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Ethiopia’s TPLF must fix its disease, not symptoms (By Teshome M. Borago)
After over 2 years of courageous Ethiopian protests and thousands of innocent lives lost, the TPLF ruling party has thrown crumbs and meaningless promise at the Ethiopian people once again. This week, Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn first...
Trump administration deserves credit for the announced release of political prisoners in Ethiopia [BY ALEMAYEHU G. MARIAM, THE HILL]
Ethiopian Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn made an equivocal announcement that political prisoners in his country will be released at some future date. He provided no details. Desalegn said, “Some members of political parties under prosecution...
Statement of the Chairperson of the African Union Commission on Recent Developments in Ethiopia (AU)
Addis Ababa, 4 January 2018: The Chairperson of the African Union Commission, Moussa Faki Mahamat, welcomes the announcement made by the Prime Minister of the Federal Democratic Repubic of Ethiopia, Hailemariam Desalegn, pardoning or suspending...
Are recent political gestures in Ethiopia optimistic? (Zelalem Kibret)
Zelalem Kibret
After the conclusion of 18 days of political jujitsu among the disarrayed members of the three-decade-old Ethiopian ruling coalition, the Ethiopian People Revolutionary Democratic Front (EPRDF), which controls every political...
Ethiopia to free jailed politicians to 'foster national reconciliation': PM (Reuters)
ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) – Ethiopia will release and pardon dissident politicians jailed on criminal charges, its prime minister said on Wednesday — an unexpected shift in stance from a government routinely accused by rights groups...
Ethiopia – A deadly 2017 saddled with security headache, simmering protests
Africanews
Ethiopia entered 2017 under a state of emergency rule. A measure imposed in October 2016 following deadly protests largely in the Oromia region. Mass arrests were made and a Command Post with sweeping powers of arrest was put in place.
What...
Ethiopia at an Ominous Crossroads (By Amb. Cohen)
Article 39 of the Ethiopian Constitution states:
“Every Nation, Nationality and People in Ethiopia has an unconditional right to self-determination, including the right to secession.”
This Constitution was adopted in 1994....