Monthly Archives: July 2015

Laughing at Ethiopia’s 2015 Elektion

It is said that “smile and the world smiles at you.”

Does it follow that if you laugh at the world’s most ridiculous election, the world will join you laughing?

Last week, Susan Rice, President Barack Obama’s National Security Adviser, …

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Financing for (Under)development in Africa?

Alemayehu G Mariam

Fin Devt

How the West underdeveloped Africa and is now trying to “finance develop” it

The “Third International Conference on Financing for Development” was held in Addis Ababa last week. It was billed as a “gathering of  high-level political …

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Joint conference on the forming of an alternative force (July2-3) – Presentations (New Video)

Ethiopian National Transitional Council (ENTC), Ethiopian People’s Congress for United Struggle (Shengo), Ethiopian Youth National Movement (EYNM) and United Ethiopian Muslims Peaceful Movement Support Group (UEM-PMSG) jointly hosted a consultative conference on the process of the formation of a unified …

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My Private Letter to President Obama

Obama Africa

July 16, 2015

President Barack Obama
The White House
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW
Washington, DC 20500

Dear President Obama:

Greetings! Mr. President.

I was ecstatic when I heard you will be travelling to Ethiopia in late July “for bilateral meetings …

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Journalists Released; Religious Leaders Convicted: The Manipulation of Political Prisoners for Political Gain in Ethiopia

Washington, DC, July 14, 2015

The Solidarity Movement for a New Ethiopia (SMNE) strongly condemns the recent verdict of the Ethiopian Federal High Court Fourth Criminal Bench concerning eighteen Ethiopians of Muslim faith who were found guilty on counts of

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Conference on forming a unified alternative (July2-3) – Video

Ethiopian National Transitional Council (ENTC), Ethiopian People’s Congress for United Struggle (Shengo), Ethiopian Youth National Movement (EYNM) and United Ethiopian Muslims Peaceful Movement Support Group (UEM-PMSG) jointly hosted a consultative conference on the process of the formation of a unified …

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Certificate of recognition to the Ethiopian heroine journalist Reeyot Alemu

Ethiopian National Transitional Council(ENTC) and Ethiopian Youth National Movement (EYNM) jointly issued a certificate of recognition to the Ethiopian heroine journalist Reeyot Alemu.

Reyot, not only has been unbreakable to the brutality of the regime but she still vows to …

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Thus Spoke Ethiopia’s Reeyot!

Reeyot pix 3Reeyot Invictus!

Thus spoke Reeyot Alemu to the Voice of America- Amharic Service on July 9, 2015, a few hours after she was literally thrown out of the infamous Meles Zenawi Prison in Kality, (Ethiopia’s “Robben Island”) on the outskirts …

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A Teachable Moment for Ethio-Americans on July 4, 2015

BOR1My topic for my Monday Commentary this week was not about a teachable moment for Ethiopian-Americans.  I dropped my intended topic and wrote this piece because I was madder than a nest of hornets.

A couple of weeks ago, I …

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