Europe Solidaire Sans Frontières
, by ZEWDE Bahru
Fifty years ago, a student movement transformed Ethiopia with radical calls for self-determination and land reform. But while the movement helped bring down the monarchy, the Ethiopia they fought for has never come to pass.
In countries throughout the world, the 1960s, and 1968 in particular, (...)
, by JAY Stephanie
Africa’s massive new free trade deal promises to unify over a billion people and lift the continent out of poverty. But the case of Ethiopia shows that it will instead spark a continental race to the bottom and shut workers out from economic policy.
These days, a lot of history is being made in (...)
, by Africa is a Country, HARDY Vincent, HAUGE Jostein Løhr
How long can factory owners impose the lowest wages in the world?
Ethiopia is going through an economic transformation. Having been the world’s fastest growing economy in the last 15 years, it’s often dubbed the African Lion—a nickname to draw a contrast, yet indicate similarities, between (...)
, by GEBISSA Ezekiel
A wave of protest in Ethiopia highlights the country’s history of exploitation and dispossession. This summer, when marathon runner Feyisa Lelisa crossed the Rio finish line with his hands crossed above his head, he expressed his solidarity with a protest movement in Ethiopia’s Oromia regional (...)
, by TERBACH Lea
When the West became conscious of the uprising taking place in Ethiopia, some time had already passed since the emperor Haile Selassie had been overthrown, along with the oldest theocracy on the planet - an ancient feudal dynasty, feudal, born out of the myth of the biblical romance of King (...)
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