By Cassandra Drudi, The Ottawa Citizen

OTTAWA, CANADA – An Ethiopian refugee was sentenced to five years in prison yesterday for a 2006 sexual assault against a Nunavut woman in Ottawa.

The woman had asked strangers for a ride to …

By Lanetra Bennett, WCTV

TALLAHASSEE, FLORIDA – Police say they have a person of interest in the robbery of the BP store at Highway 90 and Ward Street in Quincy.

The store’s owner, Wondwossen Gizaw, was shot multiple times around …

By Sarah Bardeen, NPR

Jamaica and Ethiopia have long-standing cultural ties. Rastafarians believe that the late Ethiopian emperor Haile Selassie was actually the second coming of the Messiah, and since the 1970s, reggae musicians have celebrated Selassie (and Ethiopia) in …

SPACE.com

A small asteroid exploded over Africa this week following what astronomers said was the first firm prediction of an incoming space rock. It did not strike Earth.

The asteroid was about the size of kitchen table, astronomers estimated, …

By Andrew Geoghegan, ABC News

The pirated ship is carrying Russian tanks and weaponry (US Navy: Jason Zalasky)

Evidence has emerged that a ship hijacked by pirates off the coast of Somalia is carrying weapons and tanks destined for South …

By Anthony Anamelechi, Tallahassee.com

Updated 2:10 p.m.

Chief Ferman Richardson, Quincy Poice Department, said Wondwossen Gizaw, the manager of the Quincy BP gas station shot early this morning, is in stable condition.

Richardson said 45-year old Gizaw had surgery today …

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A French company named Vergnet, based in Orleans, won a contract to build a wind farm of 120 MW in the region of Mekele, capital of Tigray, a province in the north, on the Eritrean border. …

REUTERS

More than 35 young women wearing tight trousers were arrested in South Sudan for disturbing the peace, senior police officials said on Tuesday.

[Idiots! Don’t the police have some thing better to do, such as wash their own filthy …

By Scott Helman and Sasha Issenberg, Boston Globe

Senator Barack Obama, facing a broad new assault on his character from rival John McCain and the Republican Party, punched back aggressively yesterday with a multi-pronged attack on McCain’s ethics, marking a …

By Kristen

I love spontaneous trips and when a friend from a German NGO invited us to join her on a short road trip to Blue Nile Falls, I couldn’t resist. Traveling in a private vehicle is a true treat …

Obama remains statistically ahead for 10th straight day

PRINCETON, NJ — Barack Obama leads John McCain among registered voters across the country by a 50% to 42% margin in Gallup Poll Daily tracking from Oct. 3-5, the 10th straight day …

By Jonathan Lis, Haaretz

Deir al-Sultan monastery, Jerusalem

The historic Deir al-Sultan monastery on the roof of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, in Jerusalem, is in danger of collapse. Its two chapels and the tiny rooms where its monks …

By Kefale Alemu

Recently I traveled from London to morocco, Portugal and Spain respectively. In Morocco I visited Marrakech, Fez and Tangier, in Portugal Lisbon and in Spain Madrid. I enjoyed my long journey in which I used the four …

In most states, the deadline to register for voting in the U.S. presidential election is next Monday, October 6.

In some states such as Virginia, where the race between Obama and McCain is tight, the estimated 10,000 Ethiopian-American voters have …

The Associated Press

NEWCASTLE, ENGLAND – Tsegaye Kebede of Ethiopia led all the way to win the Great North Run half marathon on Sunday, and Gete Wami earned the title in a closer women’s race.

