Special Report
United States Institute for Peace
Global efforts to combat terrorism and the pressure to implement democratic reforms have collided in Ethiopia in recent years. The contradictions and challenges in these objectives became even more apparent after the country …
By COURTNEY BACALSO
The Orange County Register
ORANGE – First lady Laura Bush turned down Tilahun “Michael” Belay. So did England’s Queen Elizabeth and Prince Charles. Bill Gates, too. Oprah didn’t even bother to respond to the Orange resident.
After …
Foreign Policy Magazine interviews Samuel Assefa, the Woyanne regime envoy in Washington DC. The ‘ambassador’ exposes himself in the interview as a blathering idiot.
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Aleqa Ayalew Tamiru, a prominent Ethiopian theologian and scholar, passed away on Sunday at his home in Addis Ababa. He was 83 years old.
Aleqa Ayalew was an icon of the Ethiopian Orthodox church who was engaged in a running …
By Stephanie McCrummen
Washington Post Foreign Service
NAIROBI — Three Ethiopian journalists who had been held for almost two years in an Addis Ababa prison said that days after being cleared of all charges and released this spring, they each …
COMMITTEE TO PROTECT JOURNALISTS
Four imprisoned Ethiopian journalists of now-defunct Amharic-language weeklies were released on conditional pardon on Saturday along with 27 opposition activists, according to news reports and local journalists. The four journalists had been given heavy prison sentences…
By Heidi Rickels of Project C.U.R.E.
Local volunteers of Project Cure Arizona this month helped load a 40-foot container full of donated medical supplies and equipment that will be delivered to a Clinton Foundation-sponsored HIV/AIDS clinic in rural Ethiopia.
Nearly …
The following is a resolution passed on Aug 18, 2007, by Ethiopians of the Wolqait-Tegede region currently residing in Ohio.
የወልቃይት-ጠገዴ ተወላጅ ኢትዮጵያውያን ተቃውሞና የአቋም መግለጫ
በ 8/18/2007 በትግራይ ሕዝብ ነፃ አውጭ ግንባር ተውካዮች (ትውልዳቸው ወልቃይት የሆኑ) የትግራይ ክልል የፀጥታ/ደህንነት …
[The story of our adventure through the eastern and northern sides of Africa overland in our Landrover in 2007.]
Monday, August 20, 2007
Gonder, Ethiopia
Sunday 19th August 2007 Belegese Pension, Gonder
Woke up very …
H.R. 2003 – The Ethiopia Democracy and Accountability Act of 2007
78% For, 22% Against
This is the WashingtonWatch.com federal legislative update for the week of August 20, 2007.
With Congress in the middle of its August recess, hot debate …
The sole mobile phone network in Ethiopia has suffered its second serious outage within two weeks reports the local Ethiopian Reporter newspaper. The first outage was largely caused by a nationwide power failure, however last Friday’s failure was due to …
Bahrain – AN Ethiopian maid hanged herself at her Bahraini sponsor’s house in Barbar at around 1pm yesterday.
The victim, who was in her 20s, was found hanging from a shower curtain rail by her sponsor, Chief Public Prosecutor Ahmed …
By Jack Kimball
ASMARA, Aug 20 (Reuters) – Eritrean President Isaias Afwerki accused the United States of fuelling conflicts in the Horn of Africa and urged Washington to change its policies in the latest round of finger-pointing between the two …
PRESS RELEASE
Ethiopian Community Association in Ottawa, Canada
Celebrate Ethiopia’s journey of 2000 Years with love and unity
On several occasions Ethiopia’s prominence reached its climax. It inspired the world as a pioneer of early civilization. The discovery of the …
For Immediate Release: August 17, 2007.
