Ethiopian leader Meles Zenawi shows it is hard to sustain democracy. NAIROBI, Kenya — It has proven notoriously tricky for Africa’s rebel armies to transform themselves into democratic governments and Ethiopia offers perhaps the clearest case study on the continent of how and why this transition so rarely happens. Ethiopia, under rebel fighter turned political leader Prime Minister ... Read more
Posts Tagged ‘Democracy’
Ethiopia’s human rights record scrutinized
May 24 | Posted by Ethiopiaforums | Africa, Ethiopia, News, Politics, Uncategorized Tags: Democracy, EPRDF, Ethiopia human rights, human right, meles zenawi, TPLF
Thugtatorship: The Highest Stage of African Dictatorship by Alemayehu G.Mariam
February 28 | Posted by Ethiopiaforums | Africa, Africa Protest, Alemayehu G.Mariam, Blog, Ethiopia, Meles Zenawi, News, Politics, Uncategorized Tags: African Dictators, alemayehu, alemayehu G. mariam, Democracy, dictatorship, Ethiopian leader, ethiopian protest, thugogracy, thugtatorship
Alemayehu G Mariam
Thugogracy in Africa
If democracy is government of the people, by the people and for the people, a thugogracy is a government of thieves, for thieves, by thieves. Simply stated, a thugtatorship is rule by a gang of thieves and robbers (thugs) in designer suits. It is becoming crystal clear that much of...
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Africa’s Failing Democracies
July 3 | Posted by ocean | Blog, Election 2010, Ethiopia, Uncategorized Tags: africa, Democracy, election, human rights Watch, The Obama administration, U.SBy Jason McLure When human rights Watch criticized the results of Ethiopia’s May elections, in which the ruling coalition “won” an improbable 545 out of 547 seats, leaders in Addis Ababa didn’t ignore the influential NGO. Instead, they paid tens of thousands of demonstrators to gather in the capital and denounce the report.
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