By Alem Mamo “Our assessment is that the Egyptian government is stable…”[1] This was the official statement of the United States Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Tuesday, January 25, 2011. The statement clearly shows the utter disconnect between the US foreign policy and the situation on the streets of Cairo, Alexandria, Suez and elsewhere–the [...]
By Yilma Bekele According to Wiki “in contemporary usage, dictatorship refers to an autocratic form of absolute rule by leadership unrestricted by law, constitutions, or other social and political factors within the state.” That is what we have in Ethiopia. That is what we are used to in Ethiopia. We have never known any other [...]
“We Ethiopians must begin mobilizing! It is time to take action if we are to join in the peoples’ movements for freedom, now spreading among nations where autocratic rulers and their regimes, like Meles Zenawi and the EPRDF, have repressed their citizens for so many years. If there were a list of people most desperate [...]
By Alemayehu G. Mariam After the Fall from the Wall What happens to Africa after the mud walls of dictatorship come tumbling down and the palaces of illusion behind those walls vanish? Will Africa be like Humpty Dumpty who “had a great fall” and could not be put back together by “all the king’s horses [...]
By; Kiflu Hussain Right at this time, most of our African commander-in-thugs have assembled in my hometown, Addis Ababa. Imagine how these thugs would panic if Ethiopians suddenly rise up in unison like the Tunisians and Egyptians. The thugs would automatically abandon their comrade-in-thug, Meles Zenawi.By the way, Ethiopians are not new to making an [...]
By Dula Abdu Dictator Meles and former Marxist guerrilla leader may be providing western media including Bloomberg with bogus economic data. Recently, Bloomberg compared Ethiopia with the BRIC nations (Brazil, Russia, India and China) as possessing one of the fastest growing economies. Given the current institutional constraints, such as government control of the major means of production, including [...]
Click here for Amharic version To all Ethiopians, Ethiopian organizations and religious/civil institutions: We Ethiopians must begin mobilizing! It is time to take action if we are to join in the peoples’ movements for freedom, now spreading among nations where autocratic rulers and their regimes, like Meles Zenawi and the EPRDF, have repressed their citizens [...]
By Zekarias Ezra When Ethiopia had parliamentary elections only 8 months ago, they were completely rigged. The party of Meles Zenawi left the opposition with only 0.18 percent of the seats i.e. with only 1 seat out of 547 seats. All peace loving nations were quietly dismayed by the result including the friendly American government. [...]
AFP KHARTOUM — Students clashed with police in north Sudan on Sunday as youths heeded calls to take to the streets for a day of nationwide anti-government protests, despite a heavy security presence on the ground. The demonstrations, which coincided with the announcement of preliminary results in south Sudan’s landmark independence referendum and a sixth [...]
Tunisia vs. Ethiopia: Could the Northern wave reach East? By Jawar S. Mohammed* After a sweeping nonviolent uprising forced Tunisia’s despotic ruler out of office, Ethiopian activists and pundits are speculating a renewed possibility of a similar revolution in Ethiopia. Factors that triggered the Tunisia’s “Jasmine Revolution”—hike in food price and costs of living, can [...]
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