Ethiopian celebrate 130th anniversary of Adwa…Read More
Ethiopians in the country widely held celebrations to commemorate the African heroes who lost their precious lives to defend the African dignity against colonial powers. Specially the Italians in the 1980’s.
2nd of march of every year is assigned to be holiday that Ethiopians remember and celebrate for the victory of Adwa against Italy.
This Day marks an important history for Africans and Ethiopians in particular. This is a major Ethiopian national holiday which is celebrated annually to commemorate the1896 victory over Italian colonial forces at the Battle of Adwa.
This unforgettable and historic war was led by Emperor Menelik the second, who secured Ethiopia’s sovereignty and freedom from colonial powers, who scrambled to Africa in search of New land, raw materials for their developments, slaves for their large farms and other important opportunities for the development of their nationations.
Adwa Victory inspired many African anti-colonial movements, as it serves as a symbol of Pan-African pride, resilience, and unity.
This makes Ethiopia as one of the only two unclonized nations, as Liberia is for being a country that was created by the aunited States of America for the US ex slaves, not defended nation.
Ethiopia was fighting against Italy for Eight years, which was later deleted from the Ethiopian history completely, and as articulate this article today in 2026, Ethiopia remains Eight years behind from the rest of the world.
What are the changes that Ethiopia is witnessing today, as it celebrates the Adwa Victory?
Today in many street of Ethiopia’s cities, there are coridors and clean Environment, a part from some regional states that are experiencing some sort of unrests and conflicts, like Tigray regional state where the Government forces and Tplf rebel groups are facing each other.
What are the challenges and obstacles to Ethiopian development ?
Some of the key issues that are hindering development include, conflicts, poor taxation methodologies, poor implementation of development projects, corruption and malpractices of powerful individuals in the system of Government, which needs to be fixed.
In Amhara regional state, there are certain groups like Fano that are also fighting against the current government due to unsatisfied Government approaches and sometime ethnicity centered plea.
In the recent months, the Ethiopian Federal Government has been trying to engage the Amhara Regional state Government to deal with the rebel groups, as the government views this movement ethnically manufactured associations.
The progress of Ethiopia democracy…
Some of the key positve changes that has taken place in the recent years include, freedom of speech, in Ethiopia it used to be a crime to become a critic of the government, but these days, people are living without fear, even after talking about Government weaknesses and vice of some of the top leaders, these vices may include, corruption, Nepotism, favoritism, poor performance and other serious malpractices.
In the history of Ethiopia, the first ever public speech participated by several national political parties was held three days ago, which shows a huge progress in terms of freedom and democracy.
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