A meeting organised by Woyanne embassy was cancelled after Ethiopians demanded to express their views
A public meeting that was organised by the Ethiopian embassy in the Netherlands was cancelled yesterday due to demands from the participants for an open …
ASMARA (shabait.com) — In a live interview he conducted with the Eritrean media last night regarding the objective situation in Ethiopia and regional issues, President Isaias Afwerki underscored that the TPLF clique’s strategy of creating enmity among the …
Spiegel
06.11.6007
Terror suspects have been questioned by US officials in Ethiopia after being transferred from Somalia and Kenya. The captives included Europeans who were detained, interrogated and then released without charge.
The CIA’s system of unlawful kidnappings of terrorist …
Fiche, Ethiopia (ENA) – The renowned athlete Kenenisa Bekele here on Friday signed an agreement providing for constructing a 9.9 million Birr sport complex in Sululta Woreda with the North Shoa Zone Investment Office
Kenenisa Bekele
According to the signed …
BBC
June 11, 2007
A court in Ethiopia has found 38 senior opposition figures guilty of charges connected to mass protests after disputed elections two years ago.
The charges ranged from armed rebellion to “outrage against the constitution”.
Sentencing is …
By Katie Nguyen
LONDON, June 11 (Reuters) – Ethiopian rebels accused government troops on Monday of raping women and destroying villages in the southeastern Ogaden region to suppress an insurgency.
Prime Minister Meles Zenawi announced a crackdown at the weekend …
The model of perfection
LONDON, England (CNN) — Born in 1978 and raised in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, Liya Kebede attended the French Lycee in Addis. It was here that she was talent-spotted by a French film director and …
Presented at The Symposium on Human Rights in the Horn of Africa
[see also in pdf]
Horn of Africa Social Justice Forum, York University, Toronto, Canada
Presented by SOCEPP-CANADA
June 9, 2007
On behalf of the Solidarity Committee for …
Ethiopian Review
Former chairman of Kinijit International Leadership Committee, Shaleqa Yoseph Yazew, has finally agreed to submit to the authority of the Committee. The Shaleqa and his cohorts reached this decision after receiving a stern warning and strict instructions from …
AFP
June 9, 2007
ADDIS ABABA — Meles Zenawi said Saturday his government had launched a crackdown on a rebel group blamed for several attacks in the country’s eastern Ogaden region.
“We have launched a political and military operation to …
June 09, 2007
By Mohamed Abdi Farah
SomaliNet
Militia loyal to former defence leader of the defeated Islamic Courts Union Yusuf Mohamed Inda-Adde have taken control of Bulo-Mareer and Qoryoley towns in lower Shabelle region, southern Somalia on Saturday after …
ONLF PRESS RELEASE
June 9, 2007
The Voice of America (VOA) recent report citing unnamed sources alleging that Ogaden National Liberation Front (ONLF) has entered into a coalition with political entities in Somalia is far from reality and well within …
June 09, 2007
By Mohamed Abdi Farah
SomaliNet
Ethiopian [Woyanne] and Somali forces continue wider security operations in the Somalia capital searching for weapons and suspects –- as a hand grenade bomb was targeted on the [Woyanne] base in the …
Source: VOA
Jun 8, 2007
Reports in Somalia say that a coalition of groups opposed to Somalia’s struggling transitional government and its Ethiopian [Woyanne] backers has been formed with the support of the Eritrean government. VOA Correspondent Alisha Ryu has …
Chat with Jimmy Carter
Discuss “The Ethiopia Campaign” with President Carter
Announcement from the Smithsonian Institute
Join us here for a live chat with Nobel Peace laureate and former president Jimmy Carter to discuss “The Ethiopia Campaign” on June 28 …
MOGADISHU, Somalia June 8, 2007 (Garowe Online) – Somali government troops have began withdrawing from the interior of Beletwein town near the Ethiopian border, military officials said on Friday.
Col. Ahmed Mohamed Hubeyr, the commander of government troops …
By John Mehaffey
LONDON, June 8 (Reuters) – Haile Gebrselassie, one of only three men to win the Olympic 10,000 metres title twice, has warned East African distance runners that they cannot take their current supremacy for granted.
In an …
(NPR) — Though the late Ethiopian Emperor Haile Selassie was considered a god by Rastafarians, in Bob Marley’s day, reggae was wasn’t popular in Ethiopia. Now, though, reggae is huge i the East African nation, and there’s no bigger start …
Sources:Great Run, Prefontaine Classic
Craig Mottram after his famous 3,000 metres victory ahead of Kenenisa Bekele in last year’s IAAF World Cup final, chases another success against the Ethiopian star at the Nike Prefontaine Classic.
