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Do They Know It Is Yekatit 12?

Ethiopian Tribune editor

A Date That Refuses to Fade and a City That Cannot Recognise Itself
Fly into Bole International Airport on any given morning and the new visitor to Addis Ababa will likely be struck by something unexpected. Glass towers catch the equatorial light. Half-finished luxury condominium blocks crowd the skyline. Billboards in Arabic and English advertise residential developments with names that evoke the Gulf. A certain class of returning diaspora, a certain strain of breathless travel writing, and a particular kind of investor prospectus have begun circulating a phrase that would have bewildered the city’s founders: Addis Ababa is the new Dubai.

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Diplomacy, Drones, and Delicate Optics: Ethiopia’s Tightrope Between India, Turkey, and the Whispers of the Arab World

Ethiopian Tribune editor

Ethiopia’s political theatre, under Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed, has become a masterclass in the management of appearances, whispers, and global expectations. The recent succession of high-profile international visits  the conspicuously warm hand-holding with India’s Prime Minister and the measured, almost surgical formality of Türkiye’s President Erdoğan revealed far more than diplomatic protocol. They exposed the entangled web of elite culture, public rumour, and the ordinary citizen’s bewildered gaze upon a country balancing precariously between internal fractures and external pressures.

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Letter from Ethiopia, Diplomatic Capital, Displaced Citizens: The Contradictions of Addis Ababa

Ethiopian Tribune editor

There is something peculiarly Ethiopian about the scene unfolding in Addis Ababa this February. The city presents itself with all the trappings of continental leadership summit halls filled with dignitaries, the hum of diplomatic motorcades, the unveiling of Africa’s first unmanned police station complete with biometric verification and artificial intelligence. Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed tweets invitations to experience “a new era of African-led tourism development,” whilst the International Monetary Fund nods approvingly at Ethiopia’s fiscal discipline and structural reforms. On paper, at least, this is a nation ascending.

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Ethiopia’s Statistical Smokescreen: How Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed Spun Numbers to Hide Economic Reality

Ethiopian Tribune editor

The World Bank never projected 9.3 per cent growth for Ethiopia. Their January 2026 Global Economic Prospects report clearly states 7.2 per cent for calendar year 2026. That’s not a rounding error, it’s a 2.1 percentage point discrepancy that represents tens of billions of birr in economic activity. Development economists who have followed Ethiopia’s trajectory note that this difference is enormously significant in real-world terms.

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When Global Scandals Reach Addis Ababa: Ethiopia and the Epstein Files

Ethiopian Tribune editor

Dr. Jarecki describes Berhanu Nega as “the Epstein scholar for 2008”, and adds that he had been elected mayor of Addis Ababa before being jailed two years prior. Epstein’s reply is immediate, and it is telling though not in the way many have assumed. He is dismissive of Berhanu Nega’s intellectual standing: “He is hardly a scholar if any note no new theories, no new economic ideas, in fact not one of the top 50,000 economists in the world.” But then the tone shifts. The email takes a sharper, more provocative turn: “However, if you want to fund rebellion without all the easily seen through grandiose facade of scholar rescue, I’m in.”

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