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...
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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....
Washed Hands, Bloody Laurels! From Pilate to Peace Prizes: The Global Theatre of Guilt
By Sewasew Teklemariam Ethiopian Tribune Columnist “In just seven months, I have ended seven unendable wars… This includes Egypt and...
Understanding Malicious Envy (“ምቀኛ”, məqəñña): Political, Social, and Economic Implications in Ethiopia (Part 1)
By Professor Girma Berhanu Introduction A respected elder once asked me to write something about malicious envy. He believed that one...
From Palace to Policy: Hana Mariam’s Extraordinary Journey from Imperial Memory to National Advocacy
By Ethiopian Tribune Staff When the Ethiopian Tribune transmitted the funeral service of Her Imperial Highness Princess Sophia Desta in...
From Debt Whisperer to Development Banker: The Mamo Mihretu Chronicles
By E. Frashie, Ethiopian Tribune Correspondent When Mamo Mihretu tendered his resignation as Governor of the National Bank of Ethiopia...
Ethiopia’s Temporal Defiance: The Last Stand Against Calendar Colonisation
By Ethiopian Tribune columnist Sewasew Teklemariam Whilst the rest of the world dutifully follows Pope Gregory XIII’s 442-year-old decree,...
The Closing of ዿግሜ Puagmay : Ethiopia’s Theatre of Dreams and Nightmares
By The Ethiopian Tribune columnist Sewasew Teklemariam A reflection on the final days of Ethiopian Calendar 2017 As the...
The Impunity Assembly Line: Ethiopia’s Five-Star Manufacturing of Misery
By Sewasew Teklemariam an Ethiopian Tribune Columnist Here we are again, dear readers, clutching our copies of the US State...
The Invisible Prime Minister: Abiy’s Media Mastery and the Art of Vanishing
By Sewasew Teklemariam Ethiopian Tribune Columnist There’s something rather magical about our Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed he’s mastered...
