Recently retired Physicist Bernice Durand is using a career’s worth of contacts and organizational skills to build an unusual national grass-roots effort, focused on scientific issues, for Senator Barack Obama, the Democratic presidential candidate.
Since September, Durand has worked …
By Nate Silver, FiveThirtyEight
As the yellow bars in the graph below indicate, when pollsters include cellphone numbers in their canvassing, Democrat Barack Obama’s lead widens. Obama’s lead expands even more during the weekend, when, perhaps due to free weekend …
WASHINGTON (AFP) — For John McCain to confound the pundits and upset favorite Barack Obama in Tuesday’s election, he must navigate a perilous path on which a single slip could hand his rival the White House.
McCain is battling to …
NEW YORK (AFP) — An army of journalists from around the world is descending on the United States to cover Election Day, November 4, in a reflection of unprecedented worldwide interest in the American presidential election.
“Our audience’s interest in …
NAIROBI (Reuters) – Sixty corpses of would-be refugees from Ethiopia and Somalia were found on a beach in Yemen over the weekend after smugglers forced many of them overboard, an international aid agency said on Monday.
Medicins Sans Frontieres (MSF) …
By Wim van Hemert and Chris Turner, IAAF
Nijmegen, The Netherlands – Kenenisa Bekele, already the master of the three competition surfaces of indoor and outdoor track and cross country, will make what he describes as his ‘first serious step’ …
By Bruck Shewareged, The Reporter
ADDIS ABABA, ETHIOPIA – In a move that came as a surprise to many watchers, Prime Minister dictator Meles Zenawi announced the dissolution of the Ministry of Information and made a reshuffle in his cabinet. …
By Barry Malone
ADDIS ABABA, ETHIOPIA (Reuters) – Ethiopia said on Monday an opposition leader had been arrested for working with insurgent groups opposed to Prime Minister Meles Zenawi’s government.
The Oromo Federalist Democratic Movement (OFDM) confirmed its general secretary …
INTERNATIONAL PRESS INSTITUTE
PRESS RELEASE
The International Press Institute (IPI), the global network of editors, media executives and leading journalists in over 120 countries, strongly condemns the 31 October 2008 attack on Amare Aregawi, editor-in-chief of the Ethiopian bi-weekly newspaper …
By Laura Meckler and Jonathan Weisman
Sen. Barack Obama enters Election Day with a solid, though narrowing, lead over Sen. John McCain as both men sprint to the finish line of their long presidential race.
A new Wall Street Journal/NBC …
OBAMA, JAPAN (Reuters) – Dancing, singing and playing the guitar, residents in the sleepy Japanese fishing port of Obama are readying to party for Barack Obama before Tuesday’s U.S. presidential election.
Around 50 men, women and children wearing “I Love …
By Quin Hillyer
American Spectator
TIPP, the most accurate pollster in 2004, shows serious movement in McCain’s favor, with the overall margin at 2.1 points. To me it looks like the poll may be weighted just a tiny bit …
By Fergus Shanahan
For Chicago, home town to Barack Obama, the wait is almost over. Not a single person I have spoken to in this seething, edgy metropolis on the shores of Lake Michigan believes their man will not be …
By Ashish Prashar
New Statesman
Obama may be looking like a shoe in but Democrats have had too many disappointments in recent years to relax just yet
A few hours out from Election Day, both candidates have made their closing …
By Michelle Cottle, Christopher Orr, Jason Zengerle
The New Republic
Barack Obama’s position has become somewhat stronger since our update on Sunday. We now have him with a 5.8 point lead in the national popular vote, and winning the election …
By RENATA GOLDIROVA, EU Observer
EUOBSERVER / BRUSSELS – Some 130 million American voters will elect on Tuesday (4 November) the new man to take over the White House. Be it Republican John McCain or Democrat Barack Obama, the winner …
Obama Family Moments: Barack and Michelle Obama with daughers Malia Ann and Sasha.
