Bye, Bye Karuturistan, Ethiopia! [Professor Alemayehu G. Mariam]

RIP: A post-mortem on Karuturistan, Ethiopia It was too good to be true. It is too bad it was true for the people of Gambella...

Ethiopia’s Negesse wins Tokyo Marathon [japantimes]

KYODO Ethiopia’s Endeshaw Negesse held off world and Olympic champion Stephen Kiprotich of Uganda to win Sunday’s Tokyo Marathon, part of the six-race World Marathon...

The Zone 9 Bloggers have not been forgotten [BBC]

BBC Trending What's popular and why In April 2014 BBC Trending covered the arrest of six bloggers and three journalists in Ethiopia. The bloggers are part...

Britain Is Too Busy Co-operating with Ethiopia On Anti-Terrorism to Help...

by Oscar Rickett Andargachew Tsege, known to his friends and family as Andy, is a British citizen who has been held in a secret prison...

DIBABA SETS WORLD INDOOR 5000M RECORD IN STOCKHOLM [IAAF]

Ethiopia’s Genzebe Dibaba ran the third world indoor record * of her career when she clocked 14:18:86 for 5000m at the XL-galan meeting in...

‘Music is like gold’: Hip-hop in Amharic finds its voice in...

Mainstream rappers embrace the country’s dominant language while trying not to upset the government by James Jeffrey ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia — Ethiopian rapper DJ Same took...

Ethiopia: stealing the Omo Valley, destroying its ancient Peoples [Megan Perry...

A land grab twice the size of France is under way in Ethiopia, as the government pursues the wholesale seizure if indigenous lands to...

Ethiopia’s Perfekt Elektion? Much Ado About Nothing![Professor Alemayehu G. Mariam]

Who knows about Ethiopia’s perfekt elektion in May 2015? It is the middle of February 2015 as I write this commentary. But I always remember in...

Gagging the media in Ethiopia [By Graham Peebles]

Suffocating dissent Nobody trusts politicians, but some governments are more despicable than others. The brutal gang ruling Ethiopia is especially nasty. They claim to govern...