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Math Meets PP Regime Myth: Prosperity at 18-20% or More Interest Rate
By Editorial Team Posted on2025-10-122025-10-12
This fourth installment in the Math Meets PP Regime Myth series examines Ethiopia’s record-shattering bank interest rate — a feat only the Prosperity Party regime could frame as progress. In the land of sanity, interest rates hover around 1–2%, allowing businesses to borrow, grow, and reinvest. Ethiopia now faces 24% interest rate. For small and medium enterprises operating on 5–10% margins, this is not financing but strangulation. When credit costs more than profit, business shifts from value creation to sheer survival — and the economy itself begins to suffocate.
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The Real Invasion: Setting the Record Straight on Irreechaa in Finfinnee
By OT Editorial Posted on2025-10-052025-10-05
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When Amhara journalist Mesay Mekonnen called the Oromo people’s Irreechaa celebration in Finfinnee an “invasion,” he inverted history itself. Finfinnee was founded through the blood of Tuulama Oromos — victims of the real invasion under Menelik II’s empire. To call their thanksgiving trespass is to mock truth and morality. Irreechaa in Finfinnee is no invasion; it is a people’s dignified reaffirming of the center of their own homeland, culture, and memory.
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Much Ado About Irreechaa in Finfinnee: Roots, Identity, and the Future of Coexistence
By Leemman Leeqaa Posted on2025-10-012025-09-29
The festival of Irreechaa in Finfinnee is not an invasion but a return to roots. It embodies the Oromo people’s right to celebrate their culture in their own capital. Ethiopia’s unity will endure only if built on equality and mutual respect, not cultural supremacy or denial of history.
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Much Ado About Irreechaa: Psychology Behind the Criticism of Oromo Thanksgiving
By OT Editorial Posted on2025-09-302025-09-30
Irreechaa is not a religion—just as American Thanksgiving is not. It is a thanksgiving rooted in Oromo tradition yet embraced across faiths and nations. Critics, some even using AI to caricature Oromos, miss the joy, colour, and harmony it embodies. At its heart, Irreechaa is not dogma but a universal celebration of gratitude, diversity, and humanity.
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Opinion | Politics
The Final Goal of Fano Led-Amhara Elites and the Resistances They May Face
By Leemman Leeqaa Posted on2025-09-182025-09-18
Introduction The ultimate objective of the Amhara political elite appears to be the restoration of a centralized, unitary Ethiopian state, effectively dismantling the current multinational federal arrangement and overturning the existing constitution. However, this vision is neither straightforward nor uncontested. Contrary to this centralist ambition, the diverse nations, nationalities, and peoples within the Ethiopian empire...
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The Happy Tears of One, the Anguished Tears of Thousands
By OT Editorial Posted on2025-09-092025-09-09
Ethiopia today elevates the happy tears of an autocratic ruler above the anguished tears of thousands. As Oromia bleeds from years of massacres, displacement, and proxy wars, state media buries the truth — while in grotesque contrast, the ruler’s tears of joy receive wall-to-wall coverage. History warns us: ignored anguish always erupts into tragedy. The world must act now, before Oromia’s tears ignite into an irreversible fire.
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Shabo Media's Masterclass Via Interview: Borana Elders' Wisdom Where Leaders Stay Silent
By OT Editorial Posted on2025-09-022025-09-02
When leaders fall silent, elders rise. Shabo Media’s latest 105-minute interview with Borana elders is nothing short of a governance masterclass—clear, dignified, and unflinching. It tackles border grabs, unlawful killings, and Oromia’s bleeding wounds with a wisdom that dwarfs even the TED stage. A must-watch for activists, politicians, and everyday citizens alike.
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Math Meets PP Regime Myth: Inflation That Eats Wages Alive in Ethiopia
By Editorial Team Posted on2025-09-012025-09-01
This is the third episode in our "Math Meets PP Regime Myth" series, following [1] and [2]. The PP regime claims Ethiopia’s inflation will ease to around 10%, but ground realities tell a different story. Food staples, rent, utilities, and transport have soared by 100% or more, with wages frozen for decades. For ordinary households, real inflation isn’t 10% — it’s in triple digits, perhaps over 500%. Official figures don’t comfort the poor; they insult them with Orwellian doublespeak.
