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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...

Sep 6 , 2025

Ethiopians Celebrate Big Dreams, While Everyday Realities Cast Shadow

The dawn of a new year is more than a simple turning of the calendar. It is a moment heavy with national pride, buoyed this time by the long-awaited completion of the Great Ethiopian Renaissance Dam ...

Aug 30 , 2025

Will Community Health Insurance Falter Under Its Ambitious Weight?

For Germans, Otto von Bismarck is first remembered as the architect of a unified nation. However, his lesser-known stroke of statecraft continues to have a lasting impact on the world. In 1883, he int...

Aug 23 , 2025

The Capital Market May Be Too Shallow to Swim In. Beware.

Banks have a new obsession. After decades chasing deposits and, more recently, digital banking, they are scrambling to attach investment-banking arms to their franchises. The state-owned colossus, Com...

Aug 16 , 2025

Capital Market Ambitions Face Credibility Test Over Conflicted Oversight

A decade ago, a case in the United States (US) jolted Wall Street. An ambulance operator in the State of Arizona had, in 2011, accepted a buy-out that valued it below earlier indications. Shareholders...

Aug 9 , 2025

Squeesing Stones for Silver, the State Pulls While Taxpayers May Duck

In the 14th Century, the Egyptian scholar Ibn Khaldun drew a neat curve in the sand. Young dynasties, he observed, can fill their coffers with modest taxes, but ageing ones squeeze ever harder for dim...

Aug 2 , 2025

Saplings Should Not Be Rushed Like Election Rallies

At daybreak on Thursday last week, July 31, 2025, hundreds of thousands of Ethiopians fanned out across parks, highways, and riverbanks, seedlings in hand, driven to smash what organisers say was...

Jul 26 , 2025

Teaching Hospitals Shoulder the Burden While Administrators Count the Beans

Teaching hospitals everywhere juggle three jobs at once: teaching, curing, and discovering. But, few do so on a tighter rope than those in Ethiopia. Around the world, these institutions shape medic...

Jul 19 , 2025

In Taxing Aggressively, Fed's Fiscal Reckoning Arrives

Parliament is no stranger to frantic bursts of productivity. Even so, the vote last week on a new income tax law was dizzyingly swift. Only five legislators dissented before the bill was rubber-stampe...

Jul 12 , 2025

Legal, Policy Volatility Turns Promises into Headwinds

Political leaders and their policy advisors often promise great leaps forward, yet they frequently fall short, landing with a thud. In July 2024, Mamo Mehiretu, governor of the Central Bank, declar...


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For a political veteran as controversial as Getachew Reda, last week's national elections...

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The long-delayed census has returned to Parliament not as a counting exercise, but as a fi...

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