A Year of Ruptures and Hope: Reckless Elites and the Addis Ababa Question

BY MIKE MAMO | BORKENA It is just over a year since the Oromo uprising of 2014 – 2018 help topple TPLF’s predatory state. The eventual transition of the uprising into a nationwide resistance and its ability to inspire a team of internal dissenters within the ruling EPRDF were the pivotal moments. The dissenters skillfully […]

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Eskinder Nega Refuses to Sign False Confession in Exchange for Prison Release

“I call the government to immediately release him without conditions” – Senator Marco Rubio BY CPJ The Committee to Protect Journalists condemns the Ethiopian government’s attempts today to compel Ethiopian journalist and blogger Eskinder Nega to sign a false confession before releasing him under a presidential pardon.

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Meles wants to avoid hunger riots; Djibouti intensifies anti-Eritrea propaganda ahead of election

The Indian Ocean Newsletter(ION) The governing EPRDF party’s unopposed domination of the country’s institutions does not insure Prime Minister Meles Zenawi against the dangerous social tensions that are building up in Ethiopia. Particularly as the price of staples went through the roof in January, coincidentally just at the time when the uprisings in Tunisia and […]

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