A group of Kinijit parliamentarians led Ato Temesgen Zewdie and the Kinijit executive commttee have signed an agreement today… Details by zikkir News Service …

Documentary about the 2nd pilot test in Ethiopia of the One Laptop Per Child project
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ADDIS ABABA, Jan 18 (Reuters) – Ethiopia opened a $21 million electronic commodities exchange on Friday that will trade six crops including coffee, wheat, maize and sesame.

“The exchange system will contribute a lot to create healthy relations between producers …

IAAF – World Junior 5000m champion Tariku Bekele and fellow Ethiopian Abreham Cherkos Feleke will both contest the 5000m national title against Australia’s 2005 Worlkd Championship bronze medallist Craig Mottram at Melbourne’s Olympic Park, one of the feature events on …

By: Abdul-Aziz Oudah, Yemen Observer

The commercial department of the Yemeni embassy in Ethiopia has failed in preparing a Yemeni commercial exhibition in the Ethiopian capital of Addis Ababa, sources said.

According to these sources, mismanagement of preparations surrounding the …

By Barry Malone

OGADEN, Ethiopia, Jan 22 (Reuters) – Mariam Qorana had worried about getting caught between the Ethiopian army and separatist rebels even before a bullet flew through the wall of her hut and hit her below her right …

By Berhan Tsehai, Tsehainy.com Staff

Close to a thousand individuals were on hand to view the first screening in New York City of the documentary titled ‘Man of the Millennium’-An historical account of the life and times of Emperor Haile …

An American’a Water Shortage

By Sarah Stuteville

Addis Ababa, ETHIOPIA —The water in our new house in Addis has been turned off for days and my back is so sore I’ve been squirming around on our dirty couches all evening …

By Peter Heinlein, VOA
Jijiga, Ethiopia

Ethiopian officials say a Somali-born American citizen is being detained as an enemy combatant in the East African nation’s restive Ogaden region. The acknowledgment counters earlier government claims that many westerners have been detained …

A representative of the Coalition for Unity and Democracy Party (Kinijit) in southern Ethiopia was arrested by Woyanne gunmen this morning, and later released after residents of the town surrounded the government building… Read more by zikkir News Service…

A senior leader of Ethiopia’s major opposition party, the Coaliiton for Unity and Democracy Party (Kinijit), Ato Gizachew Shiferraw, receives messages of support from Timket celebration participants at the Bole MedhaneAlem Church in Addis Ababa… Read more by zikkir News …

By Yilma Bekele

A façade is a false appearance that is more pleasant than the reality. Hollywood is good at this sort of stuff. They create illusion to simulate the imagined event. It is called ‘Special Effects’. Such movies as …

By Alemayehu G. Mariam

What Would Dr. King Say?

Recently, there was a “tempest in a teapot” between Hilary Clinton and Barack Obama over Dr. Martin Luther King’s role and contributions in the civil rights movement. Hilary said, “Dr. King’s …

By Obang O. Metho

In the year 2007, the Anuak Justice Council has come closer to many Ethiopians from all over the country. This was not by accident. Despite the great marginalization and discrimination of the people of Gambella and …

JIJIGA, Ethiopia (AP) – Ethiopian officials have held an American citizen in custody for over a year in Ethiopia’s restive Somali region, the region’s top security official said Sunday.

Mohammed Farah Hassan has seen no American officials since being jailed …

ADDIS ABABA (AFP) — Half of Ethiopian women are victims of domestic violence, [the other half are kept poor and destitute by Woyanne] the country’s “justice minister” Dimegn Wube said in a statement received by AFP Saturday.

“The violence being …

By Scott A Morgan

For Nearly a Month Kenya has convulsed with violence after a Highly Controversial Election that erupted into an orgy of violence. Since the 27th of December over 500 people have perished in the violence that has …

By AHMED AL-HAJ Associated Press Writer

The bodies of nearly 50 Africans trying to immigrate washed up on Yemen’s shores Saturday after their boat capsized in the treacherous waters of the Gulf of Aden.

The 35 survivors told authorities in …

DUBAI (Reuters) – Marathon world record holder Haile Gebrselassie has said he could withdraw from the event at the Beijing Olympics if the city fails to reduce air pollution levels.

