Opposition candidate for the April 2008 local elections in Ethiopia are withdrawing their candidacy due to intensifying arrests and intimidations by the Woyanne regime gunmen… Read more by zikkir News Service…

With a week to go before climactic tests in Texas and Ohio, Hillary Rodham Clinton’s campaign team has slipped into full recriminations mode.

Looking backward, interviews with a cross-section of campaign aides and sympathetic outsiders suggest a team consumed with …

In Ethiopia, does staying silent save lives?

Government warns aid workers if they talk to press about atrocities in Somali region, they will lose access.

By Nicholas Benequista, The Christian Science Monitor

Jijiga, Ethiopia — Spotting a plume of dust …

The Jay Leno Show’s Harland Williams visits an Ethiopian family

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The Dream for Justice Lives On in Us!

By Obang O. Metho

On February 16, 2008, the Reverend James Orange, a great civil rights leader and a top aide to Martin Luther King, Jr., died in Atlanta, Georgia. Rev. James …

By Yilma Bekele

Recent events in Kenya bring a smile to all Africans. Darkness and gloom are in the process of being replaced by joy and hope. The Kenyan government should be given credit for its willingness to sit and …

By Alemayehu G. Mariam

“Charity begins at home,” goes the old saying. But with the Zenawi regime, it is, “No good deed will go unpunished.” The so-called “Charities and Societies Draft Proclamation No. 00/2007” [hereinafter “Proclamation”] currently under review by …

These camels no doubt were stolen from Ogaden and Afar regions.
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Ethiopia to export 20,000 camels to Egypt

(ENA) SAAFI Trading and Agro Industry PLC [a well-known Woyanne affiliated company], Ethiopia’s second largest live animal exporting company, envisages to …

Renowned Ethiopian pianist and composer Girma Yefrashewa will perform at Howard University, Washington DC, on March 1st, 2008. Click to enlarge the poster below.

Girma Yefrashewa will perform at Howard University on March 1, 2008

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Africans cannot live and work in their own continent because of the vampire leaders like Meles Zenawi.

(Associated Press) – Police on Monday detained about 200 Africans who infiltrated the country through the porous border with Egypt in recent months, …

(DPA) – Mogadishu – At least 18 [Woyanne-backed] Somali troops were killed in an attack by Somali insurgents when they seized the southern town of Dinsoor and then retreated, witnesses said Monday.

“Early Monday, we heard explosions and machine gun …

The [Woyanne] government is accused of a reign of terror similar to what is happening in Darfur.

By Ronan Farrow, Los Angeles Times

DADAAB, KENYA — The bullet tore through Ibrahim Hamad’s torso and lodged in his hip. The 26-year-old …

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(Panapress) – The world soccer governing body, FIFA, and the Confederation of African Football (CAF) have moved to stop the management crisis dogging the Ethiopian Football Federation (EFF), according to a joint statement from the two bodies.

To set the …

The two-day Kinijit North America general assembly meeting was adjourned Sunday evening after electing it officials and deciding on a new set of action plans. The assembly elected the following individuals to lead Kinijit North America:

1. Ato Aklog Lemeneh, …

By STEPHEN OHLEMACHER

WASHINGTON (AP) – The Democratic superdelegates are starting to follow the voters – straight to Barack Obama.

In just the past two weeks, more than two dozen of them have climbed aboard his presidential campaign, according to …

Photos taken at Kinijit North America General Assembly meeting in Las Vegas, Nevada, Feb. 23, 2008

Kinijit North America general assembly, Las Vegas (photo: Kinijit NA)…

MOGADISHU (Garowe Online) – At least four soldiers with the Ethiopian Woyanne armed forces deployed in Somalia were killed Saturday after their water truck was ambushed by suspected insurgents, witnesses said.

The group of attackers used assault rifles …

LAS QORAY, Somalia Feb 23 (Garowe Online) – Nearly 120 Ethiopian migrants were dumped off of north Somalia’s coastal town of Las Qoray and informed that they were on Yemeni shores, local sources reported Saturday.

Las Qoray residents …

The Kinijit North America general assembly meeting has been adjourned for tonight after meeting through out the day. Most of time today was allocated for hearing reports from the executive committee, the auditor and representatives for the various chapters. Tomorrow, …

Kinijit NA general assembly convened

The Kinijit North America general assembly meeting has been convened this morning in Las Vegas, Nevada. Several representatives of Kinijit chapters through out the United States are taking part in the meeting. The party’s top …

The Washington DC-based Ethiopian Television Network will air a new show named “Ethiopian Idol.” Watch the video announcement below. For more information, visit ouretn.com
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The plan by Ato Ayele Chamiso’s group to hold negotiations with the Kinijit executive committee failed to materialize due to unacceptable preconditions… Read more by zikkir News Service…

After a Woyanne general bitch slaps the Somali president twice in the face this week, Meles has summoned former Somali prime minister to Addis Ababa for talks. Can it get any more bizarre?

