Month: October 2015
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Editorial – Ethiopia should depoliticize hunger
A statement issued by the United Nations Office for Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) and was released in early August this year is replete with paragraphs showing the unmistakable difference between a drought in Ethiopia and Australia. The effect of a rain pattern delayed by a season or two in Ethiopia means “Food insecurity is widespread and rates of acute…
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Migration within the Horn: Balancing regional integration and national interests
The Life & Peace Institute’s Horn of Africa Regional Program held its first Horn of Africa Bulletin Forum (HABForum) on ’Mobility and Migration in in the Horn of Africa: East African Migrants in South Sudan’. The Forum, which was held on Oct. 1st, was opened by the South Sudanese Ambassador to Ethiopia, and convened civil society actors, international organizations, IGAD…
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Behind the smokescreen of Ethiopia’s surging tobacco production
Ethiopia is one of the few countries that evaded the global tobacco plague; yet, with aggressive measures at many levels, it can maintain its low smoking prevalence, and even reduce it further. But that is less likely to happen if its ruthlessly ambitious monopoly believes “in creating a more ergonomic workspace to improve” its business Dr. Frank Ashall, Special to…
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Open Letter to the Policy Makers at the National Bank of Ethiopia
Re: Suspension of the Executives of the Cooperative Bank of Oromia In a baffling decision, you have suspended the top officials of the Cooperative Bank of Oromia (CBO) for reasons that have not yet been made clear to the public. The news that they were sacked “due to alleged mishandling of foreign exchange trade” cannot be taken seriously until further…
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Opinion: Ethiopia’s new Parliament: the inauguration of electoral authoritarianism
Eyob Aselefech Balcha Yesterday, 5 October 2015, the new Ethiopian parliament was officially opened. The best depiction that captured the essence of this new parliament is its paramount role to the consolidation of electoral authoritarianism in Ethiopia. The parliament got its mandate from a general election held on 24th May 2015. The electiontook place in a context where the ruling…
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Ethiopia’s PM Hailemariam Desalegn forms his new government; parliament approves all candidates
Ethiopia’s Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn, who was reelected as yesterday, formed the new government this morning with full endorsement by the national parliament of his ministerial candidates. The House of People’s Representatives (HPR) has approved the appointments of 23 ministers and four senior positions with ministerial portfolio. Accordingly, the House endorsed the PM’s nomination of Demeke Mekonnen, as well…
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