January 2023

By Dr. Suleiman walhad January 31st, 2023 In 2020, Ethiopia carried out a demonetization of its currency and Somalia has recently announced that it would carry out a demonetization of its currency. Demonetization is the process where governments withdraw bank notes and/or coins from the market and replace them with new ones. This is generally […]

Sewale Belew – (sewaleb@yahoo.com). January 30, 2023. Presently, the TPLF constitution and governance system enforced in Ethiopia is clearly the enemy of Ethiopians since citizens are persistently slaughtered under its jurisdiction and policy implementation. Yet, current regime’s officials claim the constitution has no equal, for which they are determined to keep it alive without any

By Dr. Suleiman Walhad January 30th, 2023 Somalis are not new to causing mishaps for themselves and others. They literally forced themselves into the Arab League, although, some say it was forced to join as an underbelly support for the Arabia Peninsula security permit – that is where Somalia is located, just south of the

Al Mariam’s Commentaries January 29, 2023 Author’s Note: While this commentary stands on its own merits, I strongly recommend reading Part I, “Message to Ethiopian Intellectuals: A Mind is a Terrible Thing to Waste!” In Part II of my message to Ethiopian intellectuals, I had planned on discussing a different set of ideas and issues. I

By Dr. Suleiman Walhad January 29th, 2023 Sometimes we need to ask ourselves what role would the Horn of Africa States play in this twenty first century, when the countries of the region have been growing away from each other over the past hundred and fifty years? Obviously, there is no easy answer to the

Yonas Biru, PhD In my blog yesterday, I suggested that as dismal as it is, the 3.3 percent passing rate of the standardized college entrance tests is not the most important story. The most important stories are in the details. Producing averages conceal data points that are critical to inform policy. The Oromo and Amhara

Yonas Biru, PhD Tribalism is primitive and degenerative by nature. It brings savagery out of perfectly fine human beings. That much has been recorded throughout human history. Professor Berhanu Nega’s contribution to human development is providing evidence that tribalism stupidifies and ደነዝifies. In 2022, nearly 900,000 Ethiopian high school students took college entrance standardized tests and only 3.3 percent

By Dr. Suleiman walhad January 28th, 2023 Part II The world only sees a Horn of Africa region devasted by famines, droughts and civil strives and all the paraphernalia that generally describe failed states, hopelessness, tribal and clan pseudo competitions over nothing. No one discusses or sees the Horn of Africa States and its possible

by Sewale Belew – sewaleb@yahoo.com. January 27, 2023 Background to systemic victimization of the Amhara people In Ethiopia, the Amhara people belong to that category of victims of major human rights violations who only few in the world want to acknowledge as victims. Not only today, but also since the past 50 years, during which the