PRESS RELEASE
Ethiopians for Obama
Ethiopians for Obama, a volunteer group that supports Barack Obama, is planning an intensive outreach to the Ethiopian and Ethiopian American community in the Washington DC metro area throughout this weekend leading up to the …
By Admasu Simeso
This is a personal appeal and plea to the Kenyan political leaders, specifically to Mr. Kibaki and Mr. Odinga; the religious and community leaders of Kenya; and the people of Kenya at large, to save their country …
MOGADISHU, Somalia Feb 8 (Garowe Online) – A member of parliament from Somalia’s southern regions announced his resignation during a Friday radio interview, after accusing the country’s leaders of “taking orders” from Ethiopian Prime Minister dictator Meles Zenawi, …
By PEGGY NOONAN, The Wall Street Journal
Hillary Clinton is losing this thing. It’s not one big primary, it’s a rolling loss, a daily one, an inch-by-inch deflation. The trends and indices are not in her favor. She is having …
By TOM ODULA, Associated Press
Kenya’s ruling party and opposition have agreed to form a joint government in an effort to end weeks of bloodshed that have engulfed the country since the disputed presidential election, an opposition lawmaker said Friday.…
By Sheera Claire Frenkel, THE JERUSALEM POST
Shlomo Mula begins nearly all his speeches with the same sentence: “I walked 800 kilometers from Ethiopia to Sudan.” On Monday, Mula will take one more journey, as he is sworn in to …
Opening Statement by Congressman Donald M. Payne
The U.S. House of Representatives, Committee on Foreign Affairs
The Political Crisis in Kenya: A Call for Justice and Peaceful Resolution
February 6, 2008
Good morning, and welcome to the Subcommittee on Africa …
A new conflict could break out between Eritrea and Ethiopia Woyanne, the UN says, as it prepares to withdraw its troops.
The UN gave a Wednesday deadline for Eritrea to restore fuel supplies to the peacekeepers on its side of …
The Obama campaign in Virginia is coordinating a statewide canvassing blitz for this Saturday through Monday, February 9-11. We will begin this earnest GOTV phase of the campaign with a high energy kick off event this Saturday morning, where volunteers …
ANNOUNCEMENT
on Tuesday, Feb. 12, all are invited to Dukem Restaurant to view the results of the Potomac Primary. Come and be amongst friends as the results of the Virginia, DC, and Maryland primaries are broadcast.
Dukem Restaurant will extend …
(IRIN) Ethiopia experienced a record harvest during the meher season that runs from June and October but pockets of poor food production across the country have still left millions of people needing food assistance, according to a food …
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
NAIROBI, Kenya – The U.S. said Thursday it was barring 10 leading Kenyan politicians from both the president’s party and his rival’s, calling them “criminals” involved in postelection violence that has brought a country once considered …
Source: Kinijit North America
Forty members of parliament have signed an agreement with the executive committee of the Coalition for Unity and Democracy Party (Kinijit) on Monday to work under to the bylaws and manifesto of the party.
Though the …
The Woyanne regime in Ethiopia continues to arrest members and leaders of opposition leaders ahead of the April local elections. Read more by zikkir News Service…
Source: ENA
Al Amoudi’s company, MIDROC-Ethiopia (one the Woyanne vampire corporations that are sucking the blood of Ethiopians), announces plan to tap over 70 tons of gold valued at 1.6 billion USD (yes, BILLION) until 2020, its Chief Executive Officer …
By TRACY JOHNSON
P-I REPORTER
Seattle — A man accused of killing the owner of a Central District sandwich shop and wounding a customer was charged Tuesday with first-degree murder and three attempted-murder charges.
Rey Alberto Davis-Bell, 23, is accused …
By Network of Ethiopian Scholars (NES)
There is a pervasive and corrosive phenomenon characterised by the gratuitous trading of insults that we believe has been disorientating the Ethiopian opposition lately. Though the opposition is passing through a difficult phase at …
PRESS RELEASE
American foreign policy in Africa over the past one-half decade has vacillated on a pendulum of confusion and ineptitude. Nowhere has this fact been more magnified than in the Horn of Africa. The irrefutable evidence is that the …
In a city where over 100,000 children sleep in the street (watch this video), Woyanne business partners (the vampires) plan to build $200 million hotel as reported below by the Woyanne-controlled Ethiopian News Agency (ENA)
(ENA) – A …
ADDIS ABABA, Feb 4 (Reuters) – Eritrean opposition groups trying to bring down President Isaias Afwerki plan to set up a government in exile for the Red Sea state, an opposition leader said on Monday from the Ethiopian capital.