The 34-year-old Ethiopian, who suffers from a breathing condition that …

Kinijit North America has informed Ethiopian Review that five Kinijit supporters in Butajira, southern Ethiopia, have been arrested. Gizachew Lemma, Shemsu Yassin, Seid Kiyar, Yirgalem Nigatu and Tarekegn Abebe were arrested by by Woyanne gunmen this morning after being accused …

ADDIS ABABA, Jan 18, 2008 (AFP) – Islamist insurgents battling the Somali government and Ethiopian Woyanne forces are increasingly taking the fight outside of the capital Mogadishu, an African Union report said Friday.

“Over the past weeks, the anti-government forces …

(PressTV) At least 41 Ethiopian Woyanne soldiers are killed in one of the deadliest battles between allied Ethiopian Woyanne-Somali forces and local insurgents.

The clashes broke out on Thursday afternoon in Hamar Bile district, southern Mogadishu, when a …

Kinijit North America’s Public Relations Committee has scheduled a press conference with the Kinijit Southern Ethiopia coordinator at 12 Noon EST on Saturday, Jan. 19, 2008. The interview can be heard live via Ethiopian Review Broadcasting Network. Click here.…

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NEW YORK – (JIS), A documentary about the life of Emperor Haile Selassie1 of Ethiopia will be screened in New York City for the first time on Saturday, January 19, 2008 at the Oberia Dempsey Center (127 West …

Ethiopia Woyanne has dismissed a “virtual” demarcation of its border with Eritrea, just a day after Asmara accepted the move by an independent boundary commission.

The two nations have been deadlocked in a dispute over their 1,000km border since a …

Daily News

A 23-year-old man who allegedly shot a woman in Canoga Park, California, this morning was captured by Fontana Police this afternoon, police said.

The shooting took place about 10:30 a.m. in the 20900 block of Gresham Street after …

Second fastest of all time for Gebre in Dubai Marathon

By Pat Butcher for the IAAF

Haile Gebrselassie ran the second fastest marathon in history, 2.04.53, to win the Standard Chartered Dubai Marathon on Friday morning, but a suicidal early …

Ethiopian Current Affairs Discussion Forum will host an Ethiopian media panel discussion Saturday, Jan. 19 at 2:00 PM EST.

Representatives of Ethiopian Review, EMF, EthioMedia, Addis Dimts Radio, AbugidaInfo and others will take part in the discussion, which will focus …

(PressTV) Haile Gebrselassie fails to beat his own world record, but wins the Dubai Marathon finishing in two hours four minutes 53 seconds.

The Ethiopian missed beating the record he set in Berlin last September by 27 seconds, which would …

By Barry Malone

GODE, Ethiopia (Reuters) – Ethiopia Woyanne has arrested a number of American and European citizens of Ethiopian descent, accusing them of aiding separatist rebels, a senior Ethiopian Woyanne regime official said on Friday.

“I can assure you …

“Esir betu Oromigna Yinageral”

By Fekade Shewakena

The phrase I used for the title of this article would pass for simple ethnic politicking if it was not spoken by a founder and former political bureau member of the Tigrean People’s …

Woyanne puppet Ayele Chamiso said today that he has dismissed from the party Ato Temesgen Zewde and all other Kinijit members who do not recognize his chairmanship, to which he was appointed by Woyanne… Read more by zikkir News Service…

Kenenisa Bekele wins the 5000m in
Birmingham in a World indoor record
in 2004 (Getty Images)

By Dave Martin
PA Sport – for the IAAF

London, UK – On his way to defending his World Indoor title at 3000m this …

By Aweys Yusuf and Abdi Sheikh

MOGADISHU, Jan 17 (Reuters) – At least 13 people were killed and 75 wounded in heavy fighting in the Somali capital on Thursday in the latest confrontation between Ethiopian Woyanne troops and Islamist-led insurgents, …

By John Mehaffey

LONDON (Reuters) – Haile Gebrselassie has a one million dollar incentive to lower his own world record in Dubai on Friday in his final marathon before the Beijing Olympics.

A world record total prize money pool of …

(AFP) ADDIS ABABA – The Woyanne regime of Ethiopia has signed an oil exploration deal with the British firm White Nile for a 29,500 square kilometre block in the south of the country, the government announced.

