By Tim Townsend, STLtoday.com
ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI — Most of the members of Debre Nazreth St. Mary and St. Gabriel Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church are part of the area’s working class. They are cab drivers, hotel maids, gas station attendants, …
By JIM BRONSKILL, THE CANADIAN PRESS
OTTAWA — Stymied for months in their attempts to gain access to imprisoned Canadian Bashir Makhtal, diplomats were forced to rely on information from “a trusted intermediary,” newly obtained documents show.
At one point …
(African Press Agency) — A big bridge which collapsed in northern Ethiopia, about 600 kilometers from Addis Ababa, disconnected land transport with the capital, leaving hundreds of vehicles stranded. The Ethiopian Transport ministry said on Friday evening that …
Ethiopia’s Mahmoud Ahmed and Alemayehu Eshete with Gétatchèw Mèkurya and the Either/Orchestra will perform at the Lincoln Center in New York, August 20, 2008.
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EDITOR’S NOTE: This is just one example that if Ethiopians are left alone, we can do miracles. Unfortunately, and ironically, we are unable to develop our own country because of the repressive conditions created by U.S.-backed fascist regime.
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ADDIS ABABA (AFP) — Ethiopia’s two-time Olympic champion Haile Gebrselassie on Friday declared himself fully fit and ready for another shot at the 10,000 metres in Beijing.
The Ethiopian legend, who has been battling with calf and tendon injuries returned …
Harsh as they were, my views on Africa had to be expressed – Kevin Myers
(Belfast Telegraph) — Last Friday week, with famine approaching yet again, I wondered about the wisdom of forking out yet more aid to …
EDITOR’S NOTE: There is no ‘Ethiopian military’ in today’s Ethiopia. It’s a Woyanne military over 90 percent of whose top brass are from one ethnic group, Tigray. It’s a military that is good only at killing civilians and raping women. …
By Teddy Fikre
Senator Obama’s historic campaign has ignited a level of excitement within the Ethiopian-American community unlike any other time. We have embraced Obama’s message of hope and self-empowerment as our own. Ethiopians for Obama is an offshoot of …
Ethiopia ’s preparations for the 29th Beijing Olympics dented a huge blow this week after athletes held each at gunpoint at the team’s official hotel.
In an incident that took place last Sunday at the Ghion Hotel, Ethiopian marathon runner …
By Victor Ozeri
How many times will an investor come to Addis Ababa to help the Ethiopian people only to be cheated out of his investment?
My name is Victor Ozeri. I am a U.S. citizen. In 1982, I traveled …
By Edmund Sanders, Los Angeles Times Staff Writer
July 24, 2008
(Los Angeles Times) NAIROBI, KENYA — Sudan’s diplomatic offensive against the International Criminal Court is gaining momentum in Africa, but faces stiff odds before the U.N. Security …
MOGADISHU (Xinhua) — Nine people were killed and an unknown number of others wounded Thursday in the central Somali town of Beledweyn following a heavy shelling by Ethiopian Woyanne troops, senior elder and witnesses said.
“I was informed …
By ALLON SINAI, Jerusalem Post
After three days behind bars, Israel’s Olympic marathon runner Haile Satayin (Setegn) will be released on Friday from the Ethiopian prison in Gondar.
The 53-year-old was arrested upon his arrival at Addis Ababa Airport earlier …
EPPF military communiqué reported that 500 Woyanne troops were killed or wounded. Also, ARS freedom fighters continue their attacks and put 186 Woyanne and TFG troops out of action. Woyannes continue to detonate mines and blame their actions on the …
By Sara Castaldini
In its February 2008 newsletter, VEGA (Volunteers for Economic Growth Alliance) announced a business project in Ethiopia supported by USAID (paid for by American tax payers). According to the newsletter (PAGE 3), VEGA initiated the first joint …
By Raymond Baguma and Joshua Masinde
(New Vision) KAMPALA, UGANDA — THE ten African countries that share the River Nile under the umbrella of the Nile Basin Initiative (NBI) should consider economic and political integration, an Ethiopian academic …
Court Overturns Asylum Denial to an Ethiopian Woman Claiming Torture
By STEVEN M. ELLIS, Staff Writer
(Metropolitan News-Enterprise) — The Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Friday rejected the conclusion of an immigration judge—who openly accused the …
By Rami Hipsh, Haaretz.com
Israeli marathon runner Haile Satain, who is set to represent Israel in the Beijing Olympics, has been arrested in Ethiopia for unknown reasons.
