Business

Bridging the Gap: Google Bard Extends Its Reach to Ethiopia, Outshining ChatGPT

Google’s Bard AI is now available in Ethiopia without a VPN By: Yinebeb Bahru  Google Bard is Google’s new chatbot AI that uses its LaMDA (Language Model for Dialogue Applications) technology. It works like other AI chatbots such as Open AI’s ChatGPT and Microsoft’s the New Bing AI chatbot. But it has an edge: it

May 12, 2023 • By Addis Insight

Opinion

The Oromummaa Politics is Weaponized with Lies and Soaked in Blood

Yonas Biru, PhD This article is inspired by a recent op-ed on Addis Standard online titled “Critiquing the anti-Oromo nascent narrative of disgruntled Amhara elite in the diaspora: A rejoinder to the wrong manifesto.” The Manifesto in reference is my proposal titled “Averting Civil War in Ethiopia: An Emergency Manifesto.”  Speaking of my manifesto, the

May 4, 2023 • By Addis Insight

Ethiopian War

Joint Task Force Announces Arrest of Extremist Group Targeting Amhara Region

On April 20, 2015, the Security and Safety Joint Task Force announced that it is taking irrevocable legal action against extremist forces organized and coordinated in the country and abroad to seize regional power by destroying the constitutional system in the region. Recently, the Task Force announced that it has arrested 47 suspects who were

April 30, 2023 • By Addis Insight

News

New Military Service Proclamation in Ethiopia: Students to Serve for Two Years

The House of Representatives approved the National Military Service Proclamation Ethiopia The House of People’s Representatives approved a new decree requiring students who are 18 years old and have completed their high school education to undergo military training and serve for two years. In its regular meeting held yesterday, the council approved the amended draft

April 30, 2023 • By Addis Insight

Business

Google releases offline Amharic language package

By: Yinebeb Bahru In Today’s digitalized world, it is easy to translate between two languages thanks to the internet. However, this is not the case for people living in areas with costly and poor internet connectivity, such as Ethiopia. In January 2021, only 20% of Ethiopians had internet access. Most of those who did had

April 29, 2023 • By Addis Insight

News

Unsolved Mystery: The Assassination of Ethiopian Government Official Girma Yeshitla

On April 28th, 2023, Ato Girma Yeshitla, an executive member of the ruling Prosperity Party and the head of the Amhara Region Prosperity Party Branch Office, was killed by unidentified gunmen in North Showa Zone, 250 kilometers north of the capital city, Addis Ababa. Mr. Girma was visiting various development and infrastructure projects in the

April 28, 2023 • By Addis Insight

News

The negotiations with OLF will start the day after tomorrow – Prime Minister Abiy

The negotiations with OLF will start the day after tomorrow – Prime Minister Abiy Prime Minister Abiy stated that the negotiations with Shene will begin the day after tomorrow in Tanzania. The Prime Minister called on all parties to do their part to bring relief to the people of Wolega. On the other hand, Prime

April 23, 2023 • By Addis Insight

Uncategorized

Prof. Sebsibe Demissew Receives Cuatrecasas Medal For Excellence In Tropical Botany

The Linnean Society of London awarded Professor Sebsebe Demissew from Addis Ababa University (AAU, Ethiopia) as one of those honored for recognizing the contributions of amateur naturalists to the wider biological sciences at its annual medal and award winners’deliberation event held in London last week, on the 7th of April 2022. Professor  Sebsebe received the

April 20, 2023 • By Addis Insight

Culture

Shifta….like Bandit?

By Helina Bezabih Yes, Shifta like bandits, misfits – people who don’t do things the way it has always been done, and so they set about making their own way, trendsetters … This is what Shifta Restaurant is all about. It’s a creative space where artists, musicians or anyone just in the mood for some

April 20, 2023 • By Addis Insight

Opinion

Why Abiy’s move to deploy the army into Ethiopia’s Amhara region is illegal, ill-conceived, and reckless. 

By- Kassahun Melesse Reports of mass protests and violent clashes between the Ethiopian federal army and local militia have emerged from the Amhara region, the second-largest regional state in the East African country. The widespread opposition was triggered by Prime Minister Abiy’s decision to dissolve the regional force and deploy the federal army to enforce

April 20, 2023 • By Addis Insight