Alemayehu G Mariam Ethiopians are having a very hard time. Inside their own country, they are victimized by dictatorship, famine and pestilence. Thousands of Ethiopians who have fled political persecution…
Alemayehu G Mariam Cry Me a River, Cry Me a Lake Three years ago to the week, I wrote a weekly commentary entitled, “Cry Me a Lake: Crime Against Nature”….
Alemayehu G Mariam Donald Payne Was a Drum Major for Democracy and Human Rights Grassroots Ethiopian human rights groups and activists have been stunned by the death last week of…
Alemayehu G Mariam How does one say farewell to a great friend of Ethiopia and Africa? Representative Donald Payne, the dean of New Jersey’s House delegation and the first black…
Alemayehu G. Mariam Mahatma Gandhi first formulated the iron law of history for dictators: “There have been tyrants and murderers and for a time they seem invincible but in the…
Alemayehu G Mariam The Plight of Andualem Aragie and Other Political Prisoners in Ethiopia The “Gulag” prison system in the old Soviet Union was infamous for warehousing and persecuting dissidents…
Alemayehu G Mariam In a memorandum sent to Deutsche Welle’s (DW) [Germany’s international broadcaster] “correspondents outside Ethiopia” in late 2010, Ludger Schadomsky, editor-in-chief of DW’s Amharic program, blasted “ethiomedia and similar…
Alemayehu G. Mariam The Chinese Dragon is dancing the Watusi shuffle with African Hyenas. Things could not be better for the Dragon in Africa. In the middle of what once…
Alemayehu G Mariam The new African Union (AU) headquarters was inaugurated last week. It was “China’s gift to Africa.” China picked the entire USD$200 million tab…