Ethiopia's Hailemariam gets a new title
- Created on Monday, 17 September 2012 16:37
(OPride) -- After close to three months of speculation on who would assume the post vacated by the late Prime Minister Zenawi, the ruling Ethiopian Revolutionary Democratic Front (EPRDF) selected Hailemariam Desalegn and Demeke Mekonnen as party Chairman and deputy, respectively, the two becoming almost shoe-ins for Prime Minister and Deputy Prime Minister when the legislature meets next month. Their confirmation is a forgone conclusion.
Ethiopia: Prospects for Change and Stability Post-Meles
- Created on Wednesday, 12 September 2012 13:09
Buri Waddesso | September 11, 2012 | Part IV
Twenty years ago, one chilly and drizzly morning in otherwise uneventful North American winter, I met a Tigrean freedom fighter, a tegadalti, on a short bus ride to the airport.
Ethiopia Post-Meles and the Oromo Agenda
- Created on Monday, 10 September 2012 07:28
by Magarsa Mukhtar
No dictator rules for a lifetime. Not in the new millennium. With the wave of domestic anti-government sentiments and the rapid trends of change across the region, Meles Zenawi's days as prime minister of Ethiopia were always numbered.
Susan Rice and America’s “our son-of-a-bitch” Policy
- Created on Saturday, 08 September 2012 03:55
(OPride) – On Sep. 2, following Ethiopia’s meticulously choreographed funeral for former dictator, Meles Zenawi, which was designed to buttress his legacy, a friend asked me to listen to the United States Ambassador to the UN, Susan Rice's encomium on the deification ceremony. I obliged but regret doing so because I came out a cynic.
Ethiopia Post-Meles: Prospects for Change and Stability
- Created on Monday, 03 September 2012 22:43
By Buri Waddesso | September 3, 2012 | Part III
Part one of this series asserted that while the Ethiopian regime left behind by Zenawi faces little organized opposition to endanger its hold on power in the short-term, serious turbulence lie ahead.
Zenawi's grisly legacy: economic growth or development?
- Created on Monday, 03 September 2012 01:46
By Nemera G. Mamo
The death, mourning, and funeral of Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi, an ascribed dictator hailed by his supporters as a hero, remained the biggest news story for the second half of August.
Zenawi's funeral brings out the North Korea in EPRDF
- Created on Sunday, 02 September 2012 04:30
OPride Staff| September 1, 2012
So how do you really mourn a dead tyrant?
WE may have an answer. When Ethiopia’s longtime dictator, Meles Zenawi, died last month, thousands flocked to Bole International Airport, in the capital, Addis Ababa, standing in a drenching rain to welcome the body of their “irreplaceable” leader, who unbeknownst to them died abroad of “infection.”
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