The Reporter Ethiopia

With profound sorrow and deep gratitude, I mourn the passing of my dear friend and brother, Professor Fantu Cheru — an extraordinary Ethiopian and African intellectual whose life embodied the rare harmony between thought and action, scholarship and service, intellect and humility.

Fantu’s journey — from the hills of Gondar to the lecture halls of the world’s leading un...

By: Francis Deng (PhD) & Amir Idris (PhD)

South Sudan’s transition remains unfinished, not only because of weak institutions, repeated political crises, and a lack of political will, but also because the country has yet to agree on common ground. At the heart of the problem is a deeper question: what kind of state, system of governance, and form of citizenship shou...

As foreign aid budgets contract across much of the developed world and debt pressures mount in poorer countries, development leaders meeting in Nairobi this week are debating whether the decades-old aid model can survive a rapidly changing global economy.

The debate is unfolding at a two-day conference hosted by the Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Freedom, bringing to...

By Charles Ossey

At just one month old, NyapilikaJany was fighting for her life in Jewi Refugee Camp in Ethiopia’s Gambella Region.

Born weighing only 2.1 kilograms, the South Sudanese refugee infant was diagnosed with severe acute malnutrition and a respiratory infection. Her mother, Nyabel Deng, who fled conflict and sought refuge in Ethiopia in 2014, faced th...

The incumbent Prosperity Party has won 438 out of a possible 486 parliamentary seats, the National Election Board of Ethiopia announced today.

Opposition parties and individual candidates won just 48 seat, election officials disclosed at Addis Ababa’s Skylight Hotel, where President Taye Atskeselassie was also present.
Only 501 of Parliament’s total 547 seats were ...