Two Ethiopian activists released from prison [Emmanuel Igunza, BBC Africa]
Two prominent opposition figures in Ethiopia have been released from prison in the capital, Addis Ababa, after months of detention over terrorism charges.
Habtamu Ayalew and Abraham Solomon have been behind bars since July 2014, despite a federal...
Meseret Defar runs 8:30.83 3000m on track return – global update [AW]
A collection of some of the recent top athletics results from around the world, including performances at the New Balance Indoor Grand Prix
Defar 3000m WL in Boston
The second meeting of the newly-created IAAF World Indoor Tour saw seven world-leading...
Ethiopia Under the Boots of the T-TPLF Beast With Feet of Clay [Professor Alemayehu G. Mariam]
Author’s Note: This is the fourth commentary in a series dealing with land, land use, misuse, overlordship and ownership in Ethiopia. In my firstcommentary, I examined the decline and fall of “Karuturistan”, the hundreds of thousands...
Arcishop Abune Petros [EthiopianStory]
Abune Petros was an archbishop of the Ethiopian Orthodox Church in much of the central and eastern parts of Ethiopia during the late 1920s and early 1930s. When Fascist Italy invaded Ethiopia in 1935, Abune Petros went to the frontline to...
Who generated the idea (the Addis Ababa Integrated master plan)?
This document proves that the World Bank is the generator of the TPLF master land grab plan. The Bank`s complicity is also known from its previous involvements. It had also financed and supported the Rural Land Grab the TPLF has been undertaking...
Unrest in Ethiopia: the ultimate warning shot? [opendemocracy]
RENÉ LEFORT
The culture of power is one of centralisation. But real federalism couldn’t be beyond reach. Oromya shows that it is becoming an absolute requirement.
The Tigray Peoples Liberation Front (TPLF), the strongest component of the...