The pandemic is laying bare a global water crisis

Insufficient water for washing is likely to worsen the coronavirus in the poorest nations. There’s a better way forward. By Alan Nicol | May 12, 2020, 3:44 PM Foreign Policy Days after he shared images of municipal workers disinfecting the…
Coronavirus cases top 1,000 in Ethiopia

8 people die due to COVID-19 pandemic in Ethiopia, while 208 others recover The number of novel coronavirus cases in Ethiopia passed 1,000 people, according to official data Saturday. According to the Ethiopian Federal Ministry of Health (FMoH) data, 95…
Tsegaye Gabre-Medhin: Patriot and Pastoral Poet

In the tradition of Eastern and Western patriotic and pastoral poets (Elisheva Bikhovski, Darwish, Frost, Bejan Matur, Tagore, and Tennyson) poet-playwright Tsegaye Gabre-Medhin’s seminal work እሳት ወይ አበባ Esat woy Ababa Blaze or Bloom (2007) is replete with references to…
Coronavirus and Ethiopian Constitutional Crisis

I am not a legal scholar, still less a constitutional expert. I wrote this piece on constitutional crisis to assess the consistency of the reactions of opposition parties to the four alternatives that the government presented, less so to provide…