We, the undersigned, as members of Ethiopian human rights organizations, Ethiopian civic organizations and in the Ethiopian religious community, call for immediate action to stop the outrageous human rights abuses going on in the …
[Lawyer Ruta Ghebremichael receives a war damage claims from a woman in her office in Asmara in this file photo from July 30, 2007. REUTERS/Jack Kimball]
By Jack Kimball
ASMARA (Reuters) – Standing in a muddy courtyard, 65-year-old Letezai Tewolde-Bahta’s …
Hundreds of Ethiopians residing in the Washington DC Metro Area gathered on Saturday at the Unification Church to say thank you to former members of the Kinijit International Leadership (K.I.L.).
The event was organized by Netsanet LeEthiopia Radio, Addis Dimts …
A six-member delegation of the Coalition for Unity and Democracy Party (Kinijit) led by the party’s chairman Ato Hailu Shawel will arrive at Washington DC’s Dulles Airport on Wednesday, August 29, at 8 AM.
Previously they were scheduled to arrive …
By VOA News
A senior Eritrean minister Saturday criticized U.S. consideration to put his country on a list of state sponsors of terrorism for providing support to Islamist insurgents in Somalia.
U.S. Assistant Secretary of State Jendayi Frazer [who is …
The Ethiopian Woyanne regime’s Ministry of Justice said Saturday the pardon plea of Ato Kifle Tigneh and other 31 members of the Coalition for Unity and Democracy Party (Kinijit) has been approved by Ethiopian President Meles Zenawi’s puppet Girma Woldegiorgis.…
ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia (Reuters) — More than seven years after most of the world marked the start of the 21st century, Ethiopia is putting the finishing touches to its own millennium bash.
A screen in Addis Ababa counts down the …
ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia (Reuters) — More than seven years after most of the world marked the start of the 21st century, Ethiopia is putting the finishing touches to its own millennium bash.
A screen in Addis Ababa counts down the …
By Ahmed Osman, Jijiga
Galbeed editorial
Leadership Crisis in Somali Region
From the oil fields of Somali Region, to the diamond and copper fields of Gambelas, to the rich mineral deposits of the Great Awash lake region of Afar, to …
Woyanne mission of manipulating Ethiopians fom Wolqait and Tegede failed miserably in Columbus, Ohio.
Two Woyanne officials — Ato Ferede Yeshiwondim, Administrator of Wolqait, and Ato Tsegaye Asamamaw, a Tigray region security representative — who called for a meeting on …
ASMARA (AFP) — Nimbly peeling a spiky cactus fruit, eight-year-old Kibrab offers its sweet orange flesh to a sharp-suited young Eritrean.
It is “beles” time in Asmara — the annual return of Eritrea’s scattered diaspora and harvest time for the …
(Reuters) – Addis Ababa: Ethiopian Airlines hopes to tap surging growth in China and India by opening new flights aimed at making Addis Ababa their gateway to Africa, chief executive Girma Wake said.
“Even one per cent of that market …
Ethiopian civic and media groups in Washington DC are organizing a public gathering today, August 18, to honor and express appreciation to members of the former Kinijit International Leadership.
Several Ethiopian civic and media groups are sponsoring this special event …
The World Bank recently appointed Ken Ohashi as a country director for the World Bank regional offices in Ethiopia and Sudan. Mr. Ohashi, a Japanese national, will replace the outgoing Ishac Diwan, head of the World Bank regional office in …
Ato Dawey Ibrahim, former President of the Confederation of Ethiopian Trade Unions, currently living in exile in the Netherlands, writes this 6-page article (Amharic) about the EPRP conspiracy against Ethiopian workers and their unions. Click here to read.…
PRESS RELEASE August 17th, 2007
Defending champion Gete Wami returns BERLIN-MARATHON
Defending champion Gete Wami (Ethiopia) will return to the 34th real,- BERLIN-MARATHON on 30th September. That means that both champions will come back to Germany’s biggest marathon race. Wami’s …
Atse Haile-Selassie and Etege Menen – video file
What a contrast to the current chigaram thugs in power who turned Ethiopia into a beggar republic!
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By Gamal Nkrumah, Al-Haram
“We were Christian for over a thousand years before Christ,” Abba Gebremedhin [formerly known as Abba Paulos], the [illegitimate] Patriarch of the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church, declared nonplused.
