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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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Political Introspection | ⏭
10 Questions That Demand Silent Self-HonestyAn Introspective Challenge to the Ethiopian Mind
By Editorial Team Posted on2025-07-232025-07-23
These 10 questions are designed to spark introspection and silent self-honesty. They challenge long-held narratives and invite you to look inward—without needing to answer aloud.
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Editorial | Politics | ⏭
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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Commentary | Op-Ed | Religious Affairs | ⏭
We Live Next Door to a Medieval People. Sadly.Orthodoxy, Empire, and the Struggle for Cultural Liberation in Ethiopia
By Yadessa Guma (PhD, Anthropology) Posted on2025-07-182025-07-16
A medieval mindset still haunts the Ethiopian Orthodox Church, preserving Ge’ez exclusivity while marginalizing Oromo identity. A recent video by an Orthodox clergyman exposing this racism underscores the need for ecclesiastical autonomy. This article examines how spiritual exclusion is tied to imperial history—and why a modern, inclusive Oromia Orthodox Church is no longer just necessary, but inevitable.
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Opinion | Politics
The Idea of Oromia Shall Never Be Extinguished
By Yadessa Guma (PhD, Anthropology) Posted on2025-07-122025-07-12
The idea of Oromia is more than a place—it's a vision of justice, dignity, and identity. Despite repression and new threats cloaked in legality, this enduring ideal lives on in Oromo resistance, culture, and memory. Now more than ever, Oromia must be defended, revived, and reimagined for the future it promises.
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Culture | Opinion | ⏭
The Gentleperson Code: Part II—When the Moral Compass Shatters
By Malkkaa Beenyaa Posted on2025-07-082025-07-07
This is Part II of The Gentleperson Code, continuing from Part I—A Cross-Cultural Compass for Modern Dignity. In this installment, we examine how leadership failures, social media, and shifting community values have shattered society’s moral compass. From the quiet erosion of ethical standards to the public normalization of corruption, this piece explores why moral clarity matters—and what’s at stake when it fades.
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Culture | Essay | Opinion | ⏭
The Gentleperson Code: Part I—A Cross-Cultural Compass for Modern Dignity
By Olii Boran Posted on2025-07-072025-07-07
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Excerpt Across cultures, the gentleperson embodies timeless virtues: respect, integrity, empathy, and self-restraint. More than a gendered label or social rank, a gentleperson is a moral compass in action—graceful under pressure, humble yet firm, protective of others. In today’s noisy world, this quiet strength offers a powerful model of dignity and ethical leadership. The Rise...
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Cyber Essay | Opinion
Let the River Flow: How the GERD Dams Colonial Hegemony, Not the Nile
By Tullu Waqjira, Caalaa Dabalee, et al. Posted on2025-07-052025-07-05
The GERD is not obstructing the Nile—it’s obstructing injustice. Ethiopia’s Grand Renaissance Dam harnesses the river’s flow for energy, not for control. Yet Egypt resists, clinging to colonial-era water dominance. This article unpacks why GERD symbolizes not just a dam, but a turning point in Africa’s struggle for equitable resource sovereignty.
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Editorial | Update
Parliament’s Deafening Silence—Again: An Update
By OT Editorial Posted on2025-07-032025-07-03
Coincidentally, today marked the 42nd Regular Session of the House of Representatives (HoR) of the Ethiopian Parliament—a moment that could have restored a fragment of public trust. The Prime Minister himself was in attendance, taking the floor for what was billed as a Q&A with representatives. And still, not a single mention of Obbo Taye Danda’a Aredo. Not a question. Not a follow-up. Not even a passing reference.
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Editorial | Politics
Parliamentary Silence and Collective Cowardice: Shame on Ethiopia’s Parliament and Caffee Oromia for Enabling Atrocity
By OT Editorial Posted on2025-07-022025-07-02
Obbo Taye Danda’a’s explosive revelations of war crimes, extrajudicial killings, and state-orchestrated atrocities demanded immediate action. Yet the loudest response was parliamentary silence. Neither Caffee Oromia nor the Federal Parliament uttered a word. In a functioning democracy, such truths would bring down governments. In Ethiopia today, complicity is worn like a uniform. This silence is not caution—it is betrayal.
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Opinion
Ethiopia's Elites Crisis: Fragmentation, Failure, and the Path to Relevance
By Abba Sooqee Posted on2025-06-302025-06-30
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Ethiopia’s elites crisis runs deeper than disunity—it is a collapse of legitimacy. Fragmented, distrusted, and internally divided, no elite figure today commands a unified mandate. Peace will remain a mirage until the elites reconcile with their own constituencies and confront the vertical fractures within. Without grassroots credibility, national dialogue is empty performance—and irrelevance is the best they can hope for.
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Commentary | Editorial | Opinion
What Is Humanity If Even the Faarseebulaas Mock the Truth?
By Kumaa Daadhii Posted on2025-06-292025-06-29
Empires and regimes fall. Tyrants vanish. And when the reckoning comes, Betelhem Tafese and the Faarseebulaas will face the truth they mocked. Will they eat back the contemptuous lies they vomit today against the truth-tellers, freedom fighters, and human rights activists? No regime built on deception, gaslighting, and blood can last — especially one that feeds starving people fairy tales and street-light shows.
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Commentary | Opinion | Politics
The Amhara Elite Racist Worldview: Collective Unconscious and Historical Hegemony
By Turaa Jaarsoo Posted on2025-06-272025-06-27
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Excerpt This article examines the enduring racist worldview propagated by sections of the Amhara political elite in Ethiopia, with specific reference to a recent video conference led by Professor Getachew Begashaw. It explores how dehumanizing ethnic slurs, territorial revisionism, and historical denialism reflect a psychological phenomenon best understood through Carl Jung’s concept of the Collective...
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Editorial | ⏭
Daniel Kibret’s Delusional Word Games for Unitarismሕብረ ብሔራዊ as Orwellian Camouflage of a Unitary Ethiopia
By OT Editorial Posted on2025-06-162025-06-16
Daniel Kibret, the Prosperity Party’s unofficial wordsmith and controversial advisor, is once again at the center of a linguistic smokescreen. His latest catchphrase, ሕብረ ብሔራዊ—translated as Multi-National or Co-National—is a rhetorical tool designed to mask the regime’s assault on Multinational Federalism. With a history of inflammatory speech and ideological spin, Daniel Kibret’s language games now signal a dangerous return to unitarism.
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Editorial | ⏭
The Fearless Obbo Taye Danda'a Arado IntervewsWhat They Reveal About Power, Punishment, and Truth in Ethiopia and Oromia Region
By OT Editorial Posted on2025-06-152025-06-15
The Obbo Taye Danda'a Aredo interviews offer a rare, unfiltered look into the inner workings of Ethiopia’s federal government and the Oromia regional administration. From personal persecution to state-sanctioned cruelty, Obbo Taye’s revelations expose chilling truths about power, war, and control. This series examines five key themes drawn from his testimony—beginning with his harrowing prison experience. His voice is not just brave; it is a call to collective reckoning.
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Editorial | ⏭
Sleepwalking into the Tyranny of GeographyHow Political Delusion and Imperial Nostalgia Are Unmaking a Fragile Federation
By OT Editorial Posted on2025-06-132025-06-12
Ethiopia is sleepwalking into a terminal fracture. The death of Multinational Federalism isn't just a political misstep—it is the undoing of a hard-won peace among diverse nations. This is not alarmism. It is a wake-up call to citizens and politicians alike: the state is being reshaped by unchecked delusion, and the red line is rapidly disappearing. If we don’t stop now, we may not stop at all.
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