By Yilma Bekele

This expression normally refers to clumsy or reckless people who should not be allowed near expensive and delicate items or to insensitive individuals. That saying came to mind when I read the big headline “Ethiopia severs ties …

Four prominent leaders of Kinijit have issued a joint statement today announcing their resignation from the Coalition for Unity and Democracy Party (Kinijit). Read their joint press release here Press release [pdf, Amharic]

This is a necessary and important step …

On May 10, 2008, Dr Berhanu Nega will be in Vancouver, Canada, for a town hall meeting. The meeting is organized by former students of Dr Berhanu who are now students of University of British Colombia (UBC).

…

ethiopiansforbarackobama.com

The phone-banking effort we completed in Pennsylvania last month made a difference in Pennsylvania. Although our numbers in Pennsylvania was not significant enough to deliver a victory to Senator Obama, our collective efforts to collect a database of Ethiopian-American …

(BBC) – Amnesty International has accused Ethiopian Woyanne troops of capturing 40 Somali children during a raid on a mosque last week, and called for their release.

The rights group condemned the killing of more than 20 people, including some …

(ASSOCIATED PRESS) – Egyptian police have arrested 109 African migrants hoping to cross illegally into Israel from Egypt, an Egyptian security official said Wednesday.

95 migrants from Eritrea and 14 from Ethiopia were caught Wednesday in the city of Aswan, …

By Andrew Cawthorne

NAIROBI (Reuters) – Amnesty International accused Ethiopian Woyanne soldiers on Wednesday of killing 21 people, including an imam and several Islamic scholars, at a Mogadishu mosque and said seven of the victims had their throats slit.

The …

By Alisha Ryu

(VOA) – Residents in the Somali capital Mogadishu are expressing outrage and anger against Ethiopian Woyanne troops in the capital, whom they say massacred at least 10 people, including a senior religious leader, inside a mosque on …

UN News Service

The UN refugee agency and its partners expect to resume the repatriation of Sudanese refugees from Ethiopia on 15 December with a first group of 613 leaving Bonga camp in western Ethiopia for their homeland.

Organized repatriation …

Who does this guy remind you of?

…

The night mob violence tore lives apart

(The Sunday Independent) – Thomas Chamiso, 32, an Ethiopian refugee, ran the Thembikosi Trading Store in Zwelethemba township, Worcester, South Africa.

A month ago, he was one of 50 foreigners who …

By JIMMY GOLEN
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

BOSTON — Dire Tune outkicked Alevtina Biktimirova after a back-and-forth last mile to win by 2 seconds in the closest finish in the history of the women’s race. Robert Cheruiyot, of Kenya, and Tune, …

U.S. Department of Justice
Press Release

WASHINGTON – On April 22, 2008, former World Bank employee, Ramendra Basu, a national of
India and a permanent legal resident alien of the United States, was sentenced to 15 months in prison for …

(SA) Mogadishu – Nine more bodies have been found in Somalia’s war-riven capital after a weekend of clashes. Eight decomposing corpses lay near Al-Hidaya Mosque in northern Mogadishu and another was spotted near a stadium in the south of the …

About ten supporters of the disgraced former opposition leader Hailu Shawel held a protest rally outside a hall where Dr Berhanu Nega was meeting with Ethiopians in Toronto, Canada. A bunch of dumb asses. Why don’t they protest against Woyanne …

“We fought for Eritrean independence from the colonial rule of Ethiopia. Even now, if Eritrea is attacked, EPRDF would jump into Eritrea, join the Eritrean people and engage the enemy.”
– TPLF boss Sebhat Nega on Radio Woyane (May 28, …

By Teddy Fikre

(ethiopiansforbarackobama.com) — Ethiopians for Barack Obama concluded our trip to Philadelphia to support the Barack Obama campaign. Eight of our fellow Ethiopian-Americans took it upon ourselves to be a part of the change and drove …

By Mammo Muchie
Network of Ethiopian Scholars (NES)

In Ethiopia food aid/dependency continues to persist for over three decades now since the 1974 famine! Food security and independence continue to recede. Schemes like the food security strategy by the regime …

MOGADISHU (Reuters) – Clashes between insurgents and allied Ethiopian Woyanne troops have killed 81 people in Mogadishu since Saturday, a prominent local human rights group said on Sunday.

