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Opinion: Human rights, development and American credibility in Ethiopia

Olympic silver medalist Feyisa Lilesa took complete control of the conversation surrounding his outstanding performance in Rio. Typically, conversations after an Olympic event circle around the standard, “What were you thinking during the last mile?” or opportunities to talk of one’s own achievements. Feyisa completed the incredible feat of finishing a marathon in 2:09:54, yet, he brought light to a more serious issue: Ethiopia’s killing and marginalization of the Oromo population.

September 9, 2016

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US Election 2016, U.S, World News

#USElection2016 – The un-Republican

Tomas Mega The last weeks of July saw Americans enduring eight days of national political conventions, ending in the selection of the candidates to run for President. As conventions go, they were similar in the pomp that cloaks all national political

August 18, 2016

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protests, Ethiopia, Africa, Topic of the Month

OPDO: Lost, confused and at a crossroads

Kalkidan Yibeltal &Tesfalem Waldyes

Less than a year after the Oromo People’s Democratic Party (OPDO), part of the ruling Ethiopian People’s Revolutionary Democratic Front (EPRDF), celebrated its 25^thfounding anniversary the Oromo protests took the region OPDO is seemingly in charge of by a sheer storm. The protests, which broke out on November 12, 2015 in Ginchi, a small town 82 km west of Addis Abeba, were originally against a proposed integrated master plan for the capital Addis Abeba, which was, at the very least, unconstitutional.

August 15, 2016

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Opinion: Human rights, development and American credibility in Ethiopia

#USElection2016 – The un-Republican

OPDO: Lost, confused and at a crossroads

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