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The Ethiopian Student Movement: A Historical Overview (1960–1974)

The Ethiopian Student Movement: A Historical Overview (1960–1974)

by Abel Amene Introductory Note While there are many notable events in the 1950s and early 1960s leading to the development and radicalization of the Ethiopian student movement (ESM),1 the first public expression of the ESM as a leftist and Marxist-Leninist movement was in 1965, “when students came out on to the street with the revolutionary

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A Crucial Lesson We Should Learn: The Best Predictor of Future Behavior is Past Behavior!

A Crucial Lesson We Should Learn: The Best Predictor of Future Behavior is Past Behavior!

Let us promise to ourselves to follow the principle of our forefathers: predicting future behaviors based on past behaviors!  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   As history teaches, Ethiopia was a historically strong

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The Accidental Rise and the foreseeable Fall of Abiy Ahmed

The Accidental Rise and the foreseeable Fall of Abiy Ahmed

Yonas Biru, PhD Executive Summary Ethiopia has never been in danger as it is today. Prime Minister (PM) Abiy Ahmed lacks the requisite experience to govern a nation embroiled in multidimensional tribal conflicts, much less to shepherd Ethiopia’s economy out what the economist Richard Nelson called a low-level equilibrium trap. But he is too enamored

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Thank you Alyou!!!!

Thank you Alyou!!!!

Thank you Alyou!!!! Thank you for being a part of the Human Rights Campaign family HRC’s work is never easy, and yet we will meet every challenge head-on with tenacity, heart and more power than ever — because we’ll be bolstered by your support and driven by our shared goal of equality, equity and liberation

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The ‘New Auschwitz’: Wollega, Oromia region, Ethiopia

The ‘New Auschwitz’: Wollega, Oromia region, Ethiopia

Contact information: Girma Berhanu Department of Education and Special Education (Professor) University of Gothenburg Box 300, SE 405 30 Göteborg, Sweden E-mail: girma.berhanu@ped.gu.se   Introduction: A few years ago, I visited the Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial Museum, on the sites of Auschwitz Concentration Camp, the largest Nazi concentration and extermination camp. Last week, I visited a Jewish cultural center/museum

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My humble advice for President Putin: go nuclear

My humble advice for President Putin: go nuclear

Mesfin Arega Western countries are striving to maintain the world order they themselves concocted to make it beneficial only for them.  They are also the ones who regularly violate their own rules when convenient. Vladmir Putin (September 07, 2022, Vladivostok) Mr. President Putin, the non-western world, especially the intelligentsia, has largely been supportive of your actions

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History 101: Fiction and Facts on Oromos of Ethiopia

History 101: Fiction and Facts on Oromos of Ethiopia

By Prof. Feqadu Lamessa First Publish on July 29, 2013, ADAMA, Ethiopia (Salem-News) Recently, the Qatar-based media al Jazeera has published several articles concerning the Oromo people of Ethiopia. It is the first international media outlet to extensively report on our people and it should be praised for bringing our cause to the world stage. One

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