Why Addis Ababa welcomes ‘terrorists’ colorfully?
By Adualem Sisay Gessesse – Over the past few days, an Amharic Language song, “Lanchi new Ethiopia” meaning, “it is for you Ethiopia”, is what you hear on the streets of Addis…
By Adualem Sisay Gessesse – Over the past few days, an Amharic Language song, “Lanchi new Ethiopia” meaning, “it is for you Ethiopia”, is what you hear on the streets of Addis…
Addressing a standing room only crowd of global agriculture experts at the FAO headquarters in Rome, 2017 World Food Prize Laureate and President of the African Development Bank, Akinwumi Adesina, says the…
Being a student is one of the more enjoyable periods of one’s life but it also comes with many new responsibilities that are a rite of passage into adulthood. In a country…
By Andualem Sisay Gessesse – It was in 2011, I was in one of the beautiful clubs around Nitinda, Kampala, Uganda enjoying the weekend evening. A good English speaking Chinese approached me…
By Andualem Sisay Gessesse – The Ethiopian Peoples’ Revolutionary Democracy Front (EPRDF), the ruling coalition in Ethiopia with four ethnic and language based member parties, is set to hold it general assembly…
By Andualem Sisay Gessessse (a kind of tax policy brief) – David Ruppi is a Ugandan journalist. I met him in Kampala, Uganda a few years back at a training for journalists.…
[OPINION] By Andualem Sisay Gessesse – It was about a year ago, I visited a village in Tigray Region of Ethiopia to report on a certain agriculture story. The pace is called…
Djibouti lies more than 2,500 miles from Sri Lanka but the East African country faces a predicament similar to what its peer across the sea confronted last year: It has borrowed more…
By Gedion G. Jalata – The Ethiopian government on 5 June 2018 announced to undertake partial and complete privatization of major state owned enterprises. According to the government: Railway Service, Sugar Plants, Industrial Parks,…
Seid Hassan, Abu Girma, and Minga Negash – “Torturing, putting people in dark rooms, mutilation of prisoners’ body parts is our (i.e., EPRDF’s) act of terrorism. These unconstitutional acts have been done…
By Tesfu Telahoun – It’s the rainy season in Ethiopia now but what with the wholly unexpected emergence of an almost messiah-like prime minister, it might as well be the warmest of…
Part one: Leave and never come back! [OPINION] Three years ago, July 03, 2015 around 10:50 AM, a few (I stress a few) connected and Mafia-like members of TPLF, operating at the…
By Endale Assefa [OPINION] – Unless you wanted to stay oblivion to the veracity on the ground, the national fiasco resulting from the tyranny of the TPLFites (Tigray Peoples Liberation Front) has…
After taking office three months ago, the new Prime Minister of Ethiopia Dr. Abiy Ahmed has repeatedly stated that his administration is investigating and working to repatriate the wealth of the nation…