Former Miss Ethiopia Jitu Abraham and parents meet with President-Elect Barack Obama and wife Michelle. Jitu currently resides in the Washington DC area, and works as a model and broadcaster. She has recently completed the U.S. Marine Corps Marathon in …

Ethiopian Review will interview Ato Sileshi Tilahun, the head of organizational affairs for the Ethiopian People Patriotic Front’s International Committee, this coming Sunday, Nov. 23, 2008, at 3:00 PM Washington DC time, 8:00 PM London time.

The interview will be …

EDITOR’S NOTE: The Tibetan leader Dalai Lama is a role model for Ethiopia’s surrenderist opposition group named UDJ that is led by Birtukan Mideksa and Mesfin Woldemariam.

DHARAMSHALA, India (AFP) — Tibetan exiles worked Tuesday to hammer out a new …

By Elias Kifle

Sources close to Birtukan Mideksa’s new party, Unity for Democracy and Justice (UDJ), have informed Ethiopian Review that some of the top leaders of the party are considering resignation. The most prominent among them are Ato Temesgen …

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NEWS RELEASE

Sterling, Va. – One of Customs and Border Protection’s primary missions is enforcing America’s agriculture regulations and that fact was made apparent to all 125 passengers from Ethiopia aboard …

Things are getting darker by the day for the Woyanne cannibalistic regime in Ethiopia as alliances are being built around it. President Isayas Afeworki’s visit to Sudan opens the door for Ethiopia’s opposition groups to establish relations with the Sudanese …

The Reporter in its latest edition reports that Sheraton Addis, which is owned by Ethiopia’s billionaire businessman [and drunkard womanizer] Ato Mohammed Al Amoudi may be put on the auction block to pay for 170 million birr debt that the …

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MOGADISHU (AFP) — On Monday, witnesses in Mogadishu said they saw AU peacekeepers (troops from Uganda) replacing some Ethiopian Woyanne troops in southern Mogadishu.

“I saw a convoy of AU peacekeepers entering the former military academy of Jalle Siad where …

OROMO LIBERATION FRONT
Provisional Committee

Statement on TPLF’s Peace Gimmick

After 17 years of back and forth peace initiatives which have resulted in nothing, the OLF is convinced the TPLF minority dictatorship cunningly uses “peace overtures” of one …

Source: Sudan Tribune

MEKELE, ETHIOPIA – An Eritrean rebel group, the Red Sea Afar Democratic Organization [armed and trained by the Meles regime in Ethiopia] claimed killing over two hundred Eritrean government troops during an attack carried last week against …

EDITOR’S NOTE: U.S. Africa policy under Jendayi Frazer has been a disaster. She has been directly or indirectly responsible for the Somalia horror, the Ogaden genocide in Ethiopia, Ethiopia’s stolen election in 2005, the Zimbabwe hypocrisy, the Darfur holocaust… just …

Interview with Abaynesh Asrat as episode 19 of the monthly podcast LIFE Voices. She was born in Ethiopia to a family that stressed four kinds of well-being: physical, emotional, spiritual and the well-being of one’s community. She brought these values …

There are talks inside the UDJ circles that Birtukan Mideksa may NOT return to Ethiopia after concluding her European tour this month …and Ethiopian Review’s editorial on the possible alliance between OLF, Ginbot 7, EPPF, ONLF and TPDM to create …

ADDIS ABABA, ETHIOPIA (APA) – Ethiopian Woyanne Ministry of Justice officials on Sunday said 226 out of the 273 people arrested, have been charged with genocide committed during an ethnic clash in May.

The rest, 47 of them …

By David Lim

As globalization brings countries closer together, the need to travel between countries for business, pleasure and family increases. However travel within many countries can be extremely dangerous for the novice traveler. Following are the top ten most …

CAIRO, EGYPT – The Egyptian government warned Sudan that its stance on the International Criminal Court (ICC) is “weak” and will not protect president Omer Hassan Al-Bashir from prosecution.

“I thoroughly examined the ICC Statute to look for something that …

ADDIS ABABA (AFP) — Talks on forming a new government in Somalia in a bid to end nearly two decades of bloodletting have failed, Ethiopia’s Woyanne foreign ministry announced on Saturday.

Somalia’s President Abdullah Yusuf Ahmed and Prime Minister Nur …

By Dorothy H Crawford
Professor of medical microbiology
Edinburgh University

WHEN Aids first struck an unsuspecting American population in 1981, no-one had a clue what caused this lethal new disease, or where it came from.

