Tag Archives: Ethiopian
House cleaning or window dressing? Are they playing us like a cheap fiddle again? For a while, it was all about the Meles Dam and how to collect nickels and dimes to build it. That kind of played itself out. … read more »
Posted in Alemayehu G. Mariam, Article, Columnist, Djibouti, East Africa, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Op-ed
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Tagged Alemayehu G. Mariam, Eskinder Nega, Ethiopia, Ethiopian, IndepthAfrica, John Kerry, Meles, Meles Dam, Non-governmental organization, World Bank
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Alemu Tafesse, Political Analyst and academic Anti-authoritarian struggles creep into the symbolical world both in content and form. Acts of defiance send across sparks of moments that carry multiple meanings to multiple audiences. In many instances, with more repression, more … read more »
Posted in Alemu Tafesse, Article, Columnist, Op-ed
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Tagged Addis Ababa, Amharic, Ethiopia, Ethiopian, ethiopian muslim, Government, Kality, Muslim, People of Ethiopia, wedding
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On 29 July 1936 Abune Petros was executed by the Italian fascist that were trying to colonize our country for his refusal to submit. On May 2, 2013 the monument that was built to commemorate our Holy Father was removed … read more »
Posted in Article, Djibouti, East Africa, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Op-ed
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Tagged Debre Libanos, Ethiopia, Ethiopian, Ethiopian Airlines, IndepthAfrica, Italy, People of Ethiopia, Tigrayan People's Liberation Front, TPLF
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By Teklu Abate Thanks to advances in information and communication technologies, people overcome spatio-temporal limitations. We communicate in real time regardless of where we live. Traditionally, communications and collaborations were made between people and organizations that somehow know each other … read more »
Posted in Article, Djibouti, East Africa, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Op-ed
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Tagged Addis Ababa, Democracy, Ethiopia, Ethiopian, Facebook, Indepth Africa Magazine, IndepthAfrica, New York, United States, World Bank
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By; Kiflu Hussain Uganda is a 50 year old independent African country unlike Ethiopia that has been hosting OAU/AU for five decades while enjoying her own thousands of years of “independent”history.Ironically, Ethiopia has no independent institution which is equally … read more »
Posted in Article, Columnist, East Africa, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Ghana, Kiflu Hussain, Nigeria, Op-ed, Somali, South Africa, South Sudan, Sudan, Zimbabwe
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Tagged Addis Ababa, African Union, Ethiopia, Ethiopian, Indepth Africa Magazine, IndepthAfrica, Obafemi Awolowo University, Organisation of African Unity, Osun State, Pan-Africanism
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“Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world,” said Nelson Mandela. For the late Meles Zenawi and his apostles (the Melesistas) in Ethiopia, the reverse is true: Ignorance is the most powerful weapon you … read more »
Posted in Alemayehu G. Mariam, Article, Columnist, Op-ed
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Tagged Carter G. Woodson, Ethiopia, Ethiopian, Fela Kuti, George Orwell, IndepthAfrica, Meles Zenawi, Nelson Mandela, sub-Saharan Africa
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Ethiopian police have arrested a minister and 11 other people on corruption charges, an official and state media said on Saturday, in the country’s most high-profile swoop against graft for more than a decade. Businesses in the region regularly complain … read more »
Posted in Djibouti, East Africa, Eritrea, Ethiopia, News, Pan African News
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Tagged Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, Ethiopian, Global Financial Integrity, Horn of Africa, Indepth Africa Magazine, Reuters, Rwanda, Siye Abraha
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by Sadik When the dictators incarcerate valued and exceptional leaders without justice, it is not only to bar them from their followers, but to break their soul in irreversible manner. Today our brave Ethiopians broke the passion of the oppressor … read more »
Posted in Article, Djibouti, East Africa, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Op-ed
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Tagged Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, Ethiopian, Government, Indepth Africa Magazine, Journalist, Prison, Tigrayan People's Liberation Front
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Source: Human Rights Watch Free Jailed Journalists, Allow Media Freedom (Nairobi) – The Ethiopian government should mark World Press Freedom Day, on May 3, 2013, by immediately releasing all journalists jailed under the country’s deeply flawed anti-terrorism law. On May … read more »
Posted in Article, Djibouti, East Africa, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Op-ed
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Tagged Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, Ethiopian, Feteh, Freedom of the press, Human right watch, IndepthAfrica, Temesgen Desalegn, United Nations Human Rights Council, World Press Freedom Day
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Meles Zenawi when he was alive and his apostles today (“Melesistas”) keep playing us in the Diaspora like a cheap fiddle. They make us screech, shriek, scream and shout by simply showing their mugs in our cities. How do they … read more »
Posted in Article, Djibouti, East Africa, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Op-ed
