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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...

Nov 21 , 2018

The Presumption of Innocence Before the Courts Establish Guilt

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...

Feb 12 , 2022

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...


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