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Peaceful Divorce, Shared FutureHow voluntary sovereignty + economic interdependence could turn Ethiopia’s zero-sum politics into shared prosperity.
By Yadessa Guma (PhD, Anthropology) Posted on2025-11-042025-11-03
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Ethiopia’s century-long attempt to centralize diverse nations has produced recurring conflict, mistrust, and economic stagnation. A peaceful, lawful divorce — followed by a rules-based common economic area — offers a path to turn zero-sum politics into shared prosperity. Article 39 provides the consent mechanism; AfCFTA/IGAD/COMESA/EAC offer ready economic scaffolding. If one flag cannot deliver peace and dignity, multiple flags cooperating through open markets and guaranteed corridors may finally do
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Op-Ed | Politics | ⏭
When Dirre Dhawa Becomes a Claim — And Truth Becomes a Weapon
By Elemoo Qilxuu (MA, Political Science) Posted on2025-11-042025-11-04
A recent viral clip shows a young Somali man boldly claiming Dirre Dhawa as Somali land — a moment that might seem laughable if it didn’t reflect a deeper anxiety and the politics of manufactured bravado. His claim coincides with PM Abiy Ahmed’s sudden “truth-telling” about Dirre Dhawa’s constitutional limbo — a convenient revelation used to frame Ethiopia’s port hunger and revive irredentist narratives disguised as historical correction.
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Editorial | Politics | ⏭
Why Abiy Ahmed and the Ethiopian Federal Regime Still Reluctant to Declare Amhara Fano a Terrorist Organization?
By OT Editorial Posted on2025-10-242025-10-24
Why has Abiy Ahmed’s regime never declared Amhara Fano a terrorist organization while branding the Oromo Liberation Army (OLA) without sufficient evidence? This is not hypocrisy—it is moral perversion. Amhara Fano’s massacres across Oromia are met with silence, exposing a regime that outsources genocide by proxy and hides behind the camouflage of selective justice and political convenience.
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Editorial | Human Rights | ⏭
The Noonnoo Massacre: A Shame That Stains Oromia and Ethiopia Alike
By OT Editorial Posted on2025-10-202025-10-21
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The Noonnoo massacre has once again exposed the moral decay within Oromia’s political leadership and Ethiopia’s federal establishment. When 27 innocent lives — mostly children and the elderly — are slaughtered, yet no voice of outrage rises from those sworn to defend the people, silence becomes complicity. The tragedy is not just the massacre itself, but the cancerous indifference of leaders who have traded conscience for comfort and turned Oromia’s pain into background noise.
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Editorial | Politics | ⏭
Which Is True? The PP Regime’s “Ascent to Prosperity” — or the World Bank’s “Descent into Poverty”?
By OT Editorial Posted on2025-10-162025-10-16
The Prosperity Party’s “ascent to prosperity” slogan collapses under the weight of World Bank data showing Ethiopia’s poverty rate rising from 33% in 2016 to 39% in 2021 — and projected to hit 43% by 2025. Far from climbing, the country is sinking deeper into deprivation, with over 67% of citizens multidimensionally poor. The regime’s recent “credit cap” gimmick and nuclear-energy fantasies expose its confusion — a delusion of progress masking a painful descent into poverty.
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Correction | Fact-checking | MMPPM | ⏭
When Credit Capping Hits 24% — and Logic Hits Zero
By Editorial Team Posted on2025-10-14
Correction: The 24% Figure Explained — and Why the Problem Remains the Same.
The much-circulated 24% was not Ethiopia’s lending rate but the annual cap on credit expansion — the ceiling on how much new money banks can lend each year. Yet this technical correction changes little: whether through suffocating interest rates or restrictive credit policy, Ethiopia’s banking system remains trapped in a cycle that starves growth while serving debt.
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Fact-checking | MMPPM | Politics | ⏭
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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Culture | Op-Ed | ⏭
Irreechaa as Ritual Repair: How Oromo Thanksgiving Supports National Healing—And Why It Draws Contestation
By Yadessa Guma (PhD, Anthropology) Posted on2025-10-122025-10-12
Irreechaa—the Oromo thanksgiving held at sacred waters like Hora Arsadii (Bishoftu) and Hora Finfinnee—does far more than mark seasonal change. Read through the lens of colonial/historical trauma and its inter-generational transmission, Irreechaa functions as cultural therapy: a cyclical, collective practice that restores dignity, cohesion, and hope after generations of political marginalization. The same symbolic power makes it a lightning rod for control and contestation by state security forces and rival national projects seeking to limit Oromo visibility in shared civic space.
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Op-Ed | ⏭
When A Foreign Scholar Trips Over Authoritarian PoliticsA Red Alert on Foreign Commentaries about Ethiopia’s National Dialogue and Unity
By Roobaa Hawaas (MA, Psychology) Posted on2025-10-102025-10-10
A recent 'The Conversation' article by a foreign scholar lauds Ethiopia’s new dam and National Dialogue as signs of national unity. Yet beneath its polished tone lies a troubling detachment from Ethiopia’s lived realities. When foreign scholars echo autocratic narratives, they lend legitimacy to repression. Academic distance must not become moral distance — especially in a land scarred by stormy landscapes and rifted terrains of conflict, exclusion, and historical injustice.
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Op-Ed | ⏭
The Compendium of Ignorance: Anatomy of Amhara Pseudo-Elite Stereotypes Against the Oromo
By Elemoo Qilxuu Posted on2025-10-092025-10-09
Ignorance, when disguised as intellect, has long shaped Ethiopia’s moral decay. This compendium exposes how Amhara pseudo-elites turned mockery of Oromo language, names, and heritage into a badge of honour. Through evidence, reflection, and irony, it reveals that ignorance is not mere absence of knowledge — it is the arrogance that resists enlightenment.
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Culture | Editorial | Politics | ⏭
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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Culture | Editorial | Politics
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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Article | Op-Ed
A Reactor in a Tinderbox: Why Ethiopia’s Nuclear Ambition Demands Global Scrutiny
By Biqila Bariso (PhD, Physics; MSc, Cognitive Sci.) Posted on2025-09-282025-09-28
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Ethiopia’s push for nuclear power station is less about energy need than regime vanity, pursued by a leader who weaponize conflict, neglect citizens, and disregard safety. With a record of atrocities, proxy wars, and environmental neglect, entrusting such a volatile state with nuclear materials risks catastrophe not just for Ethiopia, but for the entire region.
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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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Article | Op-Ed
The Amhara Elites’ Monumental Failure in Insisting on a Dead Language for Primary Education
By Olii Boran (PhD, Sociology) Posted on2025-09-182025-09-18
The push to impose Ge'ez as a subject in Ethiopian primary schools in the Amhara region has reignited debate on the futility of elevating a dead language. Across history, such languages remain confined to liturgy or scholarship, never revived as mediums of modern schooling. Insisting otherwise is political miscalculation that risks alienation instead of cohesion.
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