| The Assault on Truth
By Abel Merawi
 January 26, 2022 (Ezega.com) -- Defending Truth is a uniquely human endeavor, but it is ventured by heroes who are willing to sacrifice. Let us save the essence of such sacrifice to the conclusion, however. Let’s begin with the struggle. Wherever and whenever the truth teller claims to communicate reality to the public, and when this figure is defamed and accused by the powers that be, we see a struggle between truth and untruth. As we witness opposing sides engage in a verbal battle to tell the truth and discredit the opponent, we witness the struggle of falsehood to overcome truth. The public views such claims and disclaim
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| Human Wave Attacks
By: Abel Merawi
 September 23, 2021 (Ezega.com) -- Playing chess or even observing others play it is a sobering and realistic lesson on the workings of our world – our political world, to be exact. The king and queen sit surrounded by two castles (rooks), two knights, two bishops, and eight pawns. The objective is to protect the king at any cost. All the other chess pieces serve the king by engaging in battle with opponents with similar ranks, and all are expendable sacrificial lambs. Unlike the other chess pieces, pawns are greater in number, and no one losses heart when they’re sacrificed. Chess is truly an age-old war strat
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| Adwa – Triumph of Unassailable Humanity
By Abel Merawi
 March 8, 2021 (Ezega.com) -- Adwa marked the victory of freedom for the oppressed over the Western ideology of supremacy. White hegemony has been an agency of evil, which spread its insidious root using shallow pseudointellectuals to cover sheer lust for power and money. The academic wolves wore sheep garbs to defend their theory of Teutonic Origins. This theory advocated white supremacy by claiming to have noble origins as descendants of ancient Germany’s Teutonic tribe, which vouches of whites’ exceptional ability for nation-building, justifying their unparalleled crime of colonization and slavery. This white fire of hoax had affirme
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| Ethiopian Authorities Accuse WHO Chief of Backing the TPLF
By Staff Reporter
 November 19, 2020 (Ezega.com) -- Ethiopian army chief accused Director-General of the World Health Organization (WHO) Dr. Tedros Adhanom of backing the ‘dissident’ Tigray People Liberation Front (TPLF) to which he is a member and helping its fighters get weapons.
Chief of Staff of the National Defence Force Berhanu Jula said Dr.Tedros has been lobbying political and military support for TPLF by abusing his post as Director-General of WHO.
“Ethiopia’s ex-health minister has left no stone unturned and he has been insisting neighboring countries condemn the ‘government’s law
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| Humanitarian Activities Thwarted in Tigray Region: UN
By Staff Reporter
 November 18, 2020 (Ezega.com) -- The United Nations said humanitarian activities in Ethiopia’s Tigray region have been thwarted, threatening food insecurity among millions of people due to the ongoing conflict in the region.
Roads to the Tigray region remain blocked due to the conflict in the region and humanitarian partners are warning that humanitarian supplies will soon be exhausted, putting millions at risk of food insecurity and disease, among other challenges," the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said in a release.
"I am increasingly concerned about the evolving humanitarian
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| TPLF Leader Confirms Bombing Eritrean Capital
By Staff Reporter
 November 15, 2020 (Ezega.com) -- Leader of the Tigray People Liberation Front (TPLF) Debresion Gebremichael said his forces fired rockets at Eritrean capital and inflicted damages on Asmara Airport.
“As long as Eritrean troops are fighting us, we will take any legitimate military target and we will fire,” Debretsion told local media. “We have the long-range missiles as well,” he added.
There was no report of casualties from the rocket explosions inside Eritrea which is accused by the Tigray regional authorities of aiding Addis Ababa by providing it with men, and land a
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| EU Begins Mediation between TPLF, Federal Government
By Staff Reporter
 November 1, 2020 (Ezega.com) -- European Union reportedly began the mediation process between Ethiopia’s Tigray region and the federal government in an attempt to pull them from the brink of war over deepening political disputes.
