Questions for Dr Tedros Adhanom, WHO Director General, on his upcoming visit to Columbia University, New York

Dr Tedros Adhanom, who was elected as WHO Director General in May, 2017, will be visiting Columbia University, New York, this coming week (September 19, 2017). Dr Tedros is a controversial figure among Ethiopians and Ethiopian diaspora, mainly because he is considered to have been a major player in human rights abuse of thousands of...

Why the Swedish government should fight hard to free cardiologist, Dr Fikru Maru: Corruption, mismanagement of donor funds, and human rights abuse.

Read about this ,,,,,,, The above photos were taken by the author of this post, Dr Frank Ashall, in January, 2017, while he was a professor at Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia. They show a laboratory at Addis Ababa University containing about US$ 1 million worth of sophisticated biomedical equipment, almost none of which was used...

Ethiopian government breaks international human rights laws, as delayed legal process extends prison time for Dr Fikru Maru, pioneer who established Ethiopia’s first heart hospital

  In a previous post, I brought attention to Dr Fikru Maru, a heart specialist who fled Ethiopia's brutal communist regime in the 1970s, and emigrated to Sweden, where he did his medical degree and trained as an interventional cardiologist: Who is cardiologist, Dr Fikru Maru, jailed in one of Ethiopia appalling prisons? An interventional cardiologist...

Tobacco deals that will harm poor Ethiopians, deliberately ignored cholera epidemics, and other reasons why Dr Tedros Adhanhom should not be WHO Director General

In May, 2017, Ethiopia's Dr Tedros Adhanom was elected WHO Director General, despite tens of thousands of even his fellow Ethiopians being opposed to him being elected. Thousands of Ethiopian diaspora protested outside embassies, protested outside WHO headquarters in Geneva, protested in the media; even a petition organized by Ethiopian diaspora to protest his candidacy...

Who is cardiologist, Dr Fikru Maru, jailed in one of Ethiopia’s appalling prisons?

Photo shows Swedish Prime Minister meeting with Ethiopian Foreign Minister, Dr Tedros Adhanom, now WHO Director General, and Ethiopian Prime Minister, Hailemariam Desalegn. Neither Dr Tedros nor PM Hailemariam have shown any respect for the rights of Dr Fikru Maru, imprisoned heart doctor who founded Ethiopia's first heart hospital. This is a plea for signatures...

Addis Ababa’s homeless of the night

In Ethiopia's capital (and elsewhere in Ethiopia), homeless people are plentiful. Nobody really knows just how many Ethiopians spend most of their time on the streets, though the number of street children alone is well over 100,000. Wherever you go in Addis Ababa or in other towns in Ethiopia, you will never have any trouble at all...

Global Peace Index 2017: Ethiopia suffered the biggest decline of all countries on Earth. Government oppression and peace are incompatible!

The Institute for Economics and Peace has just released its Global Peace Index 2017, a scholarly analysis of the state of world peace, including country by country assessments. The Global Peace Index is based on three areas associated with peace (or lack of it): Levels of Societal Safety and Security, extent of Ongoing Domestic and...

Double-digit growth? Quadruple-digit propaganda! Ethiopia’s top 10 wealthiest people, and Ethiopia’s 87 million poor

           Photographs on this page were taken by the author in 2016 and 2017. As I write this post, eight million and more Ethiopians are experiencing a drought and famine requiring emergency food aid, and it's getting worse. Last year, at the height of the problems, over 15 million unfortunate Ethiopians were at risk for...

A New York Times article that speaks volumes about Ethiopia’s regime

I read this New York Times (NYT) article about the tragic and preventable landslide at Addis Ababa's major trash dump in March, 2017, which killed well over a hundred people, many of them children, and buried many poor homes. I will write a separate post about this disaster later. The NYT article can be read here:...

Dirty deals between government and big tobacco companies in Ethiopia: Stop expansion of tobacco farms and increased cigarette production and smoking rates in Ethiopia

  After reading this article, please consider clicking on the link below, sign the following petition, and share it as widely across the internet as you can to give a voice to Ethiopians whose government-owned tobacco company recently made a $510 million deal with Japan Tobacco International, with the aim of expanding tobacco farms and increasing cigarette production in...