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Obama fever grips Kenya: Minibuses festooned with Obama’s image ply Kenya’s roads (Fox News)
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NAIROBI, KENYA – Senator Barrack Obama’s relatives have congregated at Nyangoma Kogelo village and will remain together until after Tuesday’s US presidential elections.
They have set …
By JOHN HARWOOD
The New York Times
If Tuesday’s election were confined to white America, polls show, Senator Barack Obama would lose.
And yet Mr. Obama’s strength across racial lines lies at the heart of his lead in the polls …
PRINCETON, NJ — Voters’ presidential preferences remain favorable to a Barack Obama win on Tuesday, with 51% of traditional likely voters supporting the Democratic nominee for president, and 43% backing John McCain. An additional 1% say they support some other …
By NEDRA PICKLER and LIZ SIDOTI
COLUMBUS, Ohio — Barack Obama and John McCain uncorked massive get-out-the-vote operations in more than a dozen battleground states Sunday, millions of telephone calls, mailings and door-knockings in a frenzied, fitting climax to a …
By Andrew Rawnsley
The Observer, London, UK
People do lie to pollsters. Pollsters can screw up their measures of voting intention. Voting intentions can change in the frenetic last furlong before election day. The man himself constantly cautions the …
ROCKVILLE, MARYLAND – Montgomery County police say a Gaithersburg man was killed after being hit by a car in Rockville.
Police say 27-year-old Bereket L. Mamo, an immigrant from Ethiopia, was walking on East Gude Drive when he was hit …
The CSIS Africa Program cordially invites you to attend a panel on: “Human Rights and Governance in Ethiopia” with opening remarks by
David Kramer
Assistant Secretary of State, Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor
followed by a panel with…
The Significance of Ethiopia’s History of National Resistance for African Unity and Dignity
By Mammo Muche
Network of Ethiopian Scholars
We came across a book written by Baron Roman Prochaszka with the title “Abyssinia the Powder Barrel,” a book on …
SHILABO, ETHIOPIA (a href=”http://www.mareeg.com/fidsan.php?sid=8674amp;tirsan=3″Mareeg/a) – Heavy fighting was taking place in the Somali town of Shilabo in Ogaden, eastern Ethiopia, between forces belonging to rebel group Ogaden National Liberation Front (ONLF) and Woyanne regime troops later on Saturday.
Residents in …
CAIRO, EGYPT — A group that abducted a female Japanese doctor and a male Dutch nurse serving as aid workers in Ethiopia is demanding $3 million in ransom, a man claiming to be leader of the group told Kyodo News …
ADDIS ABABA, ETHIOPIA – Woyanne regime security agents have arrested a staff member of ETV’s Afan Oromo TV program, Wzr. Lelise Wodajo.
The Woyanne security agents picked up Wzr. Lalise from her place of work, Ethiopian Television (ETV), and took …
By Guershon Nduwa
The press of current events caused me to postpone recounting a rare happening that I watched on Guysen cable TV, the Israeli French-language channel broadcasting from Jerusalem. Hundreds of Israelis of Ethiopian origin were demonstrating in front …
By William Hershey
COLUMBUS, OHIO — Joe’s familiar to most Americans by now. He’s Republican John McCain’s best friend and campaign sidekick.
Joe — actually Samuel Joseph Wurzelbacher — met up with Democrat Barack Obama in suburban Toledo last month …
This lengthy article (Amharic, pdf) discusses possible motives behind the attempt on Amare Aregawi’s life last Friday.
