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IN ETHIOPIA, RUNNING FROM SEXUAL ABUSE [BY HANNAH BORENSTEIN]
OZY
Tucked in a lush valley surrounded by mountains, Yaya Village is nothing short of a runner’s mecca. There’s a four-star resort complete with a 3,500-square-foot gym and access to physiotherapists, not to mention meals “optimized for...
Ethiopia: Our Need for Unity in Divinity Facing Adversity![Professor Alemayehu G. Mariam]
The Thugtatorship of the Tigrean People’s Liberation Front (T-TPLF) has been pursuing a systematic program of religious persecution and fomenting religious antagonisms in Ethiopia for quite some time.
After the T-TPLF seized power in 1991,...
Obama and the circus of clowns in Ethiopia [By Abebe Gellaw]
The historic state visit of U.S. President Barack Obama to Ethiopia has just accomplished what was expected all along. On the one hand, TPLF and its cronies tried to use it as a spectacle full of absurdities, comedic political circus and amateurish...
Barack Obama! Tell the Truth About Ethiopia! [Professor Alemayehu G. Mariam]
Warning!
Stop!
Do not read further if you can’t handle the truth about Barack Obama. “Truth sounds like hate to those who hate the truth.”
“I speak my mind because it hurts to bite my tongue.”
Bite your tongue, Barack Obama!
When...
Laughing at Ethiopia’s 2015 Elektion[Professor Alemayehu G. Mariam]
It is said that “smile and the world smiles at you.”
Does it follow that if you laugh at the world’s most ridiculous election, the world will join you laughing?
Last week, Susan Rice, President Barack Obama’s National Security Adviser,...
Financing for (Under) development in Africa? [Professor Alemayehu G. Mariam]
How the West underdeveloped Africa and is now trying to “finance develop” it
The “Third International Conference on Financing for Development” was held in Addis Ababa last week. It was billed as a “gathering of high-level political...
Cut U.S. aid to Ethiopia's despotic government: [Ali Mohamed]
Cleveland
President Barack Obama’s trip to Africa this month includes a stop in Ethiopia, the first time a sitting U.S. president has visited the Horn of Africa nation.
In late May, Ethiopian voters went to the polls to elect a new parliament....
Thus Spoke Ethiopia’s Reeyot! [Professor Alemayehu G. Mariam]
Reeyot Invictus!
Thus spoke Reeyot Alemu to the Voice of America- Amharic Service on July 9, 2015, a few hours after she was literally thrown out of the infamous Meles Zenawi Prison in Kality, (Ethiopia’s “Robben Island”) on the outskirts...