Ethiopia: Ethiopian Review

About 10,000 copies of a non-political monthly magazine, Enku, has been impounded by the police and its publisher and deputy editor, Alemayehu Mahtemework, imprisoned. The magazine’s cover story is about the imprisonment of Ethiopia’s pop icon and critic of the government, Tewdros Kasahun, which is stirring political passions in the country... More >>

Sudanese army burns Ethiopian villages

Ethio-Sudan Border Committee reports that last week the Sudanese army entered Ethiopian territory and has burned at least 24 farming communities. The Sudanese have also rounded up and taken away several Ethiopians from the villages. The Woyanne army in the area took the side of the Sudanese and has accused the villagers of attacking Sudanese troops… More >>

The Epidemic of Election Stealing in Africa

There is an epidemic of election rigging and stealing in Africa but the most virulent form of the disease appears to be sitting in Ethiopia. The current sick regional and local “elections” being held in Ethiopia is only a case in the pattern. The concept and ideals of election are completely put upside down.For Gods sakes, how can you have elections when you don’t have choices to make and even if you choose you are not sure what the authorities do with your vote? ... More >>

The root cause of the food crises in Ethiopia

In Ethiopia food aid/dependency continues to persist for over three decades now since the 1974 famine! Food security and independence continue to recede. Schemes like the food security strategy by the regime in power (1996) has not made any difference to change the food dependency situation of the country running now for over a generation with no clear way yet in place to get the country out of this unacceptable predicament... More >>

Escape routes from the dechasa trap

I have heard so many great sermons and moral teachings in Ethiopian churches in the Diaspora, but I've never heard a preacher or a priest challenging the moral decadence attributable to welfare swindling, the resultant lack of work ethics, loss of direction and the distorted purpose of living in exile seeking a "better" life. If someone from your church catches you eating chicken on a Friday, your sin quickly becomes the talk of the whole congregation... More >>

Court orders 'humane' execution of air force pilots

The Woyanne kangaroo court has instructed the Federal Police that the death sentence against the former Ethiopian air force pilots must be carried out humanly inside the prison compound… More >>

Dechesa addiction among Ethiopians in the U.K.

Last year I went to the U.K. to do a comparative research on welfare benefits. That had given me a chance to closely scrutinize how some Ethiopians in the UK survive on benefits. You may wonder why anyone would want to write about the positive and negative effects of benefits on an immigrant community. The simple answer is the pervasive addiction of welfare benefits, also known as Dechasa, among able bodied Ethiopians who have every opportunity to succeed without being indefinitely dependent on welfare benefits… More >>

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