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Underpaying farmers risks Ethiopia’s wheat self-sufficiency aspirations
Ethiopia, home to over 100 million people, is making significant progress toward its goal of wheat self-sufficiency. Reforms are afoot in a bid to...
Winning the cancer war in Sub-Saharan Africa
Noncommunicable diseases (NCDs), such as cardiovascular disease, cancer, diabetes, and obesity, kill 41 million people per year, with 77 percent of these deaths occurring in...
Confronting the global water crisis
The world’s water crisis can no longer be ignored. Unless we manage water properly, we will neither tackle climate change nor meet most of the Sustainable...
Getting our priorities right
"Transitional justice" has lately been bandied about by all and sundry in Ethiopia as a mechanism to deal with the after-effects of the civil...
“Developmentalism” or “distractionism”? Which path to follow
There is no theory or school of thought on "developmentalism" or "distractionism." The terms are used here to distinguish between two contradictory approaches to...
Tigray faces choice between two of its finest Generals’ plans
The bloodiest war of the 21st century, which devastated Tigray, ended when Abiy Ahmed of Ethiopia and the Tigray People's Liberation Front (TPLF) signed...
China benefits Ethiopia’s debt restructuring and beyond
On February 27, 2023, a plane landed at the Bole International Airport with Ahmed Shide, Ethiopia's minister of finance, on board. Ahmed brought back...
Three Eastern European answers for three African issues
Scientists and people who think about the future agree that every country's development follows a four-part model called the "quad-core" development process.
The first component...
Equal power, faster progress: A recipe for Africa’s transformation
The COVID-19 pandemic has set African women and girls back significantly. They have lost jobs, education, and agency at a much higher rate than men during...
Nepotism, cronyism crippling Ethiopia’s job market
The issue of unemployment is one of the most frequently discussed subjects among government officials, academics, and employers in and of itself. Many people...
