By Scott Gutierrez, SeattlePI.com

Ethiopians in Seattle rejoiced last year as they ushered in the new millennium on the Ethiopian calendar.

This week, they said goodbye to 2000 and embraced 2001. Thursday marked New Year’s Day on the Ethiopian Orthodox …

By Matt McFarland
Special to The Washington Post

WASHINGTON DC — For almost a half-mile, the National Press Club 5K looked like a close race. A throng of runners sprinted down 13th Street NW and fanned out across Pennsylvania Avenue. …

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የሙስና ትርጉም፤ ተዛማጅ ክስተቶቹና በአገርና በሕዝብ ላይ የሚያስከትላቸው ጠንቆች

ፕሮፌሰር ሰይድ ሀሠን፤ መሪ ስቴት ዩኒቨርሲቲ

ሀ) የሙስና ትርጉምና ባህሪያት፤

ከሙስና (Corruption) የመዝገበ-ቃላት ትርጉሞች አንዱ ሙስና “የአእምሮ መዛባት ወይም ብልሽት” ማለት እንደሆነ ይጠቁማል። ከመንግሥታዊ ባህሪና ድርጊት ጋር …

By CELIA W. DUGGER, The New York Times

JOHANNESBURG — Lovemore Moyo, a senior leader in Zimbabwe’s opposition, on Friday likened the opposition’s power-sharing deal with President Robert Mugabe, its bitter enemy, to a “sister sister” accord. His homespun metaphor …

By Peggy Fletcher Stack, The Salt Lake Tribune

The Ethiopian Orthodox Church traces its lineage back to the Queen of Sheba, in the 11th century B.C. Legend has it that Sheba married King Solomon, who fathered her son, Menelik. As …

Ethiopian Woyanne troops opened fire on a group of people in the central Somali town of Beledwyne, along the border with Ethiopia, killing three civilians.

The episode apparently occurred a day after an attack on an Ethiopian a Woyanne military …

PARIS (AFP) — Ethiopia is kicked out of the World Cup by FIFA on Friday after the long-running power struggle within the game in the African nation failed to be resolved.

FIFA, the sport’s world governing body, said that all …

STATEMENTS ON INTRODUCED BILLS AND JOINT RESOLUTIONS

By Mr. FEINGOLD (for himself and Mr. LEAHY):

S. 3457. A bill to reaffirm United States objectives in Ethiopia and encourage critical democratic and humanitarian principles and practices, and for other purposes; to …

By Vusi Moloi

I had never been to the AMC theatre on Yong and Dundas. The movie Teza was slotted for 5:30PM on Wednesday September 10 in the great City of downtown Toronto. I arrived here early and perched myself …

Ethiopian Review wishes a Happy New Year for its readers and all Ethiopians with this song by Teddy Afro, who is currently languishing in jail on trumped up charges by the brutal dictatorship in Ethiopia. Let the New Year bring …

Double Olympic gold medallist Kenenisa Bekele will top the bill at the Bupa Great North Miles on the Newcastle and Gateshead Quaysides in North East England next month.

The 26-year-old Ethiopian, who in Beijing became the first athlete for 28 …

By Julian Pecquet • DEMOCRAT

TALLAHASSEE, FLORIDA — Nina Ashenafi, a daughter of the late distinguished Ethiopian musicologist Dr Ashenafi Kebede, appeared to edge out an experienced public defender in the race for Leon County Judge Seat 5 Tuesday.

With …

By Barry Bateman

Africa’s global knowledge production is a dismal three percent and there is limited academic literature available for Africans living abroad.

Tackling that problem is African Diaspora Foundation board member Elias Wondimu, who is a publisher with Tsehai …

Dagmawit Geshen Mariam church of Denver has been chosen to host this year’s North America Meskel Demera celebration. Tens of thousands of Christians throughout the U.S. and Canada are expected to attend the 3-day celebration that will start October 3.…

PRESS RELEASE

The Coalition for HR 2003 has learned that Senator Russ Feingold (D-WI), Chairman of the Subcommittee on African Affairs, introduced a bill entitled “Support for Democracy and Human Rights in Ethiopia Act of 2008”. We are grateful to …

The Tigray People’s Democratic Movement (TPDM) has killed 11 Woyanne soldiers and wounded five others in an attack on weyane soldiers stationed in Mereb Lekhe District (northern Ethiopia), said the TPDM’s military committee.

