Business

Ethiopia’s birr black-market booms as diaspora influx

The conflict in Northern Ethiopia that took place in November 2020 has an indefinite economic crisis. with instability in most parts of the country, and it’s said to be one of the factors contributing to the skyrocketing exchange rate of the dollar in the past year. Presumably, the PM’s call for Diaspora is expected to

January 3, 2022 • By Emrakel sileshi

Feature

Eminent Ethiopian deaths of 2021: From ‘Ethiopia’s Elvis’ to notable journalist

MUSICIAN Alemayehu Eshete, 80 Known as the Ethiopian Elvis, Alemayehu became an iconic figure on Ethiopia’s jazz scene from the 1960s and performed right up until his last years. The 1960s, an era of revolutionary art,  gave not only Alemayehu but many artists the liberty to express themselves, society, and the intervention of new ideas.

December 30, 2021 • By Addis Insight

Ethiopian War

Dr Elias Gebru on IDPs crises: “It was a harsh reality to observe.”

Dr. Elias Gebru is emerging as a key figure among the volunteer doctors who took the initiative to organize the first medical volunteers for IDP centers last month after the liberation of states seized by the TPLF. Since the war began on November 3, 2020, counting up to over 2 million people have been internally

December 28, 2021 • By Addis Insight

Business

Ethiopian market in Rosemount develops a new customer base in Dakota County

During remote learning and stay-at-home lockdowns in 2020, Heaven Bekele, a single mom of three, found herself constantly traveling from her home in Rosemount to Minneapolis to buy Ethiopian ingredients and groceries. During those back and forth commutes, Bekele, who was born in Ethiopia, decided to open her own store that would serve other Ethiopian

December 21, 2021 • By Addis Insight

Entertainment & Arts

Art Contemplation in the Streets of Addis

“The precise role of the artist, then, is to illuminate that darkness, blaze roads through that vast forest, so that we will not, in all our doing, lose sight of its purpose, which is, after all, to make the world a more human dwelling place.” James Baldwin The artist creates art that resembles the hidden

December 17, 2021 • By Addis Insight

Culture

Tex-Ethiopian Barbecue- Must Try Ethiopian Cuisine

The combination of this African spice and a thoroughly Texan dessert is just one small example of the joyous adventure of a meal that can be eaten at what is probably the world’s only Tex-Ethiopian smokehouse. Owners Patrick and Fasicka Hicks, from Waco and Addis Ababa, respectively, don’t know of another Ethiopian restaurant that has

December 17, 2021 • By Addis Insight

Feature

How ancient Zera Yacob’s philosophy remains useful in modern Ethiopia

In 1667, an Ethiopian philosopher by the name of Zera Yacob, wrote a Treatise in which he recorded both his life and his thoughts. Exiled from his hometown, he lived his time of solitude in a cave in the Takkaze Valley contemplating fundamental questions regarding human nature, truth, ethics and equality. In the notion of

December 14, 2021 • By Emrakel sileshi

Entrepreneurship

Ethiopian Innovators stay productive amid war time  

Early 2020 was a hopeful time for Ethiopia’s startups. Venture capitalists were increasingly eyeing Ethiopian startups,But now, as Ethiopia is deep in a bloody one-year civil war, shifting winds have brought a completely different scene in the Ethiopian public discourse and start-up ecosystem. The tech community finds itself taking sides too in a war that

December 13, 2021 • By Addis Insight

Business

ECA reports global energy market estimate $1.9 trillion in investments while Africa’s share is modest

The Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) and the RES4Africa Foundation have jointly released a series of country regulatory reviews on electricity markets in Ethiopia, Rwanda, Zambia, South Africa and Ghana. In 2020 alone, the global energy market saw about $1.9 trillion in investments, of which emerging and developing countries attracted 1/5th. Africa captured only a

December 9, 2021 • By Addis Insight

Feature

Blockchain: Why identity based project in Ethiopia should worry us

Ethiopia has been facing an ongoing war with its northern Tigray region  counting a year now. With the ongoing conflict leaving the nation high and dry with a brink of famine and genocide. At the same time, we are beginning to recognize the role that technology companies and platforms can play in exacerbating such crises.

December 8, 2021 • By Addis Insight