Election

Wikileaks| PM Meles rebuking donors for the post-election violence

A leaked Cable of US Embassy Addis Ababa, dated June 2009, provides a summary of a meeting with the Ethiopian…

Wikileaks | Top US diplomat: ‘Time to stop hating Ethiopia’

A leaked Cable of US Embassy Addis Ababa discloses a passionate plea of the then Acting Ambassador Vicki Huddleston for…

Wikileaks: Berhanu Nega pondered on 1000 dead/day in 2005

A leaked US Embassy Cable of Sept. 2005, classified as ‘Confidential’, shows opposition leader Berhanu Nega(PhD) contemplating  a street violence…

Wikileaks: Opposition leaders: ‘Stop food aid to Ethiopia’ [full text]

A leaked Cable of US Embassy Addis Ababa, dated September 30, 2009 and classified as ‘Confidential’, reveals opposition party leaders…

Wikileaks: US didn’t sponsor Ethiopia’s Somalia intervention [full text]

Leaked Cables of US Embassy Addis Ababa unambiguously confirmed that Ethiopia’s 2006 intervention in Somalia was not US sponsored as…

11plus blunders in BBC, TBIJ report of Ethiopia’s aid misuse

Two British news outlets made headlines last week when they published a story on Ethiopia claiming it is a product…

Note on CBS profile of Meles Zenawi

The US media CBS-News has been running a series titled 'The world's enduring dictators' since mid-May - intended to profile…

Live blogging the vote count – Election 2010 | Ethiopia

You probably read the note, on the home page of this blog, that claims: This blog is the first blog,…

On the Arab revolt | Are they ready for liberal democracy?

As a result of the Jasmine Revolution that ousted Tunisian president Zine Al Abidine Ben Ali and the on-going revolt in…

Ethiopia | Opposition unconcerned about Gerrymandering?

Much has been said, and for a decade, about the disproportionality of electoral constituencies in Ethiopia. Of late, the EU…

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