It has been now ten days after the young Ethiopian brothers thirty of them were beheaded and massacred at Libya coast. Unfortunately this brutal action by ISIS is going to remain part of us for a very long time....
By Alemayehu G Mariam
Ethiopian lives matter!
Exactly ten years ago in 2005, almost to the month, the late supreme leader of the Thugtatorship of the Tigrean Peoples Liberation Front (T-TPLF), Meles Zenawi, personally directed a campaign of brutal suppression of...
By Staff
An Ethiopian muslim man has been identified as one of the two dozen Ethiopians killed by the Islamic State also known as ISIS. An al shabab source said a man named Jemaal Rahman is a muslim migrant from...
A Sunday after Easter is "Second Easter" what we call in Ethiopian Christian Orthodox, "DagmawiTinsae". It is a day of celebration back home and here in the Diaspora.
However, the news online coming from Libya started my Sunday with sadness...
Tuesday 21st April 2015
Release: Immediate
The people and government of Ethiopia are greatly saddened by the barbarous killing of innocent Ethiopian Christians in Libya.
The Government of the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia strongly condemns the killings, even more so when...
Oakland, CA – We Say the Land is Not Yours: Breaking the Silence Against Forced Displacement in Ethiopia, a landmark report from the Oakland Institute documents testimony from members of several ethnic groups from different areas of the country,1...
Prof. Donald Levine: The scholars’ scholar
A Special Tribute to Prof. Donald Levine
This past January, Prof. Levine emailed to tell me about his long-planned visit to Ethiopia that had been thwarted by his illness. He had set three objectives for...
By Khaled Diab
Unless effective action is taken, a water war between Nile basin countries remains a distinct future possibility.
War has been avoided. As Yemen becomes the latest battleground in what future historians might call the Middle East's "World War",...
By Staff
The Diaspora-based Oromo Liberation Front (OLF) has been struggling for ethnic Oromo freedom since 1973, but in 2014 most of its leaders officially renamed it Oromo Democratic Front (ODF) with a new manifesto. Last week, the ODF announced...
Obo Lencho Leta shared his opinion on what is wrong in the coming Ethiopian election here. http://www.ethiomedia.com/101facts/4438.html
He failed to mention the 2005 election as a good example of what Transparent Election is about. Before the May 2005 election there was...