Environment

​Climate Change: a holding back factor in the development of health system

(Tesfagebriel Tekola) Social and environmental determinants of health: clean air, safe drinking water, sufficient food and secure shelter are highly…

​Land Grabbing Cases in Mekelle & Wukro

(Haile Tessema) Residents of Mekelle and visitors to the regional capital would be familiar with two businesses in the service…

The adverse impacts of hyper urbanization & industrialization on Mekelle & its environs

(Tesfai Hailu) As the biblical wise man put it centuries ago, “Where there is no vision, a people perish (Proverbs…

Ethiopia’s Tigray region earns Gold in UN-backed award for conservation

Ethiopia's Tigray region won Gold in the 2017 Future Policy Award for world’s best policies for tackling land degradation organized…

Confronting the Effect of Climate Change in Ethiopia

(Tesfagebriel Tekola - Lecturer at Mekelle University) More than 80 percent of Ethiopians, or more than 80 million people, live…

Sendafa Landfill controversy: The farmers’ version of the story

In the past two weeks, the Sendafa Sanitary Landfill have become the talking point of Addis Ababa. It did not…

Renaissance dam and its impact on Ethio-Sudan ties

The relationship between the two neighbors, Ethiopia and Sudan, is an ancient one. The two neighbors share a long border…

Hydro-mentality over the Nile

(Wondwosen Michago Seide) The Nile River is the only shared physical linkage between Egypt and Ethiopia. The thread of history…

AfDB approves loan for Adama, Adwa, Bichena and Gode water projects

(AfDB) The Board of Directors of the African Development Bank Group (AfDB) on Wednesday, January 13, 2016 approved a loan…

Gibe is not Gila: Anti-dam activism gone awry

"Dam on Ethiopia’s Omo River Causing Hunger and Conflict". That was the tittle of Sandra Postel's alarming piece on National…

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