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ethiomedia: Deutsche Welle disgrace to Press Freedom?

ANALYSIS & OPINION / February 20, 2012

Alemayehu G Mariam February 20, 2012, In a memorandum sent to Deutsche Welle’s (DW) [Germany’s international broadcaster] “correspondents outside Ethiopia” in late 2010, Ludger Schadomsky, editor-in-chief of DW’s Amharic program, blasted “ethiomedia and similar sites by extension” as a “disgrace” to press freedom. “The amount of hatred splashed across [ethiomedia] is a disgrace to any politically […]

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Ethiopia: “So What!”

ANALYSIS & OPINION, News / December 20, 2010

By Prof. Alemayehu G. Mariam “So what! Soo what!! Sooo whaaat!!!” was the repetitive mantra of dictator Meles Zenawi recently in response to pesky questions lobbed at him in parliament about his so-called Growth and Transformation Plan[1] (GTP), which will presumably make Ethiopia self-sufficient in food production in the next five years and expand the

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The 2005 election in retrospect

ANALYSIS & OPINION / December 4, 2010 / 2005 election

By Maru Gubena (Ph.D.) | December 4, 2010 Five year ago, though there were feelings of uncertainty and fearfulness about the future direction of Ethiopia itself, as well as its politics – including the possible transfer of power from the regime of Meles Zenawi to the then opposition parties – a good number of Ethiopians

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Myanmar’s Aung San Suu Kyi presses party’s case

ANALYSIS & OPINION / November 16, 2010

November 16, 2010 YANGON, Myanmar (AP) — Myanmar pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi has gone on a legal offensive, filing a document with the country’s High Court to have her political party reinstated after the ruling generals disbanded it earlier this year. Burma’s democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi, center, arrives at the Burmese

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The toxic ecology of African dictators

ANALYSIS & OPINION / December 7, 2009

By Alemayehu G. Mariam December 7, 2009 The inconvenient truth about Africa today is that dictatorship presents a far more perilous threat to the survival of Africans than climate change. The devastation African dictators have wreaked upon the social fabric and ecosystem of African societies is incalculable. Over the past several decades, bloodthirsty dictators like

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Reviewing the damaging effects of Ethiopian Diaspora politics

ANALYSIS & OPINION / March 1, 2009 / Ethiopian Diaspora politics, Ethiopian politics, Maru Gubena

Reviewing the Damaging Effects of Ethiopian Diaspora Politics on the Wider Community and its Future Initiatives: The Search for Alternative Mechanisms By Maru Gubena February 28, 2009 — Before commencing with the thematic issues to be discussed, let me just express my personal views, disappointments and embarrassments related, not just to the untimely and sensational

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Ethiopia at the millennium plus one

ANALYSIS & OPINION, Politics / October 2, 2008 / Mammo Muchie

By Mammo Muchie A year on from Ethiopia’s new millennium, Mammo Muchie highlights the country’s historic role as the cradle of African nationalism. Arguing that reparations remain due from the period of fascist Italy’s occupation in the 1930s, Muchie stresses that it is only through rediscovering her essential civic-nationalism that Ethiopia will locate her glory

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A Political History of the Tigray People’s Liberation Front (1975-1991)

ANALYSIS & OPINION, History / July 27, 2008

Revolt, Ideology and Mobilisation in Ethiopia Aregawi Berhe Amsterdam 2008 VRIJE UNIVERSITEIT First and foremost though, I am deeply grateful to my promotor Professor Jon Abbink forhis unreserved support and guidance throughout the research undertaking, which started as a book project. Under the hard life in exile, this study would have not come near completion

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Putting Unity First: Sharing the Values of Human Rights, Social Solidarity and Social Justice in Ethiopia!

ANALYSIS & OPINION, Human Rights / July 11, 2008

By Professor Mammo Muchie July 11 2008 Inspiring Quote! “A human being is a part of the whole, called by us, “Universe,” a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest — a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a

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Revisiting the Events of the Aftermath of 2005 Ethiopia Election

ANALYSIS & OPINION / December 8, 2007

By Maru Gubena December 7, 2010 — Five year ago, though there were feelings of uncertainty and fearfulness about the future direction of Ethiopia itself, as well as its politics – including the possible transfer of power from the regime of Meles Zenawi to the then opposition parties – a good number of Ethiopians both

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Unity of Ethiopian opposition is important for democracy

ANALYSIS & OPINION / October 30, 2007

Those who Came Divided Abroad Must Return Home United! Forward with the Democratic movement in Ethiopia! October 30, 2007 By Mammo Muchie October 26, 2007 — We have now in Ethiopia political forces that continue to fight both within the rules of the game set up by the ruling power of the time and those

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Ethiopia: Mediation and the mazes of a dictator

ANALYSIS & OPINION / August 7, 2007

By Messay Kebede August 66, 2007 — Various Ethiopian websites exhibit articles that highly congratulate and praise the achievements of mediators in the long-drawn-out attempt to free the CUD leaders. According to these articles, thanks to the aggressive and unrelenting effort of the mediators, the dreadful outcome of life imprisonment has been reversed into a

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