The Ethiopian Athletics Association recently informed its Israeli counterpart that the runner was …
(KHOU.com) HOUSTON — U.S. Customs agents on Monday seized a large container at the Port of Houston from Ethiopia. Inside what was supposed to be musical drums was $185,000 in elephant ivory.
Smugglers were trying to slip the …
By Ashenafi Gossaye
In the midst of the current issues that attracted public attention and intense debate such as the Ethio-Sudan border, the war in Ogaden and Somalia, the drought and the political and economic crisis prevailing throughout the nation, …
By DAVID ROHDE, The New York Times
The arrest of Radovan Karadzic on Monday gave badly needed credibility to international war crimes tribunals that have struggled for years to bring fugitives to justice, according to former prosecutors, legal experts and …
“Multicolored Flowers,” a film by Fikre Tolossa will be featured in Los Angeles, July 27
Dr. Fikre Tolossa’s feature film, “Multicolored Flowers,” a coming of age drama with comical and satirical overtones and undertones, will be featured in Los Angeles, …
(In the News) — Robert Mugabe and opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai have agreed to a timetable for reconciliation talks.
The signing, at a hotel in Harare today, marked the first time they had met face to face for …
PRESS RELEASE
(Afar Human Right Organization) — The TPLF army continues its terror and intimidation on the Afar civilian. One of the latest victims was a 16 years old school boy Ibrahim Mohamed Suula. July 13, 2008 the army shot …
Press Release
International Oromo Human Rights Conference
The Oromo American Citizens Council (OACC) The mission of the OACC is to educate and motivate Oromo Americans and others to participate in the social and political processes locally and nationally and to …
EDITOR’S NOTE: When is Meles Zenawi’s turn? Oh, never mind. Prof. Mesfin Woldemariam said let’s forgive him.
(CNN) — Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic has been arrested after more than a decade as a fugitive from war crimes charges, the …
The following is translated from French to English. It is taken from a Djiboutian newspaper, La Nation
Djibouti has just been given 5,000 hectares of agricultural land by Ethiopia.
President Ismail Omar Guelleh of Djibouti has returned to the capital …
EDITOR’S NOTE: African Union makes such a demand because it represents Africa’s parasitic dictators such as Meles Zenawi, Robert Mugabe, and others who are waiting their turn to face similar indictments. AU doesn’t represent the people of Africa.
(Peter Clottey, …
The head of Ethiopia’s notorious Federal Police, Workneh Gebeyenu, is currently in Washington DC. He has been observed at some Ethiopian restaurants socializing and partying.
Workneh Gebeyehu is a mass murderer who had executed Meles Zenawi’s order to …
The kangaroo court in Ethiopia today sent popular singer Tedy Afro back to prison after ignoring the forged hospital record that was produced by the prosecutor.
The original hospital record shows that the victim of the car accident, for which …
LONDON (Reuters) – The U.N. food agency urgently needs $222 million to avert a major food crisis in Ethiopia, where millions are struggling to cope with drought and high prices, it said on Monday.
The Ethiopian government and aid agencies …
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ADDIS ABABA (AFP) — The African Union on Monday asked the UN Security Council to delay a decision by the International Criminal Court on whether to indict Sudanese President Omar al-Beshir on war crimes charges.
“The African …
(AFP) — Mogadishu – At least seven civilians were killed when Somali insurgents attacked a joint convoy of Ethiopian Woyanne and Somali troops, sparking deadly clashes, witnesses said on Monday.
Fifteen others were wounded in the clashes that erupted on …
By Kay Quinn, STLtoday.com
ST LOUIS, MISSOURI — Imagine watching helplessly as a facial tumor begins to form on the right side of your jaw and eventually takes over most of the right side of your face. You have trouble …
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Thousands of Ethiopians have descended on Washington DC for an annual Ethiopian Soccer Tournament organized by ESFNA. The entire week greater Washington has been …
A Victoria mother has been reunited with her Ethiopian son after immigration delays kept an ocean between the two for more than nine years.
Backlogs at Immigration …
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…ADDIS ABABA (AFP) — African Union commission chief Jean Ping expressed his hope Sunday that Zimbabwe’s ruling party and the opposition would sign a deal within 24 hours to begin fully-fledged talks.
Ping met President Robert Mugabe, opposition Movement for …
The Washington DC-based Hibret radio reports quoting its local sources in Ethiopia that armed men belonging to an unidentified group have attacked several Woyanne targets in North Shoa towns last week.
