AMMAN, Jordan — With defending champions Kenenisa Bekele and Tirunesh Dibaba out with injuries, the field is wide open for Saturday’s World Cross Country Championships.
The Ethiopian pair have dominated the event, with Bekele winning six of the last seven …
VALLETTA, MALTA (Times of Malta) – An Ethiopian migrant who was granted refugee status and the possibility of starting a new life in the United States has been remanded in custody after he allegedly tried to leave Malta in violation …
By Luke Phillips | Middle East Online
AMMAN, Jordan — Gulf states Bahrain and Qatar, each boasting a raft of African-born runners, will attempt to break the stranglehold Ethiopia and Kenya enjoy in the IAAF World Cross Country Championships here …
EDITOR’S NOTE: The flower farms in Ethiopia are destroying the land by using chemical fertilizers that are destroying the land.
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (Afrik.com) — Ethiopian flower producers and exporters have used their exhibition, which opened Wednesday, to …
Hargeisa, SOMALILAND (Somalilandpress) — Ethiopian Airlines will bring back scheduled flights to Somaliland soon, Somaliland Aviation Minister Mr Ali Waran Adde told local media on Thursday.
The route to the capital of Somaliland was scheduled to re-open in January 2009, …
EDITOR’S NOTE: This is a must read article to understand how aid by Western countries to dictatorial regime’s is devastating Ethiopia and the whole of Africa.
By DAMBISA MOYO
A month ago I visited Kibera, the largest slum in Africa. …
Next week, Lieutenant Colonel Tzion Shenkor will become the first Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) battalion commander from Israel’s Ethiopian community. He will command a Shimshon battalion in the Kfir Brigade.
On Sunday, Major Shenkor was promoted to lieutenant colonel in …
By Stephen C. Webster | Raw Story
In an essay published Monday, the head of China’s central bank proposed a plan to displace the American dollar as the world’s standard and replace it with a global reserve currency operated from …
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Houston judge dismisses charge against singer Wayna
(Houston Chronicle) — A judge this morning dismissed the charge against rhythm-and-blues singer Wayna, who was arrested Wednesday at a Houston airport for carrying a collapsible police baton.
Prosecutors asked state District …
By Seifu Tsegaye Demmissie
The participation of Ethiopia’s dictator Meles Zenawi in the summit of the group of 20 or G-20 does not have any significance other than validating his status as an accredited International beggar. Zenawi is the name …
You may have heard about the raging controversy regarding a massive dam that is under construction on the Omo River in Ethiopia. It is called the Gilgel Gibe III dam and it has a wall that will …
SILVER SPRING, MARYLAND (Gazette.net) — Opening night of the New African Films Festival brought more than 400 people to the lobby of the American Film Institute’s Silver Theatre and Cultural Center March 19, but it wasn’t a typical …
Amman, Jordan – World Indoor 3000m champion Tariku Bekele has pulled out of the Ethiopian squad for the 37th IAAF World Cross Country Championships in Amman, Jordan, Saturday 28 March, after sustaining a training ground injury.
The 22-year-old, who had …
ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia (Reuters) — Ethiopians strolling on Jan Meda playing pitches have been shocked for the past few months by what many of them believe to be a group of foreign men locked in a violent brawl.
“‘What kind …
By Ashton Balaigwa
MOROGORO, TANZANIA (Guardian) — The Police Force in Morogoro Region of Tanzania, in collaboration with Immigration officers, have apprehended 10 foreigners believed to be Ethiopians. They said they were on transit to South Africa.
Speaking to journalists …
TRIPOLI (Reuters) – Sudan President Omar Hassan al-Bashir defied an international arrest warrant by traveling to Libya on Thursday to hold talks with leader Muammar Gaddafi, a Libyan official said.
Bashir arrived in the Libyan city of Sirte to have …
EDITOR’S NOTE: Is there any thing Ethiopia’s dictator Meles Zenawi and his tribal juna that are in charge of the Ethiopian regime can do right? What does the dumb dictator, whose only expertise is killing people to stay in power, …
Lalibela, Ethiopia – On the afternoon Feb. 21, I was catching up on some work in the office, when I was distracted by a man dressed in white rushing past the window, closely followed by Hafte, the …
Turin, ITALY – Ethiopian-born Alemitu Bekele caused a major shock by winning Turkey’s first ever European Indoor title and destroy Russian Anna Alminova’s hopes of winning a 1500m and 3000m on Sunday, March 22.
