Addis prepares elaborate welcome ceremony for ex-separatists from Eritrea
Addis-Ababa, Ethiopia (ADV) – The home-coming from Eritrea of the entire leadership of the Ogaden National Liberation Front, ONLF, a former rebel group in eastern Ethiopia, continues to be the talk of...
View ArticleBeyonce leads all-star line-up at Mandela tribute concert
JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) – Thousands turned out on Sunday for a concert in Johannesburg to honour the life of Nelson Mandela, with Beyonce leading an all-star line-up. Singer Beyonce arrives at the 2016...
View ArticleAbiy Ahmed Is Not a Populist (BY TOM GARDNER-Foreign Policy magazine)
The Ethiopian prime minister’s opponents fear that he’s an African Erdogan. His rhetoric and policies suggest he’s more of a liberal democrat. BY TOM GARDNER Earlier this year, when Abiy Ahmed was...
View ArticleWhat is the point in Amhara nationalism? [by Teshome M. Borago]
The ruling Amhara Democratic Party and the newly established National Movement of Amhara have been working hard to get support from the Amharic-speaking Ethiopian population nationwide. Their key...
View ArticleEthiopia Rising. (Yilma Bekele)
We celebrated freedom in Oakland, and San Jose California this past weekend. ESAT was the obvious choice to invite when it comes to ushering a new era in the history of our precious land. So the folks...
View ArticleEthiopia bans domestic workers from taking up jobs in UAE
Abu Dhabi/Dubai: The Ethiopian government has stopped sending women for employment as domestic workers in GCC countries, including the UAE, a government official confirmed to Gulf News on Wednesday....
View ArticleEthiopia: Documentary exposes heinous torture of prisoners by TPLF interrogators
by Engidu Woldie ESAT News (December 12, 2018) Yonas Gashaw trumbles as he speaks. He is now paraplegic and both legs shiver constantly. He has gone through hell. His father died in exile after he was...
View ArticleAMIDST THREATS OF IMPEACHMENT PRESIDENT OF SOMALIA MEETS PRESIDENT ISAIAS...
Addis Abeba, December 13/2018 – Eritrea’s president Isaias Afwerki has met President of the Republic of Somalia this morning in Mogadishu “as part and parcel of Tripartite summit” according to...
View ArticleTHANK YOU All 2,819 Donors Who Helped Us Raise One-Half Million Dollars for...
On December 15, 2018, we crossed the one-half million dollar mark in our fundraising effort for the Ethiopian Diaspora Trust Fund (EDTF). It is a moment of great pride accomplishment for all of us who...
View ArticleTHE WAY FORWARD: LET’S START TALKING TO EACH OTHER (Mr. Obang Metho’s speech...
Good Afternoon! “እንደምን አመሻችሁ”. I would like to thanks the president of Bahir Dar University, vice president, Dean of College of Social Science and the Humanities and other members of the staff. It is...
View ArticleBereket and I (BY yilma Bekele)
I never had the pleasure or the misfortune of meeting Ato Bereket. On the other hand I feel as if I have known him all m my life. We became very close after the 2005 general elections. When I first...
View ArticleResidents of Awassa Demand the Government to Take Swift Actions to Restore...
Lawlessness in Awassa has reached to a new level. A group which calls itself Ejjeetto has been wreaking havoc since violence had broke out during last year’s Fiche Chamebella holiday celebration. The...
View ArticleJudicial Administration Council Board Chairman Asmelash WoldeSelassie steps down
Judicial Administration Council Board Chairman Mr. Asmelash W/Selassie and other two board members have stepped down from their positions. In order to make the judicial system reliable and impartial...
View ArticleLt. ‘Yod’ to become first Ethiopian-Israeli air force pilot
Airman to serve as fighter jet navigator upon completing grueling pilots course later this week A graduation ceremony for Israeli soldiers who completed the IAF Flight Course, at the Hatzerim Air Base...
View ArticleForget saving Ethiopians – let’s learn from them
|DOUG SAUNDERS-GLO and MAIL|This holiday season, as we search for messages of hope in a troubled world, let’s spare a moment of thought for the people of Ethiopia. No, not that kind of thought. Our...
View ArticleAmdom Gebreselassie: Speaking Raw Truth to TPLF “Chased Out of Power” in...
“The TPLF and (their) extremist (allies) living abroad are targeting the people of Tigray. These are people who hate and have an evil view of the Tigrean people.” Amdom Gebreselassie Author’s Note:...
View ArticleWater crisis looms for Egypt as Ethiopia’s Nile mega-dam nears completion
Ethiopia’s GERD dam is set to reshape the complex water politics of the Nile Basin – and ‘water stressed’ Egyptians will be the biggest losers Kieran Cooke Thursday 27 December 2018 09:20 UTC Editor’s...
View ArticleA Likud lawmaker known for controversy called an opposition member of...
By TOI STAFF A Likud lawmaker known for controversy called an opposition member of Ethiopian descent a “token immigrant” during a Knesset committee meeting on Wednesday. Oren Hazan made the comment to...
View ArticleIn a bold experiment, Ethiopia’s ambition to put citizenship over ethnicity
By Frida Ghitis|worldpolitics| One of the most dramatic political twists of 2018 took place in Ethiopia, where the sudden rise of 42-year-old Abiy Ahmed as prime minister launched a series of...
View ArticleThe Trouble With Ethiopia’s Ethnic Federalism
By Mahmood Mamdani:Mr. Mamdani is the director of the Institute of Social Research at Makerere University in Kampala, Uganda, and a professor at Columbia University. The reforms by the country’s new...
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