Ethiopian Enters into Codeshare Agreement with United Airlines

Press Release

Addis Ababa, Ethiopia - Ethiopian Airlines is pleased to announce that it has entered into a codeshare agreement with United Airlines, effective 30 August 2014.

Ethiopian, the biggest airline in Africa, currently flies to 82 international destinations across five continents operating a young and modern fleet, such as Boeing 787 and 777 aircraft. The carrier provides daily services to Washington Dulles Airport (IAD) using the B777 or B787 aircraft with convenient and easy connections through its main hub in Addis Ababa (ADD) to 49 cities across Africa.

The new codeshare agreement between the two Star Alliance member airlines covers the Addis Ababa–Washington, D.C. trunk route, as well as points in Africa and the U.S. With this codeshare agreement, travelers between the U.S. and Africa will be able to enjoy unmatched and seamless connectivity options thanks to United’s strong network in the U.S. and Ethiopian’s unparalleled coverage of East, Central, Southern and Western African destinations.

The Addis Ababa–Washington trunk route will be operated as per the below schedule:

Operating Flight No.	Marketing Flight No.	Days of week	Route	Departure	Arrival	Equipment
ET 501	UA*7174	Daily	IAD-ADD	10:15 Am	06:45 Am+1	777 or 787
ET 500	UA*7187	Daily	ADD-IAD	10:15 Pm	08:30 Am +1	777 or 787

Marking the occasion, Ethiopian Airlines Group CEO, Tewolde Gebremariam, said: “We are very pleased to start codeshare flights with fellow Star Alliance member, United Airlines. This agreement will enable our two carriers to tap into new market opportunities and be competitive in the fast-growing Africa-US travel market. It will also give a wider choice of connectivity options to our customers travelling between Africa and the US.”

“United is pleased to join Ethiopian in providing new codeshare options for our mutual customers traveling between the U.S. and Africa,” said Jim Compton, United’s vice chairman and chief revenue officer. “In addition to nonstop flights between the U.S. and Ethiopian capitals, the new service will provide Ethiopian’s customers with convenient connections to destinations throughout the Americas from our Washington Dulles hub, and will offer United customers access to more destinations in Ethiopian’s extensive network.”

Ethiopian is a global Pan-African carrier currently serving 82 international destinations across five continents with over 200 daily flights and using the latest technology aircraft, such as the B777s and B787s.

About United Airlines

United Airlines and United Express operate an average of more than 5,200 flights a day to 374 airports across six continents. In 2013, United and United Express operated nearly two million flights carrying 139 million customers. With hubs in Chicago, Denver, Houston, Los Angeles, Newark, San Francisco and Washington, D.C., United operates more than 700 mainline aircraft and, in 2014, will take delivery of 35 new Boeing aircraft, including the 787-9 as the North American launch customer, and will welcome 32 new Embraer 175 aircraft to United Express. The airline is a founding member of Star Alliance, which provides service to 192 countries via 27 member airlines.

About Ethiopian

Ethiopian Airlines (Ethiopian) is the fastest growing and most profitable airline in Africa. In 2014, IATA ranked Ethiopian as the largest airline in Africa in revenue and profit. In its operations in the past close to seven decades, Ethiopian has been a pioneer of African aviation as an aircraft technology leader providing the first jet service in the continent in 1962, and availing the first African B767 in 1984, the first African B777-200LR in 2010 and the first African and second only to Japan B787 Dreamliner in 2012.

Ethiopian commands the lion share of the pan-African passenger and cargo network operating the youngest and most modern fleet to more than 82 international destinations across five continents. Ethiopian fleet includes ultra-modern and environmentally friendly aircraft such as the Boeing 787, Boeing 777-300ER, Boeing 777-200LR, Boeing 777-200LR Freighter and Bombardier Q-400 with double cabin. In fact, Ethiopian is the first airline in Africa to own and operate these aircraft.

