“Voices Jammed, Truth Suspended”: Ethiopia’s War on Journalism and the Literacy of Power
By Sewasew Teklemariam, Ethiopian Tribune columnist In the long shadow of Ethiopia’s political history, journalism has never been a neutral...
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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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
The Empress in Exile: When Bath Welcomed Ethiopian Royalty
By Endex, Ethiopian Tribune Chief Editor On a quiet morning in the late 1930s, the genteel streets of Lower Weston...
