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Ethiopia: Guess Who is Coming to WHO in 2017? [Professor Alemayehu G. Mariam]
“Wonders never cease!”
Well, “not only do they never cease, but new and ever new wonders come crowding on their heels.”
The “latest wonder” is Tedros Adhanom, the foreign minister of the Thugtatorship of the Tigrean People’s...
Celebrating Absurdity to Ethiopians: The Day of Lose of a Country [Prof. Dejenie A. Lakew]
What is Gibot 20 has to do with Ethiopia and Ethiopians? Why a person who lost limbs, body parts and suffering from all sorts of ailments, celebrate the day he/she contracted all these life threatening causes, unless the person either is forced...
Does Ethiopia Need a Constitution? [Professor Alemayehu G. Mariam]
The question is NOT if Ethiopia needs a new constitution.
The question is, “Does Ethiopia need a constitution?”, since it currently does not have one.
The so-called “1995 Ethiopian Constitution” is a constitution of the T-TPLF, by...
The “Law” as State Terrorism in Apartheid Ethiopia [Professor Alemayehu G. Mariam]
Author’s Note: This is the third installment [1] in a series of ongoing commentaries that I expect to post regularly under the rubric, “Apartheid in Ethiopia”.
The twin aims of the series “Apartheid in Ethiopia” are:
1) to demonstrate...
Ethiopia: Bekele Gerba’s Trial in T-TPLF Monkey Kourt [Professor Alemayehu G. Mariam]
In American legal lore, there is the Scopes Monkey Trial.
In 1925, a high school teacher named John Scopes was prosecuted in Tennessee for teaching human evolution in a public school [violating the Butler Act]. Throughout the U.S., the Scopes...
Bekele Gerba: Ethiopia’s Mahtama?[Awol Kassim Allo]
He speaks of equality, freedom, and justice. He wants democracy to realize these ideals. He not only preaches peace but practices it by scrupulously sticking to the principles of non-violent struggles. He has the integrity, courage, and...
My Brother, Eskinder (“Invictus”) Nega: You Are Not Alone and We Love You! [Professor Alemayehu G. Mariam]
We remember our brother Eskinder Nega
There is nothing more the T-TPLF (Thugtatorship of the Tigrean People’s Liberation Front) would like to see than the memory of the great Eskinder Nega erased and obliterated from public memory and consciousness....
USAID Hunger Games in Ethiopia [Professor Alemayehu G. Mariam]
Hunger or famine games in Ethiopia?
USAID says there is no famine in Ethiopia, only hunger (a/k/a “severe malnutrition”, “food insecurity”, “food scarcity”, “food insufficiency”, “food deprivation”, “severe food shortages”,...