Mottram in what …
Brussels, Belgium 06/07 – A Committee of the European Parliament has strongly criticised what it called “massive human rights violations” going on in Ethiopia since 2005.
“The human rights situation has been deteriorating in Ethiopia since 2005, with opposition members …
THE MORNING NEWS
FAYETTEVILLE, ARKANSAS — Police arrested a man suspected of hitting a pole with a car and almost knocking down an employee from Cox Communications, who was working on the pole Friday morning.
Assefa G. Egziabher, 30, of …
By John Mehaffey
LONDON (Reuters) – Twice Olympic 10,000 metres champion Haile Gebrselassie will attempt the 16-year-old world one-hour record this year after making a surprise return to the track in the Dutch town of Hengelo last month.
The 34-year-old …
By Elias Kifle
Ethiopian Review
In a recent interview with Dimtsi Woyanne Radio, Sebehat Nega, Woyanne moneyman and senior member of the politburo, said that if all Eritrean organizations combine, their effort would not add up to what the Tigrean …
Souce: Invictus Maneo
International Christian Concern has published its first ever “Hall of Shame,” an annual list of the ten nations with the worst records of persecution against Christians. The 2007 edition includes the following:
Number 10: Pakistan…
By Amy Bowen [email protected]
St Cloud Times
NEW YORK CITY — Rebecca Haile finally returned home after 25 years.
Haile, now 42, captured in a book the emotion of her return to Ethiopia years after her parents, Getatchew Haile and …
Source: ABC WMBB News 13
By JAMES W. CRAWLEY
WASHINGTON – Africa is a hot topic at the Pentagon.
The military is setting up Africa Command, a high-level headquarters akin to Tampa-based Central Command, to oversee military operations, planning, intelligence, …
The Associated Press
June 6, 2007
MOGADISHU, Somalia: Hundreds of Ethiopian [Woyanne] troops trying to protect this country’s fragile [puppet] government went house-to-house searching for weapons Wednesday, a daunting task in a city teeming with firearms.
Several people were arrested …
European Parliament Press Release
June 5, 2007
The lack of democracy and the large-scale human rights violations in Ethiopia were condemned by MEPs on Tuesday at a hearing held by the EP’s Development Committee and the Human Rights Subcommittee. The …
By Aweys Osman Yusuf
Shabelle Media Network
Mogadishu June 6, 2007 — Shabelle Media Network has received a government decree from the prime minister’s office, ordering the closure of the station.
The Somali government has issued the decree to close …
Source: shabait.com
Asmara, 5 June 2007 – Opposing the TPLF regime’s policy of ethnic discrimination, five Ethiopian soldiers arrived in Asmara seeking asylum.
The soldiers disclosed that the regime recruited 8,000 youths under the guise of offering them computer application …
Meles Zenawi visits his former home and future grave yard, Mogadishu
Meles makes landmark visit to Somalia, where his troops are protecting the government
The Associated Press
Tuesday, June 5, 2007
MOGADISHU, Somalia: Ethiopia’s prime monster made a surprise trip …
AFP, June 5, 2007
Ethiopian Crime Minister Meles Zenawi [known by Ethiopians as the butcher of Addis Ababa] on Tuesday paid a surprise visit to Mogadishu, becoming the first foreign head of state to visit the lawless Somali capital …
June 5, 2007
By Jennifer Cooke, Co director, Africa Program
Hopes for a peaceful political resolution to the crisis in Somalia are dimming, as a power struggle between the Ethiopian [Woyanne]-backed Transitional Federal Government (TFG) and clan-based and Islamist militias …
By Tristan McConnell
The Christian Science Monitor
Mon Jun 4, 4:00 AM ET
Ibrahim Koroma forgives the child rebels who chopped off his left hand nine years ago during Sierra Leone’s brutal civil war, saying they were “misled.” But he …
By the Law Office of Fekadu Yami Abdi
Addis Ababa
June 4, 2007
This repot is a part of a report submitted on April 1, 2007 (Megabt 23, 1999)
– The report constitutes selected narration of the detainees. i.e. Ato …
By 7News
KMGH-TV
DENVER | The family of two children who drowned in an apartment swimming pool last week held an emotional memorial service Sunday, June 3.
The tight-knit Ethiopian community came together to mourn and help the family take …
Freemont Tribune
June 4, 2007
By Dean Jacobs/Letters to America
All the time I have spent traveling the world, never once had I met someone abroad who was currently from Nebraska.
Until now.
