Ethiopia is at a turning point. With the new Prime Minister in place, the ruling party can open up, engage in genuine political competition and set a new track for…
The dust cleared and the protracted wait to learn who the new Prime Minister ended last month. Following years of political turmoil and an unprecedented resignation by former Prime Minister…
After over 30 years of hands-on management of various horrific outcomes of conflict-induced displacement, in various parts of Africa, the Middle East and Asia, I find myself confronted by the…
After the government declared victory – by 99.6pc of the vote – in the last general election, the former Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn, introduced his new cabinet to the parliament.…
The African Union has recently been finding itself in the news. First there was the launching of the Single African Air Transport Market (SAATM), which would in time see the…
Ethiopia has had successive governments that were on either aisle of the free or controlled market economy. Haile Selassie I’s regime envisioned one where the private sector would be the…
The discontent towards social media is growing. As early as last week, roundtable discussions were being held on TV, on one of the state-run channels, about the negative impacts of…
A United Nations report of 2017 predicted that the world’s population would hit a staggering 9.8 billion by 2050. It is also forecasted that over half of the expected growth…
Analysts may find it ironic that the current political crisis arrived after a decade of spectacular economic growth. The country was able to score the much-discussed double-digit gross domestic product…
It has been weeks since that fateful announcement by Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn of his decision to vacate his post. The media frenzy was at first focused on him, which…
From the expansion project of Bole International Airport to the various purchases of aeroplanes, Ethiopian Airlines, a.k.a. Ethiopian, has been the talk of the town for long. Its ambitiousness has…
Last Tuesday, at lunchtime, I heard two elderly women chitchatting rather casually about one of the critical problems that are currently affecting our nation. They conversed about human capital migration,…
During a visit to Addis Abeba University’s Institute of Ethiopian Studies (IES), in a building known as Ras Mekonnen Hall, I heard about a shocking historical event. The head librarian…
No power is stronger than the bargaining capacity of customers in today’s globalised markets. It goes without saying that the impact of bargaining power on any industry will bring about…
I am old enough to have witnessed the last time there was a change in regime. I was a 10th grader, and soon after the fall of the Dergue, the…
Unlike his previous publications, the central theme of the new book by Mesfin Woldemariam (Prof.), founder of the Ethiopian Human Rights Council (EHRC), critiques not government administration, but the general…
Economists, as well as multilateral institutions, have urged the need t...
For a country accommodating more than a hundred million peoples, provid...
It has been two weeks since Abiy Ahmed (PhD) was co...
Refreshingly original, both in form and substance, the emphatic inaugur...
Ethiopia is at a turning point. With the new Prime Minister in place, t...
One of the macroeconomic headaches of Ethiopia is a low domestic revenu...
Development projects are scarce measured on the damage they cause to th...
