Politics is a new and fast growing directory. The reason for it is simple -- the war. And again it's Eritrea. Read and even see the news, there are many links to active in Ethiopian Politics sites. If you want to read my weekly articles, visit Ethiopia101 at Suite101 (you can see the graphic link on many pages. You want to send your comments? Leave your responces over there, it was designed for dicussions. Links? There several categories to submit to. See you there!
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I did not comment on three major events in 2000: famine, war and elections. For several reasons I didn't write anything. First, you read my old articles, you know that all three are rather predictable. TPLF stays in power, the war continues and the famine is a result of not having radical economic reforms. What was true a year or two ago is true today. There is no need to repeat the list of problems and needs over again. In short, there are no REAL news from Ethiopia...
In fact, the situation today resembles the old days -- the war in the North, big army and state of war, government controlled (dominated) economy without it own drive, no land reforms...
It was obvious that UN and the West will get involved (read about the arms embargo) and they will get involved more. Why? Because the Horn of Africa (and Africa as a whole) has no directions. What is to be done? See New Politics Directory @ Sellassie WWW.
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I should know better because in 1995 I saw that the army controls the country. I saw soldiers, not police, at the major intersections of the city and the gunners at the gates of Menelik palace. All with the sub-machine guns. I should know that army runs the coiuntry, when the country is at war. It could be a war with its own citizens, known as a civil war. That is why I wrote that Eritrea-Ethiopia conflict is about citizenship. Next time it could be somebody else.
We weren't welcome and we left. We had our home in America. I thought that, if Ethiopians want to take their time to change, it's fine with me. Looks like the time was used to get ready for another round of the same civil war. Perhaps the reasons for this human drama should be discussed and politics directory belongs to our pages.
"The first panacea for a mismanaged nation is inflation of the currency; the second is war. Both bring a temporary prosperity; both bring a permanent ruin. But both are the refuge of political and economic opportunists." (Ernest Hemingway)
For those of you who travel our History Road, or read my old pages on Politics and Diaspora, it is not a surprise that after 8 months of the Eritrean-Ethiopian border conflict they are at war again. Here are new pages we can help you understand the story.
Africa and the West Politics Eritrea Prisoners Opposition War Africa Stateless Ethiopianess US & Ethiopia Front Door
For more see Diaspora Guide.
News on Conflict Western Front."The native quarter adjoining the European town consisted of a sprawl of squalid, mud-brick houses roofed with corrugated iron, usually without windows and always crawling with flies and vermin. Aside from two or three streets in the market area, the divisions between the houses consisted merely of crooked trails winding up and down the hills. In the rainy season these became the paths of torrents which washed away the soil, leaving spiny outcroppings of rock exposed. There was no sanitary system; refuse of all kinds was thrown into the "street," and the stench would drive a hyena off a slaughterhouse garbage heap. A few clumps of eucalyptus trees constituted the only vegetation in the native quarter, was continually swept by clouds of foul dust.
2004 & After projects: recipes
texts: HIM (summary)
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reading: Story of Esther
In an hour's walk searching for evidences of western civilization I found only corrugated iron roofs and tin gasoline cans, which the natives used for every conceivable purpose. Down by the native market place the Italians had erected hydrants where natives came for water with their gasoline tins on their shoulders. A six-foot-six black Askari sergeant with an ox whip kept about three hundred clamoring blacks in line by lashing those who crowded out of place over the shoulders."
ethnic Kilil and ethnocentrism
Real Issues: post-war reality and challenges
See EthioForum
Make unconditional peace with Eritrea
Let Eritrea occupy the territories in question
Liberate those territories
Defeat Eritrea and make it a part of Ethiopia
Invite International Peacekeeping Forces
Take the possession of port-Assab
Return to talks with Eritrean government
Apeal more to UN, OAU and Europe
More on political organizations in Ethiopia and Exile at Contacts Page.
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