Tigray People’s Liberation Front: Liberation from What/Whom?
The picture at the top is a screenshot of a video posted by Ermias Legesse of Addis Compass. I was unable to hold my tears when I watched the video where mothers, somewhere in southern…
Ethiopia’s Access to Sea: Political Machinations and the Quest for Justice
Prologue In the latest session of the House of People’s Representatives (HoPR) a huge round of applause echoed when PM Abiy Ahmed said: “Let the world hear today, Ethiopia maintains a clear national interest; it…
Tigray News: Tigray Breeding Napoleons or Washingtons?
Tigray News: Tigray is breeding Napoleans or Washingtons? Napoleon Bonaparte once said: “I can no longer obey; I have tasted command, and I cannot give it up” Napoleon was unambiguous about his intention to stay…
Post War Reconstruction in Tigray: What Needs to be Done
by Yohannes Aberra, PhD The Political Backdrop The war in Tigray has ended; but the post war ugly scars, of the untold death and destruction, are visible in every square kilometer of the land and…
Tigray Independence: “Out of the Frying Pan into the Fire”
by Yohannes Aberra (PhD) The metaphor is strikingly revealing. It is a story of uninformed choice in Aesop’s Fables: “A Stag was chased by the hounds, and took refuge in a cave, where he hoped…
“The Pretoria Scare”: Tigray Held Hostage by a TPLF Hardcore
by Yohannes Aberra (PhD) Two Sides of the Same Coin “TPLF and The People of Tigray are two sides of the same coin” said Dr. Debretsion Gebre Michael, chairperson of the Tigray People’s Liberation Front…
Politics and Economics Underlying Ethnic Identity in Ethiopia
During the EPRDF-years in Ethiopia ethnic identity appeared on official IDs to the elation of many ethnicity-based politicians and to the dismay of many more who found the display of ethnic identity on their official…