Scientists, activists planting trees to fight climate change

At age 9, Felix Finkbeiner planted his first tree. He had just learned about Wangari Maathai, a Kenyan woman who won the Nobel Peace Prize for leading an effort to plant 30... Read more »

Will the 2020s be the decade of Africa’s economic transformation?

Ethiopia’s remarkable record of economic growth and home-grown development path has inspired the whole continent of Africa. In reviewing the decade, a recent Financial Times article, Ethiopia seizes crown as the fastest-growing... Read more »

CDC Group discusses opportunities for investors in Ethiopia

Only a handful of countries worldwide can claim to have achieved a decade-long economic growth rate of 10 percent. Such a figure would almost always be associated with countries in Asia. Yet... Read more »

Int’l loans and funds to the Home-grown economic reform risks, opportunities

It is almost four months since Ethiopia has revealed its Home-grown Economic Reform Agenda. While introducing the reform plan, Ethiopia announced it would need 10 billion USD from both domestic and international... Read more »

IGAD: Reflections on a Decade-long Journey with Ethiopia

IGAD has transformed from an organization that merely focuses on drought and disaster as it used to be during its inception in 1986 to that of dealing with regional peace and development... Read more »

Investing in the future , the Home-Grown Economic Agenda

These days Ethiopia is functioning on the Home-Grown Economic Reform Agenda that aims to sustain the current fast economic-growth and create more and better jobs, particularly for the youth, building on the... Read more »