Month: June 2016
- Africa
News: At least four people killed in Addis Abeba following confrontations between citizens and the police
Mahlet Fasil Two police officers, one civil servant and one local resident were killed yesterday in Addis Abeba in an area known to the locals as Hanna Furi, several eyewitnesses said. Administratively designated as Nefas Silk Lafto Kifle Ketema, the area is located in western Addis Abeba. According to eyewitnesses who spoke to Addis Standard the two police officers and…
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Opinion: Mapmaking and warmongering in Africa
Stelios Michalopoulos and Elias Papaioannou Providence/London – Why are some regions plagued by seemingly endless instability? In the Middle East, one widespread argument, which even the Islamic State expounds, puts much of the blame for chronic conflict on the Sykes-Picot Agreement, the secret deal agreed 100 years ago by France and Great Britain to divide between them the soon-to-be-former Ottoman…
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News: US, Ethiopia team up to end TB
The U.S. Government, through the U.S Agency for International Development (USAID), in partnership with Ethiopia’s Ministry of Health and implementing partners KNCV Tuberculosis Foundation, Management Sciences for Health (MSH) and the World Health Organization (WHO), today celebrated the transition from the HEAL-TB activity to Challenge TB, the US embassy in Addis Abeba said in a statement. “Working closely with the…
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Editorial: A new Ethiopia must have no business keeping old, repressive institutions!
As you walk by the area, nothing looks out of ordinary. It is a bustling part of Piassa overcrowded with – as many parts of Piassa are – bars, shops, hotels and restaurants. Pedestrians go back and forth past it oblivious of its presence (or perhaps terrified of it.) The Ethiopian Federal Police Force Central Bureau of Criminal Investigation, known…
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Tells from “Chambers of torture”: Living the present
Abel Wabela On April 25 2014, the day Abel Wabela was taken to his cell at Ma’ekelawi, he was overcome by a feeling of confusion and physical exhaustion. Once inside the center, “they took my belt, my shoe; they opened the door of the cell and [pushed] me inside,” he remembers. The room was pitch-dark; he couldn’t make head or…
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Tales from “Chambers of torture”: Remembering the past
Abera Tolla It was January 1978, the height of Derg’s Red Terror campaign. At 21, I was a last year student at the business department of the Addis Abeba University (AAU). Derg’s campaign of terror was targeting university students. Its brutal crackdown against the Ethiopian Peoples’ Revolutionary Party (EPRP) and the All Ethiopian Socialist Movement (MEISON) forced students to give…
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News: Ethiopia Federal Court adjourned Bekele Gerba et.al for verdict
Mahlet Fasil Judges at the Federal High Court 19th Criminal Bench here in the capital have today adjourned the hearing until August 01, 20016 to give verdict involving the case for high level opposition figures. The verdict will decide on whether or not defendants have a case to defend. Today’s decision came after judges have gone through prosecutors’ charges indicting…
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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, the Swedish Nobel-laureate economist Gunnar Myrdal described America’s race problem as a vicious cycle in which whites oppressed blacks and then blamed their alleged poor performance as the reason for their oppression. The way to break this cycle, Myrdal suggested, was to disprove…
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News: Rights group say more than 400 killed in Ethiopia’s #OromoProtests
Ethiopian security forces have killed more than 400 protesters and others, and arrested tens of thousands more during widespread protests in the Oromia region since November 2015, Human Rights Watch said in a report. The group also called on the “Ethiopian government should urgently support a credible, independent investigation into the killings, arbitrary arrests, and other abuses.” The report came…
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