By Prof. Alemayehu G. Mariam Africa’s First Responder for Peace, Ethiopia’s Globetrotter for Investment and Hardest Working Man in Politics We are beginning to see hard evidence of PM Abiy Ahmed’s return…
More96 years old former ambassador Imru Zelleke, son of a minister in Emperor Haile Selassie’s first cabinet praises Ethiopia’s young poet Hilina Desalegn for her recent popular poetry. (Below more about Ambassador…
MoreGlobalPost September 16, 2019 By James Jeffrey Churches belonging to the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church (EOTC) are being burned to the ground throughout Ethiopia — one of the world’s most religious countries, where…
MorePUBLISHED ON : SEPTEMBER 16, 2019 BY E4CM DISPATCH Exactly forty-five years after the last emperor of Ethiopia was deposed by lawless criminals who went on to commit a genocide against our people, Ethiopians…
MoreBEIRUT: The Lebanese Foreign Ministry says Ethiopia has released a Lebanese businessman who had been detained in the African nation since last week. The ministry said Sunday that Hassan Jaber will head…
MoreAsmelash Yohannes, PhD. Mekelle University School of Law We are pretty pre-occupied with politics. Our life is consumed with political rumours. Social media posts are awash with ADP said this; Jawar Mohammed…
MoreADDIS ABABA, Sept. 14 (Xinhua) — As this year’s Ethiopian New Year celebrations coincided with the 2019 Chinese Mid-Autumn Festival, Chinese expats residing in Ethiopia have joined their Ethiopian counterparts to mark…
MoreBBC An 18-carat solid gold toilet has been stolen in a burglary overnight at Blenheim Palace. A gang broke into the Oxfordshire palace at about 04:50 BST and stole the artwork, Thames…
MoreHilina Desalegn and her Defense of Ethiopiawinet…
MoreOromo clerics are rallying for their own regional administrative unit 13 September 2019 On September 1, 2019, an ad hoc committee formed by Oromo clerics from the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church (EOTC), declared their…
MoreBy ASSOCIATED PRESS ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia (AP) – An Ethiopian army official says members of the Islamic State extremist group have been detained in the East African country. Berhanu Jula, deputy chief of…
MoreThe March for Peace — 9/11/18 By Alemayehu G, Mariam Author’s Note: Today, September 11 (12), 2019 is Meskerem1, Ethiopian New Year’s Day (Enqutatash “gift of jewels”). I wish all Ethiopians a HAPPY, PEACEFUL AND…
MoreBy Damo Gotamo Jawar Mohammed couldn’t handle his fifteen-minutes fame. He thinks he is a big shot and above the law. He says anything he wants and gets away with it. Everywhere…
MoreSEPTEMBER 11, 2019 BY E4CM DISPATCH The City of Alexandria, at the behest of Mayor Justin Wilson and the City Council, proclaimed Thursday, September 12th as “Enkutatash (Ethiopian New Year) Day”. This is yet another…
MoreBy David Shepardson and Maggie Fick WASHINGTON/ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) – Relatives of some victims of Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302 met with U.S. Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao for about two hours on Tuesday,…
MoreDW Rastafarians from around the world have been settling in Ethiopia for the last 50 years, after being given land by Emperor Haile Selassie. Today, life in “the promised land” is far…
MoreBy Yilma Gebru It seems Ethiopia is on the verge of collapse. The people who claim to bring reform are now in disarray. It doesn’t look like ODP and ADP are working…
MoreBy Betre Y. Getahun The former United States Assistant Secretary of State, Mr. Herman J. Cohen, has apologized to the Amhara people for his false statements made two months ago. Mr. Cohen’s…
More8th April 1946: The first scheduled flight took place to Cairo via Asmara in Douglas C-47 Skytrain. The national airline had been set up a few months earlier as Ethiopian Air Lines…
MoreBy: ELIAS MESERET, Associated Press Updated: Sep 8, 2019 ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia (AP) – A group affiliated with Ethiopia’s Orthodox Church is condemning what it calls the government’s silence on homosexuality in the country.…
MoreBy GALILEE ABDULLAH KERA News Ethiopian New Year is next week, and the Ethiopian community in North Texas will start celebrating this weekend at a festival in Garland. Thousands are expected to attend…
MoreYohannes E. Temesgen. Dallas, Texas Recently, I read an article written by Asfaw Regasa which is an open letter to professor Alemayehu Gebre Mariam. I also read many articles by the same…
MoreBy Prof. Alemayehu G. Mariam More than two months after Herman Cohen made his unprovoked, depravedly hateful and arrogantly insulting comments about the Amhara people, he has finally issued a twitter apology “about…
MoreThe current president of Zimbabwe has confirmed the news. Zimbabwe’s founding president Robert Mugabe has passed away after a long battle with ill health. The Mirror reports that Mugabe passed away in a hospital…
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