Alemitu controlled the race from the …
By Peter Greste | BBC News, Ethiopia
Deep in the gorge country that falls off the Ethiopian plateau, workers in boots and hard hats are hammering, drilling, blasting and digging their way into the mountainside for the foundations of the …
ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) – Ethiopia’s dictator Meles Zenawi ordered the confiscation of 17,000 tonnes of coffee from exporters on Wednesday and revoked the licenses of six companies accused of hoarding their stocks.
“They refused to comply with government orders to …
By René Lefort
Millions of Ethiopians once again face misery and famine. Addis Ababa’s desire to project an image of a new dynamic country has led to callous denial of the reality.
In 2008 famine struck Ethiopia. Now, at the …
By Professor Adugnaw Worku
Have you ever wondered why dictators such as those in Ethiopia spend sleepless nights scheming and conniving on how to keep their people in the dark and go all out to censor magazines and newspapers, block …
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (APA) – Ethiopia’s dictatorial regime led by accused war criminal Meles Zenawi on Wednesday revoked the coffee export licenses for six major export companies and shut down another 88 coffee supplier unions with warehouses stocked with coffee.…
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (APA) – Ethiopia on Tuesday bade farewell to its athletes who will take part in the 37 International Amateur Athletics Federation (IAAF) world cross country championship scheduled to be held beginning 28 March in Amman, …
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Tigrean Artist Tesfay Belay’s original Saba Sabina
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Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (APA) – Ethiopia flower exports are expected to earn $280 million in 2009, though current global financial crisis is expected to have some impact on the exports.
Tsegaye Abebe, head of the Ethiopian Horticulture Development …
Addis Ababa, ETHIOPIA (BBC) – Ethiopia’s capital Addis Ababa has run out of Coca-Cola as the credit crunch takes the fizz out of the economy.
The BBC’s Elizabeth Blunt in the city says she has known African countries to run …
HARARE, Zimbabwe (UPI) — Zimbabwean Finance Minister Tendai Biti told members of Parliament the country’s currency was essentially dead.
“The death of the (Zimbabwean) dollar is a reality we have to live with,” he said during a 2009 budget presentation. …
Well, I can die now. I spent quality time in the presence of Haile Gebrselassie on Tuesday and Wednesday and was even more impressed by his physical abilities and outsized personality than I had expected to be. …
By Alemayehu G. Mariam
Cry Me a River, Cry Me a Lake
Amina was crying her eyes out. You could see the tear tracks on her tormented face. She is a victim of unimaginable tragedy. Her entire family has nearly …
As the Ethiopian People’s Patriotic Front (EPPF) intensifies its military operations against the Woyanne regime in Ethiopia, it leadership is calling on Ethiopians around the world for more support. One way Ethiopians can support EPPF is by joining its chapters. …
ADEN, Yemen (Reuters) – At least seven African migrants drowned and more than 20 were injured when their boat capsized off the Yemeni port of Aden on Saturday, official sources said.
The boat was carrying around 100 people, most of …
By William Easterly and Laura Freschi | Aid Watch
European donors are moving towards increasing direct budget support to governments of aid-receiving countries. Leading the charge is the UK, which gives the largest percentage of direct budget support of any …
By Eskinder Ferew
Ethiopia’s prime minister dictator Meles Zenawi has refused to say how many troops were killed or wounded during the his regime’s two-year military campaign in Somalia.
During a question-and-answer period in the Ethiopian parliament Thursday, an opposition …
EDITOR’S NOTE: This is yet another fake battle with malaria. It is to be remembered that before the Woyanne tribalist junta came to power in 1991, malaria had been effectively eradicated in Ethiopia. One of the first institutions Meles and …
An ancient civilization still lives in “Andarge Asfaw: Ethiopia from the Heart.” This Ethiopian-born, Washington-based photographer is exhibiting 44 color and black-and-white images at Howard Community College in Maryland. (See more photos here)
The cultural continuity is …
ADDIS ABABA, Ethioipa (Reuters) – Ethiopian Airlines’ first-half net profit climbed 9 percent to 515 million birr ($46 million), the airline said in a statement on Friday.
Revenue rose to 6.7 billion birr in the six months ended Dec. 31, …
WARS, GUNS, AND VOTES: Democracy in Dangerous Places
By Paul Collier
255 pp. Harper/HarperCollins Publishers
Reviewd by Kenneth Roth
These days no self-respecting government wants to present itself on the world stage without the legitimacy of a democratic mantle. Elections …
PORTLAND, OREGON – Mahmoud Ibrahim Gilani, 32, of Portland, was sentenced today to 114 months in federal prison for an armed bank robbery that occurred in Portland on June 5, 2007. Gilani is a citizen of Ethiopia.
