Society

Eritrea’s national security predicaments: Post-colonial African syndrome

(Meressa Tsehaye Gebrewahd) Outline - Introduction 1/ Literature Review 2/ Eritrea’s national security predicament: Historical antecedents 2.1/ Colonial Legacy: Identity…

Bahraini agency offers “Ethiopian maid” as a prize

A recruitment agency in Bahrain sparked outrage by offering an "Ethiopian maid" as a prize. The Bahraini recruitment agency ran…

Why the Ethiopian Premier wasn’t wrong for suggesting Somaliland stay with Somalia

(Abdirahman M. Dirye - Somaliland) Abdisalam Harari of the Universal TV, a Somali local channel, asked Ethiopian Prime Minister Hailemariam…

The Agazian Movement: Exhuming a Corpse?

(Tesfay Nigus) Recent exchanges on [social] media among self-claimed propagators of the so called ‘Agazian’ movement, the antagonists, and few…

The British Expeditionary Force to Meqdella and the Deliberate Distortion of History

[My note is mainly based on Dej. Zewde Gebre-Selassie's (PhD) book, ''Yohannes IV of Ethiopia'': A Political Biography'' (2014).] In…

Battle of Adwa – Tigrayan Army uses Envelopment, Frontal Attack to Annihilate Italian Forces

(Infantry magazine - U.S. Army Infantry School) On 1 March 1896, in the vicinity of the Ethiopian town of Adwa,…

Treaty | Convention of Awsa b/n Italy, Shoa and Sultan of Danakil – 1883

[This convention was a declaration of friendship between the Kingdom of Italy and the supreme ruler of the Danakil, Sultan…

Creation of Colony of Assab – 1882

[This is a declaration by the Kingdom of Italy and its parliament regarding the transfer of the Assab area from Rubattino…

Treaty | Contracts of Assab and Ras Lumah 1869 and 1870

[The contract of Assab was a contract for the sale of lands in the area known as Asab to Mr…

Rescuing Postgraduate Studies from the Downward Spiral of Shame

(Tesfai Hailu) Anyone who has ever been enrolled in a postgraduate study at a credible university would know how demanding,…

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