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OMN Breaking: The military has officially taken over Oromia
Jawar Mohammed
Today high ranking military, intelligence and federal police officers held emergency security meeting with President of Oromia, Muktar Kedir, at his office located in Addis Ababa. The meeting was chaired by General Asefa...
Ethiopia: No Let Up in Crackdown on Protests [HRW]
Killings, Detention of Protesters Enter Fourth Month
(Nairobi) – Ethiopian security forces are violently suppressing the largely peaceful protests in the Oromia region that began in November 2015. Almost daily accounts of killings and arbitrary...
A Special “Message in a Bottle” to Ethiopian Cheetahs: Born Free, Live Free![Professor Alemayehu G. Mariam]
(Classified: For Ethiopian Cheetahs’ Eyes Only)
My first “Message” from 2013
This is my second special message to Ethiopia’s “Cheetah Generation”, Ethiopia’s young people, in three years.
In January 2013, I wrote a new year’s...
Ethiopia: Unity in Opposition [By GRAHAM PEEBLE]
Division and fear are the age-old tools of tyrants; unity and peaceful coordinated action the most powerful weapons against them.
Frightened and downtrodden for so long, there are positive signs that the Ethiopian people are beginning to come...
Does Museveni vacate like Zenawi or Gaddafi? [kiflu Hussain]
Coincidentally both my first country of asylum, Uganda, and my second, United States are in an election fever. Yet, there is a world apart difference between the two elections just like the geography that set them apart in different corners...
Two Ethiopian activists released from prison [Emmanuel Igunza, BBC Africa]
Two prominent opposition figures in Ethiopia have been released from prison in the capital, Addis Ababa, after months of detention over terrorism charges.
Habtamu Ayalew and Abraham Solomon have been behind bars since July 2014, despite a federal...