By Graham Peebles Dissidentvoice.org Faced with a brutal repressive regime, the people of Ethiopia inside the country and within the worldwide diaspora –frustrated, angry and desperate – are considering all options to elicit fundamental change in the country. The EPRDF, who seized power from the communist Derg in 1991, rule the country through fear and
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By Alemayehu G. Mariam According to the latest Failed States Index, 6 out of the top 10 and 18 out of the top 25 “most failed states on earth” are found in Africa. This commentary is not about beating the dead hyena of the failed African “state”. Nor is it about the failure of statecraft in much
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The Guardian By David Smith It’s 30 years since Ethiopia’s famine came to attention in the UK. Now, a farmer plans to sue Britain for human rights abuses, claiming its aid has funded a government programme of torture and beatings as villagers have been removed from their homes “Life was good because the land was
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The Guardian By David Smith It’s 30 years since Ethiopia’s famine came to attention in the UK. Now, a farmer plans to sue Britain for human rights abuses, claiming its aid has funded a government programme of torture and beatings as villagers have been removed from their homes “Life was good because the land was
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The Guardian By David Smith It’s 30 years since Ethiopia’s famine came to attention in the UK. Now, a farmer plans to sue Britain for human rights abuses, claiming its aid has funded a government programme of torture and beatings as villagers have been removed from their homes “Life was good because the land was
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The Guardian By David Smith It’s 30 years since Ethiopia’s famine came to attention in the UK. Now, a farmer plans to sue Britain for human rights abuses, claiming its aid has funded a government programme of torture and beatings as villagers have been removed from their homes “Life was good because the land was
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Arrests, political and economic pressures stunt the development of vibrant and pluralistic journalism By Mohamed Keita, Aljazeera Three journalists and six bloggers arrested in one swoop languish in prisonIn Africa, the past few months have offered troubling optics of journalists on trial for the practice of independent journalism: Peter Greste in a cage in
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Leadership Nigeria By George Agba The Ethiopian Prime Minister, Mr. Hailemariam Desalegn said on Wednesday that the alarming rate of suicide bombing was a desperate response by terrorist group against an unpleasant reality that they were facing extinction. The war against terrorism was succeeding, he noted, even as he suggested that since it had been
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‘We Nations & Nationalities’ vs ‘We the People of Ethiopia’ By Zeg Fanta Introduction The Ethnic Federalism practiced in Ethiopia is non-consequential to Ethiopia’s past or present social or political evolutions. Considering the unending external attempts to control Ethiopia, logics guide us to the footprints of Ethiopia’s worst enemies who designed and prescribed Ethnic Federalism
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By Getachew Begashaw (PhD) Building the GERD In the first two partsof this series, we presented a focused analysis of the GERD, based on evidentiary information that is available in the public domain. We argued objectively and cogently that the social, economic, environmental and ecological adverse impacts of the GERD could be incalculable, and that the
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