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The T-TPLF’s Corruption Prosecution Con Game [Professor Alemayehu G. Mariam]
Author’s Note: If I assembled all of the commentaries I wrote on the T-TPLF’s corruption, it would comprise of at least two solid volumes. Back in 2013, I commented extensively on the range of T-TPLF corrupt practices in a number of sectors...
Ethiopia: Dozens Arrested After City Bomb Blast - Police
Bahir Dar city police say dozens of people are being held after a bomb exploded there yesterday, according to Addis Standard. No casualties were reported.
The city’s police chief, Commander Walelegn Dagnew, blamed both the explosion,...
Ethiopia: Parliament Ends State of Emergency
AllAfrica
Cape Town — Ethiopia lifted the state of emergency first imposed in October 2016, according to Addis Standard. An emergency session by members of parliament was called to make the decision on Friday.
The House of Representatives...
Taxation With Repression and the Raging Quiet Riot in Ethiopia [Professor Alemayehu G. Mariam]
James Otis, an early instigator of the American revolution, captured the rebellious sentiments and resentments of the colonists when he proclaimed, “Taxation without representation is tyranny.”
In 1765, Otis organized an intercolonial conference...
13 die in inter-ethnic clashes in southern Ethiopia: official
ADDIS ABABA, July 28 (Xinhua) — Thirteen people were killed in fresh inter-ethnic clashes between the Gujji clan of the Oromo ethnic group and the Koore group in southern Ethiopia, a local official said.
In addition to 13 dead, scores...
Ethiopia: Meeting deadly disease head-on (Report)
From UNOPS
Ethiopia is one of the countries hardest hit by the strongest El Niño event in history. The natural hazards that followed have left more than 5 million people in need of life-saving emergency assistance.
Amidst the worst drought...
AUSC Presidency’s Special Advisor Professor Mammo Muchie has just returned from West Africa for 7 Jul ‘Integrated African Sustainable Development.
In the West Africa where he gave a series of lectures on innovation from science, technology, engineering and mathematics for an Integrated African Sustainable Development. Being a champion of Pan-Africanism, he believes that innovation can...