Reflections on Prof. Mesfin’s “Adafne”: Saving Ethiopians From Themselves?[Professor Alemayehu G. Mariam]

Prof. Mesfin Woldemariam’s latestAmharic  book, “Adafne: Fear and Failure”, is at once a lamentation on the decline and  decay of Ethiopian society from the...

The Zone 9 Bloggers are Free: but Ethiopia Still Thinks Digital Security is Terrorism...

The last of the Zone 9 Bloggers are finally free from jail, after nearly 18 months of detention for simply speaking out online. All...

Can the T-TPLF Stop the Famine in Ethiopia? [Professor Alemayehu G. Mariam]

It is a big international secret that Ethiopia today is in the middle of a Biblical famine. For the second time since 1984-85! Last week, the...

Foreign Minister dictates orders to VOA at night [By Abebe Gellaw]

The stormy relationship between the Voice of America (VOA) and the TPLF-led Ethiopian government has recently taken a strange twist after Foreign Minister Dr....

Review: ‘Difret’ Confronts Sexism in Ethiopia [nytimes]

By NICOLAS RAPOLDOCT When an Ethiopian girl who survives abduction and rape in “Difret” finds safe haven with her lawyer, you may not expect the...