Ethiopian opposition leader Merera Gudina says despite the democratic opening ushered following Abiy Ahmed’s appointment as the country’s Prime Minister nine months ago, lack of cohesion and division in leadership of the ruling party is undermining the efficacy of reform…
Country Roads (growing up, exposures, decisions, and reflections) By Aklillu Kidanu Wolde Giorgis 283pp, Self-published …Odysseus sighting his island after years of wandering; the return, the return, the great magic of the return. -Milan Kundera, Ignorance Aklilu Kidanu’s “Country Roads”…
The Amhara Democratic Party (ADP), a member of the ruling coalition has been rebranded from the Amhara National Democratic Movement (ANDM). As part of its attempt to reflect a change in the nature of the party and appeal to a…
Commissioner of Ethiopian Investment Commission, Fitsum Arega is likely to be nominated as Ethiopian ambassador to US. If confirmed, Fitsum would assume one of the government’s most prominent diplomatic posts. Reports of Fitsum’s nomination emerged a week ago in the…
The U.S. Embassy in Addis Ababa on Tuesday rejected allegations by a founding member of the Tigrayan People’s Liberation Front (TPLF) that the United States was involved in the appointment of Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed who took the helm of…
The nation paid its respects to the man who was Ethiopia’s president for more than a decade and a respected environmental activist, Girma Wolde-Ghiorgis, who died on Saturday, during a state funeral on Dec. 19 at the Holy Trinity Cathedral…
Girma Wolde-Giorgis, whose long and successful life has been marked by an active development in civic venture and government service, including serving as president of Ethiopia from 2001 to2013, has died at age 94. He has had his share of…
One of the founders of the Tigray People Liberation Front (TPLF), Abay Tsehaye has made a desperate plea to Eritrean leader Isaias Afwerki to transcend what he called old enmities and join in an alliance with the rank and file…
Peter Gill, in his book, Ethiopia and Foreigners: Ethiopia since the Live Aid (Oxford University Press, 2010), discussing the political chaos that followed in the wake of the 2005 election, which, among other things, led to the fragmentation of a…
A seasoned scholar, a subtle poet, peerless moral hero: Tedla Bairu recalls Mengistu Lemma This is the third in our series of posts to celebrate the life and times of Mengistu Lemma (1928-1988), an Ethiopian playwright, dramatist, poet and diplomat,…
