Ethiopia: Kickin’ it with Reeyot Invictus and…[Professor Alemayehu G. Mariam]
Author’s note: This is Part I in a forthcoming series relating my conversations with Reeyot Alemu and her amazing story in the defense of press freedom in Ethiopia. It is also about conversations with an extraordinary group of young...
Battle of Adwa (1896)[blackpast.org]
In March, 1896, Ethiopian forces under the leadership of Emperor Menelik II surprised the world by defeating an Italian Army sent to conquer the Empire. In the following article Raymond Jonas, the Giovanni and Amne Costigan Professor of History...
OMN Breaking: The military has officially taken over Oromia
Jawar Mohammed
Today high ranking military, intelligence and federal police officers held emergency security meeting with President of Oromia, Muktar Kedir, at his office located in Addis Ababa. The meeting was chaired by General Asefa...
Ethiopia: No Let Up in Crackdown on Protests [HRW]
Killings, Detention of Protesters Enter Fourth Month
(Nairobi) – Ethiopian security forces are violently suppressing the largely peaceful protests in the Oromia region that began in November 2015. Almost daily accounts of killings and arbitrary...
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...
