Obscured agenda of the aggression, adverse impact

BY GETACHEW MINAS Ethiopia and Sudan have been engaged in a dangerous stalemate over al-Fashaga, a strip of fertile borderland from which Sudan evicted thousands of Ethiopian farmers in December 2020. This... Read more »

Some U.S. politicians should be ready learning the full picture Horn

BY MENGISTEAB TESHOME We know Ethiopia has long been an anchor state in the restive Horn of Africa. Ethiopia had been one of the founding members of the United Nation flagging justice... Read more »

A tale of two prime ministers in the eyes of the West: Abiy Ahmed Ali & Meles Zenawi

BY BLEN M. DIRIBA, DEJEN RAS AND SHEWA DAGNE Abiy Ahmed was born in a small town of Bashasha, Jimma, in the southwestern part of Ethiopia and Meles Zenawi was born in... Read more »

A warm welcome to Samantha Power to Ethiopia, and a word of advice

 BY WOSSEN MELAKU Samantha Power, the USAID Administrator, is planning to come to Addis this weekend. In her own words, she is coming in order to “press the Government of Ethiopia to... Read more »

Fight against Gender Inequality to nation building

BY GETACHEW MINAS The success of any type of development de­pends mainly on its participatory nature. It should involve both male and female rep­resentatives in setting goal and objectives. Their involvement in... Read more »

Effects of taxes on household income and social benefits

Researchers and policy analysts calculate the effects of taxes and benefits on household incomes and work incentives for the population of a given country. They use models for such analyses. For Ethiopia... Read more »

Climate goals at risk If only rich countries adopt electric cars

Europe’s plan to phase out combustion-engine vehicles has put the region at the forefront of climate protection. Yet without progress cleaning up poorer nations’ roads, it won’t be enough to keep global... Read more »

Rich world’s pandemic selfishness won’t be forgotten

The failure of rich countries to share vaccines and financial assistance with poorer ones during the pandemic will exacerbate the rise in global poverty and could come back to bite them, Nobel... Read more »

No way for bindingagreement on GERD

 BY ABEBE WOLDEGIORGIS The stalemate on the GERD negotiation was unresolved for long because of the lower riparian countries’ adamant stance. Ethiopia, as a sovereign State, has the right to utilize its... Read more »

Failure to help poor countries fight Covid ‘could cost global economy $4.5tn

The world economy risks losing $4.5tn (£3.3tn) from highly infectious variants of Covid-19 spreading through poor countries where vaccination rates are lower, the International Monetary Fund has warned. Calling on rich countries... Read more »