Letter To The Editor

March 16 , 2019

Dear Editor, A week after celebrating a great national triumph, we witnessed an international tragedy on Ethiopian soil. It is always difficult to respond to catastrophic events, but plane crashes are uniquely shocking. Their suddenness, violence and magnitude are impossible to imagine, leavin...

The Part Bar Associations Can Play in Rule of Law

March 2 , 2019

Dear Editor Chief Justice Meaza Asheafi’s commentary headlined “Constitutional Rights, Meaningless without Independent Judiciary” [Vol.19, No. 982, February 24, 2019] that ran in this publication is interesting, educating and much appreciated. All the activities undertaken up to now within...

Bulcha Demeksa: OLF Should Not Stand in the Way of Peace

January 26 , 2019

Editorial

Bereft of Popular Mandate, Hard to Keep the State Viable

May 31 , 2020

Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed (PhD) has come a long way since his spectacular arrival at...

Speed, Agility Lacking in Administration's Stimulus Package

May 23 , 2020

Countries in Africa are the least prepared to deal with the health and social consequ...

Public Space, Even on 'Mind-blowing' Projects, Means No Private Realm

May 16 , 2020

In November 2019, the Mayor of Washington, DC, Muriel Bowser, visited Addis Abeba for...

Amendment, the Less Travelled, Least Unpleasant Way Forward than Interpretation

May 9 , 2020

The unsavoury position Ethiopia finds itself in today was best described by Moussa Ad...

Sunday With Eden

COVID-19 Pandemic Threatens to Roll Back Women's Hard-won Gains

There has never been a great time to be a woman. The Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) pan...

May 31 , 2020 . By Eden Sahle

The Infodemic Can Kill

I was walking home on a late Friday afternoon when I came across a pregnant lady who was carrying a large bag of groceries. Clearly, she wa...

May 23 , 2020 . By Eden Sahle

Life Matters

Home Together: The Power Dynamics

Although it is crucial, and we should heed the calls for social distancing and home quarantining from health professionals, we cannot help b...

May 31 , 2020 . By Kidist Yidnekachew

When Machines Lie

Sometimes automated teller machines (ATMs) make me want to punch them. Their only job is to spit out money, but this is a task that they app...

May 23 , 2020 . By Kidist Yidnekachew

Agenda

Making Up for Lost Time, Learning in the Midst of COVID-19

May 31 , 2020 . By MAYA MISIKIR

Many students across the country have had to reacquaint themselves with what school m...

DAM CHRONICLES

May 23 , 2020 . By GELILA SAMUEL

For thousands of years, the Nile River and Egypt were weaved intrinsically in history rather than geography. The civilisation of ancient Egy...

City Struggles to Stay Vigilant as COVID-19 Cases Rise

May 16 , 2020 . By MAYA MISIKIR

Amanuel Anjulo, 25 years old, sits perched on the metal gate of the parking lot across the street from th...

Public in Dark as Mesqel Square Rehab Commences

May 9 , 2020 . By MAYA MISIKIR

When excavators started jack-hammering two weeks ago at Mesqel Square, the city's most famous public gath...

Gallery

IN-PICTURE: LAUREATE'S RECEPTION

December 14 , 2019

President Sahle-Work Zewde hosted a state dinner reception to congratulate and welcome the Prime Minister on his return home from Oslo, Norway, where he accepted the 2019 Nobel Peace Prize two days earlier...

PM Abiy Ahmed (PhD) at a Gala Dinner Called for the Awarding of the Félix Houphouët-Boigny Peace Prize

May 6 , 2019

Faces, Voices of Addis Abeba

April 26 , 2019

Mourning Nation, Grieving World

March 17 , 2019

THE FINISH LINE

March 16 , 2019

Pizza Hut Triples Branches

February 2 , 2019

Commentaries

When the Elephants Fight, Developing Nations Get Sick

Controversies are engulfing the global response toward the Novel Coronavirus (COVID-...

May 31 , 2020 . By Dawit Wondimagegn

Africa’s Hour of Need

It is too soon to tell how heavy the human toll from the Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic will be on sub-Saharan Africa. But the pandem...

May 31 , 2020 . By Abebe Aemro Selassie

Fineline

Old habits die hard, so they say. The TPLF's leadership community...

Old habits die hard, so they say. The TPLF`s leadership community - the existing alike the former - is ba...

Yinager Dessie (PhD), governor of the central bank...

Yinager Dessie (PhD), governor of the central bank, convened bank presidents and board directors in his o...

Fortune news

'Not Too Expansionary'

May 30 , 2020 . By FASIKA TADESSE

The Ministry of Finance has drafted a bill that proposes 470 billion Br for next year's federal budget, a figure highly influenced by fears...

Oil Companies Racked with Pain from Container Pilferage

May 31 , 2020 . By GELILA SAMUEL

Libya Oil Ethiopia Ltd, one of the largest oil companies in the country, has witnessed the theft of lubri...

Hawassa Industrial Park Gears up to Export Masks, Bio Suits

May 31 , 2020 . By MAYA MISIKIR and HENOK TERECHA

Companies in the Hawassa Industrial Park have started the process for the export of personal protective e...

Enterprises Break Ground on Mixed-Use Building Project

May 31 , 2020 . By SEBLE WONDEMAGEGN

Two regional enterprises have started the construction of a nine-storey, mixed-use building in Lideta Dis...

In-Picture

GOOD SAMARITAN

April 4 , 2020

PART RECREATION

March 14 , 2020

BUS STOPS

March 7 , 2020

To the Brim

February 22 , 2020

Street Books

February 22 , 2020

PEACOCK GATES

April 4 , 2020

Past the cars waiting in traffic, two huge sculptured peacocks can be glimpsed at the entrance to the Prime Minister’s Office in Arat Kilo. Situated close to parliament, the peacocks are part of the ongoing facelift to the Office...

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