Columnists
A dangerous Amhara prophecy is roiling Ethiopia
A video of some Amhara elite groups meeting to inaugurate “the Amhara Manifesto” was leaked on social media recently. The meeting was attended ...
Columnists
Ethiopian Muslims demand an end to their second-class status after Iftar snub
Police on Sunday used tear gas and deployed tanks to disperse Ethiopian Muslims gathered at a public square for a long-planned Street Iftar ...
Columnists
Ethiopia should reschedule the June election. Here is why.
Ethiopia is set to hold general elections on June 5, 2021. It would be the sixth election since the establishment of the current ...
Columnists
The return and resurgence of an imperialist Amhara nationalism
In a grisly massacre captured on camera last month, a mob in Shawa Robit drags wounded victims out of a visibly marked emergency ...
Ethiopia
Ethiopia: Referendum as a lasting political solution in Oromia and beyond
In a 24 March speech in parliament, Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed acknowledged that his security forces have been fighting rebels in parts ...
Ethiopia
Why is Ethiopia still humiliating its Muslim population?
I should be writing about the senseless civil war in Tigray; a looming fracture within the ruling Prosperity Party (PP) that is likely ...
Columnists
Elections, conflict, and creeping autocracy in Ethiopia
Ethiopians will go to the polls in June 2021 in a vote that is sure to plunge the Horn of Africa country into ...
Columnists
Hindering or Birthing Democracy: The West’s Legacy in Ethiopia
Ethiopia is in an imminent border war with the Sudan. Tensions with Egypt and Sudan over the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) are ...
Columnists
Who owns the land in Ethiopia?
A book review Book title: Land to the Tiller: An interview with Zegeye Asfaw Publication date: 2020 Author: Ann Oosthuizen Publisher: Morfa Books ...
Columnists
How a Nobel Laureate lost his reputation and disgraced Ethiopia
I was driving home from work while listening to National Public Radio when I heard the announcement: “The Nobel Peace Prize committee has ...
