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....
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 Sunday (17).
In a race affected by the high humidity that hit this central Polish city, Misganaw reached the...
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 cross-border raid into Ethiopia, the country’s leader said.
Ethiopian officials blame Murle...
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”,...
USAID and Famine in Ethiopia: What Does Gayle E. Smith Have to Say? [Professor Alemayehu G. Mariam]
Author’s Note: The following is a true and correct copy of my letter to USAID Administrator Gayle E. Smith dated March 16, 2016, and the response I received from T.C. Cooper, Assistant Administrator, USAID Bureau for Legislative and Public...
Visiting Jailed Journalist Woubshet Taye in Zeway Prison [By BefeQadu Z. Hailu]
Ethiopian journalist Woubshet Taye was arrested in June 2011 and has been held behind bars since then. For doing his job as a journalist, he was sentenced 14 years on anti-state charges. Zone 9 Blogger BefeQadu Z. Hailu, who himself was jailed...
