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The Toxic Ecology of African Dictatorships

By Alemayehu G. Mariam The inconvenient truth about Africa today is that dictatorship presents a far more perilous threat to the survival of Africans than climate change. The devastation African…

Ending the Culture of Impunity

Alemayehu G. Mariam The Culture of Impunity David Dadge, Director of the Vienna-based International Press Institute, the oldest press freedom organization in the world, recently wrote a compelling commentary in…

The 843-Day War

By Alemayehu G. Mariam It’s Time to Cut and Run! In mid-July 2006, Zenawi sent his troops to Somalia to prop up the so-called transitional government in Baidoa. By late…

The political economy of remittances in Ethiopia

By Alemayehu G. Mariam A Thankless Job, But Somebody’s Got to Do It! It is gratifying to know that Ethiopian Americans are carrying their fair share of the load in…

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