ADDIS ABABA, ETHIOPIA – Japan today donated 9,600 metric tons of wheat worth over 47 million birr to the Ethiopian Grain Trade Enterprise.
Speaking at the handing over ceremony, Japanese Ambassador to Ethiopia, Kinichi komano, said the donation has a …
Egypt wants the United Nations Security Council to step in to postpone the extradition of Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir to the International Criminal Court in The Hague by a year. The Court wants to prosecute Sudan’s president for genocide and …
By JERRY STEWART | Monterey County Herald
In her homeland, Belainesh Gebre sometimes runs at altitudes as high as 7,000 feet above sea level.
At Sunday’s sixth annual Big Sur Half Marathon on Monterey Bay , the 20-year-old Ethiopian found …
By Daud Yussuf
GARISSA, Kenya (Reuters) – Heavily armed Somali gunmen kidnapped two European nuns on Monday during a pre-dawn raid on a remote Kenyan border town, witnesses said.
Somalia is one of the most dangerous countries in the world …
EDITOR’S NOTE: This is what Ethiopian opposition leaders have failed to do. The crimes committed following the 2005 elections in Ethiopia is far worse than what happened in Kenya.
By Derek Kilner | VOA
A Kenyan human-rights watchdog says it …
MOGADISHU, SOMALIA – Meles Zenawi’s troops in Mogadishu have indiscriminately opened gunfire on unarmed civilians killing three people on Tuesday, witnesses told Mareeg.
Eyewitnesses confirmed to Shabelle that they saw the dead bodies killed by the soldiers in Hamar Bile …
LAGOS (AFP) — Africa may have hailed his victory, but Barack Obama’s election as the first black president of the United States has triggered awkward questions about the continent’s own democratic track record.
As the euphoria fades, opposition parties across …
CAIRO, EGYPT – The headquarters of the Egyptian opposition party Al-Ghad went up in flames following an exchange of firebombs by followers of Gamila Isma’il, wife of imprisoned oppositionist and former party head Dr. Ayman Nour, and of followers of …
Ghana (Greenpeace) — The latest place where we have discovered high tech toxic trash causing horrendous pollution is in Ghana. Our analysis of samples taken from two electronic waste (e-waste) scrap yards in Ghana has revealed severe contamination …
By Hayal Alemayehu | The Reporter
Export revenue secured during the first quarter of the current Ethiopian fiscal year fell sixteen percent short of the government’s ambitious target, it was learnt.
A total of close to USD 352 million was …
(ENA) – Bole Sub City Police department in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, arrested one of the suspected assailants who attacked owner and Editor-in-Chief of The Reporter newspapers, Ato Amare Aregawi.
Officer Tadesse Bekelle told Ethiopian News Agenecy (ENA) on Saturday that …
There Is No Me Without You: One Woman’s Odyssey to Rescue Africa’s Children
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There Is No Me Without You: One Woman’s Odyssey to Rescue Africa’s Children
Author: Melissa Fay Greene
Edition: 1
Format: Bargain Price
Manufacturer: Bloomsbury USA
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Number Of Pages: 472
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By Nicholas Kigondu | KBC
The two nuns abducted in Mandera district Monday by armed bandits are in Somalia.
Kenyan security forces confirmed that they were pursuing the kidnappers but said no progress had been made.
A top police official …
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) – Pirates hijacked a Philippines chemical tanker with 23 crew near Somalia, bringing the total number of attacks in waters off the impoverished African nation this year to 83, a maritime official said Tuesday.
The tanker …
See this amazing collection of newspaper headlines about the election of Barack Obama on November 4, 2008. Compiled by Goeff. Click here to see.
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By Manasi Sharma | Global Vision
Each day, one million South Africans get a text message that reads something like this:
Frequently sick, tired, losing weight and scared that you might be HIV positive? Please call AIDS Helpline 0800012322.
It’s …
Ethiopian Review has become one of the few reliable source of information and free discussion forums for Ethiopians around the world after the Meles dictatorship shut down most of the independent media inside the country. We are working hard to …
Nigeria President Umaru Yar Adua has asked his lawyers to sue an Abuja-based newspaper after it reported the president was seriously ill and has not been seen in public in the past two days. Gilbert da Costa has more for …
CAIRO, EGYPT (AFP) – Sunni Islam’s highest authority has approved a woman’s right to fight back if her husband uses violence against her, Al-Masry Al-Youm newspaper reported on Monday.
