By Mohamed Abdi Farah

(SomaliNet) – Local Islamic militants have launched ambush rocket attack on the Ethiopian [Woyanne] forces stationing in the former pasta factory in north of the capital Mogadishu late on Sunday, residents said.

The attack …

By Mohamed Abdi Farah

(SomaliNet) Somalia’s government troops backed by Ethiopian [Woyanne] forces carried out massive security operations in southern part of the capital Mogadishu on Sunday, officials and residents said.

The forces raided houses and businesses in …

By Tom Porteous
Guardian

In June, the Ethiopian [Woyanne] government launched a major military campaign in the Ogaden, a sparsely populated and remote region on Ethiopia’s border with Somalia. The counter insurgency operation was aimed at eliminating the Ogaden National …

New York (AP): Haile Gebrselassie won the New York City Half Marathon in 59 minutes, 24 seconds on Sunday, cruising away two-thirds through the race to win his eighth half marathon in eight attempts.

Gebrselassie, a two-time Olympic gold medalist …

By Mohamed Abdi Farah

(SomaliNet) An Ethiopian [Woyanne] convoy escorting the body of the slain Yaqshid district commissioner has escaped a roadside bomb in north of the Somalia capital Mogadishu on Saturday.

Soon after the blast the Woyanne …

Michael Maren went to Kenya in 1977 to work for the Peace Corps, and has spent about twenty years in Africa, first as a development and aid worker, and later as a journalist. He has witnessed a wide range of …

Members of the Woyanne-controlled Ethiopian Parliament on lunch break
[l. to r. Beyene, Merera, Lidetu]
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Source: ActionAid – UK

Judges trying the case of two anti-poverty campaigners in Ethiopia yesterday (Thursday) adjourned the trial until 8 October, when the court will give judgement.

Daniel Bekele, 40, policy manager of ActionAid Ethiopia, and Netsanet Demissie, 29, …

By Richard Finn for the IAAF

New York, USA – Two big-name favourites with near-matchless credentials – Haile Gebrselassie of Ethiopia and Catherine Ndereba of Kenya – head the men’s and women’s fields for Sunday’s NYC Half-Marathon. But those fields …

By Tim Butcher in Jerusalem
Telegraph

Israel’s interior minister faces accusations of racism after he suggested suspending the policy of allowing Ethiopians with Jewish ancestry to move to the country.

While rabbinical authorities judge the so-called Falash Mura to be …

By Messay Kebede

Various Ethiopian websites exhibit articles that highly congratulate and praise the achievements of mediators in the long-drawn-out attempt to free the CUD leaders. According to these articles, thanks to the aggressive and unrelenting effort of the mediators, …

U.S. Senator Russ Feingold, chairman of the Senate Subcommittee on African Affairs, and a bipartisan group of his senate colleagues, sent this letter to Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice regarding human rights abuses committed by the Meles regime’s military in …

Committee to Protect Journalists

New York, August 2, 2007—Ethiopia’s High Court handed down heavy prison sentences to four journalists jailed in connection with their coverage of deadly post-election unrest in 2005, after the journalists waived their defense and pleaded guilty …

MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) – Mortars slammed into a residential area of the Somali capital overnight, killing eight people _ including a pregnant woman _ and wounding more than 20, witnesses said Thursday.

The mortars were launched after a 30-minute gunbattle …

Israel Insider

Ethiopian rights groups have expressed outrage at Interior Minister Meir Sheetrit’s calls to halt the aliya of the Falash Mura, Ethiopians whose ancestors were forced to convert to Christianity centuries ago.

Sheetrit said that Israel should focus on …

The Dallas/Fort Worth chapter of Kinijit North America support group will hold a public meeting on Saturday, August 4.

Guest speakers include former Kinijit International Leadership officials Dr Moges Gebremariam and Ato Andargachew Tsige.

Place: The Radisson Hotel …

This grab-you-by-the-throat speech by Ghanaian economist George Ayittey unleashes an almost breathtaking torrent of controlled anger toward corrupt leaders and the complacency that allows them to thrive. These “Hippos” (lazy, slow, ornery) have ruined postcolonial Africa, he says. Why, then, …

By Ayanawo Farada Sanbatu
Haaretz

Eighty Ethiopian immigrant children, whose families transferred in recent months from absorption centers to permanent homes in Petah Tikvah, are still looking for schools that will agree to accept them for the upcoming school year …

NW DC Community Fights Back With Heist Video on YouTube

By Clarence Williams and Elissa Silverman
Washington Post

The two masked robbers saunter into a corner market in LeDroit Park, each pointing a gun at the store clerk. The clerk …

By STEVE THOMPSON / The Dallas Morning News
[email protected]

The corner store was quiet when the gunman strode in. The clerk behind the counter, who in moments would be shot and killed, was finishing things up for the evening. A …

(Reuters) – British soccer idol David Beckham and his wife Victoria have joined French President Nicolas Sarkozy on a list of world’s best-dressed people compiled by Vanity Fair magazine.

