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USAID and Famine in Ethiopia: What Does Gayle E. Smith Have to Say? [Professor Alemayehu G. Mariam]
Author’s Note: The following is a true and correct copy of my letter to USAID Administrator Gayle E. Smith dated March 16, 2016, and the response I received from T.C. Cooper, Assistant Administrator, USAID Bureau for Legislative and Public...
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Visiting Jailed Journalist Woubshet Taye in Zeway Prison [By BefeQadu Z. Hailu]
Ethiopian journalist Woubshet Taye was arrested in June 2011 and has been held behind bars since then. For doing his job as a journalist, he was sentenced 14 years on anti-state charges. Zone 9 Blogger BefeQadu Z. Hailu, who himself was jailed...
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The Bantustanization (Kililistanization) of Ethiopia [Professor Alemayehu G. Mariam]
Author’s Note: This is the second installment in a series of ongoing commentaries that I expect to post regularly under the rubric, “Ethnic Apartheid in Ethiopia”.
The twin aims of the series are: 1) to demonstrate beyond a shadow...