Ethiopian is currently implementing a 15-year strategic plan called Vision 2025 that will see it become the leading airline group in Africa with seven strategic business units: Ethiopian International Passenger Service; Ethiopian Regional Service; Ethiopian Cargo; Ethiopian MRO; Ethiopian Aviation Academy; Ethiopian In-flight Catering Service and Ethiopian Ground Service. Ethiopian is a multi-award winning, including SKYTRAX and Passenger Choice Awards in 2013 and has been registering an average growth of 25% per annum in the past seven years.

For more information about this press release, please contact:

Manager PR & Publications
Ethiopian Airlines
Tel: (251-1) 517-84-07

አክተር ሮቢን ዊሊያምስ ሞተ/Robin Williams has committed suicide.(TMZ)

Robin Williams has committed suicide.

The comedian killed himself in Tiburon, in Northern California.

According to the Marin County Sheriff's Office ... authorities found William's body inside his home. They say he was found unresponsive.

He was unconscious and not breathing and the coroner suspects suicide due to asphyxia.

Williams was last seen alive at his house at 10 PM Sunday night.

Williams went back to rehab last month to focus on his sobriety. We're told alcohol was an issue.

Williams struggled with cocaine and alcohol abuse in the early '80s but was sober for 20 years.

Williams was 63.

Read more: http://www.tmz.com/2014/08/11/robin-williams-dead-commits-suicide/#ixzz3A806xxjj

Ethiopian Aviation Academy recognized as IATA Authorized Training Center

Aug 08, 2014

 Ethiopian Airlines is pleased to announce that Ethiopian Aviation Academy, the largest aviation academy in Africa, has joined IATA’s global training partner network as an IATA Authorized Training Center.
The Academy attained the recognition following the evaluation of its successful application to become an IATA Authorized Training Center by the IATA Training and Development Institute and the IATA Regional Office. This authorization allows Ethiopian Aviation Academy to deliver additional training programs: IATA International Travel & Tourism Training Program and Foundation in Travel & Tourism.
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CEO of Ethiopian Airlines Group, Mr. Tewolde Gebremariam, said, “The Academy is the foundation of our success by enabling us to be self-sufficient in critical aviation areas and by supporting our Vision 2025 fast, profitable and sustainable growth strategy. This recognition is the result of the continuous heavy investment we are making on human resource development, a critical pillar of our Vision 2025 strategy.

In the last 4 years alone, we have invested more than 80 million dollars to expand both the scope of the training and the in-take capacity of the Academy. Today, our Academy receives over 1,000 students per year to train pilots, aircraft technicians, cabin crew, marketing and finance personnel, customer service agents as well as aviation leaders. Going forward, we plan to increase this in-take capacity to 4,000 by 2025, so as to cater for the growing training need in the continent.”

The African Airlines Association has recently voted Ethiopian Aviation Academy as “Airline Training Services Provider of the Year”. The Academy is certified by the Ethiopian Civil Aviation Authority, the U.S Federal Aviation Administration, the European Aviation Safety Agency, and IOSA (IATA Safety Audit).

Ethiopia and its press The noose tightens (The Economist)

A RANKING that countries do not aspire to ascend is the one compiled by the Committee to Protect Journalists, a New York-based group. It reckons that Ethiopia is Africa’s second-worst jailer of journalists, ahead only of its ultra-repressive neighbour and bitter enemy, Eritrea. Cementing its lamentable reputation, on August 4th Ethiopia briefly resumed the trial of ten journalists and bloggers, nine of whom it has kept in prison since April; one is being tried in absentia. The court proceedings are to start again in earnest on August 20th.

The ten are accused of several offences, including breaches of the country’s controversial anti-terrorism laws. These include having links to banned opposition groups and trying to cause instability via social media. The government says the journalists and bloggers are connected to two groups that it deems terrorist organisations: the Oromo Liberation Front, a rebel outfit that seeks a better deal for Ethiopia’s largest ethnic group, which predominates in the south; and Ginbot 7, a leading opposition movement formed after widespread protests following Ethiopia’s general election in 2005.
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The arrests are part of a broader clampdown on the opposition and the media. In June Andargachew Tsigie, Ginbot 7’s exiled secretary-general, was detained in transit through Yemen and flown to Ethiopia. He had previously been sentenced to death in absentia in two separate trials.

