Ethiopia's Rastafarian community living in limbo [news24]
Rastafarians around the world see Ethiopia as their spiritual home. Many of them believe the country’s last king, Haile Selassie, was a descendent of King Solomon and the messiah.
Many of the men travelled thousands of kilometres to live...
Ethiopia and the World Bank of Lies, Damned Lies and Statislies[Professor Alemayehu G. Mariam]
John Milton wrote in Paradise Lost: “For no falsehood can endure/ Touch of celestial temper.”
Of course, Milton was writing about Satan and his “devilish art” of “forging illusions”.
I am seething in temporal temper over...
EATON AND DIBABA ARE CROWNED 2015 IAAF WORLD ATHLETES OF THE YEAR[IAAF]
USA’s Ashton Eaton and Ethiopia’s Genzebe Dibaba were named the male and female IAAF World Athletes of the Year for 2015 on Thursday (26).
Both athletes set world records during 2015, Eaton in the decathlon and Dibaba in the 1500m, and...
We are still prisoners! [ZoneNine]
Evidently six members of the Zone9 & three journalists are released from prison after they spent 14 to 18 months in prison. The three journalists and the two bloggers were released as the charges were ‘withdrawn’in July. While the other...
Remembering the Meles Massacres of 2005 in Ethiopia Ten Years After [Professor Alemayehu G. Mariam]
In keeping silent about evil, in burying it so deep within us that no sign of it appears on the surface, we are implanting it, and it will rise up a thousand fold in the future.
When we neither punish nor reproach evildoers, we are not simply...
Ethiopian plane hijacker deemed mentally unsound[swissinfo]
A psychiatric evaluation has revealed that the co-pilot who hijacked an Ethiopian Airlines flight and re-routed it to Geneva in 2014 was not of sound mind when he did so. As a result, the Swiss Attorney General will drop all charges against...