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Ethiopia says British museum must permanently return its artifacts - Reuters
Kumerra Gemechu
ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) – Britain must permanently return all artifacts from Ethiopia held by the Victoria and Albert Museum and Addis Ababa will not accept them on loan, an Ethiopian government official...
Memorandum No. 2- How to Speak Truth to Good Leaders Who Listen [Professor Alemayehu G. Mariam]
Author’s Note: For the past couple of weeks, I have read and heard unjustified and irresponsible criticism of PM Abiy. Many of his critics are Hippos (older generation) like me, who still cling to the faded political ideals of their youth...
Bashir Makhtal, Canadian man imprisoned in Ethiopia for 11 years, back in Canada (Toronto Sun)
The Canadian Press
TORONTO — A Canadian man who languished in an Ethiopian prison for more than 11 years returned home to Toronto on Saturday after being freed earlier this week
Bashir Makhtal was sentenced to life in prison for terrorism-related...
Memorandum No. 1: To PM Abiy Ahmed and Ethiopia’s Cheetahs/Abo Shemanes (Youth) [Professor Alemayehu G. Mariam]
Author’s note: In my last “commentary” (My Personal Letter to Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed), I promised to focus my future observations on issues and topics that will serve to promote peace, reconciliation, unity and the general well-being...
Twofold crisis in Ethiopia: the elites and the street (RENÉ LEFORT)
RENÉ LEFORT
Ultimately, the only route to its successful end is regulation through institutional mechanisms, which means elections, whether early or within the normal electoral cycle.
According to the dominant assessment, the crisis in Ethiopia...
The Beginning of the End for the TPLF: The Death Knell [by Dawit W Giorgis]
“The death knell of the Republic had rung as soon as the active power became lodged in the hands of those who sought, not to do justice to all citizens, rich and poor alike, but to stand for one special class and for its interests as opposed...