Monthly Archives: September 2006

Post-Election 2005 Ethiopia: A Sketch of Political Trends and Follies

By Assafa Endeshaw

1. The available accounts and reports suggest that nearly all the political parties and groups were resigned to the probability that the outcome of the 2005 elections in Ethiopia might confirm the TPLF/EPRDF’s grip on power. The …

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Proposal for the creation of a transitional government in exile

Ethiopian Review Editorial

Now that the Meles regime has ignored the AFD’s call for a national reconciliation conference, the next step is for the AFD to go ahead and set up a transitional government in exile. A plan could be …

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Haregewoin Teferra: The whole world in her home

By Curtis Sittenfeld | Salon.com

For Melissa Fay Greene, the enormity of the AIDS orphan crisis in Africa became impossible to ignore one Sunday morning in August 2000. After reading an article in the New York Times estimating that more …

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On the Trial of the Kaliti Detainees

Further response to the critic of Getz #5

By Donald N. Levine

In my June 18 response to the engaging letter of Tibebu Bekele, published in Addis Fortune two weeks earlier, I commented on problems of Ethiopia’s judiciary. Regarding the …

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A Day in Ethiopia’s Nech Sar National Park

By AshenafiAssefa
Media ETHIOPIA Photo Correspondent

I was recently in Arba Minch town some 500km south of Addis, for two weeks fieldwork at the Arba Minch Hospital. You may wonder how the flood is going on up there, as the …

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The AFD is created in response to the crying of the Ethiopian people for unity and democracy

This time around we may make it

By Lealem Yitayew

The recent development in the alliance of forces in Ethiopian politics has initiated hot discussions among Ethiopians. The emergence of AFD has divided Ethiopians into opposite camps. Many Ethiopians see …

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This time around we may make it The AFD is created in response to the crying of the Ethiopian people for unity and democracy

This time around we may make it

By Lealem Yitayew

The recent development in the alliance of forces in Ethiopian politics has initiated hot discussions among Ethiopians. The emergence of AFD has divided Ethiopians into opposite camps. Many Ethiopians see …

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