Environment desires true caregivers

At the Earth Institute’s State of the Planet meeting at Columbia University, in New York City, few years ago, UN former Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon told the participants that the world’s women are... Read more »

Ethiopia’s spices industry investment potential

The history of spices in Ethiopia is an ancient one and spices remain as basic food items of the Ethiopian people. According to a Factsheet – Spices Ethiopia, prepared by Netherlands-African Business... Read more »

Benefitting from privatization

The government’s growth strategy calls for structural reforms designed to strengthen the private sector, boost competition, and increase investment which is pivotal and decisive to speed up the end of Ethiopia’s long... Read more »

The battle of Adwa: Ethiopian victory that ran against the current of colonialism

On the first day of March 124 years ago, traditional warriors, farmers and pastoralists as well as women defeated a well-armed Italian army in the northern town of Adwa in Ethiopia. The... Read more »

Foreigners’ growing interest on Ethiopian handmade cultural fabrics

If anyone looks around Shiromeda, he or she will see cultural costumes made by Chinese garment factories that could challenge the local apparel market. Many Chinese products that are made in the... Read more »

Ethiopia’s vision to use space science for development

Ethiopia has been working to realize its vision of creating a fully-fledged national space science development program. Back in December, the country joined other African nations that have their own space programs,... Read more »

Addressing Africa’s energy Paradox

During the launch of the Sustainable Development Goal (SDG 7) Energy initiative for Africa at the third African Business Forum held recently in Addis Ababa, countries have discussed ways on how to... Read more »

Maritime Exhibition: An opportunity to exploit water resources

Ethiopia is considered to be a landlocked country. The country does not have an outlet to a sea or ocean. Despite the absence of an outlet, the country has a significant number... Read more »

The need to shore up skilled manpower in water technologies

Last week, the Ethiopian Water Technology Institute (EWTI) in collaboration with the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) has provided a three-week international training on maintenance and operation of water generators for Nigerian,... Read more »

Irrigation projects worth emulating

In recent years, Ethiopia has been making encouraging moves towards the utilization of its estimated 10.1 million hectares of irrigable land. In connection with this, the country organized a new Irrigation Commission... Read more »