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Editorials

Mar 9 , 2019

Economic Growth Should Not be Addis-centric

What happens in Addis Abeba rarely stays in the capital. Cultures, lifestyles and trends eventually trickle down to the rest of the nation. This is the role and symbol, even if superfluous, that the c...

Mar 2 , 2019

The Administration Needs to Focus, Set Its Priorities

The talk that Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed (PhD) will let the nouveau riche in the country spend five million Birr for a ticket to sit at a dinner in his company grabbed international headlines last week...

Feb 23 , 2019

The Tax Regime Can Use a Broader Perspective

Last week saw yet another institutional initiative taken by Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed's (PhD) administration designed to review legal constraints in the business of governance. This time around it is...

Feb 16 , 2019

Ethiopia Needs a Fresh Economic Order to Weather the Storm Ahead

This year, 2019, will be defined by global economic factors of slowdowns and trade wars in major markets in the US, EU and China. The US Federal Reserve will be pressured to increase interest rates to...

Feb 9 , 2019

With Law Enforcement, Bad Habits Die Hard

Issayas Dagnew, a senior executive at Ethio telecom, is a brother to Kinfe Dagnew, a high brass military general who was also the founding CEO of the state-owned Metals & Engineering Corporation ...

Feb 1 , 2019

Political Maturity, Institutional Reforms, Hallmarks of Transitional Justice

With a reformist administration in charge of the executive, there has been a relentless drive towards lofty goals such as unity, democracy and justice. The driving force is “Me`demer,” the process...

Jan 26 , 2019

Moving Economic Policymaking Away from Short Termism

Ethiopia's growth narrative, validated recently by that bastion of liberalism, the International Monetary Fund, is a story of contradictions. Just wondering about these: why would an economy expand...

Jan 18 , 2019

Ethiopia’s Humanitarian Crisis: the Elephant in the Room

Like many instabilities around the world, the worrying state of a country rarely gets enough attention before it begins to affect the political and economic hub of a nation, usually the capital. A...

Jan 12 , 2019

It`s About Time to Start Debate on Constitutional Amendments

An expected consequence of the growing rift between the constituent parties of the ruling coalition, EPRDF, is the lack of diversity of ideas and agendas in the legislative house. With MPs getting mor...

Jan 5 , 2019

The Republic Could Be No More

A crowd, gathered outside Independence Hall in Philadelphia where representatives of 13 newly formed states had signed a historical document, greeted Benjamin Franklin, eager to know what came of th...

Dec 29 , 2018

Transport Authority Needs to Step Up its Game

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 seemingly endless existential th...

Dec 25 , 2018

In Defence of the Rights of the Anti-reform Voices

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) administration is not new in mak...

Dec 19 , 2018

Inadequate Public Sector Anathema to Progressive Economic Reforms

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 levied in foreign currency ag...

Dec 10 , 2018

Opposition’s Indifference to Contest Local Elections, Unwise

Currently, Ethiopia has a state of affairs where the centre is struggling to hold, if not losing grip in many parts of the country. State authority at the local administrative level is in the process...

Dec 5 , 2018

With Abiy Ahmed Actions Speak Louder, for the Better

Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed (PhD) sat last week before leaders of the political opposition and members of his coalition to launch the much-awaited dialogue to restructure democratic institutions. It inc...

Nov 27 , 2018

The Jury Still Out on the Judiciary

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 i...

Columns

Commentaries | Jul 18,2026

Millions Looking for Work. Companies Cannot Find Many to Hire. A Paradox?

Pressed in Parliament on jobs and household incomes, Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed (PhD) offer...

Editorial | Jul 18 , 2026

EL NINO MEETS A REGION EMPTIED BY WAR

Weldu Yiheysh, a farmer in Shibta District of Enderta Wereda in the Southeast Zone, was st...

Featured | Jul 19 , 2026 . By GEBRU KAHSAY and WORKINEH DIRIBSA

A Sack of Cement, with the Chain No One Can See

In the Jemo area of Addis Abeba, Fikremariam Wondimu no longer trades cement so much as ga...

Agenda | Jul 19 , 2026 . By FITSUM TADESSE

Adverse Opinions Pile Up as Addis Abeba’s Budget Hits a Record

Bureaus, agencies and institutions under the Addis Abeba City Administration are sitting o...

Fortune News | Jul 19 , 2026 . By BEZAWIT HULUAGER

Editorials

Economic Growth Should Not be Addis-centric

The Administration Needs to Focus, Set Its Priorities

The Tax Regime Can Use a Broader Perspective

Ethiopia Needs a Fresh Economic Order to Weather the Storm Ahead

With Law Enforcement, Bad Habits Die Hard

Political Maturity, Institutional Reforms, Hallmarks of Transitional Justice

Moving Economic Policymaking Away from Short Termism

Ethiopia’s Humanitarian Crisis: the Elephant in the Room

It`s About Time to Start Debate on Constitutional Amendments