ANALYSIS & OPINION

Girma Kassa Muziky68@yahoo.com March 28, 2013 Ethiopia’s ruling party, EPRDF, has held its 9th General Assembly this week. It elected Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn and Ato Demeke Mekonnen as its chairman and vice chairman. The late Prime Minister, Meles Zenawi’s spouse, Azeb Mesfin, who herself was elected as a Polite Bureau member of the party, […]

By Tedla Asfaw The New York City Medhanealem Orthodox Tewahedo (MOT) permanent members who are paying their dues  will gather this Sunday March 31, 2013 to vote on buying new home at Yonkers, NY, the first home of the church. MOT was founded  by the late Tagaye Paulose and has been paying monthly rent for more than

The general assembly of EPRDF got underway on Saturday 23rd March 2013 at BAHIRDAR, where the four main member parties and other partner parties united to discuss the issues concerning the EPRDF.Foreign parties that were invited to the general assembly were also present at the venue and some even went further to make speeches praising

Amanuel Biedemariam After the late genocidal dictator Meles Zenawi was rumored to have been sick, incapacitated or dead, Bereket Simon used the time cunningly to direct the course of the current Ethiopian political direction to suit his needs and the needs of few of his close allies. I have in the past written that “the

By Teklemichael Abebe Ever since I left Kenya for Canada, I hardly missed a single day not following Kenyan politics online. It is the humour and flexibility in Kenyan politics that give me a break from the rigidity and bitterness in Ethiopian politics. Many things fascinate and puzzle me about Kenyan politics. One of the things

Geberekidan Desta and his unrestrained hate against Emperor Menlik Read Full Story In PDF            

Tedla Asfaw Dear World Bank, I am from Ethiopia and worked in Ethiopia from 1980 to 1985 in the lower Awash Valley  irrigation project. In fact I did my masters on how to grow Maize in that part of Ethiopia where  people can feed themselves. The cash crop cotton the communist regime cultivated never improved the

Teklu Abate During the last two decades, Tigray has occupied the minds of Ethiopians. That EPRDF’s (the Ethiopian Peoples’ Revolutionary Democratic Party) creator, the Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF), is native to Tigray explains all the discourses. Ordinary conversations, media reports, and developments on the ground all seem to testify that Tigray is being preferentially

By Teshome Debalke The truth is Woyane is illegitimate regime of Ethiopia, illegal representative of the people of Tigray and chronically corrupt entity. Let the truth set it free than the constant deception it perpetuate to stay alive. Those that choose to take the deception as truth are digging their own grave. If anyone has

By Yilma Bekele ‘The Duce will have Ethiopia, with or without the Ethiopians’. Rodolfo Graziani I am writing this as a proud Ethiopian because Graziani’s promise to the Fascist dictator was thwarted by my gallant ancestors. If it was not for the bravery and sacrifice of our grandparents, to day our country will be referred

Walle Engedayehu, Ph.D. An Overview The collective staying-power of the opposition within the Ethiopian Diaspora community against the regime in Addis Ababa still remains in a state of paralysis after more than two decades of cry-out for a unity of purpose, goals, and objectives. The opposition has not been able, as yet, to help stamp

The Horn Times Newsletter 18 March 2013 Naked TPLF Fascism exposed “Two police men doused my daughter with petrol and set her alight, she died in my arms.” A grieving mother’s plea for justice to the world.   (By Getahune Bekele, South Africa) As the United Nations fails to declare the current ethnic Apartheid rule