In its latest issue, Voice of Ginbot 7 has accussed the Meles regime of treason for giving away undisputed land to Sudan. Before the news broke out about the border re-demarcation deal with al-Bershir’s regime, Sudan had never been heard …

NOVA SCOTIA, CANADA — A 10-year-old boy is on a fundraising quest in memory of the care received by his dying mother.

In 2006, young Fikreab Mekonnen and his older brother left their home in Ethiopia and arrived in Truro, …

WADE STEPHENS, The Tampa Tribune

For 30 days in January, Wade Stephens III and his 20-year-old daughter, Annie, traveled in North Africa and the Horn of Africa. They shared writing, audio and photography duties as they absorbed the culture conflicts …

UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – Despite a U.N. arms embargo, arms shipments to Somali militants have not stopped and Somalia’s security situation is getting worse, South Africa’s U.N. envoy told the Security Council on Thursday.

South African Ambassador to the United …

ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia — It is nearly 11 p.m. one night last week in Addis Ababa, and large parts of the Ethiopian capital are bathed in darkness, the result of increasingly frequent power shortages in recent months.

Father and Son …

A disagreement has erupted within the government of Puntland, in Somalia’s northeast, during Thursday’s regular weekly Cabinet meeting, inside sources told Garowe Online.

Gen. Adde Muse, the Puntland leader, chaired the meeting in the port city of Bossaso, where issues …

Professor Jeheskel Shoshani [Photo: Haaretz

Addis Ababa, Ethiopia – Israeli Professor Jeheskel Shoshani, a world-renowned researcher of elephants at Addis Ababa University, was among the victims of Tuesday’s minibus explosion in the Ethiopian capital’s downtown area.

The Israeli Foreign Ministry …

Mogadishu – At least two Ethiopian Woyanne soldiers were killed and five others wounded on Thursday in a roadside bomb explosion in southern Mogadishu, witnesses said.

“A heavy explosion hit the Ethiopian Woyanne soldiers as they were inspecting suspected mines …

Somali rebels attack the parliament building in the southwestern town of Baidoa, killing five guards amid more blasts in the town.

Somali lawmakers were shocked as they found anti-government militias shooting mortars at parliament compound, also known as ADC Building, …

The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) has this afternoon announced the appointment of Mr Bekele Geleta as its new Secretary General. Mr Geleta will replace the current Secretary General, Mr Markku Niskala, who is retiring …

The Washingtonian ranks Etete Ethiopian Restaurant 77th in its ‘100 Best Restaurants’ list for 2008.

100 Best Restaurants 2008

The Washingtonian

#77 Etete

Reviewed by Todd Kliman , Cynthia Hacinli , Ann Limpert , Dave McIntyre

Cuisine: Ethiopian cooking, homey …

VIRGINIA — An Alexandria man is among 11 folk artists set to receive one of the nation’s most prestigious national heritage awards.

The National Endowment for the Arts announced yesterday that Moges Seyoum, an expert in Ethiopian Christian liturgical singing, …

By Beth D. MSc AEES (Advanced Enviornmental & Energy Studies)

Coffee, animal production, cotton, cut flowers, etc are water thirsty crops. A 1 kilo jar of coffee uses 20,000 ltrs or 20 tonnes of water to produce it. Coffee is …

(Blacktown Sun) ASSEFA Bekele is an extraordinary man. The 59-year-old grandfather-of-two came to Australia 20 years ago with his wife and two daughters, then 6 and 16, with no English but big dreams of a better life.

Assefa …

ADDIS ABABA (AFP) — An [kangaroo] Ethiopian court sentenced to death eight alleged members of a separatist rebel group for an attack last year which left six people dead, officials told AFP Thursday.

“The Somali State High Court sentenced eight …

MOGADISHU (Garowe Online) – Senior members of Mogadishu’ s municipal government have raised serious accusations against Mayor Mohamed “Dheere” Omar, a former warlord who enjoys intimate ties with the Ethiopian government.

Mohamed Dhagahtur, the deputy mayor for social affairs, …

WASHINGTON (AP) – The United States says an American citizen was killed in a minibus explosion Tuesday in downtown Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.

State Department spokesman Sean McCormack says officials are investigating and working to notify the family. He provided no …

EDITOR’S NOTE: It seems that AP, BBC, Reuters, CNN and other media assign their dumbest reporters to Africa. These reporters only parrot the lines given to them by Africa’s dictators. In reporting about the current famine in Ethiopia, they continue …

EDITOR’S NOTE: African countries need to boycott the 2010 Soccer World Cup to be held in South Africa. Those idiot ingrates have already forgotten that without the support of Ethiopians and other Africans, they would still be slaves to the …

EDITOR’S NOTE: Anti-Woyanne forces do not target civilians as we are witnessing in Somalia and other areas. This is just one more indication that the bomb blast in Addis Ababa yesterday is definitely the work of Woyanne.

