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Thoughts on the Amhara Existential Struggle Against TPLF and OLF/PP Tribal Extremists: Can Ethiopia Survive the Scourge of the two Extreme Centrifugals? In honour of the teachers and journalists Meskerem Abera and Tadios Tantu, who are now being...

Betrayal and Resentment felt by the Amhara people   By Shimelis Amare About five years ago, when the Prime Minister (PM) took power, the vast majority of Ethiopians at home and abroad welcomed him with the hope that he is our “Moses”...

BEFORE THE NEXT MASSACRE BURY THE NATION ITSELF By: Shimelis Amare At the darkest time of Hitler’s Germany, a prominent German Pastor who found himself in a situation where he didn’t expect, wrote the following: First, they came for the...

White & black versus piggy & ebony Mesfin Arega White & black versus piggy & ebony The time for “white Christmas”, “white Jesus”, and “white Santa” is the most appropriate time for discussing the very terms “white”...

The making of a ‘beggar nation’: The case of Ethiopia Part 1 GIRMA BERHANU Professor  GOTHENBURG UNIVERSITY Department of Education and Special Education Västra Hamngatan 25, A-hus room 168 Mail address: Box 300, 405 30 Göteborg office:...

Abiy Ahmed’s Amhara Phobia  By Tigist Bekka When Abiy came to power, like most Ethiopians, I was swept away by Abiymania. Like the late professor Mesfin Wolde Mariam, I was convinced that Lemma Megersa and Abiy Ahmed, the youthful duo, the...

Terrorism, dictatorship, and the west: the case of South Africa and Russia Mesfin Arega Quote: “Somoza may be a son of a bitch, but he’s our son of a bitch”         President F. D. Roosevelt (about the brutal dictator of Nicaragua) Fact:...

Abiy’s Quest for Power for Power’s Sake and the Wollega-Zone New Auschwitz GIRMA BERHANU Professor It now seems evident that Abiy Ahmed, when he first appeared on the Ethiopian political main scene, was supported by virtually...