LETTER Open Letter to Prime Minister Meles Zenawi By G. E. Gorfu: Feb 24, 2005 Dear H.E. Prime Minister Meles Zenawi: The BBC’s Mike Thomson (Feb. 3, 2005) reports: “Mr.…
News Ethiopian Circus Band in Melbourne The Age: Feb 20, 2005 Ethiopian Circus Band members Seble Girma, Abay Abebe, Tiglu Mekuera and Abiy Abebe. (Photo: The Age) Seble Girma’s musical…
VIEWPOINT Financing rural repression By Feyissa Woyessa: Feb 20, 2005 The temperature of Ethiopian politics has been on the rise due to the coming drama to be staged by Meles…
Report Reggae rings out as thousands celebrate Bob Marley in Ethiopia By Mark Lacey, The New York Times (Feb 7, 2005) As Ziggy Marley (L) performs, dreadlocked Rastafarians from around…
Report Meles Zenawi pours troops into defiant Tembien February 5, 2005 Mekelle – Over 2000 government troops have laid seige to the northern Ethiopian town of Abi Adi in Tigrai…
Report Decades after his death, Bob Marley’s vision unites By Emily Wax (Washington Post Foreign Service): February 5, 2005 ADDIS ABABA – Under the Rastafarian yellow, green and red flags…
COMMENTARY Ethiopian Diaspora should vote in upcoming elections By Halefom G. Selassie: Feb 3, 2005 On January 30, 2005, the people of Iraq voted which is their first free election…
NEWS The Nile, Ethiopia and Egypt By Fikre Mariam Tsehai: Feb 3, 2005 Upon reading a news clip by Mike Thomson of the BBC on February 3, 2005 entitled “Nile…
VIEWPOINT TPLF/EPRDF vs the People The political dilemma of Ethiopia By Negusse Gamma: January 30, 2005 The people of every country are the only safe guardians of their own rights…
VIEWPOINT We deserve our leaders By Dr. Messay Kebede: January 30, 2005 Why is that, time and again, Ethiopians inherit situations that they neither longed for nor anticipated? Worse, the…