I have always jokingly told people there’s …
Bahrain News Agency
MANAMA, JUNE 4, (BNA) — An Ethiopian Airlines place landed at Bahrain International Airport this morning, marking the beginning of regular Addis Ababa-Bahrain flights that will link the Kingdom with East Africa.
The initiative came in response …
By Andrew Heavens
Reuters
Sunday, June 3, 2007; 6:07 AM
ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) – Ethiopia [currently ruled by a brutal dictatorship] has called on Queen Elizabeth to return the bones of an orphan prince buried at Windsor Castle after he …
June 2, 2007
Reebok Grand Prix, New York
Tariku Bekele of Ethiopia stepped out of the shadow of his brother, Kenenisa, to post another U.S. all-comers record in the Reebok men’s 5,000m. Hoping to break 13:00, Bekele was on pace …
June 2, 2007
The Ethiopian People Patriotic Front (EPPF) will officially launch a weekly radio program on June 7, 2007.
The radio program, Ye Arbegnoch Dimts, will be broadcast to Ethiopia and the Horn of Africa every Thursday from 7-8 …
Dr Mehret Mandefro, who was born in Ethiopia and raised in Washington, DC, progresses from doctor to activist as she investigates the lives of HIV-positive women in New York and Ethiopia.…
June 2nd, 2007
From Economist.com
Tony Blair has been good for Africa. Africa has been good for him
“A SCAR on the conscience of the world” is how Tony Blair, Britain’s departing prime minister, once described Africa. In an attempt, …
June 1, 2007 at 1:57 PM ET
[JURIST] Ethiopian special prosecutor Joseph Kiros told Reuters Friday that the Ethiopian government will seek to raise the sentence of convicted former dictator Mengistu Haile Miriam [BBC profile; JURIST …
Press Release
Kinijit-Canada
June 1, 2007
Kinijit Canada has launched its web site (kinijit.ca) today. It s with great pleasure and pride that we announce our desire to work jointly with all democratic forces and of human rights …
BBC Sport
Ethiopia threw Group Ten wide open on Friday when beating table-toppers DR Congo 1-0 in Addis Ababa.
Ethiopia’s win has lifted them off the bottle of the table
Saladine Said settled the contest with the only goal of …
June 01/2007 06:27:10 AM MDT
Mulu Gebrelassiei, center, grieves the loss of her children in the basement of the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church on Thursday. (The Post / Karl Gehring)
…
| May 31, 2007 |
IWMF Announces 2007 Courage in Journalism Award Winners
Source: Xinhua
June 1. 2007
The World Bank approved 225 million U.S. dollars of credit to [the Woyanne warlords in] Ethiopia Thursday to help the African Horn country restore its road network and reduce poverty [actually to help the tribal …
May 31st, 2007 at 5:29 PM
Posts by David Monti
Tirunesh Dibaba, the double world champion at 5000m and 10,000m in Helsinki two summers ago, is looking to take a bite out of the Big Apple by attacking Meseret …
Thu. May 31, 2007 07:15 pm
By Bonny Apunyu
SomaliNet
Somalia: Bomb hits Ethiopian army convoy, four killed when a remote-controlled roadside bomb tore into an Ethiopian army convoy in Somalia on Thursday wounding five soldiers, locals and a security …
May 31, 2007
ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) – A thousand rare black-mane lions — an Ethiopian national symbol — and some 300 elephants are in danger after a swathe of forest that was part of their sanctuary was cut down, a …
By Eve Zibart
Washington Post Staff Writer
Friday, June 1, 2007; Page WE19
It has been a long time since Adams Morgan could claim exclusive rights to Washington’s Ethiopian culinary community — and in any case that longtime “Little …
The City Administration’s campaign to dismantles houses it deems illegal settlements has begun. More than 205 residents in the Bole district have seen their dwellings destroyed as the city attempts to shape the Capital according to the Master Plan.
Addis …
Alert from Kinijit International
“We have received an urgent alert from Kailiti that Muluneh Eyuel ( Secretary-General of CUDP-Kinijit) and Andualem Arage, two young heroes of the Ethiopian democratic movement, have been severely beaten and locked up in solitary confinement …
Written by: Jeffrey Wolf, Web Producer and Shawn Patrick, Reporter
Last updated: 5/31/2007 6:20:56 AM
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Boy pulled out of pool not expected to survive. 9NEWS at 10 p.m.
Aurora Police believe his sister died while trying to …
By Claire Martin
Denver Post Staff Writer
05/30/2007
With one child dead and the other dependent on life support, Gezaee and Mulu Kahsay spent Tuesday shuttling in a daze of grief between the church and the hospital.