The mediation comes after Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed’s appointed military general was blocked to assume position as deputy head of the northern army command in Tigray state but deported from Alula Aba Nega airport.
The EU mediation team led by Vice President of European Union Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Josep Borrell held separate talks this week with Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed an
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| Isaias Afwerki, Abiy Ahmed Plotting War Against Tigray Region: TPLF
By Staff Reporter
 October 25, 2020 (Ezega.com) -- The Tigray People Liberation Front (TPLF) said Eritrean President Isaias Afwerki and Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed are plotting war against it and the people of Tigray.
In a statement issued over the weekend, TPLF called on the people of Eritrea and Ethiopian defence forces to stand by its side to avert the bloodshed and end autocratic rules of the leaders.
“The leaders are cementing personal relations by ignoring brotherly ties between the peoples of Eritrea and Ethiopia and the dictator leaders would be held accountable for all chaos that may happen,”
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| Amnesty International Apologizes for Posting Erroneous Report
By Staff Reporter
 August 18, 2020 (Ezega.com) -- Amnesty International has apologized to Ethiopia for posting erroneous media report about the country, as reported on its Twitter page.
“Our communication team recognizes the negative impact of our recent media output and apologizes for posting it in error,” it said.
Last June, Ethiopia dismissed Amnesty’s May 2020 report regarding human rights violations in Amhara and Oromia regional states as fundamentally flawed.
Amnesty International had accused the Ethiopian government of committing “grave violation
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| The Underestimated Human Ignorance
By Abel Merawi
 July 29, 2020 (Ezega.com) -- What do you call a person who forgets the invaluable lessons of history? What is a good term for a person who engages in activities that harm oneself and others? What type of person believes in verily absurd fictions to the point of sacrificing oneself and others? What is the name of a person who begins every interaction in labels and categories? I don’t know about you, but I call such a person profoundly ignorant. To use words such as madness and stupidity would perhaps be more appropriate, yet I fear offending everyone, including the stupid in me! Let us then stick to the word ignorance and app
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| Is America the Land of Freedom? (Part II)
By Abel Merawi
 July 24, 2020 (Ezega.com) -- The assumption that slavery was inspired by racism rather than capitalists’ greed is partially wrong. Yuval Noah Harari explains this in his book, Sapiens: a brief history of humankind. The conquering of America by Europeans was followed by the opening of gold and silver mines, and cotton, sugar and tobacco plantations. As sugar was important in the middle ages, sugar plantations were of the highest importance. The previously imported sugar from the Middle East was costly, and the new plantations in America dropped the price. However, finding cheap labor willing t
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| Ethiopian Freighter Plane Catches Fire at Shanghai Airport
By Staff Reporter
 July 22, 2020 (Ezega.com) -- Ethiopian Airlines cargo plane caught fire on Wednesday at Shanghai Pudong Airport in China as citizens were celebrating the completion of the first phase of filling the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam.
According to a statement issued by the airlines, the aircraft was on a regularly scheduled cargo service from Shanghai to Sao Paulo-Santiago.
All ground staff and flying crew are safe. Ethiopian has collaborated with all concerned authorities and contained the fire, the statement added.
The cause of the incident is under investigation by
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| Ethiopia Announces Completion of 1st Phase GERD Filling
By Staff Reporter
 July 22, 2020 (Ezega.com) -- Ethiopian Prime Minister Office on Wednesday announced the completion of the first phase water filling activity of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam’s (GERD).
The office said there has been adequate rainfall and running water from the highlands of Ethiopia and the Abay (Nile) river has begun overflowing the dam.
Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed has sent congratulatory messages to the Ethiopian public and extended gratitude to former Prime Ministers, engineers, workers, water experts, negotiators, and others who have had roles for such a success.
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| Ethiopia Rejects Amnesty International Allegations, Acknowledges Some Charges
By Staff Reporter
 July 19, 2020 (Ezega.com) -- Ethiopian Attorney General has rejected allegations by Amnesty International accusing the government of committing “grave violations between December 2018 and December 2019 in some parts of Amhara and Oromia regions.