U.S. District Judge …
EDITOR’S NOTE: While over 15 million Ethiopians are going hungry, Woyanne-affiliated companies are doubling profits from exporting livestock.
ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) – Ethiopia plans to more than double earnings from livestock exports to $85 million in 2009 by curbing illegal …
J.Crew Catalog’s April 2009 issue features Ethiopian supermodel Liya Kebede. The catalog has arrived in many of its stores this week.
Liya earlier this month took Paris Fashion Week by storm — and landed opening Balenciaga spot — and now …
By Yilma Bekele.
There is a saying in our country. የፈሩት ይደርሳል፤ የጠሉት ይወርሳል (Yeferut yedersal Ye telut yeworsal.) It means what scares you most will happen and the one you despise will inherit your wealth. So it is with …
J.Crew Catalog’s April 2009 issue features Ethiopian supermodel Liya Kebede. The catalog has arrived in many of its stores this week.
Liya earlier this month took Paris Fashion Week by storm — and landed opening Balenciaga spot — and now …
By NIDRA POLLER
At the half-marathon in The Hague on Saturday morning, all eyes were on an Ethiopian businessman, a one-man model of African economic development. Our entrepreneur, whose flourishing enterprise includes banking, car dealerships and real estate, is not …
Laguna Beach resident Marla Hodes, founder and co-executive director of the Ethiopian Family Fund, will be traveling to Ethiopia with her husband Dan and their three children – Dean, age 11, and Matt and Carly, age 10 – in April …
The town of Wardheer was burned down by Meles Zenawi’s troops. In this satellite image of the town of Wardheer, Ethiopia, from Dec. 30, 2007, yellow dots indicate structures that were burned down or destroyed. Source: AAAS
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OGADEN, ETHIOPIA – …
ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia (ST) — The regime of Tigrean People Liberation Front (Woyanne) in Ethiopia on Thursday said that its forces has destroyed OLF (Oromo liberation Front) and ONLF (Ogaden National Liberation Front) rebels who were regrouping in the …
AMMAN, JORDAN (EuropeanAthletics.com) – Alemayehu Bezabeh, an immigrant from Ethiopia, will join hands with veterans Carles Castillejo and José Luis Blanco to spearhead Spanish charge at the 37th IAAF World Cross Country Championships, Amman, Jordan on March 29.…
Lane Bunkers, Catholic Relief Services (CRS) country representative for Ethiopia, shares a story about an older woman who now has access to clean, healthy water.
CRS donated several drilling rigs to the Ethiopian Catholic Church to tap deep groundwater. Our …
ADDIS ABABA (AFP) — An Ethiopian court on Thursday postponed the trial of a Canadian suspect who has been in prison for two years on terror-related charges, an AFP correspondent reported.
Bashir Makhtal, an Ethiopian-born Canadian citizen, was among a …
ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) – Ethiopia’s dictator Meles Zenawi threatened on Thursday to seize and sell coffee stocks being held by exporters who he accuses of hoarding.
Some exporters have been reluctant to sell their beans through the country’s new electronic …
By Fekade Shewakena
Meles Zenawi’s economic statistics and the platitude with which he presents it remind me of the statistician who puts your head in the oven and your legs in the ice and conveniently tells you that you are …
OLIVETTE, MISSOURI — The parents of two children are dead after a man shot his wife before turning the gun on himself inside the couple’s home in city of Olivetter, a suburb of St. Louis, police said.
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The Ethiopian Telecommunications Corporation (ETC) has begun installing another new Customer Care and Billing System (CCB). This investment is an attempt to prevent a repeat of the 2006 incident when ETC lost more than 70 million birr ($6.3 m) due …
By Neil Spencer | The Observer
‘There have been very difficult times. Harsh times, when it was frankly hell to be here, but some of us were lucky and survived. Thank God. Now this place’ – Alemayehu Eshete gestures towards …
MARYLAND, USA – Ethiopian natives living in Hyattsville no longer have to travel to Washington, D.C., or Montgomery County to get a taste of home with the opening of Shagga Coffee and Restaurant last summer.
Zewdi Tsegay of Burtonsville, who …
It is reported that Haregewoin Teferra has died yesterday of natural causes at her home in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
The following story about Haregewoin is taken from Mellisa Fay Greene’s book, “There is No Me Without You.”
