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Dear Swedish Reader: Your Money Ends Up In the Hands of Dictators! [By Wondemagne Ejigu]
I have a humble request of humanity to you regarding doing something about the corruption in Ethiopia. You see, corruption is a disease. It is a cancer that can kill a nation and eventually cause countless human disasters. It is a powerful...

The Lies and Disinformation Campaigns of the T-TPLF [Professor Alemayehu G. Mariam]
Does the LF in TPLF stand for Lie Factory?
The T-TPLF (Thugtatorship of the Tigrean Peoples Liberation Front) has now launched a slick disinformation campaign to discredit and diminish the historic popular uprisings against it in Ethiopia.
The...

Ethiopia: When Cheetahs Cry, They Growl! [Professor Alemayehu G. Mariam]
Americans have no monopoly on heroes. Olympic heroes, that is.
On August 21, 2016, Feyisa Lelisa, the 26-year-old Ethiopian long distance runner at the Rio Olympics repeated an act that was once described as the “the most overtly political...

Redwan Hussein Embarrassed the TPLF [By LJDemissie]
“The most ethical way to deal with an unethical situation would be to simply say: ‘we did
something wrong.’ But nobody in a family like mine [the hatemonger regime of the Tigrayan
People’s Liberation Front (the TPLF)] would ever respond...

Ethiopia: Beyond the Politics of Hate [Professor Alemayehu G. Mariam]
Statement of my credo: Hate is the one crumbling wall that now stands between the people of Ethiopia and freedom, democracy and human rights in Ethiopia. The T-TPLF has weaponized and politicized hate. But the mud walls of hate erected by...

Open letter to oppressed Ethiopians [by Nathalie Amiot / Addis Ferenji]
Do I have something relevant to say? Should I write? Is it presumptuous? I am not even Ethiopian. I am afraid I cannot help it. I have been stuck on social media for the last weeks when I was not googling Ethiopian news.
This is going to be...

Ethiopia: Rise of the “Amhara Retards” and Oromo “Criminals and Terrorists” in 2016? [Prof. Alemayehu G. Mariam]
Tigers on the prowl?
Are Amharas “retards”?
Are Oromo protesters demanding an end to confiscation of their land “criminals and terrorists”?
Are we now witnessing the rise of the “Amhara retards” and the Oromo “criminals and...