionals, we cannot help b...

When Machines Lie

Sometimes automated teller machines (ATMs) make me want to punch them. Their only job is to spit out money, but this is a task that they app...

Agenda

Making Up for Lost Time, Learning in the Midst of COVID-19

May 31 , 2020 . By MAYA MISIKIR 

Many students across the country have had to reacquaint themselves with what school m...

DAM CHRONICLES

May 23 , 2020 . By GELILA SAMUEL

For thousands of years, the Nile River and Egypt were weaved intrinsically in history rather than geography. The civilisation of ancient Egy...

City Struggles to Stay Vigilant as COVID-19 Cases Rise

May 16 , 2020 . By MAYA MISIKIR 

Amanuel Anjulo, 25 years old, sits perched on the metal gate of the parking lot across the street from th...

Public in Dark as Mesqel Square Rehab Commences

May 9 , 2020 . By MAYA MISIKIR 

When excavators started jack-hammering two weeks ago at Mesqel Square, the city's most famous public gath...

Gallery

IN-PICTURE: LAUREATE'S RECEPTION  

December 14 , 2019

President Sahle-Work Zewde hosted a state dinner reception to congratulate and welcome the Prime Minister on his return home from Oslo, Norway, where he accepted the 2019 Nobel Peace Prize two days earlier...

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

April 26 , 2019

Mourning Nation, Grieving World

March 17 , 2019

THE FINISH LINE

March 16 , 2019

Pizza Hut Triples Branches

February 2 , 2019

Commentaries

When the Elephants Fight, Developing Nations Get Sick

Controversies are engulfing the global response toward the Novel Coronavirus (COVID-...

Africa’s Hour of Need

It is too soon to tell how heavy the human toll from the Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic will be on sub-Saharan Africa. But the pandem...

Fineline

Old habits die hard, so they say. The TPLF's leadership community...

Old habits die hard, so they say. The TPLF`s leadership community - the existing alike the former - is ba...

Yinager Dessie (PhD), governor of the central bank...

Yinager Dessie (PhD), governor of the central bank, convened bank presidents and board directors in his o...

Fortune news

'Not Too Expansionary'

June 3 , 2020 . By FASIKA TADESSE

The Ministry of Finance has drafted a bill that proposes 470 billion Br for next year's federal budget, a figure highly influenced by fears...

'Not Too Expansionary'

May 30 , 2020 . By FASIKA TADESSE

The Ministry of Finance has drafted a bill that proposes 470 billion Br for next year's federal budget, a figure highly influenced by fears...

Oil Companies Racked with Pain from Container Pilferage

May 31 , 2020 . By GELILA SAMUEL

Libya Oil Ethiopia Ltd, one of the largest oil companies in the country, has witnessed the theft of lubri...

Hawassa Industrial Park Gears up to Export Masks, Bio Suits

May 31 , 2020 . By MAYA MISIKIR  and HENOK TERECHA

Companies in the Hawassa Industrial Park have started the process for the export of personal protective e...

In-Picture

GOOD SAMARITAN

April 4 , 2020

PART RECREATION

March 14 , 2020

BUS STOPS

March 7 , 2020

To the Brim

February 22 , 2020

Street Books

February 22 , 2020

PEACOCK GATES

April 4 , 2020

Past the cars waiting in traffic, two huge sculptured peacocks can be glimpsed at the entrance to the Prime Minister’s Office in Arat Kilo. Situated close to parliament, the peacocks are part of the ongoing facelift to the Office...

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