SPRINGFIELD, OHIO — In the past 30 years, more than 100,000 Ethiopian Jews have emigrated to Israel, but thousands more still wait in Gondar province for their chance to leave.
Yellow Springs filmmaker Aileen LeBlanc has been filming them for …
NAIROBI, KENYA – The construction of an eight-lane highway on Thika Road begins on Monday. This follows the Government’s signing of a Sh27 billion contract with three Chinese road construction firms.
Acting Roads Minister Chris Obure, yesterday said the construction …
Mozambican and South African energy utilities, EDM and Eskom, will jointly construct a $1.3-billion power station in Mozambique in a move to boost power supply to South Africa ahead of the 2010 FIFA World Cup, Eskom and EDM said here …
MONROVIA – Three Liberian journalists are expected to leave the country today for Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, to cover the Sixth African development Forum, which is jointly organized by the Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) and the African Union Commission (AUC) …
ADDIS ABABA, ETHIOPIA – The British Embassy in Addis Ababa has launched a new online visa application services. Susannah Richmond, Entry Clearance Manger with British Embassy in Addis Ababa, told WIC that the United Kingdom wants to improve the services …
Finally I’ve been walking with all coffee trees surrounding me. Coffee left, coffee right, coffee everywhere. I felt so good to see all these beans in different colors. It just rained, but then by miracle the sun came through and …
By Michelle | Academic Travel Abroad
As Senior Program Manager at Academic Travel Abroad (ATA), I have the responsibility of visiting international destinations and inspecting all aspects of the itineraries our groups will follow. The past twelve years at ATA …
Former Miss Ethiopia Jitu Abraham and parents meet with President-Elect Barack Obama and wife Michelle. Jitu currently resides in the Washington DC area, and works as a model and broadcaster. She has recently completed the U.S. Marine Corps Marathon in …
TRIPOLI, Libya (Garowe Online) – Somalia’s interim President Abdullahi Yusuf has said that the Ethiopian government the Woyanne junta in Ethiopia is ‘independent’ in its decision to withdraw its troops from Somalia.
During a Tuesday interview with the VOA Somali …
ADDIS ABABA, ETHIOPIA – African airlines face hard times as a global economic downturn could spur the industry’s US and European giants to seek new markets on the continent, a pan-African body said Tuesday.
“With traffic in America and Europe …
ZURICH, Switzerland (AP) – Ethiopia remained under suspension from world soccer’s governing body Tuesday after talks collapsed at FIFA headquarters.
Two rival groups are vying for control of Ethiopia’s national federation. The country was suspended in July and later kicked …
By Yohannes Anberbir | Addis Fortune
ADDIS ABABA, ETHIOPIA – Experts from Citibank, the New York based banking giant that recently was swindled of 27 million dollars from the Ethiopian National Bank’s US account, have scheduled to visit the National …
ADDIS ABABA, ETHIOPIA (IRIN) – At least 52,000 people have abandoned their homes in Ethiopia’s Somali region after the Wade Shabelle and Genale rivers burst their banks following heavy rains.
“Heavy rains pounded western highlands and six woredas [administrative wards] …
By WUDINEH ZENEBE | ADDIS FORTUNE
The opening of the international tender for the procurement of fertilizers last Tuesday November 11, 2008, for the first time in the current year, has been more than just good for Ethiopia’s agriculture.
The …
Ethiopia: Arbitrary detention/torture or other ill-treatment
AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL
At least 15 members of the Oromo ethnic group, including those named above have been arrested in the Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, and also reportedly in eastern and western parts of the Oromia …
ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) – [The Woyanne regime in] Ethiopia said on Tuesday it was not prepared to continue propping up Somalia’s interim government “indefinitely” and urged leaders there to embrace a peace process to stop 17 years of conflict.
Somali …
Ethiopian Review will interview Ato Sileshi Tilahun, the head of organizational affairs for the Ethiopian People Patriotic Front’s International Committee, this coming Sunday, Nov. 23, 2008, at 3:00 PM Washington DC time, 8:00 PM London time.
