Ethiopian lives matter! Exactly ten years ago in 2005, almost to the month, the late supreme leader of the Thugtatorship of the Tigrean Peoples Liberation Front (T-TPLF), Meles Zenawi, personally directed a campaign of brutal suppression of unarmed protesters following the general election that year. On May 16, 2005, Meles Zenawi declared a state of…
Author’s Note: The Armenian Genocide which began one hundred years ago this week inside present-day Turkey will be remembered worldwide on April 24. That Genocide began with a roundup of Armenian intellectuals, clergy, educators, writers, community leaders and other notable members of the Armenian community in Constantinople, (renamed Istanbul in 1923), the capital of the…
ፕሮፌሰር ዶናልድ ሌቪን በዚህ ባሳለፍው ጥር ወር ኢትዮጵያን ለመጎብኘት የነበራቸው የረዥም ጊዜ ዕቅድ በህመማቸው ምክንያት የተጨናገፈ መሆኑን በኢሜይል መልዕክት ልከውልኝ ነበር፡፡ በዚያ አስበውት በነበረው ጉብኝት የሚከተሉትን ሶስት ዓላማዎች የማሳካት ዕቅድ ነበራቸው፡፡
Donald Levine: The scholars’ scholar This past January, Prof. Levine emailed to tell me about his long-planned visit to Ethiopia that had been thwarted by his illness. He had set three objectives for that trip. He wanted to be present for the launching of his book Interpreting Ethiopia in Addis Ababa. He wanted to witness the opening…
To “build the dam” or to “abandon” it: That was Meles’ question! Exactly four years ago, almost to the day, on April 2, 2011, the late Meles Zenawi gave a speech in Guba, Benishangul Gumuz in Western Ethiopia, setting out his dream and vision for what he called the “Millennium Dam” (later called “Grand Ethiopian…
In my March 2013 commentary, “Rumors of Water War on the Nile?”, I argued: … Whether there will be an actual “Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam” [GERD] is the $5bn dollar question of the century. Because Egypt has been successful in pressuring multilateral development and investment banks not to fund the project, the regime in Ethiopia…
ባለፈው ሳምንት እራሱን ህዝባዊ ወያኔ ሀርነት ትግራይ (ህወሀት) እያለ የሚጠራው ወሮበላ የዘራፊ ቡድን ስብስብ በህዝብ ግንኙነት ታዛዥ ሎሌው አማካይነት በዓለም አቀፉ ብዙሀን መገናኛ ዘዴዎች በመጠቀም አሁንም ደግሞ ወጭው እጅግ በጣም ከፍተኛ የሆነ “የኢትዮጵያ የነዳጅ ዘይት ማጣሪያ ኩባንያ በ10 ዓመታት ጊዜ ውስጥ በ5 ቢሊዮን ዶላር እንገነባለን“ የሚል ትረካ አሰራጭቷል፡፡
የአጣሪ ኮሚሽኑ የምርመራ ውጤቶች አስደንጋጭ እና ዘግናኝ ነበሩ፡፡ አጣሪ ኮሚሽኑ ባደረገው የማጣራት ስራ የሚከተሉት ተጨባጭ እውነታዎች መገኘታቸውን ይፋ አድርጓል፡
South Africa, 1960 On March 21, 1960, exactly 55 years ago today, a crowd estimated at five thousand (according to apartheid police 20 thousand, inflated to justify their extreme response) gathered in front of a police station in the South African township of Sharpeville in Transvaal (presently Gauteng, one of the nine provinces of South…
What does a malaria researcher know about the art and science of diplomacy? Or for that matter the difference between telling the truth and telling lies? Or condoning or condemning lies? These are not trick questions. Tedros Adhanom is the “foreign minister” in the Thugtatroship of the Tigrean People’s Liberation Front (T-TPLF). In the official “Ministry of Foreign Affairs Biography of the Minister”, Adhanom is described as “an internatio […]
