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In an interview I gave to the Voice of America Amharic program last week, I was asked to comment on the nature of constitutional succession in the event of death, disability, resignation, illness, incapacity or removal from power of the prime minster (PM) in Ethiopia. Read more…
Quotation by Abraham Lincoln
“This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or their revolutionary right to dismember or overthrow it.” Read more…
When I heard the news that Meles is critically ill, I tried to find out the veracity of the information, and it was true that he is suffering from whatever disease he got. Read more…
The Ethiopian government is continue to grossly violate fundamental rights of its citizen disregarding its own constitution that unequivocally guarantees these clearly stated citizens’ rights on the constitution. Read more…
The trouble with tyranny and personalized power is that institutional mechanisms of power transfer do not work. In most cases, such mechanisms exist and are enshrined in written and exalted constitutions. Read more…
The Ethiopian government is continue to grossly violate fundamental rights of its citizen disregarding its own constitution that unequivocally guarantees these clearly stated citizens’ rights on the constitution. Read more…
In a movie titled “Brave Heart”, a movie that Actor Mel Gibson played the leading role and directed, when the King was in his death bed, the princess begged for mercy to save the life of William Wallace (Mel Gibson). Read more…
Is Meles Zenawi dead or alive has become the burning question of the day. It is sad even in death or near death the tyrant does not get any respect. Read more…
Following my last public assertion regarding the death of Prime Minster Meles Zenawi on Sunday, July 15, 2012, in Saint-Luc Hospital, Brussels, Belgium, Read more…
Ghana’s President John Atta Mills, who won international praise for presiding over a stable model democracy in Africa, died suddenly on Tuesday and his vice-president was quickly sworn in to replace him at the helm of the oil, gold and cocoa producer. Read more…
A.Tragedy of wrong premise
The Marxist-Leninist League of Tigray (MLLT), in political jargon, died right from its formation on a wrong premise at the wrong time and wrong place in non-industrialized Tigray – Read more…
Part One
I. Introduction
Due to recent events surrounding the sickness of Prime Minister Meles Zenawi, speculations from the morbid to the sublime abound about the status of Meles Zenawi. Read more…
All who love and revere President Mandela call him Madiba. He is the ultimate symbol of human love, hope, courage, charity, endurance, patience and perseverance. Read more…
A commemoration.
Today we commemorate the birthday of His Imperial Majesty Emperor Haile Selassie I.
In reminiscing about Emperor Haile Selassie or any other monarch of Ethiopia, one must understand first the history, legends, fables and myths that make-up this age old institution. Read more…
In the fields of probability and stochastic processes, the term reasoning refers to the ability to arrive at a conclusion in the presence of incomplete and, potentially, noisy observation. Read more…
Ethiopian police yesterday arrested an unspecified number of Muslim leaders involved in last week’s unrest in the capital, Addis Ababa, Communications Minister Bereket Simon said. Read more…
Shrewd, brutal, and a master at soliciting and spending aid money, Prime Minister Zenawi’s 20 years of rule could be nearing its end. Read more…
