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Memorandum No. 1: To PM Abiy Ahmed and Ethiopia’s Cheetahs/Abo Shemanes (Youth) [Professor Alemayehu G. Mariam]
Author’s note: In my last “commentary” (My Personal Letter to Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed), I promised to focus my future observations on issues and topics that will serve to promote peace, reconciliation, unity and the general well-being...
Twofold crisis in Ethiopia: the elites and the street (RENÉ LEFORT)
RENÉ LEFORT
Ultimately, the only route to its successful end is regulation through institutional mechanisms, which means elections, whether early or within the normal electoral cycle.
According to the dominant assessment, the crisis in Ethiopia...
The Beginning of the End for the TPLF: The Death Knell [by Dawit W Giorgis]
“The death knell of the Republic had rung as soon as the active power became lodged in the hands of those who sought, not to do justice to all citizens, rich and poor alike, but to stand for one special class and for its interests as opposed...
My Personal Letter to Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed of Ethiopia [Professor Alemayehu G. Mariam]
Our daily deeds as ordinary South Africans must produce an actual South African reality that will reinforce humanity’s belief in justice, strengthen its confidence in the nobility of the human soul and sustain all our hopes for a glorious...
Nothing less than Transformative Regime Change! (Birhanemeskel Abebe - DR.)
The blood of thousands are spilled. Tens of thousands of people are detained. Millions are displaced. Over 50,000 people are made refuges in one day. Hundreds of thousands of Ethiopians are made bond slaves in the Middle East. Three point five...
Ethiopia: QUE SERA, SERA! [By Wondimu Mekonnen]
Whatever will be, will be! Ethiopia has a new Prime Minister. Actually we never had Prime Ministers so far, for the last almost 27 years but Prime Miseries. None of them talked before, about Ethiopia. Dr Abiy Ahmed Ali talked about Ethiopia....
Let's get the facts straight on who ruled Ethiopia (Achamyeleh Tameru)
Tsedi Lemma, you are getting it wrong. Dr. Abiye Ahmed is not the first prime minister who identifies himself as an Oromo. In fact Dr. Abye is the fifth Oromo to be the Prime Minister of Ethiopia. I thought you at least know about...
Some Thoughts for EPRDF (By Mohammed Ademo)
Dear Ethiopia,
You will probably have a new leader by the time I wakeup “tomorrow” morning. So let me leave you with some thoughts.
1) The ruling party, EPRDF, has two options: Reform or perish. There is only one constituent party...