“We have been Christian since Queen Makeda [the …
From The Economist print edition
MW. The World Bank reckons that 500m sub-Saharan Africans are without what it calls “modern energy”.
The situation is bound to get worse as the demand for power continues to grow. Africa’s relatively healthy economic …
From The Economist print edition
Aug 16th 2007 | DAR ES SALAAM — SEEN from space, Africa at night is unlit—as dark as all-but empty Siberia. With nearly 1 billion people, Africa accounts for over a sixth of the world’s …
Press Release
Join Former Alcatel-Lucent Treasury Manager for Webinar on Effective Foreign Exchange Risk Management
Industry Luminary Fikre Bizuneh and FiREapps CFO/COO Corey Edens Provide Insight Into Foreign Exchange Best Practices
SCOTTSDALE, AZ–(MARKET WIRE)–Aug 16, 2007 — FiREapps, the leading …
A demonstration in St. Paul against the Ethiopian government. Photo: Abdiaziz Ahmed/Mshale
The United States should stop supporting the Ethiopian Woyanne government’s aggression against its opposition if there is to be peace in the Horn …
New Exhibit Celebrates One of Ethiopia’s Finest Living Artists
The Loyola University Museum of Art (LUMA) in Chicago,- announces the opening of Painting Ethiopia: The Life and Work of Qes Adamu Tesfaw. On display from Saturday, September 1 to Sunday, …
By Nasouh Nazzal, Gulf News
(Ras Al Khaimah, United Arab Emirates) – An Ethiopian maid committed suicide on Tuesday in Al Rams area leaving a note addressed to her mother asking for her prayers.
The 26-year-old Ethiopian maid identified as …
Ethiopian Review has obtained a statement issued by the Ethiopian Teachers Association (ETA) announcing and explaining its decision to suspend its president, Dr Taye Woldesemayat. Read it here [pdf, Amharic]…
By Kallacha Dubbi
In my previous writing entitled “TPLF and Tigrean Identity Politics” dated May 25, 2007, I expressed a view that Tigrean nationalism is overtly discriminatory, and it is therefore distinguished by negative manifestations of the Ethiopian integrative power. …
The Ogaden National Liberation Front (ONLF) chairman, Ato Mohamed Omar Osman, and head of foreign affairs, Ato Abdirahman Mahdi, are currently in Washington DC on a working visit.
A source close to the ONLF told Ethiopian Review that the two …
By Elizabeth Blunt
BBC News, Jijiga
Once a dusty outpost in eastern Ethiopia, close to the Somali border, Jijiga town is now growing fast.
Since the government started devolving power and money to the component parts of the Ethiopian …
The Chinese News Agency, Xinhua, reports that the Woyanne regime claims to have stopped the Oromo Liberation Front from carrying out attacks against the regime. Read the news below >>>
This latest attempt was targeted at bombing infrastructures and public …
(Reuters) A volcano has erupted in Ethiopia’s remote Afar region, leaving two people missing and forcing hundreds to leave the area, the state news agency said on Wednesday.
People living on the mountain range fled their homes after hot lava …
By James Swan, Deputy Assistant Secretary for African Affairs
4th International Conference on Ethiopian Development Studies
Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, Michigan
August 4, 2007
As Delivered
Good afternoon, and thank you, professor for inviting me to join you in Kalamazoo. …
Ninty three Somali civilians suffer from bullet wounds after Ethiopian [Woyanne] forces opened fire on passenger bus.
MOGADISHU – Six more Somali civilians died Tuesday after being seriously wounded when Woyanne forces opened fire on a passenger bus the previous …
By Fikre Tolossa
It is my contention that Western education has alienated Ethiopian intellectuals by uprooting them from their history, culture, language and society. This paper, which was presented at an Ethiopian studies conference at the University of Dayton, Ohio, …
City of Denver, Colorado, issued a proclamation naming September 11, 2007, “Ethiopian Millennium Day” in Denver. The proclamation was signed by Mayor John Hickenlooper and presented to Dagmawit Gishet Kidist Mariam Church of the Denver Metro area.Click here to …
By Selam Beyene, Ph.D.
