How to Counter Rising, Unbridled Nationalism

Voters Want Stability, Order. Prosperity Can Find It through Negotiated Settlement

Voters Want Stability, Order. Prosperity Can Find It through Negotiated Settlement

July 18 , 2021

The function held by the National Electoral Board of Ethiopia (NEBE) to announce the results last week of the recently held national elections has a streak of chic to it. The...

Absent Competent Bureaucracy, Economic Policies Get Stuck

Absent Competent Bureaucracy, Economic Policies Get Stuck

July 10 , 2021

There is no shortage of drafts beings drawn, and bills authored these days. The more novel one is the National Startup Act. Formally known as the "Start-up Business Proclamati...

War's Fruitless, Horrific; Better Late than Never to Give Peace a Chance

War's Fruitless, Horrific; Better Late than Never to Give Peace a Chance

July 3 , 2021

For the curious interested in political studies, the twists and turns unfolding in Ethiopia provide a rarely paralleled case study in history, nationalism, elite consensus (or...

National Elections Show Voters May Not Be as Polarized as Elites Have

National Elections Show Voters May Not Be as Polarized as Elites Have

June 26 , 2021

Empty streets could characterise polling day on June 21, where apprehension to what the day might have brought was feared. Where there were polling stations, long lines of people waiting to cast their...

Empty streets could characterise polling day on June 21, where apprehe...

Tomorrow’s Elections Invoke Trepidation More Than Anticipation

Tomorrow’s Elections Invoke Trepidation More Than Anticipation

June 19 , 2021

The wait for Ethiopia’s sixth national elections, since it became a federal republic in the mid-1990s, has been long and daunting. Lately, it has also been painted blue by the expansive campaigning...

The wait for Ethiopia’s sixth national elections, since it became a...

Electoral Best of Bad Situation. Time Is the Essence

Electoral Best of Bad Situation. Time Is the Essence

June 5 , 2021

In retrospect, it is nothing less than astounding that the 2015 national elections went pretty much under the radar. There was not much drama, and it seemed more like one more election the country...

In retrospect, it is nothing less than astounding that the 2015 nation...

Sun Shines Brightly on Telco Market. Beware Misgoverning It

Sun Shines Brightly on Telco Market. Beware Misgoverning It

May 29 , 2021

Those entrusted with public office may love throwing events; but, no one is doing it as enthusiastically and glamorously as the Ethio telecom. Its first-ever female Chief Executive Officer (CEO), F...

Those entrusted with public office may love throwing events; but, no o...

Sovereignty Claims Bear the Responsibility to Protect. Where's the UN?

Sovereignty Claims Bear the Responsibility to Protect. Where's the UN?

May 23 , 2021

It was something of a milestone for the United Nations last week. Rhetorically, so to say; and, for lack of words to describe the 76-year old international organisation whose deeds were dwarfed by its...

It was something of a milestone for the United Nations last week. Rhet...