The declaration by Sheikh Abdel Hamid Al-Atrash, who heads Al-Azhar University’s …
MONTE CARLO, Monaco (AP) — Jamaican sprinter Usain Bolt and Ethiopian distance runner Tirunesh Dibaba lead the contenders for the IAAF’s world athlete of the year awards.
Bolt won three gold medals with world records in the 100 and 200 …
By Jane | Ethiopian Orphan Relief
DENVER, COLORADO – Art for Ethiopia, our fundraising art sale/auction for Children’s Heaven that was held this past Saturday, November 8th in Denver was a SMASHING success!!! Not only was the event attended by …
WASHINGTON DC — The Bushes welcomed the Obamas to the White House on Monday, visiting for nearly two hours and offering the nation a glimpse of a new first family at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. President-elect Obama and President Bush met …
By Tania Tabar, The Daily Star
BEIRUT – At the Ethiopian Consulate in Beirut, Lebanon, a poster declares “Ethiopia: 13 weeks of sunshine” as two officials sit at their desks. The three chairs in the waiting room are usually occupied …
ADDIS ABABA, ETHIOPIA (Xinhua) — To the sound of horns, the revving of engines by the assembled construction vehicles and much applause from the delegates, the start of the construction of the new conference center of the African Union (AU) …
By Tania Tabar, The Daily Star
BEIRUT, LEBANON – At the Ethiopian Consulate in Beirut, a poster declares “Ethiopia: 13 weeks of sunshine” as two officials sit at their desks. The three chairs in the waiting room are usually occupied …
Work began on the 41 million dollar project in May 2006 with funding from an Indian government concessionary loan. The loan has a 50 percent grant element with repayment period of 25 years.
The loan has an in-built moratorium of …
By Bassma Al Jandaly | Gulf News
Ras Al Khaimah, UAE – The body of a 19-year-old Ethiopian woman which was kept at the morgue for the past two months, finally went home on Monday with the help of Gulf …
COLORADO – Ethiopia Reads founder (and finalist for the CNN Hero 2008 Award) Yohannes GebreGeorgis will speak about his work from 4:30 to 6 p.m. on Thursday, Nov. 13, in the Canyon Theater at the Main Library, 1000 Canyon Blvd, …
By Chinedu Offor | VOA
The African Commission on Human and Peoples Rights is probing Nigeria’s rights records. Watchdog groups have accused security agencies of excessive use of force and extra judicial killings. The government denies the charge and says …
JUBA, Sudan (AFP) — Southern Sudan on Monday warned Egypt’s President Hosni Mubarak that regional instability could also destabilise his country and urged Cairo to put pressure on Khartoum to move ahead with a three-year-old peace agreement.
“He said Egypt …
While speaking at Web 2.0 Summit last week, Mark Zuckerberg briefly commented on Facebook being used to overthrow bad regimes. The audience chuckled at his comment but the reality is that Facebook has been the source of many protests around …
By Kentaro Sugino / Yomiuri Shimbun
A traditional shitamachi area of Tokyo associated with the popular “Tora-san” series of films has seen a recent influx of newcomers looking for a new life away from political turmoil back home.
While many …
MOGADISHU (Xinhua) — Gunmen in the southern Somali town of Baidoa, the base of the transitional Somali parliament have shot dead a senior Somali government official, local media reports said Sunday.
Hussein Runow Sheik, second deputy Governor of the southern …
MUMBAI, INDIA – Infrastructure development firm C&C Constructions of India plans to diversify into construction of power transmission towers as a part of its future growth plan.
The company is a major player in road-building and water pipelines with over …
LONDON (Reuters) – Jamaica’s triple Olympic champion Usain Bolt was among six Beijing gold medallists shortlisted for the 2008 World Athlete of the Year awards on Monday, the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) said.
Bolt, who set world records …
EDITOR’S NOTE: Look no further to find the the main cause of food shortage in the fertile region of Ethiopia. Woyanne agrofuel companies are sucking southern Ethiopia dry.
Gebremedhine Birega, environmentalist, Ethiopia: “It is unbelievable. [Agrofuel] plots have so rapidly …
The build up to the 15th SPAR European Cross Country Championship to be held in Belgian capital Brussels on December 14 …
By Alemayehu G. Mariam
…And to all those watching tonight from beyond our shores, from parliaments and palaces to those who are huddled around radios in the forgotten corners of our world…: Tonight, we proved once more that the true
South African singing legend Miriam Makeba has died aged 76, after being taken ill in Italy.