Click here to listen [podcast]http://www.ethioforum.org/wp/audio/unidentified_forces.mp3[/podcast]…
U.S. presidential candidate Barack Obama visits Afganistan
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What began as a colorful Internet fluke has blossomed into a full-fledged political movement – one that Republicans and Democrats alike are reluctantly having to acknowledge… Watch below
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(By Frugal Bachelor) – When I was in Ethiopia, the power went off every few days, all day long, from 8:30 AM – 8:30 PM. Not only in the little towns, but even in the national capital. This …
(AP) ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia – Ethiopia’s runners have won at least one gold medal at almost every Olympics since 1960. The country’s other athletes have been shut out.
Now a member of the Ethiopian team for the Beijing …
Los Angeles
Ginbot 7 Movement officials Ato Andargachew Tsege and Ato Muluneh Eyuel will hold a town hall meeting in Los Angeles on July 20.
Place: Aroma Wilshire Center, Sky Hall
Address: 3680 Wilshire Blvd. #501, Los Angeles CA 90010…
Executive Committee members of the Unity for Democracy and Justice Party (UDJ) have decided to take a 3-day retreat in Debre Zeit, a small town about 45 km south of Addis Ababa, from July 25-28.
According to ER sources, the …
By Alysia Patterson, The Medill Reports
WASHINGTON — In the world of African affairs, Ethiopia and Eritrea are historically unfriendly neighbors. But in the fashion world style transcends geopolitical tussles. Three young African immigrants — one from Eritrea and two …
Ethiopian Review reader Ato Ayele Tena Kassa has translated the controversial article by Irish columnist Kevin Myers as follows.
Dear Editor,
I have read the commentary by Kevin Meyers you posted on July 11th — Africa is giving nothing to …
By CHARLIE TAYLOR, Irish Times
The Immigrant Council of Ireland (ICI) is to make an official complaint to the Garda Síochána today about the publication of what it considers to be a racially offensive article that appeared in the Irish …
(Colbinski Chronicles) — Two buses go to Bahir Dar, a large “autobus” or a small minibus. The minibus takes an unpaved road, which is shorter but bumpier and gets there quick. The autobus takes a longer, smoother route …
Meles Zenawi’s right hand, Sebhat Nega, has authorized a cross border transfer of over 200 containers of foodstuffs to be sold to Sudan and Djibouti — stealing food from the mouths of starving children… ONLF (Ogaden National Liberation Front) fighters …
Testimony by Mimi Alemayehou Before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee For Consideration for the Position of U.S. Executive Director for the African Development Bank
Chairman Menendez, Senator Lugar, and Members of the Committee, I am grateful for the opportunity to …
(EurActiv.com) The EU and its new, six-month French Presidency must push harder on issues such as good governance and human rights in the international arena, including with Russia and at the Olympic Games in Beijing, …
By ANDRIA SIMMONS | The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Relatives have been visiting Tedla Lemma’s grave almost daily since he was killed in a home invasion four months ago.
Loran Zemedu Araya, suspect in the killing of Tedla Lemma
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His sister-in-law, Rosemary …
Ato Andargachew Tsege and Ato Muluneh Eyuel, officials of Ginbot 7 Movement, will hold a town hall meeting in Los Angeles on July 20 to discuss the organization’s objectives and program.
Place: Aroma Wilshire Center, Sky Hall
Address: 3680 Wilshire …
The Ethiopia-Sudan Border Affairs Committee has passed this resolution after holding a public meeting on July 2, 2008, in Washington DC. Click here to read [Amharic, pdf]
The Committee will hold a public meeting in San Jose, California, on Saturday, …
By Benedict Moran and Jason McLure
(Bloomberg) — Rebel fighters in Darfur said they’re planning a new attack on Sudan’s capital because the government isn’t committed to peace in the war-torn region.
The rebel faction known as the …
The top leadership of Unity for Democracy and Justice Party (UDJ), including the chairperson, Wzt. Birtukan Mideksa, went to the resort town of Sodore (130km southeast of Addis Ababa) on Monday to relax and also try bring harmony among the …
Helawi Yoseph, Demeke Mekonnen and other high ranking Woyanne officials who are currently touring the U.S. were seen entertaining themselves over the weekend at Maaza Ethiopian Restaurant in Arlington, Virginia.
