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Thank You PM Abiy Ahmed for All You Have Done for Ethiopia!
By Prof. Alemayehu G. Mariam An open Thank You note to H.E. Prime Minister Dr. Abiy Ahmed Dear Prime Minster Abiy: For over a decade, I have used the last of my weekly commentaries to catalogue the...
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The Trouble With Ethiopia’s Ethnic Federalism
The reforms by the country’s new prime minister are clashing with its flawed Constitution and could push the country toward an interethnic conflict. Mahmood Mamdani The New York Times Ethiopian Prime...
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Ex-MP calls for “mixed Ethiopia” identity in 2019 Census
By Teshome M. Borago Former Member of Ethiopian Parliament Girma Seifu Maru Former Member of Ethiopian Parliament Girma Seifu Maru has called for the official recognition of multiethnic mixed-Ethiopian...
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Let Ethiopia Thrive – Aklog Birara (Dr)
Aklog Birara (Dr) Aklog Birara (Dr.) I have consistently opined that if Ethiopians wish to create a just and prosperous society, the current elite-based and dictated Constitutional system of...
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Reflections on the Rule of Law and Ethiopia’s Transition to Democratic Rule...
By Alemayehu G. Mariam What a difference a year makes? The rule of law crushed to earth for 27 years rose up in Ethiopia in 2018. If someone would have told me in the first week of 2018 that I would be...
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Ethnic-federalism incites dangerous nativism in Ethiopia
Teshome M. Borago..Satenaw Columnist New York City (PT) – While the international media has put spotlight on the negative impact of populism in President Trump’s middle America, what is happening in...
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Ethiopia protesters block main highway to the sea
Abiy Ahmed Photographer: Zacharias Abubeker/AFP Via Getty Images by Katharine Houreld and Robin Pomeroy Protesters in Ethiopia’s northeastern Afar region have blocked the landlocked country’s main...
View ArticleAn Apartheid like System in Awassa
By Damo Gotamo It may surprise some people when they read the topic of this brief piece. But, for more than five hundred thousand residents of Awassa, who have experienced blatant discrimination in all...
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From Predatory to Modernizing Elites: Prospects in Abiy’s Ethiopia
Professor Messay Kebede Professor Messay Kebede The starting occasion of this article is a video I watched on the 7th conference of Vision Ethiopia in which my old and dear friend and colleague, Dr,...
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The Case of the Sidama People’s Referendum for Regional Statehood in...
By: Yohanan Yokamo (Lecturer, Hawassa University) The Sidama People are one of the indigenous Cushitic or Kushitic language speaking Ethiopians. After EPRDF (Ethiopia People Revolutionary Democratic...
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DAUNTING CHALLENGES MEET ETHIOPIA’S PROMISING REFORMS
Mebratu D Kelecha, For Addis Standard Addis Abeba, January 15/2019 – There are diverse experiences of “democratic transition” around the world, as well as the causes that lead to such transition and...
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Medemer in America and Ethiopia: My Personal Tribute to the Life,...
By Al Mariam’ Just a year ago… Last year, on the occasion of Dr. Martin Luther King’s Day I pondered what Dr. King’s message would be for young Ethiopians were he alive. I said he would advise them to...
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MEDEMER CONTINUES ROLLING!
By Mengistu Adugna (PHD) This is just my brief reflection based primarily on recent events. Of late, I hardly comment on Ethiopian politics as I have been appalled by distorted narratives of political...
View ArticleThe Right of Secession!
Dr. Ashagre’s reminiscences (No. IV) on ESAT’s የሳምንቱ እንግዳ forum are interesting. However, I see a major error that crept into his analysis. His assertion that “self-determination up to and including...
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The Dawn of a New Era in the Horn of Africa
The Horn of Africa (HOA) is being transformed from a hapless theater of endless devastating wars into a new positive model of regional conflict-resolution and regional alliance building. This change...
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IDEALS: Trump vs Abiy
Zelalem Eshete, Ph.D. I never thought there would come a time where would I admire an Ethiopian prime minister over a United States president. It is a strange time. President Trump is stripping away...
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The Trial of Bereket (The Curse of Ethiopia) Simon for Crimes Against Humanity
By Prof. Alemayehu G. Mariam Prime Suspect in Crimes Against Humanity I have but one passion: to enlighten those who have been kept in the dark, in the name of humanity which has suffered so much and...
View ArticleWhat is the primary reason that prevents many Ethiopians from becoming leaders?
By Assegid Habtewold[1] The theme of my speech at a community empowerment event organized by Jantilla on Saturday, February 2nd, 2019 in Silver Spring, MD at Double Tree by Hilton hotel was “Leadership...
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Did a Dutch Company Engage in “Bio-Piracy” by Patenting Teff, Ethiopia’s...
By Prof. Alemayehu G. mariam A “patent” is a type of license issued by a government to an individual or corporation granting sole right to use and exclude all others from making, using, or selling an...
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Is the African Union fulfilling its mandate?
The organisation has a long way to go until it can claim to fulfil promises made when it was founded in 2001. by Hamza Mohamed One of the objectives of the body when it was launched was to ‘promote...
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