The dawn of the new Ethiopian Millennium, which will be observed by Ethiopians at home and those in the Diaspora with immense pride and well-founded hope for the future, will bear different significances to different groups.…
By Yared Nerayo
Having been inundated by the political civility, ‘shimgelena’, ‘mechachal’, etc. propaganda in the last few weeks, I was grudgingly looking for positive things to appreciate about the minority regime in Addis. My search has accidentally revealed a …
Ethiopia’s Information Highway: Capacity Building Minister Tefera Walwa shows off his accomplishment (satire)
[actually the photo is taken in India]…
The Calgary Ethiopian Community Association, in collaboration with the Calgary EthioStar Soccer team, is organizing the 12th Annual North-Western USA and Canada Ethiopian Soccer Tournament.
The name of the event is Ethiopian Millennium Cup in Calgary.
WASHINGTON (AP) – The U.S. State Department said Monday it had ordered Eritrea to close its consulate in Oakland, California, the latest salvo in an escalating diplomatic conflict with the impoverished Red Sea state.
The department informed Eritrea last week …
Somalia: War Crimes in Mogadishu
UN Should Address Civilian Protection
(Human Rights Watch – Nairobi, August 13, 2007) – Ethiopian [Woyanne], Somali and insurgent forces are all responsible for rampant violations of the laws of war in Mogadishu, causing …
Follow the hectic schedule of one of the world’s most beautiful women as she juggles photoshoots, motherhood and charity events
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The Ethiopian Teachers Assocation (ETA) has dismissed its long-time chairman, Dr Taye Woldesemayat last week, according to Addis Dimts Radio reporter in Addis Ababa.
ETA’s 7-member executive committee reportedly made the decision to fire Dr Taye after he failed to …
The Woyanne dictatorship has warned Human Rights Watch to stop reporting abuses in Ethiopia and Somalia, including war crimes. The following is a report by the Woyanne-controlled ‘Ethiopian News Agency.’
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(ENA) Ethiopia has urged on Human Rights Watch the …
(The story of our adventure through the eastern and northern sides of Africa overland in our Landrover in 2007)
Sunday 12th August 2007 Greenland Hotel, Dessie.
We have been warned that internet peters out a …
By Arjun Kohli – VOA
Listen to Kohli report audio clip
The minister for Mining and Energy in Ethiopia says the recent oil deals signed with international companies for exploration and mining across the country will bring much needed development …
ONLF Press Release
The fact that international journalists and human rights groups are now banned from entering Ogaden coupled with the expulsion of the ICRC on baseless grounds should be a clear warning sign to the world that yet another …
 Photo: Ahmed Yusuf Mohamed/IRIN |
| A Somali soldier near a building destroyed in recent fighting |
MOGADISHU (IRIN) – Armed opponents of Somalia’s transitional government attacked the police in the capital, Mogadishu, on 9 August, carrying out raids on five …
It seems that the Woyanne regime is telling Somalis that it is the Amharas who are occupying their country, as the article below by Time Magazine shows. Ethiopians must inform the people of Somali that it is the Woyanne terrorist …
Rebels have warned oil companies to stay away from the region. The Ogaden Basin, a gas-prolific area covering 350,000 square kilometres, is believed to contain gas reserves of some 4 trillion cubic feet.
