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Addis Ababa Master Plan? No, the T-TPLF Masters’ Plan! [Professor Alemayehu G. Mariam]
Author’s Note: What’s in a label? Well, “What’s in a name? That which we call a rose/ By any other name would smell as sweet…”? That may be true, provided, of course, those roses are not roses raised on the land-grabbed farmlands...
European Parliament Resolution on Ethiopia Brings Hope and Courage to the Oppressed
On 21 January 2016, the European Parliament passed an urgent resolution on the situation in Ethiopia, condemning the use of violence by the security forces against peaceful Oromo protesters, in particular, and drawing attention to the increased...
Time to Repeal Anti-Terrorism Law in Ethiopia [IPS]
By Anuradha Mittal
Anuradha Mittal is the Executive Director of the Oakland Institute.
OAKLAND, California, Jan 25 2016 (IPS) – With the African Union celebrating the African Year of Human Rights at its 26th summit, at its headquarters...
No Country Left for Ethiopians? [Professor Alemayehu G. Mariam]
Author’s Note: My commentary this week follows last week’s comment on the collapse of Karuturi Agro Products, Plc., in Gambella, Ethiopia. In 2010, the T-TPLF handed over 100 thousand hectares of land the infamously “iconic land grabber”...
Ethiopia’s Invisible Crisis [Felix Horne Researcher, Horn of Africa]
“Badessa” was a third-year engineering student in western Ethiopia in April 2014 when he and most of his classmates joined a protest over the potential displacement of ethnic Oromo farmers like his family because of the government’s plan...
In Ethiopia, famine stalks the land once again [GRAHAM PEEBLES]
OpenDemocracy
The answer to famine is not increased levels of food aid, but strategic planning to enable communities to survive the impact of extreme weather, made more acute by climate change.
Women and children carrying jerrycans filled...
The Wrath of Karuturi and the “Power of India” in Ethiopia [Professor Alemayehu G. Mariam]
Authors note: I have written this commentary not because I care about the legal dispute between Karuturi and the T-TPLF over a land deal in Gambella. I could not care less how thugs and those who do business with thugs resolve or do not resolve...