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Feb 28 , 2026

National Interest, Grand Narrative With a New Hobby of Sanctioning the Media

Regulators sent a chill through the local newsrooms last week when they yanked the registration of Addis Standard, one of the country's most popular online outlets, for allegedly “dissiminating repo...

Feb 21 , 2026

Young Voters Logged In, Tuned Out

The next general election, pencilled in for June 2026, remains distant, yet among its plugged-in youth a quiet verdict is forming. A digital poll of 142 respondents, mostly aged 22 to 30, conducted...

Feb 14 , 2026

Can a War-Scarred Federation Turn a Crisis Election into a Reset Moment?

Nearly 50 countries will hold national elections this year. In more than 20, the campaign trail runs between sandbags, with voters expected to queue while rifles glare. Ethiopia is one of the latter....

Feb 7 , 2026

Gold Boom Buoys Exports But Erodes Central Bank's Stability

Ethiopia's new love affair with gold looks, at first glance, like an economic fairy tale. For a country starved of hard currency, mired in arrears and stuck in debt talks under the G20's Common Fra...

Jan 31 , 2026

Ethiopia Aid a Nobel Idea Until Shiferaw Thinks About Its Financing

Shiferaw Teklemariam (PhD), czar of the federal relief operations, is wrestling with a problem that is growing faster than the country's patience, its fiscal space and, increasingly, its foreign frien...

Ethiopia Inc Drives Consolidation While Liberalisation Remains Tightly Managed

From a distance, Ethiopia looks like a country finally prising open its economy. Licences for mobile operators have been sold, a capital-market law passed, foreign banks invited, subsidies pared, and...

Jan 17 , 2026

US Support to Ethiopia's Health Sector Should Not Become a Data Giveaway

Two East African capitals have reacted differently to America's latest offer to pour billions of dollars into their respective public health sector. In Nairobi, under William Ruto's (PhD) governmen...

Jan 10 , 2026

Governor Eyob Ends Deposit-Rate Floors Restoring Policy Credibility

The National Bank of Ethiopia's (NBE) decision, two weeks ago, to scrap the seven percent statutory minimum on deposit rates was celebrated by free-market enthusiasts and lamented by dirigistes. Ho...

Jan 3 , 2026

Somaliland Tests Africas Postcolonial Order. Ethiopia Eyes a Fateful Choice

The decades after the 1960s were unkind to Emperor Hailesellasie. Ethiopia, once able to lean on a special bond with Israel for diplomatic ballast, found itself cornered when the Jewish state went to...

Dec 27 , 2025

Famine Stalks Ethiopians While Politics Undermines Effective Responses

The latest pictures from weredas in Western Tigray Regional State are a punch to the gut. Elderly men and women lie stick-thin on ragged mats, too weak to crawl, recalling the grainy television images...

Dec 20 , 2025

Digital Payments Push Runs into Cash Power

The march towards a cash-light future was supposed to be swift. Banks, telecom firms and regulators trumpeted a payment revolution, powered by mobile phones and glossy apps, that would haul the econom...

Dec 13 , 2025

Vice Squad Prevails When Moral Panic Becomes State Policy

Ethiopia appears to be entering an unsettling phase familiar in the life cycle of fragile states. It seems to be an era in which moral panic substitutes for governance, and cultural anxiety is elevate...

Dec 6 , 2025

The Age of Aid Ends as Crises Mount, Donors Turn Away

Ethiopia is confronting a sobering economic transition. The age of abundant foreign aid is receding, yet its institutional capacity and fiscal resilience remain fragile. Official development assist...

Nov 29 , 2025

Factories of Broken Promises as Young Labour for a Future That Never Comes

In the mid-2010s, factories began to hum in new industrial parks and truck convoys glided past freshly painted security gates, heralding the birth of an "African tiger." Officials often spoke of “tr...

The "Gedion Doctrine" Sea Quest Tests the Edges of Sovereignty

Foreign Minister Gedion Timothewos (PhD) recently spoke for nearly an hour at a foreign Policy forum, held at the Addis Abeba University. It was an unusual public appearance for an Ethiopian top en...

Nov 15 , 2025

The Foreign Exchange Revolution That Never Quite Happened

The scene playing out in the foreign exchange market is more than a tale of distorted pricing. It is a test of policy credibility and institutional resolve. In the 15 months since the National Bank...


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