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Ethiopia Under the Boots of the T-TPLF Beast With Feet of Clay [Professor Alemayehu G. Mariam]
Author’s Note: This is the fourth commentary in a series dealing with land, land use, misuse, overlordship and ownership in Ethiopia. In my firstcommentary, I examined the decline and fall of “Karuturistan”, the hundreds of thousands...
Unrest in Ethiopia: the ultimate warning shot? [opendemocracy]
RENÉ LEFORT
The culture of power is one of centralisation. But real federalism couldn’t be beyond reach. Oromya shows that it is becoming an absolute requirement.
The Tigray Peoples Liberation Front (TPLF), the strongest component of the...
Addis Ababa Master Plan? No, the T-TPLF Masters’ Plan! [Professor Alemayehu G. Mariam]
Author’s Note: What’s in a label? Well, “What’s in a name? That which we call a rose/ By any other name would smell as sweet…”? That may be true, provided, of course, those roses are not roses raised on the land-grabbed farmlands...
No Country Left for Ethiopians? [Professor Alemayehu G. Mariam]
Author’s Note: My commentary this week follows last week’s comment on the collapse of Karuturi Agro Products, Plc., in Gambella, Ethiopia. In 2010, the T-TPLF handed over 100 thousand hectares of land the infamously “iconic land grabber”...
The Wrath of Karuturi and the “Power of India” in Ethiopia [Professor Alemayehu G. Mariam]
Authors note: I have written this commentary not because I care about the legal dispute between Karuturi and the T-TPLF over a land deal in Gambella. I could not care less how thugs and those who do business with thugs resolve or do not resolve...
Fly, Ethiopia, Fly…[Professor Alemayehu G. Mariam]
“What if they were really set free?”
That was the question The Economist asked in the headline of its article last week about Ethiopians.
Its response was equally breathtaking:
“If the government let people breathe, they might fly.”
These...
The Dam-Nation of Ethiopia by the T-TPLF [Professor Alemayehu G. Mariam]
Last week, before the ink had dried on the “new agreement” on the so-called Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam, Egyptian President General Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi toldEgyptians during the inauguration of a national farmland project, “I...
The “End of the Story” for the T-TPLF in Ethiopia? [Professor Alemayehu G. Mariam]
The obituary and epitaph for the Thugtatorship of the Tigrean Liberation Front (T-TPLF) was written last year by Bereket Simon, the former “communication minister” and longtime sidekick of the late criminal mastermind of the T-TPLF,...