Gold Fever and the Mirage of Recovery: Ethiopia’s Bullion Boom and the Battle for Economic Credibility
By Thomas Araya Ethiopian Tribune columnist In Addis Ababa’s financial district, optimism hums beneath the din of economic anxiety. For...
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Land of Hunger The Granaries Are Full, On PowerPoint World Food Day in Ethiopia: A Feast of Rhetoric, a Famine of Truth
By Sewasew Teklemariam Ethiopian Tribune columnist On 16 October, Ethiopia marked World Food Day with the usual fanfare: speeches from...
The New Tycoons of Abiy’s Ethiopia: Barons, Enablers and the Quiet Gold Rush for Data and Power
By Thomas Araya Ethiopian Tribune columnist “A new Ethiopia is being born,” Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed declared in 2019. Six...
Fairness Deferred: Ethiopia’s Reform Rhetoric Meets the Bondholder Barricade
By Sewasew Teklemariam Ethiopian Tribune columnist As Minister Ahmed Shide pleads for multilateral solidarity, Ethiopia’s debt diplomacy unravels under creditor...
Dialogue or Theatre? Ethiopia’s Future Takes the Stage in London
On the eve of the Ethiopian National Dialogue Commission’s London conference, anticipation is mounting across the diaspora. The Park Plaza...
Revolutionary Comrades, Ponzi Schemes, and 119 Million Missing Cars: An Ethiopian Tragicomedy
Ethiopia’s Theatre of Governance: A Satirical Chronicle By Sewasew Teklemariam Ethiopian Tribune columnist Ethiopia’s Ministry of Transport has unveiled plans...
Sovereignty Under Siege: Reading the Fracture Lines Between Asmara and Addis
A Correspondent’s Dispatch ADDIS ABABA — The Economist’s stark assessment landed like a stone in still water. “Africa’s most secretive...
Ethiopia’s Fighter Jet Folly: A Nation Shopping for Su-35s While Begging for Bread
By Sewasew Teklemariam Ethiopian Tribune columnist One struggles to know where to begin with Ethiopia’s latest escapade in fiscal lunacy....
Ethiopia’s Green Leap or Policy Overreach? The Politics, Perils and Promises of the Fuel Ban
By E Frashie Ethiopian Tribune correspondent When Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed announced that Ethiopia would no longer import fuel-powered trucks,...
Candid and damning outlooks on the state of Ethiopia’s economy
Ethiopia’s Investment Crossroads: Promise, Peril, and the Struggle for Reform By E Frashie Ethiopian Tribune correspondent In September 2025, the U.S....
