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Feb 5 , 2022

Time to Consider Floating Exchange Regime, Open the Capital Market

The price of 12ltr of cylinder gas (LPG), an essential energy source for urban kitchens, shot up last week to 2,600 Br, increasing by more than four folds compared to prices three years ago. The rise...

Jan 29 , 2022

Strong Dollar Sounds Default Alarm Bell. Policymakers Better Plan Ahead

The scourge of inflation is rising globally, terrifying politicians and their macroeconomic advisors. The United States consumer price index has reached seven percent, the highest in four decades. Eth...

Jan 22 , 2022

Fuel Subsidies Will Have to Go. But How?

The relationship between fuel price shocks and politics needs no introduction. As a fundamental source of energy that powers modern civilisation, its effect on net importers of oil goes beyond macroec...

Jan 15 , 2022

Peace Process within Arm's Reach. Beware Spoilers!

Foes and friends of Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed (PhD) agree that his administration is full of surprises. For better or worse, its next step is never too obvious. Ambiguity could be a policy of choice....

Jan 7 , 2022

It`s Not Too Late to Thwart Economic Calamity

There has not been much research to put a number on high costs wars inflict on African economies. But a report by Oxfam in the late 2000s changed this. In the quarter of a century since 1990, 284 bill...

Jan 1 , 2022

Ethiopia: May the New Year Usher Security, Opportunities!

It is a norm to emphasise grand structural changes to address the myriad political processes in deeply polarised societies and fractured systems such as in Ethiopia. Criticisms on any issue are often...

Dec 25 , 2021

Older Folks May Be Looking to Negotiate. They Need All Help They Can Get!

In the words of Herbert Hoover, the 31st president of the United States, it is older men that declare wars and the young that has to fight them and die. Indeed, far too many young lives were cut short...

Dec 19 , 2021

The ‘Uncivil’ Outcomes in Ethiopia’s Civil War!

The American journalist and poet Ambrose G. Bierce, also a veteran of the American Civil War, authored the Devil`s Dictionary. He defines peace - rather sardonically - as "a period of cheating between...

Dec 11 , 2021

Rhetorics Against Transatlantic Alliance Unwise, Unhelpful!

There are few wiser words than the one attributed to Vladimir E. Lenin: "There are decades where nothing happens; and, there are weeks where decades happen." Except for Ethiopia, it has not been a...

Dec 4 , 2021

A Tale of Two Political Cultures Evolving, with Consequences

There is no shortage of literature on why peaceful and non-violent political transition eludes Ethiopia. However, it should be no mystery to look at the political culture that informs leaders of the o...

Nov 27 , 2021

Financial Sector-sourced Glucose Drips No Remedy to Save Economy

Against my will, I have witnessed the most terrible defeat of reason and the most savage triumph of brutality in the chronicle of time. Never - and I say so not with pride but with shame - has a gene...

Nov 20 , 2021

Truce - Desirable, Useful and Attainable!

Leaders of the warring parties in Ethiopia`s year-old militarised conflict may think they have irreconcilable differences that led to a destructive war. Ironically, and whether they acknowledge it or...

Nov 13 , 2021

Contingency Economic Plan Necessary to Reconcile with Political Storm

Plans and reality do not always gel. They rarely do in a fast-moving world. Every action taken must be a constant re-adjustment and re-alignment with circumstances on the ground. In the end, the plan...

Nov 6 , 2021

A Year in the War, Time for Sober Reflections

Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed (PhD) stood to attention last week and saluted the high military brass during an event to remember the fallen soldiers of the Defence Force's Northern Command. It was the fir...

Oct 30 , 2021

Central Bank`s Dillemma Under Governor Yinager Dessie

Central banks are prone to conspiracy theories. It should be no surprise, for they are notorious for secrecy. The complexity of monetary policymaking makes decisions made incomprehensible for the gene...

Oct 23 , 2021

Delisting Ethiopia from AGOA Unwise Move by the US

Ethiopia`s civil war continues to rage, with no sign of respite or a prospect for a negotiated settlement. It is sad, depressing and regrettable. Thousands continue to perish, hundreds of thousands st...

Columns

Commentaries | Oct 11,2025

The Human Flight a Failure of Political Imagination, Not a Mere Economic Policy

Ladislas Farago, a roving Associated Press (AP) correspondent, arrived in Ethiopia in 193...

Editorial | Oct 11 , 2025

TRADITION THRIVES AS COSTS CLIMB

As dawn broke over Addis Abeba last week, the city's arteries pulsed not with the usual we...

Featured | Oct 5 , 2025 . By REDIET YARED

TOMATOES TASTE OF INFLATION

Tomato prices in Addis Abeba have surged to unprecedented levels, with retail stands charg...

Agenda | Oct 12 , 2025

Ministry Shifts Gears as Number Plate Change Fuels Debate

A sweeping change in the vehicle licensing system has tilted the scales in favour of elect...

Fortune News | Oct 12 , 2025 . By BEZAWIT HULUAGER