Question that ended daftest foreign aid fiasco of them all: Did listening to...
For the past decade, Ethiopia has been one of fastest growing economies in the world The British government has given £9.2m to Ethiopia’s version of the Spice Girls It funded a project which aimed to...
View ArticleGrenade attack in Ethiopia kills one, injures 11
By Addis Getachew ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia A grenade attack in northern Ethiopia yesterday killed one person and injured 11, the city’s police said today. The attack occurred around 8 pm (1700GMT) at a...
View ArticleRecycling army in Ethiopian capital fear livelihoods at risk as city modernizes
By Tom Gardner/ Reuters ADDIS ABABA (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Every morning as Addis Ababa wakes up, thousands of men roam the city streets collecting all kinds of recyclable waste, from plastic...
View ArticleEthiopia targets opposition who met with European lawmakers
By ELIAS MESERET Associated Press ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia (AP) — Ethiopia said Monday it will not release a leading opposition figure detained under the country’s state of emergency after meeting with...
View ArticleA Book Review: Ye’Oromo enna Ye’Amara Ewnetegnaw Yezer Mintch
Author: Prof. Fikre Tolossa Review: By Prof. Bairu Tafla Every time I hear that an historical work on Ethiopia (or any other country of northeast Africa for that matter) has appeared in print, I wait...
View ArticleEthiopia: Year of Brutality, Restrictions – Human Rights Watch
FILE – Demonstrators chant slogans and flash the Oromo protest gesture during Irreecha, the thanksgiving festival of the Oromo people, in Bishoftu town, Oromia region, Ethiopia. (Nairobi, January 12,...
View ArticleVideo: Ethiopian scholars discuss the plight of the Amhara people under TPLF...
Dagmawi Me’ahad – Ethiopian scholars discuss the plight of the Amhara people under TPLF rule
View ArticleThe Three-Headed Hydra Breathing Fire on Ethiopia – Tsegaye Tegenu, (PhD)
by Tsegaye Tegenu, (PhD) The problems facing Ethiopia is multiple and seems invincible like the myth of the many headed reptilian monster with amber eyes and yellow-white teeth that was terrorizing the...
View ArticleVideo: Ethiopia State Of Emergency: 11,000 Arrested; TPLF Resorts To Fascism...
Ethiopia State Of Emergency: 11,000 Arrested; TPLF Resorts To Fascism To Control Citizens
View ArticleEthiopia: We MUST Keep Our Eyes on the Prize! – By almariam
Prof. Alemayehu G. Mariam I am calling for a truce in the war of words among Ethiopian scholars, intellectuals and others over history, historicity and historicism. I am also calling for an end to the...
View ArticleInterview with Dr Melakou Tegegn – Pt 1 – SBS Amharic
Interview with Dr Melakou Tegegn – Pt 1 – SBS Amharic
View ArticleHabtamu Ayalew arrives in Washington DC – by Obang Metho
Habtamu Ayalew arrives in Washington DC It is my greatest honor to meet with our beloved brother Habtamu Ayalew, his beautiful wife and their adorable daughter at Washington Dulles International...
View ArticleEthiopia Can’t Progress While Back-casting – by Tadesse Nigatu
Tadesse Nigatu “The secret of change is to focus all of your energy not on fighting the old but on building the New”. Socrates Summary It has become a common knowledge, that, the name Ethiopia...
View ArticleEthnicity is not about Descent – by Messay Kebede
Prof. Messay Kebede Messay Kebede is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Dayton in in Ohio This short article refers to the ongoing heated debate about Fikre Tolossa’s book on the origin of...
View ArticleAre We Selling The Nation Out – by Kebour Ghenna
Kebour Ghenna You won’t believe this….we hardly believe it ourselves… The Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia has put the Ethiopian Shipping Lines (ESL) S.C. on sale (apparently for minority...
View ArticleTrump ‘willing to work with Russia and China’
President-elect Donald Trump set out some pointers on his foreign policy BBC News US President-elect Donald Trump says he is willing to work with Russia and China, providing they cooperate. Mr Trump...
View ArticleUniversity of Toronto begins teaching ancient Ethiopian language
The course in Ge’ez, which could be a first step to launching a larger Ethiopian Studies program, was helped made possible by a donation of $50,000 each from a prof, the school and the Weeknd. By MEGAN...
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