Like most legislations initiated from the executive body in the recent past, the mind-set for the preparation of the Food and Medicine Administration (draft) Proclamation has the same paternalistic and regimented approach with a premise that only the government knows what is best for the people.

Participatory journalism can be an efficient mechanism to make knowledge an integral part of a society. It, moreover, would help create a social context which interconnects people on common agendas, writes Kibrom Berhane.

The ubiquity of ‘fake news’, unreasonable messages, and damning information exchanges on the online sphere in our country clearly indicate that most Facebook users lack the ability to evaluate the messages they consume and dispatch, writes Kibrom Berhane.

Rapid urban growth has several hazardous consequences on population health especially for low-income countries like Ethiopia, writes Sosena Kebede.

Supporting change is by no means equivalent to mouthing the government. Supporting change is not about overlooking while things stumble.

International trade has several advantages and some risks for emerging countries like Ethiopia. 

In order to avoid a total destruction of our political culture due to fanatical views, it is absolutely necessary to create a public sphere open for the discussion of all kinds of views.

The United Nations Security Council is about to lift an arms embargo and targeted sanctions against Eritrea.

Unlike democracy, tribalism does not accommodate equality of all human beings. Unlike tribalism, democracy demands societal and individual decency to eradicate individuals’ cruelty against fellow humans.

Our farmers have several millennia long accumulated experience and knowledge in agriculture.