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ANALYSIS & OPINION

Why Both Ethiopia-Centered and Tribe-Based Change Agendas Continue to Fail

January 26, 2025

Yonas Biru, PhD (unedited draft for discussion) A caveat is in order at the outset. The article focuses on Oromo, Amhara and Tigray extremist forces and their conflict-brewing sidekicks in the diaspora.

ANALYSIS & OPINION

The Amhara Political Elite is Killing Fano in Slow Motion

December 5, 2024

Yonas Biru, PhD Major breakthroughs in hard science like cosmology, physics, chemistry, and anatomy require human intelligence to seize upon new ideas and transform them into a new paradigm. Alexander Pope had

ANALYSIS & OPINION

Abiy አሻግሬ Ahmed: Ethiopia’s Reincarnation of Don Quixote

September 2, 2024

Yonas Biru, PhD In a rather twisted way, Abiy Ahmed has become the reincarnation of Miguel de Cervantes’ 16th century masterpiece Don Quixote. Don Quixote is the story of a man by

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Dr. Lydia Tesfa, a renowned scientist and advocate, sadly passed away on August 18th, 2024

August 23, 2024

(TH) – Lydia Tesfa, PhD, aged 58, of Lansing, New York, departed this life peacefully at her residence on August 18, 2024, with her family by her side. Her work and influence

ANALYSIS & OPINION

A Promising Beginning to Unify the Diaspora Amhara Falls Victim to Hermitized Souls

August 21, 2024

Yonas Biru, PhD Some three or four weeks ago there was a good beginning to unify the Amhara diaspora. Unfortunately, the first meeting was fraught with problems rooted in the Amhara hermitized

Tsegaye Tegenu (PhD) Creation of economic prosperity roadmap for Ethiopia

Ethiopia Needs Long-Term National Development Plan (Part Twenty-Five, Funding Sources and Impacts)

Tsegaye Tegenu, PhD 2024-08-11 Funding long-term national development plans refers to the

International Intervention is Imperative to Save Ethiopia and the Horn of Africa

Yonas Biru, PhD June 16, 2023 There are two governments in Ethiopia.

TPLF’s and OFC’s Demands are Poison Pills to Repel Ethiopia’s Democratic Governance

Yonas Biru, PhD August 3, 2021 The Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF)

What Explains Biden’s Counterintuitive Policy on TPLF’s War on Ethiopia

Yonas Biru, PhD July 31, 2021 After the September 11, 2001,

Beyond Ethiopian Intellectual ኡኡታ: The Logic Behind US’s Intervention in Ethiopia

Yonas Biru, PhD JULY 22, 2021 With all due respect, it appears

Ethiopia: TPLF Inc. as a ‘silent killer’

Aklog Birara, PhD Have you ever wondered, as I have, why Ethiopia

Can Ethiopians Afford to Ignore TPLF Inc.’s atrocities?

By Aklog Birara, PhD “The people occupying the plateau of the Blue

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