Ethiopian Spring in a Winter of Discontent? [Professor Alemayehu G. Mariam]

No one predicted the Arab Spring when it exploded on December 18, 2010sparking the Tunisian Revolution. No one could have predicted a street vendor named...

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...

Ethiopia and the World Bank of Lies, Damned Lies and Statislies[Professor Alemayehu G. Mariam]

John Milton wrote in Paradise Lost: β€œFor no falsehood can endure/ Touch of celestial temper.” Of course, Milton was writing about Satan and his β€œdevilish...

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...

America: Saving the Last Great Hope of Humanity From Insanity [Professor Alemayehu G. Mariam]

Elie Wiesel, the Holocaust survivor and Nobel laureate said, β€œThere may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never...

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...