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A coalition of Ethiopian opposition parties will take steps toward becoming a single party by forming a front, said Negasso Gidada, co-deputy chairman of the so-called Medrek alliance. Read more…
Azeb Mesfin, wife of dictator Meles Zenawi, member of the rubber stamp parliament and boss of the biggest corruption scheme in Africa called the Endowment Fund the Rehabilitation of Tigray (EFFORT) has been pushing state banks to the brink of bankruptcy. Read more…
Ethiopia’s impenitent ex-dictator, Mengistu Haile-Mariam, is back in the limelight—nineteen years after his ouster and just before the publication of his much anticipated memoir in the US. Read more…
When black farmers in Kansas first began growing an Ethiopian cereal grain known as teff five years ago, they were intrigued by the crop’s connection to Africa. Read more…
While living in democratic countries we envy the citizens of these countries to see them exercise their right to elect their officials at all levels of the government. Read more…
The end of the Cold War was quite a phenomenon; it seemed as if the once formidable Eastern Bloc appeared in total disarray and the West in harmony with the situations unfolding to its favor in many parts of the globe. Read more…
Note: This is the second installment in a series of commentaries I intend to offer on U.S. foreign policy (or lack thereof as some would argue) in Ethiopia. Read more…
In today’s Ethiopia, the grip of real power is blurred as a real political system has given way to the rise of a dictatorship that sustains its existence on sheer power, brute force and arbitrary actions. Read more…
Live Aid, which celebrated its 25th anniversary earlier this month, was conceived after heart wrenching TV footages of dying children and emaciated adults weeping for the dead, as well as the abhorrent misery they had to face, globally brought into sharp focus the forgotten horrors of war and famine in Ethiopia. Read more…
Ethiopia’s highest court, the Court of Cassation, this week passed a ruling against Medrek’s legal bid for a re-run of the election in unyielding words: Read more…
Ethiopian Satellite Television (ESAT) has been making headlines for the saga related to its interruption. Read more…
Ethiopian capitalizes on stumble by Cherono; Sisson takes down U.S. high school mark. Read more…
Ethiopia’s main opposition group said its final legal appeal against the conduct of May’s general election was rejected by the Court of Cassation today. Read more…
When Emperor Haile Selassie I was approached by Saudi Arabia for permission to build a mosque in Axum, a city where one of Ethiopia’s holy Christian sites is located, he had a perfect response for them. Read more…
On June 26, 2010, on the 50th anniversary of their independence from Britain, the people of Somaliland went to the polls to elect a president. Read more…
Today marks the first Nelson Mandela International Day. Read more…
Note: This is the first installment in a series of commentaries I intend to offer on U.S. foreign policy (or lack thereof as some would argue) in Ethiopia. Read more…
Life for the younger generation of Ethiopia is unbearable under the TPLF/EPRDF regime. They live in abject poverty and the future is completely bleak. Read more…
History will always remember British PM Neville Chamberlain waving a piece of paper, on which rested the signatures of Hitler and himself, as he proclaimed to an eager world, “peace for our time.” Read more…
