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March 2016

ETHIOPIA’S CONSTITUTION: FRACTURED LEGITIMACY & THE URGENCY OF CONSTITUTIONAL TRANSFIGURATION

BY Tsegaye R Ararssa Part 1 Between 1991 and 1995, Ethiopia had another historical opportunity to (re)constitute itself as a polity. Having used (or abused) that opportunity, on December 8, 1994, the Constitutional Assembly adopted a constitution that came into force in 1995 (see interview here). The controversy around the constitution 21 years after its

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I Remember the March 21, 1960 Sharpeville Massacre in South Africa | 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 the Meles Massacres of June 8, 2005 and November 1-10 and 14-16, 2005 in Ethiopia committed by the black apartheid regime of the Tigrean Peoples Liberation Front

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In Ethiopia, journalist detained since 2013 handed jail sentence

New York, March 11, 2016–Solomon Kebede, the managing editor of the now-defunct Ethiopian paper Ye Muslimoch Guday (Muslim Affairs), was sentenced to prison Thursday, more than three years after being jailed on anti-terrorism charges. CPJ was not immediately able to reconcile conflicting reports on the exact length of the prison sentence. “Since his arrest in

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