December 2022

By Sewale Belew – sealeb@yahoo.com – December 30, 2022. Background to Organized Crimes in Ethiopia Organized criminal networks in Ethiopia engage themselves mainly in illegal activities for economic reasons. For instance, human smuggling operations spread out from loosely linked opportunists and criminal entrepreneurs up to well-organized syndicates that have an extensive influence over several nations around …

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By Dr. Suleiman Walhad December 30th, 2022 There are health issues, like anywhere else, in the Horn of Africa States. The region, however, lacks many features related to health and health services in many other regions. These, among others, include lack of co-ordination among the those who provide health services in the region, be they …

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Thoughts on the Amhara Existential Struggle Against TPLF and OLF/PP Tribal Extremists In honour of the teachers and journalists Meskerem Abera and Tadios Tantu, who are now being held in state custody for speaking up for the voiceless. Girma Berhanu (professor)     Background TPLF was founded on the basis of the Amhara as its …

Can Ethiopia Survive the Scourge of the two Tribal Extremists TPLF and OLF/PP? Read More »

Yonas Biru, PhD December 27, 2022 I have written four articles on peace agreement proposals from November 21, 2020, to September 26, 2022. By and large these proposals are consistent with the agreement that the federal government and TPLF adopted. There was one issue where my prediction missed the mark. That is the focus of …

How Far Will the Government Tolerate TPLF’s Violation of the Peace Agreement? Read More »

By Jeffrey Feltman December 26, 2022 Rape, extrajudicial killing, manmade famine, denial of medical aid and services, and expulsions described by U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken as “ethnic cleansing” are among the horrors of the brutal war that exploded in Ethiopia’s northern highlands in November 2020. Up to 600,000 people, mostly ethnic Tigrayans, are …

Ethiopia’s Problems Go Far Beyond Tigray Read More »

https://youtu.be/0Rbf-EjmV0M ESAT Special program Shaleka Dawit w/Giyorgis on Ethiopia Wedet Event June 2019

By Dr. Suleiman Walhad December 24th, 2022 We are about to close the year and we look back at it, and the successes and failures of our experiences during those days and months we lived through and yet we then look at the coming rebirth, the coming of a new year and new period in …

The Horn of Africa States Roses and Thorns Read More »

Mesfin Area mesfin.arega@gmail.com December 23, 2022 The time for “white Christmas”, “white Jesus”, and “white Santa” is the most appropriate time for discussing the very terms “white” and “black” as applied to people of European and African descent.  Classifying people by skin color as white, black, yellow, brown, red etc. is a self-serving post-colonial concept highly …

White & black versus piggy & ebony Read More »

By Dr. Suleiman Walhad December 22nd, 2022 As known to all, sports are activities that help physical fitness, mental well-being and interactions among people. Sports by their very nature underline participation. They could simply be walking, running or an organized event like football or field hockey or basketball and the tons of other sports activities. …

The Horn of Africa States Sports as a Means to Integration Read More »

They  Have Failed to Climb the Steps of the Intellect Pyramids! Trusting habitual traitors and blaming them for betraying again is like believing in Satan and blaming him for doing the job he was created for!    By Belayneh Abate  It is not unusual to observe that many educated Ethiopians, especially those who claim they …

Many Ethiopian Elites Have Failed to Admit and Learn from Their Mistakes Read More »