Ethiopian Review’s 2012 Person of the Year is Julian Paul Assange.
The people of Ethiopia continued to wallow in misery in 2012 and the main cause is lack of freedom. The level of prosperity and quality of life in …
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Ethiopian Review’s 2012 Person of the Year
DLA Piper, a hired gun for rogue nations
A Newsweek article by Joshua Kurlantzick points out the shameful activities of some law/lobbying firms in Washington DC that are hired guns for criminal regimes around the world who are terrorizing their people. The most notorious among them is DLA …
In Ethiopia, a daily struggle for clean water (video)
In the first in a series of collaborative reports about water problems around the world, Fred de Sam Lazaro of PBS reports on the shortage of potable water in Ethiopia and how the effort required to maintain existing watering points …
Will the World End Today? – U.S. Geological Survey says ‘Be Prepared, Every Day’
(USGS) — Based on interpretations of the ancient Mayan calendar, some people are predicting the world will end on December 21, 2012, Others believe that instead of doomsday and destruction, the day will mark a new era for …
Lorenzo Taezaz And The Italo-Ethiopian War (1935-1941)
By Daniel Kindie
Lorenzo Taezaz could be considered as one of the legendary heroes of the Italo-Ethiopian war of 1935-1941. From the day he left his homeland in 1925, until his untimely death in Sweden in 1946, he had an …
16 European Parliament members sent a letter to PM Hailemairma Desalegn asking him to free Eskinder Nega
Today, 16 members of the European Parliament issued a public letter to Ethiopian Prime Minster Hailemariam Desalegn expressing their grave concern regarding the continued detention of imprisoned journalist and blogger Eskinder Nega.
Arrested in 2011 and detained without access to …
96 Ethiopians arrested in northern Tanzania
GLOBAL TIMES — Tanzanian authorities on Monday said that 96 Ethiopians who were found hiding in villages near Kenya boarder.
According to immigration officers, the Ethiopians were arrested on Sunday morning when they were found in a lorry in an …
BOOK REVIEW: The Great Land Giveaway
Review by Lisanu Betaw
The recently released book by Dr. Aklog Birara (hereafter referred to as the author) on Ethiopia titled “The Great Land Giveaway” is a phenomenal piece of work reflecting the culmination of a dedicated research …
OBEDIENCE to Tyrants – the root causes
The most important single quality of any government, without which it would not exist, must be the obedience and submission of its subjects… [read more]…
Selling Ethiopia away piece by piece (video)
The video below shows how the Woyanne regime is selling Ethiopia’s fertile land to foreign investors after displacing the people who reside on the land. This is done in the name of development, but the only thing that is being …
How Emperor HaileSelassie struggled to modernize Ethiopia
As narrated by historians and individuals who were close to the Emperor.
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Hailemariam Desalegn commits his first major blunder since he took office 3 months ago
Ethiopia’s new prime minister, Hailemariam Desalegn, has made a cabinet reshuffle today and appointed Debretsion Gebremichael, the notorious spy and member of Meles Zenawi’s death squad, as a deputy prime minister. Another TPLF politburo member, Teodros Adhanom, is appointed as …
ESFNA selects the University of Maryland for its 30th Year Event
PRESS RELEASE
It is with tremendous excitement we announce the 30th Ethiopian Sports Federation in North America (ESFNA) Tournament venue and the return of North American’s largest and longest Ethiopian annual sporting and cultural event to the Washington, DC metropolitan …
Key Elements of Civil Resistance (video)
The key elements are:
A. UNITY with an Effective Leadership
B. Offensive and Defensive Continuous PLANNING.
C. Non-violent DISCIPLINE.
• With Non-violent Discipline it is easy to induce loyalty shift
• Wide majority of the population don’t endorse violence.
