Ethiopia’s National Dialogue: A Crisis of Legitimacy or a Pathway to Peace?
By E Frashie Ethiopian Tribune columnist ADDIS ABABA—Last week, Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed addressed the nation with what government officials…
The Art of Diplomatic “Cooking”: Egypt’s Strategic Containment of Ethiopia
By Sewasew Teklemariam In the intricate theatre of Horn of Africa diplomacy, where ancient civilisations clash with modern statecraft and…
Women’s Bodies as Battlefields: Breast Amputation and Genital Mutilation by The Nobel Peace Laureate Abiy Ahmed Ali’s Soldiers. A tribute to Bealem Wasse
By Girma Berhanu, (Professor) Gothenburg University Department of Education and Special Education girma.berhanu@ped.gu.se Abstract The situation in Ethiopia’s Amhara region…
“Voices Jammed, Truth Suspended”: Ethiopia’s War on Journalism and the Literacy of Power
By Sewasew Teklemariam, Ethiopian Tribune columnist In the long shadow of Ethiopia’s political history, journalism has never been a neutral…
Gold Fever and the Mirage of Recovery: Ethiopia’s Bullion Boom and the Battle for Economic Credibility
Ethiopia’s gold exports have surged past coffee for the first time, fuelling hopes of a stronger birr. But unless the…
Land of Hunger The Granaries Are Full, On PowerPoint World Food Day in Ethiopia: A Feast of Rhetoric, a Famine of Truth
By Sewasew Teklemariam Ethiopian Tribune columnist On 16 October, Ethiopia marked World Food Day with the usual fanfare: speeches from…
The New Tycoons of Abiy’s Ethiopia: Barons, Enablers and the Quiet Gold Rush for Data and Power
By Thomas Araya Ethiopian Tribune columnist “A new Ethiopia is being born,” Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed declared in 2019. Six…
The Silence of Amhara (Ethiopian) Intellectuals: A Call for Moral and Scholarly Responsibility
Girma Berhanu (Professor) Abstract Despite ongoing atrocities and systemic persecution targeting the Amhara people in Ethiopia, the intellectual response from…
Ethiopia’s Morality Police Target Hemlines Whilst Addis Ababa’s Sex Trade Thrives Unchecked
Authorities fine women for ‘immodest’ dress as capital’s red-light districts operate openly, serving burgeoning middle-class demand By Alemitu Regassa researcher…
Geʽez and the Politics of Cultural Erasure in Contemporary Ethiopia
Girma Berhanu (Professor) Abstract In recent public discourse, a prominent Ethiopian figure dismissed the ancient Semitic language Geʽez as “dead”…