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Ethiopia’s clampdown on dissent tests ethnic federal structure
By William Davison in Addis Ababa, Friday 8 April Kala Gezahegn, the traditional leader of Ethiopia’s Konso peopleKala Gezahegn, the leader of the Konso people, addresses a crowd. His arrest...
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USAID and Famine in Ethiopia: What Does Gayle E. Smith Have to Say?- by Al...
By Prof. Alemayehu G. Mariam Author’s Note: The following is a true and correct copy of my letter to USAID Administrator Gayle E. Smith dated March 16, 2016, and the response I received from T.C....
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Deafening silence from Ethiopia (By Felix Horne)
The Ethiopian government is cracking down on journalists and NGOs. Where’s the outrage from the international community? By Felix Horne, Foreign Policy in Focus Since November, state security forces...
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USAID Hunger Games in Ethiopia (Al Mariam)
Hunger or famine games in Ethiopia? By Alemayehu G. Mariam USAID says there is no famine in Ethiopia, only hunger (a/k/a “severe malnutrition”, “food insecurity”, “food scarcity”, “food insufficiency”,...
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Our Insanity: Doing the same things over and over again and expecting...
After reading my recent articles, a colleague thought that writing about the leadership gaps and accusing of our culture as the root cause for our major troubles at this very critical moment is a...
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An Open Letter to Mr. Barack Obama – By Andualem Aragie (Prisoner of conscience)
The president of the United States of America, Dear President Obama, I am a son of a poor farmer who sustains his family in subsistence agriculture and still is. I am the son of that farmer, who did...
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Does Dr. Tedros Adhanom have the requisite qualifications to become next WHO...
Tedros Adhanom By Keffyalew Gebremedhin The Ethiopia Observatory (TEO) Eight medical doctors have served the World Health Organization (WHO) as its directors-general, through it the international...
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The people of Gondar will never back down for the expansionist Tigray People...
By Kaleab Tessema Since 1991, the people of Welkait Tsegeday and Humera have been murdered and demonized by the Tigray People Liberation Front, TPLF to extend their borders to the Sudan by annexing...
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U.S. Senators Speak Loud and Clear: Human Rights Violations in Ethiopia Must...
April 22, 2016 By Alemayehu G. Mariam Last July, Barack Obama visited Ethiopia and declared the ruling Thugtatoship of the Tigrean People’s Liberation Front (T-TPLF) regime a “democratic...
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My Brother, Eskinder (“Invictus”) Nega: You Are Not Alone and We Love You!...
By Alemayehu G. Mariam We remember our brother Eskinder Nega There is nothing more the T-TPLF (Thugtatorship of the Tigrean People’s Liberation Front) would like to see than the memory of the great...
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Gambella Killings and Other Avoidable Ethiopian Tragedies (SMNE)
Press Release April 26, 2016 Putting humanity before ethnicity or other differences and caring about the freedom of others— for no one is free until all are free— could have created a different ending...
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From Survivance All the Way to Reconstruction – the Oromo Pursuit of Equaliberty
By Tsegaye R Ararssa People mourn the death of Dinka Chala who was shot dead by the Ethiopian forces the day earlier, in the Yubdo Village, about 100 km from Addis Ababa in the Oromia region A lot is...
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Bekele Gerba’s Trial in T-TPLF Monkey Kourt (Al Mariam)
In American legal lore, there is the Scopes Monkey Trial. In 1925, a high school teacher named John Scopes was prosecuted in Tennessee for teaching human evolution in a public school [violating the...
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Gada Theory and practices: The cultural studies (Geremew Nigatu Kassa)
By Geremew Nigatu Kassa This paper was presented at Oromo Study Association (OSA) annual conference at the University of Minnesota, USA, on 14th -15th July 2012 as a contribution to the effort to...
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The “Law” as State Terrorism in Apartheid Ethiopia (Al Mariam)
By Alemayehu G. Mariam Author’s Note: This is the third installment [1] in a series of ongoing commentaries that I expect to post regularly under the rubric, “Apartheid in Ethiopia”. The twin aims of...
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Robert Mugabe and Pink Noses Eskinder Nega, Gulag | Kaiti Prison
Eskinder Nega, Congo-Kinshasa, Congo-Brazzaville, Burundi, Uganda, Rwanda, Benin. Ask Robert Mugabe, Africa’s longest reigning president, about these countries and doubt not he would beam with pride....
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The Intellectual Poverty and Moral Bankruptcy of Ethiopia Famine Deniers (Al...
By Alemayehu G. Mariam There is “no famine in Ethiopia… Ethiopians aren’t starving to death… People aren’t dying… Animals are dying of thirst…” Alex de Waal Last week, in an op-ed piece in the New...
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Ethiopia: Making Sense of Dr. Tsegaye Ararssa’s Self-Contradictions (Tedla...
The rationale for this piece: Tedla Woldeyohannes Saint Louis University, Philosophy, Graduate Student | One of the key reasons for my decision to write this piece consists in my desire, which I hope...
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How TPLF conned born suckers of the world and who muddied President Obama’s...
Ethiopians continue to wonder; how a small time world recognized terrorist group known as Tigray People Liberation Front (TPLF) pulled the greatest scum in history of Ethiopia. President Barack Obama...
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Get rich or end up in jail; the tale of an Ethiopian intel (Hindessa Abdul)
Convicting an intel After almost three years of proceedings, former head of domestic intelligence at the Ethiopian National Intelligence and Security Service (NISS), Woldeselassie Woldemichael, has...
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