Author Archives: Assimba

Is Ethiopia’s Sovereign Debt Sustainable?

Seid Hassan, Minga Negash, Tesfaye T. Lemma and Abu Girma Moges[1] Determining the sustainability of a developing country’s public debt is a challenge. This is because most developing countries in general and Sub Saharan Africa (SSA) countries in particular face … Continue reading

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Get well Dr. Craig Spencer

By Yilma Bekele What kind of place would the world be without people like Dr. Craig Spencer? Dr. Spencer is the medical doctor that is currently in New York Hospital with symptoms of the Ebola virus. Before his privacy was … Continue reading

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The honorable Ato Gebru Asrat and his politics

By Yilma Bekele The honorable Ato Gebru Asrat has written a very fat book that is five hundred pages long. I am assuming that the purpose of the book was to present himself as a person of vision and to … Continue reading

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IS EBOLA WHITE?

By Hama Tuma EBOLA  or whatever that is ravaging people in West Africa is no joking matter  and trivializing  it is not my intention at all. Condolences and sympathies to those who lost a kin or are suffering is due. … Continue reading

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Anarchy vs. Stability: Dictatorships and Chaos Go Hand in Hand

A Commentary By Mathieu von Rohr AP A bullet-riddled portrait of Saddam Hussein in Baghdad, Iraq, in 2003 The argument that a stable, autocratic state is better than a failed one has become increasingly fashionable. But it misses the fact … Continue reading

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The violent arrival of Woyane.

By Yilma Bekele We Ethiopians witnessed what those that control our country are capable of doing to unarmed citizens. I am sure the action of the TPLF solder in front of their Embassy in Washington DC is the talk of … Continue reading

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THE KIM IL CUT

Hama Tuma Africans are used to the unkindest cut them of all, most leading to brutal deaths. Bad governance and tyranny, famine and poverty, ethnic cleansing and massacres—you name it and we have lived it even when the neo colonials … Continue reading

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Ethiopia/Eritrea-Anatomy of love/hate relationship.

Yilma Bekele This issue of Eritrea has been with us for more than I can remember. In fact it is fair to say like most of you I have lived all my life being affected by the problem with our … Continue reading

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The divide

Gemencho It was a show the invited African tyrants put at Mandela’s memorial in South Africa. Watching them tripping over each other to pay homage to a man, who, if truth be told, would have banished or put to death, … Continue reading

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The perils of outsourcing the fight for freedom.

By Yilma Bekele I could have titled this piece ‘Obama and his Africa peace keepers’ but that would not be fair. Anybody with half a brain can see that I am trying to make my issue to be his problem. … Continue reading

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