Group work is not something that would cheer many of us Ethiopian students, I remember back as a student abroad. Sadly, that also included myself.

‘Today, I am going home by “Limo”’, we would say on days we would be taking a taxi to go home from school, back in high school. “Limo” is short for limousine, and is the term we would use to refer to the blue minibus taxis in Addis.

Shyness and timidity are confused with politeness and well-manner in the Ethiopian culture. ‘Look at her, she is so quiet, polite and won’t dare look into people’s eyes when spoken to!’ people would say to encourage the shy girl who rarely speaks, or speaks only when spoken to.

One of the perks of the digital age is that one gets to stay at home or wherever they should be and browse the web to get all the information they need to make their purchase decisions.

So Meskel is finally going to be celebrate as usual this year. This time, the number of participants are going to be limited due to the Corona virus.

I aspired to be inspired by inspirational people in the Ethiopian year 2012. That was my goal for the year, and even wrote a blog about it.

The lifting of the state of emergency declared with the advent of the Corona virus in the country is something that I did not expect to come soon, to tell the truth.

Those of you whose jobs relate to monitoring and evaluating programs and projects understand that indicators are everything when it comes to assessing the effectiveness and efficiency of programs and projects and their implementation.

It has now been more than five months since COVID-19 has officially began spreading in this country.

Let me say something about the documentary that featured our Prime Minister as host and was transmitted in nearly all local TV channels in the past few days.