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አእምሮ – The First Newspaper in Ethiopia in Amharic

History / September 22, 2023 / The First Newspaper in Ethiopia in Amharic

Juan Viedma Martinez Dr. at Law and Economist. MBA አእምሮ Newspaper was established during Emperor Menelik’s time. The first ever issue was distributed in and around 1889 and was written in the Amharic language. The newspaper was weekly and the first ever issue had 24 copies. It was the first modern newspaper in Africa by …

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Open Letter to UNESCO to pressure the Ethiopian Government to stop firing heavy weapons from the world heritage site in Lalibela.

History, Open Letter / September 21, 2023 / Open Letter to UNESCO

Yirga Gelaw Woldeyes @YirgaGelaw Today, a friend in #Lalibela directly called me to alert the world about heavy artillery firing in the town. I have now spoken to multiple residents about what is happening. They all report that heavy weaponry has been fired all night from Shimbrima, a few miles away from the historic rock …

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THE VATICAN’S COMPLICITY WITH THE FASCISTS

History / September 18, 2023

By Kidane Alemayehu (from my manuscript፡ “MY JOURNEY WITH THE UNITED NATIONS AND QUEST FOR HORN OF AFRICAN UNITY AND JUSTICE FOR ETHIOPIA”) The Trigger My concern with the Fascist war crimes in Ethiopia and the Vatican’s complicity dates back to my younger days when I was told stories by my father about the …

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Rastafarians with Selassie’s reported death in 1975

History / July 23, 2023

The following was written by Charles A. Price of Temple University in the United States for The Conversation, an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts. The week of July 23, 2023, thousands of Rastafarians, known for their dreadlocks and for treating marijuana as a sacrament, will gather in Jamaica …

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Prince Alemayehu: Buckingham Palace rejects calls to return royal’s body

History, News / May 22, 2023

By Jibat Tamirat & Cecilia Macaulay BBC News Buckingham Palace has declined a request to return the remains of an Ethiopian prince who came to be buried at Windsor Castle in the 19th Century. Prince Alemayehu was taken to the UK aged just seven and arrived an orphan after his mother died on the journey. …

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An Ethiopian prince who was taken by British soldiers is buried in Windsor Castle. Activists are calling for his body to be returned.

History, News / May 6, 2023

Isaiah Reynolds/Insider May 5, 2023, Following the Battle of Magdala, orphaned Prince Alemayehu was taken by British soldiers to Britian. Taken under the wing of British nobility, Alemayehu was entirely severed from his life in Ethiopia. He is buried at Windsor Castle, but Ethiopian advocates are calling for a proper repatriation of his remains. In …

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The attempted coup d’etat of 1960 as reported by Paris Match

History / April 26, 2023

April 26, 2023 by Arefaynie Fantahun On 17 December 1960 Emperor Haile Selassie, who was on a state visit to Brazil, returned hastily to Ethiopia after an attempted coup to oust him from power had failed. Paris Match, a French weekly pictorial magazine, sent its reporter, Jacques Le Bailly, and staff photographer, Gérard Gery to cover …

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Grandpa Was An Emperor will be shown in Los Angeles from April 7 to the 13th

History / March 27, 2023

Ethiopians for Constitutional Monarchy Grandpa was an Emperor Trailer | 2023 Grandpa Was An Emperor will be shown in Los Angeles from April 7 to the 13th at the Laemmles Town Center in Encino, with evening showings on the 7th and 8th to be followed by Q&A sessions with the producers and Emebet Yeshi Kassa. …

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Haile Selassie – God Emperor of Ethiopia Documentary

History, Video / March 25, 2023

Haile Selassie – God Emperor of Ethiopia Documentary

2023:Commemoration ceremony to mark the anniversaries of Yekatit 12 and the Battle of Adwa

ANALYSIS, OPINION & MORE, History / March 5, 2023

By: Berhane Tadese| Date: March 5, 2023 As an annual public event, The Ethiopian Community Mutual Assistance Association of New York and Global Alliance – The Ethiopian Cause organized a virtual commemoration program to pay tribute to victims of Rodolfo Graziani’s cowardly attack that claimed thousands of innocent Ethiopians’ lives on February 19, 1937, 86 …

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The Battle of Adwa is indeed the start of Pan-Africanism: Celebrate 2023

ANALYSIS, OPINION & MORE, History / February 26, 2023

Turning Adwa into a global heritage site of Pan-African struggle by Mammo Muchie (Pambazuka News), Published on 02 March 2016 Prof. Mammo Muchie March 1 marks the 120th anniversary of the Battle of Adwa, a decisive victory of Ethiopia over Italian colonialism. This great victory has been a source of inspiration for struggles for freedom …

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Emperor Menelik II of Ethiopia and the Battle of Adwa

History / February 26, 2023

Pictorial History by: Anchi Hoh (The following is a post by Fentahun Tiruneh, Area Specialist for Ethiopia and Eritrea, African and Middle Eastern Division.) In Ethioipia today, few figures are as revered as Menelik II (1844-1913), the second-to-last reigning monarch of Ethiopia. Like Menelik I of the 10th century BC, the legendary son of King …

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