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    Correction | Fact-checking | MMPPM | ⏭

    When Credit Capping Hits 24% — and Logic Hits Zero

    By Editorial Team Posted on2025-10-14

    Correction: The 24% Figure Explained — and Why the Problem Remains the Same.
    The much-circulated 24% was not Ethiopia’s lending rate but the annual cap on credit expansion — the ceiling on how much new money banks can lend each year. Yet this technical correction changes little: whether through suffocating interest rates or restrictive credit policy, Ethiopia’s banking system remains trapped in a cycle that starves growth while serving debt.

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  • Interest
    Fact-checking | MMPPM | Politics | ⏭

    Math Meets PP Regime Myth: Prosperity at 18-20% or More Interest Rate

    By Editorial Team Posted on2025-10-122025-10-12

    This fourth installment in the Math Meets PP Regime Myth series examines Ethiopia’s record-shattering bank interest rate — a feat only the Prosperity Party regime could frame as progress. In the land of sanity, interest rates hover around 1–2%, allowing businesses to borrow, grow, and reinvest. Ethiopia now faces 24% interest rate. For small and medium enterprises operating on 5–10% margins, this is not financing but strangulation. When credit costs more than profit, business shifts from value creation to sheer survival — and the economy itself begins to suffocate.

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    Fact-checking | MMPPM | Politics | ⏭

    Math Meets PP Regime Myth: Inflation That Eats Wages Alive in Ethiopia

    By Editorial Team Posted on2025-09-012025-09-01

    This is the third episode in our "Math Meets PP Regime Myth" series, following [1] and [2]. The PP regime claims Ethiopia’s inflation will ease to around 10%, but ground realities tell a different story. Food staples, rent, utilities, and transport have soared by 100% or more, with wages frozen for decades. For ordinary households, real inflation isn’t 10% — it’s in triple digits, perhaps over 500%. Official figures don’t comfort the poor; they insult them with Orwellian doublespeak.

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  • 30 Million
    Fact-checking | MMPPM | Politics | ⏭

    Math Meets PP Myth: 30 Million Tree PlantersPP's Logic That Got Lost in the Forest

    By Editorial Team Posted on2025-08-142025-08-10

    The PP regime proclaimed that 30 million Ethiopians planted trees in a single day — one sunrise, one countrywide mobilisation. Our math says this is less forestry and more fantasy. After filtering out children, retirees, and the unemployed, the “pool” shrinks — then reality slashes it further: logistics, transport, tools, water, supervision. In the debut of Math Meets PP Myth, we run a one-sunrise sanity check and strip the leaves off the claim until only the bare arithmetic — and the absurdity — remain.

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  • Math Meets PP Myth
    Fact-checking | MMPPM | Politics | ⏭

    Math Meets PP Myth: Series Launch

    By Editorial Team Posted on2025-08-112025-08-10

    Math Meets PP Myth is where Ethiopia’s wildest statistics finally get their day in court. From GDP growth rates that vanish on contact with reality to tree-planting claims that could reforest the moon, this recurring exposé pulls apart the propaganda, crunches the numbers, and exposes the fiction. The PP regime’s math isn’t sloppy — it’s engineered. And we’re here to make the abacus honest. Got a myth? Send it in. Let’s count truth back into the equation.

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  • Shame On You!
    Campaign | Politics

    To Shimelis Abdissa and Caffee Oromia: Your Silence on Moyale Is Betrayal

    By Editorial Team Posted on2025-08-072025-08-07

    To: Shimelis Abdissa, President of Oromia Caffee Oromia, The National Assembly of the Oromo People Shame on you! Days have passed since the Somali regional parliament declared Moyale and parts of Oromia as its own on 26th July, hoisting the Somali flag over Oromo land — and you’ve said nothing. Not a word. Not even...

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  • Shimelis Abdissa
    Article | Opinion | Politics | ⏭

    10 Compelling Reasons Shimelis Abdissa Is Not Effectively Governing Oromia

    By Editorial Team Posted on2025-07-302025-07-29
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    Shimelis Abdissa, nominally President of Oromia, has become emblematic of absentee leadership and quiet complicity in the face of tragedy, dispossession, and systemic betrayal. From his silence during national mourning to his role in dismantling Oromia’s autonomy and impoverishing its people, Shimelis serves not the Oromo nation but the pro unitary Ethiopia Prosperity Party (PP) regime. While we could come up with scores of reasons, for brevity and to get this to print, we chose 10 items that speak volumes.

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  • 10 Questions
    Political Introspection | ⏭

    10 Questions That Demand Silent Self-HonestyAn Introspective Challenge to the Ethiopian Mind

    By Editorial Team Posted on2025-07-232025-07-23

    These 10 questions are designed to spark introspection and silent self-honesty. They challenge long-held narratives and invite you to look inward—without needing to answer aloud.

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