Security forces empowered to use ‘all necessary measures’ BY TESFANEWS The increasingly paranoid Ethiopian regime today ordered the country’s security forces to “take all the necessary measures” to deal with anti-government civilian protesters demanding political reforms in the restive Oromia region.
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“Those who foolishly sought power by riding the back of the tiger ended up inside” – John F. Kennedy BY FINANCIAL TIMES When Hailemariam Desalegn resigned as Ethiopian prime minister on Thursday following almost three years of deadly anti-government protests, he said he did it to be “part of the solution” to meet the public’s demands for “development, […]
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BY MARYANNE GICOBI | THE EAST AFRICAN East and central African countries have once again ranked poorly in a Washington-based think tank’s annual rating of countries’ susceptibility to instability. South Sudan returned to position one as the most troubled country from position two while Ethiopia recorded the greatest worsening globally over 2016, according to Fragile […]
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Business in the Sululta district of Ethiopia’s Oromia region is burgeoning. So why, despite abundant rainfall, does half the population have no access to fresh water? BY WILLIAM DAVIDSON | THE GUARDIAN Towards the end of the day at the Abyssinia Springs bottled water factory near Ethiopia’s capital, Addis Ababa, workers hose down the car […]
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By making peaceful and democratic changes impossible, the regime in Ethiopia makes violent revolution almost inevitable. By Alem Mamo, As the world ushers in the new year, Ethiopia’s political, economic and security situation is entering a new and dangerous phase. The peaceful and popular uprising that swept the country in 2016 is gradually transforming itself […]
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By Elias Deseret | Associated Press, More than a dozen rights groups have written to the U.N. Human Rights Council urging an immediate halt to “excessive” use of force by Ethiopian security forces. The letter dated Thursday also calls for an independent investigation into the reported killings of hundreds of people in Ethiopia’s Amhara and […]
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By Paul Scemm | for Washington Post, After going through its worst drought in 50 years, Ethiopia is again seeing rain. In fact, in some places, it’s falling too hard and has set off floods. So while the number of people requiring food aid has dropped slightly from 10.2 million in January to 9.7 million, […]
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By Merhatsidk Mekonnen | for Addis Fortune, Eritrea is rather a tiny nation in the Horn of Africa with a negligible profile and a total population not more than six million – although no country’s status should ever be pre-judged in terms of its territorial and population size from a legal and geo-political standpoint.
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