To Members of European Parliament – From : Moresh Wegenie Amhara Organization...
Vice News / Date: February 20, 2016 Number: MW-EXT0020-2016 To Members of European Parliament Wiertzstraat 60 B-1047 Brussels, Belgium From : Moresh Wegenie Amhara Organization (MWAO) 8221 Georgia...
View ArticleOromos Should Boycott MIDROC Ethiopia Products; Force Shut Down Gold Mining...
february 20, 2016 By Albasa Dagaga Mohammed International Development Research and Organization Companies (MIDROC) MIDROC Companies are owned by the Saudi billionaire, Sheikh Mohammed Hussein Ali...
View ArticleUnderstanding the current protests in Ethiopia: A rejoinder – Minga Negash
Minga Negash, Professor On February 23, 2016 in a televised interview Prime Minister Haile Mariam Dessalegn announced that the three month long public uprising is accompanied by an armed insurrection....
View ArticleEthiopia at the Eleventh Hour of Peaceful Change (Messay Kebede)
Logically, one would hope that the Oromo uprising and the undeniable general discontent and frustration in the country call for a serious movement toward a reformist dissent within the TPLF and...
View ArticleEthiopia: Kickin’ it with Reeyot Invictus and……….. By Alemayehu G. Mariam
February 28, 2016 Author’s note: This is Part I in a forthcoming series relating my conversations with Reeyot Alemu and her amazing story in the defense of press freedom in Ethiopia. It is also about...
View ArticleThe crisis of ethnic identity and democracy in Ethiopia (Deng Yiech Bachech)
By Deng Yiech Bachech After the fall of Mengistu’s Derg regime in May 1991, people of Ethiopia had great hopes that the peace will ultimately prevail. The bloody and torturous days experienced by the...
View ArticleEthiopia’s Ethnic Parties, Hate for Oppressors but not ‘the Oppression’...
I heard Professor Mesfin Woldemariam once say, “We hate oppressors but not oppression”. It was not a questionable generalization like that of our athlete, Haile Gebreselassie who surprised the whole...
View ArticleEthiopian Judiciary – the baffled branch of the Government!!!
Yonas Mebrahtu /Germany Thomas Jefferson once remarked that ‘The dignity and stability of government in all its branches, the morals of the people and every blessing of society depend so much upon an...
View ArticleThe T-TPLF’s War on Ethiopian Taxi Drivers (Alemayehu G. Mariam)
In America, they call it “Three-Strikes Law”. Criminals who commit three violent or serious crimes are given 25 years to life. The T-TPLF has declared war on Ethiopian taxi drivers! Professor Alemayehu...
View ArticleTwo Names Solution For the Conflict Between Pro-Ethiopia and Pro-Oromia...
Fayyis Oromia The ongoing #OromoProtest for the last four months clearly showed us the exisitng very deep mistrust between the Ethiopian lovers and the Oromian promoters. Oromians are paying huge...
View ArticleTrumpenstein Goes to Circus Court: Trump’s Trump Card Against Hillary...
Robert Kagan, a well-known neocon, recently argued “Trump is the GOP’s Frankenstein monster. Now he’s strong enough to destroy the party.” Kagan reamed establishment Republicans: “Trump is no fluke....
View Article$200 million deal to bring slavery period in the 21st century (Zerihun Shumete)
The Bank Hapoalim has made a deal to loan 200 million dollar for the purpose of assisting the rapid growth of land grabbing in Ethiopia. In the Omo valley in Ethiopia farmers are being forcibly...
View ArticleEthiopia’s Constitution: Can it stand the test of time?
Dr. Negaso Gidada studied History at the Haile Sellasie 1st University (now the Addis Abeba University) from 1966 to 1971. From ‘71 to ‘74 he served as school director and history teacher in Aira, in...
View ArticleI Remember the March 21, 1960 Sharpeville Massacre in South Africa (Al Mariam)
By Prof. Alemayehu G Mariam Every year, I remember two massacres in Africa. In March, I remember the March 21, 1960 white apartheid regime Sharpeville massacre in South Africa. In November, I remember...
View ArticleCommentary: The Democratization Struggle of Ethiopia (Dubale Tariku)
March 3, 2016 As a result of the popular unrest engulfed the Oromia kilil, it appears an interesting debate resurfaced among Ethiopian intellectuals of late. The long held consensus among the...
View ArticleCuba! Hail, Barack Obama, Diplocrite-in-Chief ! (Al Mariam)
By Prof. Alemayhu G. Mariam President Barack Obama is in Cuba! On a mission. Liberate Cubans from “communist” mental slavery! Hooray! Cuba libre! Free Cuba! Back in 1898, another American...
View ArticleIslamic State group: The full story
By Jim Muir / BBC New Image copyrightAlamy Abu Anis only realised something unusual was happening when he heard the sound of explosions coming from the old city on the western bank of the Tigris as it...
View ArticleEthiopian scholar warns country’s overstretched economy risks collapse
By Andualem Sisay / Africa Review Prof. Alemayehu Geda (left) of Addis Ababa University and London University, presenting his paper on Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) to Ethiopia in Addis Ababa. PHOTO...
View ArticleQuo Vadis Ethiopia: Where Are You (not) Going?- By Al Mariam
By Alemayhu G. Mariam Professor Alemayehu G. Mariam teaches political science at California State University, San Bernardino. (Excerpted English version of speech given at the “Conference on the Future...
View ArticleEthiopia is Facing Danger: It is up to Children to Rescue Her – Tadesse Nigatu
That Ethiopia is at the cross-road is becoming clearer and clearer by the day. We are witnessing mass uprisings by citizens all over the country including the Oromos, the Kimants in Gonder, the Knosso...
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