A …
By Ethiopian-American News Serivce
On Saturday, February 2, 2008, Ethiopians for Obama held a successful fundraising event in Washington DC in support of U.S. presidential candidate Barack Obama. The event was attended by a cross section of the Ethiopian community …
Five senior executives from the National Bank of Ethiopia (NBE) and three chemists from the Ethiopian Geological Survey were arrested last week for their alleged involvement in a gold fraud scandal. The NBE, which exports gold, reportedly bought 300 kilograms …
By Jennifer 8. Lee, The New York Times
For all the rhetoric of national unity and bipartisanship, presidential political strategy is still centered around coalitions of various constituencies: labor, religious groups, youth, retirees, African Americans, Latinos — and women. Women, …
(AFP) Olympic champion Meseret Defar finished more than ten seconds ahead of her nearest rival to run the world’s fastest 3000 metres time in Stuttgart.
The Ethiopian 5,000 metres Olympic gold medalist blitzed the field with a world best time …
By Magali Rheault, Gallup
WASHINGTON, D.C. — In the Horn of Africa, democracy is rather scarce. But in 2005, Ethiopian voters went to the polls in the country’s first multiparty parliamentary elections to pave the way for establishing democratic values. …
Source: Ethiopian Woyanne News Agency
Guna Trading Houses [owned by the Meles crime family] envisaged to export 13,000 tons of sesame valued at 17 million US dollars to global market this Ethiopian Fiscal Year, its General Manager (GM) …
DLA Piper — a lobbying firm in Washington DC that is hired by the Woyanne mass murderers in Ethiopia for $50,000 per month — has contributed $403,420 to U.S. Democratic Presidential Candidate Hillary Clinton (see the list of Hillary …
A public meeting organized by Ato Moges Bruck in Los Angeles for Ato Hailu Shawel this coming weekend has been cancelled because of growing disagreement over Dr Taye Woldesemayat’s role, among other things.
Ato Moges is the former chairman of …
Ato Hailu Shawel’s personal “envoy” in Addis Ababa Ato Abayneh Berhanu has invited Vice chairperson of Kinijit Wzt. Bertukan Mideksa for a secret meeting on Monday. It is reported that Wzt. Birtukan has accepted the invitation. Ato Abayneh decided to …
This speech by Ghanaian economist George Ayittey unleashes an almost breathtaking torrent of controlled anger toward corrupt leaders (ER calls them parasites) and the complacency of Africans that allows them to thrive. Click below to play the video.
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Human Rights Watch 2008 Report
The Ethiopian government’s Woyanne human rights record remains poor, both within the country and in neighboring Somalia, where since early 2007 thousands of Ethiopian Woyanne troops have been fighting an insurgency alongside the Transitional Federal…
The latest Rasmussen Reports telephone survey in California shows Hillary Clinton with a very narrow three-percentage point lead over Barack Obama. The survey was conducted in the hours immediately following Florida’s Presidential Primary and before John Edwards dropped out of …
TORONTO, ONTARIO — Avion Resources Corp. (“Avion Resources” or “the Company”) (TSX VENTURE:AVR) is pleased to announce that it has completed its purchase of exploration assets in the North and West regions of Ethiopia from Aberdeen International Inc. (“Aberdeen”). Avion …
By Tefferi Mengistie
My compatriots from Dallas flocked in a bunch to Oklahoma on January 29, 2008 to stage their protest against Senator Inhofe’s intransigence to listen to the voice of the voiceless. Oklahoma City has become a point of …
SOURCE: NBC-K5
SEATTLE – A suspect has been arrested in connection with a double shooting at a Seattle restaurant that left the owner dead and another person wounded Wednesday in the Central District.
The Associated Press is reporting that 23-year-old …
By Patrick Worsnip, Reuters
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – The Security Council renewed the mandate of the struggling U.N. peace force on the Eritrea-Ethiopia border for six months on Wednesday despite a request from Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon for just one month.…
Listen to Ethiopian Review interview with chairman of the Oromo Federal Democratic Movement Ato Bulcha Demeksa, Jan. 31, 2008. Several OFDM candidates have been arrested as they campaigned for the April 2008 local elections in Ethiopia. Click here to listen.…
Woyanne gunmen rounded up and arrested eight candidates who were campaigning for the April 08 local elections representing the Oromo Federal Democratic Movement… Read more by zikkir News Service…
(Reuters) Egyptian police shot dead two migrants from the Ivory Coast and arrested six other Africans as they tried to slip across the border into Israel illegally overnight, Egyptian security sources said Wednesday.
