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A CALL TO THE PEOPLE OF ETHIOPIA: WHAT WILL WE LEAVE TO THE NEXT GENERATION - A GIFT OR A CURSE? [Obang Metho]
What will we leave to the next generation—a gift or a curse? This question is critically important; however, it is equally important to know whether or not our—or someone else’s—individual or collective efforts, will produce the desired...
U.S. Congress Should Call Ethiopia’s Bluff (freedomhouse)
Addis Ababa has halted a human rights resolution in the House by threatening to break off security cooperation with the United States.
When Congressman Mike Coffman (R-CO) addressed a gathering of mostly Ethiopian-origin constituents in late...
At least eight killed, dozens wounded in protests across Oromia (Addisstandard)
Addis Abeba, Oct. 11/2017 – At least eight people were killed and more than 30 wounded during fresh protests that hit several cities and towns across the Oromia regional state today, according to Addisu Arega Kitessa, head of the Oromia government...
ABADULA GEMEDA RESIGNS AS SPEAKER OF THE FEDERAL PARLIAMENT (AddisStandard)
Addis Abeba October 07/2017 – Two credible sources told AS that Abadula Gemeda, speaker of the Ethiopian House of Peoples’ Representatives has resigned from his post.
According to one source, Abadula has “submitted a resignation letter...
The Crisis of Leadership and Legitimacy within Ethiopia’s TPLF Minority Regime
BY NETSANET BULTO
Ever since the death of the late TPLF chairman and Prime Minister, Meles Zenawi, the Tigrayan People’s Liberation Front (TPLF) has lacked a similarly dominant personality able to maintain consensus, either thru charisma,...
Unity v diversity: Ethiopia’s ethnic federalism is being tested (The Economist)
Violence between ethnic groups has put the country on edge
FOR centuries the city of Harar, on the eastern fringes of the Ethiopian highlands, was a sanctuary, its people protected by a great wall that surrounded the entire city. But in the...
Boris Johnson urged to intervene to save Briton on death row in Ethiopia [theguardian]
Heads of Law Society and Bar Council ask foreign secretary to seek release of Andargachew Tsege, who was kidnapped in 2014
Owen Bowcott Legal affairs correspondent
Boris Johnson has been urged by the heads of both branches of the legal profession...