Originally appeared in The Hill (o5/05/17.) [Posted on almariam.com on 5/24/17.] http://thehill.com/blogs/pundits-blog/foreign-policy/332093-us-doesnt-need-ethiopia-in-its-war-on-terror-in-the-horn-of ======================== Earlier this month, U.S. Defense Secretary Jim Mattis visited the Middle East and Africa to “reaffirm key…
“Oh! What a tangled web we weave when first we practice to deceive.” The length to which the Thugtatorship of the Tigrean People’s Liberation (T-TPLF) will go to scam, hoodwink,…
Author’s Note: This is Part I of a two-part translation of an Amharic interview[1] with a former, now-exiled anonymous T-TPLF “mole” (deep- cover intelligence operative) who was trained to infiltrate…
Houston, we ain’t got NO problem! I dreamt the nightmare was finally over. It could have been a vision. I am not sure. There stood I watching the launch pad…
On October 9, 2016, the puppet prime minister (PPM) of the Thugtatorship of the Tigrean People’s Liberation Front (T-TPLF) Hailemariam announced a “state of emergency” (SoE) in a 20-minute televised…
Author’s Note: Following is my translation of the Amharic interview given by Habtamu Ayalew to the Voice of America (VOA), Amharic Program on March 15, 2017 and broadcast on the…
Reported in the Swedish Yle’s Finnish-Swedish broadcasting media. Original report link: https://svenska.yle.fi/artikel/2017/03/29/etiopiens-premiarminister-blir-inte-hedersdoktor-vid-finskt-universitet Google translation of Swedish-Finnish report below: Ethiopian Prime Minister will not be an honorary doctorate at the Finnish…
Author’s Note: In this commentary, I take a careful look at the “very sophisticated report from the Embassy [of Ethiopia]” submitted for the record at the “Democracy Under Threat in Ethiopia” hearing…
“The former spokesman for the opposition Andenet (Unity) party was arrested on July 8, 2014 and charged with terrorism for allegedly collaborating with the opposition Ginbot 7, which the Ethiopian…
“Guiding all of our foreign policy actions are our fundamental values: our values around freedom, human dignity, the way people are treated. These are our values… not our policies… Policies…