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Do taxi queues and long commutes affect our mental health?

Recent surveys of Ethiopian family firms, while limited in size, offer the clearest quantitative window yet into how these businesses operate, grow, and struggle, as well as what their trajectory may mean for Africa’s second-most populous nation as it liberalizes its economy.

Ethiopia is quietly building the digital backbone it has long lacked.

We heavily depend on merchandise coming from abroad. Here is a closer look at why we are not so prideful to import and buy imports extensively.

Ethiopia’s mining sector sits at a paradoxical crossroads. It has delivered record export revenues, yet struggles with governance conflicts, widespread informal extraction, and mounting environmental harm.

Certain activities can duplicate pleasurable feelings we get from drugs. And generosity is one of them.

On paper, this is an opportunity for Ethiopia to prove that it can handle events of global scale and use them to strengthen its green ambitions.

Addiction is not only about substances. It is about the human attempt to soothe pain. Once we understand that, judgment becomes harder and empathy becomes easier.

Young people today juggle two, three, or more jobs alongside education and other responsibilities.

Although Ethiopian languages have tens of millions of speakers, they barely exist on one of the most visited websites.

Although savings have increased in Ethiopia, access to loans remains an unresolved issue.

Courts are supplanting village elders, and decentralized rural life is giving way to centralized public systems. All these signal a move towards modernization. But are these institutions trusted by the people?

Kenya is the country stepping up to enter Ethiopia’s freshly opened markets.

Do ratings mean anything in Ethiopia?

In August, Addis Ababa city barred its offices and the 11 sub-cities from holding hotel events.