Click …
Teddy Afro rocks Atlanta (video)
Tikur Sew Concert, Atlanta, Nov. 21, 2012
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Killer of the Dallas TX Desta Restaurant owners extradited from Colorado
By Robert Wilonsky | The Dallas Morning News
It’s been three months since 40-year-old Yayehyirad “Yared” Lemma and 31-year-old Yenenesh “Yenni” Desta were shot to death in front of their Lower Greenville home. The couple was returning home from Desta, …
20 Home Based Business Ideas
If you are thinking about starting your own Home Based Business, the available options can be overwhelming. However, there are many tried and true home-based businesses that may be just what you are looking for.
Here are the top 25 …
Eritrea’s president decides to step down
Ethiopian Review has been informed by a credible source in Asmara that Eritrea’s president Isaias Afwerki is planning to step down within a year along with most of the senior leadership and transfer power to younger leaders.
Asked about possible …
Seyoum Mesfin receiving medical treatment at a Washington hospital
Former TPLF regime foreign minister and current ambassador to China, Seyoum Mesfin, is said to be receiving medical treatment at a hospital in Bellevue, Washington, according to an Ethiopian Review source.
Ethiopian Review has been informed that Seyoum was admitted …
Ethiopian Review’s 2012 Top 5 Political Turkeys
Thanksgiving Holiday is this week and here is Ethiopian Review’s 2012 Top 5 Political Turkeys, as a warm up to the much anticipated Ethiopian Review’s 2012 Person of the Year, which will be announced around the end of December.
5. …
Trekking in Ethiopia’s Semien Mountains
By Kraig Becker
Ethiopia is home to one of the more spectacular, yet lesser known, classic treks of the world. The Semien Mountains, found in the northern part of the country, offer amazing scenery, dizzying heights, and unique wildlife, with …
Survival guide resources
The following is a valuable collection of survival guides for natural and man-made disasters. It is a good idea to download and keep them on your computer’s hard drive or memory sticks.
…Division of Responsibilities for Self Liberation
Nonviolent struggle has nothing to do with passivity, submissiveness, or cowardice. Just as in violent action, these must first be rejected and overcome before the struggle can proceed… [read more]…
German’s Heinrich Böll Foundation leaves Ethiopia in protest
(DW) — Named after the German Nobel Prize winner for Literature, the Heinrich Böll Foundation is an NGO promoting democracy and human rights. It is leaving Ethiopia in protest against restrictions on its activities.
“The closure of the …
Ethiopian Muslim protests show no signs of abating
ADDIS ABABA (IRIN) – Tensions have been simmering over several months between Muslims and the government, with thousands holding demonstrations in protest at the government’s alleged interference in religious affairs; the government has blamed the protests on a small …
Let’s Get Real and Conduct Strategic Struggle
Participants in nonviolent movements sometimes, because of a particular act by the dictatorship has so enraged the populace that they have launched into action without having any idea how the rising might end. While spontaneity has some positive qualities, it …
China’s new leadership faces growing number of crises
By Jillian Kay Melchior
As China holds its 18th National Congress this week, with the Communist Party preparing for a once-in-a-decade transition of power, the nation looks superficially exultant. Ethnic-minority delegates clad in their cultural garb smile and wave to …
A U.S. panel accused Ethiopia’s regime of abusing religious freedom of Muslims
(Reuters) – A U.S. panel on religious freedom accused the Ethiopian government of trying to tighten control of its Muslim minority amid mass protests, saying it is risking greater destabilization of the Horn of Africa region.
Ethiopia, which has long …
1 million people live in the streets of Addis Ababa (video)
This documentary highlights the abject poverty in Ethiopia’s capital where over 1 million people are homeless and tens of thousands of children survive on trash dump while the khat-addicted dictator spends hundreds of millions of dollars to buy military hardware…
How to Bankrupt EFFORT (TPLF) Companies
Effective nonviolent UNITY of action has little to do with shouting slogans. It has everything to do with separating tyrants from their means of control… [read more]…
The 66 TPLF Parasitic Companies Under EFFORT
Nonviolent Resistance (NVR) is the use of NVR weapons (strikes, boycotts, civil disobedience, mass protests, nonviolent sabotage) to disrupt the functioning of the regime and make the country ungovernable. It is to deny the tyrant the compliance, cooperation and submission …
Illiterate Ethiopian children hacked Motorola Xoom tablets
By David Talbot, MIT Technology Review
With 100 million first-grade-aged children worldwide having no access to schooling, the One Laptop Per Child organization is trying something new in two remote Ethiopian villages—simply dropping off tablet computers with preloaded programs and …
Ethiopian journalist honored in Beverly Hills
(LOS ANGELES TIMES) — Reeyot Alemu missed an important dinner engagement in Beverly Hills. But she had a good excuse.
