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Dividing the Red Sea Amongst Many There’s more at stake for the international trading community — and regional states — than just skirmishing with Yemen. Saudi Arabia and the UAE are indirectly at war with each other, and, with Israel,...

Betting on the American courts to rein Trump in will be a disaster, and the real ugly fight is on the horizon JEFF PEARCE Trump doesn’t care what the courts decide. And he’s counting on the naïve and the...

Keep Jerry Torres away from Ethiopia and the Amhara struggle He’s not a friend to Amhara. He’s no friend to Ethiopia. In fact, he’s downright toxic for Africa and the rest of the global south. There’s a...

Tragedy I walked inch by inch, starting from the Saint Gebriel church, along Tiyet Bet, down to my village, reaching a point where I could no longer recognize the exact location of our house. The only thing that helped me spot it was the...

The Beauty of the Shoes Doesn’t Hide the Bad Smell of the Feet!   Yinegal Belachew   Tell me guys, in which nation of this planet does a government kill its own people by drones and tanks and mortars almost on daily basis? Which...

Towards a New Ethiopian-Inspired Pan-Africanism: Fano, Freedom and Hope for a Continent   Jeff Pearce   The fight against Abiy is not a negative one, only about the hate that needs to be rejected and evicted. It’s also about...

Addressing the Root Cause: Why Ethiopia Must Abandon Ethnic Federalism for National Unity Bedilu Mulualem   This is a follow-up of my rejoinder: Critique of Messay Kebede’s “Elites’ Power Grab Contra People’s Empowerment”Based...

Critique of Messay Kebede’s “Elites’ Power Grab Contra People’s Empowerment”   By Bedilu Mulualem   Professor Messay Kebede’s article offers a compelling critique of Ethiopia’s political dysfunction, focusing on elite...