Kebede, who won the Olympic …

EDITOR’S NOTE: What about Woyanne officials who murdered unarmed pro-democracy protectors in Ethiopia following the 2005 elections? Why doesn’t the U.S. impose travel ban on them? Head of the notorious Federal Police, Gebeyehu Workneh, who had carried the June and …

By Alex Perry Friday, TIME

Pirates aren’t picky. Armed with Kalashnikovs and rocket launchers and using skiffs mounted with high-powered engines launched from “motherships” disguised as fishing boats, the buccaneers who prowl the waters off the Somali coast pick their …

The ruling Tigrean People Liberation Front (Woyanne) is being aided and abetted by thousands of opportunist individuals who are not members of the party. Some such as Addisu Legesse and Kuma Demeksa claim to represent the Amhara and Oromo ethnic …

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BANK OF AMERICA MARATHON

CHICAGO IL – Bank of America today announced two-time women’s champion Berhane Adere (ETH) will attempt a first-ever three-peat at the 2008 Bank of America Chicago Marathon, while six-time top-three Chicago finisher Daniel Njenga (KEN) looks …

Out to prove herself again after Beijing

By Michael Butcher for the IAAF

Newcastle, UK – Anyone who has witnessed Gete Wami’s gutsy trademark runs knows that this is one athlete who has no fear of digging deep to get …

Palin Administration Against Sudan Divestment Before It Was For It, Documents Show

By JUSTIN ROOD, ABC NEWS

Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin fought to protest atrocities in Sudan by dropping assets tied to the country’s brutal regime from the state’s multi-billion-dollar …

ADDIS ABABA, ETHIOPIA (APA)

The Ethiopian authorities on Friday evening announced the increase of fuel prices by lifting subsidies, despite a decline of the price of oil in the international market.

The new tariff on fuel will be …

(CNN) – A national poll of people who watched the vice presidential debate Thursday night suggests that Democratic Sen. Joe Biden won, but also says Republican Gov. Sarah Palin exceeded expectations.

The CNN/Opinion Research Corp. said 51 percent …

The following is a full 90-minute video of Thursday night’s vice presidential debate between Democratic nominee Sen. Joe Biden and Republican nominee Gov. Sarah Palin. The debate was held at Washington University in Saint Louis, Missouri. It was moderated by …

Today marks full week of Obama leading by significant margin

PRINCETON, NJ — Gallup Poll Daily tracking from Sept. 30-Oct. 2 has Barack Obama leading John McCain by seven percentage points, 49% to 42%.

Obama has held a statistically significant …

The Associated Press

SEATTLE About 200,000 people are expected to see the “Lucy’s Legacy” exhibit that opens Saturday for a five-month run at the Pacific Science Center in Seattle.

Seattle is the second stop on a tour that began in …

PRESS RELEASE

Ethiopians Respond to the Call to help with the Starvation at home but Many More are Needed!

By Obang Metho

This is a follow up to report on progress since I sent the open letter to Ethiopians concerning …

Will this year’s election bring us the ‘Obama effect’?

By Patt Morrison, The Los Angeles Times

If I had a nickel for every time some pundit has opined about Barack Obama and the dreaded “Bradley effect,” I could rescue Wall …

MOGADISHU (Xinhua) – A Somali insurgent group Thursday urged the pirates holding a Ukrainian ship carrying military hardware to destroy the ship and its cargo.

Sheik Muqtar Robow, spokesman for Al-Shabaab Islamist movement said that his group believes the Ukrainian …

By David Axe, World Politics Review

On a morning late last November in Mogadishu, Somalia, a tall, toothy 65-year-old man climbed into his beat-up sedan parked in the makeshift squatter’s camp he called home. Ali Mohamed Siyad, chairman of the …

ADDIS ABABA (AFP) — An outbreak of African horse sickness has killed more than 2,000 horses, mules and donkeys in Ethiopia since March, an official said Wednesday.

The disease has swept through the country’s southwestern regions since the first outbreak …

By Josh Goldstein, Juliana Rotich
Harvard University

Written largely through the lens of rich nations, scholars have developed theories about how digital technology affects democracy. However, largely due to a paucity of evidence, these theories have excluded the experience of …

Radio Australia

Russia has been given permission to use force against pirates who’ve seized a Ukrainian ship off the coast of Somalia.

Our Africa correspondent, Andrew Geoghegan, reports a Russian warship is on its way to intercept the hijacked Ukrainian …

The Associated Press

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates: Haile Gebrselassie will compete in January in the US$2 million Dubai Marathon, the world’s richest running race, the organizers said Thursday.

