By Graham Peebles, THERE are tentative signs that the people of Ethiopia are beginning to organise themselves and stand up against the Ethiopian People’s Revolutionary Democratic Front (EPRDF) government, a brutal dictatorship, albeit one dressed in democratic western garb. After 23 years of suppression at the hands of the EPRDF, simmering discontent and anger appears to […]
Continue ReadingBy Ahmed Abdi, AS POLITICAL crisis rise in Ethiopia only few months before the general election, the main powerful opposition groups discussed about the recently peaceful protests that left at least 40 students killed, during demonstrations against Tigray Peoples Liberation Front (TPLF), the ruling party’s endeavor to annex the capital city of Addis Ababa in part of the […]
Continue ReadingThe Oromo are Ethiopia’s largest ethnic group, 30 million, and their language is the fourth most spoken in Africa. Yet they are an invisible ethnicity in the eyes of the world. By Akbar Ahmed and Frankie Martin, In August 2011, Bekele Gerba, an English teacher at Addis Ababa University and prominent politician, met with a […]
Continue ReadingBy Alemayehu G Mariam, Ethiopia today is a “prison of nations and nationalities with the Oromo being one of the prisoners”, proclaimed the recently issued Declaration of the Congress of the Oromo Democratic Front (ODF). This open-air prison is administered through a system of “bogus federalism” in which “communities exercise neither self-rule nor shared-rule but have […]
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