The interview will be …
EDITOR’S NOTE: The Tibetan leader Dalai Lama is a role model for Ethiopia’s surrenderist opposition group named UDJ that is led by Birtukan Mideksa and Mesfin Woldemariam.
DHARAMSHALA, India (AFP) — Tibetan exiles worked Tuesday to hammer out a new …
VALPARAISO, INDIANA – Two Valparaiso University faculty members have been named University Research Professors and will receive support for projects on traditions of restorative justice in Ethiopia and assessing the impact of Chinese air pollution.
Selected by the University’s Committee …
U.S. government plays role in improving quality
By Phillip Kurata | America.gov
Jimma, Ethiopia — Coffee, as legend has it, was first enjoyed by goats that ate beans off wild bushes in the lush mountains of central Ethiopia. A shepherd …
By Elias Kifle
Sources close to Birtukan Mideksa’s new party, Unity for Democracy and Justice (UDJ), have informed Ethiopian Review that some of the top leaders of the party are considering resignation. The most prominent among them are Ato Temesgen …
Foreign Trade and Development Minister Paavo Väyrynen (Photo: YLE)
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Foreign Trade and Development Minister Paavo Väyrynen embarks on a five-day visit to Ethipia and Kenya from Monday. Väyrynen will discuss Finnish development cooperation with the Prime Ministers of both countries.…
By Staff Sergeant Marcus M. Maier
435th Air Base Wing Public Affairs
BOTSWANA – Thirty Ramstein Airmen traveled to the southern region of Africa in early October, 2008 to share their knowledge and experience with counterparts from the Botswana Defense …
Tiberah Tsehai Tsehainy.com
EthiDolls, established in 2003 and based in New York City, is the maker of the eye catching Queen of Sheba Doll, Makeda. Makeda comes fully dressed in hand-woven hager lebse and even has tattoos on her neck. …
By Zakari Musah
Ghana’s general elections, slated for December this year, are very crucial to the people of Ghana as well as the international community. Already, some opinion leaders have started commenting on the elections, thus indicating that all eyes …
U.S. Department of Homeland Security
Customes and Border Protection
NEWS RELEASE
Sterling, Va. – One of Customs and Border Protection’s primary missions is enforcing America’s agriculture regulations and that fact was made apparent to all 125 passengers from Ethiopia aboard …
Things are getting darker by the day for the Woyanne cannibalistic regime in Ethiopia as alliances are being built around it. President Isayas Afeworki’s visit to Sudan opens the door for Ethiopia’s opposition groups to establish relations with the Sudanese …
Neighbors such as Ethiopia and Sudan worry
It looks like a mirage but the lush fields of cauliflower, apricot trees and melon growing among a vast stretch of sand north of Cairo’s pyramids is all too real — proof of …
The Reporter in its latest edition reports that Sheraton Addis, which is owned by Ethiopia’s billionaire businessman [and drunkard womanizer] Ato Mohammed Al Amoudi may be put on the auction block to pay for 170 million birr debt that the …
By Alemayehu G. Mariam
…For the survivor who chooses to testify, it is clear: his duty is to bear witness for the dead and the living. He has no right to deprive future generations of a past that belongs to
MOGADISHU (AFP) — On Monday, witnesses in Mogadishu said they saw AU peacekeepers (troops from Uganda) replacing some Ethiopian Woyanne troops in southern Mogadishu.
“I saw a convoy of AU peacekeepers entering the former military academy of Jalle Siad where …
ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) – A river in Ethiopia’s highlands burst its banks after heavy rains, killing 11 people and stranding hundreds more, the state news agency said on Monday.
