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April 2023

Disarming an Amara is turning point of denial & betrayal Ethiopians & Ethiopia

Disarming an Amara is turning point of denial & betrayal Ethiopians & Ethiopia

Though there are prizes and medals deserves for Ethiopians who devoted all what they had to secure their sovereignty and rescue their country from disintegration by those anti Ethiopians since 2021 October to date it had been to the contrary. Of course not all heroes are praised but not to be fooled and denied then […]

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Huge protests have taken place in Ethiopia’s Amhara region

Huge protests have taken place in Ethiopia’s Amhara region

By Kalkidan Yibeltal BBC News, Addis Ababa Demonstrators blocked roads with rocks and burning tyres to prevent the military from travelling around. Protesters fear that the government’s decision would leave them exposed to attacks by neighbouring regions. Ethiopia constitution provides for each of its states to have their own special forces. The government announced last

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Systemic starvation as a political tool: The jerry-can Protest case in Guraghe, Ethiopia

Systemic starvation as a political tool: The jerry-can Protest case in Guraghe, Ethiopia

By Desalegn Birara* Introductory Discussion Ethiopia is one of the countries with federalist government structure. The federal structure is organized based on ethnic distinctions where each ethnic group is constitutionally guaranteed all the rights to self-administration up to independence. Following the application of these rights and political exercises in the country, ethnic diversities turned up to be the sources of violence and hatred against other ethnic

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Contradictions of Predatory Tribal “Rule” in Ethiopia Implications for Resistance and Change – Part I

Contradictions of Predatory Tribal “Rule” in Ethiopia Implications for Resistance and Change – Part I

By Tesfaye Demmellash Part One If you told Abiy Ahmed and Shimeles Abdisa, the Oromo regime’s top bosses currently presiding over Ethiopia’s undoing, that they are engaged in a postmodernist tribal political project, they wouldn’t know what you were talking about. Still, one can aptly portray their work of national demolition from within as such,

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Averting ManifestoAn Emergency Manifesto

Averting ManifestoAn Emergency Manifesto

Yonas Biru, PhD  This  discussion  paper is prepared with inputs  from many  prominent individuals and  groups in Ethiopia and abroad. A preliminary survey in which 556 participants took part  shows 67.6% support the proposed international campaign. This discussion document  is shared with the public to foster discussion by all stakeholder at home and abroad. The 

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If there is EPRDF  and  its harbor -Z constitution no pace forward.

If there is EPRDF and its harbor -Z constitution no pace forward.

There are many innocent Ethiopians who are dreaming to have Ethiopia to its previous restoration while it was exemplary of independence, source of human cradles and bread basket. It obvious both dreaming and wishing are natural and un avoidable but it will be crime wishing and dreaming without having a lesson from experiences and ancestors

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Ethiopia Deserves Nothing Else Other than to Make all Citizens United Freed from the Ethnic Federal Predicament Curse!

Ethiopia Deserves Nothing Else Other than to Make all Citizens United Freed from the Ethnic Federal Predicament Curse!

By Prof  Mammo Muchie I: INSPIRATION “All for one and one for all, united we stand divided we fall.” “United Ethiopia stands up; ethnically divided Ethiopia Suffers and falls. Let Ethiopian citizenship anchored civil and human rights unity prevail and all conflicts and wars end forever” “Stand up all you Ethiopians as one people and

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Resumption of relations amongst PM Abiy’s regime and TPLF and imminent political challenges to face

Resumption of relations amongst PM Abiy’s regime and TPLF and imminent political challenges to face

Introductory Remarks After two years of bloodshed in northern Ethiopia (Tigray, Amara and Afar regions), a peace process was established in Pretoria, South Africa for ten days of talks and negotiations. In November 2022, a ceasefire agreement was signed and a peace agreement was reached. But the multifaceted devastation caused by the 2-year war on

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