The 31-year-old journalist is jailed in the notoriously brutal, rodent-infested Kaliti prison in Addis Ababa, the capital of Ethiopia. She’s …
Ethiopia Muslims stage peaceful protest after Friday prayer
ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia (AP) — As midday prayers came to an end at the Grand Anwar mosque in Ethiopia’s capital, worshippers continued on to what has become a regular second act on Fridays — shouting anti-government slogans.
The demonstrations this …
Assessing Meles Zenawi’s Rule
By Messay Kebede
Scholars loyal to the Woyanne regime, often for the sake of ethnic solidarity, but with some scruples left for the objectivity of scholarly studies engage in a risky project when they undertake the assessment of Meles Zenawi’s …
ENTC asks Israel to free Ethiopian refugees
The Ethiopian National Transitional Council (ENTC) sent a letter to the Prime Minister of Israel asking his government to free unjustly detained Ethiopian refugees. The letter states: “ENTC urges the Israeli government to immediately halt the use of the Anti-Infiltrator …
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Ethiopia lost $3.4 billion through capital flight in 2010 – University of Massachusetts
In a new report released this month, the University of Massachusetts at Amherst revealed that Ethiopia loses over a billion dollar every year through capital flight and in 2010 alone, USD $3.4 billion have vanished. It is not secret who …
Romney opening up wider lead against Obama – Rasmussen
This is the second straight day with Romney enjoying a 4-point advantage, according to the Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll. Prior to that, with the exception of the convention bounces, neither candidate had led by more than three …
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A professor’s search for his lost dog in Addis Ababa
A short film about the search for a dog provides a vivid insight into life in Ethiopia’s capital Addis Ababa. Directed by Miguel Llansó and Yohannes Feleke. Screened at the International Film Festival in Rotterdam.
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Ethiopian taxi driver in Las Vegas receives reward for returning lost bundle of cash
(Yahoo News) — Adam Woldemarim, the driver, discovered the cash stuffed in a soft laptop case that was left between the seats of the Virgin Valley Cab vehicle. Woldemarim then did what anyone feeling lucky in Sin City would do: …
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OBEDIENCE to Tyrants due to Moral Obligation
A refusal to cooperate is all that is needed to render a Fascistic regime powerless. Moral obligation is the belief that an act is one prescribed by a persons set of values. It is also a duty, which one owes, …
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Let’s give the new prime minister time to prove himself
By Elias Kifle
The sudden death of dictator Meles Zenawi has created an unexpected opportunity for the ruling junta, EPRDF, to reverse course and make peace with the people of Ethiopia whom it had been terrorizing and brutalizing for the …
Why are Ethiopian women killing themselves?
