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What Prime Minister Abiy needs is resolve, not time!
By: Shiferaw Abebe ETHIOPIA’S NEW PRIME MINISTER ABIY AHMED. AFP PHOTO | ZACHARIAS ABUBEKER A month after Prime Minister (PM) Abiy Ahmed took office, Ethiopia’s future remains unclear. On the day of...
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Memorandum No. 5: PM Abiy Institutionalizing the Rule of Law and...
By Prof. Alemayehu G. Mariam … Security forces wearing uniforms and caps (inaudible). Their job is to prevent people from fighting (breach of the peace). [The inability of the security forces] to...
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The danger of ethnic consciousness and tribal division for democracy in Africa
Felix Rugira Democratic transition in Africa has always been under the spotlight. However, the vision of ensuring democratic transition in the continent has been challenged by dictators and lately by...
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Why Addis Ababa shouldn’t criminalise children who beg on its streets
The Conversation Over half of Ethiopia’s 100 million inhabitants are Orthodox Christians and a third practice Islam. Begging, in the form of almsgiving, is supported by the religious teachings of...
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Real Accountability and the Need to Restore Billions of $ to Ethiopia’s Poor
By Aklog Birara (Dr.) A change in the narrative of political discourse is always healthy and forward looking. As he reaches an important milestone in public discourse engaging various segments and...
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Delivering an unborn dream left to us by history
By Andualem Aragie* Andualem Aragie If we went back in time to 150 years ago, we would not be living and thinking any different from our ancestors of the time. I would even think that we would consider...
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Memorandum No. 6: PM Abiy Preaching “Walk the Talk in Faith”!
By Al (Alemayehu) G. Mariam Last week, Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed of Ethiopia met with the top leaders of the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church (ETOC) and urged them, indeed preached to them, to...
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Bring Dictator Mengistu HM to Justice
F British Woods Business Center 2201 Murfreesboro Pike, Suite A-109 Nashville, TN 37217, USA May 17, 2018 The UN Security Council United Nations 405 East 42nd Street New York, N.Y. 10017. Your...
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Ethnicity could be everything in Ethiopian Politics
By Mulugeta B. Teferi The Origin For an Ethiopian-Nationalist Ethnic Politics or the politics of nationalities is a curse sowed by the mass-produced first generation of ‘Educated Ethiopians’, who were...
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‘I expected to die in there’: Canadian jailed in Ethiopia for 11 years wants...
Questions remain about why case wasn’t taken more seriously, says secretary general of Amnesty International CBC Radio Bashir Makhtal, shown in this undated family photo, was found guilty on...
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The Bromance of Lencho Lata and Abadula Gemeda: Tell me this is not historic.
Mengistu D. Assefa Political party is a human engagement, agency coming together, establishment (an establishment that doesn’t remain an establishment), organization, movement, never a stagnant dogma....
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Why the debate continues over repatriating looted Ethiopian treasures
GlobalPost By James Jeffrey May 24, 2018 Manuscripts from Maqdala at the British Library in London. Credit: James Jeffrey/PRI The yellow card saying “New Acquisition” beside a 19th-century necklace in...
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Ethiopia 2048: A Scenario to Leapfrog to a Developed Nation
By Tadesse Nigatu Introduction The lessons from history is that, humans are the main actors who shape their own future through their actions. Their actions are guided by their wills, wants, attitudes...
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Memorandum No. 7: PM Abiy, “Ethiopia Shall Rise!”
By almariam On May 27, 2018 Author’s Note: In this memorandum commentary, I reflect on a poem read by the late Ghanaian President Kwame Nkrumah at the inauguration of the Organization of African Unity...
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ESFNA is at a Crossroads- Should it allow Dr. Abiy address the Diaspora or not?
By Assegid Habtewold Abiy Ahmed -Prime Minister of Ethiopia One’s leadership is tested when confronted with tough decisions. ESFNA’s leadership is at a crossroads. The decision in front of them makes...
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Ethiopia’s Abiy Ahmed and the survival of the ruling EPRDF
Will Ethiopia’s new prime minister manage to introduce change and push the country towards democratisation? by Yohannes Gedamu Over the last three years, protesters across Ethiopia have been demanding...
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Dear ESFNA, It is NOT about Abiy, It is about Us
By Yaye Abebe The ongoing discussion on inviting Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed to speak at the 35th ESFNA sport and cultural festival in Dallas, Texas is in need of seeing the bigger picture. Abiy came to...
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Has TPLF blind-sighted UN to get a controversial general inducted as UNISFA...
By Keffyalew Gebremedhin The Ethiopia Observatory (TEO) PART Two of two As the last days of pseudo ‘liberationists’ of the marauding category everywhere await their sinking sun, challenges of all sorts...
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Andargatchew Tsige an Ethiopian Mandela !!!
By Tedla Asfaw I remember Mandela walk out from his 27 years jail in 1990. The world media was there to report this historical moment. The Ethiopian Mandela, Andargatchew Tsige who was kidnapped four...
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What Ethiopia’s economy has in common with China
Tyler Cowen, Contributor Dallas News Will Ethiopia become the China of Africa?The question often comes up in an economic context: Ethiopia’s growth rate is expected to be 8.5 percent this year, topping...
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