“The Ministry of Mines …

Ato Hailu Shawel’s enderassie in Addis Ababa had called a meeting of the Kinijit supreme council today, but it could not be held because only about six of Ato Abayneh Berhanu’s friends showed up. The empty chairs saga continues… Read …

MOGADISHU, Somalia Jan 16 (Garowe Online) – A huge blast in Somalia’s capital Mogadishu targeted an Ethiopian a Woyanne army convoy as it drove through a major intersection Wednesday, killing seven soldiers on board, witnesses reported.

The Ethiopian…

By Douglas Mpuga, VOA

There are reports that Ethiopian Woyanne authorities are jamming some international radio broadcasts, a charge the Ethiopian Woyanne government denies. The stations allegedly affected are the German broadcaster Deutsche Welle (DW) and the Voice of America …

Toronto police are concerned for the well-being of a teenager from the Bloor West neighborhood who went missing on New Year’s Day.

Teddy Kebede, 15, was last seen as his residence in the area of Bloor Street West and Keele …

The author of this article, Abigail Salisbury, is terribly misinformed.
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Linking Rights and Foreign Aid for Ethiopia: The Case of HR 2003

JURIST Guest Columnist Abigail Salisbury of the Mekelle University Law Faculty in Mekele, Ethiopia, says that although …

By Mohamed Abdi Farah, SomaliNet

Land mine explosion targeted Woyanne military convoy on Wednesday in northern Mogadishu, the capital of Somalia, causing heavy causality to the military, witnesses said.

Witnesses told local media that they have seen a number of …

Pat Butcher for the IAAF

Dubai – Haile Gebrselassie was predictably low-key just two days before his assault on his own World record in the Standard Chartered Dubai Marathon on Friday. And that, says his manager, Jos Hermens, “Is a …

Liya Kebede’s children’s line, Lemlem

Liya Kebede is one busy woman: The mother of two is a model, an actor, an activist, and a goodwill ambassador. Oh, and she’s just getting her feet wet creating a line of children’s clothes… …

(Satire)

Meles Zenawi launches a bikini line!…

Members of the Coalition for Unity and Democracy Party’s (Kinijit) supreme council members Ato Debebe Eshetu and Ato Aschalew Ketema will attend a townhall meeting organized by the Kinijit Dallas chapter on Saturday, January 19, 2008. Kinijit-Dallas will also hold …

The vice chairperson of the Coalition for Unity and Democracy Party (Kinijit) Bertukan Midekesa and a member of the executive committee, Ato Gizachew Shiferaw, an office staff member, Ato Alemayehu Yeneneh, were arrested this morning by the Wolyta Zone police …

Ethiopian Review is closely monitoring the ongoing U.S. presidential primaries with great interest — and envy. We would also like to know which candidates ER readers support. Your opinion will be weighed in deciding whom ER endorses. Please vote below …

A high level delegation of the Coalition for Unity and Democracy Party (Kinijit) led by Wzt. Bertukan Mideksa is continuing its tour of southern Ethiopia. So far it has visited and held townhall meetings in Butajira, Hossahena, Wolayta Sodo, Sawla, …

The picture tells it all. Hailu Shawel held a “public meeting” Sunday in Seattle where he bored the audience (40-50 EPRP members) to death with his “lecture” on economy. He said Ethiopia is poor because the government is bad. How …

American politics does not seem to be on the frontline for many Ethiopians living in the United States. That is relatively understandable since after all America is not our country, so why should we get involved? Or is it? To …

By Odeen Domingo
The Arizona Republic

She was gunning for it. Every step built confidence.

Every step led her to her goal.

Adenech Zekiros of Ethiopia wanted to finish the marathon at Sunday’s P.F. Chang’s Rock ‘n’ Roll Arizona Marathon …

The Web has become a powerful tool for democratization.

By Paul Salopek, Chicago Tribune

ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia — The man was nervous. He was afraid, he said, of the secret police. So he advised me to hire a random taxi. …

EDINBURGH, Scotland (AP) — Kenenisa Bekele won the 9.3-kilometer Great Edinburgh Cross Country race for the third straight year on Saturday.

