The Queen of Sheba January 25, 2021 The notorious Iraqi Muhammad Saeed al-Sahhaf, better known as Comical Ali, and Nazi Germany’s Joseph Goebbels are distinctly remembered as two of history’s wickedest liars—par excellence. It is fresh in our memory that Muhammad, a former Iraqi diplomat and politician, shot to global fame for his theatrical daily briefings fraught with lies and fabrications during the invasion of Iraq in 2003. In one occasion as Baghdad was falling and artillery fire could be heard from a near distance, he famously told the media that Iraq is beating the US-led coalition. The callous canon…
Special Author’s Note: After I wrote the commentary reprinted below on August 3, 2020, some friends and colleagues were quick to point out how “naïve I was about Tigreans and the TPLF”.…
MoreAlemayehu G. Mariam January 17, 2021 January 16, 2021 – (KHARTOUM) – The head of the Sudanese Sovereign Council, Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, disclosed Saturday that he had agreed with the Ethiopian Prime…
MoreThe Queen of Sheba January 17, 2020 The Ethiopian government has successfully—and thunderously—crashed the putsch perpetrated by a TPLF cabal in short few weeks. The victory—and the defeat—and its execution and pace…
MoreMetta-Alem Sinishaw, Washington, DC January 16, 2021 Summary: Despite international accolades, the reform agenda of Ethiopia’s Prime Minister, Abiy Ahmed, has mixed results due to internal and external vulnerabilities. This paper attempts…
MoreDear Fellow Ethiopians, The Global Alliance for Justice – the Ethiopian Cause (GAJCE) is a not-for-profit organization that has been actively seeking an apology and equitable restitution from the Vatican and Italian…
MoreSouth Sudan’s President Salva Kiir has expressed readiness to mediate between Sudan and Ethiopia to end their border conflict, said Sudan’s Sovereign Council on Thursday. Chairman of Sudan’s Sovereign Council Abdel Fattah…
MoreAddis Ababa, January 15/2021(ENA) Regional and city administrations have held discussion about their election plans, security concerns and solutions at the Office of the Prime Minister today. The task force established at…
MoreEthiopia’s Federal Integrated Task-Force, which is in charge of ending attacks against civilians in different districts of Metekel Zone in Benshangul-Gumuz Region, said it has killed a large number of attackers who…
MoreBy Nima Elbagir, CNN January 14, 2021 (CNN)Sudan says at least five women were killed in border attacks by Ethiopian government-backed militias and it will use all “available means” to respond. Tensions…
MoreTeshome Debalke January 10, 2021 TPLF and its apologists have two distinct commonality – a disdain for the unity of Ethiopians and the sovereignty of the nation. The potent weapon in their…
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