The Reporter Magazine (2026)

31/10/2025

EPP Introduces New Payment Scheme for Crypto Miners

- New Scheme also Features Time-of-Use (TOU) System

The Ethiopian Electric Power (EEP) has announced a revision to the electricity tariff structure for data mining customers, which is set to be implemented as of December 1, 2025.
The revised tariff includes a new Time-of-Use (TOU) system, where electricity charges will vary based on peak, off-peak, and shoulder periods, depending on the time of day and grid loading conditions. This structure aims to encourage more efficient electricity usage, with specific rates in place from December 2025 through 2028.

Accordingly, electricity consumption will now be billed under peak (6:00 PM – 10:00 PM), off-peak (11:00 PM – 5:00 AM and 9:00 AM – 6:00 PM), and shoulder (5:00 AM – 9:00 AM) hours, according to the letter issued by the EEP.

The state electric power producer further stated in its letter that new rates, inclusive of 15 percent Value Added Tax (VAT) and 0.5 percent regulatory fee, begin at a daily average of 4 US cents per kilowatt hour (USc/kWh) between December 2025 and July 2026, rising to 5 USc/kWh the following year, and 6.5 USc/kWh from July 2027 to July 2028.

In addition to the TOU system, EEP has introduced an Availability-Based Tariff (ABT), which will adjust energy charges based on the actual availability of power supply during planned limitations. This change is designed to promote greater transparency and fairness during periods of reduced supply and will allow customers to optimize their operations accordingly.

EEP will provide advance notice of any power limitation periods based on its system and resource management studies.
EEP stated that changes will also help in managing the growing demand for electricity and further the utility's long-term objectives of maintaining a high-quality power supply.

29/10/2025

“Historical Injustice”: The Fight Over Resolution

- Ethiopia, Eritrea Should Resolve Issue Bilaterally: UNSC President

With African crises dominating over half of the UN Security Council (UNSC) agenda, the continent’s demand for permanent representation remains a defining, yet unresolved, issue in international diplomacy. Africa has long sought two permanent seats on the UNSC, aiming to break the dominance of the five veto powers (P5). While the proposal has periodically gained support, even from some P5 members, a concrete resolution has yet to materialize.

A UNSC delegation traveled to Addis Ababa for the 19th Annual Joint Consultative Meeting with its African Union Peace and Security Council (AUPSC) counterparts on October 17. The high-stakes meeting addressed the most pressing regional security challenges, including the devastating wars in Sudan and the Horn of Africa, the growing threat of terrorism, and the critical need for sustainable financing of AU-led Peace Support Operations (AUPSOs).

The consultative meeting took place as tensions between Ethiopia and Eritrea continued to escalate—highlighted by harsh rhetoric and reported military mobilization.

Bewket Abebe of The Reporter Magazine caught up with Vasily Nebenzya, representative of the Russian Federation to the UN and the Council’s rotating President for October, during his stay in the Ethiopian capital for a brief exclusive interview.
Ambassador Nebenzya shared Russia’s position on Africa’s quest for a permanent UNSC seat, dissected the complexities stalling UN reform, and assessed the effectiveness of international missions in Africa, about which many have serious doubts. The conversation also touched on the escalating tensions between Ethiopia and Eritrea, among other topics.

Read the full interview: https://thereportermagazines.com/4253/

29/10/2025

Ethiopia Plummets to Near-bottom in Global Rule of Law Index

- WJP Index Ranks it 30th of 34 in Sub-Saharan Africa, 132nd of 143 globally

The World Justice Project (WJP), in its recently released 2025 Rule of Law Index, has ranked Ethiopia 132nd out of 143 nations worldwide and 30th out of 34 countries within Sub-Saharan Africa.
The index, the world's leading source for independent rule of law data, measures how the rule of law is experienced in practice. It evaluates countries based on eight factors, including Constraints on Government Powers, Absence of Corruption, Open Government, and Fundamental Rights.

According to the report, Ethiopia’s overall score fell by 2.4 percent from last year, continuing a downward trend that has persisted for several years.
The country recorded particularly low results in fundamental rights (138th), constraints on government powers (134th), open government (135th), and regulatory enforcement (137th).

Ethiopia performed slightly better in absence of corruption (96th) and criminal justice (104th), although both remain below global averages.

The World Justice Project noted that the rule of law continues to decline globally for the eighth consecutive years. The report notes a rise in authoritarianism as a key factor behind the rule of law recession. Civic space is shrinking in many countries, raising concerns about transparency, accountability, and the protection of fundamental rights worldwide.

28/10/2025

A Decade of Regression: Economic Imbalance, Policy Drift Behind Ethiopia’s Rising Poverty Rates

“A shared blueprint for peace and prosperity for people and the planet, now and into the future!” When world leaders endorsed these words in 2016 through the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), replacing the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), they made an ambitious pledge to “[eliminate] extreme poverty in all its forms everywhere.”

However, with little time remaining and progress lagging behind by four years, the world faces critical questions: What became of the ambition to eliminate extreme poverty and achieve shared prosperity’? And where does Ethiopia stand in this ongoing global pursuit?