Flooding from the Wabe Shebelle river in southeast Ethiopia has submerged …
OROMO LIBERATION FRONT
Provisional Committee
Statement on TPLF’s Peace Gimmick
After 17 years of back and forth peace initiatives which have resulted in nothing, the OLF is convinced the TPLF minority dictatorship cunningly uses “peace overtures” of one …
By Yilma Bekele
The whole planet is deliriously happy. It is possible that data from Hubble telescope will show a slight wobble by our planet at exactly 8:17 PM Pacific Standard Time on November 4th. 2008. It must be from …
Source: CNN
Pirates have hijacked a Saudi-owned oil tanker with 25 crew aboard off the coast of Kenya, the U.S. Navy and the British Foreign Office confirmed on Monday.
he Sirius Star — a crude “super tanker” flagged in Liberia …
Source: Sudan Tribune
MEKELE, ETHIOPIA – An Eritrean rebel group, the Red Sea Afar Democratic Organization [armed and trained by the Meles regime in Ethiopia] claimed killing over two hundred Eritrean government troops during an attack carried last week against …
EDITOR’S NOTE: U.S. Africa policy under Jendayi Frazer has been a disaster. She has been directly or indirectly responsible for the Somalia horror, the Ogaden genocide in Ethiopia, Ethiopia’s stolen election in 2005, the Zimbabwe hypocrisy, the Darfur holocaust… just …
LONDON (AFP) — President Paul Kagame of Rwanda said Monday that Europe had shown “total contempt” for his country by arresting one of his key aides suspected of involvement in the death of a former ruler.
He told the Financial …
Interview with Abaynesh Asrat as episode 19 of the monthly podcast LIFE Voices. She was born in Ethiopia to a family that stressed four kinds of well-being: physical, emotional, spiritual and the well-being of one’s community. She brought these values …
MBABANE, SWAZILAND (AFP) – Police have arrested a Swaziland opposition leader as part of a crackdown under the country’s anti-terrorism laws, his family said on Sunday.
People’s United Democratic Movement (PUDEMO) leader Mario Masuku was arrested on Saturday and was …
ZIMBABWE, HARARE (IRIN) – President Robert Mugabe’s government is launching another wave of attacks against the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC), a spokesman for the party told IRIN, as a much vaunted power-sharing deal appeared to be on …
LAGOS (http://ethiopianreview.com/worldmedia/category/nigeria/) — Nigeria’s anti-drugs agency seized 30,000 kilogrammes of cannabis contained in 5,923 bags in southern Edo state, a senior official said Sunday.
“The seizures were made early this week in Auchi and Okada. The illicit drug was loaded …
There are talks inside the UDJ circles that Birtukan Mideksa may NOT return to Ethiopia after concluding her European tour this month …and Ethiopian Review’s editorial on the possible alliance between OLF, Ginbot 7, EPPF, ONLF and TPDM to create …
BANGUI (AFP) — At least 13 soldiers were killed in an ambush by rebels at Kabo, near the Central African Republic‘s border with Chad, 400 kilometres (250 miles) north of Bangui, their families told AFP Wednesday.
The defence …
NIJMEGEN, THE NETERLANDS – Mestawat Tufa and Ayele Abshiro of Ethiopia were the winners of the 25th edition of the Fortis Zevenheuvelen loop (Seven hills run), an IAAF Silver Label Road Race, in Nijmegen.
Tufa won the women’s race in …
ADDIS ABABA, ETHIOPIA (APA) – Ethiopian Woyanne Ministry of Justice officials on Sunday said 226 out of the 273 people arrested, have been charged with genocide committed during an ethnic clash in May.
The rest, 47 of them …
Police raids have revealed an alleged network baby “farms” or “factories” in Nigeria, forcing a new look at the scope of human trafficking in the country.
At a hospital in Enugu, a large city in Nigeria’s southeast, 20 teenage …
HARARE (Xinhua) — Confusion surrounds the participation of Zimbabwe’s opposition MDC-T in the proposed inclusive government as apparent contradictions have emerged between the party’s national council and some senior officials in the political formation, The Sunday Mail said.
