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Free Merera Gudina and all political prisoners [Press Release]
For Immediate Release
Free Merera Gudina and all political prisoners
Amsterdam, Washington DC, Minnesota – December 29, 2016
Dr. Merera Gudina
Top opposition leader, Dr. Merera Gudina, was arrested on October 30, 2016 upon his return from...
Memoirs of my detention at Awash 7: tales of indoctrination, of laughter and the unknown [BefeQadu Z. Hailu]
Addisstandard
Wakoma Tafa was planning to get married on Sunday, Oct.10, 2016. But just three days before his wedding he was arbitrarily detained around Alem Gena, 25k west of Addis Abeba, a city within the special zone of the Oromia Regional...
Miruts Yifter, Ethiopian running legend, honoured at Toronto funeral
Olympic champion’s body will be sent back to Ethiopia this week
By John Rieti, CBC News
Miruts Yifter, an Ethiopian running legend dubbed “Yifter the Shifter” for his ability to power away from rivals, was laid to...
Ethiopia 2016 in Review: The Year of Perseverance! [Professor Alemayehu G. Mariam]
Author’s Note: In July 2016, I completed my tenth year of uninterrupted Monday Commentaries (and sometimes up to 4 commentaries) a week. Some have amiably characterized my commentaries as “Monday Sermons”.
My first commentary (in the...
Ethnic tensions in Gondar reflect the toxic nature of Ethiopian politics [theguardian]
William Davison in Gondar
From uneven development to authoritarian government, the morass of issues facing the city of Gondar offer a snapshot of Ethiopia’s wider problems
In Gondar, a city in Ethiopia’s northern highlands, a lone tourist...
Bloggers Befeqadu Hailu & Seyoum Teshome, activists Blen Mesfin, Eyasped Tesfaye released after Command Post detention
Befeqadu Hailu, a member of the Zone9 blogging collective , who was detained by the Ethiopian Command Post for an alleged interview he gave for the VoA Amharic, has been released today.
He was held at a military camp farther South of Addis...
President Trump: Out of Africa? [Professor Alemayehu G. Mariam]
Author’s Note: In what I expect will be periodic commentaries on U.S. policy in Africa, I aim to offer unorthodox, paradigm changing, thought-provoking and controversial policy recommendations and prescriptions to the Trump Administration...