On August 4th Ethiopia’s ministry of justice upped the ante by filing fresh charges against five magazines, a newspaper and their publishers, alleging that they were “engaging in incitements that could undermine national security” and promote discord. Readers view the five popular magazines, which have criticised government policies, as an alternative to the rosy narratives of state media. With a general election due next year, this seems to be making the ruling party twitchy.

Ethiopia, Egypt differ on Nile dam statement

"Egypt wants to discuss all the seven points of the communiqué but Ethiopia insists on discussing the 4th point alone," Fekahmed Negash, director-general of boundary and trans-boundary rivers at Ethiopia's Water Ministry said.

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A 7-point statement issued following a June meeting between Ethiopian Prime Minister Hailemariam Dessalegn and Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi on a controversial Ethiopian dam on the Nile is a new source of contention between Addis Ababa and Cairo.
While Egypt wants to discuss the seven points of the statement, Ethiopia insists on discussing only the fourth point about the resumption of the tripartite talks.
"Egypt wants to discuss all the seven points of the communiqué but Ethiopia insists on discussing the 4th point alone," Fekahmed Negash, director-general of boundary and trans-boundary rivers at Ethiopia's Water Ministry, told Anadolu Agency on Thursday.
Negash said that "Ethiopia will discuss only this point because the rest are related to bilateral relations between Ethiopia and Egypt and they need to be considered separately."
Set up in 2011, a tripartite technical committee was tasked with studying the impact of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam on the two downstream states.
The committee's activities, however, were suspended in January amid mounting tension between Cairo and Addis Ababa. But Addis Ababa, Cairo and Khartoum agreed to resume the tripartite talks on August 26.
In recent years, tension has marred relations between Ethiopia and Egypt over the former's construction of a major dam project on the upper reaches of the Nile River, which represents Egypt's primary water source.
Ethiopia says the dam is necessary for its national development plans. It insists the project won't impact Egypt's traditional share of Nile water, which has long been determined by a colonial-era water-sharing treaty that Addis Ababa has never acknowledged.

Ethiopian public cover 26 percent of cost

Some 26 percent of the total cost needed for the construction of a multi-billion dollar hydro-electric dam on the Nile are being covered by the Ethiopian public, an Ethiopian spokesman said Thursday.
"The public, including children, are showing interest to put their fingerprints on the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD)," Fekadu Ketema, spokesman for the office of the National Council for Coordination and Public Participation for the Construction of GERD, told Anadolu Agency.
"The bond sale is well in progress and additional fundraising mechanisms including SMS and lottery awards are put in place side by side with the bond sale with a view to enabling all segments of the society to provide financial support to the dam construction," he said.
Ketema said that the fourth round of a bond purchasing program has already been launched.
"There is no shortage of money at all and such schemes are designed just to fulfill the interest of all Ethiopians to put their fingerprints on the dam," he said.
He went on to say that even Salini Construction Company, the Italian firm which is building the dam, has confirmed that "there is no financial shortage for construction of the dam."
Ketema expected that the 4.8-billion-dollar dam – of which 35.8 percent of its construction has completed – will be operational as scheduled.
Some 8750 employees are engaged in the construction of the dam with 2200 different types of machinery deployed to the site.

