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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...

Nov 8 , 2025

Unrewarded Addis Abeba's Brightest Drafted to Save the Failing Many

Addis Abeba's education chiefs cherish bold schemes, yet their latest scheme may prove the boldest and riskiest. Keen to repair the city's bruised reputation after disappointing national exam results...

Nov 1 , 2025

Central Bank Misses the Mark on Forex Market Speculation

The National Bank of Ethiopia (NBE) issued a statement two weeks ago that appeared to be a determined strike against "illicit finance." A note made public demanded closer scrutiny of customers who...

Oct 25 , 2025

The Rules Multiply. So Does the Confusion, and Uncertainty

The regulatory machinery is on overdrive. In only two years, no fewer than 35 new proclamations and directives have been issued from the Parliament, federal ministries, and regulatory agencies. Whethe...

Oct 18 , 2025

Official Narratives Preach Recovery. People Don't Feel It

The political establishment, notably the ruling party and its top brass, has become preoccupied with shaping a “narrative”, a curated story of national progress and cohesion. This narrative, repea...

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 1935 expecting the war between Ethiopia and Italy, provoked by skirmishes at Wal Wal, would have started earlier t...

Oct 4 , 2025

Central Bank Loosens Credit Reins But Stops Short of Bold Overhaul

Eyob Tekalegn (PhD) had been in the Governor's chair for only weeks when, on September 29, 2025, the Monetary Policy Committee chairs loosened the banking industry's credit-growth ceiling. From the ne...

Sep 27 , 2025

Exam Policy Fails the Test of Justice, Deepening Inequality, Disillusion

Four years into an experiment with “shock therapy” in education, the national mood has shifted from hope to a more sobering reckoning. The administration's radical new approach to secondary-school...

Sep 20 , 2025

Addis Abeba's Setback Rules Leave Homes Flattened, Voices Silenced

Getachew Reda's return to the national stage was always going to stir attention. Once at the helm of Tigray's post-wartime interim administration, his presence at Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed's (PhD) boo...

Sep 13 , 2025

In Climate Talks, Africa Mortgages Tomorrow Simply to Survive Today

At its launch in Nairobi two years ago, the Africa Climate Summit was billed as the forum that would at last give the continent a commanding voice in global climate talks. Last week, the second editio...


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