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(VOA …

Climate change and climate variability will have far reaching impacts on Africa’s development unless the continent takes measures to adapt to the phenomenon and makes risk management against climate change a development priority… Read more [pdf]…

UNICEF

GENEVA /ADDIS ABABA – An estimated 126,000 children are in need of urgent therapeutic care for severe malnutrition. UNICEF Ethiopia today cautioned that up to six million children under-5 years of age are living in impoverished, drought-prone districts and …

This looks like the work of Woyanne. Opposition groups do not target civilians.

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(Reuters) — An explosion on a minibus shook central Addis Ababa today, killing three people and wounding nine, Ethiopian police said.

All the dead and wounded …

ADDIS ABABA (AFP) — Three people were killed when a bomb exploded late Tuesday near the Ethiopian foreign ministry in central Addis Ababa, according to state-run radio.

The radio provided no further details but witnesses near the site of the …

“Ethiopia has recorded impressive growth during the past few years” – IMF

INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND (IMF)
Press Release No. 08/115
May 19, 2008

Statement at the Conclusion of the 2008 Article IV Consultation Mission to the Federal Democratic Republic of …

By Kelli B. Kavanaugh
Detroit Development News

DETROIT — The sign in the window of the former Cookie Factory-slash-Flying Apron claims that Taste of Ethiopia is opening in that location “By Popular Demand!” That sounds like a bold claim to …

Ethiopian Review publisher, Elias Kifle, PDD, will be a guest on Ethiopian Television Network this coming Saturday at 7:00 PM EDT. Click here to watch live.…

TOKYO, JAPAN (mainichi.jp) —
An Ethiopian woman and two other people have been arrested for filing a false marriage report, police said.

Abigale Mokonnen W/Gebrael, a 38-year-old female part-time worker of Ethiopian nationality, and two other suspects are …

(Focus News Agency) — Washington DC. The United States said Monday it was troubled by claims of irregularities in Ethiopia’s elections last month after weekend results showed that the ruling party won nearly all the seats.

“We did not have …

Ruth Eglash, THE JERUSALEM POST

It’s been nearly 10 years since the country had an Ethiopian MK (Member of Knesset) — Labor’s Adisu Messele, who held a seat from 1996 to 1999 — but within the last three months two …

EDITOR’S NOTE: The U.N. and international media are not accurately reporting about the real causes for the food shortage in Ethiopia. The main problem is mismanagement of resources. Just to mention two examples: 1) Massive quantities of food bought at …

Educators, Activists, Entrepreneurs, and Lawyers Win Harvard University’s Berkman Awards for Internet Innovation

Cambridge, MA – On May 16 at the Berkman Center for Internet & Society’s tenth anniversary gala dinner, recipients of the Berkman Awards were chosen for their …

In an interview with Ethiopian Current Affairs Discussion Forum (ECADF) Sunday, a resident of Mekele said that food prices are skyrocketing in Tigray region except for party supporters. The elderly gentleman, whose house was confisicated by the Tigray region government, …

Ethiopians in Ottawa, Canada, are organizing a protest rally on May 23, 2008, to commemorate the fallen heroes of May 15 elections, and also to express opposition to the Ethiopia-Sudan secret boarder agreement. More in Amharic

የኢትዮጵያን ሉዓላዊነት ለማሰከበርና የግንቦት …

A Resolution from the Public Meeting held in Dallas Fort-Worth in Commemoration of the Victims of the 2005 Ethiopian Election Aftermath

A coalition of major opposition party supporters, civic organizations and patriotic individuals held a meeting on May 17, 2008 …

Ato Temesgen Zewdie, an executive committee member of the Union for Democracy and Justice (UDJ), has asked the Woyanne rubber stamp parliament to investigate the reported give away of Ethiopian land to Sudan by the Meles regime. In a letter …

(Garowe Online) — Islamist rebels ambushed an Ethiopian Woyanne army convoy in Somalia’s Lower Shabelle region, Radio Garowe reported Sunday.

At least 8 people, including four Ethiopian Woyanne soldiers, were killed after the rebels ambushed soldiers on foot.…

By Peter Heinlein, Voice of America

Shashemene, Ethiopia – Humanitarian agencies are rushing emergency aid to drought-stricken central Ethiopia, where a sudden deterioration in food supplies has led to surge of child mortality. At least 23 children have died at …

EDITOR’S NOTE: World Bank, for example, is the chief financier of Africa’s mass murderers. One hundred al Qaedas, or Talibans, or bin Ladens combined cannot do as much damage on a nation as the World Bank did to Ethiopia and …

By Ethiopians for Obama

We are Ethiopians who immigrated from our birth land and arrived in America in search of a dream. There are hundreds of thousands of us who live in this great country; working hard and sacrificing so …

MOGADISHU, Somalia May 17 (Garowe Online) – Heavy fighting erupted in Somalia’s capital Mogadishu on Saturday between insurgents and Ethiopian Woyanne soldiers, local sources told Garowe Online.

