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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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Ethiopia Is Falling Apart
Tepid reforms and halfhearted concessions won’t save the country’s authoritarian government from its existential crisis. Mohammed Ademo and Jeffrey Smith People protest against the Ethiopian government...
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TPLF Monopoly “on Economic and Political Power in Ethiopia Could Not Possibly...
By Professor Alemayehu G. Mariam Author’s Note: In a recent interview on Voice of America- Amharic Service (for audio of original English interview click here) former U.S. Assistant Secretary of State...
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Ethiopia-win-et: Deconstructing the T-TPLF’s Ethnic Federalism Part I (Al...
Introduction to the series I am developing this multipart series of what I call “Deconstructing Ethnic Federalism in Ethiopia” (along with many other topical series to come) for several reasons. The...
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Will ethnic federalism lead to Ethiopia’s disintegration?
(OPride)—Five years ago, shortly after Mele Zenawi died, Laalo Guduru wrote a brief commentary titled “The Next Prime Minister should be an Oromo.” He concluded his piece with the following words:...
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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’s misguided political trajectory seems to threaten the very...
What are the challenges and potential solutions? By XX In summary: A slow and dramatic political and economic change is underway in Ethiopia under the semblance of a developmental and democratic...
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Romancing the “Wounded Beast” in Ethiopia: Is Reconciliation Without Truth...
By prof. Alemayehu G. Mariam Author’s Note: This is the first installment in a three-part series on prospects “mediation”, “reconciliation” and “negotiation” with the ruling Thugtatorship of the...
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Tedros Adhanom’s Pay to Play at the AdWHO-ville, Geneva
By Prof. Alemayehu G. Mariam Tedros Adhanom, Director-General of the World Health Organization (WHO), is hell-bent on changing WHO into AdWHOnom. Last week, POLITICO posted a scathing article on...
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Deaf Ear! Blind Eye!
—Why Ethiopia’s Opposition must seize a golden opportunity for fundamental change– Aklog Birara (Dr.) Part II of II In part I, I argued that the diplomatic and donor community can no longer afford to...
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OUR FRACTURED PRESENT!
Teshome Abebe January 19, 2018 “From how many crimes, wars, and murders, from how many horrors and misfortunes might not any one have saved mankind, by pulling up the stakes, or filling up the ditch…”...
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Egypt, Ethiopia Leaders Say Nile Dam Must Not Ruin Relations
Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi (R) and Ethiopian Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn talk during their meeting in the Egyptian Presidential Palace in Cairo, Egypt, January 18, 2018 in this...
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Three Issues that the OPDO and the ANDM must take from the hands of the TPLF.
By Birhanemeskel Abebe Segni Birhanemeskel Abebe Segni There are three issues that the TPLF is likely to use for its sinister and divisive purposes to divide the Oromo and Amhara alliances unless the...
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Unarmed Truth and Unconditional Love (Reconciliation): Dr. Martin Luther...
By Prof. Alemayehu G. Mariam Author’s Note: Earlier this week, Americans celebrated what would have been Dr. Martin Luther King Jr’s 89th birthday. I believe it is timely to reflect on Dr. King’s...
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On Releasing “Political Prisoners”—What is going on in Ethiopia?
Tedla Woldeyohannes, Ph.D. Since the announcement made by the Ethiopian Prime Minister on January 3rd, 2018 about releasing “political prisoners”, this topic has received a lot of attention and has...
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Ethiopia: and The Realignment and Buildup of Forces in The Horn of Africa.
By Dawit Giorgis Dawit W Giorgis The most militarized zone in the world is Kashmir, Northern India. India and Pakistan claim the land. That is one of the time bombs Britain left when it was forced to...
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HOW WE FACE THE BEAST OF ETHNIC HATRED WILL DETERMINE OUR OUTCOME AS ETHIOPIANS
WHAT IS HAPPENING TO US? WHAT COULD HAPPEN TO ETHIOPIA IF WE DO NOT CHANGE? WHAT KIND OF COMMON VISION WILL BRING TRUTH, FREEDOM, ACCOUNTABILITY, RECONCILIATION AND JUSTICE FOR ALL OF US? WHAT CAN BE...
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Dancing With the Wounded Beast in Ethiopia
By Alemayehu G. Mariam Author’s Note: This is the second installment in a three-part series on prospects for “mediation”, “reconciliation” and “negotiation” with the ruling Thugtatorship of the Tigrean...
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