AK TEA 🍵

Get your filthy hands off of my faith!!

[Milan Janosov @milan_janosov]

Devastating content but top tier cartography by José Luengo-Cabrera’s highlighting the power of mapping.

𝐌𝐨𝐫𝐞 𝐟𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐚𝐮𝐭𝐡𝐨𝐫: https://t.co/Eh07CooaAo

𝐌𝐨𝐫𝐞 𝐠𝐞𝐨𝐬𝐩𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐚𝐥: https://t.co/wxlOu7Y8PQ

[Allison Papson @AllisonPapson]

#Breaking Missing Howard University student Esube “Izzy” Wondwossen has been located safely and is in good health. #PGPD

[AK TEA 🍵 @AkAkliluesh]

@eyobderrick "Unsolvable" is what middlemen say before they get disrupted. Brokers own no houses — only information. Verified listings, real prices, and reviews erase that edge overnight, and telebirr + smartphones already reach everyone. Not a tech problem. A will problem.

[CPJ Africa @CPJAfrica]

#Ethiopia 🇪🇹 Ethiopian authorities released hundreds of political prisoners on September 10 after they completed “rehabilitation training” and signed pardon documents. However, journalists Gobeze Sisay, Meskerem Abera, Genet Asmamaw, Dawit Begashaw, and Abay Zewdu remain imprisoned because they refused to sign letters accepting responsibility for the conflict in the Amhara region, letters they consider self-incriminating.

The five journalists have been detained since 2023 on terrorism charges connected to their reporting. CPJ calls on Ethiopian authorities to release them immediately and unconditionally.

Read more: https://t.co/mrPJtXySFR

[AK TEA 🍵 @AkAkliluesh]

@alexandr_wang Just used Muse for first time, I am afraid I may be hooked for good!!

[alula pankhurst @alulapan]

An impressive exemplary partnership between the Toledo Musem of Art and the Ethiopian Heritage Authority heralding the repatriation of 5 artefacts: 15th century manuscripts and outstanding crosses as part of a collection of 380 artefacts with further phased restitutions planned.

[HNOK @he_negash]

Amharic of the day:
selam

peace; wholeness; that which the T.P.L.F. deprived Ethiopians of for thirty plus years with a constitution crafted to sow seeds of discord amongst brethren and sistren, of which Ted was a leader.

[AK TEA 🍵 @AkAkliluesh]

@Mekdesmt I remember when they displaced farmers in that area 10/15 years ago go. They created generational poverty by forcing farming families off their land with minimal compensation. Left with no land to farm, thousands face structural unemployment.

[Chapi Menge @chapimenge3]

We just released our first batch of open Amharic speech data by @snapwre

22.7 hours · 7,405 clips · 320 speakers
CC BY 4.0, free on Hugging Face

It's a first batch. We're not claiming it's the best quality yet
we'd rather you try it and tell us what's wrong with it.

Next release: properly preprocessed audio, a real validation pipeline.

Interested? DM me.

https://t.co/2RXn4HNCnp

[Sam Altman @sama]

@KeyTryer i don't think i was wrong on capability timelines; actually quite good on those predictions.

society and the economy are taking longer to integrate the capabilities than i had guessed, but i don't think that's all bad.

(also might change in the future.)

[Dawit @HOAAffairs]

The Parking Garage and the Palace: On Gedu Andargachew, Exile, and the Moral Bankruptcy of Ethiopia's Ruling Elite.

There is something profoundly dignified about this image, although whoever filmed it may have intended humiliation.

Ato #Gedu_Andargachew served as President of the Amhara Region, Ethiopia's Foreign Minister, and National Security Adviser to the Prime Minister. He sat at the White House negotiating Ethiopia's position on the Nile River. He was part of the political coalition that helped bring Abiy Ahmed to power, and in August 2023, he delivered what I described at the time as one of the most consequential speeches of the Abiy era: a parliamentary address calling for the withdrawal of federal forces from the Amhara region, for dialogue, for an end to the dehumanization of Amhara civilians, and for an end to mobilizing regional forces against Amhara people. He broke with that government. He went into exile. He now works in a parking facility in the Washington, D.C. area.

His greatest crime, as best as one can reconstruct it, was twofold: he was #Amhara, and he refused to look away while his country was being robbed.

