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Eskinder Nega : Global symbol of resistance to ethnic inequality, oppression...
Eskinder Nega- human rights activist By Girma Berhanu (Professor) Introduction Eskinder Nega is a well-known journalist, political activist and most-discussed political prisoner recognized globally for...
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Lockdown: Proposal Ethiopia Under Siege by Cororna Pandemics
By Dawit Giorgis Ethiopia is a pioneer in the development of an institutionalized capacity to deal with natural and man-made disasters. Many countries in Africa took Ethiopia as a model for...
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G-20 Partially Responds To PM Abiy’s COVID-19 Africa Rescue Proposal: Let’s...
By Alemayehu G. Mariam PM Abiy (“Africa’s First Responder”) Ahmed On March 24, 2020, Abiy Ahmed, Prime Minister of Ethiopia, proposed a three-point plan to the G-20 to proactively deal with the...
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When each day matters a great deal in one’s life, one must seek beyond wish...
Yohannes Kinfu (PhD) A personal perspective on managing COVID-19 Addis Abeba, April 22/2020 – Few events, in our shared humanity, have divided and united the world at the same time as COVID-19. In...
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Is that Trump to be blamed for the US COVID19 disaster?
By Sertse Desta Now the US contributes over a third of confirmed cases and a quarter of deaths of the world COVID19 data. Most nations that were highly hit by the virus seem now controlling it. The...
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Ethiopia: Desperate Times Call for Extraordinary Constitutional Measures...
By Alemayehu G. Mariam Author’s Note: COVID-19 has wreaked havoc on the global health, economic and social system. Two weeks ago, the Ethiopian Parliament passed a law (Proclamation No. 3/2020 “State...
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Desperate Times Call for Extraordinary Constitutional Measures: The Necessity...
By Alemayehu G. Mariam Special Author’s Note: In Part I of this commentary last week, I examined Proclamation No. 3/2020 (“State of Emergency Proclamation Enacted to Counter and Control the Spread of...
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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...
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. <ariam Interpreting and Applying the Ethiopian Constitution During the Covid-19 Pandemic (Part II – (Constitutional Interpretation) A strict observance of the written law is...
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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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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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