(Garowe Online) – The former …

By Louis Charbonneau

UNITED NATIONS, (Reuters) – Eritrea does not want another war with Ethiopia and seeks good relations with its neighbor, provided Addis Ababa withdraws from Eritrean territory, Eritrea’s U.N. ambassador said on Friday.

Ethiopia and Eritrea have both …

Shabelle Media Network (Mogadishu) – Hundreds of Ethiopian troops with more than 25 vehicles have reached in Dhuso-mareb district of Galgadud region central Somalia on Friday witnesses said.

The soldiers left there have pulled out from Hiran region and made …

Gulf Daily News

BAHRAIN’S Maryam Yusuf Jamal won the women’s 1,500m race by the narrowest of margins at the ‘GE Galan’ indoor athletics meeting in Stockholm late Thursday night.

Maryam, running in her first race of the year, comfortably paced …

Around the world from Addis Ababa

Two studies of genetic mutations tracked how humans spread from Ethiopia 100,000 years ago.

By KAREN KAPLAN, Los Angeles Times

Scrutinizing the DNA of 938 people from 51 distinct populations around the world, geneticists …

(AFP) – PARIS – Ethiopian Woyanne troops have escorted a group of 28 French tourists to safety following violence in the eastern Danakil region, the French foreign ministry said.

Ethiopian television had reported that rebels backed by the Eritrean government …

Reporters Without Borders

The Ethiopia of Meles Zenawi is not the dictatorship of former president Mengistu, who was overthrown in 1991 and who held the country in a Stalinist grip. Privately-owned newspapers do their best to enliven the intellectual life …

(Press TV) – General Gabre Heard, who is in charge of Woyanne occupation forces in Somalia, has slapped Somalia’s interim President Abdullahi Yusuf Ahmed twice on the face, officials say.

The row between President Yusuf Ahmed and Gen. …

Nairobi (DPA) – The African Union (AU) said Friday it remains engaged in the border crisis between Eritrea and Ethiopia but said the two parties lack goodwill to bring an end to the dispute.

A United Nations mission monitoring the …

Statement by the Ogaden National Liberation Front (ONLF)

Humanitarian aid distribution to the people of Ogaden continues to be severely restricted by armed forces of the Tigray Peoples Liberation Front (TPLF) led regime in Ethiopia. The small amounts of aid …

By Elisabeth Hulette, The Capital

For the past few months, the Stimely family’s four daughters have been throwing nightly dance parties in their living room to the tunes of Disney’s wildly popular “High School Musical.”

It’d be a nightly scene …

3-year grant will offer classes on disaster management

By Ashley Waggoner, The Wildcat Online

Researchers from the University of Arizona (UA) have received a three-year, $200,000 grant to aid in Ethiopia’s famine disaster.

The UA has teamed with Bahir Dar …

Amnesty International
Five African migrants shot dead crossing Egypt-Israel border

Amnesty International supporters are sending appeals to the Egyptian authorities expressing concern that three men and two women have been shot dead by Egyptian security forces since the beginning of …

An executive committee member of the Coalition for Unity and Democracy Party (Kinijit), Ato Kifle Tigneh, has arrived in the U.S. yesterday to attend the Kinijit North America General Assembly this coming weekend in Las Vegas. Kinijit vice-chair Birtukan Mideksa …

By Agere Mekuria

Unlike most of the US presidential elections in recent past, this one is characterized by many firsts (first woman, first black, etc…) and, at least on the democratic side, the presidential race has managed to stir up …

Several candidates representing opposition parties in Ethiopia have been denied identification papers that allows them to participate in the April 2008 local election… Read more at zikkir News Service…

By Melaku Tegegne

Freedom of Speech is probably the phrase with the longest tradition. Freedom of speech addresses the ability of individuals to communicate ideas and information without interference with the state. When we talk about interference by the state …

By Obang Metho

The African roosters are crowing from the north to the south to the east and to the west as the first rays of dawn’s light are cracking through the darkness hanging over Africa. From all over the …

ADDIS ABABA, Feb 20 (Reuters) – Ethiopia Woyanne said on Wednesday security forces had stopped soldiers from neighbouring Eritrea abducting 28 French tourists in its remote northern Afar region.

