Why Free Trade Agreements with the EU will hurt African countries! By Fekadu...
EPAs is not a Panacea for Africa’s Economic and Social Crisis but deepen the Crisis! Impacts of Free Trade & Globalization Since 2002 the EU, African countries and including the Caribbean states...
View ArticleVOA Amharic in crisis over distortion scandal By Dawit Ashenafi
(Addis Voice) Two staff members of the Voice of America, Horn of Africa section, have recently attracted the attention of Ethiopians across the world. Henok Semaeger Fente and Peter Heinlein are not...
View ArticleEl-Sisi ready to visit Ethiopia, ‘if it is in Egypt’s interest’
President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi has said he is ready to go to Ethiopia if the visit would be in Egypt’s best interests. He made his remark during a meeting with media figures and journalists Sunday,...
View ArticleDisengaging from the False Dilemma of Armed or Peaceful Struggle By Messay...
To Andargachew Tsege The consecutive rise of two dictatorial and sectarian regimes has convinced a great number of Ethiopians that peaceful rather than armed struggle gives the best opportunity for the...
View ArticleProtesters demand VOA to stop distortions By Dawit Ashenafi
Scores of Ethiopian-American protesters rallied Monday in front of the State Department demanding the U.S. to stand with the oppressed people of Ethiopia. The protesters also urged Voice of America...
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Ethiopians are Left Alone: the unspoken retarding role of foreign aid in...
“Not even shooting and jailing the opposition, manipulating aid to starve the opposition, seizing the lands of villagers (Gambella, the Omo Valley, etc.) and relocating them (Villagization) against...
View ArticleA long road to justice BY: RAINA DELISLE
Teklemichael Sahlemariam is a wanted man in his homeland of Ethiopia, but in Canada he’s about to be called to the bar. His incredible journey started in 1997 and took him from Addis Ababa University,...
View ArticleAU and its failed member states By Robele Ababya
Motivation for writing this article Some 30 years ago I was at the French Embassy as one of the hundreds of invited guests on Bastille Day lavish celebration teemed with diplomats, government...
View ArticleVOA investigating distortion allegations By Dawit Ashenafi
(Addis Voice) The Voice of America says it has begun a thorough investigation into allegations of deliberate distortions at VOA Amharic Service. Kevin Lynch, acting director of public relations at VOA,...
View ArticleThe perils of outsourcing the fight for freedom. By Yilma Bekele
I could have titled this piece ‘Obama and his Africa peace keepers’ but that would not be fair. Anybody with half a brain can see that I am trying to make my issue to be his problem. Excuse me just...
View ArticleGetting to know me better. By Yilma Bekele
I am in the process of weaning myself from my daily dose of reading about the madness of Woyane. It is not easy. After over two decades of being visually, mentally and spiritually assaulted regarding...
View ArticleDawit Seyoum, suspect in slaying of D.C. corrections official, held without bond
Carolyn Cross had her bags packed. The deputy director of corrections in D.C. was set, a colleague said, to leave on Sunday for a work conference in Atlanta. But when Cross’s daughter arrived that...
View Article2007: A Year of Decision By Yilma Bekele
Happy New Year Ethiopia (መልካም እንቁጣጣሽ) Meskerem is a special month. We love and honor Meskerem so much that we name our children by it signifying a new beginning for the long journey ahead. Meskerem is...
View ArticleOpen petition to the Voice of America
Open petition to the Voice of America Mr. David Ensor, Director, Voice of America 330 Independence Ave., S.W. Washington, D.C. 20237 Dear Mr. Ensor, I, the undersigned petitioner, would like to bring a...
View ArticleThe Truth Behind Elias Kifle & Ginbot 7 By Rosa Abadir
There is no doubt that Elias Kifle has been widely known for being one of the most vocal critics to the TPLF gangsters and had been a voice for the voiceless. Aside from his continuous outrageous...
View ArticleThe Ethiopian Diaspora and consciousness. By Yilma Bekele
The Bay Area that currently is home away from home for thousands of Ethiopians is nothing like any other place that I have known. I was born in a small village on the southern part of Ethiopia and have...
View ArticleVOA admits report was incomplete and below standard By Dawit Ashenafi
(Addis Voice) The Voice of America (VOA) has finally said that investigation into the contentious August 12 report by Henok Semaegzer Fente on the decision of Azusa Pacific University (APU) to cancel...
View ArticleScottish vote and Oromia case in Ethiopia By Admasu Belay
In recent days, we have been hearing a lot about the Scottish referendum to secede from the UK. Particularly, some of our Oromo politician friends in the diaspora have made it the hot topic of the...
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