Four soldiers were killed when an Ethiopian a Woyanne army convoy …

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By AARON O. PATRICK, Wall Street Journal

London – A small design firm here was recently hired by an unusual client with an unconventional request: The Ethiopian government commissioned Brandhouse to come up with a logo that will make consumers …

EDITOR’S NOTE: Mugabe is just another blood thirsty vampire like Meles. At the same time, the U.S. Administration has no moral authority to criticize Mugabe while completely ignoring the atrocities of its puppet, the Meles regime, in Ethiopia and Somalia, …

(BBC) — Peace talks on Somalia have broken up without any face-to-face discussions between the government and the main opposition alliance.

After four days meeting UN diplomats in Djibouti, the two sides agreed to attend further talks in …

EDITOR’S NOTE: There is a food shortage in the south, the most fertile region of Ethiopia, because most of the food that is produced there is shipped to the northern region of Tigray and stored in grain silos and food …

By Amri Lugungulo, Kibaha

(IPP) TANZANIA — A total of 362 aliens from Ethiopia and Somalia were arrested between April 1 and May 8, this year, for entering the country contrary to immigration law.

According to Coast Region …

Ethiopian Current Affairs Discussion Forum (ECADF) will host a press conference with Ato Andargachew Tsige and other Ginbot 7 officials on Sunday, at 3:30 PM Washington DC time. The press conference will be aired live via Ethiopian Review Radio Network. …

The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) today called on the Ethiopian authorities to drop charges against Alemayehu Mahtemework, the editor of monthly entertainment magazine Enku, and three others who were arrested with him after the publication of a cover story …

By Sipho Masombuka, Sowetan

SUSPENDED: Pastor Diphapang Potsane

Criticised fellow clerics for sinning
A pastor of the Ethiopian Catholic Church in Zion has been suspended for what he says was his outspokenness against sin.

“I spoke against fellow clerics who …

The New Zealand Herald

WELLINGTON, NEW ZEALAND — The mother of a security guard stabbed outside a Wellington bottle store last year dropped dead when he phoned her in Ethiopia to tell her, the High Court at Wellington was told …

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By Matt Wilkinson, Oxford Mail

OXFORD, U.K. — Seven suspected illegal immigrants have been found in a truck at Oxford logistics firm.

The six men and one woman were discovered in a truck at Unipart in Oxford Business Park, Cowley, …

Police Searching For Driver In Deadly Hit & Run

By Seema Mathur

GARLAND, TEXAS (CBS 11 News) ― Police have released new information today about a deadly hit and run case that killed a Garland mother.

Juan Pedro …

DW’s (German Radio) Amharic Program gave a prominent coverage to the formation of Ginbot 7 on its broadcast today. DW has millions of listeners as VOA and Eritrean Radio in Ethiopia. Click here to listen.…

The Associated Press

EUGENE, Oregon: A second Ethiopian will try to break a world record June 8 at the Nike Prefontaine Classic.

Meseret Defar will attempt to break her world 5,000-meter mark in a race to be held immediately after …

Press Release from Ethiopians for Obama

On Saturday, May 17th, Teddy Fikre will be running to represent the 8th Congressional District for the Democratic National Convention supporting Senator Obama. The 8th Congressional District is home to Alexandria–otherwise known as the …

The UN country Team composed of 25 agencies opened its first annual retreat today May 14, 2008 in Mekelle in the Tigray region in Ethiopia in presence of the Mr. Tsegaye Berhe, President of Tigray Regional State. In his opening …

Dr Berhanu Nega and Ato Daniel Assefa at a press
conference today in Virginia [photo: Dereje Getachew, Clear Photo]

Addis Ababa Mayor-Elect Dr Berhanu Nega and colleagues gave a press conference on Wednesday at the Ethiopian Television Network’s studio in …

Press conference with Dr Berhanu Nega today at 4:00 PM EDT. Click here to listen

Berhanu Nega aims to lead a movement for change

Addis Ababa Mayor-Elect Dr Berhanu Nega and colleagues will give a press conference today, Wednesday, …

(jazzpolice.com) — The fourth installment of the Minnesota sur Seine music festival is coming to various Twin Cities locations from May 15 through May 25, 2008. Festival organizers announced the confirmed shows on a lineup that features collaborations …

Obang Metho will be the guest on VOA’s Straight Talk Africa live starting at 2:30 PM Eastern Time USA time today May 14th 2008 to discuss tomorrow’s 3rd anniversary of the May 2005 elections.