She had just taken part in a concert near the southern town of Caserta, the Ansa news agency reported.
Ethiopia’s Kenenisa Bekele and Tirinesh Dibaba are currently in 4th place each at the IAAF World Athlete of Year list. Haile Gebreselassie is in 5th place.
The finalists were chosen following a poll of internet fans and the IAAF Family …
LONDON UK – The chairperson of Unity for Democracy and Justice, Wzt. Birtukan Mideksa, and executive committee member Ato Akilu Girgire, held a public meeting in London on Sunday, Nov. 9. In a dramatic shift from a similar meeting last …
By Virginie Montet | Agence France-Presse
SALES of guns in the US are on the rise as gun enthusiasts fear president-elect Barack Obama and his Democratic allies in Congress will impose new restrictions on firearms.
In October, as Senator Obama …
Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania (AFP) – An aircraft crash on Mount Kilimanjaro in Tanzania has claimed the lives of four tourists and left the pilot seriously injured.
The Kenyan-registered plane was flying over Africa’s highest peak, Kilimanjaro regional police commander …
By Ryan Lizza | The New Yorker
Last June, Joel Benenson, who was Barack Obama’s top pollster during his Presidential run, reported on the state of the campaign. His conclusions, summed up in a sixty-slide PowerPoint presentation, were revealed to …
By Y.B. Sarangi | The Hindu
NEW DELHI: Deriba Merga of Ethiopia pipped Wilson Kipsang of Kenya by just one second to win the men’s race in the Airtel Delhi Half Marathon here on Sunday.
On a pleasant winter morning, …
By Bassma Al Jandaly | Gulf News
RAS AL KHAIMAH, UAE – An overwhelming response was received from readers in the UAE and Oman, who wanted to donate in order to help repatriate the body of a woman from Ethiopia …
Mon, Nov 10, 2008
K -v- Refugee Appeals Tribunal and Anor: High Court Judgment was delivered by Mr Justice McCarthy on July 31st 2008
Judgment
An asylum seeker from Ethiopia failed in his application to quash the decision …
Letter from Member of Ethiopian Parliament Ato Bulcha Demeksa
Chairman of opposition party Oromo Federalist Democratic Movement
The Government Woyanne has announced on [its state-owned] TV this evening that it has arrested many Oromos in connection with terrorist activities. OFDM …
ADDIS ABABA (Xinhua) – Leaders of China’ top legislature and Ethiopian Federal Council said here Sunday that the two countries should strengthen cooperation between the two countries’ legislatures as part of their efforts to push for improvement of bilateral relations …
By Abe Selig | JERUSALEM POST
An entrance to the Prime Minister’s Office looked more like a refugee camp on Sunday afternoon as a protest by nearly 150 new immigrants from Ethiopia over “sub-standard” conditions at the Beit Alfa immigrant …
By Yael Branovsky | Israel News
Some 150 Ethiopian immigrants staged a demonstration in Jerusalem on Sunday, in protest of their economic distress and the harsh living conditions in the Kibbutz Beit Alfa absorption center in northern Israel.
The protestors …
Residents of at least eight municipalities will, for the first time in Israel’s history, be able to vote for a political party made up solely of new and veteran Ethiopian immigrants during next week’s local …
EDITOR’S NOTE: Teddy Afro is about to get a well-known cellmate in Kality soon.
By BEHRAM KILIÇ | ZAMAN
ISTANBUL, TURKY – The biggest surprise of this year’s Eurasia Marathon was Haile Gebrselassie of Ethiopia, who achieves great success every …
By M.C. HELSABECK | York Daily Record
YORK, PENNYSLVANIA – The 32nd annual White Rose 5-Mile Run went off without a hitch, and longtime race director Clay Shaw, who has been in charge of the last 29 races, announced that …
NEW DELHI: Ethiopia’s Deriba Merga won the Delhi Half Marathon men’s race, setting a new race record of 59.14 mins. The women’s race was won by a fellow Ethiopian Aselefech Mergia clocking 68.16 mins.
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Ginbot 7 condemns the ongoing mass detention of Oromos by the Meles dictatorship
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Meles Zenawi’s dictatorship in Ethiopia continues to use terrorism as a pretext to terrorize Ethiopians and silence political dissent. It is …
By Bassma Al Jandaly | Gulf News
RAS AL KHAIMAH, UNITED ARAB EMIRATES – The body of a 19-year-old Ethiopian woman has been lying in the morgue here for more than a month because the sponsor and the labour agency …
Or should we say between Amare Aregawi and Al Amoudi?
