In the “Game of Thrones”, (the book from which the internationally popular television series of the same name is adapted), rival lords among the ruling families clash violently to take over the kingdom of the Iron Throne. The internecine warfare …
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The Game of Thrones in Ethiopia
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Cirque d’Afrique: 2014 U.S-Africa Leaders Summit
The African Circus is coming to town. It is officially called “U.S-Africa Leadership Summit” (not Ringling African Brothers). It is scheduled to be held on August 5-6 in Washington D.C. The theme of the “Summit” is “Investing in the …
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Ethiopia: They Shall Inherit the Wind
The Sandcastles and Dams of African DictatorsAll dictators on the African continent have sought immortality by leaving a legacy that will outlive them and endure for the ages. But all have inherited the wind.
Kwame Nkrumah led the first
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Hailemariam Desalegn answers questions in Parliament
Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn at a Q&A session in Parliament – January 1, 2013
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Ethiopia: An Early Warning for a Famine in 2013
For the past several months, there has been much display of public sorrow and grief in Ethiopia. But not for the millions of invisible Ethiopians who are suffering and dying from starvation, or what the “experts” euphemistically call “acute food …
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Our new Prime Minster’s résumé
By Yilma Bekele
There is no place on planet earth that begs for change like our country Ethiopia. There is no need to itemize all the areas where we stand at the tail end of human achievement. That is the …
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Ethiopia: The Fakeonomics of Meles Zenawi
There is the economics of Adam Smith, the intellectual father of capitalism. There is Levitt & Dubner’s freakonomics of weird stuff. Then there is the fakeonomics (economics by gimmickry) of Meles Zenawi, the dictator in Ethiopia and author of the …
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Ethiopia: The Silence of Lying Lips
Alemayehu G. Mariam
Lies, Junk and Cut-and-Paste
Meles Zenawi, the dictator-in-chief in Ethiopia, says he does not want to talk about the 2010 U.S. State Department Country Reports on Human Rights [Report] in Ethiopia. But speaking through his parrot Hailemariam …
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