Ethiopia

The bill proposed by the Council of Ministers in March 2014, and rejected a week later by the parliament due to condemnation of the international community, is a very good example of the hostility towards LGBTQ people in this second most populous African nation.

First and foremost, I would like to express my sincere belief that people of Ethiopian heritage hold great hope in the democratic vision and leadership you have demonstrated in the short time that you have been in office.

Loan of looted Ethiopian treasures to Ethiopia: Must Europeans always win?

From this scene I strolled away to the northern gate, to where the dead body of the late

Introduction

In what seems like a watershed moment, Ethiopia has a new head of state: Abiy Ahmed, who was sworn in amid much fanfare on 2 April 2018.

Exactly ten years ago at the annual meeting of the Oromo Studies Association in Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States of America, the late, great Kenyan comparativist and philosopher Ali Mazrui gave the keynote speech.

In July Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu made his historical visit to four East African countries: Uganda, Kenya, Rwanda and concluding in Ethiopia.

Ethiopians cite disputes over land, ethnicity and indiscriminate killings of protestors as the real causes of the Ethiopian “intifada”.

Hosted by Jimma University’s young and enthusiastic College of Law and Governance along with the Vice President’s Office of Research and Community Relations, this 5-day writing workshop brought 36 scholars from nine countries to Jimma, Ethiopia.

This commentary is our fourth installment on the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD).