British (In)Justice: The Persecution by Proxy Prosecution of Ethiopian Dissident Tadesse B. Kersmo [Professor Alemayehu G. Mariam]

Tadesse Biru Kersmo I cut my “legal teeth” nearly four decades ago pouring over the Magna Carta, Blackstone’s  “Commentaries” and Edward Coke’s legal treatises on...

Elephant Kills Spanish Tourist in Ethiopia

ibtimes July 24, 2017 - A Spanish tourist, who was visiting Ethiopia’s Chebera-Churchura Nature Park, died after being trampled and gored by an elephant in...

Ethiopia anti-tax protests spread (CNBC Africa)

by CNBC Africa Jared Jeffrey, NKC African Economics – According to ESAT, protests by small business owners, which began last week in Addis Ababa and...

EU commend Ethiopia’s initiative to make political reforms (Sudantribune)

By Tesfa-Alem Tekle July 20, 2017 (ADDIS ABABA) - The European Union (EU) on Thursday commended the ruling party, Ethiopia peoples Revolutionary Democratic Front (EPRDF)...

Arrested Eritrean Patriarch Makes First Appearence in Decade at Sunday Mass (REUTERS)

For the first time since being placed under house arrest in 2007, the legitimate patriarch of the Eritrean Orthodox Church made a public appearance...

Ethiopia: Eternal Vigilance is the Price of Keeping One’s Land [Professor Alemayehu G. Mariam]

  In memory of Liu Xiaobo, Chinese dissident, human rights advocate, co-author of Charter ’08,  Nobel peace laureate (2010) and political prisoner who died in...

Teddy Afro, Ethiopia’s biggest pop star: ‘Because of our government, our country is divided’

The musician’s latest album, with songs hailing Ethiopia’s glorious past, is the fastest-selling record in the country’s history. But his political views have made...