“An attempt by Eritrean forces to abduct 28 French tourists in …

By John Whitesides, Political Correspondent

MILWAUKEE (Reuters) – Barack Obama has surged past Hillary Clinton to open a big national lead in the Democratic presidential race, according to a Reuters/Zogby poll released on Wednesday.

Obama also leads Republican front-runner John …

Ethiopians for Obama will be volunteering in Columbus Ohio to deliver a victory for Barack Obama in Ohio’s primary which is being held on March 4th. Ethiopians in Virginia, DC, Maryland, New York, Minnesota, and every corner of the United …

Interview with Kinijit members of parliament Ato Leul Keskis and Ato Getachew Teshale who recently went to Eritrea to join Ethiopian freedom fighters.
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By Messay Kebede

The initial and widespread skepticism surrounding Barack Obama’s presidential ambition was first seriously challenged when he won the democratic race in Iowa. Since then, Obama’s successive victories in many states and his emergence as the leading Democratic …

By Patrick Worsnip

UNITED NATIONS, Feb 19 (Reuters) – U.N. peacekeepers monitoring a border security zone between Eritrea and Ethiopia are regrouping in the Eritrean capital of Asmara after Eritrea cut off their fuel and food, U.N. officials said on …

By Ahmed Mohamed

BAIDOA, Somalia, Feb 20 (Reuters) – Somali insurgents killed two Ethiopian Woyanne soldiers in the southern town of Baidoa on Wednesday, residents said.

Baidoa is the seat of Somalia’s parliament. Businesses in the centre halted as dozens …

Excerpt from Dinaw Mengestu’s The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears

Joseph’s already drunk when he comes into the store. He strolls through the open door with his arms open. You get the sense when watching him that even the grandest …

A group of individuals from Hailu Shawel’s newly regrouped former party, AEUP, went to Ato Bedru Adem’s home in Addis Ababa today to talk to him about coming back to the group. Ato Bedru, still angry about they way he …

The US military has decided to keep the headquarters of its new Africa Command in Germany, after only one African nation, Liberia, offered to host it.

Most African countries have been wary of plans to base the command, Africom, on …

ADDIS ABABA, Feb 18, 2008 (AFP) — Over 300 police officers suspected of links with rebels have been arrested in Ethiopia’s restive Ogaden region as part of a government crackdown, state-media reported on Monday.

Regional police commissioner [Woyanne mercinery] Yussuf …

The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) has denied Wzr. Nigist Gebrehiwot her request for political asylum. The ER Research Unit has learned that the USCIS rejected Wzr. Nigist’s application saying that the Woyanne regime in Ethiopia has given her …

The tourist resorts that are planned to be built by these millionaire Arab sheiks are nothing more than their personal whorehouses where they take advantage of poor and desperate Ethiopians. Al Amoudi and his Arab friends see Ethiopia under Woyanne …

Ato Bedru Adem, the notorious member of the Hailu Shawel gang, is back in Ethiopia after Ato Hailu pushed him out of his inner circle for being too demanding and asking t.o many sensitive questions of financial nature. He is …

Reviewed by by Deanne Sole for PopMatters

It must be a great thing to play the mèssengo. The breadth of Ethiopian music made available by the Éthiopiques is one of the series’ great strengths. In 23 albums we’ve crossed from …

(AFP) – Ethiopia distance-running great Kenenisa Bekele added to his collection of notable landmarks by setting a new world-best performance mark in the two miles at the international indoor meeting here Saturday.

The reigning Olympic 10,000 metres champion, on the …

Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations

New reports indicate that a few locust swarms are present in Oman and Yemen. In southern Oman, an immature swarm was reported on 11 February in the Dhofar hills near Salalah. …

By Louis Charbonneau

UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – A standoff between Eritrea and the United Nations escalated on Friday as a U.N. spokeswoman said Eritrea had cut off food supplies to U.N. troops on its border and stopped them withdrawing to …

It is rumored that Meles Zenawi’s wife, Azeb Mesfin, sold this priceless Ethiopian national treasure to the highest bidder?

