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Addis Ababa, Aljazeera – The African Union headquarters complex in the capital Addis Ababa stands in stark contrast to its immediate surroundings. The wide planetarium-like structure sitting comfortably attached to a $100m lightly glazed tower dominates the city’s skyline. Inside, the combined leadership of 54 nations gather…
Refusing a ‘diminished self’ – Informed by prison experience, activist-scholar imagines a more open Ethiopia
Harvard Staff Writer Tuesday, May 14, 2013 Kris Snibbe/Harvard Staff Photographer “I was in prison because I spoke,” said Birtukan Midekssa, a Harvard Scholar at Risk who spent 41 months of her life in Ethiopian prison. Four years ago this spring, Birtukan Midekssa was in solitary confinement in an…
Which Way Ethiopia: Revolution, Civil War, or National Reconciliation? By Prof. MessayKebede
Since the death of Prime Minister Meles, the political situation of Ethiopia has entered a phase of uncertainty with no clear momentum toward stabilization. Despite predictions of the imminent collapse of the EPRDF, either under the pressure of a popular uprising or splits within its ranks, the…
The Corruption Game By Prof. Al Mariam
House cleaning or window dressing? Are they playing us like a cheap fiddle again? For a while, it was all about the Meles Dam and how to collect nickels and dimes to build it. That kind of played itself out. (Not to worry. That circus will be…
The irony of Zenawi’s Foundation By Robele Ababya
USA locking horns with the monster it created? The TPLF regime was catapulted to power armed to the teeth with modern weapons of war provided by Gaddafi coupled with supply of intelligence about the military movements of the Derg regime, which the western powers wanted to revenge…
Ethiopian editor questioned for publishing story on Azeb Mesfin
New York, May 15, 2013-Ethiopian police in Addis Ababa questioned an editor for several hours today in connection with a story published in October about the widow of the late Ethiopian leader Meles Zenawi, according to news reports. Officers in the Ethiopian Federal Police Crime Investigation Department…