By Obang Metho
Anuak Justice Council
What lessons have we Ethiopians learned in 2006? Perhaps more than we realize! I will start with myself. As you all know, I, Obang Metho, am not a member of any political party. As …
By Obang Metho
Anuak Justice Council
What lessons have we Ethiopians learned in 2006? Perhaps more than we realize! I will start with myself. As you all know, I, Obang Metho, am not a member of any political party. As …
(Full text of Prof. Al Mariam’s speech in Seattle on January 28, 2007 )
Good afternoon Friends, Ladies and Gentlemen:
Welcome to this event honoring special heroes in the struggle for human rights in Ethiopia.
Before I introduce our guest …
Director-General of the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (UNFAO) Dr.Jacques Diouf met FAO-Ethiopia staff on Saturday 27 January 2006 at the FAO Country Office here inEthiopia. On the occasion, he lauded the staff for the remarkable achievement registered so far …
Los Angeles (AR) 01.20.2007 – Demonstrators, that call themselves “Concerned Ethiopians and Ethiopian Americans in Los Angeles,†angrily shouted slogans when Ethiopia’s Councilor Taye Ezeke Selassie entered the Korean Church at Fairfax Av., Little Ethiopia, to open a town hall …
Ethiopian Women for Peace and Development
Jan 25, 2007
We, members of the Ethiopian Women for Peace and Development (EWPD) are extremely concerned about the current situation in Somalia and Ethiopia’s involvement. We strongly believe that this war was ill-conceived …
Never was so much owed by so many to so few…
How does one thank those who put everything on the line to stand up for justice, truth and the Ethiopian way?
How does one express appreciation to those who …
Short biographies of Ethiopian Writers (compiled 2005 -2006) in Amharic with photos. Click here – pdf…
Mr. Obang O. Metho, Director of International Advocacy, for the Anuak Justice Council (AJC),
Speech at Martin Luther King, Jr. 4th Annual Human Rights Symposium, sponsored by Martin Luther King, Africa-African American Renaissance March Committee, at the Historic Ebenezer Baptist …
By Mohamed Diriye Abdullahi
Hargeisa, Somaliland
Many people in Somaliland and especially the leadership have always thought they had a good friend in Meles Zenawi, Ethiopia’s helmsman for life, and that he would assist Somaliland’s quest for recognition when the …
By Kidane Alemayehu
The Meles regime invasion of Somalia and the ongoing stabilization process presents an opportunity to make a sober assessment of the prospects for future developments in the Horn of Africa. Essentially, current circumstances clearly indicate that the …
By Ali Osman Samater
Soon after the collapse of the dictatorial military regime of Siad Barre in January 1991 the Somali people went through a long, anarchic and painful agony, caused by clan-based warlords mainly in the south of Somalia. …
Who Needs the United Nations More?
Everyone in the developing world and even a good number of Europeans are convinced that the United States today poses a great, incalculable danger to world peace. The peace of developing nations is more …
By Mohamed Diriye Abdullahi
Hargeisa, Somaliland
When the Americans went to Mogadishu in 1992, they thought pacifying it would be a piece of cake: they had the personnel, the armor and the financial resources. They also had a false of …
It is to be remembered that last November, Ethiopia’s dictator Meles Zenawi fired several high-ranking military officers, including General Alemeshet Degife of the Air Force, and Generals Kumera Assefa and Asamenew Tsige of the Army. By some estimate, close to …
By Maru Gubena
As will be clear in the following paragraphs, the cardinal foundation of US foreign policy is its own multiple and complex interests. It might, therefore, not be wrong to assume that the views and disillusionment expressed by …
By Alemayehu G. Mariam
In the 1979 animation adventure, Puff the Magic Dragon and the Land of Living Lies, the Dragon takes a little girl called Sandy, who has a vivid imagination and lies a lot to escape the problems …