Boma government accused of being behind massacre in Ethiopia
April 21, 2016 (ST, JUBA) – A senior army general in South Sudan’s government has accused Boma state government of being behind the recent massacre of over 200 ethnic Nuer citizens in Ethiopia when...
View ArticlePress Statement from The Ethiopian Border Affairs Committee (EBAC)
EBAC Condemns the Brazen Violation of Ethiopia’s Border and Killings of Innocent Citizens April 30, 2016 The Ethiopian Border Affairs Committee (EBAC) has a well-established record in defending the...
View ArticleEthiopia: United States is deeply concerned “again”
On Ethiopia’s Charges of Terrorism Against Political Leaders (U.S. Department of State, Press Statement) — The United States is deeply concerned by the Government of Ethiopia’s recent decision to file...
View ArticleBekele Gerba’s Trial in T-TPLF Monkey Kourt [Prof Al Mariams ]
In 1925, a high school teacher named John Scopes was prosecuted in Tennessee for teaching human evolution in a public school [violating the Butler Act]. Throughout the U.S., the Scopes trial was widely...
View ArticleGada theory and practices [By Geremew Nigatu Kassa, ]
This paper was presented at Oromo Study Association (OSA) annual conference at the University of Minnesota, USA, on 14th -15th July 2012 as a contribution to the effort to understand our own culture,...
View ArticleEthiopia: Where Economic Progress and Human Rights Clash[]
When you think of Ethiopia, images of starving children probably come to mind. But the East African nation has come a long way since the 1984-1985 famine, which claimed over one million lives. Economic...
View ArticleThe Ant That Killed the Grand Old ElephANT (Party) in America[Prof Al Mariam]
An old African proverb says, “An ant can kill an elephant.” The ant is said to get into the elephant’s ears and trunk and gnaw and nibble until the pachyderm goes completely crazy and dies from...
View ArticleEthiopia must release opposition politician held for Facebook posts
The Ethiopian authorities must immediately and unconditionally release a prominent opposition politician facing a possible death sentence on trumped-up terrorism charges over comments he posted on...
View ArticleEthiopia: Migrant domestic workers take to the streets in Beirut
(Aljazeera)— Hundreds of migrant domestic workers marched in the Lebanese capital Beirut this week to mark International Workers’ Day and to denounce their own working conditions. The demonstrators...
View ArticlePlane hijacker sentenced to psychiatric care
The Federal Criminal Court has sentenced an Ethiopian pilot who hijacked an aeroplane in Geneva to mandatory supervised psychiatric treatment. He had previously been deemed mentally unsound during the...
View ArticleThe “Law” as State Terrorism in Apartheid Ethiopia [Prof Almariam]
Author’s Note: This is the third installment [1] in a series of ongoing commentaries that I expect to post regularly under the rubric, “Apartheid in Ethiopia”. The twin aims of the series “Apartheid in...
View ArticleESAT Bezhi Samint Major Dawit Weldgiorgis May 8 2016
Dawit Wolde Giorgis, who currently heads African Security & Strategic Studies as Executive Director discusses the current famine in Ethiopia comparing it to the terrible famine of 1984 when he was...
View ArticleTPLF’s Gen Kinfe Dagnew’s Metals and Engineering Corporation (METEC) siphons...
ESAT News (May 12, 2016) The Metals and Engineering Corporation (METEC), a government corporation, but in reality is owned by Ethiopia’s oligarchs and run by TPLF generals and colonels has reportedly...
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