By Elias Kifle
Within the past few months alone, I have heard about 4 Ethiopian women who have killed themselves — one in Virginia, another one in Dallas, then two weeks ago a girl I know very well in Atlanta …
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Town-hall meeting on post-Meles EPRDF regime
Netsanet LeEthiopia Radio will hold a town hall discussion in Washington DC on post-Meles EPRDF regime in Ethiopia this coming Sunday, September 23, 2012. See the poster below for more info:
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Meles Zenawi, America’s “son-of-a-bitch”
By Olaana Abbaaxiiqii
On August 20, following Ethiopia’s meticulously choreographed funeral for former dictator, Meles Zenawi, which was designed to buttress his legacy, a friend asked me to listen to the United States Ambassador to the UN, Susan Rice’s encomium …
Some advise to TPLF (Tesfaye Gebreab)
We are learning that the division within the ruling junta EPRDF is deepening by the day and by the hour as they squabble over who will replace Meles Zenawi continues. Making things even more complicated is that widow of the …
Torture suspect pleads not guilty in a Denver court
DENVER (Associated Press) — A chance encounter at a restaurant in a Denver suburb led to the arrest of an Ethiopian immigrant who authorities say tortured political prisoners decades ago in his home country, according to testimony from a Department …
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Joe Biden cheers the death of bin Laden, as we cheer the death of Meles Zenawi
The U.S. Gov’t went to “the end of the earth” to find a kill bin Laden, a monster who murdered 3,000 of its citizens. When Joe Biden, at the Democratic Convention this evening, presented the killing of bin Laden as …
Arkebe Equbay next TPLF leader? Revisiting Wikileaks
The ruling junta in Ethiopia, Tigrean People’s Liberation Front (TPLF), is preparing to replace the late dictator Meles Zenawi. However, there seems to be no clear choice so far, as the various factions within TPLF vie for control. According to …
Ethiopians still looking for answers on Meles Zenawi (Tom Rhodes)
By Tom Rhodes| CPJ East Africa Consultant
Since I published a blog last week on the lack of information about the health and whereabouts of Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi, readers have deluged it with comments (over 175 as of …
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Abune Philipos visits Ethiopian National Transitional Council’s office
Abune Philipos, a senior member of the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church’s Holy Synod in exile, has visited Ethiopian National Transitional Council’s office in Washington DC on Saturday, July 28.
During the official visit on behalf of the Holy Synod, Abune …
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ESAT reports Meles Zenawi is dead
ESAT RADIO reports Meles Zenawi has died.
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18 people killed in southern Ethiopia following fierce fighting
(AlertNet) – At least 18 people have been killed in fierce fighting between the Borena and Garri communities over land in southern Ethiopia. The fighting forced 20,000 to flee to Kenya, the Kenya Red Cross Society (KRCS) said on Monday.…
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39th day: Where is Ethiopia’s dictator Meles Zenawi?
Today is the 39th day since head of the ruling tribal junta, Meles Zenawi, has disappeared from the public view. The TPLF leadership is expected to make a major announcement regarding the dictator’s disappearance in the next few days, Ethiopian …
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Ethiopian Heritage Festival in DC attracts thousands
The Ethiopian Heritage Society in North America (EHSNA) held its 2nd annual festival in Washington DC at Georgetown University from June 27 – 29. The festival drew thousands of Ethiopians, American-Ethiopians and friends of Ethiopia. Some came from as far …
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38th day since Ethiopia’s dictator disappeared
Today is the 38th day since Meles Zenawi, head of the ruling junta in Ethiopia disappeared from public view. The regime says he is taking break on doctors advise in an unnamed country after getting treatment for an unspecified illness, …
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37th day: Where is Ethiopia’s dictator Meles Zenawi?
Today is the 37th day since Ethiopia’s brutal dictator Meles Zenawi disappeared. Only the top echelon of the ruling TPLF junta and some foreign governments know what happened to him. The people of Ethiopia, and even rank-and-file members of the …
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United Nations alarmed by intimidation of journalists in Ethiopia
[High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay. UN Photo/JC McIlwaine]
(UN News Center) — The top United Nations human rights official today said she is “seriously alarmed” by the current climate of intimidation against journalists and human rights defenders in …
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36th day: No sign of the dictator; foreign leaders say he is dead
Today is the 36th day since Ethiopia’s dictator Meles Zenawi has disappeared from the public view. The ruling Woyanne tribal junta says Meles is recovering from a minor illness, but there is a growing belief that he is dead.
A …
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Ethiopian cultural festival in DC opens Friday
Ethiopian Heritage Society in North America’s annual Ethiopian cultural festival will open Friday, July 26, 2012, at Georgetown University. Click here for more info.
