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Oct 17 , 2020

Polio Warrior, 'Father' of Many, Mohammad Idris, Passes, 85

Mohammed Idris came to feel like a father figure to many that met him. Most striking was his effect on the younger generation. Part of this was that he had come to be known to many young people throug...

Oct 11 , 2020

Influential 'Ethiopianist,' the Professor Passes, 91

Mesfin Woldemariam (Prof.) took poetic license. An 18-year-old who had read one of his poems found this out by accident. A freshman pre-med student at Addis Abeba University in 1982, he was classmates...

Oct 3 , 2020

Politically Active Spiritual Leader, Hanfare Alimirah, Passes

Sultan Hanfare Alimirah was not one to stand back when political issues arose. Just as in 1991, he was attentive and aware of the changes that were to lead to the new administration that brought Prime...

Aug 8 , 2020

Calm Under Fire, Teferi Asfaw Passes, 68

The former Relief & Rehabilitation Commission was an island of sanity in the sea of pandemonium that was Communist-era Ethiopia. Exemplifying this contrast was Teferi Asfaw, who found himself work...

Jul 13 , 2020

Active to the End, Politician, Business Person Passes, 85

The outing of the Dergue, a left-leaning military junta, in the 1990s was met with a certain level of optimism by some circles in Ethiopia. It included individuals whose assets had been nationalised b...

Jul 10 , 2020

'Woke' Musician Passes Young, 36

Early on Tuesday morning, youth from the surrounding parts of Addis Abeba entered the city, chanting and wielding sticks. They were angry, and by the time police were routing them back out, violence h...

May 23 , 2020

Business Person of the People, Kabir Hussien, Passes Away at 72

Ezekiel Gebissa (PhD), a political activist and professor of history at Kettering University, could not believe it when he first met Kabir Hussein seven years ago. He did not expect that the owner of...

Apr 25 , 2020

Daring, Hot-tempered Opposition Figure, 70, Passes Away

Ethiopia's parliamentary sessions have never been accused of being vibrant. But there have been exceptions. The few opposition figures sprinkled across an EPRDF-dominated parliament have had their mem...

Mar 28 , 2020

Doctor of Body, Spirit, Catherine Hamlin Passes

There has been a long-standing ritual for the women that come to be treated at the Addis Abeba Fistula Hospital, which was co-founded by Catherine Hamlin (MD), an Australian obstetrician and gynaecolo...

Mar 21 , 2020

Rebel who Loved to Help, Netsanet Asfaw, Gives Up the Fight

Atsede Tamene (Lt. Col.) was 12 when she first met her role model, Netsanet Asfaw. It was the early 1980s, the Derguewas in power, and the Tigray People's Liberation Front (TPLF) was an up and coming...

Mar 14 , 2020

Impeccably Dressed, Witty Advertising Guru Passes, 82

Debebe Eshetu, one of Ethiopia's most prominent actors, was a novice giddily looking up to Woubshet Workalemahu when the two were working together on short films for Ethiopian television some four dec...

Feb 29 , 2020

Calm Mind Behind Economic Miracle Passes, 78

After the December 1960 coup attempt led by the brothers Germame and Menigistu Neway against Emperor Haile Selassie's government, around a dozen aspiring intellectuals in their early 20s rented a hous...

Nov 16 , 2019

The Fighter Against All Odds

Most people who want to bring radical change to their community want to start a revolution. Bogaletch Gebre went at it in a different way. She knew it is evolution that works. So the first thing she d...

Oct 12 , 2019

The Pen Behind the Pen Name: Dandew Serbello from Sidist Kilo

Girma Feyissa's favourite Holiday was Mesqel. He drew his last breath on the early morning of September 28, 2019, as relatives were getting ready to celebrate this year's Mesqel holiday. Perhaps it i...

Oct 5 , 2019

Star Businessman Laid to Rest

A hard-working man." That is the most common description people who knew him, whether friends, colleagues or family, use to describe the late Menwyelet Atnafu. He was one of the founders of Star B...

Jul 13 , 2019

Ge’zae: The Good Samaritan

Last Genna (Ethiopian Christmas), a documentary depicting the lives of six families was screened by Demtsi Woyane Television. The families all lost children during the armed struggle with the Dergue...

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