This week, I stumbled upon a Facebook post by Suleman Abdullah, offering a distressing personal narrative about the harsh consequences of displacement in areas around Addis Ababa, now referred to as Sheger.
In Summary
This is my third article on the topic of Oromummaa in four weeks. Some of my readers wonder why I am “so focused on Oromummaa.”
This discussion paper is prepared with inputs from many prominent individuals and groups in Ethiopia and abroad.
Having won the Cold War globally, the US-led West midwifed the birth of a new post-Dergue Political Order in Ethiopia in 1991.
Commentators on the highly polarized political schism currently within Ethiopia appear to wrongfully point out the current mass unrest within the Amhara Regional State as being a road block to the peace agreement signed in Pretoria between the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia (FDRE) and the Tigray Regional State. Instead of recognizing the unrest as being the result of the direct failure of the sham peace agreement itself.
ሕገ ወጥ ግንባታን የማፍረስ እርምጃ ሕጋዊ ሂደትን መከተልና እርምጃው ሊያስከትል የሚችለውን ማኅበራዊ ቀውስ ከግንዛቤ በማስገባት አማራጭ መፍትሔዎችን ማመቻቸት ያስፈልጋል
“Failed state” refers to a state whose government is unable to perform its two most fundamental functions: it cannot project any meaningful authority over its territory and it cannot protect its national boundaries.
