Perfidious donors betray Africa’s democrats
By William Wallis
In Ethiopia, the same is almost true but with a disturbing caveat. It is an open secret that the double-digit growth of recent years is supported by dubious statistics.
There are plenty of reasons to be hopeful about sub-Sah...
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Ethiopia: Speaking Truth to Strangers
Note: In my first commentary on the theme, "Where do we go from here?", I suggested that the ruling dictatorship in Ethiopia following its 99.6 percent "victory" in the May 2010 parliamentary "election" will continue to do business as usual in much ...
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Groups protest at Ethiopia power dam
An El Molo boy fetches water at Lake Turkana in northeastern Kenya. If completed, the Gibe III Dam will devastate the fragile ecosystems of the Lower Omo Valley and Kenya’s Lake Turkana.
An Ethiopian power project could destroy the livelihoo...
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Web campaign against Ethiopia Gibe III dam
A group of international campaigners has launched an online petition against Ethiopia's huge Gibe III dam project.
The group wants to put pressure on Western donors and banks not to fund the dam, saying it would destroy the livelihoods of some 500...
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Ethiopia’s Rulers Embezzlement of Food Aid
Modified, original article produced by : Azmera Tesfaye:
In the mid-1980s, during one of those terrible famines that have gripped Ethiopia in the past 30 years, millions of dollars flowed from western donors into REST, the so-called Relief Soci...
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Portrait of a Dictator With a Thousand Faces
By Alemayehu G. Mariam:
The Masks of Dictatorship
Last week, The Economist magazine painted a chilling journalistic portrait of Ethiopia’s capo dictator. The magazine described the ironfisted ringleader of the dictatorial regime that...
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Criminals Behind The Curtain
By Alemayehu Zemedkun:
On November 26, 2008 I was amazed to see news on Ethiopian Television Amharic service where the news Anchor was dismissing the recent detailed Human Right Watch(HRW) report on the atrocities committed by the government o...
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Melese Zenawi & His Cronies Deny Charges of War Crimes in Ogaden and Somalia
Ethiopia's ruling gangsters said on Wednesday a government-the rulers funded probe had found no evidence to support reports by a rights group that the gangsters committed war crimes during a campaign against rebels in the eastern Ogaden region....
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