Ethiopia’s recent military strike against rebel-controlled outposts inside Eritrea sent a signal of yet another full-blown war in the making. All things can happen but that, says Tsedale Lemma For the leaders of two countries who embraced war as their best resort to get desperately needed power there is nothing …

How an interim report about poverty alarmingly omits the poor from its index and declares a decline in poverty.  Hone Mandefro  With the start of the new millennium in the year 2000, the World Bank and IMF replaced the decades-old Structural Adjustment Programs with Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers (PRSP) as …

24 is the number of countries scheduled to conduct national elections in the year 2012. Plenty of reasons to shed tears; tears of euphoria and of sadness alike. Selahadin Eshetu Getahun We live in a complicated global system that gives us plenty of reasons to shed tears. I know I …