ጅብ ከሄደ ውሻ ጮኽ! WHAT? Ethiopia arrive in Brazil for two week tour

ይህ ዜና ተረት ይመስላል። የ አለም ዋንጫ ባለቀ በወሩ ዋሊያዎች ብራዚል ደረሱ። ለምን እንደሆን ዋናውን ዘገባ አንቡት
by Collins Okinyo 08 August 2014, 00:28
Ethiopia's Walia Ibex arrived safely in Brazil for a two week preparation tour ahead of the 2015 Africa Cup of Nations qualifiers where they are grouped with Malawi, Mali and Algeria.
The East Africans will play five friendly matches with local sides that include AC Anapolina Club Do Remo at the Arena Baenao Gama, Brasiliense at the Boca do Jacare stadium and the last friendly will be against Itubiara at the 30,000 seater JK stadium.
While in Brazil, the national team will stay at Hotel San Peter and will be training at one of the training centers that was used by the Brazilian national team during the World Cup.
Coach Mariano Barreto, his assistant Daniel Tsehai, team doctor Dr. Terefe Tafa, Physio Behailu Abera have landed in Brazil.
Jemal Tassew, Sesay Bancha, Ephrem Ashamo, Mesud Mohammed, Shemeles Tegegn, Andaregachew Yelake, Thok James, Abebaw Butako, Behanu Bogale, Mintesinot Adane, Akilu Ayanaw and Dawa Hottesa are some of the players already in Brazil.
Players leaving Addis Ababa on Saturday for Brazil include Minyahile Teshome, Asrat Megersa, Salahdin Bergecho, Shemelis Bekele, Fikru Teffera, Natnael Zelleke, Fitsum Gebremariam, Behailu Assefa, Adane Girma, Gathoch Panom, Fasil Tekalegne, assistant coach Haileselaise Georgis goal keeping coach and Yosef Tesfaye who is the team leader.
Teixeira who has 15 years’ experience working in football also helped organise last week's Ethiopia Walia Ibex International friendly that they lost 1-0 to Angola away in Luanda. He has also organized more than 250 football events around the world the last one of which involved taking Italian Seria A team Hellas Verona to make a stage in Brazil.
"It has taken a lot of effort to organise the friendlies for Ethiopia in conjunction with the federation. I have catered for all the expenses while the federation will only pay for the tickets to and from Addis Ababa. I am trying to help Ethiopia under their new coach Mariano Barreto to meet their objective of once again qualifying for the 2015 Afcon in Morocco."

US To Commit $800m To Ethiopia’s Economic Development

VENTURES AFRICA – The United States is committing $800 million to assist Ethiopia with issues of economic development, education, capacity building, health, among others.
Secretary John Kerry made this known on Tuesday when he met Ethiopian Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn before their meeting in Washington DC.
“Our relationship is strong and productive, and we’re very, very grateful for their leadership most of all at a difficult time in some difficult places,” said Kerry, who noted that Ethiopia has been at the forefront of helping to move the peace process in Sudan and South Sudan.
Desalegn also said Ethiopia was working assiduously to pacify the region, which, according to him is the “basis for all the engagements and economic development that take place.”
He noted that the East African country is seizing the opportunity presented by the US-Africa Summit and business forum to speak to investors as it seeks to attract investments into Ethiopia.
The country is also working very hard to fight terrorism and extremism, Desalegn says.
Ehthiopia’s economy has experienced strong growth over the past decade, averaging 10.9 percent per year in 2003/04 – 2012/13 more than double the regional average of about 5 percent, according to the World Bank.

The country is expected to continue its economic growth as it attracts investments from the US as it has from emerging markets, notably China, Turkey and India.
“However, in order to convert these interests into actual investments, Ethiopia must be more competitive by considerably reducing logistics cost and time,” noted Guang Zhe Chen, World Bank Country Director for Ethiopia in a recent World Bank Group report.

እራሱ በራሱ ፎቶ ያነሳው ዝንጀሮ ጉዳይ የይገባኛል ጥያቄ ውዝግብ አስነሳ

የዚህ ፎቶ ግራፍ ባለቤት ማን ነው?
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።  የቦ ዶት ካም የቦ የጉዞ ወኪል

This photo was taken with the camera of nature photographer David Slater, and in any other situation, we’d have to pay serious money for the use of it. However, we’re using it for free — that’s right, we are paying no dollars for it — because that monkey stole Slater’s camera and took his own photo, therefore holding the copyright and releasing the photo into the public domain. Slater, however, doesn’t see it that way, and recently filed a suit against Wikipedia for freely distributing the monkey selfie.

