Indexing Ethiopia – Alemayehu G. Mariam
Author’s Note: Last week, Vision of Humanity issued its 2017 Global Peace Index (GPI). Its report on Ethiopia is certainly the most distressing though unequivocal, straightforward and clear-cut. The...
View ArticleA greener future will not be decent by definition, but by design
By Guy Ryder Addis Abeba, June 05/2017 – Climate change is the result of human activity. That activity is, for the most part, work or work-related. It is only logical then that the world of work has a...
View ArticleOp-Ed: The Humanitarian Situation in Ethiopia
Daily Maverick This past month we have met countless women and children in the Somali region of Ethiopia who have made astonishing efforts to combat the debilitating drought that is afflicting the...
View ArticleHave We no Sense of Outrage? – By Addissu Admas
The mere fact that 94% of Ethiopia’s population is governed by the leaders of 6% of the population is something that should befuddle anyone with a modicum of intelligence. I know that our intellectuals...
View ArticleWhy Ethiopia’s Unity is Imperative and Beneficial to All
–An urgent plea to change the paradigm of thinking– Aklog Birara (Dr) Over the past quarter century, the narrow nationality based narrative of negating Ethiopia’s remarkable history as an independent...
View ArticleWhy There’s a Statue of Bob Marley in Ethiopia
Fun fact: the Rasta movement arose in Ethiopia, not Jamaica. By Bill Wiatrak 6/7/2017 WHEN YOU THINK OF JAMAICA, you’re likely to conjure a mental picture of Bob Marley before you think of anything...
View ArticleUS should drop out of UN Human Rights Council
BY ALEMAYEHU G. MARIAM Last week, Nikki Haley, the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, in an op-ed piece, openly questioned whether the U.N. “Human Rights Council actually supports human rights or...
View ArticleWhat Needs to be Done to Save Ethiopia? (by Muluken Gebeyew)
Our country, Ethiopia is heading to great disaster. Many people haven’t realised what is the stake. Some may underestimate the risk. Few may even think Ethiopia is in its best stable state taking in...
View ArticleEthiopia: Collective Punishment by Internet Clampdown – Al Mariam
Last week, for the third time in the past year, the Thugtatorship of the Tigrean People’s Liberation Front (T-TPLF) unplugged the internet. The reasons are a bit fuzzy. Some T-TPLF officials say the...
View ArticleWhy it is necessary to reject EPAs (free trade deal) with the EU !
Dr. Fekadu Bekele Free Trade Agreement hinders the development of the division of labor across a given country. Countries that join a Free Trade Agreement will be compelled to concentrate on certain...
View ArticlePariah State?: Travel Warnings in the Land of 13-Months of Sunshine...
U.S and U.K. issue warning to their citizens planning travel in Ethiopia Time was tourists flocked to Ethiopia in search of the “Land of 13-Months of Sunshine” and adventure. Ziggy Marley, son of the...
View ArticleLencho Leta Speech at the Ethiopian National Movement (ENM) Meeting held in...
A Sincere Call for Attention to Serious Issues in Ethiopian: Speech Made at the Ethiopian National Movement (ENM) Meeting held in Oslo, Norway on June 17, 2017 By Lencho Leta Lencho Leta Dear...
View ArticleEthiopia: Sick Political Mentality That Should Not Go Without Being Checked –...
June 19, 2017 T.Goshu “Difficult relationships are caused by two people: the person who does wrong or irresponsible things and the person who allows it.” Elisabeth B. Brown, Living Successfully with...
View ArticleThe Endless Plight of Ethiopian Migrant Workers: Death at Home and...
by Aklog Birara (Dr) Open Letter Aklog Birara (DR) Barely three years after more than 160,000 Ethiopian migrant workers in Saudi Arabia were expelled from the Kingdom, an estimated 400,000-750,000...
View ArticleEthiopian National Unity Convention: The beginning of accountability for...
By Teshome Debalke After all, no united people and democratic nation was ever possible without institutionally vetting the elites and penalizing violators to submit for the will of the people, none....
View ArticleEthiopia: TPLF’s economic argument and its opportunity cost – Shiferaw Abebe
By Shiferaw Abebe As incredible as it may seem, Tigray People Liberation Front (TPLF) – the entity that has ruled Ethiopia for 26 years to date – has the international community in its bag with its...
View ArticleResponse to Lencho Letta’s ENM speech
Commentary by G.E.M. Lencho Leta The founder and former leader of OLF and the chairman of the new Oromo Democratic Front (ODF) Mr Lencho Letta has been actively involved in uniting his Oromo movement...
View ArticleFrom Ethiopianness to Ethnic Fragmentation: the Adversity of Retrospective Logic
By Prof. Messay Kebede Prof. Messay-Kebede A leitmotiv of ethnic politics in Ethiopia is the use of retrospective logic as an essential argument to justify its ideological stand. By this I mean the...
View ArticleMajor Dawit W. Giorgis And Amhara – Kaleab Tessema
By Kaleab Tessema Dawit W Giorgis I happened to listen to the speech of Major Dawit at Ethiopian National Unity Convention in Seattle, with great interest and attention. I found myself somehow sharing...
View ArticleEthiopia may have grown but Kenyans are better off
By Dominic Omondi | Updated Sat, June 24th 2017 As the world woke up to news that Ethiopia had overtaken Kenya to become Eastern Africa’s largest economy, a number of conflicting developments were also...
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