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No Human Rights = No Development Oakland Institute and the Housing and Land...
OAKLAND CA- In a report submitted to the UN Human Rights Council’s Universal Periodic Review (UPR) on September 15, 2013, the Oakland Institute and the Housing and Land Rights Network outlined the...
View ArticleWater Wars: Egyptians Condemn Ethiopia’s Nile Dam Project (Peter Schwartzstein)
As the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam takes shape, tempers rise. “Ethiopia is killing us,” taxi driver Ahmed Hossam said, as he picked his way through Cairo’s notoriously traffic-clogged streets. “If...
View ArticleThe International Criminal Court on an African Safari? ALEMAYEHU G MARIAM
African Race Hunting, the Race Card and Racing After African Thugs? Hailemariam Desalegn, the titular prime minister of Ethiopia, says the International Criminal Court (ICC) is on African safari. In...
View ArticleEthiopian Hydropower Dam Assessment Warns of Structural Weakness
Ethiopia’s plan to build Africa’s biggest hydropower dam on the main tributary of the Nile River must address concerns that there may be flaws in the design of its foundations, a group of international...
View ArticleSaving African Dictators from the ICC. By ALEMAYEHU G MARIAM:
Note to the reader: In my commentary last week, I defended the International Criminal Court (ICC) against accusations of “race hunting”, selective and arbitrary prosecution and abuse of power by...
View ArticleEthiopia striker Getaneh Kebede Gibeto has been ruled out of Sunday’s 2014...
The two sides clash in Addis Ababa in the first leg of the final round of qualifying for Brazil next year. Getaneh, who was joint-top scorer for Ethiopia’s in the group stages, is ruled out with an...
View ArticleWitness for the International Criminal Court ALEMAYEHU G MARIAM
On October 11-12, 2013, the African Union (AU) will gather in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia to formally withdraw from the Rome Statute in supremely dramatic form. The world for the first time will witness a...
View ArticleICC saves lives Belayneh Abate
African Dictators are chronic public health disasters. They are not just mass murderers but also the reason why starvation, malaria, tuberculosis, flea and lice borne diseases such as typhus still kill...
View ArticleOpen Letter to the ESFNA Board by LJD
Out of a sense of duty, for the last few years, I have been attentively following and researching the organizational behavior and the financial activities of the Ethiopian Sport Federation in North...
View ArticleOpposition MP says Ethiopia bottling up strife By Edmund Blair
Girma Seifu Maru, Ethiopia’s sole opposition politician in a 547-seat parliament, says the authorities risk provoking social unrest if they do not offer more political space to critical voices. The...
View ArticleEthiopia: The 65 Percent and Political Consensus By Yaye Abebe
Ethiopia’s population is predominantly young. This is according to the United States Central Intelligence Agency July 2013 estimate of Ethiopia’s population: 0-14 years olds are 44.4% of population,...
View ArticleEthiopia, Egypt Set to Start Talks Over $4.3 Bln Dam Row (WSJ)
Ethiopia, Egypt and Sudan will hold discussions next week over the impact of a new $4.3 billion hydro power plant along the river Nile, which Egypt fears will hurt water supply to its 84 million...
View ArticleHuman Rights Watch (HRW) – World Report 2013 – Ethiopia
Ethiopia The sudden death in August 2012 of Ethiopia’s long-serving and powerful prime minister, Meles Zenawi, provoked uncertainty over the country’s political transition, both domestically and among...
View ArticleEthiopians Who Fall Prey to Human Traffickers on Rise as Government of...
As Europe struggles to respond to the growing number of African migrants, root causes should not be ignored. In the case of Ethiopia, one of the largest refugee-sending countries in Africa, what are...
View ArticleLand Grab or Land Robbery in Africa? Belayneh Abate
I usually feel discomfort when people refer the land robbery in Africa as “Land grab”. Land grab indicates the existence of formality or legality which is not the case in the large scale African land...
View ArticleIMF Says Ethiopian Economic Growth May Slow Without Policy Shift(Bloomberg)
Ethiopia’s economic expansion may continue through next year before “tapering off” from 2015-16 because of funding gaps for public projects and foreign exchange shortages, the International Monetary...
View ArticleWho’s Having “Nightmares” in Africa? ALEMAYEHU G MARIAM
Recently, African leaders, at least those at the helm of the African Union and their flunkies, have been reporting endlessly recurring ghastly nightmares of Lady Justice “race hunting” them with scales...
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