Oromsis, Where Opinion Matters!

By John Vidal We turned off the main road to Awassa, talked our way past security guards and drove a mile across empty land before we found what will soon be Ethiopia's largest greenhouse. Nestling below an

By Howard LesserThe stabbing death of an opposition candidate in Ethiopia’s northern Tigray region is raising new calls for an inquiry and an easing of 2009 repressive legislation that critics say is restrain

By Andrew Whitehead A quarter of a century ago, the BBC's Michael Buerk achieved something very rare - he not only reported the world, but changed it a little bit. His vivid on-the-spot coverage of a famine "

By Jason McLure (Bloomberg) -- An Ethiopian opposition candidate was stabbed to death by six unidentified men in an attack described by government opponents as part of an intimidation campaign by the rulin

By Oromsis AdulaGadaa.com has a brilliant piece on Medrek's stance on a wide range of issues in the upcoming election. Using Gadaa.com's summary of the first round of televised debate, I compiled the following

By Peter Heinlein, Addis AbabaThe Green Revolution that ended food shortages in parts of the world decades ago may be coming to East Africa, bringing the promise of bountiful harvests in a region more often ass

Ahead of national elections scheduled for May 2010, the ruling Ethiopian Peoples’ Revolutionary Democratic Front (EPRDF) further curtailed the limited freedom of the country’s small number of independent

By Barry Malone ADDIS ABABA, Feb 17 (Reuters) - Ethiopia's main opposition coalition said on Wednesday that some of its candidates were being prevented at gunpoint from registering for national elections in May

By Jason McLure Feb. 17 (Bloomberg) -- Ethiopia’s main opposition grouping disputed a government claim that political opponents of Prime Minister Meles Zenawi’s ruling party are colluding with the coun

Dr. Merera Gudina, a leading opposition figure and chairman of Medrek and Oromo People's Congress, discusses the upcoming Ethiopian Election scheduled for May 22, 2010. He explains the lack of democratic level

World Rank: 136            Regional Rank: 28 of 46Ten Economic Freedoms of Ethiopia 66.3  Business Freedom Avg 64.6     

By Barry Malone ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) - An Ethiopian journalist has been jailed for one year for writing a newspaper article disagreeing with the country's prime minister, a U.S.-based press freedom watchdog s

By Qeerransoo Biyyaa, Embracing 11 official languages is one of the major breakthroughs that South Africa has achieved after the fall of apartheid and its transition to democracy in 1994. Despite challenges of

WASHINGTON (AFP) – President Barack Obama's nominee to be the next US ambassador to Ethiopia pledged on Tuesday to press the government in Addis Ababa to improve human rights, free political prisoners and ma

Statement of Donald E. BoothU.S. Ambassador-designate to EthiopiaBefore the Senate Committee on Foreign RelationsFebruary 2, 2009Mr. Chairman and distinguished Members of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee;

As swathes of their country’s land is leased, cleared and prepared for food production by foreign companies, Ethiopians are divided over whether this constitutes ‘agro-colonialism’ or much-needed developm

By Africa Action and FPIF StaffEthiopia Meles Zenawi has been in power as prime minister of Ethiopia since August 23, 1995. He has forged very strong military ties to the United States, and his loyalty has res

Habte Banti Nagassa, an Oromo, is said to be the pilot of the Ethiopian Airliner that went down immediately after take off from Beirut International Airport. Habte is also identified as a brother of the late Yi

Ethiopia is on a deteriorating human rights trajectory as parliamentary elections approach in 2010. These will be the first national elections since 2005, when post-election protests resulted in the deaths of a

FromThe Economist print edition. Meles Zenawi will probably win the election. But that may not bring calm.WORRIES about Ethiopia’s election, due in May, are growing. Aid-giving Western governments hope it wi