Letter from Ethiopia, Diplomatic Capital, Displaced Citizens: The Contradictions of Addis Ababa
On the curious disjunction between a capital that hosts the continent and a nation that cannot quite hold itself together...
Month: February 2026
The cost of Endless Contributions: How Ethiopia Is Squeezing Growth Out Of Its Economy
Ethiopia’s economic debate is increasingly shaped not by what appears in the national budget, but by what happens outside it....
The Epstein Files and Ethiopia: When a Paedophile’s Shadow Falls on the Horn of Africa
An investigation into how Jeffrey Epstein’s tentacles reached Ethiopia, and what it reveals about power, complicity, and the global reckoning...
Targeting the Amhara Intelligentsia: Killings, Detentions, and the Legal Threshold of Genocide Under International Law
By Professor Girma Berhanu Introduction Reports of targeted violence against Amhara academics and professionals have raised growing concern about the...
Ethiopia’s Statistical Smokescreen: How Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed Spun Numbers to Hide Economic Reality
Our columnist Sewasew Teklemariam exposes systematic distortion of growth figures and cost-of-living data in parliamentary address Addis Ababa — When...
When Global Scandals Reach Addis Ababa: Ethiopia and the Epstein Files
By Sewasew Tekelemariam Ethiopian Tribune Columnist There is a particular kind of silence that settles over a political class when...