It is not still known who is behind the attempt on Amare Aregawi’s life, editor of The Reporter based in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. An opinion piece published today on the …
By Robin Summerfield | Calgary Herald
Robin and Anjanette Bailey and their children Josiah, 7, and Hannah, 9, hold a photo of Mamush before leaving for Ethiopia to meet the newest member of their family for the first time. (Photo: |
The Ethiopian People Patriotic Front’s (EPPF) leadership has reorganized its International Committee and named its officials today.
The EPPF’s primary responsibility will be to mobilize Ethiopians around the world to support the organization, according to the leadership.
The newly restructured …
By Melissa Burdick Harmon
ADDIS ABABA, ETHIOPIA – The Queen of Sheba’s palace isn’t what it used to be. Its roof is long gone. Its grand entrance is but a memory. Yet the 3,000-year-old ruins remain, sprawling over thin-grassed farm …
ADDIS ABABA, ETHIOPIA – Demissew Zerihun, who attacked 21-year-old Kamilat Mehdi in March 2007 with acid, received a 20-year jail sentence by a superior court in Addis Ababa yesterday. Co-defendant Yacob Haile was released freely.
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Al Jazeera reported on Nov. 6 that Egypt admitted to shooting at least six illegal migrants from Africa trying to cross the border into Israel late Tuesday night.
Egyptian security guards saw the six men from Sudan and Eritrea trying …
Correspondent’s Diary | Economist
From the campaign trail: Washington, DC – ELECTION day broke chilly and grey across the DC area (only transplants call it Washington). Late-morning drizzles turned into the sort of steady, cold, drifting rain that defies jackets …
MONTE CARLO, MONACO (AP) – Haile Gebrselassie’s latest marathon world record was ratified Friday by the International Association of Athletics Federations.
The Ethiopian ran two hours three minutes 59 seconds on Sept. 28 in Berlin to slash 27 seconds off …
ADDIS ABABA, ETHIOPIA – More than 200 Somalian parliamentarians have found themselves stranded in Nairobi, lacking the money to pay for air tickets for their return home, BBC reported Friday.
Citing a spokesman for the parliamentarians, who had attended an …
There are lots of reasons to envy residents of Northern Europe. Each day they get to take in raw, dramatic landscapes, stunning architecture and world-class shopping. But, more important, they know a thing or two about health …
MEKELE, TIGRAY (Walta Woyanne Information Center – WIC): Tigray Regional State of northern Ethiopia sets free 2167 prisoners with official pardon yesterday.
Meseret Gebremariam, Regional Security and Administration Bureau Head, disclosed that the prisoners are released owing to the …
By TIM EBERLY | The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Police agencies often perform undercover stings at stores that sell alcohol. They send under-age buyers in to see if stores will sell them beer or liquor without asking for identification.
Last month, police …
OLF statement on the ongoing mass arrest of the Oromo people by the TPLF Regime
Malicious Propaganda Does Not Cover Up The Truth
The TPLF/EPRDF regime is staging a hilarious drama alleging to have apprehended members of Oromo Liberation Front …
KALAMAZOO, MICHIGAN – Guest lecturer Zion Uness will discuss “The Journey of Ethiopian Jewry” in a free, public lecture at 7:30 p.m. Monday, Nov. 17, in Room 210 of the Bernhard Center at Western Michigan University.
Uness was born in …
ADDIS ABABA (AFP) — Ethiopia will by 2010 see a four-fold increase in the number of orphaned children aged between nine and 19 who are heading families due to AIDS, poverty and conflict, a local NGO said on Friday.
Some …
Except for Figure 1, the images below come from the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) carried aboard NASA’s Terra and Aqua satellites. The Hawaii Institute of Geophysics and Planetology (HIGP) at the University of Hawaii has developed …
ADDIS ABABA, ETHIOPIA (APA) – The African Union Commission will hold a ground-breaking ceremony on Monday for the construction of its new conference centre and headquarters that will cost over $100 million.
China, currently involved in development activities …
TEHRAN (FNA)- Djibouti Foreign Minister Osman Saleh Mohammed asked Iran to help mediate in the talks between Eritrea and Djibouti aimed at ending border conflicts between the Horn of Africa nations.
Osman made the remarks in a joint …
By Julie Mertus | Foreign Policy In Focus
Dear President Obama:
The Bush administration had eight years to run our country’s reputation on human rights into the ground. It succeeded not only in tarnishing America’s image, but also in derailing …
Ibrahim Hussein says his faith in the American dream was reaffirmed Tuesday night when Barack Obama won the race for the White House.
