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In-depth analysis: Qoshe garbage dump collapse: A trail of corruption, criminal negligence and countless victims
Mahlet Fasil Addis Abeba, March 17, 2017 – For the second time in less than six months, the Ethiopian…
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Analysis: Ethiopia: The slow death of a civilian government and the rise of a military might
Addis Abeba, Jan. 24/2017 – To the media’s keen observation, the immediate cause that triggered Ethiopia’s recent nose-dive into…
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Analysis: Inside the controversial EFFORT
Befeqadu Hailu, Special to Addis Standard Addis Abeba, January 16/2017 – Every authoritarian regime has its own symbol…
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The human cost of Ethiopia’s sweeping State of Emergency: “I never wanted to see tomorrow”
Addis Abeba Dec. 19/2016 – On Saturday Dec. 17, Siraj Fegessa, Ethiopia’s minister of defense and the secretariat of the…
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The big debate – Beyond assimilation and accommodation: The resurgence of Oromo nationalism
Ezekiel Gebissa, Special to Addis Standard Ethiopia’s political history of the last half-century has been the pregressive unfolding of the…
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OPDO: Lost, confused and at a crossroads
Kalkidan Yibeltal &Tesfalem Waldyes Less than a year after the Oromo People’s Democratic Party (OPDO), part of the ruling Ethiopian…
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An Oromo dilemma: The national question and democratic transition
Ezekiel Gebissa, Special to Addis Standard In his ground breaking study, An American Dilemma: The Negro Problem and Modern Democracy,…
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Ethiopia Drought: The Worst is yet to come
Kalkidan Yibeltal & Tesfalem Waldyes The Bulbula River, named after the name of the small town 193km south of Ethiopia…
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Ethiopia: The dawn of another ‘structural opening’
Ezekiel Gebissa, Special to Addis Standard Since the creation of the modern Ethiopian state a little more than a century…
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Analysis: Ethiopia’s simmering sores and the re-opening of old wounds
Kalkidan Yibeltal & Tesfalem Waldyes The current government in Ethiopia, the Ethiopian Peoples’ Revolutionary Democratic Front (EPRDF), often claims…
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