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Challenges of Building a United Movement for a Democratic Ethiopia* (Aregawi...
Aregawi Berhe, PhD A Summary: The failure of the Ethiopian political opposition forces and civil society movements to act in unison on common ideals of national interest has enabled the dictatorship...
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Urgent Call on all Ethiopians to save their country and their people!
Birhanemeskel Abebe Segni After it realized that it has lost all the political credibility with the Ethiopian people, the TPLF has fully resorted to violence. TPLF is using the Ethiopian Military,...
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Ethiopia’s political crisis deepens amid EPRDF deadlock on the way forward
(OPride) — Ethiopia’s political and security crisis shows no signs of abating. Authorities on Friday imposed nightly curfew at a number of public colleges and universities following a spate of...
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Ethiopia-Win-Et: The U.S. on the Horns of a Creeping Civil War Dilemma in...
Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable…In the past, those who foolishly sought power by riding the back of the tiger ended up inside.” — John F. Kennedy...
View ArticleThe Greedy TPLF Chooses to Master Deceit Rather than Democracy (NY/NJ...
The Ethiopian majority believes TPLF is autocratic, too primitive and has never measured up to leading the populous and historically significant African country of Ethiopia. It never measured up to...
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A fresh start to up the ante: The Decolonizing debate and Ethiopia’s Place in...
addisstandard 2017-12-19 Kindeneh Endeg, (PhD), for Addis Standard Addis Abeba, December 19/2017 – I have followed Hewan’s call for the need to decolonize Ethiopian studies and the follow up...
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Deaf Ear! Blind Eye! Do Not Advance Security —Seizing a golden opportunity...
Aklog Birara (Dr) Part I of II Aklog Birara (Dr) Ethiopians are used to “deaf ear and blind eye” with regard to the international community in general and Ethiopian regime “strategic allies,”...
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Ethiopia is in a process of transformations rather than disintegration.
December 22, 2017 Tesfaye Yigzaw Ethiopia has survived a long excruciating years endangering its existence as a liable country under a tribal dictatorship of Tigray People Liberation Front. The long...
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HOW WE FACE THE BEAST OF ETHNIC HATRED WILL DETERMINE OUR OUTCOME AS ETHIOPIANS
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EPRDF: Might is not Always Right!!! (Abebaye Tegen)
The ruling party in Ethiopia, EPRDF, is in a series of meetings to discuss the current situation in the country. Member parties of the front are said to have completed their individual meetings and...
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The Sensational OPDO and Popular Reactions
BefeQadu Z. Hailu (A note inspired by a Facebook post of Yemane Mitiku) The people in social media and beyond are perplexed about what is going on within EPRDF. Almost all assumptions are made based on...
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Stop Targeted and Selective Ethnic-Killings in Ethiopia
Global Alliance for the Rights of Ethiopians (GARE) Press Statement’ The Global Alliance for the Rights of Ethiopians (GARE) has been in the forefront in defending the rights of Ethiopians within and...
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Ethiopia: EPRDF should ditch democratic centralism to avoid a civil war
Written by Israel Fayisa (OPride)—When Ethiopia’s current rulers deposed the communist dictatorship of Mengistu Hailemariam in 1991, they promised to usher in a new era of democracy. Over the last 27...
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Race to the bottom: Ethiopia’s accelerating crisis
addisstandard- Op-ed An economy in free fall, ever-deepening repression, a deteriorating security, inter-ethnic violence, and a vicious infighting within the ruling party – Ethiopia is on the cusp of...
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The Year of Ethiopia-Win-Et, RISING! (Al Mariam)
Author’s Note: I have a tradition of reviewing the year in my last commentary of the year. It gives me an opportunity for a momentary reflection on some things that have happened and did not happen...
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Trump administration deserves credit for the announced release of political...
BY ALEMAYEHU G. MARIAM, OPINION CONTRIBUTOR — 01/05/18 09:20 AM EST 21 THE VIEWS EXPRESSED BY CONTRIBUTORS ARE THEIR OWN AND NOT THE VIEW OF THE HILL On Jan. 3, 2018, Ethiopian Prime Minister...
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Ethiopia’s TPLF must fix its disease, not symptoms
Teshome M. Borago After over 2 years of courageous Ethiopian protests and thousands of innocent lives lost, the TPLF ruling party has thrown crumbs and meaningless promise at the Ethiopian people once...
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Will the Nile bring Egypt to the brink of another political crisis, this time...
Egypt’s concern about Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam stems from its entire dependence on the Nile’s water Robin Mills January 7, 2018 Cruise boats normally travel smoothly up the Nile from Luxor to...
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Why did Ethiopia decide to release political prisoners?
Ethiopia’s PM Hailemariam Desalegn has announced plans to drop charges against political prisoners and close a notorious prison camp [Michael Tewelde/AP]by Thembisa Fakude 8 Jan 2018 Earlier this...
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The Lemma Megerssa Moment and the Oromo Dilemma: Between resistance and...
Addis Standard Tsegaye R Ararssa, Introduction Tsegaye R Ararssa, Addis Abeba, Janurary 10/2018 – One of the most emphatic achievements of the #OromoProtests is Lemma Megerssa himself. The Lemma...
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