Top council …
LOME (Reuters) – Togo will start distributing free of charge from November 17 the anti-retroviral drugs that extend the lives of HIV/AIDS patients, its government said Saturday.
“Anti-retroviral medicines distributed by the network of the Central Supply of Essential and …
KIGALI – Rwanda’s president, Paul Kagame, has accused the United Nations of betraying a pledge to combat Hutu extremists in eastern Congo and then blaming his country for the failure of a costly peacekeeping mission to end years of conflict.…
NIJMEGEN, The Netherlands (AFP) — Ethiopian running great Kenenisa Bekele said on Sunday he was unsure as to which distance he would target for the 2012 Olympics in London.
The 26-year-old 5,000 metres and 10,000m Olympic champion said he was …
TEHRAN (ISNA)-Algerian Prime Minister Ahmed Ouyahia said his country certainly supports Iran’s right for access to peaceful nuclear technology.
In a meeting with Iranian Vice President Parviz Davoudi, Ouyahia described Davoudi’s trip to Algeria as a turning point …
By Ryan DuVall
DINING OUT
FORT WAYNE, INDIANA – There is a sense of intimidation when trying a new restaurant, especially when it is one that serves something way outside the norm.
In the case of Ethiopian Restaurant, its simple …
Somalia’s president has said his government is “on the verge of total collapse” as opposition fighters have taken control of large parts of the country. “Most of the country is in |
ADDIS ABABA, ETHIOPIA — Ethiopian authorities arbitrarily arrested 94 opposition members and Oromo nationals in different towns of Oromiya region but mainly in the capital Addis Ababa, confirmed two oppositions parties today.
Recently the Oromo Parliamentarians Council in a joint …
GODE, ETHIOPIA (APA) – Floods washed away at least 11 people and displaced thousands in Gode (700km from capital) in the eastern part of Ethiopia, APA learnt in Addis on Saturday.
According to Ethiopian authorities, the flood occurred late on …
Somali President Abdullahi Yusuf Ahmed says Islamist fighters now control almost all of Somalia. He was speaking in the Kenyan capital Nairobi, where both he and the Somalia parliament now reside.
Mr Yusuf says the Islamists have now reached the …
By Robert Ochieng | Sunday Observer
Tanzania is losing ground in the fight against illicit drugs, recording more cases and suspects of drug offences compared to the number of seizures by relevant authorities last year.
Christopher Shekiondo Drugs Control and …
Thousands of people marched in Madrid on Saturday in demand for …
KINSHASA – Olesegun Obasanjo, a United Nations envoy, has held talks with the leader of a Tutsi armed group that is fighting government forces in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, in an attempt to mediate an end to the …
By Yemti Harry Ndienla | MyNews.in
YAOUNDE – “It is now certain that incarcerated publisher, Lewis Medjo will spend Christmas and New Year 2008 away from his family and friends at the Newbell prison in Douala”, report The Herald newspaper. …
By Dale T. McKinley | Green Left
At some point in the not-too-distant future, we might just look back at 2008 as the year in which things really started to fall apart for the African National Congress (ANC).
Africa’s oldest …
OUAGADOUGOU (AFP) – At least 66 people died Saturday when a bus and a truck collided and caught fire in Burkina Faso in one of West Africa’s worst road accidents, the transport minister said.
“We bemoan 96 victims, of whom …
As globalization brings countries closer together, the need to travel between countries for business, pleasure and family increases. However travel within many countries can be extremely dangerous for the novice traveler. Following are the top ten most …
A Japanese freighter, whose crewmen include five South Koreans, was hijacked by an armed group in waters off Somalia on late Saturday (Seoul time), South Korea’s foreign ministry said Sunday.