Ethiopia’s dictatorship has signed a $1.9 million …
A Bogus Victory Declaration of the TPLF/EPRDF Tyrannical Regime
The Oromo Liberation Front’s statement regarding the August 7, 2007, TPLF/EPRDF regime’s claim of victory
In our recent statement we have correctly stated that “the TPLF regime has shown itself to …
World 5,000 and 10,000 metres women’s champion Tirunesh Dibaba will lead a 33-strong Ethiopian squad to the world athletics championships in Osaka, Japan, this month, the Ethiopian Athletics Federation (EAF) said on Friday.Olympic 10 000 metres champion Kenenisa Bekele will …
By Robin Denselow
The Guardian
It’s a scorching hot afternoon in a recording studio on the outskirts of the southern French city of Toulouse, and the talk is of music and Ethiopia. Inspired by the Ethiopiques albums compiled by French …
By Robin Denselow
The Guardian
It’s a scorching hot afternoon in a recording studio on the outskirts of the southern French city of Toulouse, and the talk is of music and Ethiopia. Inspired by the Ethiopiques albums compiled by French …
The Associated Press
NAIROBI, Kenya: Ethiopia’s dispatching of the Lucy skeleton on a six-year-tour of the United States is akin to prostituting the fragile, 3.2 million year-old fossil, paleontologist Richard Leakey said Friday.
The Lucy skeleton — one of the …
By Ewnetu Ashenafi
Our indifference towards Ethiopia Somalis in Ogaden who suffer from the barbaric acts of genocide perpetrated by the TPLF regime is likely to have a long-term impact on freedom, democracy and Ethiopia’s unity
It is a sad …
The Washington DC Debre Selam Kidist Mariam Church’s board has filed $1 million lawsuit against three Ethiopians.
The board is accusing the Debre Selam Kidist Mariam Idir officials of stealing $300,000.
In a Washington DC court on July 30, the …
Ethiopian Review introduces a new tool for its readers. You can now type Amharigna, Oromigna, Guragigna, Tigrigna and all the other Ethiopian languages on any computer with an Internet connection and Ge’ez Unicode fonts. All you have to do is …
የኢትዮጵያ ሊቃውንቶች
ዶክተር፣ ፕሮፌሰር፣ ጠቢብ ኢንጂነሮች. . .
ባለ ሁለት ዲግሪ፣ ባለ “ሦስት” እውቀቶች፣
ባለም ዙሪያ ያላችሁ እናንት የ”ጨው ዘሮች”…!
እስኪ ተሰብስቡ ባንድጋ ምከሩ፤
የኢትዮጵያን እጣ እድሏን ቀምሩ፤
“ሙጃሌ” ለማውጭያ፣ ለእሾኽ መመንገያ…
እስኪ “መርፌ” ስሩ!
እናንት ምሁራን የኢትዮጵያ ሊቆች፤
መሰረተ-ግኝት …
OPEN LETTER TO THE ETHIOPIAN PRIME MINISTER MR. MELES ZENAWI
[በኣማርኛ, pdf]
Mr. Meles Zenawi,
Prime Minister
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
August 8, 2007
Mr. Prime Minister,
The characteristic peculiar to our country, which distinguishes it from other countries, …
By Donald N. Levine, University of Chicago
My title “An Ethiopian Dilemma” stands to evoke an association to the book by Swedish sociologist Gunnar Myrdal, An American Dilemma, which played a signal role in helping Americans resolve their longstanding conflict …
Another high-level delegation of the Coalition for Unity and Democracy Party (Kinijit) led by Ato Muluneh Eyoel will tour Europe starting on August 20.
The five-member delegation includes Ato Muluneh Eyoel, Secretary General, and executive committee members Dr Yacho Hailemariam, …
The Associated Press
MOGADISHU, Somalia: Mohamed Hussein heard the grenade explode and he froze. Hussein, 39, knew what was coming next, because he has been through it before: gunfire coming from every direction as soldiers frantically tried to kill the …
A six-member high-level delegation of the Coalition for Unity and Democracy Party (Kinijit) headed by Ato Hailu Shawel will depart Ethiopia for the United States on August 20, according to Ethiopian Review sources.
The delegates include Ato Hailu Shawel (president), …
(Reuters) The Woyanne regime in Ethiopia said it had killed more than 500 rebels and captured 170 in the past two months during an offensive in the volatile but energy-rich Ogaden region bordering Somalia.
