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BREAKING – Ethiopia drops charges against three journalists, two bloggers
By Mahlet Fasil After a year and three months since they were first detained by the police, charges were…
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Court passes guilty verdict on Ethiopian Muslim arbitration committee members et.al
The Ethiopian federal high court fourth criminal bench yesterday passed a guilty verdict on eighteen people: four prominent leaders of…
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Out-of-school numbers rise as aid to education falls short of 2010 lev
A new study shows that the number of children and adolescents who are out of school is on the rise, and…
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Why Afaan Oromo should be the other federal working language in Ethiopia
The top twenty three reasons Milkessa Midega In March 2015 Dr. Birhanemeskel Abebe, a renowned Ethiopian academician, came…
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Ethiopia should leave Africa
Roel van der Veen, for Addis Standard Development in the non-Western world In the 1870s Japanese public intellectual Yukichi Fukuzawa…
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The poetics and politics of Oromo resistance
Oromo music has played a central role in providing alternative spaces for enunciating ‘the Oromo question’. Awol Allo On June…
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UK minister for Africa “expresses concern” over Ethiopian elections
As the ruling EPRDF in Ethiopia claimed a 100% historic election victory, Britain’s Minister for Africa, James Duddridge, calls on…
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Ethiopian Election 2015: Caught allies between a rock and a hard place
Editorial On May 24, 2015 Ethiopians went to the polling stations all over the country to cast their votes…
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Breaking: A historic 100% win for Ethiopia’s ruling EPRDF
The Ethiopian national Electoral Board Chairman Prof. Merga Bekan announced today that the ruling Ethiopian People’s Revolutionary Democratic Front (EPRDF),…
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Lemn Sissay announced as next University of Manchester Chancellor
Writer and broadcaster Lemn Sissay MBE has been elected as the next Chancellor of The University of Manchester. The 150,000…
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