Haregewoin …
NAIROBI, KENYA (KBC) – The Government of Kenya on Wednesday launched the multi-billion shilling Kibwezi- Mwingi- Maua road that will when completed connect Mombasa at the coast to the town of Moyale in North Eastern Province.
The multi-billion shilling project …
By Yilma Bekele
Enabling is one of those terms with a double meaning. In its positive aspect enabling is an empowerment act. In the US the Civil Right Act is considered an empowerment act. It outlawed racial segregation thus empowering …
The following video is Part 2 of a 5-part series that has just been released by Ethiopian People Patriotic Front (EPPF). To watch all the videos click here.
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KHARTOUM, Sudan — A defiant Sudanese president rallied Arab supporters in Darfur Wednesday by saying no war crimes court or the U.N. Security Council can touch even “an eyelash” on him despite an international order for his arrest.
Speaking to …
OTTAWA, CANADA — Days before a Canadian businessman is to appear in an Ethiopian court to face terrorism charges, the government officials are sending “strong signals” that they are watching to see whether Bashir Makhtal has any hope of a …
As if it is not enough that they have been decimated by the Democrats in the past couple of elections, the Republican survivors are now turning their guns on each other.
At the heart of these internal …
NAIROBI, KENYA (Business Daily) – Kenya continues to lose out in the lucrative shipping industry as it continues to rely on ships for hire to transport its exports.
The hope that one day the country could own its …
Ethiopians from several European cities are mobilizing for a massive protest rally against Meles Zenawi — also known as the Butcher of Addis — in London where he will arrive on April 2 for the G20 meeting.
Ethiopian lawyers, in …
Portrait of Ethiopian royal couple Prince Asfawossen and Princess Medferiashwork
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Addis Ababa, Ethiopia – Princess Medeferiashwork Abebe, the wife of the late Crown Prince Asfawossen, has passed away on Sunday at the age of 84. The funereal ceremony was …
Do you have one good reason to start your business right now?
How about 10?
Regardless of what people around you (including the media) may say, right now is the best time to get into business. Just
AUSTRALIA (smh.com.au) – The world’s 43rd richest person, Mohammed Hussein Ali Al Amoudi of Ethiopia, has been named as the mystery sheikh being courted by officials of Tasmania United FC who are bidding to become an A-League team.
The club’s …
MEROWE, Sudan (AFP) — Sudanese President Omar al-Beshir inaugurated a massive hydro-electric project on Tuesday that has displaced tens of thousands and is the largest to be built along the Nile in 40 years.
[Nile River originates in neighboring Ethiopia, …
NEW JERSEY — The field of archaeology requires uncommon patience. Is that specimen so painstakingly coaxed from the hard earth animal or early human? Is it historically, significantly old or just old enough to be mildly interesting? The answers come …
WASHINGTON DC (examiner.com) In a report released by the Washington D.C. health department, 3 percent of residents over the age of 12 have HIV or AIDS. Nearly 70 percent of the cases are men, and 76 percent are …
The Hague (The Press Association) – Haile Gebrselassie of Ethiopia suffered a shock defeat in the Fortis City-Pier-City half-marathon in The Hague on Saturday, March 14.
Gebrselassie, whose aim was to regain the world record for the distance, was beaten …
ADDIS ABABA, ETHIOPIA (Addis Fortune) – The global financial crisis and the resultant production cut in emerging economies, compounded by the foreign reserve crunch in Ethiopia, has threatened the supply of power transformers by state power utility, the Ethiopian Electric …
EDITOR’S NOTE: Addis Fortune reports that Foreign currency shortage has forced Coca Cola bottling plant in Ethiopia to shut down. It is to be noted that Woyanne-owned or affiliated companies, such as Al Amoudi’s MOHA, are not facing the same …
On the invitation of British prime minister Gordon Brown, Ethiopia’s dictator Meles Zenawi — also known as the “butcher of Addis” — is currently visiting the United Kingdom. Meles will make another trip to London on April 20 next month …
By Tedla Asfaw
Chief Judge Iftikhar Chaudery of Pakistan who was thrown with other judges by the former western loved dictator Musharraf is now reinstated to its former position by the organized protest which is a lesson to our own …
By Alemayehu G. Mariam
From Discontent to Renewal
In the Winter of our discontent, we complained about the wasted years of antagonism, discord and strife among pro-democracy elements of the Ethiopian Diaspora. We deplored the years of infighting and useless …
WASHINGTON DC – Ethiopians Demesse Tefera and Hirut Mandefro co-opted the Irish theme by winning the men’s and women’s titles at the 21st St. Patrick’s Day 8K downtown yesterday.