Read More: https://thereportermagazines.com/4250/

20/10/2025

"Be a Human Being First."—Grand M***i Haji Oumar Idris

Grand M***i Haji Oumar Idris, a revered figure and former president of the Ethiopian Islamic Affairs Supreme Council, has passed away. He died yesterday, October 19, 2025, and was laid to rest today.

M***i Haji Oumar Idris was widely known and admired by Ethiopians across religious and other identities for his role as a religious father, consistently promoting mutual respect, love, peace, and national unity among the people of Ethiopia.

His funeral was accompanied by thousands of people, and he was laid to rest at the Garment Area Muslim Cemetery.

Born and raised in the Legehambur Wereda, Genetie Village of the former Wollo Province, he dedicated his life to studying and teaching Islamic teachings, including teaching at the Beni Mosque.

15/10/2025

When Affordability Demands Industrial Sacrifice

Stroll through the capital today and one sees the unmistakable dominance of “bonda” – second-hand clothes stacked high, from branded jackets to jeans that once hung in European wardrobes. Affordable, durable, and ubiquitous, these garments have quietly captured more than half of Ethiopia’s apparel market. Yet their very success exposes a policy dilemma: should Ethiopia continue to absorb the world’s castoffs, or draw the line to protect its struggling textile industry?

Read More: https://thereportermagazines.com/4194/

14/10/2025

Ethiopia Establishes Nuclear Power Commission (ENPC), Names Sandokan Debebe Commissioner

The Council of Ministers has today approved a regulation establishing the Ethiopian Nuclear Power Commission (ENPC), a body mandated to lead and coordinate the nation’s efforts to utilize nuclear technology.
Following the Council’s decision, Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed (PhD) appointed Sandokan Debebe, former Chief of Staff of the Office of the Prime Minister, as the ENPC's first Commissioner.

The establishment of the ENPC is meant to fulfill the international requirement to create a national regulatory body ensuring the safe, secure, and peaceful use of nuclear technology in line with the standards of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA).

Ethiopia is actively engaging with the IAEA to secure technical assistance, training, and support for developing its regulatory framework and human resources. The primary foreign partner in its nuclear aspirations is Russia's state atomic energy corporation, Rosatom.

Just weeks before the commission's formation, the two countries signed an Action Plan to develop the nuclear power project. The groundwork for this cooperation was originally laid with an intergovernmental agreement on the peaceful use of nuclear energy back in 2017.

13/10/2025

Crochet, Reimagined

When Helen Bete received her first crochet order—a tiny hat with matching booties for a newborn—she felt a spark that never faded. At the time, she was a fifth-year university student looking for a way to fill spare hours. Crochet itself was no novelty: she had learned the skill as a child from her mother, who made intricate lace known locally as dantel. But this was the first time she understood that the threads in her hands could weave not only garments but also a living.

Read More: https://thereportermagazines.com/4188/

12/10/2025

Hotels on Edge as City Hall’s Austerity Measures Threatens Bottom Lines

In a bid to rein in spending and free up cash for infrastructure, the Addis Ababa City Administration has barred its offices—including the 11 sub-city administrations—from holding meetings, trainings, evaluations, and workshops in hotels.

The directive, issued in July in a letter signed by Abdulkadir Redwan, head of the city’s Finance Bureau and deputy mayor, instructs municipal offices to “be frugal” and stop purchasing hotel services for routine government business. The aim, officials say, is to redirect public money from routine expenses to capital projects such as schools, health centers, housing and infrastructure.

Read More: https://thereportermagazines.com/4210/

10/10/2025

US or China: Who Will Reach the Moon’s Shackleton Crater First?

The superpowers race is underway; what about Africa?

The Moon, once a symbol of Cold War rivalry, is again the stage for a new contest, this time between the United States and China. The focus is no longer the equatorial plains where Apollo astronauts planted flags in 1969, but the deep, shadowed craters of the lunar south pole. At the heart of this rivalry lies Shackleton Crater, a permanently shadowed depression thought to hold sizable reserves of water ice. Whoever controls its resources may secure the key to a long-term lunar presence, and even to launching human missions to Mars from there.

Read More: https://thereportermagazines.com/4192/

10/10/2025

Once Revered, Ethiopia’s White-Collar Professions Are Losing Their Luster

When a bride married a teacher in Ethiopia, there was once a song to celebrate her choice: “የኛሙሽራኩሪኩሪ፣ወሰዳትአስተማሪ” — roughly, “Our bride, be proud, be proud, the teacher took her away.” The anonymous teacher who recalled the lyric has spent more than a decade in an elementary classroom. He invokes it wistfully, as a marker of a time when teaching conferred status, security and pride. “Teaching was considered the top profession,” he said. “But today, no one sings pride songs for teachers.”
Read More: https://thereportermagazines.com/4206/

09/10/2025

Debt Distress Drags Ethiopia’s Economy into Deeper Uncertainty

Debt, once viewed as a necessary instrument to build roads, dams, railways, and other ambitious development projects, has now become a weight dragging Ethiopia’s economy into deeper uncertainty.
The latest joint Debt Sustainability Analysis (DSA) by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and World Bank (WB) has formally classified Ethiopia’s debt as unsustainable, placing it in debt distress.
Read More: https://thereportermagazines.com/4215/

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