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The “Law” as State Terrorism in Apartheid Ethiopia [Professor Alemayehu G....

Author’s Note: This is the third installment  in a series of ongoing commentaries that I expect to post regularly under the rubric, “Apartheid in...

Ethiopia must release opposition politician held for Facebook posts [AMNESTY]

PRESS RELEASE MAY 6, 2016 The Ethiopian authorities must immediately and unconditionally release a prominent opposition politician facing a possible death sentence on trumped-up terrorism charges...

Ethiopia: Bekele Gerba’s Trial in T-TPLF Monkey Kourt [Professor Alemayehu G....

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...

Ethiopia hands dissident 9-year jail term [THE FINANCIAL TIMES]

©Charlie Bibby/FT The large Saudi Star farm in Gambella. Its owners want to grow 140,000 tonnes of rice by 2018 Tom Burgis in New York  An Ethiopian...

My Brother, Eskinder (“Invictus”) Nega: You Are Not Alone and We...

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...

MISGANAW AND MUTGAA PREVAIL AT LODZ MARATHON [IAAF]

Abraraw Misganaw of Ethiopia and Racheal Mutgaa of Kenya were the winners of the DOZ Lodz Marathon, an IAAF Silver Label Road Race, on...

Death toll tops 200 in cross-border Ethiopia raid [yahoo]

Karim Lebhour Addis Ababa (AFP) - More than 200 people were killed and over 100 children abducted by armed men from South Sudan in a...

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”,...

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