Addis Ababa Master Plan? No, the T-TPLF Masters’ Plan! [Professor Alemayehu G. Mariam]
Author’s Note: What’s in a label? Well, “What’s in a name? That which we call a rose/ By any other name would smell as sweet…”? That may be true, provided, of course, those roses are not roses raised on the land-grabbed farmlands...
Ethiopia’s Invisible Crisis [Felix Horne Researcher, Horn of Africa]
“Badessa” was a third-year engineering student in western Ethiopia in April 2014 when he and most of his classmates joined a protest over the potential displacement of ethnic Oromo farmers like his family because of the government’s plan...
In Ethiopia, famine stalks the land once again [GRAHAM PEEBLES]
OpenDemocracy
The answer to famine is not increased levels of food aid, but strategic planning to enable communities to survive the impact of extreme weather, made more acute by climate change.
Women and children carrying jerrycans filled...
Briton detained in Ethiopia must be freed urgently, says charity
by Press Association
A British man locked up in Ethiopia must be released imminently, a charity has urged, as a psychiatrist’s report showed a serious deterioration in his mental health.
Andargachew “Andy” Tsege has been detained in the...
Ethiopia cancels Addis Ababa master plan after Oromo protests [BBC]
Ethiopia’s government has abandoned plans to expand the boundaries of the capital, Addis Ababa, which have caused months of deadly protests.
Demonstrations by people from the Oromo ethnic group have been sparked by fears that Oromo farmers...