Articles by Alemayehu Fentaw
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Ethiopia: Where is Religious Freedom Headed?
Alemayehu Fentaw Weldemariam – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Aug 2013
The fear of an Ethiopian Spring has to be factored in the internal security matrix of a dictatorial regime such as Ethiopia’s, since the populist “spring” events in the MENA region have proven to be a potent means of removing dictatorships in North Africa. The lesson is powerful.
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Alemayehu Fentaw Weldemariam – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jul 2013
It now seems that the first popular uprising associated with the now famous names of Tahrir square and the Arab Spring had little more than symbolic significance to the Egyptian populace. Not because it didn’t result in the downfall of Hosni Mubarak, the country’s long-reigning dictator, but because it led to the hijacking of the revolution by the Muslim Brotherhood.
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Alemayehu Fentaw – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 May 2012
It is imperative to bear in mind that it is the marginalization and suppression of Muslims by the Ethiopian Christian State in the past that bred extremism. The current interference by the secular tyrant in the internal affairs of the Muslim community won’t help if not to exacerbate the situation.
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Alemayehu Fentaw – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Jan 2011
This paper looks at the Horn of Africa as a regional security complex. It attempts to consider the new Inter-Governmental Authority on Development (IGAD) Peace and Security Strategy as laying the foundation for the emerging peace and security architecture for the sub-region and subjects it to critical scrutiny. In so doing, it appraises the prospects and challenges facing the nascent peace and security architecture in the Horn of Africa.
→ read full articleETHIOPIA’S FOREIGN AFFAIRS AND NATIONAL SECURITY POLICY: THE CASE FOR A PARADIGM SHIFT
Alemayehu Fentaw in Addis Ababa,
25 Nov 2009
A good place to start a constructive critique is to look at the logical foundation of the Foreign Affairs and National Security Policy and Strategy (FANSPS) of the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia (FDRE) and subject it to the tests of consistency, coherence, and soundness. The FANSPS is premised on the proposition that “security policy […]
→ read full articleANARCHY, TERRORISM AND PIRACY IN SOMALIA: NEW RULES OF ENGAGEMENT FOR THE INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY
Alemayehu Fentaw,
31 May 2009
Somalia has long been anarchic, hitting rock bottom claiming #1 in The Fund for Peace’s most recent Failed States Index. It had no functioning central government in the past 19 years, albeit 14 attempts to reconstitute state authority had been made since 1991, when the former Cold War dictator Mohammad Siad Barre was ousted after […]
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