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Once famine-stricken, Ethiopia has many lessons for a country like India
By Neeraj Kaushal
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In my youth, parents chastened their children if they wasted food by reminding them that millions starved in Ethiopia. Ethiopia was the country stricken with famines. Lakhs died and millions were impoverished during the...
Is Ethiopia a Rwandan genocide in the making? (Teshome M. Borago)
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Ethiopia is slowly sleepwalking into ethnic war. Can it be averted?
In 2004, the former Chairman of the Coalition for Unity and Democracy (CUD) party, Hailu Shawul, held a conference in Addis Ababa before the election. In his speech,...
At least eight killed, dozens wounded in protests across Oromia (Addisstandard)
Addis Abeba, Oct. 11/2017 – At least eight people were killed and more than 30 wounded during fresh protests that hit several cities and towns across the Oromia regional state today, according to Addisu Arega Kitessa, head of the Oromia government...
How a Minnesota paper became one of the world’s leading sources of Ethiopian news (minnpost)
By Ibrahim Hirsi
Nearly a decade ago, when Henok Alemayehu Degfu spent his first two paychecks on a laptop, some of his relatives thought he was nuts.
Degfu had been in the U.S. for only a couple of months at that point, and those close to...
ABADULA GEMEDA RESIGNS AS SPEAKER OF THE FEDERAL PARLIAMENT (AddisStandard)
Addis Abeba October 07/2017 – Two credible sources told AS that Abadula Gemeda, speaker of the Ethiopian House of Peoples’ Representatives has resigned from his post.
According to one source, Abadula has “submitted a resignation letter...
The Crisis of Leadership and Legitimacy within Ethiopia’s TPLF Minority Regime
BY NETSANET BULTO
Ever since the death of the late TPLF chairman and Prime Minister, Meles Zenawi, the Tigrayan People’s Liberation Front (TPLF) has lacked a similarly dominant personality able to maintain consensus, either thru charisma,...