Economic resilience in time of COVID-19: Need for a balanced perspective

According to the deliberations at the recently held 18th session of parliament, Ethiopia’s macroeconomic indicators show a mixed image of strength in some areas and weakness in others. Inflation continues to progress... Read more »

Statehood or Separatism?

The long journey to democratic federalism According to recent trends, almost all political parties in Ethiopia accept federalism as the way forward for the country to overcome age-old political and economic problems... Read more »

Poverty and social exclusion: A rapture of social bonds

Introduction: The issue of poverty and social exclusion has been one of the thorny questions of development in the developed and the developing countries. Both stress the problem of “multiple deprivations,” including... Read more »

Political spinelessness or a plot gone wrong? Egypt’s and Sudan’s flip-flopping diplomacy on filling the GERD

Egypt and Sudan’s double identity as both belonging to the Arab entity and to Africa has always influenced the decisions of their leaders on major issues in the context of the Nile... Read more »

Why Ethiopia needs to be more self-confident and assertive to finalize GERD project

Now that the filling of the GERD is on the agenda and more than 73 per cent of the dam construction is completed, Ethiopia needs to abandon its previously timid posturing and... Read more »

The Need for Expressing Political Debates in a Language the People Understand

Ethiopia is currently struggling to consummate the two-year political transition with a democratic election and the establishment of a truly representative government for the first time in its long history. But this... Read more »

Election disputes, constitutional crisis and the need for political consensus

When the corona virus pandemic started to make its presence felt in Ethiopia, the country was facing a difficult period of ethnic and nationalist inspired conflicts, displacements and threats of a general... Read more »

Looming election quandary and the politics of COVID-19

The corona virus pandemic could not come at a worse time for Ethiopia which was preparing for what many people expected to be the first truly democratic election in the history of... Read more »

Myths versus realities in the fight against the pandemic

In a pandemic such as the present one different levels of understanding of the malady are invented or transmitted by society. In this age of social media and fast communication, myths and... Read more »

45 years after land reform The old demons of famines, epidemics and rural vulnerability revisited

This is the time of the most devastating pandemic the world has ever gone through in its long history. It is not clear how the pandemic will end and when it will... Read more »