In a statement it released on Saturday, the office of Attorney General dismissed the Amnesty International report under the title “Beyond Law Enforcement: Human Rights Violations by Ethiopian Security Forces in Amhara and Oromia” as fundamentally flawed.
Yet the attorney general stated that as some of the alleged violations were found pa
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| Is America the Land of Freedom? (Part I)
By Abel Merawi
 July 18, 2020 (Ezega.com) -- Walter McMillian is a hardworking black man from Atlanta, Georgia, USA, the land of freedom! Everyone in his community admired and respected his optimistic struggle to cope with the misery of life before the system put him in a death row. His only crime was adultery with a white woman named Karen. But in ‘white America’ this, a moral question is the worst crime that mostly ends in a lynching. The law was not satisfied with the mild punishment Walter could face for this crime. Thus, they accused him of murdering a white woman, by placing a deranged criminal as a witness. The witn
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| Ethiopia Begins Filling Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam
By Staff Reporter
 July 16, 2020 (Ezega.com) -- Ethiopia has begun filling the reservoir of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD), the country’s Minister of Water, Irrigation and Energy Dr. Sileshi Bekele has confirmed.
“The dam filling is now underway in conformity with the normal process of the construction of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam,” Dr. Sileshi told local media.
The Minister’s confirmation comes after the African Union (AU) led negotiation between Ethiopia, Sudan, and Egypt over the filling and operation of the GERD ended without agreement.
The three countries negotiated virtually
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| World Bank Suspends $500m Emergency Financial Support to Ethiopia
By Staff Reporter
 June 29, 2020 (Ezega.com) -- The World Bank has suspended the $500 million it had pledged for Ethiopia as emergency financial support.
Local media reported that the Bank cited two reasons to suspend financial support; the first was the country’s sluggish effort to improve its currency exchange rate against the dollar.
Both the World Bank and International Monetary Fund (IMF) had recommended the government of Ethiopia to devalue the Ethiopian birr against the dollar as a remedy to rectify a shortfall in foreign exchanges.
In March this year, the World Bank’s Board
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| Ethiopia Trashes Reports on GERD Filling
By Staff Reporter
 June 28, 2020 (Ezega.com) -- Ethiopia has trashed reports that it will delay the filling of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD).
Dina Mufti, Spokesperson of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs said the country sticks to its schedule to begin filling the dam after two weeks while trying to resolve disputes with Egypt and Sudan.
“The position of the Ethiopian government is clear. Ethiopia is building the dam in line with international laws and does not need the approval of a third party to fill the dam,” Dina told local media.
Al-Haram, Al Jazeera, and Reuters as well as Egyp
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| Four Arab League Member States Reject Egypt’s Position on GERD
By Staff Reporter
 June 24, 2020 (Ezega.com) -- Djibouti, Somalia, and the State of Qatar have defied Arab League’s resolution requiring Ethiopia to delay the filling of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) until a comprehensive deal is reached with Egypt.
The refusal by the three-member states of the Arab League comes after the UN urged Ethiopia, Sudan, and Egypt to "work together" to resolve differences on the GERD project that Ethiopia is undertaking on the Nile.
The three countries refused to follow the Arab League Resolution that supports Egypt stance’s on GERD during the league’s urgent m
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| Ethiopia Accuses Egypt of Conducting Cyber Attacks on Key Institutions
By Staff Reporter
 June 24, 2020 (Ezega.com) -- Ethiopia has accused Egypt of conducting state-backed cyberattacks against its key institutions in an attempt to disrupt economic and political activities.
The Ethiopian Intelligence office said Egypt based hackers namely Cyber Hopes Group, Anubis Hacker, and Security bypass conducted a coordinated attack to disrupt critical infrastructure activities including the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) project.
The Information Networks Security Agency (INSA) in a statement said it foiled all the attempted attacks particularly those which were conducted on June 17, 19, 20, and 21, 2020 b
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