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What has patience got to do with it?
Government need to demonstrate that it doesn’t tolerate wrong doing The response Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed gives to the question why his administration has failed to ensure a rule of law is most...
View ArticleAbiy questions the patriotism of those who demand salary raise
Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed stirred up hornet’s nest when he challenged agricultural professionals’ patriotism who asked for pay raise. The Prime Minister, speaking in front of the 1,500 agriculture...
View ArticleFive killed in ethnic violence in Benshangul region
The Amhara region says 5 civilians have been shot dead by armed men in Benshangul-Gumuz region Armed ethnic Gumuz has killed five ethnic Amhara and injured four others in Benshangul-Gumuz, where...
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Fast vanishing Ethiopia’s Rift Valley Lakes
Lake Ziway and Abiyata: Troubled waters Bayush Sisay is not sure how long she will keep on working on. Her income from the small restaurant trade by which she supports her three children has greatly...
View ArticleAn Ethiopian journalist who travelled to Canada for work disappeared
A senior journalist for the Ethiopian Broadcasting Corporation (EBC), Getachew Chane who has travelled to Canada with President Sahle-Work Zewde has disappeared, Ethiopia Observer has learned....
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Return to Dire Dawa
Frédéric Garnier, 72, is a retired French dentist who lives in the suburbs of Paris, Chantilly-Gouvieux. He spent his early parts of his life in the eastern town of Ethiopia, Dire Dawa, where his...
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Writing the 1970s in 1941: McKay’s Cautionary Tale on the Ethiopian Revolution
McKay, Claude. Amiable with Big Teeth: A Novel of the Love Affair Between the Communists and the Poor Black Sheep of Harlem. New York: Penguin Classics, 2017. 368 pp, paperback $13.65, ISBN-10:...
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Hawassa- a city in a state of disorder
The campaign for Sidama autonomy, which has been going on for some years, gained momentum when the Zone Administration in Hawassa voted for statehood a year ago. However, the tactics employed by the...
View ArticleA coup plot in Bahir Dar? What we know now
Government says situation under control Press Secretary at the Prime Minister Office Nigussu Tilahun says there was an attempted coup in Amhara regional state on late Saturday. He says a...
View ArticleEthiopia’s military chief of staff attacked: Abiy Ahmed
US reports of gunfire in Addis Ababa Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed has said that the military’s Chief of Staff, General Seare Mekonen has been physically attacked, although he did not provide...
View ArticlePresident of the Amhara region killed
The chief of staff of the army, Gen Seare Mekonnen, has been shot dead The Amhara Mass Media reported that president of the Amhara regional state Ambachew Mekonnen and the region’s goverment advisor...
View ArticleDon’t call it a coup
The chief of staff of Ethiopia’s army, the president of Amhara region and two other senior officials, another retired general have been shot dead over two separate attacks in what the prime minister’s...
View ArticleBodyguard reported to have killed himself is alive: Federal Police Commission
The bodyguard who was reported to have killed himself in Addis Ababa on Saturday after shooting army chief of staff Seare Mekonnen along with another retired general Gezai Abera is in the hospital...
View ArticleThe Price of complacency
A shocked public has been grasping for answers to what could have driven Saturday’s appalling attacks in Amhara’s regional capital of Bahir Dar and in Addis Ababa. All sorts of rumours are flying,...
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Shock, denial, conspiracy theory, and the difficult search for truth
Ethiopia has buried its top regional officials in Bahir Dar, its chief of the army staff and another general in Mekele and the alleged coup leader in Lalibela. This was the first time the country has...
View ArticleInmates living in cold and dark cells: Lawyer
Suspects arrested in connection with the ‘coup’ attempt in which the army chief and a retired general were killed in Addis Ababa and three regional officials were killed in Bahir Dar ten days ago are...
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Getachew Reda and Andargachew Tsige on the attempted coup
The recent assassinations in Addis Ababa and Amhara and the ‘attempted coup’ have sparked debate. Ethiopians are engaged in discussions on the tragic event, the political impasse in the country, and...
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The case for an independent commission
The official narrative on the motive and the exact nature of the assassinations of the president of the Amhara regional state and the country’s army chief of staff in an alleged local coup attempt has...
View Article“O Bird of Paradise” A poem by Fikre Tolossa
O bird of paradise, My good fortune, my sustenance, Blessed among bird species – Sing to me, I’m downcast; I am worn-out by the gripe; My ears are longing for lovely tune, My soul, my mind, my spirit...
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The Abiy administration, withered hope.What next for Ethiopia?
Despite a stumble along the way, the reform that we have greeted with optimism and hope has been going for a year and a half. Today, the hope and optimism seem to have sadly evaporated. The initial...
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