The Reporter said Ethiopia was preparing a venture-capital policy to spur private investment
Parliament approved a bill to create an independent communications authority
Kebour Ghenna asked hard political-economy questions about Ethiopia’s privatisation model
Ethiopia’s food and drug regulator banned several cooking-oil and children’s food brands
Religion News Service said faith-group backlash endangered a planned LGBTQ tour of Ethiopia
World Politics Review said Eritrea’s politics barely shifted after the Ethiopia peace breakthrough
Columbia’s Earth Institute described training Ethiopian field agents for climate-vulnerable farmers
Ethiopia Observer reviewed Claude McKay’s novel on Harlem, Communists, and Ethiopia’s 1930s crisis
OCHA’s Hararge snapshot said many returned IDPs still lacked shelter and basic services
Bloomberg said parliament approved a law opening Ethiopia’s telecom market to foreign investors
Tesfaye Demmellash examined ethnocentrism and the Ethiopian experience in a Borkena essay
Borkena said GERD outlet pipes were being replaced as a quality check before the 2020 deadline
Fairplanet said activist Abel Wabela paid a heavy price for pressing Ethiopia’s rule of law
KenGen won a Sh5.2 billion geothermal drilling and survey contract in Ethiopia
Finance officials said Ethiopia may need $2.2 billion to modernise its overburdened telecom network
Parliament approved four National Election Board members after a contested shortlist vote
OCHA’s May 2019 IDP report said returns were accelerating while aid in home areas stayed thin
Aid chiefs warned a Horn drought like 2017 was compounding Ethiopia’s displacement response
Ethiopian Airlines said it would be among the last carriers to fly the Boeing 737 Max after fixes
UNCTAD said African foreign investment rose while Ethiopia stayed East Africa’s top destination
NetBlocks said Ethiopia’s exam-season internet blackout stretched into a third day as SMS also failed
The Guardian said a US study warned Omo Valley communities faced hunger under dam and sugar projects
Future Directions said GERD was central to Ethiopia’s power plans but less catastrophic for Egypt than feared
Debretsion said targeted pressure was pushing Tigrayans toward talk of secession
Dr. Arvid Hogganvik, born in Debre Tabor to Norwegian parents, told his life story in Amharic
Tsegaye Eshetu and Sileshi Demissie released “Min Honenal,” asking what happened to Ethiopia
Equity Group said it would open a representative office in Addis Ababa as banking reforms advanced
Reuters said Ethiopia aimed to award two new mobile licences by December 2019
Altus said it found the Wedi Keshi gold prospect at its Daro copper-gold project in Tigray
Tadias shared a Reuters video on Ethiopia’s freer media climate and new information challenges
OCHA said most East Wellega IDPs had returned toward Kamashi border areas by late May 2019
Karamara war hero Ali Berke recounted Ethiopia’s fight against Somalia’s 1977 invasion
Tebeje Molla warned that fast privatization under political shock risked neoliberal “shock therapy”
A French dentist returned to Dire Dawa sixty years after a childhood on the Djibouti railway line
IOM linked returnee reintegration in Ethiopia to land repair and flood-risk work
Almaz Derese sat English, Amharic, and maths exams in hospital half an hour after giving birth
Parliamentarians said Ethiopia’s draft regional budget still raised fairness and equity questions
Researchers tested phone-based tracking of separated children in drought-hit northern Ethiopia
Tadias asked whether anonymous Ethiopian diaspora bloggers still meet basic journalism rules
Aksum residents pressed Abiy Ahmed on the federal system, the constitution, and local needs
CIFOR’s Forests News noted Ethiopia’s plan to plant about 4 billion trees during the rainy season
A Jerusalem Post business column linked Ethiopia travel, Ethiopian Jews, and Israeli enterprise
Olam awarded $75,000 for a mapping tool meant to raise food security for Ethiopian farmers
Work was set to begin on $4.4 billion Corbetti and Tulu Moye geothermal projects
The East African said ethnic violence was the dark side of Abiy Ahmed’s early reforms
Ethiopian Airlines kept its Asmara route even while about $6 million stayed locked in Eritrea
Abiy Ahmed visited Tigray and joined efforts to preserve parts of an Axum obelisk
Parliament and the House of Federation postponed Ethiopia’s population census because of instability
Ethiopia opened a vital-events center so refugees could register births, marriages, and deaths
Ethiopia Insight compared Meles Zenawi’s developmental state to Abiy Ahmed’s “new horizon”
Borkena warned that Ethiopian universities were becoming grounds for ethnic violence
France 24 showed how ethnic violence left southern Ethiopian farmers still homeless a year later
Ethiopia’s Council of Ministers approved a roughly $13.5 billion budget for the next fiscal year
IOM appealed for $50 million to help people in need across Ethiopia
Borkena covered an Andafta Media report alleging a “Greater Tigray” project at Ethiopia’s expense
Egypt Today said Sudan released 78 Ethiopian prisoners
AllAfrica’s “War Ravaged Home” piece documented conflict damage and return struggles in Ethiopia
AllAfrica reported a commission meant to untangle Ethiopia’s mining-industry muddle