Peace in Ethiopia, Eritrea and All Africa: Congratulations PM Abiy Ahmed and...
By Alemayehu G. Mariam The guns silenced, the suffering people of Ethiopia and Eritrea may now speak, shout out, that the two countries hereafter “shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their...
View ArticleEthiopian blurred Foreign Policy and the adverse effect of Gulf Rivalry
By: Metta-Alem Sinishaw Washington, DC Metro Area Traditionally, Ethiopia pursues conservative foreign policy, often by aligning its interests with that of powers. The Haile Selassie government pursued...
View ArticleAbiy Ahmed Won the Nobel Peace Prize. Now He Needs to Earn It.
The New York Times Opinion Oct. 17, 2019 By Tobias Hagmann and Kjetil Tronvoll Mr. Hagmann and Mr. Tronvoll are academics, and Eritrea and Ethiopia specialists. The Abyssinian spring in Ethiopia has...
View ArticleEthiopian politicians should agree a transition period, and use it wisely
October 20, 2019 byOlaana Abbaaxiiqi A wide range of political actors should support a five-year transition period that will tackle fundamental divisions and pave the way for fair elections The first...
View Article“Medemer” by Abiy Ahmed, Ph.D., An Interpretive Book Review in Two Parts
By Prof. Alemayehu G. Mariam “Medemer” (original in Amharic), Dr. Abiy Ahmed, Prime Minister of Ethiopia, 280 pp. (October 2019) Part I — The “philosophy” of “Medemer” Reviewer’s Note: This review is...
View ArticleEthiopia and current campaign against Menilik and Ethiopianism
D.Sertse Desta Unambiguously Ethiopian has been mentioned as one of the world most ancient place. In whatever geographical size fluctuation, all Ethiopian state lines bounded the source of the biblical...
View ArticleEthnic Amharas in Oromiya Regional State at Risk of Genocide
(By Meskerem Abera) The incumbent government ruling over Ethiopia is headed by an Oromo prime minister, Abiye Ahmed ,who won Nobel Peace prisze of 2019. The coming in to power of this Oromo prime...
View Article“Medemer” by Abiy Ahmed, Ph.D., An Interpretive Book Review, (Part II)-...
By Alemayehu G. Mariam “Medemer” (original in Amharic), Dr. Abiy Ahmed, Prime Minister of Ethiopia and Nobel Peace Laureate 2019, 280 pp. (October 2019) Reviewer’s Note: Part I of my book review on the...
View ArticleViolent Extremism and the Warning Signs of Civil War Ethiopia Today
By Dawit Wolde Giorgis A year ago, the people of Ethiopia ecstatically welcomed PM Abiy Ahmed and his colleague Lemma Megersa as peacemakers, unifiers and reformers introducing Ethiopia to a new era...
View ArticleThe PM Abiy administration’s Conundrum
By Tibebe Birihan After a good fresh start when taking the helm a year and half ago, PM Abiy seemed to be destined to unify and pacify the country tormented by TPLF looting gangs for close to 30...
View ArticleLiberal democracy is no liberator
November 3, 2019 by Emmanuel Yirdaw Liberal democracy will not liberate Ethiopian nationalities still struggling for recognition, and nor will it free the country from poverty Under the late Prime...
View ArticleEthiopia’s Abiy Ahmed is facing the greatest test of his leadership
Ethnic and religious tensions that have spilled into violence and the deaths of dozens of protesters have their roots in the 1990s constitution Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed. Tiksa Negeri /...
View ArticleEthiopia where the oppressed become the oppressor
Abiy Ahmed Photographer: Zacharias Abubeker/AFP Via Getty Images By Teklu Abate Following the election on 2 April 2018 (by the EPRDF) of Dr Abiy Ahmed as Ethiopia’s Prime Minister, there was massive,...
View ArticleWhy Ethiopians are losing faith in Abiy’s promises for peace
Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed won the Nobel Peace Prize last month. Stian Lysberg Solum / EPA By Yohannes Gedamu When Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed came to power in 2018, the political reforms and...
View ArticleDIGITAL PSYCHO-TERRORISTS’ INFOWARS ON ETHIOPIA: Fool Me Once, Shame on You....
By Prof. Alemayehu G. Mariam Author’s Note: The information war (InfoWars) on Ethiopia today is in full swing. Lies, fake news and disinformation intended to bamboozle, hoodwink and confuse Ethiopians...
View ArticleThe elasticated demands of ethnic extremists and the malarkey given by the...
By Tibebe. Birihan The constant sermon like parlance by the PM doesn’t seem to be holding the same resonance it once had. People are becoming increasingly circumspect of what is orated by their Nobel...
View ArticleA Make-or-Break Moment Nears for Ethiopia’s Political Transformation
Opposition protesters gather outside Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed’s home in Addis Ababa on Oct. 24. Roughly 78 people were killed when protests against the government’s alleged mistreatment of...
View ArticleAbiy has made peace with the devil himself
By wondemagne ejigu The Norwegian Nobel Committee have announced that Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for 2019. The motive is that he has concluded an historic...
View Article“OK, Hippos!”, Growled Ethiopia’s (Abo Shemanes) Cheetahs
By Prof. Alemayehu G. Mariam … Ethiopia’s Cheetah Generation is the only generation that could rescue Ethiopia from the steel claws of T-TPLF tyranny and dictatorship. It is the only generation that...
View ArticleEthiopia at Risk: Radical Islam Harbored in Ethnic Extremism – Part II
Mathewos Filipos, M.D. This is a follow-up of my first article entitled ‘Ethiopia at Risk: Radical Islam Harbored in Ethnic Extremism’ In that article I showed how the radical Islamist Jawar Mohammed...
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