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Zegeye Asfaw, Champion of Land Reform, Passes
Zegeye Asfaw, one of the eleven commissioners of the Ethiopian National Dialogue Commission, has died. Zegeye had been serving on the commission since its establishment...
Rights Commission, Election Board, Security Officials at Odds over Election Prep Pitfalls
Security officials, the National Election Board of Ethiopia (NEBE), and the Ethiopian Human Rights Commission (EHRC) are at odds over the contradictory findings of...
Fledging Insurance Industry Primed for Big Changes under New Proclamation
A draft amendment to the Insurance Business Proclamation proposes to end the provision of general and long-term insurance services under one license. The draft...
Return to Square One: Tigray’s Parallel Administrations Bode Ill for Fragile Horn
On Tuesday, the newly reinstated Tigray regional council elected the TPLF chairman as president. The development means the region now has two presidents: Lt....
Ethiopia Accuses Sudanese Military of Backing TPLF, Territorial Violations
The federal government has accused the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and Sudan’s military government of providing support to “TPLF mercenaries” and violating Ethiopia’s territorial...
Independent Regulator Finally on the Table in Milestone Insurance Proclamation
- Insurance to follow banking in government’s liberalization campaign Experts at the National Bank of Ethiopia (NBE) have finalized a draft proclamation that proposes to...
“Our Only Question is Development”: President Mustafe Omer’s Optimistic Take on Security, Investment, and Elections
An agricultural economist by training from the Imperial College of London and formerly worked at international organizations like the UN, Mustafe Mohammed Omer has...
Ethiopia to Reconsider Auto Import Ban as Part of WTO Accession Efforts
The federal government may soon revisit its restriction on fuel-powered automobile imports as part of Ethiopia’s long-standing efforts to gain accession to the World...
INSA Inks Proclamation to Bolster Cybersecurity Defenses
Draft proposes third-party cyber security service providers, under review in Parliament Experts at the Information Network Security Administration (INSA) have tabled a draft proclamation as...
Africa receives only 11pct of annual climate finance need: UNECA
‘COP32 must be a turning point’ Africa is receiving only 11 percent of the USD277 billion climate finance required annually until 2030. Although Africa contributes...
