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A Special “Message in a Bottle” to Ethiopian Cheetahs: Born Free, Live Free![Professor Alemayehu G. Mariam]
(Classified: For Ethiopian Cheetahs’ Eyes Only)
My first “Message” from 2013
This is my second special message to Ethiopia’s “Cheetah Generation”, Ethiopia’s young people, in three years.
In January 2013, I wrote a new year’s...
Ethiopia: Unity in Opposition [By GRAHAM PEEBLE]
Division and fear are the age-old tools of tyrants; unity and peaceful coordinated action the most powerful weapons against them.
Frightened and downtrodden for so long, there are positive signs that the Ethiopian people are beginning to come...
Does Museveni vacate like Zenawi or Gaddafi? [kiflu Hussain]
Coincidentally both my first country of asylum, Uganda, and my second, United States are in an election fever. Yet, there is a world apart difference between the two elections just like the geography that set them apart in different corners...
Ah! Qatari Resort in Addis Ababa! Why Don’t Ethiopians Eat Cake? [Professor Alemayehu G. Mariam]
Fifteen million Ethiopians are suffering Biblical famine right NOW!
The Thugtatorship of the Tigrean Peoples Liberation Front (T-TPLF) is chasing after “resort developers” from the Middle East.
What about the fifteen million facing the...
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”...