Wikipedia’s Creative Commons contains thousands of free images, and in the past three years since the monkey selfie was published, its editors have kept uploading the macque’s photo under the argument that the monkey is the original copyright holder “because it was the one that pressed the shutter button,” The Telegraph reports. And unless the monkey suddenly becomes litigious, the image will remain in the public domain. (Most countries would agree with this interpretation, with many outright stating that photos must be created by humans in order to receive copyright protection.)

However, Slater’s spending nearly £10,000 on a lawsuit against Wikipedia, arguing that the viral nature of the photo caused him to lose a lot of money in royalties, and we mean a lot:

“That trip cost me about £2,000 for that monkey shot. Not to mention the £5,000 of equipment I carried, the insurance, the computer stuff I used to process the images. Photography is an expensive profession that’s being encroached upon. They’re taking our livelihoods away,” he said.
“For every 100000 images I take, one makes money that keeps me going. And that was one of those images. It was like a year of work, really.”

When asked for comment, the black crested macque hurled its feces into the air.

UPDATE — 9:02 p.m. ET: We received an email from the Wikimedia foundation clarifying who, exactly, holds the copyright for the selfie:
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A photographer left his camera unattended in a national park in North Sulawesi, Indonesia. A female crested black macaque monkey got ahold of the camera and took a series of pictures, including some self-portraits. The pictures were featured in an online newspaper article and eventually posted to Commons. We received a takedown request from the photographer, claiming that he owned the copyright to the photographs. We didn’t agree, so we denied the request.

Why we didn’t agree:

We don’t agree that the photographer in question has copyright over the images. That doesn’t mean the monkey owns the copyright: it just means that the human who owns the camera doesn’t.

For example, under US copyright law, copyright claims cannot vest in to non-human authors (that is, non-human authors can’t own copyrights) — and the monkey was the photographer. To claim copyright, the photographer would have had to make substantial contributions to the final image, and even then, they’d only have copyright for those alterations, not the underlying image

Ethiopia Establishes Anti-Ebola Committee

The Public Health Institute has announced that Ethiopia has set up a National Committee to put in place a plan to prevent and contain any possible outbreak of the deadly Ebola virus, which is currently spreading in West Africa.

A spokesperson for the Institute, Abel Yeshaneh, said the National Committee would draw up guidelines to prevent and contain Ebola and these guidelines would be made official shortly. According to information from the Institute, the Committee members will be from the Ministry of Health, Ethiopian Airlines and other stake holders.

Ethiopian Airlines, which operates an extensive flight network connecting West African countries to other parts of the world, has already announced it has put in place "precautions in connection with the outbreak of the disease in some parts of West Africa."

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Seychelles and Ethiopia plan to increase cooperation in trade, tourism and regional security -

(Seychelles News Agency) - Seychelles’ President James Michel and the Ethiopian Prime Minister, Hailemariam Desalegn have endorsed the creation of a joint commission between their two countries following talks which centred on the possibility of strengthening cooperation in various fields between the two African nations.

In a press statement issued yesterday evening, state House said trade, tourism and regional security were amongst issues discussed by Michel and Desalegn, who met in the margins of the US-Africa Summit, in Washington.

According to the statement, Michel noted that Seychelles and Ethiopia enjoyed excellent relations adding that they would work towards developing collaboration at different levels.

"I believe that the time has come for us to strengthen our relations both bilaterally and at the level of the African Union. There is so much we can do together," said Michel.


