Political Repression Archives

Elections, Ethiopian Style

May 5, 2015TesfaNews27 Comments

By Felix Horne (for Al Jazeera), THIS is what an election campaign looks like in Ethiopia, where the ruling coalition took 99.6 percent of parliamentary seats in the last national elections, in 2010. Jirata, not his real name, is a 19-year-old student who was campaigning for a legally registered opposition party recently, when security officials […]

Ethiopia – Economic Growth, Political Repression and ISIS: Analyzing Recent Events

April 27, 2015July 31, 2020TesfaNews17 Comments

By Fikrejesus Amahazion (PhD), NESTLED in the turbulent Horn of Africa, Ethiopia is Africa’s oldest independent modern nation-state and second most populous. Discourse on Ethiopia has traditionally revolved around poverty, conflict, disease, and famine, yet in recent years it has experienced considerable economic growth, making it amongst “Africa’s top performing economies,” and the country has […]