The fashionable British duo, who have just moved to Los Angeles, …

By JEFFREY GETTLEMAN
The New York Times

Mohamed Abdi, an Ethiopian-American interpreter detained for more than two months without being charged, was released over the weekend, American officials said. He had been working as an interpreter for the American military …

By Girma Berhanu
Göteborg University, Sweden

I review the book IQ and the Wealth of Nations, written by Richard Lynn and Tatu Vanhanen. I critique the authors’ major assertion that a significant part of the gap between rich and poor …

Press Release

Less than a week after expelling the ICRC, the Ethiopian [Woyanne] regime has set its sights on the most active indeginous Non-Governmental Organization in Ogaden killing its leader and another senior staffer in a roadside attack in Northern …

By Bizualem Beza

Since time immemorial, Ethiopians had not been given a single chance of electing their governents. Given the long history of the nation as a cradle of civilization and the origin of mankind, it could have been exemplified …

By Dan Williams

JERUSALEM (Reuters) – While other Israeli spies spent the early 1980s stalking Arab foes through Europe, Gad Shimron was deep in Africa on a secret mission to save lives.

Thousands of Ethiopian Jews had fled the Eritrean …

Two masked-men rob Simon Mahteme, an immigrant from Ethiopia, who owns a store at Fourth and T streets, NW Washington DC, on July 10.
…

By JANET KELLEY and CINDY STAUFFER
Lancaster New Era

Lancaster, Pa – The plan was to pick a house, push the homeowner inside and help themselves to the “merchandise” inside, 16-year-old Emru Kebede (a native of Ethiopia) testified this morning.…

By JULIUS A. KARASH
The Kansas City Star

Downtown health care is slated to get a boost come October.

That’s when Research Medical Center plans to open a new doctors’ office in the 10 Main Center building at 920 Main …

Press Release
The United States House of Representatives
Committee on Foreign Relations

Washington, DC – To correct erroneous reports about the Ethiopia Democracy and Accountability Accountability Act (H.R. 2003), Chairman Tom Lantos of the House Foreign Affairs Committee issued this …

By Dean Jacobs/Letters to America
Freemont Tribune

Our conversation stops as silent eyes glance to the knock that came from the door, a student appears to ask a question and leaves.

Talking about politics is a dangerous undertaking in Ethiopia.…

BBC

 Some 40 forty heavily armed fighters have attacked an Ethiopian [Woyanne] base close to the Somali capital, Mogadishu.

At least four people died in the fighting, with heavy machine-guns and rocket-propelled grenades.

The insurgents arrived in five vehicles and …

By Mohamed Olad Hassan

Mogadishu, Somalia – At least eight were killed in attacks in southern and central Somalia during which four people were wounded, witnesses said on Tuesday.

In a one-hour gunbattle between 40 heavily armed insurgents and government …

By Joe De Capua, VOA

 Listen to De Capua report on elders mp3

On July 20th, the Ethiopian government announced the pardons of 38 opposition leaders and activists, many of whom had been sentenced to life in prison. They had …

By Prof. Alemayheu G. Mariam

In the early morning hours of July 29, Ashenafi Mekonnen and Getenet Abate lost their lives to a drunk driver. But a few hours earlier, we were together in a church community hall talking and …

New York, July 10, 2007—For the first time in his illustrious career, Ethiopian distance legend Haile Gebrselassie will race in the bright lights of New York City. He will run the NYC Half-Marathon Presented by NIKE on Sunday, August 5, …

By James Butty, VOA 

Butty interview with Payne 

Visiting British Prime Minister Gordon Brown said Monday that he and President Bush will step up pressure to end violence in Sudan’s Darfur province.  Brown, who and President Bush wrapped up two …

ETHIOPIAN Airlines has purchased one MD-11 from Boeing for conversion. The aircraft will be delivered to Ethiopian in December 2008.

Ethiopian is also negotiating for a second converted MD-11 freighter aircraft on a lease basis scheduled for delivery at the …

Supermodel Liya Kebede has created a clothing line primarily geared towards children.

Called Lemlem, the range will cater to children aged three months to 10 years old.  Combining some traditional weaving and embroidery techniques with modern silhouettes, all the pieces …

President Girma Woldegiorgis of Ethiopia takes time off to relax after a hard day of eating…

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Kinijit North America issues a statement on the planned tour by the party’s high-level delegation in North America. The delegation is expected to depart from Ethiopia in the coming few days.

Click here to read the statement in Amharic, pdf…

Adding the Voice of The Network of Ethiopian Scholars to the Coalition for HR 2003

Open Letter to the US Congress

We would like to add our voice of support for the US Congress to pass the HR 2003 bill …

According to the Index of Economic Freedom, Ethiopia under the Woyanne dictatorship ranks 116th in the world.

Source: The 2007 Index of Economic Freedom

Ethiopia’s economy is 54.4 percent free, according to our 2007 assessment, which makes it the …

By Patrick Jaramogi
New Vision

LIBYA’s quest to use the River Nile water for development in the desert country has been rejected by the Nile Basin Initiative (NBI) member states, a senior official has disclosed.

