By TEDDY GIRUM ክርስትያኖች ስለኢትዮጵያ ሲነሳ ሁሌ እነደ ዳዊት የሚደግሙት አነድ ጥቅስ አለ። “ኢትዮጵያ እጆችዋን ወደ እግዚአብሔር ትዘረጋለች” በርግጥ የእስራኤል አምላክ ለኢትዮጵያም አምላክ ነዉ? መፅሃፍ ቅዱስ ስለኢትዮጵያና ኢትዮጵያዉያን ምን አንደሚል በጥልቀት ለማጥናት ሞከረኩ። ግኝቴ ግን እጅግ አስደንጋጭ ነበር። (መጽሐፈ ዜና መዋዕል. 14:13) አሳም ከእርሱም ጋር ያለው ሕዝብ እስከ ጌራራ ድረስ አሳደዱአቸው፤ ኢትዮጵያውያንም ፈጽመው እስኪጠፉ ድረስ ወደቁ፥…
By Kay Musonda, Modern Ghana ”Africa is currently experiencing another form of slavery through Pentecostalism. We are now mentally lazy and our ability to reason scientifically has been incapacitated. The African pastor won’t talk about Usain Bolt or Serena Williams. The African Pastor won’t talk about Steve Jobs or the young people in Silicon Valley reshaping…
Contending Modernities Photo Credit: Dr Chris Okafor. https://www.facebook.com/hashtag/drchrisokafor At the core of my ongoing study of Pentecostal pastors and changing forms of authority in Africa are two related premises. First, due to a variety of factors, partly socio-economic, but also cultural as well as political, the landscape of authority across a majority of African states…
By Common Dreams The UK Government is training senior members of Ethiopia’s security sector, despite the illegal detention of a British father on the country’s death row. The news comes as 53 MPs and peers call on the Foreign Office to secure Andy Tsege’s return from unlawful detention. A freedom of information request by international…
By Paul Schemm ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia — The headline in Britain’s Daily Mail couldn’t have been more triumphant: “Aid: Now they’re listening,” it shouted in huge letters. The conservative paper was celebrating the withdrawal of British funding for an aid project in Ethiopia it has dubbed “the Ethiopian Spice Girls.” These “girls” are a five-member all-female band…
By Biraanu Gammachu On 9th April 2016, Reuters reported, more than five hundred migrants; 15 from Ethiopian, 190 from Somalia, 80 from Egypt and 85 from Sudan have drowned as an overcrowded Ship ferrying them left Alexandria, Egypt heading to Greek capsized in Mediterranean ocean. Same year in similar incident tens and hundreds of migrants…
William Davison | The Guardian From uneven development to authoritarian government, the morass of issues facing the city of Gondar offer a snapshot of Ethiopia’s wider problems A coach torched by anti-government protesters in Gondar, Ethiopia. William Davison in Gondar In Gondar, a city in Ethiopia’s northern highlands, a lone tourist pauses to take a photo of…
ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia — Human rights groups are asking Ethiopia’s government to immediately disclose the whereabouts of a popular local journalist who has been behind bars since October 2014. The Association for Human Rights in Ethiopia and Defenders on Wednesday called it “unacceptable” that the government was unwilling or unable to provide Temesgen Desalegn’s relatives…
By Matt Khoury, for CNNPhotos: ‘Odyssey’ by Louisa Seton Mursi women – The scarification on shoulder of the woman standing on the right is prominent. Denoting beauty, the process involves cutting the skin with a razor and applying ash from fires to infect the wound. The scar tissue then causes the skin to protrude. (CNN)Kenyan-raised,…
Africa Ethiopians across the world have been protesting During a year of anti-government protests throughout Ethiopia, its global diaspora, particularly that in the US, has been deeply involved – and not just vocally, writes Addis Ababa-based journalist James Jeffrey. Twitter and Facebook have been blocked since a six-month state of emergency was imposed last…