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Tagged Blue Nile, Ethiopia, Ethiopian, IndepthAfrica, Meles Zenawi, New York City, Nile, San Diego, Sudan
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ADDIS ABABA — The family of Reeyot Alemu, this year’s winner of the World Press Freedom Prize, says her situation in an Ethiopian prison is worsening by the day. Reeyot Alemu and Eskinder Nega are two of the best-known Ethiopian … read more »
Posted in Djibouti, East Africa, Eritrea, Ethiopia, News
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Tagged Addis Ababa, Amnesty International, Eskinder Nega, Ethiopia, Ethiopian, Prison, Reeyot, Reeyot Alemu, UNESCO
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Ethiopia is prepared to start a genocide against its LGBT citizens, according to a religious group affiliated with the government of the African nation. Details follow. According to GayStarNews: Government officials, religious leaders, leading heath professionals, charities and members of … read more »
Posted in Article, Djibouti, East Africa, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Op-ed
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Tagged Addis Ababa, Capital punishment, Ethiopia, Ethiopian, Game Show Network, Homosexuality, Human rights, IndepthAfrica, LGBT, Religious denomination
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Bloomberg News Ethiopia is negotiating with Brazil, Russia and India to finance and build rail links after agreeing terms last year with Chinese and Turkish companies for other routes, the head of the state rail company said. Russia’s government may … read more »
Posted in Djibouti, East Africa, Eritrea, Ethiopia, News
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Tagged Addis Ababa, China, China-Africa Development Fund, Djibouti, Ethiopia, Ethiopian, Hailemariam Desalegn, Indepth Africa Magazine, IndepthAfrica, Meles Zenawi
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Oromo Press A historically pro-Oromo refugees Norway has been evolving into an unfavorable place for Oromo refugees and refugees from the Horn of Africa in recent years. Abandoning its own humanitarian streak, the Norwegian government has drifted too far in … read more »
Posted in Article, Djibouti, East Africa, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Op-ed
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Tagged Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, Ethiopian, Horn of Africa, Ogaden, Oromia, oromo, Oromo people, Oslo
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Local Ethiopian Community Invited to Attend Meeting, Allege They Were Kicked Out for Protesting Ethiopian Government’s Human Rights Abuses By Anna Daniels Lines of taxicabs were parked along Fairmount Avenue in City Heights yesterday afternoon–Sunday April 28. Police cars were … read more »
Posted in Article, Djibouti, East Africa, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Op-ed
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Tagged Ethiopia, Ethiopian, Ethiopian government, Human rights, IndepthAfrica, los angeles, Meles Zenawi, Politics of Ethiopia, San Diego, United States
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Ethiopians’ struggle to be free from the corrupt ethnic tyranny must move into multiple fronts to force the regime surrender without delay. The cash cows that finance the regime’s crude rule and corruption must also be the target of the … read more »
Posted in Article, Djibouti, East Africa, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Op-ed
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Tagged crime, Diaspora, ESAT, Ethiopia, Ethiopian, IndepthAfrica, People of Ethiopia, Tigrayan People's Liberation Front, Woyane
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America is Watching!? Diplomacy by hypocrisy is “diplocrisy”. Edmund Burke, the British statesman and philosopher, said “Hypocrisy can afford to be magnificent in its promises, for never intending to go beyond promise, it costs nothing.” We’ve heard many promises on … read more »
Posted in Alemayehu G. Mariam, Article, Columnist, Djibouti, East Africa, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Op-ed
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Tagged CPJ, Eskinder Nega, Ethiopia, Ethiopian, Indepth Africa Magazine, IndepthAfrica, John Kerry, Meles Zenawi, Reeyot Alemu, United States
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Recent demands have been the most vocal and the most sustained in the history of Ethiopian Muslims. But if they have gone the least bit beyond the scope of religion, then, ironically, they have been overtly secularist. Many observers have … read more »
Posted in Article, Djibouti, East Africa, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Op-ed
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Tagged Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, Ethiopian, Government, Horn of Africa, IndepthAfrica, Islam, Islamophobia, Muslim, United States
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By Betre Yacob Imprisoned Ethiopian journalist Reeyot Alemu has won the 2013 UNESCO-Guillermo Cano World Press Freedom Prize. She is given the prize in recognition of her “exceptional courage, resistance and commitment” to freedom of expression. According to UNESCO’s news … read more »
Posted in Article, Betre Yacob, Djibouti, East Africa, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Op-ed
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Tagged Addis Ababa, Addis Ababa University, Committee to Protect Journalists, Ethiopia, Ethiopian, Feteh, IndepthAfrica, Muammar Gaddafi, Reeyot Alemu, UNESCO
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Source: France 24 Ethiopian Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn was elected as chairman of the African Union in January. Since then, he has to deal with the war in Mali. After months of fighting, the country still needs the international community’s … read more »
Posted in Djibouti, East Africa, Eritrea, Ethiopia
