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When the founding fathers of the United States laid down the foundation of the nation, they clearly foresaw the universal role of the new republic; hence, they created a powerful model of liberty, justice, and democracy, Read more…
The Voice of America (VOA) has faced fresh controversy over its decision not to air news coverage on a high profile public meeting held Sunday at the Sheraton National Hotel, in Arlington, Virginia. Read more…
Mr. Obang’s statement to the Office of the United Nations High Commissioners for Human Rights, at the 102nd session of the Human Rights Committee in Geneva, July 11, 2011 Read more…
A Public Meeting organized jointly by Alliance Liberty, Equality, and Justice in Ethiopia (ALEJE) and Oromo Liberation Front (OLF) on Sunday, July 10, 2011 at the Sheraton National Hotel in Arlington, VA was a resounding success. Read more…
Why this article now?
Initially, this piece was conceived in my mind as a personal reaction to the 5 July 2011 debate in the Ethiopian parliament at the conclusion of its debate on the 2011-2012 federal budget. I would return to that with some observations, based on experience and career in another piece shortly. Read more…
Ethiopia’s inflation rate climbed to 38.1 percent in June from a year earlier as food costs increased and the central bank boosted the money supply. Read more…
The Voice of America (VOA) has reversed its decision to suspend its Horn of Africa chief, David Arnold. After Addis Voice published a disturbing story on censorship and questionable actions taken against Mr. Arnold for comments he made recently in a June 23rd VOA report, VOA bosses held a series of crisis meetings and decided to reinstate him, informed sources disclosed. Read more…
Ethiopia needs emergency food aid until the end of this year according to UN. The hope is that if the rain comes we will be OK !! for 2012. The Horn of Africa estimated 10 million people are starving, dying live on TV as we followed it on BBC, Read more…
The Ethiopian Heritage Society of North America (EHSNA) held its First Annual Ethiopian Heritage Festival “Celebrate and Discover Ethiopia.” at Georgetown University starting the evening of Friday July 1, 2011 at the Lucille M. Spagnuolo Gallery. The first day was attended by hundreds of Ethiopians representing the young and elderly, including this year’s Guest of Honor, Judge Birtukan Midekssa. Read more…
Apocalypse Now?
In October, 2009, I wrote a weekly commentary titled, “Famine and the Noisome Beast in Ethiopia”: Read more…
Why do all dictators that seem formidable and untouchable succumb to their demise at the end of the day? What goes on in their minds when danger arrives at their palace door? Why can’t they observe a wake up call that signals the end of their dynasty? Read more…
If it was up to the Egyptians there would be no independent country called Sudan. And briefly, in the mid-nineteenth century, Egypt and present day Sudan were indeed one under the wildly ambitious and much romanticized Albanian Khedive, Ismail the Magnificent. Read more…
Woe to those who call evil good and good evil, who put darkness for light and light for darkness, who put bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter…(Isaiah 5: 20) Read more…
The Voice of America (VOA) has been accused of censoring itself and suspending its Horn of Africa Chief, David Arnold, over fallout with the Ethiopian government. The suspension of Mr. Arnold was directly related to his comments in a news report that was broadcast on VOA Amharic service on June 23rd, informed sources told Addis Voice. Read more…
Washington DC–Ethiopia’s freedom icon Birtukan Mideksa heartedly thanked her fellow Ethiopians here on Sunday for their unreserved support during her incarceration and urged them to unify in celebration of their country regardless of the fact that it is still neither a land of freedom nor justice. Read more…
The judgment of the merits and faults of the work or actions of an individual or group by another is a short definition of criticism. To criticize does not necessarily imply to find fault, but the word is often taken to mean the simple expression of an objection against. Read more…
Today The US celebrates Independence Day marking the day when that famous document, the Declaration of Independence, was signed on July 4th 1776 thus bringing into existence one of the most remarkable nations in the world. Read more…
“If you are planning for a year, sow rice [read teff]; if you are planning for a decade, plant trees; if you are planning for a lifetime, educate people.”
Chinese Proverb Read more…
Voice of America is the Voice of the Voiceless Read more…