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Transport Authority Needs to Step Up its Game

Transport Authority Needs to Step Up its Game

December 29 , 2018

Faced with a continued breakdown in the rule of law, it is easy to miss the stagnant state of economic fundamentals and service administration across the country. With seeming...


In Defence of the Rights of the Anti-reform Voices

In Defence of the Rights of the Anti-reform Voices

December 25 , 2018

For all EPRDF’s shortcomings over the past three decades, it was never a coalition that claimed Ethiopia is undeserving of democracy. Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed’s (PhD) adm...


Inadequate Public Sector Anathema to Progressive Economic Reforms

Inadequate Public Sector Anathema to Progressive Economic Reforms

December 19 , 2018

The Main Department for Immigration & Nationality Affairs Office has been on a roll lately. In a set of reforms it introduced this year, it lifted the excessive fines levi...

The Jury Still Out on the Judiciary

The Jury Still Out on the Judiciary

November 27 , 2018

After Attorney General Berhanu Tsegaye’s announcement of an investigation into corruption and human rights abuses, the wave of arrests of senior government officials and the concerted media campaign...

After Attorney General Berhanu Tsegaye’s announcement of an investig...

The Presumption of Innocence Before the Courts Establish Guilt

The Presumption of Innocence Before the Courts Establish Guilt

November 21 , 2018

Slowly but consistently, public opinion towards the state-owned Metals & Engineering Corporation (MetEC) has been turning negative since its establishment in 2010. The military-industrial conglome...

Slowly but consistently, public opinion towards the state-owned Metals...

In Defense of the Secular State

In Defense of the Secular State

Political transformation is unavoidably rocky, if not delicate. It involves the process of tinkering with the machine that is government while it is running. There are bound to be bolts that go loose...

Political transformation is unavoidably rocky, if not delicate. It inv...


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Editorial

Ethiopia’s Humanitarian Crisis: the Elephant in the Room

January 18 , 2019

Like many instabilities around the world, the worrying state of a country rarely gets...

It`s About Time to Start Debate on Constitutional Amendments

January 12 , 2019

An expected consequence of the growing rift between the constituent parties of the ru...

The Republic Could Be No More

January 5 , 2019

A crowd, gathered outside  Independence Hall in Philadelphia where representatives of 13 newly formed states had signed a historical docume...

Transport Authority Needs to Step Up its Game

December 29 , 2018

Faced with a continued breakdown in the rule of law, it is easy to miss the stagnant state of economic fu...

Sunday With Eden

Technology, the World Pass by Ethiopia

From off-grid solar power to mobile money solutions for the unbanked, technology is a...

Faith-based Institutions: Way to Ethiopians Heart to Uphold Moral Compass

I spent a great deal of time in church when I was a child. Unfortunately, it was an...

Life Matters

Nation of ‘Hoarders’

We like to preserve our culture and identities in every means possible. Not just our cultures though but anything that we think has sentimen...

Actions Speak Louder

There is hope in Ethiopia. But where we are is nowhere in the realm of where we ought to be. The amount of resources that are available h...

Agenda

Days of Fuel Shortages Wrench Capital

January 19 , 2019 . By BERHANE HAILEMARIAM

Menna Gizaw, 33, was one of the thousands of drivers that queued at a fuel filling st...

Electric Tariff Increase Sends Shockwave Through Consumers

January 12 , 2019 . By MADEBO GIRMA

The past two weeks did not bode well for the relationship between landlord Getaneh Ge...

Gena Arrives With Stable Prices in Local Markets

January 6 , 2019 . By KALAEB GIRMA and MADEBO GIRMA

The last item on Askalech Debele’s holiday shopping list is chicken, and she needs...

Commercial Properties See Rate Hikes: Indignation, Resignation by Tenants

December 29 , 2018 . By BERHANE HAILEMARIAM

Alemayehu Befikadu, a deputy manager for a plastics manufacturing factory, was busy o...

Gallery

IN PICTURE: Betty G.

January 10 , 2019

Bruktawit Getahun, Betty G for her fans, would have loved to be around for the Battle of Adwa and thinks of robots as square and scary. Third daughter to her parents, anchored but not confined, there is not a challenge in her life she would rather no...

Passport Tease: New Requirements For Passports Create Outrage

December 10 , 2018

The week in picture

December 10 , 2018

Commentaries

Stock Markets, Not as Pertinent as They Sound

Debates around the establishment of a stock market have recently become common after...

The Seal of Transparency, Efficiency on Sino-African Relations

China, the world's second-largest economy, is now the largest foreign economic power...

Fineline

The tale of two dispositions could be what best describes Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed...

The tale of two dispositions could be what best describes Prime Minister Abiy Ahmedâ...

Who it is that midwifed the rapprochement between Ethiopia and Eritrea...

Who it is that midwifed the rapprochement between Ethiopia and Eritrea is a matter of...

Fortune news

DEVELOPING STORY: Regional State Probe Leads to Bereket, Tadesse Arrest

January 23 , 2019

The arrests of Bereket Simon and Tadesse Kassa was an operation led by the Amhara Reg...

Bereket Simon Arrested

January 23 , 2019

Bereket Simon, a founding member of the EPRDF and a former senior government minister, has been arrested by the Federal government this morn...

Former TIRET Chief Arrested

January 23 , 2019

Tadesse Kassa, a.k.a Tinkishu, former CEO of TIRET, has been arrested this morning at his residence in Addis Abeba. His arrest was made abou...

RUNNING OUT OF GAS

January 19 , 2019

Fuel lines around gas stations, longer queues for public transport commuters and fewer vehicles on the roads characterised Addis Abeba last...

In-Picture

QUALITY AWARD

January 12 , 2019

DRAGONS AND EXPORTS

January 11 , 2019

Iconic moment, Eritrean sanction lift

November 21 , 2018

Ketera

January 20 , 2019

Women are playing the traditional musical instrument, Masinqo, and singing in Amist Kilo on Ketera, the day before the Ethiopian celebration of epiphany, Timqet. On the day, a tabot, a religious representation of the Ark of the Covenant, is carried f...

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