The state of Ethiopia’s financial sector

BY STAFF WRITER The Ethiopian financial sector/policies have evolved through three stylized stages: first, financial repression and fostering state-led industrial and agricultural development through preferential credit (in the socialist regime); second, market-led... Read more »

Economic development that maintains environmental safety

BY GETACHEW MINAS Recently, Oromia Tourism Commission disclosed a plan to create employment opportunities for half a million youth by harnessing the tourism potential of the regional state. Extensive promotion and development... Read more »

Wukro Chirkos: A church with untold history

BY LAKACHEW ATINAFU Some three years ago, the writer of this piece had a chance to visit the north most part of Ethiopia as part of a field trip organized by the... Read more »

How Ethiopia prepared its health workforce for the COVID-19 response

COMPILED BY MENGISTEAB TESHOME Needless to say that COVID-19 pandemic has changed the landscape of global health security and emergency preparedness. The rapid spread and its wide-ranging consequences have resulted in lives... Read more »

COVID-19: Uncontained public health challenge

BY MUSSA MUHAMMED As the prognosis of Ministry of Health (MoH) indicated, in the foreseeable future, COVID-19 epidemic can affect more young people in Ethiopia and this would put another strain on... Read more »

TPLF junta viciousness in the words of the abductees

BY DIRRIBA TESHOME After attacking the Northern Command of the indomitable Ethiopian National Defense Force (ENDF), the Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF) junta kidnapped more than a thousand army leaders and officers... Read more »

Ethiopia’s unwavering commitment to build green economy

BY TSEGAYE TILAHUN As part of its green legacy initiative, Ethiopia has successfully accomplished 2020 fiscal year’s plant seedling campaign by planting more than five billion seedlings. And it is working to... Read more »

Economists’ view on fate of businesses affiliated with TPLF clique

BY BACHA ZEWDIE Following the start of political reform in the country two years ago, the conspiracies of the now fugitive criminal group, the Tigrean People Liberation Front (TPLF) clique, have begun... Read more »

Ethiopia: “The cradle of mankind”

 BY MENGISTEAB TESHOME  Ethiopia is home to the oldest remains of human beings ranging from Lucy to the recently discovered Selam. Particularly, the lower Awash and Omo valleys are the epicenter of... Read more »

The untapped fishery resources of Omo-Turkana Basin

BY ADDISALEM MULAT Ethiopia’s freshwater system consists of 8,065 km long of rivers and 13,637 km2 area of lakes and reservoirs. Its freshwater system supports small-scale fisheries that sustain livelihoods of considerable... Read more »