The Ethiopian long-distance runner became the first man to run a marathon …

By Scott A Morgan

What a way for the Intelligence Shop (G-2) for AFRICOM to begin. The Concern and Scrutiny regarding the newest Mililtary Command of the United States may be overshadowed a tad by recent events off the coast …

ADDIS ABABA, Oct. 1 (Xinhua) — Ethiopia The Woyanne tribal dictatorship in Ethiopia and Norway on Wednesday agreed to restore their relations to the previous status following a meeting of their foreign ministers held on Sept. 25 in New York, …

Daily News

LANCASTER – A Lancaster man was sentenced this week to 3 years in federal prison and ordered to pay nearly $1 million in restitution for his role in a contraband cigarette trafficking ring that authorities said cheated the …

Source: Human Rights Watch

WASHINGTON DC – At least 10 victims of the 2007 Horn of Africa rendition program still languish in Ethiopian jails and the whereabouts of several others is unknown, Human Rights Watch said in a report released …

WASHINGTON (AP) – Washington police have identified the Virginia man who shot another man during an argument at an Adams Morgan restaurant then fatally shot himself.

It happened around 11 p.m. Sunday at the Meskerem Ethiopian Restaurant in the 2400 …

By Robert Hurwitt, The San Francisco Chronicle

Founding members of the Awassa Children’s Project, a gutsy Ethiopian street-orphan theater company, will give a presentation of their street theater techniques 6:30 p.m. Sunday at Project Artaud Theater. Tesfaye Biche, Migbar Kassa …

By Andrew Donaldson, The Times

A tense standoff has developed in waters off Somalia over an Iranian merchant ship laden with a mysterious cargo that was hijacked by pirates.

Somali pirates suffered skin burns, lost hair and fell gravely ill …

By Abdi Sheikh

MOGADISHU (Reuters) – Somali pirates holding a Ukrainian ship carrying 33 tanks reiterated their demands for a $20 million ransom on Tuesday and denied three of their number had died in a shootout.

A maritime group monitoring …

The Associated Press

UNITED NATIONS: Ethiopia’s Woyanne foreign minister on Monday called for the U.N. to deploy peacekeepers to neighboring Somalia, where Islamic militants appear to be gaining strength.

Foreign Minister Seyoum Mesfin’s comments came just days after an attack …

ABC 7 News

A popular restaurant manager shot by a longtime friend Sunday night says he has no idea what provoked the attack.

According to witnesses, the gunman entered Meskerem Ethiopian restaurant as usual and greeted the manager, Muhaba Mohamed, …

By Elissa Silverman and Martin Weil
The Washington Post

Two people were shot, one of them fatally, inside a popular Adams Morgan restaurant late last night. A few hours earlier, two other men were shot and seriously wounded not far …

Palin’s Perils
By Kate Phillips
The New York Times

Add Mitt Romney’s voice to those expressing at least a modicum of dissatisfaction about the rollout of Gov. Sarah Palin in her first month as the Republican vice-presidential nominee. He expressed …

Ethiopian Current Affairs Discussion Forum (ECADF), a major Ethiopian discussion group with several hundred active members, has published an editorial today clarifying its position on the relation between Ethiopian opposition parties and the Government of Eritrea.

After several months of …

Palin Is Ready? Please.

McCain says that he always puts country first. In this important case, that is simply not true.

Fareed Zakaria, NEWSWEEK

Will someone please put Sarah Palin out of her agony? Is it too much to ask …

By BARBARA SURK

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — A U.S. Navy spokesman says a weapons shipment on a Ukrainian ship hijacked by Somali pirates was headed to Sudan, not Kenya.

Lt. Nathan Christensen, a deputy spokesman for the U.S. …

Also EPPF and TPDM fighters send a message to Ethiopians. Alliance for Reliberation of Somalia (ARS) chairman gives a press conference from Asmara. Woyanne troops target civilian in Mogadishu and kill more than a 100 people. Watch the video below:…

The Afar Forum is inviting everyone to the Afar Conference In Brussels October 17-19, 2008.

