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A coalition of Eritrean opposition groups elected a chairman over the weekend, ending a long-running leadership dispute that had crippled efforts to topple the Asmara regime, officials said Sunday.Professor Mesfin on the Ethio/Sudan border (1995)
An Amharic article, written in 1995 by Professor Mesfin W/Mariam, concerning the Ethio/Sudan border Issue.Latest News
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The new is not yet born: The battle for African democracy |
Unfreedom in Ethiopian Universities | |
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Steven Friedman
What is happening now, in Africa, is that Africans are trying, more effectively than ever before, to win the right to govern themselves, to ensure that leaders lead because the people put them there and stay only as long as the people want them. (More...) |
Professor Alemayehu G. Mariam
The recent history of academic freedom and free intellectual inquiry in Ethiopian higher education is deeply scarred by political interference, political correctness, arbitrary purges of professors, harassment and persecution of faculty and students, and general intellectual repression. (More...) | |
NO GOOD DEED WILL GO UNPUNISHED |
Ideas for ending the endemic governance crises in Ethiopia | |
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Professor Alemayehu G. Mariam
The importance of civil society institutions in democratizing Ethiopia has been repeatedly acknowledged by the current regime leader....So, what is wrong with Draft Proclamation No. 00/20071? Let’s count the ways (More...) |
Professor Mammo Muchie
In Africa the people with knowledge - fear power, and those in power fear knowledge. How are the power-men going to invite knowledge to solve the real problem of real people? (More...) |
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[Ethiopia: Visit to England for the Coronation of King Edward VII, August 1902] Ras Mekonnen (sitting), with the Chief Priest of Harar, Generals and an official interpreter. Ras Mekonnen's cloak and shirt probably made by Serouphi Ebeyan, dress-maker to the Ethiopian Court. Weapons: Curved Ethiopian sword in leather scabbard; (Rifle) probably Lee Speed .303 bolt action rifle (known in Amharic as dimetfor). |
