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In-depth Analysis: Waiting for Godot: pandemic and elections in Ethiopia
Mehari Taddele Maru @DrMehari Addis Abeba, May 07/2020 – The Prime Minister of Ethiopia has just announced that the ruling party will stay in power until the next election. Both the end of the Covid-19 and the polls are like waiting for Godot, and no one knows the arrival. In …
In-depth Analysis: What should be Africa’s strategy to counter #Covid19? A strategy for containment
Mehari Taddele Maru (@DrMehari) Super sense of urgency: clarity, clarity and clarity of strategy Addis Abeba, April 09/2020 – The current Covid-19 pandemic, like most of its kind, poses two closely interlinked challenges. They can be summarized as the demands for urgent actions needed to contain the outbreak; and the …
In-depth Analysis: Amidst fear of #COVID19 Ethiopian domestic workers coerced into making heavy payments to flee Lebanon
Zecharias Zelalem @ZekuZelalem Addis Abeba, March 26/2020 – Ethiopians who, for the most part, are women employed by Lebanese homeowners as domestic workers, have been pleading for evacuation to Ethiopia since Lebanon’s economic meltdown had left many of them out of jobs. The scarcity of employment has left little incentive …