The Olympic and world 10,000-meter champion took the lead with 600 meters to go at Holyrood Park, and the …

Saudi authorities erect barriers on Yemeni border to block Ethiopian and Somali refugees from entering Saudi Arabia

By Mohammed al-Kibsi, Yemen Observer

The Saudi Authorities commenced constructing a wall on the Saudi-Yemeni border in the district of Harad last Saturday, …

By Karen Price, Western Mail

AS a boy, Yosef Haimanot escaped the troubles in his Ethiopian homeland by walking for three days through desert to reach the coastal state of Djibouti.

Now, more than 20 years later, he is returning …

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Listen live at Ethiopian Review Radio Network. Click here.

Kinijit supreme council members Ato Debebe Eshetu and Ato Aschalew Ketema will attend a public meeting in the City of Seattle organized by Seattle Northwest Kinijit chapter on Saturday, Jan …

A high level delegation of the Coalition for Unity and Democracy Party (Kinijit) led by Wzt. Bertukan Mideksa is currently travelling to several cities and town in southern Ethiopia to consult with the party’s supporters. After completing the southern tour, …

By Tesfa-alem Tekle, AfricaNews reporter in Mekelle, Ethiopia

The Ministry of Works and Urban Development on Ethiopia is facilitating truck procurement for better performing contractors and transporters who are involved in the government’s housing projects. The facility concerns 2000 trucks …

Ethiopian News Agency

Tendaho and Fincha Sugar Factories and an Indian Company, Overseas Infrastructure Alliance Pvt. Ltd, (OIA) signed here on Thursday 640 million contract agreement providing for the expansion and launching of sugar development projects.

According to the agreement, …

ADDIS ABABA, Jan 11 (Reuters) – China signed a deal with the African Union on Friday to build a $61 million convention centre at the organisation’s headquarters in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.

Chinese Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi said Beijing would fund …

Kinijit North America has scheduled a press conference (teleconference) from Addis Ababa with top leaders of the party for Sunday, at 2:00 PM EST (7:00 PM GMT). The conference will be carried live by Ethiopian Review Radio Network.…

Liya Kebede

LONDON, England (CNN) — Born in 1978 and raised in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, Liya Kebede attended the French Lycée in Addis. It was here that she was talent-spotted by a French film director and began her …

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The executive committee of the Coalition for Unity and Democracy Party (Kinijit) is increasingly leaning toward the idea of not participating in the local elections in April, 2008. The April elections are also intended to fill the seats in the …

Teams of organizers sent by Ato Hailu Shawel’s enderasie Abayneh Berhanu to several regions of Ethiopia are facing opposition from former AEUP members. Kinijit supporters in Gonder, Dessie and other cities, who were members of AEUP before it merged with …

By Messay Kebede

The initial source of my reflections is Lahra Smith’s article titled “U.S. Engagement in Ethiopia and the Horn of Africa”. Even before I finished reading the article, I could not suppress my perplexity as to …

By Getachew Melkie

The debate over the issue of dialogue and outrage caught my attention so much so that I decided to contribute one of my own. I disagree with Dr Messay, but I do so with all due respect. …

THE EITHER/ORCHESTRA
With special guest
MULATU ASTATKE
Saturday, February 2, Historic Sweets Ballroom, Oakland

OAKLAND CA – Ethiopian Arts Forum presents the Either/Orchestra, led by Russ Gershon, with special guest Mulatu Astatke on Saturday, February 2, 9:30 pm at Historic …

By Geresie Bonkie

Siye Abraha from his Dedebit Terrorist Camp to Addis Ababa, made a very long march to destroy our country and humiliate our people. He once was referred as a TPLF Military Commander and later as Minister of …

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By Yilma Bekele

When we see the human tragedy unfolding in Kenya, we can’t help but take pride being an Ethiopian. We feel the pain of our African neighbors. The wanton destruction of human lives and property is a reminder …

PHILADELPHIA (CBS 3)

A bystander injured in a controversial police involved shooting in East Germantown, Philadelphia, on New Year’s Eve has died from his injuries.

Abebe Isaac, 33, was struck five times after bullets entered a nearby home following …

Ethiopia’s Kenenisa Bekele will bid to land a record sixth IAAF World Cross-Country Championship title in Edinburgh on March 30.

The Olympic and world 10,000metres champion, who shares the current record of five wins with Kenyan pair John Ngugi and …

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

SEATTLE — Firefighters had to break holes in a second-floor ceiling to run hoses and put out a fire in the attic of a Seattle church building.