Afar regions face daunting challenges: among others in health, education, infrastructure, recurrent draught due to environmental degradation, political mismanagement (lack of good governance), inter and …

PRESS RELEASE

THE ENC, Ethiopian National Congress, will hold its Sixth Congress, in Columbus Ohio, between October 24 and 26, 2008. The ENC plans to asses its strength and weaknesses, revise its constitution and elect a new executive committee.

Since …

ADDIS ABABA, ETHIOPIA – Two new loan guarantee agreements signed today between the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and Abyssinia Bank and NIB will allow these two banks to offer more short and medium term loans to entrepreneurs …

By Simon Hradecky, The Airline Herald

An Ethiopian Airlines Boeing 767-300, flight ET900 from Lagos (Nigeria) to Addis Abeba (Ethopia) with approximately 200 passengers, returned to Lagos after the air conditioning system failed and the airplane could not pressurize following …

By Rob Crilly, Times Online

NAIROBI – Somali insurgents prepared last night to unload rocket-propelled grenades and anti-aircraft guns from a Ukrainian freighter seized by Somali pirates even as foreign warships surrounded the vessel.

A US destroyer and submarine from …

BERLIN: Ethiopia’s Haile Gebrselassie was delighted to put his recent calf injury behind him to break his own world record on Sunday, September 28, 2008, at the Berlin Marathon for the second consecutive year in the German capital.

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ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) – An explosion at a hotel in Ethiopia’s southeastern Somali region killed three people and wounded 20 on Sunday, and police said they suspected the rebel Ogaden National Liberation Front (ONLF) was responsible.

Police spokesman Densash Hailu …

By Obang Metho

Are we so absorbed in our own lives or groups or in competition with others that pity for the less fortunate has disappeared from our souls?

Dear Ethiopian:

I am addressing this letter to every Ethiopian, especially …

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Obama registers strong performance over Thursday-Saturday time period

By GEIR MOULSON

BERLIN (AP) — Haile Gebrselassie smashed his marathon world record by 27 seconds Sunday, winning the Berlin Marathon in a city where he has had so much success.

The 35-year-old Ethiopian took advantage of excellent conditions on …

BELETWEIN (Garowe Online) – Ethiopian Woyanne forces deployed in central Somalia withdrew from a key region Friday, Radio Garowe reported.

A contingent of Ethiopian Woyanne troops driving 29 army trucks left the Jante Kundisho military camp in the outskirts of …

BBC NEWS

The International Criminal Court’s (ICC) chief prosecutor has told the BBC he will continue to push for Sudan’s leader to be charged with war crimes.

Luis Moreno Ocampo said there was strong evidence that President Omar al-Bashir was …

Photo by Photo Run courtesy of the real – Berlin Marathon

By David Monti, RaceResultsWeekly.com

He’s already the world record holder for the standard 42,195m marathon distance and has the two fastest times ever to his credit, but Haile Gebrselassie …

There will be a very important public meeting in Frankfurt, Germany, Saturday, September 27. The meeting is expected to revive mobilization of support for Ethiopian People’s Patriotic Front (EPPF) by launching the newly restructured EPPF International Council. The delegates, Ato …

ANALYSIS

By ELIZABETH A. KENNEDY

NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — After nearly 20 years of violent chaos, Islamic extremism and failed peace talks, impoverished Somalia might seem to have hit rock-bottom. But things are getting worse. The crisis is exceeding even …

By Louis Charbonneau

UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – Judges at the International Criminal Court have summoned the chief prosecutor for a first hearing next week on his request to charge Sudan’s president with genocide in Darfur, the prosecutor said.

In July, …

UNITY FOR DEMOCRACY AND JUSTICE

Press Release

Unity for Democracy and Justice Party (UDJ), the heir to the former CUDP, wishes to announce to the local and international media community that it is officially ready to operate as a duly …

Current Ethiopian political leaders can learn a lot from Atse HaileSelassie.

