Friday, November 7, 2025

Editorial

Creating Enabling Conditions for Upcoming Elections

As Ethiopia gears up to hold the 7th general elections, Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed’s (PhD) offer of reassurance to lawmakers that the elections, tentatively...

Growth Without Peace Is a Mirage

Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed’s (PhD) recent declaration that Ethiopia will become Africa’s largest economy within the next decade captured headlines and stirred both optimism...

Safeguarding the Right to Movement

In its latest monitoring between April and September 2025, the Ethiopian Human Rights Commission (EHRC) sounded an alarm: widespread road closures, abductions, curfews, and...

Creating a disaster-resilient future for Ethiopians

The seismic swarm that has been rattling Ethiopia’s northeastern region of Afar since September 2024 has once again brought to the fore the country’s...

Engaging constructively human rights defenders

The suspension of some four prominent human rights organizations operating in Ethiopia over the past month has set the alarm bells ringing among the...

Ensuring successful integration of foreign banks into Ethiopian financial landscape

Parliament’s ratification this week of the keenly anticipated banking business proclamation marks a seminal moment for Ethiopia’s banking industry. A transformative piece of legislation...
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Pursuing principled foreign relations

Ethiopians were caught off guard when mews broke out in the middle of the week that Ethiopia and Somalia had agreed to end their...

Demonstrating the will to uphold accountability

A press release issued mid-week by the Ethiopian Human Rights Commission (EHRC) has once again painted a grim picture of the human rights situation...

Media bill portends troubling future for press freedom

The theme of this editorial is something we addressed just three editions back. We are revisiting it now because its grave implications remain unaddressed....
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Setting a prudent, stakeholder-driven minimum wage

A parliamentary hearing this week once again brought the establishment of a minimum wage in Ethiopia to the fore. Ever since Ethiopia made the...

Ensuring Auditor General gets the respect it deserves

The fireworks always go off whenever the Office of the Federal Auditor General (OFAG) presents scathing reports to Parliament following its financial, performance and...

Curing the draft media law amendment proclamation’s defects

Ethiopia's media landscape has evolved significantly in recent years, particularly following the political reforms Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed’s (PhD) administration introduced shortly after he...
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Anchoring growth in peace, rule of law

As he is wont to do whenever he speaks of his administration’s performance, Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed (PhD) painted a rosy picture of the...

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