Category Archives: Al Mariam’s Commentaries
Memorandum No. 1: To PM Abiy Ahmed and Ethiopia’s Cheetahs/Abo Shemanes (Youth)

Author’s note: In my last “commentary” (My Personal Letter to Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed), I promised to focus my future observations on issues and topics that will serve to promote…

My Personal Letter to Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed of Ethiopia

Our daily deeds as ordinary South Africans must produce an actual South African reality that will reinforce humanity’s belief in justice, strengthen its confidence in the nobility of the human…

Abiy Ahmed: Beating the TPLF Wounded Beast at His Own Game in Ethiopia (Part I)

Memorandum to Ethiopia’s Cheetahs: What is needed in Ethiopia today is regime change, not a game of regime musical chairs. What is needed is structural change, fundamental change from thugtatorship…

Much Ado About Prime Minister Tweedledee Tweedledum in Ethiopia

Bravo! The Thugtatorship of the Tigrean People’s Liberation Front (T-TPLF) has done it again! The T-TPLF’s latest scam is the equivalent of a children’s Easter egg hunt for “prime minister”….

MERCENARY MILITARY COMMAND POST REIGN OF TERROR IN ETHIOPIA

Author’s Note: This commentary is aimed at the Diaspora Ethiopian media. It aims to accomplish two objectives. First, I aim to openly challenge the Diaspora Ethiopian media not to become…

Rex Tillerson, Aboard the Ethiopia Freedom Train!

                     On March 8, 2018, U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson landed his jet at Bole Airport in Addis Ababa and…

Open Memorandum to U.S. Sec. of State Rex Tillerson and U.S. Amb. to Ethiopia Michael Raynor

The United States will stay the course in Ethiopia, and I hope I can count on each of you [Ethiopians] to do the same.” — U.S. Ambassador to Ethiopia Michael…

An “Independent Commissione” for Ethiopia?: A Rejoinder to Tsadkan Gebretensae

  I don’t know whether to laugh or cry. It hurts too much to cry and it is too funny not to laugh. The T-TPLF will do anything to cling…

To Save Ethiopia From Civil War, Solutions Must Work From the Ground Up

BY ALEMAYEHU MARIAM, OPINION CONTRIBUTOR — 02/21/18 02:30 PM EST 20 Originally Posted on The Hill on 02/21/18 http://thehill.com/opinion/international/374900-to-save-ethiopia-from-civil-war-solutions-must-work-from-the-ground-up Ethiopia teeters on the edge of a precipice. For the past two years,…

198 Ways to Fight the T-TPLF’s State of Emergency in Ethiopia and Win

“One has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws.” — Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. The T-TPLF state of emergency declaration is an unjust law! The limits of tyrants are…

Previous Page · Next Page