2016

By Alem Mamo It was in 1978 the Provisional Military Administration known as the Dergdeclared what it called “red terror” in Ethiopia.[1] What followed was hard to comprehend; it was a grotesque demonstration of inhumanity against fellow human beings. Streets were littered with bodies of young men and women with placards displayed on them reading […]

By Yusuf Mohamed I watched the poor HMD on YouTube blabbering an emergency decree he said is legislated by the parliament. That is, the “Ethiopian Parliament”, a parliament of castrated men and barren women, insensitive and unmoved by the wholesale slaughter of thousands of peaceful Oromo men, women and children. HMD looked like a mounted

By Obang Metho My Beloved Fellow Ethiopians, our past is holding us hostage. As painful as it is, let us prove we can be better than ethnic hatred policy of the TPLF and the short-sighted views of the ethnocentric individuals who judge other groups relative to their own ethnic group or culture, especially with concern

by Mark P. Fancher “We are all Oromo.” (Black Agenda Report) — The government of Ethiopia recently declared a state of emergency in response to a wave of massive protests by that country’s Oromo people. For decades the Oromo have been the targets of government oppression and political repression even though they represent more than

The Ethiopian people struggle has reached to its pinnacle. The oppressive TPLF regime is to crumble. Ethiopians of all walk of life have to be prepared what is to unfold. The Fascist TPLF in its 25 years of brutal regime has saw seeds of hate, suspicion, disunity, false identity and history. It has established a

By Rundassa Asheetee Hundee The TPLF has passed so many state of emergencies since 1995 and once again, it’s puppet prime minister sat in-front of his fellow puppets and talked about the foreign powers who are destabilizing the Tigre colonized empire and promised to deal with the Oromo protest shortly. He said “I want to

I cry for the hundreds of victims of the October 2, 2016 Irreecha Festival Massacres in Ethiopia. I also cry out for freedom, democracy and human rights in Ethiopia. On October 2, 2016,  troops loyal to the Tigrean Peoples’ Liberation Front (T-TPLF) opened fire indiscriminately on crowds attending one of the most important cultural and

Currently Ethiopia is facing one of the most difficult challenges of its history. However, this is a country with world class reputation on resilience and has been able to survive as an independent nation against all odds for thousands of years. As far as EPRDF corrects its mistakes rapidly and succeeds to stabilize the country

A New Vision for A New Ethiopia By Kebour Ghenna “Society in every state is a blessing, but government even in its best state is but a necessary evil; in its worst state an intolerable one”. Thomas Paine Last week someone asked me what would I say are the three immediate problems facing Ethiopia today,