Ato Amare, publisher and editor-in-chief of The Reporter, was brutally attacked by three unidentified individuals in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, on Friday, Oct. 31. …
All Ethiopian Unity Party (AEUP), a former member organization of the Coalition for Unity and Democracy (Kinijit), is reporting that police in the town of Sodo entered it’s vice-chairman Dr Tadiwos Tantu’s hotel room and confiscated his documents on Oct. …
By JTV, Lamp Post Reports
ADDIS ABABA, ETHIOPIA – Getting around Addis can be quite a hassle. Public transportation is provided by hundreds of ‘mini-buses’ that are actually secondhand Toyota vans from Europe. While it’s cheap, it’s certainly not the …
By John Powers, Boston Globe
NEW YORK – This is where unfulfilled Olympians come for redemption and a Gotham-sized consolation prize, as Bill Rodgers first did in 1976. Paula Radcliffe came up lame in Beijing and placed a career-worst 23d. …
Interview with Ethiopia’s dictator Meles Zenawi (satire)
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On VOA’s Crossfire program Friday, Kinijit’s (now UDJ) member of parliament Ato Temesgen Zewdie and Woyanne’s puppet head of the rubber stamp parliament, Ato Shiferraw Jarso, were engaged in a brief but heated debate. VOA’s Addisu Abebe should have given …
Former chief of staff President Ronald Reagan, Ken Duberstein, told CNN’s Fareed Zakaria this week he intends to vote for Democrat Barack Obama on Tuesday.
Duberstein said he was influenced by another prominent Reagan official – Colin Powell – in …
Ginbot 7 Movement for Justice and Freedom issued a statement remembering the massacre of pro-democracy protesters in Addis Ababa and other cities through out Ethiopia.
Following the May 2005 elections, in which Meles Zenawi’s regime was defeated, Meles suspended the …
How do racists, anti-Semites and all-purpose hate-mongers view the possibility of America’s first black president? Not necessarily the way you think they would.
By David Peisner, ESQUIRE
If recent polls are to be believed, white voters favor John McCain over
…By Haile Gebreselassie
NEWSWEEK
I came of age under a communist military regime in Ethiopia. I could have become a farmer like my father or a soldier like many of my friends. Instead, I became a long-distance runner. And on …
By Antony Sguazzin and Nicky Smith, Bloomberg
Dissident members of South Africa’s African National Congress decided to form a new party and fight next year’s elections after they were angered by the ruling party’s ouster of Thabo Mbeki as national …
By BETH FOUHY and DAVID ESPO
SPRINGFIELD, VIRGINIA (AP) — Warmed by the cheers of thousands, John McCain and Barack Obama plunged through the final weekend of their marathon race for the White House, the Republican digging for an upset …
PRINCETON, NJ — Barack Obama leads John McCain in Gallup Poll Daily tracking interviewing conducted Wednesday through Friday by an identical 52% to 42% margin among both traditional likely voters and expanded likely voters. Obama leads by a similar …
WASHINGTON DC – An Ethiopian runner is expected to finish a marathon among the top athletes but at last Sunday’s Marine Corps Marathon in Washington DC, Jiitu Abraham of Ethiopia finished the 42 kilometers run in 6 hours 13 minutes.…
What Will an Obama Win Mean to Ethiopians?
By Obang Metho
Welcome to everybody! It is great to be back in Oakland. The last time I was here was almost two years ago. At the time, I was invited by …
EDITOR’S NOTE: What does this ችጋራም Woyanne knows about farming? Over 6 million people are starving because of his regime’s mismanagement of Ethiopia’s resources.
By Barney Jopson, Financial Times
ADDIS ABABA, ETHIOPIA – In the past four years the rain …
Obama tells supporters to expect more attacks to come.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Democrat Barack Obama held onto his solid lead in the polls and appeared confident of capturing the US presidency in the historic race, but steeled his supporters for …
By Mike Krueger and Carol Stream
Guilt by association is risky strategy. Republicans decry Obama’s connection to Ayers and Wright. Republicans also say they want to look forward but they continually look back. Go figure.
Using Republicans standards, how about …
Ethiopian Wolves, one of Ethiopia’s most endemic mammals, are currently dying because of a rabies outburst in the Bale Mountains National Park.
The main habitat for the Ethiopian Wolf are areas 3200 ms above sea level, namely Abune Josseph Mountain, …
John Podhoretz, Commentary Magazine
This is why it might happen. Not saying it will.
