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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...

Understanding Ethiopia’s Maritime Deal with Somaliland through Abiy Ahmed’s Foreign Policy   By Tilahun Abere Chanie   INTRODUCTION In January 2024, Ethiopia signed a Memorandum of Understanding to get direct access to...

The African Auschwitz Version – Ethiopia!   Yinegal Belachew   The Polish city Auschwitz is known for the service it had given to the Nazis during the slaughtering by Hitlerians of the Jews. Despite the number of Jews massacred then...

Donald Trump’s “landslide” victory: the supernova of white supremacism.     Mesfin Arega   Donald Trump’s “landslide” victory: the supernova of white supremacism.     White supremacism is fast approaching its demise...

Ethiopia’s War Evades Foreign Scrutiny, but Highlights UAE-Saudi-Turkish Competition By Gregory R. Copley     Ethiopia’s “hidden” war has brought forward important nuances of regional rivalry which have gone unnoticed as the...