By Peter Smith
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The Courier-Journal

Fallen angels marry human women and spawn a breed of giants that wreak havoc on …

Barack Obama leads Hillary Clinton 48% to 42% in Texas, according to the latest poll by American Research Group. Obama leads Clinton among self-described independents and Republicans 24% to 71%. Obama leads among men 55% to 29% (47% of likely …

Vice-chairperson of the Coalition for Unity and Democracy Party (Kinijit), Wzt. Birtukan Mideksa, will attend Kinijit North America’s general assembly in Las Vegas at the end of this month, according to sources close to the party’s leadership. Ato Kifle Tigneh, …

Kinijit Atlanta Support Chapter (KASC), at its General Assembly meeting held last week, elected an eight-person Board of Directors: Girmaye Gizaw, Wossen Kebede, Eyob Kidanemariam, Zewde Bekele, Fikrealem Mulatu, Getachew Legesse, Yohannes Alemayehu and Teshager Seyoum… Read More …

Interview with Kinijit leaders Ato Assefa Hailu (a member of parliament form Ambassel Woreda, Wollo), and Ato Amaha Aba Mecha (Kinijit secretary general of North Gondar) who went to Eritrea to join the armed struggle against the Woyanne fascist regime.…

Two Kinijit members of parliament gave up their peaceful struggle and left for Eritrea, source said. In a televised interview on Wednesday, February 13, the two individuals said peaceful struggle is considered a crime by the incumbent Woyanne regime in …

psychminded.co.uk
By staff reporter

A law graduate strangled a 59-year-old woman when they were both patients on a psychiatric ward in Rochdale, Greater Manchester.

Telahum Tedola (Tecola?) confessed to the killing and told a nurse he attacked Rosalyn McManus because …

In recent military operations, the Tigray People’s Democratic Movement (TPDM) kill more than 100 Woyanne soldiers, and Ogaden Liberation Front (ONLF) fighters kill over 132 Woyannes soldiers.

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COMMENTARY

My Position on the Involvement of Ethiopia in Somalia

By Melaku Tegegne

Meles Zenawi could have made a Rambo-style, quick and decisive victory in Somalia and got the job done. Instead, he decided that the Ethiopian soldiers continue for …

(Press TV) More than ten people have been killed across Mogadishu as the city walks on the verge a new fighting between rebels and Ethiopian Woyanne forces.

Press TV Somalia correspondent in Mogadishu said three civilians were targeted …

Senator Barack Obama emerged from Tuesday’s primaries leading Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton by more than 100 delegates, a small but significant advantage that Democrats said would be difficult for Mrs. Clinton to make up in the remaining contests in the …

The biggest obstacle to the advancement of technology in Ethiopia is Meles Zenawi and his vampire regime. For example, even Somalia, which doesn’t have a functioning government, has a much better mobile phone service than Ethiopia. The Woyanne regime has …

“A Walk to Beautiful” is an inspiring documentary film that tells the heartbreaking story of five Ethiopian women who suffer from devastating childbirth injuries. Rejected by their husbands and ostracized by their communities, these women are left to spend the …

Filmmaker South Africa

By Fikremariam Tesfaye

A new, privately-owned pay TV service by the name of GTV- Gateway Community Television GTV is poised to enter the broadcasting market with the main objective of educating and entertaining the Ethiopian public, its …

Woyanne receives $755 million from its international backers for a job well done of torturing, raping and murdering of Ethiopians and Somalis.
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ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) – Ethiopia The Woyanne beggar regime secured a total $755 million in development loans …

By DAVID ESPO, AP Special Correspondent

Senator Barack Obama won primaries in Maryland, Virginia and the District of Columbia with ease Tuesday night in a determined drive to erase Hillary Rodham Clinton’s delegate lead in the Democratic presidential race.

“Tonight …

OBAMA, Japan (AFP) — Barack Obama, who has been credited with tapping support in unlikely places, is enjoying a groundswell of enthusiasm in a small city in western Japan, which is delighted to share his name.

Obama, Japan, is rooting …

ANNOUNCEMENT

The 2009 Ford Motor Company International Fellowship of the 92nd Street Y is now accepting applications from community leaders who are citizens and residents of Azerbaijan; the Baltic States of Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania; Cambodia; Ethiopia; Israel; Liberia; and …

Senator Barack Obama has defeated Senator Hillary Clinton in the Virginia primary tonight, crushing what may have been Clinton’s best chance at a Potomac primary win. Clinton had hoped to perform strongly in Virginia’s rural communities and among women and …

A senior adviser to Nancy Pelosi, the Speaker of the House of Representatives, has suggested that she – along with other “party elders” – will step into the ring if they feel that Democratic hopes of winning back the White …

By MATTHEW ROSENBERG

NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Peace talks to end postelection bloodshed in Kenya moved to a secret location Tuesday for a final push. Negotiators said the opposition has proposed sharing power with the government for two years and …

(PressTV) – A Somali soldier stands guard at Bakara market in Mogadishu.
Two Somali soldiers armed with automatic weapons have attacked an Ethiopian a Woyanne base in the city of Afgooye, 30 kilometers off Mogadishu.

