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...
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The Silence of Amhara (Ethiopian) Intellectuals: A Call for Moral and Scholarly Responsibility
Girma Berhanu (Professor) Abstract Despite ongoing atrocities and systemic persecution targeting the Amhara people in Ethiopia, the intellectual response from...
Ethiopia’s Morality Police Target Hemlines Whilst Addis Ababa’s Sex Trade Thrives Unchecked
Authorities fine women for ‘immodest’ dress as capital’s red-light districts operate openly, serving burgeoning middle-class demand By Alemitu Regassa researcher...
Geʽez and the Politics of Cultural Erasure in Contemporary Ethiopia
Girma Berhanu (Professor) Abstract In recent public discourse, a prominent Ethiopian figure dismissed the ancient Semitic language Geʽez as "dead" and irrelevant...
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...
A Dialogue of the Deaf: How London Became the Stage for Ethiopia’s National Farce
By Ethiopian Tribune chief editor. It was a crisp October morning in London, one of those days where democracy feels...
Ethiopia’s Diplomatic Crossroads: U.S. Estrangement, Three Influential Figures, and the Crisis of Mediation
ByCaleb Ta (Dr.) Independent Researcher in African Political Affairs; Human Rights Advocate Abstract This article examines Ethiopia’s deepening diplomatic isolation...
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....
