Putting CFA to effect unleashes dev’t potential using Nile

Ethiopia and the rest of the Nile countries should push to bring to effect the Cooperative Framework of Agreement on the Nile (CFA) which promises equitable and fair utilization of the waters... Read more »

COVID-19 : -Small-businesses face severe shortfalls – Tax relief, emergency fund ease businesses’ economic burden: Economists

As COVID-19 pandemic pushes the world into a brink of collapse, millions of small-business face closures temporarily even permanently. Consequently, from allocating emergency funds to ease loan interests, countries are tabling a... Read more »

COVID-19: Consulate, community support fellow citizens in Lebanon

• Urge humanitarian organizations’ to quickly respond ADDIS ABABA – The Ethiopian Consul General in Lebanon said it has been mobilizing resources to citizens impacted by the effect of COVID-19 by joining... Read more »

Scholar stresses leaders to set their mind for a balanced, thoughtful consideration of risks of hydro-political conflicts

If countries sharing international rivers basins are not willing to develop and make use of their common water resources in a cooperative and equitable manner, the potential for skirmish over water will... Read more »

GERD steel-works complete over 20 percent amid strict COVID-19 preventive works

ADDIS ABABA – Steelworks get 20 percent completed at the site of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) while civil and electro-mechanical works hitting 87 percent and 46 percent respectively, GERD Project... Read more »

Considering the bitter but necessary measure Ethiopia under siege by cororna pandemics

Ethiopia is a pioneer in the development of an institutionalized capacity to deal with natural and man-made disasters. Many countries in Africa took Ethiopia as a model for establishing their capacity to... Read more »

The Fight against COVID-19: Experience from China, the imperative of global coalition and cooperation

The outbreak of the novel corona virus (COVID-19) was significant in the calendar of Chinese as it coincided with the beginning of the new Chinese spring festival, with an estimated movement of... Read more »

Amb. Teshome Toga says Chinese unity of purpose worth emulating • Call for countering xenophobia

The unity of purpose among the Chinese government, people and health workers, individuals and the like in containing the spread and worst impacts of COVID-19 is worth emulating, said Teshome Toga Chanaka,... Read more »

Stay at Home: Old habits die hard!

Clad in shorts and a lazy man’s shoe, I was standing right outside the gate of my house recently when a man was crossing the road to greet his long lost friend.... Read more »

For sake of justice, U.S. must reset its navigation of Nile file

BY MISTIR SEW Ethiopia’s decision in late February to skip talks in Washington after refusing to sign the U.S.-drafted agreement on the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) did not result in anger... Read more »