Staff Writer

Second round of talks between the government and the Oromo Liberation Army, referred by the authorities as Shene, have ended without an agreement. The talks...

East African countries had recently faced the worst drought in decades. For four consecutive seasons the rains had been scarce. Ethiopia, Sudan, Somalia and Kenya...

A third telecoms operator is not joining the market in Ethiopia any time soon. This is after the government announced a process to seek an...

3.2%. That’s how many of the students registered to take Ethiopia’s secondary school leaving exam in 2023 scored passing results. In real numbers, close to 850,000 high schoolers sat down for exams they are required to pass to join universities across the country and those who managed to get above average results are less than 28,000. The figures have been roughly similar to numbers from a year earlier. At the time, Education Minister Berhanu Nega (prof) said the severely underwhelming results show how the education system “and we as a society failed.” But substandard exam results are just one of the many problems facing Ethiopia’s education.

This September Ethiopians wave good bye to yet another blood-soaked year and welcome a new one with all too familiar feelings of apprehension and just a minuscule glimmer of hope. The just ended year, 2015, like its predecessor, was one in which violence, lawlessness and a general sense of insecurity prevailed.