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Ethiopia: The Cry is Bigger than for A Dead Billy Goat!

(Mohamed Olad) I was watching a recent viral video clip in which Abdi Mohamud Omar, the Somali Regional State President,…

Five Takeaways from PM Hailemariam’s new Cabinet

Just a year after forming a new government, Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn returned to parliament to announce a reshuffle. On Tuesday,…

List of PM Hailemariam’s new Ministers

Ethiopian Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn presented the much-anticipated cabinet reshuffle today. Though the ruling party formed government last year, it…

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 ‘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…

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…

Ethiopia: Dozens killed after clashes in Bahirdar, in rural Gondar

Security forces killed several people in Bahir Dar city, northwestern Ethiopia, after clashing with protesters. Ten thousands marched in the…

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