15 February 2013
With one week to go until Djibouti’s parliamentary elections, Djibouti’s government is under intense pressure from political opposition and its own people after 37 years of one party rule.
Ahead of the elections on 22 February, the Mayor...
On the road to democracy unity?
For some time now, I have been heralding Ethiopia’s irreversible march from dictatorship to democracy. In April 2011, I wrote a commentary entitled, “The Bridge on the Road(map) to Democracy”. I suggested,
We can conceive...
February 8, 2013
Besieged, abused, ignored
In the harsh Ogaden region of Ethiopia, impoverished ethnic Somali people are being murdered and tortured, raped, persecuted and displaced by government paramilitary forces. Illegal actions carried out with the knowledge and tacit support of...
5 February, 2013 On behalf of the Union for National Salut (USN) I am writing this letter to the international media to condemn the arbitrary arrest of the leader of the Movement for Democratic Renewal and Development (MRD) and...
Sandcastles and Dams of African Dictators
All dictators on the African continent have sought immortality by leaving a legacy that will outlive them and endure for the ages. But all have inherited the wind.
Kwame Nkrumah led the first sub-Saharan African...
May 28, 2012, Nairobi (Human Rights Watch) – An Ethiopian government-backed paramilitary force summarily executed 10 men during a March 2012 operation in Ethiopia’s eastern Somali region. Detailed information on the killings and other abuses by the force known...
In my first weekly commentary of the new year, I "proclaimed" 2013 “Year of Ethiopia’s Cheetah Generation” (young people). I also promised to reach, teach and preach to Ethiopia’s youth this year and exhorted members of the Ethiopian intellectual...
The FIDH publishes a paper written jointly with ACP association on the situation of human rights in Djibouti.
- An article published on 17.01.2013 in the daily La Libre Belgique
In a deafening silence, Djibouti saw oppression that comes to a...
Alemayehu G Mariam
Recently, Naom Chomsky, MIT Professor of Linguistics and arguably America’s foremost public intellectual, gave an interview to Al Jazeera on the social (ir)responsibility of American academics and
Alemayehu G Mariam
Recently, Naom Chomsky, MIT Professor of Linguistics and arguably...
Khartoum — Sudan's President Omar al-Bashir has agreed to meet with Salva Kiir, president of South Sudan, next Friday, 4 January in Addis Ababa, according to an announcement made by Khartoum.
The meeting follows an invitation extended to both parties...