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Does Ethiopia Need a Constitution? [Professor Alemayehu G. Mariam]
The question is NOT if Ethiopia needs a new constitution.
The question is, “Does Ethiopia need a constitution?”, since it currently does not have one.
The so-called “1995 Ethiopian Constitution” is a constitution of the T-TPLF, by...
The Intellectual Poverty and Moral Bankruptcy of Ethiopia Famine Deniers [Prof. Alemayehu G. Mariam]
There is “no famine in Ethiopia… Ethiopians aren’t starving to death… People aren’t dying… Animals are dying of thirst…” Alex de Waal
Last week, in an op-ed piece in the New York Times (International Edition), Alex de...
Remembering Asrat Woldeyes: A Man Who Fought for the Unity of Ethiopia
As political prisoner, party leader and eminent surgeon, he fought for the unity of Ethiopia
By Brian Barder Professor Asrat Woldeyes, who has died aged 70, was successively Ethiopia’s most distinguished surgeon, physician and university...
Robert Mugabe and Pink Noses [Eskinder Nega, Gulag Kaiti Prison]
Congo-Kinshasa, Congo-Brazzaville, Burundi, Uganda, Rwanda, Benin. Ask Robert Mugabe, Africa’s longest reigning president, about these countries and doubt not he would beam with pride. This is a partial litany of African countries, whose presidents...
Ethiopian journalist: 'I was jailed and tortured' [DW]
He is one of Ethiopia’s most critical journalists. Muluken Tesfaw is in Europe and too scared to return. He doesn’t want to share his location, but talked to DW about press freedom declining dramatically in his country.
According to...