“The doctor told …
30 May 2007 09:04:07 GMT
Source: Reuters
By Guled Mohamed
MOGADISHU, May 30 (Reuters) – A roadside bomb blast tore through a convoy carrying Ethiopian [Woyanne] troops in a central Somali town on Wednesday, seriously wounding five soldiers, a security …
Wednesday , May 30, 2007 By MOHAMED OLAD HASSAN
Associated Press Writer
MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) – Ethiopian troops shot and killed five bystanders Wednesday after a land mine exploded as their convoy passed through the center of a western Somali …
VOA News
Unidentified gunmen have killed a top Somali intelligence official in the latest attack on figures from the country’s interim government.
Authorities say the official, Ahmed Mohamed Odaysge, was shot in Mogadishu’s Hamarweyne neighborhood Wednesday.
On Tuesday, a gunman …
Tony flies in
Wednesday May 30, 2007
The Guardian
After Washington, it is Africa’s turn to bid farewell to Tony Blair. His parade started in Libya yesterday, will gather steam in Sierra Leone and will finish in South Africa. Libya’s …
Tue May 29, 2007
By Guled Mohamed
MOGADISHU, May 29 (Reuters) – Gunmen killed a court official in Mogadishu in the latest rebel attack targeting authorities in the chaotic Somali capital, witnesses said on Tuesday.
Sheikh Mohamed Muse Duale, the …
Feeling right at home
Foreign-born physicians filling a need in Delaware
By LULADEY B. TADESSE, The News Journal
Tuesday, May 29, 2007
Dr. Isaias Irgau, who fled his native Ethiopia at the age of 16, received his medical training in …
Tuesday May 29, 2007 7:46 PM
By ANITA POWELL
Associated Press Writer
ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia (AP) – Ethiopia began counting its population Tuesday, a daunting task in a country where asking personal questions is considered socially taboo but where the …
ADDIS ABABA, 29 May 2007 (IRIN) – Ethiopia began a nine-day national census on 29 May to determine demographic trends in the country, but the exercise was delayed in Afar and Somali, officials said.
“Due to the mobility of their …
The Associated Press
Published: May 28, 2007
MOGADISHU, Somalia: Two explosions and a prolonged gunbattle shook northern Mogadishu overnight, leaving two people dead, officials and witnesses said Monday, while police killed two other men suspected of robbing civilians.
Government officials …
ANITA POWELL, AP News
Thousands of Ethiopians gathered in the capital on Sunday to remember victims of a brutal Marxist junta, weeping at the sight of flower-covered coffins with remains from mass graves across the country.
The service marked the …
Ethnicity as the main cause of the problems following the period 1991
By Abeje Tesfaye
I wrote this piece after the religious crisis in Jimma last year. It appears to me that more of such a crisis will happen now …
I followed Ato Gebremedhin Araya’s interview on Tinsaye Radio (May 24) based on Abaye Tsehai’s recent interview with Dimtsi Woyane.
The claim by Abaye Tsehai that TPLF has been a fighting and business force that profited from business deal early …
International Herald Tribune
Oil companies, both western and Asian, are hunting in earnest for oil and gas in East Africa, a still largely under-explored region, as energy nationalism in Russia, Venezuela and the Middle East closes off opportunities in more …
In hiding
Blink and you will miss the underground children in Ethiopia’s capital city.
They live in tunnels, sewers and drainage holes, hidden beneath Addis Ababa’s teeming streets.
They move from one makeshift shelter to the next, …
Ato Solomon Tekalegn declared himself a patriot when he arrived in Addis this week and was heard saying that the whole Addis is shaking on his victorious arrival.
On the thirty minutes video interview he gave on the EriTV two …
Allegiance Rewarded
By Marina Walker Guevara
Center for Public Integrity
May 22, 2007
WASHINGTON — One dramatic act sets Ethiopia apart from the array of countries with poor human rights records that have become United States counterterrorism allies since the …
von William Wallis (London)
FTD.de, 22.05.2007
Chinese state companies have been expanding across the African continent in pursuit of raw materials at an accelerating pace and with apparently far less attention to …
Two Ethiopian rebel groups carried out a joint military operation against the Tigray People’s Liberation Front (Woyanne) army in the eastern part of the country. A rebel statement alleged 157 soldiers were killed during the attack.
