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Losing a Generation: Tigray Faces Deepening Crisis amid Displacement, Trafficking, and Political Turmoil
Across the small towns of villages of rural Tigray, displacement and illegal migration have become a grim reality for thousands of young people who...
Living in Limbo: Tigray’s Displaced Left without Protection or Path to Return
Nearly five years after war uprooted them, hundreds of thousands of Tigrayans remain in makeshift camps, living under precarious conditions that blur the line...
Ethiopia’s PPP Gamble: Between Policy Ambition and Investor Skepticism
For much of the past two decades, Ethiopia’s economic growth model was more dominantly defined by public sector financing. State-led investments broadly laid out in...
Novel Legislation Grants Foreign Startups Exemption from Investment Capital Requirements
Foreign startups and ecosystem builders will no longer be bound by Ethiopia’s stringent capital thresholds, following the enactment of the nation’s first Startup Proclamation. The...
Farmer Resettlement Adds USD 350mln to Airport Project Expenditures
The resettlement of the residents of Abusera, the site of the Ethiopian Airlines Group’s new mega airport project, is estimated to cost upwards of...
Civil Service Pay Hike Rings Hollow without Structural Reforms: Experts
Commission estimates additional 160bln Birr needed to meet payroll The Civil Service Commission has announced a sweeping salary increase for government employees effective September, but...
Railway Corp Steps Closer to Resuming Messy Awash-Hara Gebeya Project
The Ethiopian Railways Corporation (ERC) has finalized assessments in its bid to restart the construction of a decade-old rail line project connecting Awash with...
Amhara Peace Council Confirms Killing of North Gojjam Leader
Attacks on civilians and aid workers on the rise The Amhara Regional State Peace Council has confirmed that one of its senior members has...
Chasing the Sun: Can Ethiopia Tap into its Vast Solar Power Potential?
As Ethiopia looks to improve access to energy, ease dependence on hydropower, and meet international obligations to reduce greenhouse gas emissions over the coming...
Ethiopia Records World’s Sharpest Tax-to-GDP Ratio Decline in a Decade
Ethiopia has suffered the sharpest and sustained crumble in tax-to-GDP ratio recorded anywhere in the world over the past decade, a new government-backed study...
