Amhara, Benishangul-Gumuz states strengthen cooperation

ADDIS ABABA – Amhara and Benishangul-Gumuz states are working closely to strengthen coordination between the two states towards ensuring rule of law and making the borderlines an area of development corridor. During... Read more »

World Environment Day: COVID-19 crisis demands fundamental rethink

The COVID-19 health crisis should be seen as a clarion call to “fundamentally rethink our relationship” with natural ecosystems and shrinking biodiversity, the UN cultural agency chief said on Friday, World Environment... Read more »

How a camel library in Ethiopia is helping kids forced out of school by COVID-19

The project reaches more than 22,000 children in 33 villages The spread of the COVID-19 pandemic is presenting a serious obstacle for children globally in accessing education. Innovative solutions around the world... Read more »

Ethiopian food delivery startup rides to restaurants’ rescue

ADDIS ABABA (REUTERS) – Restaurants may still be officially open in Ethiopia, but diners are staying away due to the coronavirus pandemic. Connecting the two is an Ethiopian food delivery service, Deliver... Read more »

Efforts to utilize rising international demand for meat export amid COVID-19

Following the coronavirus pandemic, the world’s economic performance has been in a continuous decline. Due to the grim behavior of the pandemic, the activities of many people are restricted, which in turn... Read more »

Agriculture sector needs integrated effort to ensure food security amid pandemic

War, famine, pestilence/plague and death are the direst problems the human species faces. In the political economy scholarship these dreadful calamities are usually termed as The Four Horsemen. Ethiopia had suffered from... Read more »

Commendable efforts by the government to beat COVID-19

“Pick-up the phone in Ethiopia these days and you are greeted not by a ringtone but with a jingle urging the benefits of handwashing, social distancing and face masks. Churches and mosques... Read more »

Conducting negotiations on GERD in good faith for a win-win outcome

Almost four years have elapsed since the signing of the Tripartite Agreement between Ethiopia, Sudan and Egypt on the construction of GERD. In the meantime, despite the maneuvers and diplomatic machinations that... Read more »

The Blue Nile, Ethiopia’s inspiring waterfall

The Blue Nile, locally known as Abbay, is the major tributary of the great Nile River, the longest river in the world. It is a waterfall located in the northwest of Ethiopia... Read more »

Oromia state finalizes preparation to plant 3.5 billion trees

ADDIS ABABA – The Oromia state government has announced that it has finalized preparation to plant 3.5 billion trees in the coming Ethiopian rainy season. Girma Amenti, (PhD), state Rural Development Cluster... Read more »