[Author’s Note: This post first appeared in Ethiomedia on April 28, 2008 as an “editorial” without a byline. (Ethiomedia Editor’s Note – Ethiomedia will offer periodic editorial commentary on the…
[Author’s Note: This post first appeared in Ethiomedia on April 21, 2008 as an “editorial” without a byline. (Ethiomedia Editor’s Note – Ethiomedia will offer periodic editorial commentary on the…
[Author’s Note: This post first appeared in Ethiomedia on April 12, 2008 as an “editorial” without a byline. (Ethiomedia Editor’s Note – Ethiomedia will offer periodic editorial commentary on the…
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Editorial Grab this! Ethiomedia | March 31, 2008 [Originally appeared in Ethiomedia] http://www.ethiomedia.com/abai/grab_this.html Amb. Samuel “Oh! what a tangled web we weave, when first we practice to deceive!” Such was…
Editorial Ethiomedia Editorial | March 24, 2008 http://www.ethiomedia.com/abai/scapegoats_and_thieves.html The scenario is becoming all too familiar in Ethiopia. Whenever fraud, abuse, waste, mismanagement, incompetence, malfeasance and corruption are detected or made…
[Author’s Note: This post first appeared in Ethiomedia on March 17, 2008 as an “editorial” without a byline. (Ethiomedia Editor’s Note – Ethiomedia will offer periodic editorial commentary on the…
Editorial Ethiomedia | March 10, 2008 http://www.ethiomedia.com/abai/ethiomedia_031008.html A few days ago, Senator Russ Feingold, Chairman, Senate Subcommittee on Africa, gave a speech in the U.S. Senate saying the Horn of…
Editorial Ethiomedia | March 3, 2008 http://www.ethiomedia.com/abai/sister_cities.html Lately, news of a proposed sister cities program with Addis Ababa has been buzzing in the Ethiopian community in Oakland, California. This program,…

Editorial [Originally appeared in Ethiomedia] http://www.ethiomedia.com/all/6050.html Ethiomedia | June 2, 2008 A dictator and a mercenary As a brutal dictator, Mengistu (left) lived violating the sovereignty of the people (1974-1991)….