In a joint military …
By Tadeos Daniel
In several papers published in the current issue of the British Journal of Health Psychology, scholars from the US and the UK refuted the controversial study of Satoshi Kanazawa that attempted to link health to intelligence. …
By Yared Nerayo
Comments made on EthiopianReview.com are being scrutinized by one of the largest foreign investors in Ethiopia, Al-Amoudi, and his high-powered lawyers, for possible legal action against the magazine’s publisher. Al-Amoudi, A.K.A. the “Sheik”, has embraced the Tigray …
Kuwait Times
May 17, 2007
RIYADH: Saudi authorities yesterday beheaded two Ethiopians convicted of killing a Saudi national in an armed robbery and displayed their bodies in public after the execution, the Interior Ministry said in a statement. The statement, …
The 99 illegal immigrants detained by Tanzanian immigration officers and local police have turned out to be Ethiopian civilians instead of previously alleged Somali militiamen.
The Tanzania ministry for home affairs said in a press statement, available on Wednesday, that …
CARSON, Calif. (May 15) – Olympic gold medalist Meseret Defar has committed to run in the adidas Track Classic this Sunday, May 20, organizers have announced. Meseret comes to California with an eye on breaking the 2-Mile World Record.
Meseret …
The elected are still in Jail: Shame on all of us!
Democracy still in jail
It is exactly two years since Ethiopia experienced one of the most open elections in its history. All of us who expected finally our country …
A group of Ethiopian political, civic, and media groups, as well as civil rights activists and religious leaders are holding weekly conferences to discuss how to receive the Ethiopian millennium (Ethiopia 2000) this coming September.
So far, the group has …
By Haile Lemma
Most Ethiopians, particularly the hardline Nationalists, hold the perception that Eritrea is still conspiring with the woyanne regime against the interests of Ethiopia. They believe that even the bloody border conflict between the two countries is an …
By Hibret Selamu
Various websites have reported that Khadija Ibrahim Moussa, an Ethiopian woman, has been beheaded by the Saudi regime.
The report alleges that she was beheaded for killing an Egyptian after a dispute. However, no further information is …
By Prof. Adugnaw Worku
The month was October and the year was 1971. And my life was about to take a sharp turn with unintended long term consequences. That month and that year, I received two important documents I was …
Rebecca Haile, daughter of Professor Getatchew Haile, has just published an engaging book on Ethiopia , entitled “Held at a Distance: My Rediscovery of Ethiopia.”
The book is available on Amazon and other book sites now and will be in …
Subcommittee on International Organizations, Human Rights, and Oversight
Bill Delahunt (D-MA), Chairman
Subcommittee on Africa and Global Health
Donald M. Payne (D-NJ), Chairman
You are respectfully requested to attend the following OPEN hearing of the Subcommittee on International Organizations, Human …
RIYADH, Saudi Arabia: Saudi authorities beheaded Wednesday an Ethiopian woman convicted of killing an Egyptian man over a dispute, the Interior Ministry said in a statement.
Khadija Bint Ibrahim Moussa was found guilty of fatally stabbing Mohammed …
By Tedla Asfaw
When I came across a pro government website accusing Elias Kifle of Ethiopian Review inciting Ethiopians to destroy big hotels and mines owned by Sheik Almoudi, a bank roller of the EPRDF/TPLF, I went to the Addis …
By Paulos Milkias
The EPRDF party is driven by power as an end in itself. The lure of the current Ethiopian government’s authority has in fact transformed the political party into a power-machine that crushes everything on its way, including …
The Massachusetts Legislature has adopted a resolution introduced by State Representative William Brownsberger on May 3rd, 2007, memoralizing Congress to demand that Ethiopia’s government meet its obligations under the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Click below to read the resolution…
Amnesty International
Further Information on UA 88/07 (AFR 25/002/2007, 16 April 2007) – Incommunicado detention/
Bashir Ahmed Makhtal (m), Canadian national
Halima Badrudine Hussein (f), Comorian national
Ayub Abdurazak (m), French resident
Tesfaldet Kidane Tesfasgi (m), Eritrean national, television cameraman…
Dear ER readers,
As a result of Ethiopian Review’s aggressive reporting of the Woyanne crimes against the people of Ethiopia, the tribal bandits and their opportunist collaborators are unleashing all kinds of attacks against us–fabricated accusations, false charges, lawsuits, death …
Source: CPJ
The top 10 worst countries for press freedom are Ethiopia, Gambia, Russia, Democratic Republic of Congo, Cuba, Pakistan, Egypt, Azerbaijan, Morocco and Thailand, a US-based media watchdog said.
“The behaviour of all of these countries is deeply troubling, …
By Andrew Heavens
Reuters
An Internet watchdog on Tuesday accused Ethiopia of blocking scores of anti-government Web sites and millions of blogs in one of sub-Saharan Africa’s biggest cases of cyber-censorship.
Web monitor, the OpenNet Initiative, said the Horn of …