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Ethiopia “Facing challenges across all pillars”: Poor performance in global competitiveness ranking

by Keffyalew Gebremedhin – The Ethiopia Observatory Ethiopia has never been stalwart performer in international competitiveness. The poor state of its institutions, the lack of accountability, poor human and infrastructural development, quality and supply of goods and services, undeveloped goods and financial markets, and the unfavorable macroeconomic environment, especially as pertains to state-private sector relations, […]

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A New Program Is Bringing Distributed Solar To 25,000 Ethiopians Currently Without Electricity

By Jeff Spross A program in Ethiopia has brought distributed solar to 13,200 people, and aims to reach roughly another 11,800 by the end of this November. Roughly one third of the East African country’s population lives on $1.25 a day (adjusted for purchasing power parity) or less, and as of 2009 the country was

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IS TPLF LEADING THE COUNTRY OR EXPANDING IT’S BUSSINESS EMPIRE?

By Firehiwot Guluma Since the dictator TPLF seized power, it has been clearly engaged in massive corruption and unethical business practices by national or international business rules. As a ruling party, it not only owns strategic sectors of the economy and engages in commercial and trading activities, it also puts competing private sectors in a

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From home to anywhere …..

By Meron Admasu The Ethiopian regime intensified the killing, imprisonment and persecution of the Ethiopian civilian population. Thousands of innocent people were forced to flee their homes and became refugees in the neighboring countries of Djibouti, Kenya, Sudan, and all over the world. The Ethiopian government has also actively pressed neighboring countries to abduct Ethiopian

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Interpreting and Living MLK’s Dream – by Professor Alemayehu G. Mariam

By Professor Alemayehu G. Mariam On August 28, 1963, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. delivered a speech for the ages from the steps of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C. A quarter of a million people stood in rapt attention and listened to that speech. It was the crowning moment of the March on Washington

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Semayawi attacked, beaten up and ransacked. By Abebe Gellaw

By Abebe Gellaw blue In the evening of Saturday August 31, Semayawi Party headquarters around Ginfle, Addis Ababa, was buzzing like a bee hive as nearly one hundred party activists and organizers were busy making posters, writing slogans, stacking flags and other paraphernalia needed for a colorful rally. They were making the final push for

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Ethiopia: Corruption Watchdog Presses Charges Against Officials, Businessmen

Prosecutors at the Federal Ethics & Anti-Corruption Commission (FEACC) announced in court on Thursday, August 29, that they have filed charges against 44 people in the high profile corruption case. Melaku Fenta, former director general of the Ethiopian Revenues & Customs Authority (ERCA), and his then deputy, Gebrewahed W. Giorgis, are among those indicted. Charges

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