Opening Ceremony: Friday, July 27, 2012 at 5:00 PM
Place: Georgetown University, 3700 O St …
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Where is Meles Zenawi? (Tom Rhodes, CPJ)
By Tom Rhodes | CPJ East Africa Consultant
If you search for the name of Ethiopia’s prime minister, Meles Zenawi, on Twitter these days, you’ll see a flurry of incongruent postings: Meles is hospitalized in critical condition; he’s fine …
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Power vacuum in post-Meles Zenawi Ethiopia
By Messay Kebede
The trouble with tyranny and personalized power is that institutional mechanisms of power transfer do not work. In most cases, such mechanisms exist and are enshrined in written and exalted constitutions. Nonetheless, to the extent that tyranny …
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Ethiopian refugees thrown on Yemeni streets
Ahlam Mohsen (writer), Nicholas Linn (photographer) | Yemen Times
Ethiopian refugees and asylum seekers demonstrated outside the Human Rights Ministry in Hadda on Monday morning, protesting excessive force used by Yemeni security forces to remove them from the country’s immigration …
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35th day since Ethiopia’s dictator has been missing
Except for very few individuals in the ruling TPLF junta, no body knows exactly where Ethiopia’s khat-addicted dictator currently is. Today is the 35th day since he disappeared from the public view. Rumor is surfacing again this morning that he …
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Missing Ethiopian man in Philadelphia found on I-95 Freeway
By Bonnie Cook | philly.com
(Philadelphia) — An Ethiopian man who had become separated from family members Monday during a visit to Center City was found safe by police wandering along the northbound lanes of Rte. I-95.
A Pennsylvania State …
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TPLF leadership holds meetings under extremely tight security
While the Woyanne propaganda machine is sending out conflicting information about dictator Meles Zenawi’s condition, there has been a series of meetings in Addis Ababa at Arat Kilo over the past five days involving Central Committee members of the ruling …
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34th day since Ethiopia’s dictator disappeared
Ethiopia’s dictator Meles Zenawi’s last public appearance was 34 days ago on June 21. At that time he looked terribly sick and when Ethiopian Review and other media reported about his illness, the Woyanne junta propaganda machinery vigorously disputed the …
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Ethiopian man visiting Philadelphia is missing – police asking your help
(CBS) – Towamencin Township police in Pennsylvania are searching for a 62-year old Ethiopian man who was separated from his family in Philadelphia. Kifleyohanesse Tessema was visiting family.
Authorities report that the family traveled to Philadelphia from Towamencin Township on …
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President of Ghana John Atta Mills died
Ethiopian Review extends condolences to the family of President Mills and the people of Ghana.
President John Atta Mills was seating next to Meles Zenawi last May in Washington DC when Ethiopian journalist Abebe Gelaw gave Meles a heart attack. …
Meles Zenawi is said to be dead – multiple sources
An Ethiopian Airlines employee, who wants to remain anonymous, informed Ethiopian Review this afternoon that Ethiopia’s dictator Meles Zenawi has died 4 days ago. But according to our sources, his bodyguards are still at St. Luc Hospital in Belgium. If …
Berhane GebreKristos becomes the de facto TPLF chief
The top leadership of the ruling Tigray Peoples Liberation Front (TPLF) is honoring, for now, Meles Zenawi’s wish to select Berhane GebreKristos as the next party chief and prime minister, Ethiopian Review Intelligence Unit sources reported today. However, the appointment …
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Ethiopian opposition must unite to be an alternative to EPRDF rule
By David Steinman
News of Meles’ illness highlights the general unreadiness of the opposition to assume power upon his departure.
Presently, the most likely scenario that would unfold upon Meles’ death or resignation would be his replacement by a Tigrayan …
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Ethiopian dictator’s life in danger – BBC
(BBC) — Ethiopia’s government The Woyanne junta in Ethiopia has denied Prime Minister dictator Meles Zenawi is critically ill but says he has been in hospital.
