ANALYSIS & OPINION

According to the National Election Board of Ethiopia, the result of last week’s national election is that the EPRDF has achieved a complete victory by grabbing all the parliamentary seats. The same board and the Woyanne government qualified the result as a triumph of democracy, which leads one to assume that in today’s Ethiopia the […]

Tedla Asfaw Hailemariam Desalegn on Al Jazeera with Martine Dennis said his passion is to lift the people of Ethiopia from poverty. That he said has been the case in the last decade double digit growth where mostly farmers and some city residents  change their life for the better. In the next 15 years poverty will be

Why are the T-TPLF gods of FEAR, TERROR AND DREAD afraid of their own shadows in 2015? On May 24, 2015, a “parliamentary election” is scheduled in Ethiopia. “Election” as in rigged. Five years ago on May 23, 2010, the ruling Thugtatorship of the Tigrean Peoples Liberation Front (T-TPLF) “won” that “parliamentary election” by 99.6

PRESS RELEASE. May 12, 2015 Washington, DC. The Ethiopian National Election is on May 24, 2015, less than two weeks away, but the authoritarian regime, under the control of the Ethiopian Peoples’ Revolutionary Democratic Front (EPRDF) for the last 23 years, appears to be panicking. The political mood of the Ethiopian people is feistier than

Dear Ethiopian religious leaders and members of the Ethiopian faith community, I am coming to you as a human being and also as a believer in Jesus Christ. My appeal is not only for fellow Christians, even though it is a call for Christians to pray, but I also want it to apply to others

April 21, 2015 Dear Ethiopian, The easy way out is to ignore the signs, to shut down the television set, to turn off the radio, to avoid the websites and deny it is not happening. The problem is it is persistent, and does not go away easily. It is our problem. It is my problem.

By Nathnael Abate M/ Norway Date 27 03 2015 In most parts of our modern world democratic governments hold free, fair and regular or periodic elections to improve the administration system in their countries, thereby guaranteeing citizens the opportunity to change their leaders and to support new policies. Non democratic regimes, like a government of

Tedla Asfaw Obo Lencho Leta shared  his opinion on what is wrong in the coming Ethiopian election here. http://www.ethiomedia.com/101facts/4438.html  He failed to mention the 2005 election as a good example of what Transparent Election is about. Before the May 2005 election there was public debate open for all unlike the current one.  People of all ethnic

By: Asress Mulugeta For the last 23 years, TPLF’s barbaric, inhuman and violent culture of rule over Amhara, Oromo, Anguak, Somali people and many others has been continued unabatedly. Many have been witnessing the unprecedented hatred to Amhara ethnic group under Tigrai People’s Liberation Front (TPLF) ethno-centric dictatorial rule. As soon as TPLF came to