The fire was reported just after noon at the Amanuel …

PRESS RELEASE

Egypt – ASCOM, Citadel Capital’s geology and mining business, has just announced the acquisition of promising gold concessions in northern Ethiopia near Eritrea and the city of Mekele.

The concessions, located on four different plots of land are …

By Fekade Shewakena

I agree with Professor Messay’s idea of dialogue as a potent tool of achieving greater societal good. I very well understand that dialogue is the best tool to resolve conflicts in politics. After all, as they say …

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By KDCSC Public Relations

Kinijit DC Metro Support Chapter (KDCSC) members held their regular meeting on January 6, 2007 at the Marriott hotel in Washington DC.

Ato Yilma Adamu, KDCSC Chairman, gave an elaborate account on the activities of Kinijit …

Qr. Taye Woldesemayat entertains the Hailu Shawel gang after their Minneapolis meeting Sunday (satire)
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By Lahra Smith
Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS)

A reassessment of U.S. policy toward Ethiopia is very much in order. A year has passed since Ethiopia intervened in Somalia, and its troops are bogged down there in an …

The Hailu Shawel comedy hour in Minneapolis

Jan 6. 2008, 10:30 PM EST
The Hailu Shawel public meeting in Minneapolis has ended in another public relations disaster. Ethiopian Review has been able to confirm from multiple sources that there were …

By Alemayehu G. Mariam

H.R. Here, H.R. There, H.R. Everywhere in Ethiopia!

The truth is finally out! The H.R. in H.R. 2003 stands for Human Rights! H.R. has become the special code for the Ethiopian people whenever they want to …

For Émigré Fans, Soothing Words and Spirited Rhythms From Home

By JON PARELES, The New York Times

Women squealed as the headliner took the stage at the S.O.B.’s nighclub in New York late on Friday night, elegant in a dark …

The estranged chairman of Kinijit, Ato Hailu Shawel, sets himself up for another embarrassment by making an appearance at a public meeting organized by his friend Prof. Getatachew Haile in Minneapolis this afternoon (Sunday). ER Research Unit members will be …

Ethiopian Review Radio Network (click here to listen live)

Members of the Kinijit Council and Addis Ababa Mayor-Elect Dr. Berhanu Nega is set to spend the GENA holiday in the San Francisco Bay Area. He is going to speak in …

The Woyanne police, ordered by Aba Gebremedhin (formerly Aba Paulos), savagely attacked Christmas gathering at the Meskel Square today. Many are wounded and hundreds have been rounded up and taken to jail.

The gathering was organized by Mahibere Kidusan and …

Action for Unit and Democracy (Tegbar) would like to wish all Ethiopians an happy Gena (Ethiopian Christmas)… Read more …

The Economist

Kenya’s president steals an election, showing utter contempt for democracy and his people

THE mayhem that killed hundreds of people following Kenya’s election on December 27th completes a depressing cycle of democratic abuses in Africa’s biggest countries. Nigeria …

The estranged chairman of Kinijit has put up his huge house in Addis Ababa for rent. The asking monthly rate is $6,500 USD (60,000 birr). This has intensified the speculation that Ato Hailu will not return to Ethiopia. Read more …

ECADF interviews Kinijit head of external affairs, Dr Yacob Hailemariam. Dr Yacob will return to Ethiopia on Monday, Jan. 7. Listen the interview here at 9 PM EST Friday, and 12:00 Noon Saturday.

The interview is also archived here.…

By Tefferi Mengistie

Although it has invariably plagued almost all political parties in Ethiopia for the past four decades, intra-party conflict and the inability of Ethiopians to work together has been accorded little attention than it deserved. Desalegn Assfaw in …

ADDIS ABABA, Jan 4 (Reuters) – A U.S. team has started an assessment of the aid situation in Ethiopia’s troubled Ogaden region, the U.S. embassy said, after conflict there fuelled fears of a humanitarian crisis.

The Ethiopian Woyanne army launched …

Ethiopian Review readers have voted Prof. Alemayehu Gebremariam as “The 2007 Person of Year” who made the most significant contribution to the betterment of Ethiopia in the past 12 months. He was voted as “Person of the Year” …

The Supreme Council of the Coalition for Unity and Democracy Party (Kinijit) has issued a statement outlining the decisions it made last Sunday (Dec. 30, 2007)… Click here to read (Amharic)…