http://www.jimmatimes.com/index.cfm Jimma Times Qeerransoo Biyyaa en-us Copyright 2011 Jimma Times Sat, 05 Mar 2011 12:47:37 EST <p>***How are key internal actors in Ethiopia big factors in denying freedom and democracy in Ethiopia?<br />***Will the ruling EPRDF/TPLF government use the upcoming elections to further legitimize its stranglehold on 93 % of Ethiopians?</p><p>Five years, hundreds of dead bodies, thousands of imprisonments, disappearances, evictions and land confiscations later after the 2005 parliamentary elections , Ethiopia is yet to stage other sham elections for its total seats of 547 in the House People’s Representative— commonly known as ‘national parliament’—in May 210. </p> http://www.jimmatimes.com/article/Blogs/Qeerransoo_Biyyaa/International_Actors_Factors_in_Thwarting_Ethiopian_National_Elections/33184 Qeerransoo Biyyaa Mon, 01 Feb 2010 00:52:00 GMT http://www.jimmatimes.com/article.cfm?articleID=33184 http://www.jimmatimes.com/Media/1/jpg/2010/1/87de28fc-dc6f-49e7-b1e1093a3457c0cf.jpg <p>Television pundits and reporters have approached Obama’s presidential speech from almost every angle, but I feel that pundits glossed over a part of his speech, where he warns dictators, perpetrators of genocide across the world. The lines from his speech I quoted above mean a lot to the people of some African countries, suffering under brutal dictatorships and ethnically motivated ongoing genocides and exclusions from national economies and benefits of citizenship. </p> http://www.jimmatimes.com/article/Blogs/Qeerransoo_Biyyaa/President_Barack_Obamas_Inaugural_Speech_Analysed_from_African_Perspective/31780 Qeerransoo Biyyaa Wed, 21 Jan 2009 23:54:00 GMT http://www.jimmatimes.com/article.cfm?articleID=31780 http://www.jimmatimes.com/Media/1/jpg/2009/1/PresidentBarackObamaDeliveringInauguralSpeech.jpg