There was something in the air on Tuesday, April 14, 2011. Intrigued by news of Ethiopian protesters in North America against the frivolous and mechanically hyped GTP, the glee on the faces of Addis residents was transparently noticeable. Read more…
A criminal “Government” which is racist and oppressive that conspires with historical enemies of a country do not have any moral, legal or any other ground to preach about building a “Renaissance Millenium – Abbay Dam”! Read more…
I was pleasantly surprised by the fact that the Board of Directors of the Ethiopian Sport Federation in North America, had willingly met on April 16, 2011 in Atlanta, Georgia after refusing to call their regular meeting in January as is stated in their Bylaws, Read more…
Deception or Double-Cross?
I may be wrong but I found the article, “The Millenium Project or the Deception of the Millenium” by Abebech Belachew (April 25, 2011) subtle and highly suspicious. Read more…
Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor Read more…
Ethiopia has ended its practice of formally responding to the annual U.S. human rights report, as it has done the past two years. Read more…
Following the Battle of Zela in 47 B.C. (present day Zile, Turkey), Julius Caesar claimed victory by declaring: Read more…
Meles Zenawi’s strategy of deception in the aftermath of the 2010 selections was the so called “transformation” proclaimed in August 2010. The election “victory” claim by a “99.6%” margin was immediately followed by a strategy of “transformation”. Read more…
“This is my plea to the new generation of African leaders and African peoples: work for unity with firm conviction that without unity there is no future for Africa…I reject the glorification of the nation-state, which we have inherited from colonialism, Read more…
Starting with tribute to Heroic Ethiopians in London Read more…
President Obama has announced his intent to appoint two World Food Prize laureates to the Board for International Food and Agricultural Development (BIFAD). He has named 2009 World Food Prize Laureate Gebisa Ejeta and 2010 World Food Prize Laureate Jo Luck. Read more…
Meles Zenawi is making audacious pronouncements bewildering friends and irking foes with a torrent of projects of magnitude never heard of. And he is in a hurry. With a sense of indignation and fury Meles is claiming to build: Read more…
Being an Ethiopian has always been difficult. The bad news is, it is not going to get any easier. Two weeks ago I found out it can be taken away too. It has come to a point where names and looks plus attitude can determine who is and who is not an Ethiopian. Welcome to Kilil in America. Read more…
The latest book of Professor Theodore M. Vestal, The Lion of Judah in the New World: Emperor Haile Selassie of Ethiopia and the Shaping of Americans’ Attitudes toward Africa (Praeger, 2011) Read more…
We believe anyone may get a momentary appeasement by concession to one of the demands one is supposed to address, but one would not get a lasting trust that way until it addressed all the demands it is supposed to deal with.
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Laurent Gbagbo of Cote d’Ivoire arrested! Hosni Mubarak of Egypt in intensive care! Moamar Gadhafi of Libya under siege! Omar al-Bashir of the Sudan, a fugitive from justice. Ben Ali of Tunisia out of Africa! Meles Zenawi, sleepless in Ethiopia. Read more…
If we look back at the recent History of Africa and particularly World War II, there has never been a government or a leader that deliberately instigated enmity with countries and people solely as a ploy to remain in power Read more…
“Make no mistake: history is on the side of these brave Africans, and not with those who use coups, or change constitutions to stay in power. Africa does not need strongmen, it needs strong institutions.” Read more…
Fitting tribute to heroic Ethiopians in North America Read more…