I how EDTF does me proud. I how EDTF brings all Diaspora Ethiopians – – regardless of ethnicity, religion, language, region, gender, age — together in one cause as one global family. I love working with wonderful and dedicated EDTF volunteers. I watching everybody getting excited and fired up about EDTF and ready to go. I…
… Tonight, we celebrate a great statesman who made monumental contributions to the liberation of Africa and the establishment of African unity, the late Emperor Haile Selassie (applause). There is no need to remind those of us in this room about the monumental contributions of Emperor Haile Selassie… He had at the time shared…
A “patent” is a type of license issued by a government to an individual or corporation granting sole right to use and exclude all others from making, using, or selling an invention, a product or a process. There are three types of patents: utility/invention (e.g. personal computer by Steve Jobs); design (Apple’s touchscreen) and plant….
I have but one passion: to enlighten those who have been kept in the dark, in the name of humanity which has suffered so much and is entitled to happiness. My fiery protest is simply the cry of my very soul. — Émile Zola, 13th January 1898 “… Some hooligans and political members of CUD…
When I read Ethiopia will host the World Economic Forum (WEF) in January 2020, I was stunned, speechless. I thought, “Could it be a misreporting?” The WEF in Ethiopia? Barely ten months ago, the world had written off Ethiopia to the doomsday of ethnic civil war. They said Ethiopia is down for the count. Ethiopia…
Thank you EDTF Australia for taking the initiative to promote the Ethiopian Diaspora Trust Fund in the Land Down Under. Y’all bloody legend! Please donate at ETHIOPIATRUSTFUND.ORG http://almariam.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/EDTF-Australia-Promo-Video.mp4
Just a year ago… Last year, on the occasion of Dr. Martin Luther King’s Day I pondered what Dr. King’s message would be for young Ethiopians were he alive. I said he would advise them to continue engaging in acts of civil disobedience and nonviolent resistance against the 27-year long oppressive rule of the Tigrean…
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…
An open Thank You note to H.E. Prime Minister Dr. Abiy Ahmed Dear Prime Minster Abiy: For over a decade, I have used the last of my weekly commentaries to catalogue the crimes against humanity, the corruption and abuses of power that occurred in Ethiopia during the year. But not this year. This year is…
My latest interviews with ESAT and Ahad Magazine…. Click on this link: Ahad Magazine Al Mariam Interview
