By Alem Mamo The year was 1984. A famine of unimaginable proportions was ravaging the northern region of Ethiopia. Besides the famine, that part of Ethiopia was also in the midst of a multi dimensional bloody civil war that took so many lives and destroyed infrastructure. The fighting parties were the Tigray People’s Liberation Front... »
(Part II, Separating facts from fiction) By Neamin Zeleke “A man should keep learning as long as he is ignorant, as long as he lives” Seneca “The whole glory of virtue lies in activity” Cicero In his latest article, written as a response to my response, Mr. Tibebe continues... »
By Sisay Agena, Serkalem Fasil and Eskinder Nega The fines imposed were: 1:Serkalem Publishing House 120, 000 birr(one hundred twenty thousand birr) 2:Sisay Publishing House100, 000 birr (one hundred thousand birr) 3:Zekarias Publishing House:60, 000 birr (sixty thousand birr) 4: Fasil Publishing House:15, 000 birr (fifteen twenty thousand... »
Sam Jones guardian.co.uk The BBC is standing by a report that 95% of the $100m aid raised to fight famine in northern Ethiopia in 1985 was diverted by rebels and spent on weapons, despite denials by Bob Geldof and leading charities. A programme broadcast last week by... »
BBC World Service An edition of the BBC World Service programme Assignment, alleging that money intended for famine relief in Ethiopia in the mid-1980s was used to buy weapons, has prompted an angry response from aid campaigners. Andrew Whitehead, Editor, News and Current Affairs at the... »
By Luelseged Degu Introduction By all counts, the issue of land grabbing or as the EPRDF government would call it “the Ethiopian Green Revolution” has become paramount to our future existence as a nation. Apart from a five-year occupation by Italy, Ethiopia has never been colonized,... »