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A Time Bomb Buried in Oromia and Somali RegionThe Dangerous Games of Ethiopia's Prosperity Party Regime
By OT Editorial Posted on2025-08-272025-08-27
The Prosperity Party regime of Ethiopia is playing a reckless game, redrawing boundaries and fuelling discord between Oromo and Somali peoples. History teaches us that injustice planted today never stays buried—it grows into resistance. Only the wisdom of brotherly nations, a united diaspora, and responsible foreign actors can defuse this potential time bomb before it explodes.
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Math Meets PP Myth: 30 Million Tree PlantersPP's Logic That Got Lost in the Forest
By Editorial Team Posted on2025-08-142025-08-10
The PP regime proclaimed that 30 million Ethiopians planted trees in a single day — one sunrise, one countrywide mobilisation. Our math says this is less forestry and more fantasy. After filtering out children, retirees, and the unemployed, the “pool” shrinks — then reality slashes it further: logistics, transport, tools, water, supervision. In the debut of Math Meets PP Myth, we run a one-sunrise sanity check and strip the leaves off the claim until only the bare arithmetic — and the absurdity — remain.
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Math Meets PP Myth: Series Launch
By Editorial Team Posted on2025-08-112025-08-10
Math Meets PP Myth is where Ethiopia’s wildest statistics finally get their day in court. From GDP growth rates that vanish on contact with reality to tree-planting claims that could reforest the moon, this recurring exposé pulls apart the propaganda, crunches the numbers, and exposes the fiction. The PP regime’s math isn’t sloppy — it’s engineered. And we’re here to make the abacus honest. Got a myth? Send it in. Let’s count truth back into the equation.
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Intellectual Capital Deficiency in GovernancePart One — Why the Horn of Africa Is a Global Case Study
By Malkkaa Beenyaa (MA, Social Psychologist) Posted on2025-08-082025-08-08
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This article applies the Intellectual Capital framework—widely used in business and development—to the sphere of governance. Using the Horn of Africa as a case study, it explores how deficiencies in Intellectual Capital weaken state resilience, fuel instability, and block long-term solutions, while offering insights relevant to governance challenges worldwide.
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To Shimelis Abdissa and Caffee Oromia: Your Silence on Moyale Is Betrayal
By Editorial Team Posted on2025-08-072025-08-07
To: Shimelis Abdissa, President of Oromia Caffee Oromia, The National Assembly of the Oromo People Shame on you! Days have passed since the Somali regional parliament declared Moyale and parts of Oromia as its own on 26th July, hoisting the Somali flag over Oromo land — and you’ve said nothing. Not a word. Not even...
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10 Compelling Reasons Shimelis Abdissa Is Not Effectively Governing Oromia
By Editorial Team Posted on2025-07-302025-07-29
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Shimelis Abdissa, nominally President of Oromia, has become emblematic of absentee leadership and quiet complicity in the face of tragedy, dispossession, and systemic betrayal. From his silence during national mourning to his role in dismantling Oromia’s autonomy and impoverishing its people, Shimelis serves not the Oromo nation but the pro unitary Ethiopia Prosperity Party (PP) regime. While we could come up with scores of reasons, for brevity and to get this to print, we chose 10 items that speak volumes.
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Eritrea and Ethiopia: Regret, Rivalry, and the Search for a Permanent Settlement
By Itansaa Barii Posted on2025-07-242025-07-24
The troubled relationship between Eritrea and Ethiopia has remained unresolved since independence in 1993. This essay explores whether Eritrea secretly regrets its separation, how President Afwerki's fixation on Ethiopian politics reflects deeper insecurities, and what the future holds. Is this a conflict frozen in time—or a struggle over imperial legacy and regional power?
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What the Oromo Dialogue Online Tells Us About Missed Opportunities, Unity, and the Fight for Identity
By OT Editorial Posted on2025-07-202025-07-20
The Oromo Dialogue held online yesterday [Saturday, 19 July] exposed deep cracks in strategy and unity, highlighting how obvious solutions—like backing the OLA—were sidelined. As Oromo identity erasure intensifies under the current regime, the Oromo Discussion must mark a turning point, not just a reflection. Will words become action before history closes the window?
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