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A new agricultural gradient pursuing to potentially change the status of farming communities in Ethiopia is about to take upshots. A reform package in the sector comes with policy-based remedies to fundamentally alter the agriculture sector where the long-existed land tenure system is about to be brushed up. While a short, medium- and long-term plans in the making, the establishment...

Following the recent stalemates in the negotiations over the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD), after Washington ordered Ethiopia not to pursue the storage and filling of the GERD; Ethiopia has been reacting to the US’s conclusions calling it “biased and one sided.” In an exclusive interview with The Reporter, Sileshi Bekele (PhD), Minister of Water, Irrigation and Energy blamed the US...

Ethiopian Foreign Minister Gedu Andargachew said this week that the US was obviously biased in the dam negotiations it facilitated and observed with Sudan and Egypt, last month, as it was clearly manifested in the statement the Treasury Department issued on February 28, 2020. In an exclusive interview with The Reporter, Gedu condemned the statement by the US Treasury Secretary Steven...

It is in a swift and dramatic shift that a hydroelectric power project in one of the Horn of African countries became a global issue. The Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) that Ethiopia is building on the Blue Nile River is not an issue of Ethiopia, Sudan, and Egypt anymore. It is not even an issue of the eleven riparian...

The House of People’s Representatives canceled at least three important meetings and events scheduled for this week and next week, to curb COVID-19 outbreak in Ethiopia, The Reporter has learnt. Following the guidelines issued by the government on Monday, several regular activities such as education institutions, public gatherings and mass activities have been halted as part of a nation-wide precautionary measure to...

Having its roots in the early days of the Ethiopian student movement, ethnic politics have been the dominant form of political mobilization in the country for close to a quarter of a century, now. Whether it is elite driven or evolved naturally as a response to the oppressive feudal system of the day, there is little consensus to this day....