The New Vision learnt that …

Ethiopian Review Editorial

Many of the top Leaders of the Coalition for Unity and Democracy Party (Kinijit) are now out of jail and back to leading their party. Some senior members including Ato Kifle Tigneh are still in jail. It …

The Washington DC-based Addis Dimts Radio conducted an interview on Saturday with Prof. Ephrem Isaac and Prof. Alemayehu Gebremariam. The discussion had focused on H.R. 2003. Prof. Ephrem has admitted that he is lobbying against H.R. 2003, but was …

The Atlanta chapter of the Coalition for Unity and Democracy Party (Kinijit) sends a message of appreciation to members of the Kinijit International Leadership, which has dissolved itself after completing its mandate on Friday, July 27, 2007.

Read the full …

A U.N. report accused U.S., Ethiopia over Somalia

By Mark Turner at the United Nations and Barney Jopson in Kenya
Financial Times

Ethiopia is accused of killing civilians with white phosphorus bombs, the US navy of attacking suspected al-Qaeda operatives …

By Elaine Jarvik
Deseret Morning News

Utah — Norm Perdue used to have a home office he called his “Ethiopia Room.” Those were the days when he was able to contain this project to one desk and a few walls.…

The Ethiopian set the records at the Golden Spike meet in June in Ostrava, Czech Republic. In both events, he broke 16-year-old previous marks set by Arturo Barrios of Mexico in La Fleche, France.

Gebrselassie ran 21 285m (12.77 miles) …

Part II interview with former defence minister Siye Abraha by German Radio.

Click here to listen Part II

Click here for Part I…

The Washington DC-based Addis Dimts Radio will hold a fund raising concert Sunday, July 29, 2007. The concert will include a cultural show involving several popular Ethiopian musicians.

Place: Unification Church, 1610 Columbia Road, Washingon DC.

Time: Starting at 7 …

A terrible tragedy struck the Ethiopian community and the Boston chapter of Kinijit earlier this morning when two active members of the community died in a car accident. The two individuals, Ashenafi Mekonnen and Getnet Abate, were returning from a …

By Jim Whiting
The Seattle Times

Nineteen-year-old Abera Temesegan of Ethiopia nearly set a course record in winning Saturday night’s Seafair Torchlight Run. His time of 24 minutes, 32 seconds for the 8-kilometer course was just four seconds off Nick …

… more eating.

President Girma Wolde-Giorgis of Ethiopia at Let Us Do The Cooking restaurant during his recent stay in Central Texas.

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Build from traditional mediation a strategy of comprehensive reconciliation

By Mammo Muchie

The success of traditional mediation emerges from the rule of engagement that is not predicated on the conceptual frameworks of punishment or reward, winning or losing, on who …

ESFNA
It is with great sadness that we inform you that Shimeles Gessese, our dear brother, a long time player and leader of the Abyssinia Sport Club of Portland, ESFNA board member and ardent ESFNA supporter passed away on Tuesday …

Ethiopian and other Foreign-born taxi drivers in Columbus, Ohio, say the city is trying to drive them out of business

By David Conrad
THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH

In an effort to make Columbus a cab-friendly town, a committee of city, community …

ActionAid UK

Anti-poverty campaigners Daniel Bekele and Netsanet Demissie are now the only defendants still striving to establish their innocence, out of 131 originally accused in a long-running treason trial in Ethiopia.

With their advocate, the two will begin presenting …

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

Feeling sorry for the customer who said his mom no longer had a place to live, gas station owner Zerit Haileslasie let the mother stay in a shed behind the store rent-free.

A few days later, the …

A Case from my Bag of Childhood Memories

By Maru Gubena

It is in fact not difficult to provide multiple examples of Ethiopian socio-cultural rules that contain negative connotations, and which have been partly or fully responsible for molding the …

By Selam Beyene

In a series of articles published in the New York Times, Jeffrey Gettleman shocked the world with a glimpse of the atrocities committed by Zenawi’s regime against the people of Ethiopia. In so doing, Gettleman not only …

By Abiye Tekelemariam

Philosopher Messay Kebede has a unique take on the release of CUD leaders (Ethiopian Review, July 21). As a consequence of the demand for forgiveness, he argues, its goal can’t be none other than the …

ENC Press Release on the release of Prisoners of Conscience

The unconditional release of the high profile prisoners of conscience on 20 July 2007 is a major step towards the attainment of the popular desire for justice, democracy, the rule …

BY NIRVI SHAH, Miami Herald
[email protected]
(Miramar, South Florida) — Mesfin Tesfamariam, 56, was arrested after police found him, covered in blood, near his sister’s home.

An argument over money and medical bills early Wednesday turned violent between a brother …

Wzt. Bertukan Mideksa, vice chairwoman of the Coalition for Unity and Democracy Party (Kinijit)  is interviewed by Germany Radio on July 26.

 Click here to listen.…