As the disease spread at …

EDITOR’S NOTE: The vampire regime in Ethiopia has outlawed ownership of web hosting and Internet services by private companies in Ethiopia, while other African countries such as Nigeria are working to catch up with developed countries.

If you are wondering …

WASHINGTON (AFP) — US president-elect Barack Obama is to make the first YouTube address to the nation on Saturday, recording a talk not just on radio but also on video, a spokesman said Friday.

“President-elect Obama will record the Weekly …

WASHINGTON (AFP) — US president-elect Barack Obama is considering naming former first lady Hillary Clinton — his onetime rival for the White House — as his secretary of state, US news media reported on Friday.

Two unnamed Obama advisers told …

ASSOCIATED PRESS

MOGADISHU, Somalia — Advancing ever closer to Somalia’s beleaguered capital, heavily armed militants declared Thursday that they will use strict Muslim rules to bring their lawless country back under control.

The latest conquest by the Muslim militants came …

By Messay Kebede

I announce the publication of my new book titled Radicalism and Cultural Dislocation in Ethiopia, 1960-1974.

Published by the University of Rochester Press, the book starts from the premise of a deceived expectation, from the distressing …

By Ben Lynfield | Mideast Youth

JERUSALEM, ISRAEL – The UN’s refugee agency has confirmed that ninety one African refugees expelled by the Israeli army to Egypt as part of Israel’s controversial “hot return” policy have gone missing.

A spokeswoman …

GREENVILLE, SOUTH CAROLINA – Al Befekadu, an immigrant from Ethiopia, said today he was alone in his Pendleton convenience store when a gunman came in and asked for money.

“Sure,” Befekadu recalled saying, “Give me a second.”

Befekadu said he …

By Justin Lafferty | SAN DIEGO UNION-TRIBUNE

SPRING VALLEY, CALIFORNIA – A lottery usually leads people to riches. For Monte Vista High cross country runner Misikir Mentose, a lottery led him to America.

In 2003, Mentose’s father, Ermias Wontamo, entered …

By Howard Kurtz | Washington Post

When a CBS correspondent reported last month that Barack Obama’s campaign had a malodorous airplane and a dismissive attitude toward the media, Robert Gibbs, the candidate’s top spokesman, was not pleased.

“Robert wrote a …

Image: Terri O’Sullivan

Metre-wide cracks in the ground suddenly split open, as red-hot rock and ash are thrown violently into the air amid searing temperatures. It’s like a vision of how the Earth behaved in prehistoric times. Except these events …

By MIKE CORDER

THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — The world’s first permanent war crimes court needs more support as it monitors atrocities in Congo and struggles to have important suspects arrested, an international human rights group said Wednesday.

Human Rights …

Source: Cuban News Agency

HAVANA, Cuba (CNA) – Ethiopia’s State Minister for Foreign Affairs Woyanne donkey Tekeda Alemu praised Cuba’s work as president of the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) at a meeting in Havana with Marcos Rodriguez, Cuba’s deputy Foreign Minister. …

The Ethiopian People Patriotic Front (EPPF) International Committee chairman, Ato Leul Qeskis, will give a press conference on Sunday, Nov. 16, 2008.

The press conference will focus on current developments in Ethiopia, and EPPF’s effort to rally Ethiopians around the …

By Mohamed Ibrahim

MOGADISHU, Nov 12 (Reuters) – Somali insurgents captured a port near the capital on Wednesday without firing a shot.

Residents said fighters for al Shabaab, which means “Youth” in Arabic, rode into Merka port, 90 km (56 …

EDITOR’S NOTE: On the other hand, the tribalist dictatorship in Ethiopia is systematically trying to eliminate Amharic from Ethiopia. Currently less then half of the schools in Ethiopia teach in Amharic.

UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS – The department of African and …

By Howard Schneider | Washington Post

To Alaska Governor Sarah Palin, last week’s election loss to the Democratic ticket boiled down to a trio of problems: money, the Hispanic vote and “that ‘R’ by our name.”

In an interview with …

LAGOS (AFP) — Africa may have hailed his victory, but Barack Obama’s election as the first black president of the United States has triggered awkward questions about the continent’s own democratic track record.

As the euphoria fades, opposition parties across …

See this amazing collection of newspaper headlines about the election of Barack Obama on November 4, 2008. Compiled by Goeff. Click here to see.
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Ethiopian Review has become one of the few reliable source of information and free discussion forums for Ethiopians around the world after the Meles dictatorship shut down most of the independent media inside the country. We are working hard to …

MONTE CARLO, Monaco (AP) — Jamaican sprinter Usain Bolt and Ethiopian distance runner Tirunesh Dibaba lead the contenders for the IAAF’s world athlete of the year awards.

