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Understanding, Interpreting and Applying the Ethiopian Constitution During...
Alemayehu G. Mariam Author’s Note: On May 18, 2020, I had an opportunity to make a virtual appearance (in Amharic, begins at minute 36:17- 1:22) before the Ethiopian Constitutional Inquiry Council and...
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Interpreting and Applying the Ethiopian Constitution During the Covid-19...
By Alemayehu G. <ariam Interpreting and Applying the Ethiopian Constitution During the Covid-19 Pandemic (Part II – (Constitutional Interpretation) A strict observance of the written law is...
View ArticleIf I were the president – an essay on aspiration and hope for Ethiopia
Aklog Birara (Dr.) A few months before I retired from the World Bank, Ethiopian Review, one of my favorite Ethiopian Websites asked me and other Ethiopian scholars and prominent individuals what 10...
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Interpreting and Applying the Ethiopian Constitution During the COVID-19...
By Alemayehu G. Maroam Author’s Note: On May 18, 2020, I had an opportunity to make a virtual appearance (in Amharic, begins at minute 36:17- 1:22) before the Ethiopian Constitutional Inquiry Council...
View ArticleEgypt’s Voracity and Ethiopia’s National Resolve-It is a “who are we moment”...
By Aklog Birara (Dr) Any rational person in the 21st century will understand the just and reasonable argument that Ethiopian children should no longer starve while Egyptians export food using Nile...
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Egypt and the Hydro-Politics of the Blue Nile River
Daniel D. Kendie; M.SC., Ph.D. As early as the 4th century B.C., Herodotus observed that Egypt was a gift of the Nile. That observation is no less true today than in the distant past, because not only...
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My Private Letter to U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin on the Grand...
Alemayehu G. Mariam June 15, 2020 Secretary Steven Mnuchin U.S. Department of the Treasury 1500 Pennsylvania Ave., N.W. Washington, D.C. 20220 Re: Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam “Washington Talks”...
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Ethiopia’s press post-pandemic
Ethiopia’s media outlets have been hit hard by COVID-19 and are in dire need of economic life-support from the government Governments around the world are currently grappling with the economic downturn...
View ArticleCouncil of Constitutional Inquiry verdict: “Because I said so!”
The Council of Constitutional Inquiry’s reasoning and recommendations regarding delaying the election beyond the end of the governments’ terms were fallacious and self-serving On 11 June, 2020, the...
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Ethiopia Under US, WB Pressure to Sign Colonial Treaty
March 21 , 2020 By Frank E. Watkins Ethiopians are hard-working and well-educated people. The Ethiopian diaspora living in the United States “age 16 and older were more likely than individuals in the...
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Ethiopia Becomes Africa’s First Responder in the War on Coronavirus (COVID-19)
By Alemayehu G. Mariam Ethiopia has risen to meet the challenge and become Africa’s first responder in the war on COVID-19. Led by H.E. Prime Minister Dr. Abiy Ahmed, Ethiopia is proposing to the G-20...
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Selling Ethiopia Down the (Nile) River: The Unraveling Secret Conspiracy of...
By Prof. Alemayehu G. Mariam It is not going to be a fair fight when the Gang of Three gang up on Ethiopia. But Ethiopians have one weapon that has kept them free from colonialism, foreign attacks and...
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Why Africa and Africans should echo the Black Lives Matter movement, now more...
BY ANNABEL SHIMEKIT LEMMA @ANNABELLEMMA &ACHIE GEZAHEGNE GEBRE @ACHIEGEZ Addis Abeba, June 24/2020 – After the video showing the murder of George Floyd by a white police officer surfaced, Americans...
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The African Union Matters: Why is Egypt Knocking on the U.N. Security...
By Prof. Alemayehu G. Mariam Today, June 29, 2020, the U.N. Security Council has scheduled an open session on the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam. As I shall demonstrate below, the open session is a...
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If Not Abiy Ahmed, Then Who? I Stand by Ethiopia and Abiy Ahmed!
By Prof. Alemayehu G. Mariam In a time of deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act. Attributed to George Orwell At this critical time in Ethiopia’s history, I believe Ethiopian intellectuals...
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Perils of ego-politics and possible source of redemption
By Mohammed Girma @girma_mohammed Posters and banners with a message “For the Oromo, I am precious,” adorned Ambo city, the birth place of slain Oromo artist Hachalu Hundessa Addus Abeba, July 23/2020...
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Neither premier’s power grab nor polls will unpick our political puzzle
July 24, 2020 by Semahagn Abebe Turmoil may follow the decision to politicize the pandemic, while an election prior to reconciliation would probably be violent anyway Editor’s note: Publication of this...
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Why Does Al Jazeera Hate Ethiopia?
By Alemayehu G. Mariam Author’s Note: For the past two years, I have carefully monitored Al Jazeera news reporting and op-ed publications on Ethiopia. In its news reporting, Al Jazeera has consistently...
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The Glorious Rise of the People of Tigray and Inglorious Fall of the TPLF in...
By Alemayehu G. Mariam Special Author’s Note: In this commentary/blog, I offer my full and unconditional support to the people of Tigray in their struggle against the reactionary leadership, cadres,...
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The Swift Chase of Fenqil (Abo Shemanes) Cheetahs and Terminal Extinction of...
By Alemayehu G. Mariam To paraphrase Dr. Martin L. King, Jr., “In the end, the people of Tigray will not remember the words and dastardly deeds of their TPLF oppressors but the silence and indifference...
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