“An Egyptian security patrol saw a youth …
Meles Zenawi thinks the west’s attitude to Africa is unbalanced and unfair. But his country is being torn apart by human rights abuses
By Tom Porteous, Guardian Unlimited
Western policy towards Africa is ill-informed and inconsistent. That’s the message of …
Letter from Joel Simon, Executive Director of the Committee to Protect Journalists, to Woyanne’s boss:
We are writing to express our great concern about the government’s denial of publishing licenses to five independent Ethiopian journalists freed last year from prison. …
African ‘leaders’ (mass murderers, thieves, and tyrants) are gathering in Addis Ababa for an AU summit. Agazi killers (well-fed Woyanne gunmen) and Federal Police are patrolling every corner of the city to guarantee the saftey of Meles Zenawi’s fellow tyrants. …
By Yilma Bekele
I got home and powered my computer. First thing is first; I always check the usual Ethiopian Web sites when I get home. When you are an Ethiopian you have to do that because you never know …
By Anshel Pfeffer
The government must reexamine the eligibility for immigration of thousands of Falashmura and allow an additional 1,500 to move to Israel, the High Court of Justice ruled last week.
This decision constitutes a …
By Harvey Morris at the United Nations
Financial Times
The United Nations might be forced to evacuate its peacekeepers next month from the tense border zone between Ethiopia and Eritrea, removing the most visible deterrent to renewed warfare between the …
I am Blen Tamrat Layne, and I am writing on behalf of my family. My father, Tamrat Layne, was the former prime minister, and he has been in prison for more than eleven years. He got arrested when I was …
You are invited to a fundraising event in Washington DC organized by Ethiopians for Obama in support of Senator Barack Obama’s historic candidacy for president of the United State of America. Everyone is welcome to attend and participate in this …
(AP) MOGADISHU, Somalia — Somali [freedom fighters[ firing rockets and mortars clashed with [Woyanne occupying forces] in fighting that killed at least 17 civilians and two Ethiopian Woyanne soldiers in the capital, witnesses said Tuesday.
The fighting occurred late Monday …
MOGADISHU, Somalia Jan 29 (Garowe Online) – Ethiopia’s Woyanne’s top military commanders serving in Somalia have dispatched a letter to the country’s interim president, Abdullahi Yusuf Ahmed, expressing their dissatisfaction with the policies of new Prime Minister Nur …
The Woyanne fascist regime has started to arrest people who refuse to register for the April 2008 local elections… Read more by zikkir News Service.…
Kinijit North America issues a statement on the arrest of Kinijit officials Ato Alemayehu Yeneneh and Ato Girma Amare on Monday in Addis Ababa.
Click here to read.…
Kinijit-Los Angeles is organizing a discussion forum with Dr Berhanu Nega for this coming Saturday, Feb. 2. Artist Shambel Belayneh will introduce his new CD at the event.
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By Melaku Tegegne
This call or plea is made following the statement made by Prime Minister Meles Zenawi of Ethiopia in which he dubbed the country’s entry into the third millennium as a Period of Renaissance. He made this statement …
JIJIGA, Ethiopia (AFP) — Ahmed Nour Abdi sighs heavily when asked to describe his futile attempts at mediation, a customary practice among elders in the restive Ogaden region of Ethiopia.
“The other side refused to meet us,” he says, referring …
By Scott A Morgan
Despite various Efforts of Mediation the situation within Kenya continues to Decline. Since the outbreak of violence days after the Highly Controversial Elections on December 27th at least 800 people have perished and thousands have been …
BELETWEIN, Somalia Jan 28 (Garowe Online) – Ethiopian Woyanne troops backing Somalia’s transitional federal government withdrew from a key military base in the central regions on Monday, witnesses and residents said.