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Tagged Addis Ababa, African Union, Ethiopia, Ethiopian, France, Hailemariam Desalegn, Hailemariam Desalegne, IndepthAfrica, List of heads of government of Ethiopia, Mali
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Source: washington.cbslocal A former parking manager at the Smithsonian’s Udvar-Hazy Air and Space annex in Chantilly has pleaded guilty to stealing roughly $1.4 million in parking fees. Thirty-three-year-old Abeselom Hailemariam pleaded guilty Friday in federal court in Alexandria. He’s is … read more »
Posted in Djibouti, East Africa, Eritrea, Ethiopia, News
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Tagged Abeselom Hailemariam, alexandria, Ethiopia, Ethiopian, Friday, July, Parking, Plea, PMI, Theft
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By Dr Alex Awiti, opinion Three months ago in this column, I warned that the completion of Ethiopia’s Gibe III dam on the Omo River could transform Lake Turkana, the world’s only desert lake, into Africa’s Aral Sea. Impassioned by … read more »
Posted in Article, Djibouti, East Africa, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, Op-ed
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Tagged Ethiopia, Ethiopian, Ethiopian government, Gibe III, Gilgel Gibe III Dam, Indepth Africa Magazine, IndepthAfrica, Kenya, Kenyan, Lake Turkana, Omo River
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Cattle herding. Tribal nomadic lifestyles. The last rest stop for the Ark of the Covenant. The birthplace of Haile Selassie I and the Queen of Sheba. These images perhaps readily come to mind when one thinks of Ethiopia, but Ethiopian … read more »
Posted in Article, Djibouti, East Africa, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Op-ed
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Tagged Addis Ababa, Anthony Hylton, Ark of the Covenant, Ethiopia, Ethiopian, Indepth Africa Magazine, Lake Tana, Mengistu Hailemariam, United States
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By Mesfin Mekonen Over 1,000 Ethiopians and Ethiopian-Americans demonstrated in front of the White House last week to protest the Ethiopian government’s human rights abuses to Amhara Ethiopians. The protests demanded a stop to the forced displacement of Ethiopians. Protestors … read more »
Posted in Djibouti, East Africa, Eritrea, Ethiopia, News
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Tagged Ethiopia, Ethiopian, Human rights, Indepth Africa Magazine, Johnnie Carson, Washington Post, White House, World Bank
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By Tesfa-Alem Tekle (ADDIS ABABA) – The Eritrean government said this week that it supports Egypt’s stance over a colonial-era treaty that granted Egypt a right to utilise the lions share of Nile river’s water resources. The Red Sea nation … read more »
Posted in Djibouti, East Africa, Eritrea, Ethiopia, News
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Tagged Addis Ababa, Egypt, Ethiopia, Ethiopian, Indepth Africa Magazine, IndepthAfrica, Mohamed Morsi, Nile, Sudan, Yemane Gebreab
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State Minister of Foreign Affairs, Ambassador Berhane Gebrechristos, met a Serbian delegation led by Mr. Oliver Antic, Counselor to the Serbian President, on Wednesday (April 17th). Mr. Antic who noted the longstanding historic relations between Ethiopia and Serbia, a part … read more »
Half a million Kenyans and Ethiopians are likely to be displaced, go hungry and face conflict due to a controversial dam linked to a forcible resettlment programme ‘bankrolled’ by British taxpayers, the lobby group Survival International said on Monday. The … read more »
Posted in Djibouti, East Africa, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Special Reports
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Tagged Ethiopia, Ethiopian, Gilgel Gibe III Dam, Indepth Africa Magazine, IndepthAfrica, Lake Turkana, Omo River, PBS, Stephen Corry, Survival International
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By Fekade Shewakena The despicable and barbaric action of targeting, evicting and deporting ethnic Amaharas from the Benishangul-Gumuz ethnic state in western Ethiopia is a horrific crime and a crime against humanity by any measure and the outrage of Ethiopians … read more »
Posted in Article, Djibouti, East Africa, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Op-ed
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Tagged Addis Ababa, Amhara, Amhara people, Bench Maji Zone, Benishangul-Gumuz, Ethiopia, Ethiopian, IndepthAfrica, Meles Zenawi
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One may ask why rulers commit genocide, crimes against humanity, and ethnic cleansing on the very people they rule. Although nothing would justify, heinous rulers always provide bizarre and incomprehensible justifications. The tyrants in Ethiopia, for example, say Amharas were … read more »
Posted in Article, Djibouti, East Africa, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Op-ed
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Tagged Addis Ababa University, Amhara, Amhara people, Ethiopia, Ethiopian, IndepthAfrica, Rwanda, Rwandan Genocide, Tigrayan People's Liberation Front, TPLF
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By Duach R. Mach, South Sudan News Agency The Ethiopian People’s Revolutionary Democratic Front (EPRDF) issued a statement that Gambella governor, Omode Obang Ulam, is no longer the Chief administrator of the State of Gambella. In “an extraordinary session held … read more »
Posted in Article, Djibouti, East Africa, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Op-ed, South Sudan, Sudan
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Tagged Anuak people, Ethiopia, Ethiopian, Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Democratic Front, Gambella, Gambella State, Government, Meles Zenawi, South Sudan
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