Ironically, these Woyanne officials [Actually they are not real Woyannes. …
Aba Qewstos, a messenger of Woyanne’s fake patriarch Aba Gebremedhin (formerly Aba Paulos) is heading to Atlanta this week his mission of dividing Ethiopian Orthodox Christians in the U.S. Read the report below by concerned Ethiopians in Atlanta. Click here …
By Martin Plaut, Africa editor, BBC News
Mr Bashir served in the army and rose to power in the 1990s
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The unprecedented decision by the prosecutor of the International Criminal Court to seek charges against President Omar al-Bashir of Sudan …
Dr Berhanou Abebe, a polyglot and the most distinguished Ethiopian French scholar, passed away on July 1, 2008, while on assignment to monitor the elections in Zimbabwe as a representative of the African Union. The following is a …
WASHINGTON– The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) has awarded a $50 million cooperative agreement to U.S.-based Pathfinder International to fund a five-year program that will make sustainable improvements to key family health services and planning in Ethiopia.
The project …
According to the 1976 TPLF Manifesto, the map of Tigray will look like this if Woyanne succeeds. Note that the Tigray border stretches to Red Sea. That may explain:
1) why Tigrean elites — even those who hate Meles — …
Prof. Ephraim Isaac at the July 4th Ethiopian sports events in Washington DC talks about the secret border agreement between Meles Zenawi of Ethiopia and al-Bashir of Sudan with some angry Ethiopians. (Source: ER Intelligence Unit)
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DAR ES SALAAM (Reuters) – Tanzania wants the International Criminal Court (ICC) to suspend moves to arrest Sudan’s President Omar Hassan al-Bashir for genocide in Darfur, its foreign affairs minister said on Monday.
ICC prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo on Monday charged …
(IAAF) – Addis Ababa, Ethiopia- The Ethiopian Olympic Committee (EOC) today announced its strong squad of 36 athletes for the Olympics Games in Beijing, China.
Bekele and Dibaba to double
The pick of the announcements is the selection …
By Jason Mclure
(Bloomberg) — Nurita Kadir huddles with dozens of women and babies in a fly-infested white tent in the southern Ethiopian town of Senbete and waits for a meal for her starving five-month old child.
Kadir, …
In the past two days, shortages of gas and diesel in Addis Ababa has forced several service stations to shut down. Truck drivers are now waiting several hours in line to fill up diesel in those few stations that are …
Learn democratization from China? This must be joke of the week.
(ENA) – A high level Ethiopian delegation led by speaker of the House of Peoples’ Representatives Ambassador Teshome Toga left for Beijing, China, later on Wednesday for a working …
ADDIS ABABA (AFP) — Ethiopia Woyanne’s foreign ministry said Sunday it maintained healthy ties with Sudan after accusations that its troops had crossed their common frontier, killing 19 people.
“Ethiopia Woyanne and Sudan have an excellent and strategic relationship,” …
Suleikha Mohamed Adan, a 30-year-old widow and mother of five, was living a difficult nomadic life in the harsh Ogaden region of eastern Ethiopia when government Woyanne soldiers came to her house and arrested her.…
EDITOR’S NOTE: There is no doubt that the Meles regime itself is behind the bombings.
ADDIS ABABA (Xinhua) — Suspects of terrorist bombings have been seized over the past months at a few places in Ethiopia’s capital Addis …
EDITOR’S NOTE: African Union (AU) is a corrupt organization that is created to protect the interests of African vampires like Meles and al-Bashir, not the interest of Africans.
ADDIS ABABA (AFP) — The African Union said Saturday that plans by …
By Sara Israelsen-Hartley, Deseret News
PROVO, UTAH — An Ethiopian native who seemed destined for deportation after a felony conviction will now be allowed to stay in the country.
Immigration officials in Arizona have decided not to deport Kiddus Chane …
His Excellency Girma Woldegiorgis
President, Federal Republic of Ethiopia Woyanne
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
Via Facsimile: (251) 11 551 8656
Dear Mr. President Hey Girma,
The Committee to Protect Journalists is concerned that the pending Mass Media and Freedom of Information …
EDITOR’S NOTE: Meles should be next.
By Patrick Worsnip
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – The prosecutor of the International Criminal Court is likely to seek the arrest of Sudanese President Omar Hassan al-Bashir in a new war crimes case he will …
By Teddy Fikre
Every time there is an Ethiopians for Obama event, it seems that at least one person asks the invariable questions: “Why should Ethiopians support Obama?” The question has profound implications, because it rests on the premise that …
The Chairperson of Unity for Democracy and Justice (UDJ), Wzt. Birtukan Mideksa, and the four vice-chairmen of the party met with American Ambassador to Ethiopia Donald Yamamoto on Tuesday, July 8.
