The
resignation letter was submitted to the Federal
Judicial Administration Commission on June 3, 2010.
The official reason cited in the resignation letter
was Menberetsehay's desire to pursue his personal
interest of serving the country in study and
research areas, which the Commission accepted.
The Ethiopian economy has been growing for the last
four years at an average of 11.8pc, Sufian Ahmed,
minister of Finance and Economic Development (MoFED),
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The ruling
Ethiopian Peoples’ Revolutionary Democratic Front (EPRDF) has now completely
discredited its already soft democratic credentials with the farcical elections
of 2010.
The fourth national and regional elections in which
63 political parties ran for national parliamentary
and regional council seats and in which close to 32
million people (half women) cast their votes, has
now come to a fair ending.
Now that the
Revolutionary Democrats are awash with electoral
gains, as much in a windfall as they had said it was
for the opposition in 2005, what is to come is a
fight amongst each
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This was Ethiopian Democratic Party (EDP) Chairman Lidetu
Ayalew’s closing statement in an interview with the Amharic
weekly, Sened, which appeared on June 4, 2010. He made this
statement in reference to the 99pc electoral win of the
incumbent Ethiopian Peoples’ Revolutionary Democratic Front (EPRDF),
saying that the result did not denote a real democracy but a
“backward” one.
Interview-China’s
Complex View of Africa
The increasing role of China in
Africa’s infrastructure building and the management of the
continent’s economy has become a subject of intense
discussion not only by Africans but from people beyond the
continent. China is different from the West in its strategic
approach towards Africa......
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Electoral Punch-
The House of the Living Dead
Sometimes a columnist’s problem is to decide when the big
guys will say, “This is too much.” Taking great caution with
the choice of words, Prime Minister Meles Zenawi, when he
spoke to the ecstatic crowd last Tuesday, May 25, 2010,
knowingly veered from the truth, which he himself must have
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When close to 32
million eligible voters consciously went to the
polls and elected a political party in a free, fair,
and credible election, 534 seats to three,
something...