“Eighty-one people were killed and 119 more were wounded in the violence …

These coward Woyanne mercenaries abandon their comrades and run. They are brave only when it comes to shooting down unarmed Ethiopian civilians.

More from AP
By Mohamed Sheikh Nor (ASSOCIATED PRESS), MOGADISHU, Somalia – Islamic insurgents clashed with Ethiopian Woyanne …

(Press TV) — Heavy explosions strike Ethiopian Woyanne soldiers in southern Mogadishu, leaving at least a dozen people killed and some 24 others injured.

The blasts targeted Ethiopian Woyanne military convoys as they were heading for Radar district of Deynile …

By LESLIE CASIMIR, Houston Chronicle — This year’s theme for Houston International Festival is “Out of Africa: The Three Journeys” and apparently a couple of the Ethiopian performers headed here this week decided to do just that: They went missing …

Gud naw. Tewaredin eko. Even the stupid little poor Malawi doesn’t want us.

———————-

By Shalom Mkandawire

Nayasa Times — Malawi’s Department of Immigration says some Malawians are frustrating its efforts to contain the influx of illegal immigrants into the …

Listen to Addis Dimts Radio’s host Abebe Belew interview with renowned Ethiopian journalist Zenaneh Mekonnen who is currently residing in Israel click here to listen…

MOGADISHU (Garowe Online) – Ethiopian Woyanne troops bolstering Somalia’s weak interim government were targeted in a rocket attack Thursday in the capital Mogadishu, witnesses said.

An insurgent rocket propelled grenade hit a convoy of Ethiopian Woyanne army trucks …

Among the 25 Ethiopian fashion models who were sent to Houston, Texas, to participate in International Festival 2008 (IFest), three have defected yesterday and are seeking asylum, according to ER sources in Houston. The rest of them are held up …

Recently released beautiful religious song by Teddy. Click here to play Haleluya

Or watch the video below:

…

Sad story, but a happy ending for the two kids. How could we Ethiopians as a society fail to provide for the most basic needs of our children? It’s shame on us all.

A brother and sister from Ethiopia found …

PRESS RELEASE – Kinijit UK

It is with profound sadness that we learned the death of Steve Sinnott, General Secretary of The National Union of Teachers in England and Wales, and a great friend of Ethiopia on 5th April 2008, …

Addis Fortune reports that singer Teddy Afro was sent to Kaliti jail today. There is no doubt that the whole thing has been orchestrated by Woyanne to silence Teddy. Read the full report below:

(Addis Fortune) – Ethiopia’s …

An estimated 374 people will be executed in China during this summer’s Olympic games in Beijing, Amnesty International has claimed. A new league table of the world’s most frequent executioners showed China officially used capital punishment 470 times last year. …

…

By Sebugwaawo Ismail, Khaleej Times

RAS AL KHAIMAH — The three children, who reportedly tried to escape from Ethiopia by hiding in a cargo ship’s engine room last month, finally reached the Mina Al Saqr port in Ras Al Khaimah …

By Teddy Fikre

The past couple of days have witnessed an incessant maelstrom emanating from the Clinton and McCain camps, seizing on the statements that Barack Obama made about the frustrations felt by many Americans in towns across American. While …

By MATTHEW HAAG / The Dallas Morning News

Sam Ghebreyesus’ father called his son’s cellphone several times Friday night to set a time to pick him up from work at a southeast Dallas gas station and convenience store.

Each time, …

ASMARA, April 15 (Reuters) – Eritrea has cut off diesel supplies to U.N. agencies in the Red Sea state, but the move may not be politically-motivated, the world body said on Tuesday.