The Ogaden National Liberation Front (ONLF) …
The Ethiopian Somali Advocacy Council (ESAC)
Washington, Dc
Press Release
The inhuman attack on a market and religious place, a church, in Jigjiga, in the capital of Somali Region shows that the authoritarian regime of Meles Zenawi is on his …
ONLF Press Release
Recent sensational claims by the Woyanne regime in Ethiopia that it has been able to realize military gains in Ogaden have no basis in reality and are designed to give a false sense of security to oil …
ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) – Ethiopia earned more than $1.3 billion from exports in 2006/07, missing its $1.5 billion target owing to price fluctuations in international markets, the Ministry of Trade and Industry said on Tuesday. [How much of it went …
Ethiopia’s current and former gangsters (satire)
…
By Simon Tisdall
The Guardian
Rising tensions in the Ogaden region of eastern Ethiopia, combined with chronic instability in neighbouring Somalia, Eritrean enmity, and human rights concerns, are testing US support for the Addis Ababa government led by Clinton-era good …
ADDIS ABABA, Aug 7, 2007 (AFP) – Ethiopia’s defence ministry [the Woyanne junta] Tuesday said government troops had killed 200 rebels and captured hundreds in the restive predominantly Somali southern region of Ogaden over the past month.
“Over 200 anti-peace …
By Adam Williams
BERLIN, Aug 7 (Reuters) – Ethiopian distance champion Haile Gebrselassie will again attempt to break the world marathon record in Berlin next month after his narrow miss last year.
“My aim is to break the record”, the …
Ethiopia earned $40 million from the export of gold supplied by traditional small-scale miners during the past 11 months, Ethiopian Mines and Energy Minister said on Monday.
Alemayehu Tegenu told journalists in Addis Ababa that close two tons of gold …
The spokesperson of the Coalition for Unity and Democracy Party (Kinijit), Dr Hailu Araya, has cleared the confusion about the party’s decision regarding Kinijit Diaspora. In an interview with VOA’s Addisu Abebe today, Dr Hailu said that both groups that …
ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia (Reuters) — The Woyanne regime in Ethiopia executed a military officer convicted of killing the country’s former head of security and immigration, the federal prison service said.
Major Tsehai Wolde Selassie was convicted of shooting dead Kinfe …
Kinijit supporter Lishan Akuma was arraigned at a Washington DC court today. Wzr. Lishan was arrested last month in front of the White House while protesting the sentencing of the Coalition for Unity and Democracy Party (Kinijit) leaders to life …
On Saturday, we reported that the Ethiopian Teachers Association’s (ETA) office in Addis Ababa was surrounded and the head of the Addis Ababa chapter of the ETA, Ato Tesfaye Yirga, has been arrested.
We have now been informed that Ato …
By Kinijit Dallas
The townhall meeting was held on Saturday, August 4. It was organized by Dallas/Forth Worth chapter of Kinijit. Former Kinijit International Leadership (K.I.L.) members, Dr Moges Gebremariam and Ato Andargachew Tsige were guest speakers. Before the main …
(The story of our adventure through the eastern and northern sides of Africa overland in our Landrover in 2007.)
Monday 6th August 2007 Baro Hotel – Addis Ababa
We proceeded back to Addis to the …
By Andy Lewis
I suddenly realised that I had written little about some of the things that shock you a little in Mekele at first, but you become very used to in a short space of time. In fact, I …
The Ethiopian Airlines CEO last Friday announced that the airline has made an annual profit of 129 million birr (see below). When that amount is converted to U.S. dollar, it amounts to only $14 million. EAL (referred to by some …
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ER is currently the highest …
Yesterday’s attack on a Jijiga market and church represent a despicable act of desperation by cronies of the Ethiopian Woyanne regime tasked with misrepresenting the just struggle of the people of Ogaden. Similar to the deliberate attack by the regime …
ADDIS ABABA, Aug 6 (Reuters) – One civilian was killed and eight wounded in two bomb blasts in Ethiopia’s Ogaden region, officials said on Monday, as Ogaden rebels and the government blamed each other for the explosions.
“Two suspects have …
