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Authors of the articles are scholars, researchers and experts within the field, their credentials will be given, the articles are typically quite long, usually 8 pages or more,  articles are typically peer-reviewed the research and findings.

The Monarchy: An Institution That Can Unite All Ethiopians

Gizachew Tiruneh, Ph. D. January 22, 2022 After a year-long civil war that has cost Ethiopia the lives of hundreds of thousands of people as well as the destruction of infrastructure, valuable educational and health facilities, and private and governmental property as well as the gross violation of human rights and the dislocation of hundreds of thousands …

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Rethinking IGAD’s Role in Addressing Emerging Regional Security Threats

By Getachew Zeru Gebrekidan & Messay Asgedom Gobena The Horn of Africa is marked by long-standing and emerging security threats emanating from intrastate and interstate armed conflicts. These include an armed conflict in Ethiopia’s Tigray region; a border dispute between Sudan and Ethiopia; and political contestation between Somalia and Kenya. Although the Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD), a regional organization, has …

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The banality of Evil? How TPLF has evolved into a nefarious and villainous death machine

Author Contact information: Girma Berhanu Department of Education and Special Education (Professor) University of Gothenburg Box 300, SE 405 30 Göteborg, Sweden E-mail: Girma.Berhanu@ped.gu.se   The banality of Evil? How TPLF has evolved into a nefarious and villainous death machine “Never react to an evil in such a way as to augment it,” the great French …

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Your next “landlord” will not be Ethiopian: how globalization undermines the poor

Aklog Birara, PhD December 09. 2020 Abstract   Sub-Saharan Africa is full of promise. It has immense untapped natural resources and a growing human capital base, mostly young. Its immense potential is constrained by poor governance, rent seeking, and massive illicit outflow of capital, tribal conflicts, and terrorism. Ethiopia represents Africa’s promise and pitfalls.  Recent …

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Ethiopia: An Alternative Approach to National Development

Daniel Kendie Henderson State University Abstract: The existing Ethiopian constitution that is based on ethnicity should be discarded and replaced by another constitution that recognizes territorial nationalism, which manifested itself in historic Ethiopia as regionalism or provincialism. The historically established status of the provinces of Arussie, Bale, Gondar, Harar, Shoa, Sidamo, Tigrai, Wollo, Wollega, and …

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The Case for Restoring the Pre-1974 Provinces in a Federal Framework to advance Peace, Progress and National Integration in Ethiopia

By Assefa Mehretu (Ph.D.) Professor of Geography, Emeritus Michigan State University   August 18-19, Presented at the 10th International Conference on African Development, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, Michigan 2018 The impetus of this article on issues of boundary delineation in Ethiopia is the existential constitutional crisis created by the ethnic federalism based on tribal enclosures …

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Attestations of the Amhara Genocide and Ethnic cleansing in Ethiopia

Zelalem Attlee (MD, MHCM, DrPH) August 27,2020 Attestations of the Amhara Genocide and Ethnic cleansing in Ethiopia The 20th and the 21st centuries have been marked by extreme violence and genocides globally. While the causes can be attributed to multiple factors, several subpopulations have been victims of these atrocious activities. The term genocide was first …

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“Scheming African minds”: Neocolonialism and Africa’s uncertain future

By Temesgen Aschenek Zeleke Introduction Africa was divided among colonial powers since the late 1800’s where the whole of the continent was partitioned like a homemade peach pie.  However, due to the major international developments, the impact of World War II (the defeat of the axis powers) and the emergence of new sense of African …

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The Dawn of a New Era in the Horn of Africa

BY TARIKU DEBRETSION February 01, 2019 Within a few months of signing a peace and cooperation agreement between Ethiopia and Eritrea in Asmara on July 7, 2018, things are changing at a staggering speed. Telecommunication between the two countries have quickly resumed. Ethiopians and Eritreans at the border jumped at the opportunity to visit and …

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