The step comes just weeks after U.N. peacekeepers …

The establishment of the Joint UN Teams on AIDS in Ethiopia has emerged within the larger context of both UN reform and international efforts to improve aid effectiveness. The imperative to create Joint UN Teams on AIDS comes directly from …

… and other news from EriTV

EDITOR’S NOTE
The correct definition of ‘chigaram’ is not ‘beggar’. ‘Chigaram’ means ‘ravenous’ in English, i.e, some one who is extremely greedy, and always begs without any self-pride, or steals and robs when possible, …

…

PRESS RELEASE: Ethiopians for Obama

We have set up a new website where Ethiopian-Americans can go to a central location to find out about events that we are planning, efforts that you can take part in, and also learn a …

Dr Berhanu Nega will discuss the current situation in Ethiopia with Ethiopians in Toronto on April 19, 2008.
Place: 40 Donald Ave., Toronto
Time: 2:00 PM
More info: 416 422 2962

…

By Yilma bekele

The news regarding the Gold brick scam from Ethiopia is both comical and sad. It is not desirable to be held up for shame and ridicule by the whole freaking planet. It is just another insult to …

What a shame. We as a society are rotting alive.

——————–

Djibouti cracks down on illegal immigrants

DJIBOUTI (Reuters) – Djibouti has arrested and repatriated nearly 7,000 immigrants this year, mostly Somalis and Ethiopians, in a crackdown on illegal migration …

By JODY FEINBERG, The Patriot Ledger

From a distance, the white bed is inviting, with its turned-down covers sprinkled with flower petals. Look closer, though, and you see that South African artist Ilona Anderson has embroidered the pillow case with …

These Ethiopians and Somalis perished trying to escape the hell created by Woyanne in their countries.

—————-
(DPA) Sana’a, Yemen – Eighteen African migrants died after smugglers forced them to jump off a boat at gunpoint Saturday as they neared …

BELETWEIN, Somalia Apr 13 (Garowe Online) – Heavily armed insurgent fighters ambushed an Ethiopian a Woyanne army convoy as it drove its way through central Somalia Sunday, sparking a 30-minute gunfight, sources said.

Local sources in Halgan village …

…

By Geoffrey Fattah, Deseret News

SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH – The second of two Ethiopian refugees charged with conspiring to import more than 400 pounds of an exotic plant used as a drug has pleaded guilty to federal charges.

During …

By Assta B. Gettu

The Ethiopian Jewish history is not a romantic history like the history of Romeo and Juliet; it is a religious history – a divine message, a revelation from the Almighty God, who purposely brought these children …

“Yes, we shall stand with our Eritrean neighbors to squash the rodents of the Horn until the whole Horn is officially Woyanne-free.” – Shimelis, ER reader…

(Web Worker Daily) — Teleworking has been gaining traction for years and now more than 2.44 million people spend at least part of their work week at home. But recently some major employers have been pulling telecommuters back into the …

(Readers Digest) — Although the lunch hour was originally designed for just that — lunch — today we spend our midday break running errands, pecking away at a computer keyboard, or returning personal phone calls. When we do actually sit …

(MyNews) — A Legislation that imposes sanctions against the countries, including India, who refuse to take back illegal migrants who have been convicted of crimes in the United States, has been introduced in the House of Representatives.

The …

By Olubunmi Ishola, Medill Reports

CHICAGO — The men sit around tables, lingering over beer, coffee or tea, after enjoying a dinner of watt, a variety of spicy and mild stews served on top of injera, a pancake-like bread.…

By Blake Stone-Banks (cityweekend.com.cn)

In addition to being Beijing’s only Ethiopian restaurant, Ras strikingly sets itself apart from the city’s mid-range and upscale restaurants with its decor. Colorful, Ethiopian umbrellas hang upside down from the ceiling, photographs of …

(Press TV) — Ethiopian Woyanne army moves toward the capital town of Somalia’s Shabeellaha Dhexe region to fight Islamic Courts Union (ICU) forces in the area.

The soldiers, numbering to thousands, headed for Jowhar some 90 km (55 …

By Rebecca Wanjiku, IDG News Service

Google has kicked off the inaugural gadget competition for students in East Africa and will announce a winner in August.

In the next four months, Google expects students enrolled at universities in Kenya, Uganda, …

(The Associated Press) UNITED NATIONS: Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has appointed veteran U.N. troubleshooter Taye-Brook Zerihoun to head the U.N. peacekeeping mission in Cyprus and oversee newly restarted talks to reunify the divided Mediterranean island, the U.N. announced Thursday.

Zerihoun, an …

(Reuters) — Twice Olympic champion Haile Gebrselassie will run in the 10,000 metres at the Beijing Olympics.

Gebrselassie, who suffers from asthma and has pulled out of the Olympic marathon over about pollution in Beijing, will also be the standard …