Economy & Business

‘Made in Ethiopia’ could be the next ‘Made in China’ | Wall Street Journal

(Tom Gara) China’s was once known as cheapest factory floor on the planet, but in the last two decades its…

China lends $500m for Welkait Sugar Mill project

China's state-owned Export-Import Bank will lend 500 million US dollar for the the Welkait Sugar Mill Project. The project, is…

Gap, Gap, Gap! A Continent haunted by her past

(Astewaye Beyene) Where to start? Why not in the fifteenth century! Now we are in the second decade of the…

Addis Ababa Light Rail Transit entered traction works

The construction of the Addis Ababa Light Rail Transit (AA-LRT) project entered traction works, a final phase in the construction…

Expert opinion: On the upcoming Africa-EU Summit

(Mehari Taddele Maru and Emebet G. Abate) Scheduled for April 2014, the 4th Africa-EU Summit will be held in Brussels.…

Review: Ethiopia, aid and conditionality

The author, Axel Borchgrevink, is a senior researcher at the Norwegian Institute of International Affairs. He holds a doctoral degree…

Private sector and the developmental state model (Dr. Costantinos)

Editor’s note: Dr. Costantinos Beruhtesfa Costantinos had recently made some brief remarks to local media concerning the role of the…

Without women, the world would go hungry

(Ranjitha Puskur) Today, agriculture is still considered a man’s world despite the 602 million women across the globe who are…

Kenyan President to cut top officials’ salary by 20%

Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta continued Monday (March 10th) to announce slashes to salaries of top officials in an effort to…

Eritrea’s Army: Miserable and Useless | The Economist

When Isaias Afewerki, Eritrea’s president, introduced compulsory military service in 1995, he said it would be good for the emerging…

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