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I Accuse Emperor Minilek II ¡¡¡¡ (By woubshet mulat)
I accuse Emperor Minilek II, because he did’nt establish an independent electoral board! Did he?
I accuse Emperor Minilek II, because he didn’t conduct periodic election! Did he?
I accuse Emperor Minilek II, because he didn’t...
“Beggar Continent, No More!”, Ghanaian President Nana Akufo-Addo [Professor Alemayehu G. Mariam]
Today, Africa is a Continent of COMPETING BEGGAR NATIONS. We vie with one another for favours from our former colonial masters; and we deliberately fall over one another to invite neocolonialists to come to our different territories to preside...
Exposed: Ethiopia’s nefarious, comically bungled spyware campaign (Ars Technica)
Publicly traded company helps country spy on critics, no questions asked.
DAN GOODIN
Researchers have uncovered a nefarious but comically incompetent spyware campaign that’s targeting Ethiopian dissidents in the US, UK, and other countries.
A report...
Ethiopia: On Decolonizing Ethiopian Studies - Methodological Nationalism As Bad As Eurocentrism [By Hailegabriel G. Feyissa]
Allafrica
I am writing this short essay in response to Hewan Semon‘s rather interesting and thought-provoking opinion piece ‘Decolonizing Ethiopian Studies’. I am jumping on her offer for a conversation on issues pertaining...
OPINION: DECOLONIZING ETHIOPIAN STUDIES (Hewan Semon)
Addis Standard
Addis Abeba, November 30/2017 – I wrote this article as a way to initiate a conversation on the issues of decolonizing education pertaining directly to the field of Ethiopian Studies. The main purpose of this opinion is to...
CIA Agent Confesses On Deathbed: ‘I Killed Bob Marley’
A 79-year-old retired officer of the CIA, Bill Oxley, has made a series of stunning confessions since he was admitted to the Mercy Hospital in Maine on Monday and told he has weeks to live. He claims he committed 17 assassinations for the American...
[A year ago] Ethiopia arrested Oromo leader Merera Gudina, still behind bars (Africanews)
Abdur Rahman Alfa Shaban
On Thursday December 1, 2016; authorities in Ethiopia arrested a leading opposition figure Merera Gudina. A year on, he remains in jail facing multiple criminal charges downgraded from an earlier charge of terrorism.
Gudina...
Champion marathon runner Zenash Gezmu who fled Ethiopia found beaten to death by another refugee in Paris
PETER ALLEN
Evening Standard
A champion marathon runner who fled Ethiopia six years ago for a better life in Europe has been beaten to death by another refugee on a housing estate near Paris.
Zenash Gezmu’s body was found by police called...