The 20,000-ton cargo ship named Chemstar Venus was abducted 96 …
By Luke Kuth Dak
Once again, President Omer Al-Bashir continues to do what he does best, to confuse the Sudanese people, virtually on all the utmost challenges facing the country, including, of course, his indictment by the International Criminal Court …
By CHRISTINE SIMMONS
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Bush, reflecting on his time in office, said Wednesday that “one of the most uplifting” experiences of his nearly eight-year tenure has been witnessing the gains Africa has made in education and fighting …
By Sachin Seth | Blast
The Togolese government, in partnership with the network of the Central Supply of Essential and Generic Medicines (CAMEG), recently announced that it will start distributing antiretroviral drugs to HIV/AIDS patients at no cost, according to …
KHARTOUM, Sudan (AP) — A Darfur rebel group is accusing Sudanese troops of attacking an area in northern Darfur despite a government-declared cease-fire.
The Justice and Equality Movement says the group repelled an attack Saturday from government vehicles backed by …
KAMPALA (AFP) – A rebel group that has waged a low-level insurgency in western Uganda for more than a decade has agreed to enter formal peace talks with the Ugandan government, an official said Saturday.
The deal between President Yoweri …
By Alex Duval Smith | The Observer
The Tanzanian MP recounts the appalling story in a tone of sadness and horror. A woman named Salma had been told by her family to dress her baby entirely in black and to …
By George Thande
VICTORIA (Reuters) – The International Monetary Fund has agreed a two-year $26-million rescue package for the deeply indebted Seychelles’ economy, but the country’s central bank warned on Saturday it would not be enough on its own.
The …
The head of the EU’s electoral mission in Guinea Bissau said Saturday on the eve of a parliamentary poll that “everything is ready” for the ballot, seen as an important step to stabilise the country.
Johan Van Hecke hailed the …
By Rajat Pandit, TNN
NEW DELHI: Even as the UN Security Council moves towards pumping in more peace-keeping troops into war-ravaged Congo, India has for now virtually ruled out sending additional soldiers to the Central African nation.
India is already …
FRANKFURT, GERMANY – The newly reorganized Ethiopian People Patriotic Front’s (EPPF) International Committee has officially launched its campaign to organize Ethiopians in the Diaspora by holding its first council meeting Saturday, Nov. 14.
At the opening of the meeting, the …
By David Bamford | BBC News
Somali President Abdullahi Yusuf Ahmed has said Islamist insurgents now control most of the country, and have advanced to the edge of Mogadishu.
Mr Yusuf said there was no effective government in Somalia, and …
The Secret Service is tasked with protecting the President of the United States from assailants; and given that President-elect Obama has already been the target of assassination plots they may have their work cut out
CAIRO, EGYPT – The Egyptian government warned Sudan that its stance on the International Criminal Court (ICC) is “weak” and will not protect president Omer Hassan Al-Bashir from prosecution.
“I thoroughly examined the ICC Statute to look for something that …
ADDIS ABABA – Dr. Worku Zewde and his wife, Zinash, came back to Ethiopia ten years ago after spending 21 years in the United States, where they had become American citizens.
“Going to the United States was …
ADDIS ABABA (AFP) — Talks on forming a new government in Somalia in a bid to end nearly two decades of bloodletting have failed, Ethiopia’s Woyanne foreign ministry announced on Saturday.
Somalia’s President Abdullah Yusuf Ahmed and Prime Minister Nur …
EDITOR’S NOTE: These are opportunist cowards. Why don’t they speak up when the Meles dictatorship is turning the country into a vast prison camp for Oromos?
By Tsegaye Tadesse
ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) – An Ethiopian rebel group must listen to …
By ANNE CHUDOBIAK | The Gazette
QUEBECK, CANADA – The more willing you are to suspend disbelief, the more you will enjoy the improbable, but funny situation laid out in Operation Rimbaud, the latest novel by Jacques Godbout to appear …
By Dorothy H Crawford
Professor of medical microbiology
Edinburgh University
WHEN Aids first struck an unsuspecting American population in 1981, no-one had a clue what caused this lethal new disease, or where it came from.