The two soldiers …

Andargachew Tsige’s recent article about the status of the struggle for democracy and freedom in Ethiopia is spreading like a wildfire in Ethiopia. The 27-page article is being sold 30 birr per copy by newspaper vendors… Read more at zikkir …

Barack Obama appeared poised Monday to trounce Hillary Rodham Clinton in today’s “Potomac primary,” as polls showed him with huge leads in Maryland and Virginia. Obama, fresh from five weekend wins over Clinton in Louisiana, Washington state, Nebraska, Maine and …

In Addis Ababa alone, over 100,000 children are homeless. Millions live in slums. And yet, Woyanne offers to help build Sudan’s infrastructure. Eight million Ethiopians are facing starvation, but Woyanne exports livestock and invests on growing flower for export. …

Virginia, Maryland and DC will hold Democratic party primaries tomorrow, Tuesday. In Maryland, Barack Obama leads Hillary Clinton among men 57% to 34% (43% of likely Democratic primary voters) and Obama leads Clinton among women 54% to 40%. Clinton leads …

ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) – Ethiopia The Woyanne regime in Ethiopia has agreed to temporarily host a U.N. peacekeeping force acting as a buffer with Eritrea after Asmara cut off fuel supplies to the force, the foreign ministry said on Monday.…

There is a severe shortage of food in Ethiopia, and yet the Woyanne regime tries to export livestock to Ghana and other countries, as reported here.
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ADDIS ABABA, 11 February 2008 (IRIN) – Ethiopia’s new national nutrition strategy …

By Yohannes Assefa

The moment of truth has come — DC/VA/MD will vote in the presidential election primary tomorrow, February 12. Ethiopians in DC, Virginia and Maryland can made all the difference. Senator Jim Webb won his upset election last …

In preparation for the upcoming local elections in Ethiopia, Woyanne has issued multiple identification cards (up to 5 per person) to its supporters so that they can vote several times. Those Kebele and Woreda officials who complained about this day …

ACCRA, Ghana — Mohamed Aboutraika’s 77th minute goal enabled Egypt to retain the African Nations Cup with a 1-0 victory over Cameroon in the final in Accra on Sunday.
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Aboutraika’s 77th minute matchwinner was his seventh goal of the …

Kinijit North America Association of Support Organizations will hold its general assembly in Las Vegas on Feb. 23, 2008. Representatives of Kinijit chapters from over 18 cities will participate in the assembly to: 1) elect the Kinijit NA leadership, 2) …

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Several Ethiopian women and men are suffering in Libya detention centre. Addis Dimts radio host, Abebe Belew managed to interview these prisoners, who had been tortured and starved. These Ethiopian prisoners are held in life-threatening facilities lacking …

Last week, IRIN (a U.N.-sponsored news agency) reported that 8 million Ethiopians are currently facing starvation. Today, we learn that Woyanne businessmen and the minister of agriculture are in Ghana to find meat buyers. What can one make of this? …

In the delegate chase, Barack Obama has pulled ahead of Clinton, even when the support of uncommitted super delegates is figured in. According to CBS News estimates, Obama holds a razor-thin lead with 1,134 delegates overall to 1,131 for Clinton. …

By IAAF

Kenenisa Bekele on the way to 3000m win in Valencia
permit meeting (Julio Fontán)

Valencia, Spain – As expected, both 3000m and Long Jump events provided some of the main highlights of Saturday evening’s (9-Feb) ‘Reunión Internacional Ciudad …

WASHINGTON (AFP) — They are political polar opposites, but for Vice President Dick Cheney and Democratic presidential hopeful Barack Obama, hidden family ties run deep, as they are distant cousins.

The vice president’s wife Lynne Cheney told MSNBC that she …

(The Sub-Saharan Informer, ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia) – An American law professor, teaching at the Ethiopian Ministry of Education’s Mekelle University in the Tigray region of Ethiopia, had her contract terminated last week by university officials.

The administration claims …

Barack Obama wins the Democratic Primary in Nebraska and Washington State by wide margins, and is on his way to win Louisiana today. It has been a bad day for Hillary Clinton… Read More
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By Bito

Dear Blen Tamirat Layne,

I read your open letter to the ‘Government of Ethiopia’ requesting the release of your father Ato Tamirat Layne, who was the vice chairman of the ruling Ethiopian Peoples Revolutionary Democratic Party (EPRDF), prime …