By Gebre Kirstos Abbay 30 June 2019 The golden times are over and nowadays as technology is at its climax, human values have been evaporated for personal gain and political pass over. When people got some fame either for their charity or evil-driven deeds they consider themselves as saints or experts. Then they become the […]
After launching the most ambitious reforms in his country’s history Ethiopia’s Prime Minister, Abiy Ahmed, is under threat. The murder of his army chief of staff amid an alleged coup attempt in the Amhara region has highlighted the vulnerability of the reform process. The BBC’s Africa Editor, Fergal Keane, analyses the challenge facing the continent’s
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By Abdi Latif Dahir in Addis AbabaJune 25, 2019 History and religion converge at the Holy Trinity Cathedral in Ethiopia’s capital, Addis Ababa. Initially established by Emperor Menelik II in 1891, the current grand and ornate church wasn’t built until 1942 during the reign of Emperor Haile Selassie. With its copper dome, pinnacles, modern statues, murals, and colorful
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By Prof. Alemayehu G. Mariam How true the saying, “There is no fool like an old fool.” My readers know I don’t tolerate old fools. Of course, there are old fools; and there are offensive and villainous old fools. Herman Cohen is an offensive and villainous old fool. On June 24, 2019, Herman Cohen tweeted: Failed coup
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Beth Daley June 23, 2019 For almost three decades Ethiopia’s federal structure – enshrined in the country’s 1994 constitution – has been defended by the ruling coalition, the Ethiopian Peoples Revolutionary Democratic Front. It’s not surprising that the front has been the system’s prime advocate and defender. It oversaw the creation and implementation of the
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By: Metta-Alem Sinishaw Washington, DC June 22, 2019 Summary: Based on shared grievance, ADP and ODP forged partnership, ended TPLF’s hegemony, and agreed to perfect their relationship within democratic Ethiopia. Despite improvement, ODP’s claim over Addis Ababa, its domination on federal power structure, and absence of transformative vision brought a disappointment. Increasing ethnic tension, lack of law
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BBC The chief of staff of the Ethiopian army, Gen Seare Mekonnen, has been shot dead by his own bodyguard in the capital, Addis Ababa. He and another officer died trying to prevent a coup attempt against the administration in Ethiopia’s northern Amhara region, PM Abiy Ahmed said. In Amhara itself, regional governor Ambachew Mekonnen
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by Victoria Gatenby Hundreds of Ethiopian migrants have returned home from Yemen as part of a UN repatriation programme. The International Organization for Migration says thousands more are waiting to leave and are being held in a football stadium in the port city of Aden. Al Jazeera
By Tesfaye Demmellash Part One – Reckoning with Ethnocentrism One might say that the crisis Ethiopia is in today has to do with ethnicity in the raw, tribal consciousness pure and simple. But from a broader, historically informed and critical perspective, the crisis concerns not so much ethnicity simply as the politics of ethnic recognition or identity, particularly the
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By Damo Gotamo A few months ago, I wrote a brief article entitled “Awassa too Belongs to its Residents.’The following piece has the same content, but I have added a few updates on it. I think this is a timely article because of the current precarious situation in the so-called Souther Nations Nationalities and People’s Region(
ADDIS ABABA, June 4 (Xinhua) — The Ethiopian Ministry of Innovation and Technology on Tuesday launched a new initiative that aimed to boost women’s participation in technology-related entrepreneurship. The newly launched initiative mainly aimed to promote women entrepreneurs in technology and software science through trainings for women drawn from different parts of the East African
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June 1, 2019 In a letter to United States Senators and Representatives, we wrote that “the present situation in Ethiopia is at critical junction. Armed groups like OLF are harassing the entire population and robbing 18 banks to date to one has been accounted for. Ethnic cleansing is occurring both in Southern and Northern Ethiopia. Ethiopians are concerned