VOA veteran journalist Shaka Ssali hosts …

(Dubai Today) — People who use maids and cleaners who have no official sponsor run the risk of incurring huge fines, the head of the Dubai Naturalisation and Residency Department warned yesterday. Brigadier Mohammad Ahmad Al-Mur said that …

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Click here for the Washington DC event
The third anniversary of the failed Ethiopian National Election is almost here. As the time approaches, the Worldwide March Committee members are working hard to plan events in cities across North America, Europe, …

Los Angeles Times Book Review: Dinaw Mengestu belongs to that special group of American voices produced by global upheavals and intentional, if sometimes forced, migrations. These are the writer-immigrants coming here from Africa, East India, Eastern Europe and elsewhere. …

ADDIS ABABA (AFP) — The Ethiopian capital faces a lengthy power outage until next month because of reduced water levels in the country’s hydro- electric plants, a state-owned generator said Monday.

Addis Ababa, a city of 5 million, will have …

Africa mobile subscribers grow 33%… the clear laggard in Africa was Ethiopia which retained a monopoly both on fixed-line and mobile telephone services.

(Reuters) — African mobile operators added 70-million users in the past year, a growth rate of 33 …

Ethiopia is the only country which still maintains a monopoly for both mobile and fixed voice.

(By Skrevet av Mikael Ricknäs, IDG News Service) — There is a lot of good news in Africa, especially in the mobile space, …

(Panapress) — Food prices in Ethiopia have continued to soar with reports of an alarming hike of the cost of the cheapest grain, maize, in some markets of the drought-hit Somali Region reaching 700 birr (about US$70) per 100-kg bag, …

(Telegraph.co.uk) — German archaeologists have claimed to have found one of the fabled resting places of the Ark of the Covenant, the chest holding the Ten Commandments which gave the ancient Israelites their power.

The University of Hamburg …

Source: UNHCR

High Commissioner António Guterres leaves for Yemen tomorrow (Wednesday) for a five-day visit that will include a first-hand look at UNHCR’s efforts there on behalf of refugees and internally displaced people and the opening of a regional conference …

India’s Neha International Ltd. has informed that its board of Directors at its meeting held on May 12, 2008, inter alias, has considered the acquisition of two floriculture units in Ethiopia.

These units have 56 hectares of land with 12 …

By Lorna Benson, Minnesota Public Radio

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A 20-year-old Ethiopian woman is recovering at a St. Paul hospital after having a massive tumor removed from the base of her brain and face. Her case is remarkable because …

(Reuters) –Ethiopian Olympic champion Kenenisa Bekele will attempt to break his 10,000m world record at next month’s Prefontaine Classic in Eugene, Oregon, organisers said today.

The race will take place at the University of Oregon’s Hayward Field on June 8. …

By Alain Lallemand, lemonde
(Translated from the French)

No less than 80 percent of weapons and munitions sold today in the Somali black markets are transported by commanders of the Ethiopian Woyanne Army and the Transitional Federal Government (TFG), although …

By Lisa Schlein, VOA News, Geneva

The U.N. refugee agency reports the number of people arriving on the coast of Yemen after being smuggled across the treacherous Gulf of Aden from the Horn of Africa has more than doubled this …

EDITOR’S NOTE: There is no food shortage in Ethiopia. The problem is caused by mis-allocation of resources, mismanagement, and extreme greed by the tribal Woyanne regime. Large quantities of food produced in southern Ethiopia is loaded up daily on thousands …

The Daily Monitor (Addis Ababa)

The UN World Food Programme (WFP) said last week it was forced to cut assistance to malnourished mothers and children in Ethiopia because it could not respond to increasing hunger resulting from the drought in …

(Press TV) — Landmine explosions have killed more than 12 Ethiopian Woyanne troops, and eight Somali government soldiers, in the war-torn East African nation.

Anti- Ethiopian Woyanne groups detonated a massive landmine in Towfiikh district, killing at least …

(Press TV) Ethiopian Woyanne troops have removed the governor of central Somalia’s Hiiran district from his post and disarmed his supporters, a report says.

Hundreds of Ethiopian Woyanne soldiers marched into the main town of Baletweyn in Hiiran …

This is part of Woyanne’s preparation to invade Eritrea. They did the same thing — creating a puppet Somali government — before invading Somalia.

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ADDIS ABABA (AFP) — A coalition of Eritrean opposition groups elected a chairman over the …

By Yilma bekele

Two of my favorite characters were in the news last week. I do not think they know each other. I am sure of that. But they were both in the news. One was pleading for his life …

The Kinijit Support Group in Dallas, Texas, has issued the follwing statement opposing the illegal land give away of Ethiopian land to Sudan.

መሐል ዳር እንዳይሆን

ከዳላስ ቅንጅት ድጋፍ ቻፕተር የተሰጠ መግለጫ

የኢትዮጵያ ህዝብ ፀር እና ባላንጣ የሆነው የወያኔ ኢሀአዴግ …