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The
race is on for the May 2010 election, and parties
are struggling to prove that they have essential
differences with the incumbent. The highest effort
in this regard may be the lengthy book written by
Lidetu Ayalew.
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The Coalition of Ethiopian Civil Society
Organisations has become the first to be recognised
by the National Electoral Board of Ethiopia (NEBE)
to observe the national elections on Tuesday, March
9, 2010.......More |
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US government officials that met with senior
government officials and some unidentified
opposition leaders urged for the 2010 election to be
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The self claimed Liberal Democrats, the Ethiopian
Democratic Party (EDP), released their electoral
manifesto last week, where they pledged to introduce
a series of tax cuts, in their bid to win votes
during the forthcoming election.More |
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Data collected by February 22, 2010, the last day of
voter and party registration for the May elections,
indicated that 29 million voters had been
registered, with 1.3 ........More |
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Voters’ registration for the forthcoming national
election will come to an end today, February 21,
2010, after national electoral ......More |
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There are 79 parties legally registered with the
board, but only 55 have so far announced that they
are fielding candidates for the election. The
Federal Government has allocated seven million Birr
to support the contending parties........More |
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The Ethiopian Political Parties’ Council met on
Wednesday, February 25, 2010, and fixed nine
debating points for Monday, March 1.......More |
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By AYENEW HAILESELASSIE |
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A long time ago, when the Ethiopian Peoples’ Revolutionary
Democratic Front (EPRDF) was still young in its position of
power and fumbling with it, I recall an interview with Meles
Zenawi’s late mother by a journalist.
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Maybe it is not as
jaw dropping as a Revolutionary Democrat becoming a
committed follower of Jesus Christ. Repentance may be an
affair between the repentant soul and its creator. But the
public, too, is a sort of a deity, albeit largely powerless,
and it wants to do its own forgiving.....More |
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So much has changed over the past five years. I
agree with that, but I did not say it. Bereket
Simon, chief of the Communications Affairs Bureau,
and Hailemariam Desalegn, the government whip, made
that point in retort to comments from Terrence Lyons
(PhD), director of the Centre for Global Studies at
George Mason University, who has been following
Ethiopian elections since the
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The military junta, which toppled the monarchy and
put in place a shaky government that gained a
semblance of stability after a lot of bloodshed, was
only months old when a group of irate young students
quit college to start a war that would take 17
years. The name they chose for their movement told
their mission – liberating Tigray from whatever it
was the founders had in mind.
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Guests
invited to the Intercontinental Addis Hotel, at the heart of
good old Kazanchis, for a book launch were asked if they
wanted to pay 40 Br more on top of the....More |
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Guests
invited to the Intercontinental Addis Hotel, at the heart of
good old Kazanchis, for a book launch were asked if they
wanted to pay 40 Br more on top of the cover price. The
prize? Author Lidetu Ayalew,.....More |
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Guests
invited to the Intercontinental Addis Hotel, at the heart of
good old Kazanchis, for a book launch were asked if they
wanted to pay 40 Br more .....More |
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