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Plastic Bags - Your Days are Numbered!

June 1 , 2019 . By Haimanot Tefera

To the average observer in Ethiopia, the menace of plastic bags is quite evident. Plastic bags, in all their colours, line the streets and pile up in open spaces. They block drainage systems, cause floods and damage infrastructure. Worldwide, plastic bags are in the top five items found in river and...

Employee Turnover Challenges at Hawassa Industrial Park

June 1 , 2019 . By Senay Lemma and Solomon Girma

Ethiopia is investing billions of dollars to open a total of 30 industrial parks by 2025 with the vision to become Africa's manufacturing hub. This long-term project is part of the country’s ambition to achieve middle-income status by specialising in labour-intensive, light manufacturing activitie...

Cleanse the Mind to Clean the Country

May 25 , 2019 . By Seble Hailu

Economic Reality on the Ground Only Worsening

May 25 , 2019 . By Hintsa Andebrhan

Political Stability Rests on Smooth Political Transition

May 18 , 2019 . By Abdi Zenebe (PhD)

Creative Indusries Open Path to Growth

May 18 , 2019 . By Emmanuel Mwendwa

The Next Phase of Real Estate Financing in Africa

May 11 , 2019 . By Selwyn Blieden

Old, Tired Politics in New Colours

May 11 , 2019 . By Hintsa Andebrhan

A Politics Awash with Scarcity Mentality

May 4 , 2019 . By Tibebu Bekele

Scarcity mentality is described as “the zero-sum paradigm of life” in Stephen Covey’s “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People.” It is a lose-win mindset based on the belief that “there is only so much pie to go around, and if you get some, there will be less for me.” Unfortunate...

Africa’s Nuclear Energy Ambitions: Leapfrogging into the Unknown

May 4 , 2019 . By Desta Mebratu (Prof.)

Ethiopia recently joined a group of African countries in signing cooperation agreements for the development of a nuclear industry sector. Most of these agreements consist of the two distinct but inter-related components that require qualitatively different attention. The first component focuses o...

Gender Equality Entails Differences, Not Sameness

April 26 , 2019 . By Etenat Awol

Free Press, Not a Matter of Convenience

April 26 , 2019 . By Austine Sequeira

Too Many Egos in Ethiopia’s Politics

April 26 , 2019 . By Hintsa Andebrhan

African Lessons in Agricultural Productivity

April 20 , 2019 . By Eskender Mulugeta

What the Insurance Sector Can’t Do Without

April 20 , 2019 . By Asseged G. Medhin

The Subtle Tricks Social Roles Play

April 13 , 2019 . By Michael G. Behailu

The Precarious Strings behind Ethiopia’s Politics

April 13 , 2019 . By Abdi Zenebe (PhD)

The debate over the equality between men and women continues to rage. At this point, it is...

Only Private Sector Can Halt Macroeconomic Crisis

April 6 , 2019 . By Asseged G. Medhin

The debate over the equality between men and women continues to rage. At this point, it is...

Political Challenges, Chief Agenda in Current Ethiopia

April 6 , 2019 . By Tilaye Nigussie

The debate over the equality between men and women continues to rage. At this point, it is...

Lack of Awareness Feeds the Autism Problem

March 30 , 2019 . By Getaneh Abera

The debate over the equality between men and women continues to rage. At this point, it is...


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Global Recession Looming: Inaction Has Consequences

August 24 , 2019

Last week, the Office of the Prime Minister unveiled a three-year economic reform pla...

International Community’s Shilly-Shally Engagement Not Helping Ethiopia

August 17 , 2019

The coming months pause an acid test for the administration of Prime Minister Abiy Ah...

Electoral Contests Need Moderation in Civic Discourse; The Alternative is Bad

August 10 , 2019

Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed (PhD), in the press conference he gave last week, communica...

Polarisation, Inequality: Existential Threats to the Ethiopian State

During one of his sporadic encounters with members of the media last week, Prime Mini...

Sunday With Eden

The Art of Contentment

Our pampered human culture today is obsessively focused on material accumulation and fake egotistical life. We are surrounded by people of a...

The Problem of Inefficient Workers

Procrastination is the enemy of success. And I believe this is one of the main reasons why we are poor as a nation. The country is suffocate...

Life Matters

Heart to Heart

“I didn’t know why I kept falling as a child,” my colleague said to me. “The doctors told me that it was because I was anaemic, but...

Make the World a No War Zone

Protester dies, scores arrested in Kashmir lockdown. Pellet gun attack victims fighting for their lives. Sudan schoolchildren fired on durin...

Agenda

Electric Billing Gets Worse Before it Gets Better

August 24 , 2019 . By TEMESGEN MULUGETA

On the morning of August 21, 2019, Mekdes Tuffa, 40, a housewife and a mother of one...

Int'l Price Cut, Illicit Trade Cripple Coffee Exports

August 17 , 2019 . By KALAEB GIRMA

Mathewos Lankemu, a farmer in his early 40s, was born and raised in Nekiya Kebele, Si...

Media Recession: Layoffs Follow in Wake of TV, Print Super Cycle

August 10 , 2019 . By KALAEB GIRMA

For a young man who was born and raised in the capital and always had the itch for jo...

Crime Spree Baffles Citizens, Alarms Diplomatic Missions

August 3 , 2019 . By KALAEB GIRMA

It was supposed to be a special trip when Abdu Adem brought his 18-year-old daughter...

Gallery

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

May 6 , 2019

Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed (PhD) took selfies, shook hands with admirers and had his hands kissed by an adoring fan on his way out of the Sheraton Addis Hotel, after addressing the international media corps at a gala dinner called for the awarding of...

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

IN PICTURE: Betty G.

January 10 , 2019

Commentaries

A lost opportunity for Ethio Telecom

Ethio telecom, the sole telecom provider in Ethiopia, is one of the largest mobile op...

Ethio-Eritrean Relationship: Provisional or Perpetual?

Ethiopia and Eritrea went to war for two years (1998-2000) over border disputes. The...

Fineline

The EPRDF Executive Committee...

There is something eerie about the meeting that started late last week by members of the EPRDF Executive Committee. Not only was it the firs...

Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed (PhD) is reviewing the current foreign policy of the country...

The administration of Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed (PhD) is reviewing the current foreign policy of the coun...

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CALLING ON THE GURUS

August 24 , 2019

An initiative that partners the government of Ethiopia with economic experts from Harvard University was unveiled on August 23, 2019, at the...

Ministry Removes Industrial Inputs Privileges

August 24 , 2019 . By FASIKA TADESSE

Imported complete knocked-down and semi knocked-down industrial inputs will not be getting a special priv...

Lawmakers Legislate Controversial, Stringent Electoral Law

August 24 , 2019

Candidates who run for a parliamentary seat should bring 3,000 endorsement signatures from their intended...

Chamber’s Project Award Disgruntles Bidders

August 24 , 2019 . By FASIKA TADESSE

Cancelling a bid for the design of a five-year strategic plan and training, the Ethiopian Chamber of Comm...

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DANCING FOR TREES

July 27 , 2019

BULLDOZED! Buffet De La Gare. Alas, it is no more!

June 15 , 2019

PLASTIC LIGHT

June 8 , 2019

Girl Power

May 25 , 2019

VENDING

April 26 , 2019

Haile G.Sellasie Received a Silver Cup

August 3 , 2019

Haile G.Sellasie (left to right), renowned athlete and buisnessman, received a silver cup from Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed (PhD) at the National Palace on July 27, 2019, at an awards ceremony organised by Adanech Abebe, minister of Revenues, for high t...

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