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...

No time for silence!

In the wake of the Pretoria Agreement, which brought brutal two-year civil war in northern Ethiopia to an end, there was a glimmer of...

Forging a CSOs-friendly environment

U.S. President Donald Trump’s executive order late January freezing funding for the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) for 90 days has had...

Re-emerging as an anchor state in the Horn

The improvement of bilateral relations between Ethiopia and Somalia gained further momentum with the state visit of Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed (PhD) to...
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Seeing through anti-corruption efforts to the end

Corruption remains one of the most significant obstacles to Ethiopia's socio-economic and political development. It is a phenomenon that undermines good governance, economic development,...

Empowering the AUC: a prerequisite for Africa’s progress

As African leaders flock to Addis Ababa this weekend for their ritual gathering to take part in the 38th Ordinary Session of the Assembly...

Pivoting from self-congratulation to concrete solutions

staThe propensity of the ruling Prosperity Party (PP) to bask in its “achievements” was at full display during its recently held second congress. Akin...
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Instituting an independence human rights framework

Parliament’s recent installment of a new leadership for two of the constitutionally created institutions of democracy in Ethiopia—the Ethiopian Human Rights Commission (EHRC) and...

The imperative to forge national consensus

Ethiopia stands at a crossroads, grappling with a myriad of challenges that threaten its unity and stability. With a rich tapestry of ethnic and...

A taxing tax burden

The administration of Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed (PhD) seems to be intent on ingraining in the public’s psyche the perception that “comprehensive macroeconomic policy...
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Refraining from engaging in legislative frenzy

Akin to many nations Ethiopia is confronted with a raft of challenges in balancing the legal reforms brought about by the slew of controversial...

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