Since early 2007, the Ethiopian Woyanne army …
Source: Ethiopian Woyanne News Agency
Merahabete, January 28, 2008 (Addis Ababa) – Two streets in Alem town of the Merhabete Woreda, North Shoa Zone of the Amhara State, are named after Prime Minister Monster Meles Zenawi and Founder and Chairman …
Ethiopian Review conducted an interview with Oromo Liberation Front (OLF) spokesperson Dr Beyan Asoba on Saturday, January 26. Listen the interview here.. …
Ethiopian Review has learned that the two individuals who had been found hidden inside the storage compartment of an Ethiopian Airlines (EAL) jet at Dulles Airport in Virginia are members of the Oromo National Congress. According to ER sources, Ato …
Intimidation and arrest of officials of the Coalition for Unity and Democracy Party (Kinijit) intensifies. Today, Ato Alemayehu Yeneneh, Kinijit coordinator for the Southern Ethiopia, and Ato Girma Amare, an office staff member, have been arrested and taken to Woreda …
Kinijit-Switzerland Paltalk Room will hold a panel discussion today (Monday), Jan 28 at 2:00 PM EST on the problems faced by Kinijit. The discussion will be aired live via Ethiopian Review Broadcasting Network starting at 2:00 PM. …
Meseret Defar shattered the world indoor two-mile record with a superb display of front-running in Saturday’s Reebok Boston Indoor Games.
The Ethiopian, who already owns the outdoor version, recorded a time of nine minutes 10.50 seconds in blitzing the field …
Ato Andargachew Tsege writes about learning from Kinijit’s past and planning for the party’s future. Click here to read (Amharic, pdf).…
Kinijit North America has scheduled a press conference with Kinijit executives from Ethiopia on Sunday, January 27 at 1:00 PM EST. The press conference can be heard live at Ethiopian Review Broadcasting Network.
Also Sunday
Interview with Ato Andargachew …
A group of Antiguans and Barbudans who want to fully experience and express their emancipation both “spiritually and culturally” have moved towards developing an Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church Diocese here.
According to a press release, “We, people of …
Richard Watts, Times Colonist
Randal (Randy) Bailey was sentenced yesterday to life in prison with no parole for 12 years for the knife attack that left two men injured and Bruk Abera dead.
B.C. Supreme Court Justice Malcolm Macaulay noted …
(PressTV) – North Mogadishu is the scene of heavy fighting after an attack on an Ethiopian Woyanne military convoy killed three soldiers and injured nine.
The fighting broke out between Pasta and Heyle Barrise bases on Friday, after …
By Uchenna Izundu
Oil and Gas Journal
LONDON, Jan. 25 — White Nile Ltd. will explore and develop a 29,000-sq-km block on the southern Rift basin in southwestern Ethiopia under a production-sharing agreement signed with that country. Seismic data collection …
MEKELE, TIGRAY (ENA) – Sheik Mohamed Hussein Al Amoudi, the renowned businessman operating in Ethiopia, and the Tigray State Administration signed an accord on Thursday that enable the former to launch various investment projects in the state.
Signing the agreement, …
As part of the recognition of African American History Month, the Multi-Cultural Center of the South in Shreveport, Louisiana, will present the work of Ethopian artist Tesfaye Negusse, says Valarie Gunn. The exhibit is called “Impression-Man on Canvas.”…
UN News Centre – Warning that the continuing military build-up by Ethiopia and Eritrea in their border areas, where the two countries fought a deadly two-year war that ended in 2000, creates the risk of reigniting hostilities, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon …
By Marijke van der Meer, Radio Netherlands
One of our most fundamental rights is the right to privacy, the right to solitude and anonymity, the right to be left alone, in a space of our own. Privacy begins with …
Source: EWNA (Woyanne News Agency)
Sheik Mohamed Hussein Al Amoudi, the renowned parasite businessman, and the Tigray State Administration signed an accord on Thursday that enable the former to launch various investment projects in the state.
Signing the agreement, …
Ethiopia may not have had a title to celebrate in December, but their performances in the Cecafa Cup were enough to propel them back into the top 100 on the FIFA/Coca-Cola World Ranking. Indeed, Ethiopia moved up 15 places …
By Ebissa Ragassa
A shocking event occurred within the last months: Siye Abraha was released from prison all of sudden. That was indeed a surprising event. Our justice system must have been working for a man that was denied a …
By Andrew Cawthorne and Helen Nyambura-Mwaura
NAIROBI, Jan 25 (Reuters) – Ethnic fighting killed at least 12 people in Kenya’s Rift Valley and forced thousands from their homes on Friday, undermining hopes of an end to weeks of unrest.
The …
LONDON (AFP) — Trying to impose democracy in Africa is wrong, Ethiopia’s prime minister dictator said Friday, contrasting Western attitudes to countries like Kenya and Zimbabwe to policies towards oil-rich Gulf states.
In a rare British newspaper interview, Meles Zenawi …
MOGADISHU (AFP) — Three Somali soldiers were killed Friday when Somali insurgents attacked a military air base south of Mogadishu and made away with weapons, an army official and an insurgent leader told AFP.
