By  Amanuel Dagim: The issue of Gilgel Gibe III dam has generated much heated debate within the Ethiopian Diaspora more than within Ethiopians inside the country. “Go, Go, Ethiopia!” wrote some while other cautioned and solemnly pointed out the “disaster” associated with building big dams considered to be antic and outdated ventures in the presumed ecology conscious world. The debate is still raging and the jury is still out.  Read More…

SOCEPP:  On Tuesday, June 21. the security services of the ruling EPRDF apprehended teacher Riyot Alemu from her work place at the Kechenie Medhanie Alem secondary school in Addis Abeba. Riyot also worked as a columnist for the weekly Fitih (Justice) paper and was also an editor with the Awramba Times many of whose editors and journalists have been detained and harassed at tone time or another.  Read More…

By Pernille Dvergedal : The new report concludes that Norway oil fund gives foreign companies control of the topsoil at the expense of locals.  Read More…

The regime of Meles Zenawi, that is busy selling Ethiopian land cheaply to foreign firms, is trying to uproot by force thousands of people who have lived in Metema (Ethio-Sudanese border) for years and years. The official reason given by the regime is that Metema is a garrison town and the civilian population must move away to nearby Shehdi and other places while the people concerned know that the real reason is that part of the land around Metema has been ceded to the Sudan and other parts leased out. Read More…