ANALYSIS & OPINION

By Daniel Tefera Up until the fall of the Imperial Regime of Haile Selassie in 1975, there was a free market for real estate in Addis Ababa that performed quite well. People were able to buy land and build their dream homes. They were able to own rental property and earn income. The low-income were […]

Zelalem Eshete, Ph.D. This is a call to Amhara ethnic people from an Amhara ethnic individual. This is a about looking at ourselves inwardly first than looking at others outwardly. In doing so, it is my intention to demonstrate how we can put the problem of unity at the center and look at other ethnic

by Nasrudin Ousman I have a few words to say to those guys who flooded Ato Tedla Asfaw’s article, titled “Ethiopian Muslims Struggle for Religious Freedom is Exemplary” with arrogant, ignorant as well as vulgar remarks that is typical of the TPLF/EPRDF cadres at home and in the Diaspora. The article is posted on Nazret.com,

“Discussing these types of issues is forbidden,” said the warder rudely and added, “You are only allowed to discuss family matters”. You might suspect that these words were spoken by one of our beloved mother Ethiopia’s prison officers. However, they are actually taken from Maxim Gorky’s 1906 story Mother (page 102). The story was written

Government in Addis Ababa refuses to release award-winning journalists jailed under Anti-Terrorism Proclamation. As Al Jazeera presses ahead with its campaign to free its journalists detained in Egypt, nine Ethiopian journalists who are receiving less attention continue to languish in prison, held on trumped-up charges of terrorism, according to the New York-based Committee to Protect

Since I posted an article on how knowing a figurative Hagos back in Ethiopia will make your life much easier, I have been getting comments that give me the initiative to come back with this piece which can be a sequel to the first one (http://zehabesha.com/hagos-your-guide-on-how-to-be-treated-as-a-first-class-citizen-in-ethiopia/). The punch line for most of these comments was

Flouting Ethiopia’s Sovereignty, Impeding Development, and the Italian Invasion in 1938 By Yosef Yacob (PHD) Lake Tsana Reservoir Project Negotiations Following the death of Emperor Menelik in 1911, British interest in the waters of Lake Tsana remained in abeyance. In May 1914, Kitchener reported that there was a possibility that the Abyssinian Government, owing to

By Alem Mamo “The government talks about poverty reduction, but what they are really trying to do is to get rid of the poor. They destroyed us by taking our forested land, 70% of the population has to disappear, so that 30 % can live on. Under Pol Pot we died quickly but we kept

Caution: Hagos is any Tigrigna speaking Ethiopian who may or may not be a Weyane supporter but who simply takes advantage of the system that was created for him. By Ersasu Mere I made a refreshing but somehow painful visit to Ethiopia some weeks ago. I am one of the luckiest diaspora to have regular

By Amesale Abera The Ethio-Eritrea conflict has been portrayed as a war without a justifiable cause serving the interest of those in power, a war between brothers that has led thousands to perish in a desert and yet, another thousands to be displaced and evicted from what they once called their country. It is part

by Messay Kebede Messay Kebede is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Dayton. In many of my previous articles, even as Meles Zenawi was in absolute control of the country, I have defined the creation of a government of national reconciliation as the best roadmap both for the easing of some of Ethiopia’s socio-economic