“He is not in a critical state. He is in good condition,” …
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Woyanne cancels Press conference on Meles Zenawi’s health
The press conference on the health of Ethiopia’s dictator that was scheduled today by the Woyanne junta has been canceled, but AFP has has been able to confirm from from several diplomats that the dictator is gravely ill.
BRUSSELS (AF) …
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Ethiopia at Crossroads: What has to be done
By Neamin Zeleke
News of Meles Zenawi’s deteriorating health offer an opportunity for reflection on his legacy and preparation for the day after his eventual demise. Whether Meles Zenawi passes away in the coming days or at some times in …
Posted in Ethiopia News
Safeguards Against Threats of a New Dictatorship
There is ample historical evidence from France (the Jacobins and Napoleon), Russia (the Bolsheviks), Iran (the Ayatollah), Burma (SLORC), and elsewhere that the collapse of an oppressive regime will be seen by some persons and groups as merely the opportunity …
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Obama urged to raise press freedom in Ethiopia (CPJ)
President Obama should acknowledge the role that independent news reporting plays in assessing agricultural challenges and facilitating the response to famine, the Committee to Protect Journalists stated in a letter to the White House. Ethiopia in particular downplays the extent …
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Arrest Meles Zenawi at the Reagan Building in DC – Friday 7 AM
The khat-addicted dictator Meles Zenawi will be attending the 3rd International Food Security Symposium at the Washington DC Ronald Regan building on May 18, 2012, on the invitation of President Obama.
This is a great opportunity for all Ethiopians residing …
Dictator Meles Zenawi at the Reagan Building on May 18
The khat-addicted dictator in Ethiopia, Meles Zenawi, has been invited by President Barack Obama to a symposium on food security on Friday, May 18, in Washington DC at the Ronald Reagan Building & Int’l Trade Center, 1300 Pennsylvania Avenue NW, …
Obama’s Atrocity Prevention Board ignores Ethiopia
The Atrocity Prevention Board that President Obama created held its first meeting on Monday. While the atrocities in Syria, Sudan, and other countries were highlighted at the meeting, there is no mention of the genocide, ethnic cleansing campaigns and other …
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EOTC asks the U.N. to protect Waldeba Monastery
The Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church Holy Synod in Exile appealed to the United Nations to help protect the historic Waldeba Monastery in Ethiopia. In a letter to U.N. Secretary General Ban ki-Moon, the EOTC wrote: “We hope that the United …
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Clearing out the Al Amoudi trash
Removing the Al Amoudi and Woyanne thugs from the Ethiopian Sports Federation in North America (ESFNA) is a major victory that must be replicated in all other Ethiopian organizations and places of worship. The fight is hard, but we are …
Court ordered Al Amoudi thugs to stop using ESFNA
A U.S. court ordered Al Amoudi thugs to stop using the name Ethiopian Sports Federation in North America (ESFNA) and any reference to it. After the ESFNA board kicked out the Woyanne-Al Amoudi cadres and thugs from the organization, they …
Dislodging Tyranny with Nonviolent Civil Resistance
DEFINITIONS:
Dictatorial Rule: Exercising absolute power.
Tyrannic Rule: Violating rule of law.
Fascistic Rule: Abusing the human rights of oppositions and perceived enemies.
