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Ethiopia: State of Emergency grants PM sweeping powers

Ethiopian government decreed a state of emergency on Sunday. Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn announced the decree on Sunday at noon…

Jawar Mohamed et al: Real Dangers to Ethiopian Unity and Coexistence

(Mohamed Olad) Jamar Mohamed et al constantly makes bizarre statements about the current political system and the enduring federal system…

Tigray’s problem is “sikifta” not narrow nationalism

(Gebremedhin Gebru) There is no visible sentiment of narrow nationalism among the people of Tigrai; rather our “Culture of Excessive…

Development & Democracy – Two sides of the same coin

(Berhanu Tsegay - from MOFEC) If a country is awash with corruption, rent-seeking, lack of good governance and rule of law,…

The Legality Of The Wolqait Question: Issues To Worry About

(Zeray W/Senbet) [Clink on the table of contents to jump to specific section] 1. Preliminaries What is an identity question?…

The ‘Ethiopian Spring’: “Killing is not an answer to our grievances”

(René Lefort - Open Democracy) There is every sign that Ethiopia is plunging into a crisis whose scale, intensity, and…

Feyisa Lilesa: From Rio to America, I’ll keep fighting Ethiopia’s oppression

(Feyisa Lilesa - Washington Post) Feyisa Lilesa is an Ethiopian Olympian and winner of a silver medal in the men’s…

Ethiopia: The Government should negotiate with the Protest Movements

(Tefaye Debella) It is crucial for Ethiopians of every stripe to express our thoughts on the current and future Ethiopia.…

Ethiopia: The Military – The One at Stake

(Yeshitila Zewdie) “It's so hard to forget pain, but it's even harder to remember sweetness. We have no scar to…

Ethiopia: One Step Forward, Two Steps Back?

(Yeshitila Zewdie) From among the fairy tales I heard and know about, the making of Ethiopia and the body politic…

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