1) One poll has undecided voters at 14 percent on the last weekend, which means most of them probably really aren’t undecided, that they are either …
PRINCETON, NJ — The political landscape could be improving for Barack Obama in the waning days of the campaign. Gallup Poll Daily tracking from Oct. 28-30 shows him with an eight percentage point lead over John McCain among traditional likely …
According to history books, gun-wielding European slave traders kidnapped one in five Africans and transported them across the oceans to the Americas. A less visible, but no means less drastic technological tool of suppression, is the compass, …
The popular U.S. news web site, Drudge Report, has linked a report that is published on Ethiopian Review today. A few house later, Ethiopian Review’s powerful server was overloaded and crashed several times. The site was accessed over 18,000 …
Chairman of the Ethiopian People’s Patriotic Front (EPPF), Arbegna Meazaw Getu, has announced that the executive committee has decided to relieve Dr Mussie Tegegn from his responsibility as head of external relations. The letter signed by Arbegna Meazaw states that …
ADDIS ABABA, ETHIOPIA – Editor-in-Chief of The Reporter, Ato Amare Aregawi, was beaten up today in Addis Ababa by at least three unknown individuals. Sources told Ethiopian Review that Amare was shot, not just beaten up. He is critically wounded …
By Brady Gervais, TwinCities.com
Negussie Bussa and Leyouwerk Tsegaye must decide: Leave their two youngest daughters behind to an uncertain future when they are deported, or take them to the couple’s native Ethiopia where they fear possible death.
The Roseville …
PRINCETON, NJ — Barack Obama holds a statistically significant lead over John McCain in both Gallup likely voter models, according to Oct. 27-29 Gallup Poll Daily tracking. In the traditional model, which defines likely voters based on current …
EDITOR’S NOTE: Dictator Meles Zenawi is begging the international community to save him from his Somalia debacle. Did the international community ask this chigaram Woyanne to invade Somalia in the first place? He cannot even feed his own people in …
EDITOR’S NOTE: Obama campaign and supporters better not be complacent. Every body should be running scared in these last few days.
BY JIM ASH, FLORIDA TODAY
TALLAHASSEE — Gov. Charlie Crist is taking heat from fellow Republicans for a last-minute …
By Michael Duffy, TIME
With less than a week of campaigning left, Democrat Barack Obama is holding stable or growing leads over Republican John McCain in Nevada, North Carolina and Ohio, according to a new set of TIME/CNN battleground-state polls …
By Anthony Anamelechi, Tallahassee.com
QUNICY, FLORIDA – A tip from the Gadsden County Sheriff’s Office helped Quincy police arrest two suspects in the Oct. 8 shooting of a local businessman.
Lewlis Telsusca, 35, and Tamika Reese, 21, were arrested Tuesday …
By Argaw Ashine, NATION
Ethiopian Prime Minister dictator Meles Zenawi has reshuffled his 15-member cabinet, including key ministries of Defence, Justice and Agriculture.
Zenawi, who returned on Wednesday from an Inter-Governmental Summit in Nairobi, appointed nine new ministers and presented …
ባራክ ኦባማ መመረጡንስ ይመረጡ፤ ለእኛ ግን ያው “በገሌ ነው”
ከምሕረት ሰጠኝ
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ሴናተር ባራክ ኦባማ የመጀመሪያው ጥቁር የአሜሪካ ፕሬዝዳንት ሆነው ቢመረጡ ታላቅ ታሪካዊ ሁኔታ እንደሚሆን አይጠረጠርም። አሜሪካ ውስጥ ለዘመናት በጥቁሮች ዘር ላይ ከባርነት አንስቶ ከፍተኛ ጭቆና፣አድልዎና ንቀት እንዲሁም በርካታ ኢሰብአዊና …
By Josh Novikoff, DCist.com
In a DCist interview several weeks ago, Tyler Cowen declared that Zenebech Injera at 6th and T Streets NW was serving up the best Ethiopian food in town. We put the advice of the economics professor/ethnic …
Attorney General Michael Mukasey recognizes Department employees and others for their service at Annual Awards Ceremony. Tsedey C. Berhanu, a native of Ethiopia, is one of those who were recognized for outstanding service.
