Year: 2013
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Art Review
Argo: ‘the best bad idea’
Reviewed by Andrew DeCort Amidst strong competition, it’s debatable whether deserved to win this year’s Oscar for Best Picture. But…
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Are women really interested in the emancipation?
Ashenafi Zedebub Nowadays, it is not at all strange to see women being posted at a higher – or even …
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Africa
Ethiopia’s accession to the WTO : Inevitable revision of laws and procedures
Kiya Tsegaye The World Trade Organization was transformed from the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT), which was established…
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Commentary
Hugo Chavez’s constitutional legacy
William Partlett After his recent death, Hugo Chavez’s legacy is being widely debated. Those on the right see his death…
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Commentary
Will there be a Russian Spring?
Not if Russian President Vladimir Putin can help it! Mark N. Katz But can he help it? Authoritarian rulers elsewhere…
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U.S
State legislatures launch their ‘War on Women’
Tomas Mega, U.S. correspondent Liberals thought the re-election of a Democratic President, a U.S. Senate majority and increasing Democratic…
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Op/Ed
Pan-Africanism and the youth in Africa: between now and then
The song of Pan-Africanism cannot be sung in today’s Africa the same way as it was half a century ago…
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Sexual abuse against children in Ethiopia: Increasingly worrisome
Emnet Assefa In the second week of March this year, participants of a talk show on Sheger 102.1 FM radio…
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Africa
Ethiopia’s HDI:Improving, yet among the worst performers
Ethiopia’s HDI shows an impressing progress, but only when it is compared to its own figures of the past Bisrat…
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