Tefera, 27, twice New York Road Runners runner of the year …
RIYADH, SAUDI ARABIA – Eritrean Minister of Information Ali Abdu accused some parties in the Ethiopian government of aiding and abetting pirates off the coast of Somalia in the Red Sea.
“They are extending logistic support to the pirates besides …
Several exiled members of Ethiopian armed forces have created a support group for Ethiopian People Patriotic Forces (EPPF), a statement issued by the group announced on Sunday. Click here to read their statement.…
‘If we think we’ve got a health care crisis, let me take you to Ethiopia’ – Dr. Matt Campbell
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Dr. Matt Campbell was ready to call it a night after a long first day in an Ethiopia hospital when a …
Binyam Mohamed, the former Guantánamo Bay detainee and an immigrant from Ethiopia who claims that MI5 colluded in his torture, should be considered for deportation, the Conservative Party said.
David Lidington, the shadow foreign minister, said there was a “serious …
By Jenny Higgins
It’s 9.20am and I’m standing in a corrugated iron shed, trying to get the group of 25 third graders I am teaching to settle down. It hasn’t been the most peaceful of lessons – first a dog …
NEW YORK (UN Population Division/DESA) World population is projected to reach 7 billion early in 2012, up from the current 6.8 billion, and surpass 9 billion people by 2050, reveals the 2008 Revision of the official United Nations population …
LONDON (Financial Times) – Two days after Dominique Strauss-Kahn, IMF managing director, told a conference on the global economic crisis in Dar es Salaam that he could be Africa’s “voice” at next month’s G20 summit, Mr Kikwete told …
This video is one of the most shocking things I have seen in a long time. It is about animal suffering and abuse in Ethiopia. Our society should not allow this kind of suffering to go on any longer. Some …
By STEVEN R. HURST
WASHINGTON (AP) – Advocates fear the Obama administration may be putting the human rights issue on the back burner to focus instead on coping with the global economic crisis and national security.
President Barack Obama sought …
UNION COLLEGE, NEW YORK – A group of mechanical engineering students, led by professor Ron Bucinell, will spend their spring break in Boru, Ethiopia, hoping to tap a clean water source for the village’s 5,000 residents.
This will be the …
(BBC) – Some 70,000 people have fled their homes in a remote part of southern Ethiopia, after a deadly conflict broke out between rival groups – apparently triggered by the construction of a new borehole. The BBC’s Elizabeth …
By KARL ROVE
Presidents throughout history have kept lists of political foes. But the Obama White House is the first I am aware of to pick targets based on polls. Even Richard Nixon didn’t focus-group his enemies list.
Team Obama …
MANCHESTER, England (AP) — World record-holder Haile Gebrselassie of Ethiopia will compete in the 10-kilometer Great Manchester Run in May.
“I like Manchester, it is a good fast course and I’m looking forward to returning,” Gebrselassie said. “It fits perfectly …
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SUNNYSIDE, WASHINGTON — Mawi Asgedom urged Sunnyside teenagers to set goals, work hard and focus on battles greater than their latest schoolyard spats.
“No matter what happens to you in life, don’t …
By WILLIAM YARDLEY | The New York Times
SEATTLE, WASHINGTON – It was not the expansive new mural depicting evolutionary history that brought Sandy McKean down to the Pacific Science Center on a rainy winter weekday. Nor had he come …
(Ogaden Online) – Reports reaching the Ogaden Online service desk indicate raging battles between the Ogaden National Liberation Army (ONLA) and the Woyanne regime militias throughout Ogaden in eastern Ethiopia. All the latest battles took place between March …
Sudan president cancels Ethiopia trip
KHARTOUM (Sudan Tribine) – A planned trip by the Sudanese president Omer Hassan Al-Bashir to Ethiopia today, for the annual supreme joint committee meeting has been cancelled for unknown reasons.
The pro-government Sudanese Media Center …
HENGELO, THE NETHERLANDS – The organisers of the Fanny Blankers Koen Games announced yesterday that Ethiopia’s Haile Gebrselassie will attack his own World record for the One Hour in Hengelo on 1 June 2009.
The Fanny Blankers-Koen Games is an …
By Simon Vozick-Levinson | Entertainment Weekly
As if 2009 hasn’t already been jam-packed for Beyonce Knowles, the singer-actress is currently preparing a year-long world tour with dates in Canada set to launch later this month. “I’ve been working on this …