By Prof. HG Marcus

Much has been written about HaileSelassie’s style of political leadership. We have been told about his ability to balance various courtly factions, and about the …

By Shiomi Kadoya, Yomiuri Shimbun

JOHANNESBURG – Two aid workers, believed to be a Japanese woman and a Dutchman, working for the nongovernmental organization Medecins du Monde, were abducted Monday afternoon in the eastern region of Ethiopia, the group said …

By Ewen MacAskill
The Guardian

A video has emerged showing Sarah Palin playing a central role in a church service in Alaska in which witchcraft is denounced.

Thomas Muthee, a Kenyan who is a regular preacher at Palin’s local Pentecostal …

In this video Ethiopian fashion model Gelila Bekele brings viewers into her kitchen for a look at different ways to care for your skin and hair using all natural ingredients from the pantry.
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By SUSAN STEVENOT SULLIVAN
Special to The Georgia Bulletin

Like so many villagers from Kufansik, these young girls are beneficiaries of the developmental water project sponsored by CRS (Catholic Relief Services), USAID (U.S. Agency for International Development) and the Ethiopian

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By Andrew Heavens

KHARTOUM (Reuters) – Sudan’s president will travel to Ghana in October, officials said on Tuesday, even though a ruling on an international arrest warrant for Darfur war crimes is pending.

The Ghana trip, if it goes ahead, …

Elizabeth Kennedy
The Associated Press

NAIROBI, KENYA – Somalia is a land of a thousand plagues, with nearly 20 years of violent chaos and intractable poverty, Islamic extremism and failed peace talks.

But the crisis over the past 18 months …

ADDIS ABABA (AFP) — Britain has pledged 26.9 million pounds for drought-hit Ethiopia, where some 9.6 million people are in need of emergency food aid, its embassy said on Wednesday.

The money will finance food distribution, medical support, nutrition and …

FAIRFAX, VIRGINIA – On Saturday, Sept. 13, about 75 people gathered at the Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Fairfax (UUCF) on Hunter Mill Road in Oakton to view “A Walk to Beautiful,” a feature-length documentary film about women in Ethiopia who …

In a letter dated Sept. 22, 2008, U.S. Senator Feingold wrote Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice:

I appreciated State’s prompt response to the question I posed on the Department’s compliance with the Foreign Assistance Act at the hearing. However, I

A Turning Point in the Protracted War in Ethiopia

By Tekeste Melake

In the late 1980s the military government of Ethiopia found it­self in a very precarious situation as a result of the escalating war in Eritrea and Tigray. As …

The Associated Press

PARIS — Two expatriate staff for French aid group Medecins du Monde have been kidnapped in a rebellious southeastern region of Ethiopia.

The pair were kidnapped on Monday in Ethiopia’s Ogaden region, an arid stretch of land …

EDITOR’S NOTE: Ethiopia ranks 126th place out of 180 countries as having one of the most corrupt governments in the world, while Somalia is the last. What the researchers have failed to see is that Somalia is being governed by …

EDITOR’S NOTE: Over $1 billion dollars the Meles dictatorship in Ethiopia receives annually in aid and loan from the U.S. and other countries have made the country more poor, and the regime more corrupt and brutal. Little or none of …

South Africa was plunged into political chaos today after 11 cabinet ministers, including internationally respected Finance Minster Trevor Manuel, resigned in support of Thabo Mbeki who was kicked out of office after losing a bitter power struggle within the ruling …

Welcome to the New Mekele, the Capital City of Tigray. Contrast this with the second video below.

Ethiopia’s abject poverty after 17 years of plunder by the ruling Tigrean People Liberation Front.
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By ABIY TEMESGEN

ADDIS ABABA, ETHIOPIA – When I wake up in the morning all I can think about is what my trip to work will be like. Nothing was different this chilly morning. My outlook on the day suddenly …

Ethnic conflicts and ethnic based killings are becoming commonplace in Ethiopia. The sporadic nature of the attacks and the small number of causalities means that no major international media, international human rights organizations and other bodies of international community has …

By Scott A Morgan

In what appears to be a effort to reward stablilty in a highly unstable part of the World ,The US is going to increase the amount of aid it sends to the “Breakaway Region” of Somaliland. …