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Memorandum No. 1: To PM Abiy Ahmed and Ethiopia’s Cheetahs/Abo Shemanes (Youth)
By Alemayehu G. Mariam Author’s note: In my last “commentary” (My Personal Letter to Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed), I promised to focus my future observations on issues and topics that will serve to...
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Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed: All Talk No Substance!! “An Existential Danger to...
By Belay Zeleke April 15th 2018 This is an urgent call to all who have been calling for and want real transformational change to happen in Ethiopia. I urge you all to go back to the unity you have had...
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Exclusive: US Lawmaker suggests Magnitsky Act on Ethiopia’s Rights abusers...
US Congressman Mike Coffman In an exclusive interview with the Satenaw and ZeHabesha Media Group, US Congressman By Mike Coffman suggested President Trump Adminstration should consider applying the...
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“Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.” ― Martin Luther King Jr….A Testament of Hope Part I of II The purpose of this two-part...
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PM Abiy and a call to build the capacity of key stakeholders
By Assegid Habtewold In my latest commentary (https://www.facebook.com/NewBreedLeadersOfAfrica/posts/876809422523559), I shared the second leadership attribute of Dr. Abiy, one of the New Breed Leaders...
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Is the new prime minister an agent of real change in Ethiopia?
By: Shiferaw Abebe Nope! I doesn’t seem he has the intention or the capacity to bring any fundamental change. From everything he has said so far, his intention is to keep the status quo largely intact....
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Dr. Abiy Ahmed Is Not Walking His Inaugural Talk
The Tigrean People Liberation Front (TPLF) has been ruling Ethiopia with an iron fist for 27 long years. The regime has been able to stay in power for so many painful years mainly through its ethnic...
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Dr. Abiy Ahmed: “Hope & Change Bringer or The Perfect Tool for TPLF”
By Belay Zeleke April 19th 2018 New Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed is the first prime minister in modern Ethiopian history to come from the country’s largest ethnic group, the Oromo The more the newly...
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Memorandum No. 2- How to Speak Truth to Good Leaders Who Listen
By Prof. Al Mariam Author’s Note: For the past couple of weeks, I have read and heard unjustified and irresponsible criticism of PM Abiy. Many of his critics are Hippos (older generation) like me, who...
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Ethiopia’s Prime Minister Shows Knack for Balancing Reform and Continuity
Ahmed Soliman New prime minister Abiy Ahmed attends a rally in Ambo, Ethiopia. Photo by Zacharias Abubeker/AFP/Getty Images Dr Abiy Ahmed faces an enormous challenge in satisfying the huge range of...
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Memorandum No. 3: Ask Not What Abiy Ahmed Can Do for Ethiopia, Ask What You...
By Alemayehu G. Mariam “… All this will not be finished in the first 100 days. Nor will it be finished in the first 1,000 days, nor in the life of this Administration, nor even perhaps in our lifetime...
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How Ethiopian Americans changed US policy on their homeland
BY ALEMAYEHU MARIAM, OPINION CONTRIBUTOR THE VIEWS EXPRESSED BY CONTRIBUTORS ARE THEIR OWN AND NOT THE VIEW OF THE HILL An old Ethiopian aphorism propounds, “If spiders could gather up their silk in a...
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Can Ethiopia and Eritrea make peace?
The Economist Twenty years after a pointless war over a town no one had heard of, Ethiopia ponders rapprochement “LIKE Sarajevo, 1914,” said the late Ethiopian prime minister, Meles Zenawi, of the...
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Groovin’ and Jammin’ With Teddy “Ethiopiawinet” Kassahun in L.A.
Al Mariam’s Commentaries, On May 4, 2018 Who’s is the hardest working man in show business? Back in my day, it was James Brown. Down in Augusta, GA where I went to college. “In my hometown where I...
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What The Victimized Amara Should Know: The World Is Made Up of The Hunters...
Belayneh Abate Our conscience is repeatedly stabbed by the endless systematic displacement, massacre, incarceration, torture and starvation of the Amara People. As the testimonies, physical and...
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PM Abiy Ahmed’s first month in office
On May 2, the first month of the official settlement of Abiy Ahmed Ali was held at the helm of the Ethiopian executive. Thirty intense days, full of important events passed in the background. Important...
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Memorandum No. 4: PM Abiy Live Messaging Optimism to Diaspora Ethiopians
By Alemayehu G. Mariam … What I want to pledge before you now is that those who have media in America and those who speak for democracy in Ethiopia, those who cry out, those who are outraged and those...
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The Quandary of Ethiopia’s Bicepalic Government
Messay Kebede In posted interviews and write-ups as well as in informal discussions, the debate is raging between supporters and detractors of Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed. Among the detractors, we find...
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Peaceful Settlement of the Ethio-Eritrean Conflict is an Idea Whose Time Has...
By Dr Yacob Haile-Mariam While we may cautiously rejoice over the new day that has dawned on Ethiopia in recent months with tantalizing promises, we unfortunately cannot say the same thing about...
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His Name Says It All: Andargachew is a Unifier Lethal Word to The Divisive TPLF:
NY/NJ Ethiopians Task Force In Amharic, the national language of Ethiopia, “Andargachew” is equivalent to “unify them.” Andy is a beloved hero to millions of Ethiopians who believe that he risked his...
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