Now consider the contrast. The political class that ran Ethiopia as a private extraction enterprise for three decades, whose offshore holdings, affiliated business empires, and systematic conversion of public resources into personal wealth have been documented by Transparency International, flagged in World Bank governance assessments, and noted in IMF country reports, is not working in parking facilities. TPLF and OLF-affiliated leaders who occupied the commanding heights of the Ethiopian state, and who constructed the economic architecture that hollowed out Ethiopian institutions, are living in considerable comfort in capitals across Europe, North America, and the Gulf, insulated by wealth accumulated through decades of public office. The Endowment Fund for the Rehabilitation of Tigray and its web of affiliated enterprises converted political dominance into private accumulation on a scale that left Ethiopia's public finances in structural distress. These are the people whose conduct required no parking garage. Their reward was not exile.

I have disagreed with Gedu politically, and he bears responsibility for mistakes made during a deeply troubled period of Ethiopian politics. None of that requires denying character where character is visible. He spoke when speaking carried consequences. He broke with power when breaking with power cost something. He went into exile. And rather than treating public office as a license for personal enrichment, he works.

A man is not diminished by the work of his hands. Public office does not confer dignity, and a parking garage cannot take it away. The image of a former Foreign Minister and National Security Adviser earning his living honestly in Washington, while those who looted his country live on blood money extensively documented in international financial accountability reports, is not an image of shame. It is a moral document. And the moral it contains is not about him.

Were the Ibrahim Prize for Achievement in African Leadership, established by the Sudanese-British billionaire and telecommunications entrepreneur Mo Ibrahim to honor African leaders who govern with integrity and treat public office as a trust rather than a source of personal enrichment, ever to recognize those who served at the highest levels of government rather than only those who formally led states, Ato Gedu Andargachew would be among its most fitting candidates. The prize sometimes goes unclaimed, because genuinely worthy candidates are scarce. A former Foreign Minister and National Security Adviser working honestly in a parking facility in Washington, while those who looted his country live on wealth documented by every major international financial accountability institution, represents precisely the standard of conduct that Mo Ibrahim created his foundation to honor, and that Ethiopian politics has chosen, repeatedly and deliberately, to punish.
@Mo_IbrahimFdn @vibrahimrcmt @anticorruption

[Tseday @Tseday]

Phillips Garretson, P. (1974). A history of Addis Ababa from its foundation in 1886 to 1910. [PhD thesis, SOAS University of London]. https://t.co/PNfH9whmrq

[Mayowa @Mayoveli]

What’s interracial in a marriage between 2 black Africans?

[AK TEA 🍵 @AkAkliluesh]

@solassefa It's the same old playbook: invent a political sideshow to bury the real headlines. While everyone argues over the noise, the country dealing with hyperinflation, renewed regional conflicts, and millions needing humanitarian aid.

[U.S. Embassy Addis @USEmbassyAddis]

Deputy Assistant Secretary of Commerce Mark Mitchell's visit to Addis Ababa was his first — but not his family's. More than 75 years ago, his father, Ralph Flint Mitchell, Jr., was an Ethiopian Airlines pilot and served as personal pilot to Emperor Haile Selassie, accompanying the Emperor, the Empress, and even the royal dog on international travels, including the dedication of the Nile River bridge in May 1950. That history came full circle during DAS Mitchell's meetings in Ethiopia, a quiet reminder that America's partnership with Ethiopia spans generations. Some relationships, just like flights, are meant to go the distance. Check out some of Ralph Mitchell's photos he personally took of Emperor Haile Selassie below! #USinEthiopia

[Meseret Media @MeseretMedia]

#ዜናመሠረት በቅርቡ አበሽጌ ወረዳ ውስጥ 'ፋኖ ናቸው' በማለት የተገደሉት ሶስት ወጣቶች ቤተሰቦች ግድያውን አስተባብሉ የሚል ጫና እየደረሰባቸው መሆኑ ታወቀ

ለሟች ቤተሰቦች "የሞቱበትን ምክንያት አናውቅም፣ የመንግስት አካላት አልገደሏቸውም በሉ፣ አሊያ ግን እኛ ከታሰርን እናንተው ትጠፋላችሁ" በማለት ቀጥተኛ እና ከባድ ዛቻ እያቀረቡባቸው እንደሆነ ምንጮች ተናግረዋል

ተጨማሪ ያንብቡ:
https://t.co/eeaHl9pjpa

[AK TEA 🍵 @AkAkliluesh]

@solassefa Understood, Perhaps someone can market the Husk to a dozen or so companies who sells Cascara herbal supplements.

[አዲስ አበቤ @addisabebaa]

ወገን ድረሱልን በጅቦች ልናልቅ ነው።ጅቦች ተለቀውብናል😂

[AK TEA 🍵 @AkAkliluesh]

@solassefa I don't know if I agree with that, simple is not always Best!