Perfect Storm in Ethiopia: Big Government Controlled by a Small Group
By Mehari Fisseha (Geopolitical Monitor) — In an Al Jazeera article published on August 20, 2016, security forces were reported to have used excessive force in quelling recent anti-government...
View ArticleIOLA: London Oromia Conference for National Consensus
International Oromo Lawyers Association (IOLA) 14-16 October 2016 The ongoing Oromo protest has shown the existence of unprecedented popular need of change for democracy, justice and freedom. Now it...
View Article#OromoProtests, Boycott intact – September 8, 2016
#OromoProtests Wayyanen bombi iddoo gabayaa tii faa darbite wa barbadessite oromoodha shoreerkisota jechuf qophi xumurtetti kanafuu wahunda kessa of egganoo cimaan ha tahuu. Via Oromia Oromo...
View ArticleEgypt announces postponement of GERD impact studies contracts signing
A general view shows construction activity on the Grand Renaissance dam in Guba Woreda, Benishangul Gumuz region on March 16, 2014 file photo. Ethiopia’s bold decision to pay for a huge dam itself has...
View ArticleJoint letter to UN Human Rights Council on Ethiopia
Source: hrw Geneva, 8 September 2016 To Permanent Representatives of Members and Observer States of the UN Human Rights Council RE: Addressing the escalating human rights crisis in Ethiopia Your...
View ArticleQilinto prison fire reignites one long suppressed in me: My message to...
By Edao Dawano (OPride) — On the morning of Sept. 3, eyewitnesses in Addis Ababa reported a flurry of gun shots at Qilinto prison, a remand center on the outskirts of Ethiopia’s capital. That was...
View ArticleSBO Fulbaana 09, 2016
SBO: Fulbaana 09 bara 2016. Oduu, Iyyannoo Hidhamtoota Oromoo Mana Hidhaa Qaallittii Keessa Jiranii fi Gaaffii fi Deebii Artiist Zarihun Wadaajoo waliin taasifame.
View ArticleColonization of Ethiopia by Tigray People Liberation Front and reluctant of...
By Malkamuu Jaatee The Tigray People Liberation Front (TPLF) regime is colonial tyranny established in Ethiopia by foreign aids. It shares similar political characteristics with both classical and...
View ArticleAnalysis: Perpetual Poverty in the Shadow of Ethiopia’s ‘Safety Net’
Tesfalem Waldyes & Kalkidan Yibeltal (Addis standard) — On June 28 2016, hundreds of people in Jido Kombolocha, a small town located in East Shoa Zone of the Oromia regional state 207 km south...
View ArticleThe Sidama Nation Had Enough of Silence!
By Denboba Natie, September 09, 2016 The current TPLF’s Ethiopian regime has denied the Sidama nation its constitutionally guaranteed rights time and again to relegate the nation to a second...
View ArticleFeyisa Lilesa: Ethiopian protest runner lands in the US
Ethiopia’s Feyisa Lilesa crossed his arms above his head at the finish line of the Men’s Marathon athletics event of the Rio 2016 Olympic Games at the Sambodromo in Rio de Janeiro on August 21, 2016....
View ArticleOromia’s moment of truth: The Great Oromo generation and the Oromia Flag
By Leenjiso Horo, September, 2016 “Each generation must, out of relative obscurity, discover its mission, fulfill it, or betray it.” —Frantz Fanon The Great Oromo Generation of 1960s The great Oromo...
View ArticleUS embassy in Ethiopia finally talked about the protest in the country
Friends, many of you have been asking why we aren’t talking about the ongoing reports of violence against and detentions of protesters in #Ethiopia. In the last several weeks, Assistant Secretary for...
View Article#OromoProtests – Boycott Continues, September 9, 2016
Konso Protests – A New Phenomena in the South of Ethiopia Anti-TPLF movement reaches Southern Nations, Nationalities, and Peoples region. by CDE 09 Sep 2016 – Two villages burnt down after the Konso...
View ArticleThe ‘Ethiopian Spring’: “Killing is not an answer to our grievances”
By RENÉ LEFORT 9 September 2016 (Open Democracy) — There is every sign that Ethiopia is plunging into a crisis whose scale, intensity, and multiple and interdependent drivers are unprecedented since...
View ArticleJustice Should Prevail for Wrongly Jailed Innocent Ethiopians!
By Addis Standard Editorial Habtamu Ayalew, Public Relations Chief of opposition party, Unity of Democracy and Justice, is in a critical situation. On June the 28th 2016 his situation quickly...
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