In keeping silent about evil, in burying it so deep within us that no sign of it appears on the… (more)

The news that Suu Kyi’s National League for Democracy, in addition to wining a majority in Burma’s recent parliamentary elections,… (more)

The ancient Romans secured their cities with gates and walls against marauding barbarians. The Romans aimed to keep the “barbarians… (more)

Prof. Mesfin Woldemariam’s latest Amharic  book, “Adafne: Fear and Failure”, is at once a lamentation on the decline and  decay… (more)

Mesrak Gessesse I am now writing this as I just finished my annual mammogram and ultra sound testing for breast… (more)

It is a big international secret that Ethiopia today is in the middle of a Biblical famine. For the second… (more)