PM Abiy Ahmed: The Pride of Ethiopia!

 What a difference a year makes? The rule of law crushed to earth for 27 years rose up in Ethiopia in 2018. If someone would have told me in the first week of 2018 that I would be writing in earnest about the rule of law in the first week of 2019, I would have…

Note to the reader: It was a year ago today, November 16, 2007, that Frehiwot Samuel, Woldemichael Meshesha and Mitiku Teshome briefed the United States Congress on the findings of their Inquiry Commission. Because of their extraordinary courage in revealing the truth to the world, we are here today to commemorate the victims of the…

A CALL TO ACTION Special note and request: I am asking my readers in the United States, particularly Ethiopian Americans in the great State of Texas and in the Washington metropolitan area, to join me in advocating against confirmation of Gayle Smith who has been nominated to head the USAID. The United States Senate has…

GIVE US A HAND SO WE CAN GIVE ETHIOPIA A HAND-UP! Donate at ethiopiatrustfund.org   Prof. Al Mariam BBC Amharic Interview on Ethiopian Diaspora Trust Fund 10 26 2018 (Audio) Give us a hand so we can give Ethiopia a HAND UP! Donate at:    https://www.ethiopiatrustfund.org/   http://almariam.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Prof-Al-Mariam-BBC-Amharic-Interview-10-26-2018.m4a    

When I listened to Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed introducing his Prosperity Party to a gathering of youth at Millennium Hall in Adds Ababa a few days ago, I had two reactions. The first was pure elation. In my lifetime, I have never heard an Ethiopian leader teaching the youth to put peace above politics, humanity…

This past week Americans underwent a trial by fire in their souls. Americans are mourning. Americans are in shock. Americans are in soul-searching agony. We witnessed the cold-blooded execution of two African American citizens by two rogue police officers. I want to underscore: Rogue police officers. We witnessed the cold-blooded assassination of 5 police officers…