ANALYSIS & OPINION

By Mentesnot Zewde Berhane, September 18, 2013   The foreign minister of Ethiopia Dr Tewodros Adehanom noted at the gathering of dignitaries and foreign affair officials in Addis Ababa, the selling of bonds to the ethiopian diaspora for the Abay aka GERD project was a complete failure, which is directly related to the lack of democratic […]

By Tedla Asfaw This coming Sunday Sept 22 in Arlington, Virginia Ginbot 7 has called all Ethiopians for open public dialogue. On this public meeting  Ginbot 7 chairman, Dr. Birhanu Nega and the Secretary, Andargatchew Tsige will be there. This is the “Mother of all Meetings”. Hope it will be aired live on ESAT. Ginbot 7 has been on news recently after Dr.Birhanu’s  leaked “embarrassing” audio and

BY TAGEL GETAHUN, Ethiopians are not well informed about the true realities of their own country’s failed politics as the existing political culture subdues obnoxious truths. For example, there is no single piece of evidence that can prove the Revolutionary Democrats are essentially power-grabbing opportunists, though their forged identity has often been presented on the

BY FIKADU NIGUSSA The post-1991 shift in political ideology, accompanied by the introduction of federalism, enabled Ethiopia to have regional governments with delimited constitutional authority. Each of these regions has executive organs in charge of implementing policies. The civil service sector is the major constituent of these organs, but is well noted for its inefficiency

The Christian Science Monitor By Will Davison, Correspondent September 16, 2013 A journalist’s visit to South Omo, where rights groups say police have raped women and otherwise pressured locals to leave an area tagged to become a huge sugar plantation, was quickly curtailed by authorities. HAILEWUHA VILLAGE, SOUTH OMO, ETHIOPIA As night wore on in a remote

by Professor Alemayehu G. Mariam For the past one-half decade, Ethiopia has been awash with talk of renaissance. There has been a lot of windbagging about a “Renaissance Dam” over the Blue Nile. Our ears nearly fell off listening to the endless gab about an “economic renaissance” with “11 percent” plus annual growth. There has

By Ewnetu Sime It has been one year since PM Haile Mariam Desalegn emerges from EPDRF shady collation as new Prime Minister of the country. His administration has not shown any significant improvement and demonstrates a lack of vision on his part. Some hoped a change of individual on this key position may move the

By Curtis Kline • Sep 12, 2013 Millions of acres of Ethiopia’s most fertile lands are being offered to foreign investors, often in long-term leases and at bargain prices. At the same time, through its ‘villagization’ program, the Ethiopian government is forcibly displacing hundreds of thousands of Indigenous Peoples in order to free up their land so

By David A. Schwartz, Staff Writer2:08 p.m. EDT, September 12, 2013 As the two young Jewish leaders from Palm Beach County accompanied Ethiopian Jews on an aliyah flight to Israel’s Ben-Gurion Airport early in the summer, they were struck by the historical significance of the trip. “For most of my life there has been some form of Ethiopian exodus to

By Kidane Alemayehu Inconsistency  Regarding Victims of Poison Gas Warfare The international community including the United Nations and members of the UN Security Council are fully engaged with the recent use of banned chemical weapons by Syria’s Bashir Al-Assad regime against its own people. A policy of accountability was witnessed in other cases involving the

What Putin Has to Say to Americans About Syria By VLADIMIR V. PUTIN MOSCOW — RECENT events surrounding Syria have prompted me to speak directly to the American people and their political leaders. It is important to do so at a time of insufficient communication between our societies. Relations between us have passed through different