Seychelles and Ethiopia plan to increase cooperation in trade, tourism and regional security
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Seychelles and Ethiopia plan to increase cooperation in trade, tourism and regional security

The Seychelles and Ethiopian delegations at the meeting in Washington in the margins of the US-Africa summit (Mervyn Marie, Seychelles News Agency)


(Seychelles News Agency) - Seychelles’ President James Michel and the Ethiopian Prime Minister, Hailemariam Desalegn have endorsed the creation of a joint commission between their two countries following talks which centred on the possibility of strengthening cooperation in various fields between the two African nations.

In a press statement issued yesterday evening, state House said trade, tourism and regional security were amongst issues discussed by Michel and Desalegn, who met in the margins of the US-Africa Summit, in Washington.

According to the statement, Michel noted that Seychelles and Ethiopia enjoyed excellent relations adding that they would work towards developing collaboration at different levels.

"I believe that the time has come for us to strengthen our relations both bilaterally and at the level of the African Union. There is so much we can do together," said Michel.

The Seychelles delegation at the meeting headed by President James Michel also comprised of the Seychelles Foreign Minister Jean-Paul Adam, the Seychelles Ambassador to the US, Marie-Louise Potter and the Secretary General of the Office of the President, Lise Bastienne. (Mervyn Marie, Seychelles News Agency) Photo License: CC-BY

The Seychellois head of state also highlighted the return of Ethiopian Airlines to Seychelles soon, which he said would help boost economic cooperation namely trade and tourism between the two African nations.

News of Ethiopian Airlines’ plans to resume flights to Seychelles surfaced mid-March this year not long after its last flight to the Indian Ocean archipelago.

The Ethiopian carrier had been operating three weekly flights to the island nation since the first quarter of 2012 before it stopped on March 01, 2014.

Ethiopian Airlines is now expected to resume direct flights between Addis Ababa and Seychelles as of October 01, 2014.

With fish being one of the main pillars of the Seychelles economy, the possibility of the island nation exporting fish to Ethiopia and working on capacity building in the fisheries sector was also discussed.

"Seychelles' fisheries products can be exported to Ethiopia and at the same time Seychelles can import vegetables and other products from Ethiopia. This would be a win-win situation....,” said Michel.

For his part, the Ethiopian Prime Minister said that that his country would welcome investors from Seychelles for mutual benefit.
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Tiborn Nagy, a former U.S. ambassador to Ethiopia, "Ethiopia's improvement should allay its critics"

አምባሳደረ ቲቦን ናጊ  የቀድሞው  የአሜሬካ አምባሳደር በኢትዮጵያ
Regarding the Houston Chronicle editorial about Ethiopia, "Do Better" (Page B7, July 29), while one can take a snapshot of Ethiopia's current political, economic and social circumstances and find areas for serious criticism, it would be much fairer to view where Ethiopia is today in relation to where it has come from, and especially to where it is headed.
I served as a U.S. diplomat twice in Ethiopia, as a member of the U.S. embassy staff in the mid-1980s during the awful days of the Marxist dictatorship at the height of the "Great Famine," and again as ambassador from 1999-2002.
I have also returned to the country a number of times since then to help facilitate educational exchanges between U.S. and Ethiopian universities. In my experience, for most Americans, "Ethiopia" still conjures up images more reminiscent of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse than today's reality.