WASHINGTON, DC – United States Attorney General …
EDITOR’S NOTE: Why doesn’t the fat pig talk about the children in Ethiopia who are dying of starvation while he stuffs his face 20 times a day? Here, according to WIC, a Woyanne propaganda outlet, the fake president talks about …
After the Holocaust the world said ‘never again to genocide’ yet our will to prevent the murder and distruction of particular people was not sufficient to stop further genocide in this world to present day.
To day in Ogaden a …
Leaders of the Unity for Democracy and Justice (UDJ) will travel to Europe starting Nov 7 next week. The delegation is headed by UDJ chairperson Wzt. Birtukan Mideksa. The countries they plan to visit include Germany, U.K., Sweden, Belgium and …
By Eboni Farmer, The Hilltop
The power of the vote means so much to Mike Endale that he co-founded the D.C. chapter of Ethiopians for Obama — and he isn’t even eligible to vote during this election.
Endale, who immigrated …
PRINCETON, NJ — The gap between Barack Obama and John McCain in Gallup Poll Daily tracking from Saturday through Monday has narrowed slightly, and Obama is now at 49% of the vote to 47% for McCain among likely voters using …
By Binyam Tamene, The Daily Monitor
ADDIS ABABA, ETHIOPIA – The first edition of the award “Grinzane for Africa,” an African version of the prestigious Italian literary prize, bestowed upon three figures of contemporary African literature, including the famous writer …
EDITOR’S NOTE: In southern Ethiopia, children cannot even go to school because they are too weak from hunger to attend classes.
ADDIS ABABA, ETHIOPIA (APA) – The Ethiopian government The Woyanne tribal junta in Ethiopia and the Kuwait …
By LUCAS BARASA and JAMI MAKAN, THE DAILY NATION –
NAIROBI, KENYA – Five countries have taken the Somali Transitional Federal Government leaders to task over their failure to end turmoil in the country.
The Inter-Governmental Authority on Development (Igad) …
Source: The Indian Ocean Newsletter
Since the EPRDF came to power in Addis Ababa in 1991, the Ethiopian army has been dominated by more seasoned Tigrayan officers who are members or sympathizers of the Tigray People’s Liberation Front (Woyanne, hard …
ADDIS ABABA, ETHIOPIA (APA) – Police is investigating a bus accident late Monday evening that killed 19 and seriously wounded 10, sources said here Tuesday.
At least 19 people died Tuesday when a bus travelling from Addis Ababa to Hawasa …
Ethiopians in Denver, Colorado, have built a magnificent church, and earlier this month they hosted the North America Ethiopian Demera celebration during the Meskel holiday. The church, Dagmawit Gishen Mariam, they built is simply awesome. They did all this while …
EDITOR’S NOTE: It is good to see Woyannes get their butt kicked in Somalia. Ethiopian Review would like to remind the world that the war in Somalia is between the Meles crime family and the Somali people since Ethiopia currently …
By F. Hager
Barack Obama will become the next president of the United States if all goes well in the next few days. Many Ethiopian-Americans are exuberant about the changes he will bring to America. They also hope his election …
PRINCETON, NJ — Gallup Poll Daily tracking from Friday through Sunday finds Barack Obama with a five percentage point lead over John McCain, 50% to 45%, in the presidential preferences of likely voters using Gallup’s traditional model. He enjoys …
This must be joke of the year. Meles Zenawi’s wife, Azeb Mesfin, the ‘mother of corruption’ in Ethiopia tells an interviewer that she and her dictator husband have barely enough money to pay for their children’s school.
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By Barack Obama
CANTON, OHIO – One week. After decades of broken politics in Washington, eight years of failed policies from George Bush, and twenty-one months of a campaign that has taken us from the rocky coast of Maine to …
By LARA JAKES JORDAN
WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal agents have broken up a plot to assassinate Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama and shoot or decapitate 102 black people in a Tennessee murder spree, the ATF said Monday.
In court records …
By Lynn Shaw, THE HERALD
PORT ELIZABETH, SOUTH AFRICA – Two Uitenhage men convicted of culpable homicide after the death of an immigrant from Ethiopia were each sentenced to 10 years‘ imprisonment by the Port Elizabeth High Court.
