Remembering the Armenian Genocide
Author’s Note: The Armenian Genocide which began one hundred years ago this week inside present-day Turkey will be remembered worldwide… (more)
Alemayehu G. Mariam
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A Special Tribute to Prof. Donald Levine
Prof. Donald Levine: The scholars’ scholar This past January, Prof. Levine emailed to tell me about his long-planned visit to… (more)
Ethiopia: The Meles Jinx, the GERD Nixed?
To “build the dam” or to “abandon” it: That was Meles’ question! Exactly four years ago, almost to the day,… (more)
Ethiopia: The Dam Dammed by Cash Flow?
In my March 2013 commentary, “Rumors of Water War on the Nile?”, I argued: … Whether there will be an… (more)
Remembering the Sharpeville Massacre in South Africa
South Africa, 1960 On March 21, 1960, exactly 55 years ago today, a crowd estimated at five thousand (according to… (more)
A Tale of Tall Tales and “Ethiopia’s Diplomat-in-Chief”
What does a malaria researcher know about the art and science of diplomacy? Or for that matter the difference between telling the truth and telling lies? Or condoning or condemning lies? These are not trick questions. Tedros Adhanom is the “foreign minister” in the Thugtatroship of the Tigrean People’s Liberation Front (T-TPLF). In the official “Ministry of Foreign Affairs Biography of the Minister”, Adhanom is described as “an internatio […]