Ethiopia is the second-most populous country in Africa, made up of mostly dynamic young people experiencing unparalleled economic growth and incredible infrastructure development, with a realistic shot of becoming a middle-income country by 2025.
Along with economic development has come significant and rapid social progress in longevity, women's education and HIV/AIDS reduction - and incredible growth in university education, with Ethiopia going from three to 38 national universities in just over a decade.
Historically, Ethiopia is an ancient nation - and the only sub-Saharan one to have developed through history and geography rather than by having colonizers drawing lines on a map that, in most cases, made little sense.
Its current political system dates to just 1991, when rebel groups forcibly overthrew the Marxist dictatorship and installed a hybrid political system, which is still evolving. Considering the immense existential threats the regime faced upon taking power, it is understandable that it didn't immediately transform from the barbarous regime it displaced to an ideal Scandinavian democracy.
However, it has evolved and continues to do so, with each succeeding iteration more politically progressive (and I don't mean this in U.S. political terms) than the last.
Has Ethiopia arrived at a point where the government in place is willing to have itself voted out of office? That is a question that only the government can answer. But subsequent elections will show whether the government will promote an environment that enables a serious opposition to exist, while the opposition will also have to be serious, instead of fractious, petty, selfish and generally irrelevant.
As the Chronicle editorial pointed out, Ethiopia has serious human rights problems.
As a historical comparison - this is not in any way justification - young nations often do. The U.S. won its independence from Britain in 1783, and in 1798 President John Adams signed into law the odious "Alien and Sedition Acts," which any "civilized" nation would loudly criticize today.
Luckily, the U.S. tendency since then has been toward democratic liberalization.
An important point: So is Ethiopia's. Unlike much of the rest of Africa (not to mention the Middle East), where the trend is stagnant or in reverse, Ethiopia's environment keeps getting better.
I can state from my experience in dealing with Ethiopia: Outsiders who want to influence that evolution positively need to do so discreetly. There are some countries where public criticism works well; there are a few where it is counterproductive. And Ethiopia is definitely in the second category.
The international community needs to decide whether it wants to publicly flog Ethiopia or to effect positive political change. Pursuing the former will only cause Ethiopia to dig in its heels, empower those within the regime who resist change and likely result in stiffer sentences for the incarcertated journalists who plight was the supject of the editorial. If the goal is encouraging liberalization, then discussion out of the limelight will be much more produtive.
U.S. politicians are accountable to their constitutents - and the Ethiopian diaspora is a vocal and well-organized constituency. Having been a member of the Hungarian exile community, this is something I have personal experience with. Those of us who escaped the blood Soviet suppression of the 1956 uprising were vociferously anti-Communist and politically active agains the Hungarian regime until the crumbling of the Soviet Union.
incar In addition to having incredible energy, exile communities also tend to be highly emotional and can idealize the system that existed before the event that caused their exile. I know realize that we Hungarians dis this and failed to acknowledge any progress the post-1956 regime made with "Goulash Communism."
I would simply urge the Ethiopian community to carefull evaluate events in Ethiopia - the positive as well as the negative - and work toward effecting progress on all fronts. Political and economic liberalization should happen together.

Tiborn Nagy, a former U.S. ambassador to Ethiopia, lives in Lubbock.
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አሜሪካ ድግስ የተጠሩና ያልተጠሩ የአፍሪካ መሪዎች

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1. Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe, 
2. Omar al-Bashir of Sudan 
3.  Isaias Afwerki of Eritrea. 

  Jeffrey Smith and Todd Moss point out in an op-ed for Al Jazeera America,
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What is Polity IV

The Polity IV Project continues the Polity research tradition of coding authority characteristics of states in the world system for purposes of comparative, quantitative analysis. An improved and enhanced Polity 5 version in the series is currently in development.

The Polity IV dataset covers all major, independent states in the global system over the period 1800-2013 (i.e., states with a total population of 500,000 or more in the most recent year; currently 167 countries). With the support of the Political Instability Task Force, the Polity IV Project has been transformed into a living data collection effort, meaning that it constantly monitors regime changes in all major countries and provides annual assessments of regime authority characteristics, changes and data updates.

The Polity conceptual scheme is unique in that it examines concomitant qualities of democratic and autocratic authority in governing institutions, rather than discreet and mutually exclusive forms of governance. This perspective envisions a spectrum of governing authority that spans from fully institutionalized autocracies through mixed, or incoherent, authority regimes (termed "anocracies") to fully institutionalized democracies.

The "Polity Score" captures this regime authority spectrum on a 21-pont scale ranging from -10 (hereditary monarchy) to +10 (consolidated democracy). The Polity scores can also be converted into regime categories in a suggested three part categorization of "autocracies" (-10 to -6), "anocracies" (-5 to +5 and three special values: -66, -77 and -88), and "democracies" (+6 to +10). More