As the disease spread at …
PORT ELIZABETH, SOUTH AFRICA – A runner in the Algoa Bus Bay to Bay Challenge was stabbed and robbed in full view of horrified runners and spectators in Port Elizabeth‘s notorious Victoria Drive at the weekend.
Theresa Matthysen, 41, from …
By John Mangels
The discovery in Ethiopia of a million-year-old female pelvis is forcing scientists to rethink what they thought they knew about the offspring, appearance and lifestyle of the earliest ancestors of modern humans.
The remarkably complete fossil’s shape …
RANDOLPH TOWNSHIP, NEW JERSEY – Paul Michael Designs, 477 Route 10 East, will hold a holiday open house fundraiser to benefit Ethiopian orphans from 5 – 9 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 13.
The event will feature jewelry made by the children …
By Shapi Shacinda
LUSAKA, ZAMBIA (Reuters) – Zambia’s new president fired the finance minister on Friday and the opposition leader challenged election results, ushering in a period of political and economic uncertainty for Africa’s top copper producer.
Finance Minister Ng’andu …
By Tume Ahemba
LAGOS (Reuters) – China’s Shenzhen Energy Group plans to build a 3,000 megawatts (MW) power plant in a joint venture with Nigeria’s First Bank FBNP.LG at an estimated cost of $2.4 billion, the financial institution said on …
MOSCOW (AFP) — Russia has sold 12 MiG-29 fighter jets to Sudan, Sudanese Defence Minister Abdul Rahim Mohammed Hussein said during a visit to Moscow on Friday, Russian news agencies reported.
“Yes, it’s all done. The planes have been …
Two mothers in western Tanzania have been attacked by gangs who were after their children who have albinism.
The women were hacked with machetes when the attackers failed to find the two children.
Albinos have been targeted in a series …
CAIRO (AFP) — Egyptian first lady Suzanne Mubarak has played down allegations of rampant sexual harassment in her country, accusing the media, and implicitly Islamist militants, of exaggerating the reports.
“Egyptian men always respect Egyptian women,” the pro-government …
GOVERNOR Adams Oshiomhole of Edo State in a major move yesterday took a firm grip of the state finances, ordering commercial banks to suspend transactions on the accounts.
Also, he sacked all political appointees …
By Fekade Shewakena
Watching Barrack Obama’s election from the beginning of the campaign to the victory celebrations was like watching an epic Shakespearian movie. The death of his grandmother two days before the victory celebration appears like a plot that …
U.S. government and Land O’Lakes Corporation support dairy development
Man on left stands in front of two abodes. (Photo by Michael Tewelde)
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By Phillip Kurata | America.gov
Asallah, Ethiopia — Until two years ago, Ato Abebe scratched out a meager …
By Wambui Oyulu
AIR Uganda will celebrate its first anniversary today.
“Surviving in the aviation industry has been difficult, especially during these hard times of the financial crisis and fuel prices shooting up. We are happy to have reached this …
EDITOR’S NOTE: The vampire regime in Ethiopia has outlawed ownership of web hosting and Internet services by private companies in Ethiopia, while other African countries such as Nigeria are working to catch up with developed countries.
If you are wondering …
DENVER, COLORADO – Yohannes Gebregeorgis grew up in a dusty Ethiopian village, the son of an illiterate cattle trader. As a barefoot boy, he couldn’t know his fate in life, but it was already sealed. He would spend his life …
By Yeroo Newspaper
Ana Gomes, Member of the European Parliament and Head of the European Electoral Observation Mission to Ethiopia. She gave the following interview to a Yeroo, an Oromiffa publication which has ceased publication due to repressions.
Hon. Ana …
By Chinedu Offor
Nigeria’s multi-million dollar communication satellite is spinning out of control just 18 months after launch. The Chinese built Nigcomsat at a cost to Nigeria of $340 million. It was expected to provide broadband Internet and communications for …
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