The executive director of the East African Community of Orange County, a nonprofit group that helps refugees …
By Abdi Sheikh
MOGADHISHU (Reuters) – Somalis expressed hope on Thursday that Barack Obama’s election to the U.S. presidency would help end anarchy in the Horn of Africa nation which Washington views as an important front in its ‘war on …
Nina Ashenafi Richardson won the Leon county judge race with 59.1 percent of the total votes. Opponent Sean Desmond had 40.9 percent. Richardson will serve as a judge for the Leon county court seat 5.
After a spirited but amicable …
ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) – An Ethiopian rebel leader blamed for blasts in Addis Ababa was lured into a farmer’s house in the rural west and then shot dead, [Woyanne] authorities said on Friday.
[Dictator] Meles Zenawi’s government, the biggest U.S …
By Dr. J. Peter Pham | World Defense Review
Senator Barack Obama’s election as the forty-fourth President of the United States is, of course, a historic milestone in America. But it is also a major moment in African history as …
By John Coyne
WHENEVER ONE STARTS TO READ about Ethiopia, very soon he or she discovers Téwodros II, the infamous emperor of the Empire in the mid-nineteenth-century. Téwodros was a great, romantic visionary, and a mad figure of Ethiopian history …
By Kark Rove | WSJ
Intense and gripping, the 2008 election was also historic. The son of a Kenyan immigrant and an American mother has risen to the presidency of history’s most powerful nation. Who was not moved by the …
Oh great! Next her friend, Aba Gebremedhin, will offer to pray for Obama!
NEW YORK — Attention, Mr. president-elect: Come Inauguration Day, Beyonce is at your service. “I’m there. I can’t wait. I feel like all of us, we’re ready …
ADDIS ABABA, ETHIOPIA — The 44th president of the United States is Barack Obama – and he has a lot of promises to live up to. At least, that’s the take here in Addis. While Ethiopia’s neighbors to the …
Journalist Dereje Habtewold, who is currently in exile, recounts the terror that was unleashed in Addis Ababa and throughout Ethiopia by the Meles regime in November 2005.
Dereje remembers his interview with the newly elected mayor of Addis Ababa, Dr …
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NAIROBI, KENYA – U.S. President-elect Barack Obama’s 86-year-old grandmother, Sarah Obama, said she will attend her grandson’s presidential inauguration ceremony in Washington early next year.
Speaking to journalists after the Democratic presidential candidate won the historic elections, Sarah said she …
ADDIS ABABA (AFP) — Eritrean President Isaias Afeworki on Thursday voiced hope that US president-elect Barack Obama will change his country’s policy in the Horn of Africa, a region blighted by conflicts.
“It is my utmost pleasure to convey to …
By Duro Ikhazuagbe | This Day
Ethiopian world record holder, Haile Gebrselassie has confirmed his readiness to participate at the 2nd Glo Lagos International Half Marathon scheduled for February 21, 2009.
Speaking in Lagos at a media briefing to herald …
ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) – Ethiopia The Woyanne regime tightened security in the capital on Thursday after police said they had arrested more than a dozen leaders of the rebel Oromo Liberation Front (OLF) and accused them of plotting terrorist attacks.…
Ethiopian Airlines has embarked on a strong expansion programme that includes pressing of an order for 10 Boeing 787-800 dream-liners.
The airline’s world sales manager Amare Tsadik briefed Malawian travel operators during their weekend visit at Ethiopian Airlines head office …
Arash Mosaleh | Channel 2 News
RENO, NEVADA – Nearly $50,000 in marijuana is off the streets, after Reno Police officers arrested a man accused of drug trafficking in downtown Reno Wednesday.
Police arrested Yohannis Mengesha at the Amtrak Station. …
CHICAGO – The couple was determined to get to Grant Park on Election Night, despite the fact that the pregnant woman was six days overdue. They had tickets –– so they were going.
Mawi Asgedom said he and his wife …
KUWAIT CITY : Police are looking for three youths for raping an immigrant from Ethiopia, Arrouiah daily reported.
In her complaint to the Fahaheel police, the Ethiopian girl who work as a maid said the incident took place when she …
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Ginbot 7 Movement
Ethiopians joyfully celebrate, with Americans and the rest of the world the election of Barack Obama to take the office of the presidency of the United States of America. Ginbot7 recognizes the symbolic and …