To quote Gene Sharp, a researcher who has for many decades studied and written about the …
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Boycott Woyanne cash cow: Ethiopian Airlines
By Elias Kifle
The Woyanne junta continues to commit horrible atrocities against Ethiopians with impunity. The recent ethnic cleansing campaign against the Amhara, Gambella and Afar people is not surprising because nothing has been done when khat-addicted dictator Meles Zenawi …
EYNM Public Meeting in Stockholm, Sweden
Guest Speakers:
- Prof. Alemayehu G/Mariam: International Human Rights Advocate and Proffessor of Law and Political Science
- Topic: Challenges for Democratic Change in Ethiopia and their solutions
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Worldwide conference on economic boycott against Woyanne – today
In light of the ongoing ethnic cleansing campaign in Ethiopia against the Amhara, Oromo, Ogaden, Gambella, Afar and other Ethiopians, several Ethiopian media will come together on Saturday, April 14, at 1 PM, to propose a worldwide economic boycott campaign …
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Lebanese man charged with the death of Alem Dechasa
BEIRUT (The Daily Star) — Beirut’s general prosecutor has charged Ali Mahfouz with contributing to and causing the suicide of Alem Dechasa-Desisa, the Ethiopian woman who allegedly committed suicide after a widely publicized beating outsider the gate of …
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Press conference on Ethiopian National Transitional Council
Invitation to press conference on Ethiopian National Transitional Council
The Ethiopian National Transitional Council Steering Committee will hold a press conference with members of the Ethiopian media on Saturday, March 24, at 3 PM EST.
Everyone is invited to attend …
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The VALUES of Transformative Reconciliation
Reconciliation is about bringing people together to move them beyond the past through reestablishing trust and normalcy, forgiving each other, in a justifiable society where the previous belligerents would be able to coexist peacefully… [read more]…
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Demonstration at Saudi embassy in DC – today at 10 AM
ICC, Ethiopian Community to Hold Demonstration Demanding Saudis Release Ethiopian Christian Prisoners
WASHINGTON DC (ICC) – International Christian Concern (ICC) and the Ethiopian community in Washington DC will be holding a public protest demanding Saudi Arabia release 35 Ethiopian Christians …
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COLLABORATION for Transformatve Reconciliation and Unity
When we think of discussions as a contest, conflict occurs because we are more concerned with getting what we want than with attempting to understand each other’s needs, harms and emotions. We become defensive about our respective positions… [read …
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Andualem Aragie beaten up in prison
UDJ Party official Andualem Aragie has been beaten up in jail and his captors refused him medical tratement, according to Dr Negasso Giddada. The following is a letter that is sent out today by Dr Negasso:
Yesterday, around noon time, …
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The art of building trust between government and the people
By Geletaw Zeleke
In Ethiopia, in order to build trust between government and the people two kinds of trust must be supported for building a successful reliable system, namely, conscious and systemic trust. The confidence flowing between the people and …
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German Radio on Ethiopians jailed in Saudi Arabia
Germany Radio (Deutsche Welle) Amharic Service reports that 35 Ethiopians continue to languish in Saudi Arabia jail for no reason other than praying in their homes. Listen below:
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Free Ethiopians – Protest at Saudi embassy in Washington DC
PRESS RELEASE
We demand Saudi Arabia to immediately release the illegally detained Ethiopians citizens!
Ethiopian-Americans and friends of Ethiopia are organizing a protest outside the Saudi Arabia Embassy in Washington DC on Feb. 21, 2012. The purpose of the Protest …
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Developing TRUST for Transformatve Reconciliation and Unity
Reconciliation through collaboration, building trust and cooperation restores the capacity to live with or alongside the others… [read more]…
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Ethiopian Review special teleconference – Feb. 26
UPDATE: THE TELECONFERENCE HAS BEEN POSTPONED. THE NEW SCHEDULE WILL BE ANNOUNCED.
Ethiopian Review will hold a special worldwide teleconference on Sunday, Feb. 26, 2012, to raise funds for its 2012 budget. The meeting will include a question-and- answer session …
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International Ethiopian Women Conference March 9-11
The Ethiopian Women Conference Coordinator Committee (EWCCC)* Invites You to attend International Ethiopian Women Conference, March 9-11, 2012 at Howard University in Washington DC.
Ethiopian American women from diverse background are planning to hold a conference focusing on current …
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ALEJE and OLF Public Meeting in Washington DC – Feb. 19
ALEJE and OLF invite you to join the International Public Meetings to discuss on the current struggle for freedom and democracy in Ethiopia. More info.
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