Opinion
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Tripartite Free Trade Area an opportunity not a threat
Sindiso Ngwenya The launching of the Tripartite Free Trade Area on Wednesday 10 June 2015 is a historical milestone…
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Egypt’s dead men walking
Omar Ashour Cairo – Mass death sentences are usually associated with regimes like those of Adolf Hitler’s Nazis or Pol…
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Lies, damn lies, and the British election
Chris Patten London – Democratic elections cannot be described as competitions aimed at revealing which candidates tell the unvarnished truth.…
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Bring them back now
Gordon Brown London – It has been nearly a year since the Islamist extremist group Boko Haram kidnapped 276 girls…
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Ignore Lencho Lata’s compromise idea at your own peril
Olaana Abbaaxiiqii I read Lencho Lata’s recent op-ed, “Electoral Absolutism in Ethiopia,” with great interest. Ethiopia is approaching a political…
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Youth & politics in post-revolution Ethiopia
Eyob Aselefech Balcha, Special to Addis Standard Nearly half a century had passed since the Ethiopian Students’ Movement (ESM)…
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Isolating Israel
Daoud Kuttab Ramallah – Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu certainly has reason to celebrate. He surprised nearly everyone by…
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Russian policy toward Ukraine: The view from Paris
Mark N. Katz, Special to Addis Standard I visited Paris March 4-10, 2015, to talk with people there about…
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Economic Statistics: problems of knowledge and manipulation
Morten Jerven Routinely economic statistics inform and support big headlines, but statistics itself seldom makes the news. That was…
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Can Yemen be saved?
By Barak Barfi Sana’a – Yemen is no stranger to crisis. Exposed to a regional proxy war between Iran and…
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