According to Ethiopian Review sources, the secret meeting had …
The Undreamt: An Ethiopian Transformation by Makonen Getu (Christian Transformation Resource Center, 2004), 200pp.
Reviewed by Assafa Endeshaw
It is unusual when someone who had grown up with you in a remote part of the world takes up a pen …
(ICC) – International Criminal Court (ICC) Deputy Prosecutor Mrs. Fatou Bensouda is invited to brief the Peace and Security Council of the African Union on 11 July on case related issues including Darfur, as ICC Prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo …
Source: World Health Organization (WHO)
GENEVA/ADDIS ABABA — Worsening malnutrition and the threat of disease outbreaks are compounding Ethiopia’s humanitarian crisis. The World Health Organization is working with the Government of Ethiopia and health partners to support the 4.6 million …
By Anshel Pfeffer, Haaretz.com
“The absorption was hard and painful,” said Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, and mistakes were made. The Ethiopian Jews wanted to be a drop returning to the sea and were accepted with open arms, but there was …
Alliance for the Re-liberation of Somalia (ARS) conducted a successful 2nd congress meeting in Asmara, conferring 95% of Somalia under their control… ONLF conducted an attack on Woyane troops, killing and wounding 131… More Ethiopian soldiers defected from Woyane to …
“I never put a price on a child”
– Abebech Gobena
Abebech Gobena’s life is a testament to the fact that a woman’s truth cannot be bought or sold. Indeed, if she holds her ground, the
…NAIROBI, 10 July 2008 (IRIN) – Médecins Sans Frontières Switzerland (MSF-Swiss) has withdrawn from Fiiq, Somali region, saying repeated administrative hurdles and intimidation had prevented it from providing medical care to vulnerable populations.
“Over the six months of our intervention, …
The current visit to the U.S. by Ethiopia’s distinguished scholar and human rights activist Professor Mesfin Woldemariam has one mission: To preach to Ethiopians in the Diaspora NOT to support all-inclusive struggles to defeat the Meles fascist regime in Ethiopia …
EDITOR’S NOTE: He deserves it. G8 leaders rightly think that his place is outside the door begging for crumbs.
(RTTNews) — The G-8 leaders have sparked outrage after it was revealed they feasted on sumptuous food consisting of …
EL-ARISH, Egypt (AFP) — Egyptian police shot and wounded an Ethiopian man on Wednesday as he tried to cross the border illegally into Israel, a security official said.
The 28-year-old man was shot in the foot by police south of …
ADDIS ABABA (AFP) — The Meles dictatorship in Ethiopia on Wednesday denied Sudanese accusations it had launched a cross-border attack against a police base killing 19 people.
“This simply isn’t true,” Prime Minister the fascist dictator Meles Zenawi’s spokesman, Bereket …
By Chris Floyd, Empire Burlesque
The on-going, American-backed atrocity continues to rage in Somalia, where George W. Bush has launched a third “regime change” front in his global Terror War, with the help of one of his many pet dictators, …
This was how Sunshine Construction owner Samuel Tafesse, one of the richest men in Ethiopia, was received by Lalibela Restaurant in Virginia last Saturday. Samuel is a business partner and close friend of Meles Zenawi’s wife Azeb Mesfin, the richest …
NICHOLAS BENEQUISTA, Globe and Mail
GUBA LAFTO, ETHIOPIA — Berzeghin Hailu answers questions about her life as patiently and thoroughly as a dutiful witness might describe a crime, but she grows silent as neighbours gather to eavesdrop on the conversation. …
This is an interview in Amharic with four Ethiopian air force pilots who have abandoned the Woyanne regime.
The fascist regime’s military court has charged with treason in absentia and sentenced to death all the four pilots. …
Report by the organizing committee
Thousands of Ethiopians have descended on Washington DC for an annual Ethiopian Soccer Tournament organized by ESFNA. The entire week greater Washington has been buzzing with scores of events and activities organized by various groups …
The leadership of the Virginia Hamere Noeh Kidane Mehret Ethiopian Orthodox Church has cleansed itself off of of infiltrators who have been trying to hijack the Church on behalf of Woyanne’s fake patriarch. Read this report by a member of …
What is happening in the Ogaden region is the most immediate, urgent, and largest-scale atrocity occurring in Ethiopia today.
By Douglas McGill, TC Daily Planet
Ali Abdifatah is a little out of his mind right now, understandably so. He is …