Bolt won three gold medals with world records in the 100 and 200 …

WASHINGTON DC — The Bushes welcomed the Obamas to the White House on Monday, visiting for nearly two hours and offering the nation a glimpse of a new first family at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. President-elect Obama and President Bush met …

By Bassma Al Jandaly | Gulf News

Ras Al Khaimah, UAE – The body of a 19-year-old Ethiopian woman which was kept at the morgue for the past two months, finally went home on Monday with the help of Gulf …

COLORADO – Ethiopia Reads founder (and finalist for the CNN Hero 2008 Award) Yohannes GebreGeorgis will speak about his work from 4:30 to 6 p.m. on Thursday, Nov. 13, in the Canyon Theater at the Main Library, 1000 Canyon Blvd, …

While speaking at Web 2.0 Summit last week, Mark Zuckerberg briefly commented on Facebook being used to overthrow bad regimes. The audience chuckled at his comment but the reality is that Facebook has been the source of many protests around …

BBC News

South African singing legend Miriam Makeba has died aged 76, after being taken ill in Italy.

She had just taken part in a concert near the southern town of Caserta, the Ansa news agency reported.

Ethiopia’s Kenenisa Bekele and Tirinesh Dibaba are currently in 4th place each at the IAAF World Athlete of Year list. Haile Gebreselassie is in 5th place.

The finalists were chosen following a poll of internet fans and the IAAF Family …

By Ryan Lizza | The New Yorker

Last June, Joel Benenson, who was Barack Obama’s top pollster during his Presidential run, reported on the state of the campaign. His conclusions, summed up in a sixty-slide PowerPoint presentation, were revealed to …

By Bassma Al Jandaly | Gulf News

RAS AL KHAIMAH, UAE – An overwhelming response was received from readers in the UAE and Oman, who wanted to donate in order to help repatriate the body of a woman from Ethiopia …

By Abe Selig | JERUSALEM POST

An entrance to the Prime Minister’s Office looked more like a refugee camp on Sunday afternoon as a protest by nearly 150 new immigrants from Ethiopia over “sub-standard” conditions at the Beit Alfa immigrant …

By Yael Branovsky | Israel News

Some 150 Ethiopian immigrants staged a demonstration in Jerusalem on Sunday, in protest of their economic distress and the harsh living conditions in the Kibbutz Beit Alfa absorption center in northern Israel.

The protestors …

EDITOR’S NOTE: Teddy Afro is about to get a well-known cellmate in Kality soon.

By BEHRAM KILIÇ | ZAMAN

ISTANBUL, TURKY – The biggest surprise of this year’s Eurasia Marathon was Haile Gebrselassie of Ethiopia, who achieves great success every …

By Bassma Al Jandaly | Gulf News

RAS AL KHAIMAH, UNITED ARAB EMIRATES – The body of a 19-year-old Ethiopian woman has been lying in the morgue here for more than a month because the sponsor and the labour agency …

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The Ethiopian People Patriotic Front’s (EPPF) leadership has reorganized its International Committee and named its officials today.

The EPPF’s primary responsibility will be to mobilize Ethiopians around the world to support the organization, according to the leadership.

The newly restructured …

Al Jazeera reported on Nov. 6 that Egypt admitted to shooting at least six illegal migrants from Africa trying to cross the border into Israel late Tuesday night.

Egyptian security guards saw the six men from Sudan and Eritrea trying …

MONTE CARLO, MONACO (AP) – Haile Gebrselassie’s latest marathon world record was ratified Friday by the International Association of Athletics Federations.

The Ethiopian ran two hours three minutes 59 seconds on Sept. 28 in Berlin to slash 27 seconds off …

By TIM EBERLY | The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

Police agencies often perform undercover stings at stores that sell alcohol. They send under-age buyers in to see if stores will sell them beer or liquor without asking for identification.

Last month, police …

OLF statement on the ongoing mass arrest of the Oromo people by the TPLF Regime

Malicious Propaganda Does Not Cover Up The Truth

The TPLF/EPRDF regime is staging a hilarious drama alleging to have apprehended members of Oromo Liberation Front …

The Volcanism Blog

Except for Figure 1, the images below come from the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) carried aboard NASA’s Terra and Aqua satellites. The Hawaii Institute of Geophysics and Planetology (HIGP) at the University of Hawaii has developed …

Nina Ashenafi Richardson won the Leon county judge race with 59.1 percent of the total votes. Opponent Sean Desmond had 40.9 percent. Richardson will serve as a judge for the Leon county court seat 5.

After a spirited but amicable …