A group of insurgents attacked and …
Woyanne is intensifying its repression against opposition parties in preparation for the upcoming local elections. It is also reported that very few people are registering to vote. Read more by zikkir News Service.…
In this 105th Special Report, Ethiopian Human Rights Council (EHRCO) presents details of its findings on human rights violations perpetrated against members of the Wolayita ethnic group living in Arbaminch zuria wereda, Lante farmers’association in the Southern Nations, Nationalities and …
Mekelle, TIGRAY (ENA) – Sheik Mohamed Hussein Al Amoudi, the renowned businessman operating in Ethiopia, and the Tigray State Administration signed an accord on Thursday that enable the former to launch various investment projects in the state.
Signing the agreement, …
(Environmental Finance, London) — JPMorgan Chase has come under pressure to refuse to provide a loan for the controversial Gilgel Gibe III hydropower dam in Ethiopia.
Three NGOs – Campagna per la Riforma della Banca Mondiale in Italy, …
I. Introduction
1. The present report is submitted pursuant to paragraph 12 of Security Council resolution 1320 (2000) of 15 September 2000, by which the Council requested me to keep it closely and regularly informed of progress towards the implementation …
DULLES AIRPORT, Va. (WUSA) — Investigators are looking into what can only be described as a major security breach.
Two stowaways were discovered Wednesday on an Ethiopian Airlines flight that landed at Dulles International Airport.
Even so, the …
(Press TV) Dozens of Ethiopian Woyanne soldiers are killed in ongoing clashes with Islamic Courts Union forces in the central region of Hiraan in Somalia.
The fighting broke out early on Thursday morning in the town of Kalaber …
PA Sport – Craig Mottram is expecting another rough ride when he faces Tariku Bekele over 5000 metres at the IAAF World Athletics Tour meeting in Melbourne on February 21.
The Commonwealth silver medalist has fought some exciting battles with …
Woyanne propaganda has reached a new low — lower than Nazi propaganda — when this week one of its web sites reported that 3,000 peasants have become millionaires. The next thing WIC will report is “The economy under Woyanne is …
Press Release
EFSNA announces that its 25th year anniversary will be held in Washington D.C. in 2008. ESFNA board members were given the opportunity to assess the various venues including 5-star Gaylord Hotel, RFK Stadium, D.C. Armory and the Convention …
The 1.4 billion Birr cement expansion project launched by Muger Cement Enterprise with an objective of minimizing the growing shortage of cement in Ethiopia would begin production by in March 2009, Enterprise Acting General Manager said.
In an interview with …
Take a note of the stark similarities between the “Mount Kenya Mafia” and the ‘Woyanne mafia (EFFORT)’ that currently controls almost every major industry in Ethiopia. Ethiopian freedom fighters such as ONLF need to stop confronting the Woyanne military directly, …
ስዬ አብርሃ – አዲስ ወይን ጠጅ ባዲስ አቁማዳ ወይስ አሮጌ ወይን ጠጅ ባዲስ አቁማዳ?
ከተስፋሚካኤል ሳህለስላሴ
እንደማስጠንቀቂያ፡- እንድታውቁት ያህል
አቶ ስዬ አብርሃ በፈረንጆቹ አዲስ ዓመት መግቢያ ላይ በዋሽንግተን አካባቢ ያደረጉትን ውይይት ለመካፈል ስሄድ፣ ማንም የሚረዳውና የሚገምተው ጥርጣሬና …
Kinijit-San Jose (California) has issued the following statement regarding Hailu Shawel’s visit to the Bay Area next weekend. Click here to read [pdf, Amharic]…
The first 100 batch of 500 medium-sized passenger buses imported from China with a loan secured from HSBC, arrived in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia on Thursday January 17, 2008.
The buses, which are imported with a view to alleviating the acute …
UNITED NATIONS Reuters – U.N. peacekeepers monitoring the disputed border between Ethiopia and Eritrea may have to halt operations within weeks because Eritrea has cut diesel fuel supplies, said U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon.
In letters dated Monday to Eritrean President …
By Jason McLure, Newsweek
It was early one morning in July when 400 Ethiopian Woyanne soldiers came to Ridwan Hassan Zahid’s village of Qorile, 120 miles southeast of this dusty market town. The small settlement of ethnic Somalis in eastern …
A must see video of how Ethiopians are risking their lives and facing horrifying ordeals to escape from the Woyanne parasitic regime in Ethiopia. It is in French, but the message is clear.
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