Dumisani Makuleni, …
EDITOR’S NOTE: Woyannes are already withdrawing in defeat. This is just a face saving attempt.
By Alisha Ryu, VOA
Somalia’s Ethiopia-backed transitional government has agreed on a date for the withdrawal of Ethiopian Woyanne troops from two major Somali cities …
[podcast]http://www.ethiopianreview.info/audio/andargachew_tsege_interview_10262008.mp3[/podcast]
It’s been six months since Ginbot 7 Movement for Freedom and Democracy in Ethiopia was formed. In June 2007, EthiopianReview.com wrote (read here) that the new movement has less than 6 months to prove itself. Did it prove …
ISTANBUL, TURKY – Adilo Kasime Roba of Ethiopia won the men’s event at the 30th International Eurasia Marathon in İstanbul on Sunday. Roba finished with a time of 2:11:16.
Lishan Yigezu Fanta of Ethiopia came in second at 2:11:37, while …
PRESS RELESE
U.S. Congress Subcommittee on Africa Chairman Donald Payne calls Ogaden and Somalia “The Forgotten Tragedies”
Tenth District Representative Donald M. Payne, Chairman of the Foreign Affairs’ Subcommittee on Africa and Global Health, issued the following statement on Oct. …
ADDIS ABABA, ETHIOPIA – Haile GebreSelassie is an Ethiopian long distance track and road running athlete. Gebrselassie has achieved major competition wins at distances between 1500 metres and the marathon, moving from outdoor, indoor and cross country running to road …
WASHINGTON DC – Ethiopians in Washington DC held a rally to protest the widespread human rights violation against innocent civilians and systematic repression of ethnic Somalis that is taking place in the Ogaden region of Ethiopia.
As reported by the …
Tag: Ethiopia, Balageru…
KHARTOUM (AFP) — Kidnappers of nine Chinese oil workers seized near a disputed oil district in Sudan want Chinese oil firms to leave the area in return for the hostages’ release, a pan-Arab newspaper reported on Friday.
“We don’t have …
Tsehai Publishers’ Elias Wondimu Among 2008 Honorees of “Who’s Who in Black Los Angeles”
Elias Wondimu, the publisher and editorial director of the Tsehai Publishers and Marymount Institute Press, is profiled in the inaugural edition of Who’s Who In Black …
Stick in ADDIS ABABA, ETHIOPIA
Just a quick one, two days. Two intense ones, though. So many people, so much car exhaust…you gotta like your daily dose of CO2 if you want to spend time there (what’s this ridiculous EU-commission …
Zany Umbrella Circus in conjunction with the One Love Theater from Ethiopia presents:
Circus Party for Ethiopia
Icehouse Artists’ Studios in Lawrenceville
100 43rd St, Pittsburgh PA 15201 USA
Sunday, October 26, 6:30PM
Proceeds will promote youth activities in Ethiopia. …
COTONOU, BENNIN – Ethiopian prime minister dictator announces Mauritania’s suspension from African Peer Review Mechanism.
Mauritania has been suspended from the African Peer Review Mechanism (APRM), Ethiopian Prime Minister dictator Meles Zenawi, announced Saturday at the opening of the ARPM …
By Louis Charbonneau
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – The U.N. Security Council is considering stepping up the pressure on Eritrea to avoid a renewal of fighting in the Horn of Africa between Asmara and its neighbor Djibouti, diplomats said on Friday.…
ARDEN HILLS, MINNEAPOLIS – The global fight against HIV/AIDS has received a boost from a partnership between Ethiopian dairy farmers and Land O’Lakes, Inc., supported by funding from the President’s Emergency Program for HIV/AIDS Relief (PEPFAR).
Working together, Land O’Lakes …
A heart-rending dispatch from Ethiopia reveals the plight of donkeys – at the hands of the people who need them most
Animal-lover Liz Jones travels to Ethiopia and finds that when people are desperate, animals suffer even more.
Ever since …