Ethiopia: Torture victim says Tedros Adhanom rejected his appeal to travel...
ESAT News (May 19, 2017) Habtamu Ayalew, whose exposé of torture stories in Ethiopia’s notorious jails has gripped the nation, said Dr. Tedros Adhanom, one of the leading candidates for the WHO...
View ArticleEthiopiaWIN.et and Tewdros Kassa-hun [Prof Alemayehu]
Author’s Note: This month the Ethiopian popular music megastar Tewdros “Teddy Afro” Kassahun released his “Ethiopia” album, which quickly topped the World Albums Billboard chart during the week of May...
View ArticleWHO is going to fall headlong into an abyss of decadence?[Netsanet Zeleke ]
(nzeleke35@gmail.com Well, I perfectly recognize the fact that people like me have no power to change the natural or the unnatural, if you will, course of things that may negatively affect billions of...
View ArticleEthiopia: A Harvest of Death and Destruction Since May 28, 1991 [Prof Alemayehu]
The T-TPLF Horsemen of the Apocalypse a quarter of a century later in Ethiopia On May 28, 1991, a rag tag rebel army of the Tigrean People’s Liberation Front (TPLF) marched into Ethiopia’s capital....
View ArticleThe Crisis of Leadership and Legitimacy within Ethiopia’s TPLF Minority...
Ever since the death of the late TPLF chairman and Prime Minister, Meles Zenawi, the Tigrayan People’s Liberation Front (TPLF) has lacked a similarly dominant personality able to maintain consensus,...
View ArticleUS should drop out of UN Human Rights Council[BY [PROF ALEMAYEHU G. MARIAM,]
Last week, Nikki Haley, the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, in an op-ed piece, openly questioned whether the U.N. “Human Rights Council actually supports human rights or is merely a showcase for...
View ArticleEthiopia: Collective Punishment by Internet Clampdown[Prof Alemayehu]
Last week, for the third time in the past year, the Thugtatorship of the Tigrean People’s Liberation Front (T-TPLF) unplugged the internet. The reasons are a bit fuzzy. Some T-TPLF officials say the...
View ArticleUS issues travel alert for Ethiopia
The Department of State warns U.S. citizens of the risks of travel to Ethiopia due to the potential for civil unrest and arbitrary detention since a state of emergency was imposed in October 2016. The...
View ArticleUK issues travel alert in Ethiopia
The Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) advise against all travel to: within 10 km of the border with Eritrea, with the exception of the main road through Axum and Adigrat, and tourist sites close to...
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