U.S. Congressional hearing on Ethiopia: Ambassador Fesseha Asgedhom with a straight face said that there are no political prisoners in Ethiopia ... Paulos Dandego, March 29

Speech by a member of the European Parliament on human rights violations in Ethiopia ... Honorable Johan Van Hecke, March 23


The April 1st public forum in Chicago is canceled ... EMWA, March 28

Students and parents in Dessie met with TPLF officials ... ER March 28

Government troops refuse to fight ... ER March 27

Commissioner Workneh is torturing prisoners to death  ... ER March 27

Bomb explosions in Addis Ababa... ER March 27

Public meeting in Ohio to support patriotic forces

Call to OLF - Time to take your struggle beyond the superficial
... comment from ER reader

Tegbar activists blocked the railway from Djibouti to Addis Ababa... ER March 24

The April 1st CUD-UEDF-OLF conference is facing opposition ... ER March 24

Most of northern Gonder is now under the control of rebel forces, eyewitnesses in the area told Ethiopian Review today. A resident of Belesa Woreda said that the rebel forces who call themselves "Patriotic Front" have set up check points at various points of the highway and are confiscating vehicles and properties that belong to the government. The eyewitness refuted the Meles regime's claim that the security forces have retaken the area from the rebels ... ER March 24

Execution of four youths in Gondar by Federal Police
... Human Rights Watch letter, March 23, 2006


Call to the European Heads of States and the EU Commission to oppose dictatorship and support Ethiopian democracy ... NES, March 22, 2006

Civil disobedience gainst the Meles dictatorship is intensifying ... ER March 22

Charges of treason and genocide against VOA employees dropped
... Reuters, March 22

Ethiopian Women in Seattle for Peace & Justice invite you for an Ethiopian Dinner and Music to Honor Judge Bertukan Mideksa... flyer

An Ethiopian engineer survives on 'Mars' ... The Winnipeg Sun

A forum of major political parties, CUD, HIBRET and OLF, April 1 in Chicago
... announcement

A climate of fear has taken hold of the Ethiopian capital in the face of widespread arrests and prosecutions ... Washington Times, March 21

Several schools and major roads through out Ethiopia are closed today as a coordinated nationwide civil disobedience against the brutal dictatorship of Meles Zenawi was launched today... ER March 20

A large number of troops entered Dessie... in Bahr Dar and other cities people are closing major roads... ER March March 20

U.S. Congressional hearing on Ethiopia: Ambassador Fesseha Asgedhom with a straight face said that there are no political prisoners in Ethiopia
... Paulos Dandego, March 29

Advocacy Ethiopia benefit event on March 31 in Washington DC

U.S. embassy in Addis Ababa alerts American citizens about civil disobedience next week ... U.S. Embassy, March 17

Federal Police were attacked, roads closed in Gojjam ... ER March 17

USA should use same scrutiny on Ethiopia as it does on Uganda and Zimbabwe
... Scott A. Morgan, March 16

Tegbar League Addis Ababa Committee writes to foreign diplomats... letter, March 6
 
A film by Nnegest Likké,  Senay Likké's daugheter will debut on April 7
... African Tribune

A book by Prof. Mammo Muchie made it to Harvard University's Book of the Month
... Harvard

ENUPF meeting in Los Angeles Sunday, March 19... flyer

Hunger strike at Maikelawi... ER March 14

EU Election Observation Mission final report: The May 2005 elections in Ethiopia "fell short of international principles for genuine democratic elections." full text

Since Meles himself said he will accept the Election Observation Mission's verdict, he must resign now peacefully without causing further bloodshed.

Arrests of journalists on treason and genocide charges has marked the substantial and alarming deterioration in press freedom conditions in Ethiopia ... CPJ, March 14

Oromia Anti-Repression Committee expressed support for the March 20-24 civil disobedience campaign ... ER March 13

Frezer Negash's interview with VOA, March 13

Will Tegbar's call be a success? ... Seminawork, March 11

Frezer Negash was freed today after a court on Wednesday ordered her release on bail, chief prosecutor Shemelis Kemel told CPJ. No formal charges have been brought, but Negash, who had been held since January 27, is still under investigation
...CPJ March 10

CPJ delegation spoke with imprisoned journalists at Kaliti prison in Ethiopia
... CPJ March 9

A remark by Congressman Mike Honda on EWPDH ... pdf, March 8

United States Congressman Dana Rohrabacher, Chairman of the International Relations Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations, introduced legislation restricting U.S. military aid to Ethiopia if it uses that aid to suppress its own people
... California Chronicles

Pro-EPRDF talk radio host in DC  Negussie Woldemariam was released today after posting a $5,000 bail... ER March 8

STATE DEPARTMENT REPORT ON HUMAN RIGHTS IN ETHIOPIA:in the period following the elections, authorities arbitrarily detained, beat, and killed opposition members, ethnic minorities, NGO workers, and members of the press. Authorities also imposed additional restrictions on civil liberties, including freedom of the press and freedom of assembly ... U.S. Dept of State, March 8

Patriotic fronts expressed support for the March 20-24 civil disobedience
... ER March 8

Students in Dessie clashed with police, parents came to their assistance
... ER March 8

A judge ordered yesterday that Ethiopian Review correspondent in Addis Ababa Frezer Negash should be released as there is no evidence to keep her in jail, but the lawless regime, as expected, refused to let her go home ... ER March 8

Time Ethiopian immigrants in the U.S. reconsider their alliance with the Democratic Party... Meron Ahadu, March 8

Abeba le Bertukan ... poem by Lemlem Tsegaw

Negussie Woldemariam, a Washington DC-based radio host, has been arrested today for pointing a loaded gun at two Ethiopians ... ER March 7

International Women’s Day: Correspondent for the US online news website Ethiopian Review, Frezer Negash, is among the six women journalists around the world who are in prison. She is four months pregnant and has been in prison since January 17
... RSF March 7

Two explosions rocked Addis Ababa around noon today ... Reuters March 7

Col. Asrat Bogale, chairman of the Ethiopian National Unity Front, said yesterday that his organization fully supports and will participates in the March 20-24 civil disobedience campaign that is planned by Tegbar League. ENUF also issued a statement expressing support to Tegbar's call... ER March 6

A sport event turned into a protest site... ER March 6

Treacherous allegations linking CUDP to a so-called clandestine terror group
... Getachew Wana, March 6

UEDF statement- in Amharic, pdf

ENUF public meeting in Seattle

Some advice for the coming civil disobedience from an ER reader ... ER Forum

The 110th Adwa Victory Celebration in Washington DC, tomorrow, Friday... details

Three senior Ontario, Canada, police officers are heading to Ethiopiato lend their expertise to a country where traffic accidents are so prevalent they may soon surpass AIDS as the leading cause of death ... The Star, March 3 The problem is that the roads are not maintained, not traffic law enforcement

Tegbar League's Addis Ababa chapter calls on residents of the city to come to the defense of students who are being brutalized and murdered by EPRDF's Federal Police ... Tegbar, March 2

United States to increase Intel and Military Ops in Africa
... Scott A. Morgan, March 2

Bring back the spirit of Adwa with democracy now and unite all Ethiopians to forge ahead ... NES, March 2

American Embassy in Addis Ababa issued warning to U.S. citizens about impending civil disobedience ... US Embassy, March 1

Meles Zenawi's Federal Police savagely attacked students as protest spread
... ER March 1


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