During the attack on 5 September on …

Witnesses in the southwestern Somali city of Baidoa say a gunman has shot and killed a member of parliament.

The witnesses say Mohammed Osman Maye was killed late Tuesday as he was leaving a mosque in Baidoa, where the Somali …

By Terry Jessup

DENVER (CBS4) ― Denver police say a suspected drunk driver ran a stop sign and killed a cab driver Saturday.

The accident happened at 18th Avenue and Williams Street. The victim was an Ethiopian immigrant …

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By Alemayehu G. Mariam

What A difference a Year Makes!

What a difference a year makes in a Millennium! A year ago, almost to the day, we celebrated a moment of triumph. It was the 9th of September. A day …

CHICAGO — Bank of America today announced the elite field of male and female athletes scheduled to compete for the 2008 Bank of America Chicago Marathon(R) championship titles on Sunday, Oct. 12. Topping the list is newly crowned Olympic women’s …

By Joe Michael

One of the unfolded issues in the mysterious government of Ethiopia is how much money the so-called elected leaders are earning. Ever since the TPLF rebel fighters took over the leadership, their earnings have never been disclosed. …

Flower production in Ethiopia and in the world’s poorest countries is blooming. Horticulture, flowers and fruits and vegetables, brought in $125 million in export revenue in 2007.

With the recent crisis in neighboring Kenya, Africa’s major flower exporter, Ethiopia is …

FIONA GOODALL/Eastern Courier

A builder with compassion as wide as his building skills is going to put the two to good use in Ethiopia.

AUCKLAND, NEW ZEALAND — Marty van der Burg is leading …

Ethiopian Review will release its annual list of ’25 Most Influential Ethiopians’ on Thursday, September 11 (Meskerem 1), marking Ethiopia’s New Year.

The list is about 25 persons who are the most influential (good and bad) in the Ethiopian society.…

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N. humanitarian office said Monday that food shortages in Ethiopia have reached alarming levels following widespread drought in the country.

Relief organizations are grappling with a “considerable shortage of supplies,” with the U.N. World Food …

CAMBRIDGE — The Ethiopian Community Mutual Assistance Association (ECMAA) of the Boston area is celebrating “Enkutatash,” the Ethiopian New Year, Saturday, Sept. 13, from 4 to 11 p.m. at the St. Paul AME Christian Life Center at 85 Bishop Allen …

PARIS — The UN cultural agency UNESCO on Monday awarded NGOs from South Africa and Ethiopia the Confucius Prize for Literacy for their outstanding efforts to eliminate illiteracy and promote public health awareness in their countries.

South Africa’s Operation Upgrade …

PRINCETON, NJ — The latest Gallup Poll Daily tracking update shows John McCain moving ahead of Barack Obama, 48% to 45%, when registered voters are asked for whom they would vote if the presidential election were held today.

These results …

By Bertu L’Ethiopia

Among several of the Ethiopian online journals, it is not an exaggeration to state that Ethiopian Review is the only one that understands the implications of Woyanne’s infiltration of the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahdo Church (EOTC). This is …

Meseret Desta, Open Market #1 ,
oil on canvas, 48” x 60”
© Meseret Desta

Canvas Paper and Stone Gallery is pleased to feature Ezra Wube, Meseret Desta, Mekbib Gebertsadik, Tesfaye Tessema and Helina Metaferia, in Abyssinia to Harlem and …

By Donald N. Levine

What a season! In Ethiopia and in the United States, we hear similar laments: inflation brings miseries; rich/poor gap widens; sick people lack care; environments worsen; human rights burn; energy grows scarce; media cave in; schools …

From Colbinski Chronicles

Contrary to popular myth or maybe just excessive farangi talk, I did not see crushed or crashed vehicles littering the side of the “Death Road.” It was crowded and I could certainly see the potential for serious …

Mestawat Tufa wins in Tilburg
(TTM / Pix4Profs)

Tilburg, The Netherlands – On a new course in Tilburg in the south of The Netherlands Ethiopia scored a double victory in respectively in the Brabants Dagblad Ten Miles and the Tilburg …

By ROB GILLIES, AP

(TORONTO) — Canada’s prime minister dissolved Parliament on Sunday and called an early election next month in hopes of strengthening his Conservative minority government’s hold on power.

Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s party must win an additional …

The Children of Ethiopia Education Fund (COEEF) Mesgana Dancers from Ethiopia are back on tour for the third year in America, bringing new talent, a new show and an Ethiopian New Year celebration in September.

The COEEF Mesgana Dancers bring …

New Delhi: The proposal to set up a $200 million sugar factory in Ethiopia with line of credit from India’s Exim Bank has hit a road block with one of the bidders moving the court over dispute among contractors.

The …

SOUTH AFRICA — An Ethiopian academic, working on a research project at the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), may pack his bags and go home after being assaulted at a suburban shopping centre this week.

Wondimu Alem Gebreye …

By Henry Blodget, Silicon Alley Insider

The GeoEye satellite that Google will use to provide mapping imagery at 50-centimeter resolution successfully blasted into space today. So don’t leave your underwear lying all over your lawn.

Andy Plesser of Beet.TV put …

This is what over $1 billion in assistance and loan given annually to the brutal dictatorship of Meles Zenawi’s Tigrean People Liberation Front (Woyanne) by Western countries and the World Bank has accomplished in Ethiopia. This is the ‘rapid economic …

EDITOR’S NOTE: This is a great achievement by Ethiopian filmmaker Haile Gerima.

By Peter Popham

Renowned Ethiopian filmmaker Haile Gerima

ROME — Due to the long-running Hollywood writers’ strike, this year’s Venice festival, the 65th, was short on glitz, which …

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BY KENNETH R. BAZINET and MICHAEL McAULIFF
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS

Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton share a friendly moment when they were still competing. Not so fast, say Democratic women of fears that undecided voters are being swayed to …

By Camillo de Marco

African film has for some time been all but excluded from selections and above all from prize lists at most international festivals. Selected in competition at the Venice Film Festival, Haile Gerima’s film ‘Teza’ could represent …

By Karen Price, WalesOnline.co.uk

AS A boy, Yosef Haimanot escaped the troubles in his Ethiopian homeland by walking for three days through desert to reach the coastal state of Djibouti.

Now, more than 20 years later, he recently returned to …

Obama’s position about halfway between his recent highs and lows

PRINCETON, NJ — Gallup Poll Daily tracking from Tuesday through Thursday finds Barack Obama with a four-percentage-point lead over John McCain in the presidential preferences of registered voters, 48% to …

TRIPOLI, LIBYA — Libyan leader Moammar Kadafi welcomed Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice to his high-security personal compound Friday, in symbolic recognition that after nearly three decades of animosity, the U.S.-Libyan relationship is now officially normal, if not entirely friendly.…

Meseret Defar and Sileshi Sihine compete at the IAAF Golden League meets in Brussels, Belgium, Friday, September 5, 2008. Watch their exciting races in the video below.

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After 17 years of ruling Ethiopia, and the Tigray region unchallenged, Meles Zenawi’s Tigray People Liberation Front (Woyanne) has nothing to show for other than their own enormous wealth they amassed. Meles and his crime family, with their insatiable appetite …

Analysis: McCain sincere, short on answers

By Bill Schneider, CNN Senior Political Analyst

ST. PAUL, Minnesota (CNN) — It’s odd to present yourself as a maverick to the most partisan audience imaginable, as John McCain did Thursday night.…

TAIZ, Yemen — The Yemeni government is holding 35 Ethiopian refugees and is planning on returning them to their homeland, security sources allege.

The unidentified sources alleged that the refugees entered the Middle Eastern country from the Horn of Africa …

Appeals Court Reverts

By Ryan Singel

The Department of Homeland Security should not use the user-generated Wikipedia to decide whether an asylum seeker can enter the United States, a federal appeals court ruled Friday.

That judicial statement of the obvious …

From CNN Deputy Political Director Paul Steinhauser

Legendary Ethiopian musician Mahmoud Ahmed and Kuku Sebsibie will perform at a concert in Oakland, California, this coming Saturday, September 6, 2008.

The concert is organized by Ethiopian Community in Oakland and San Jose, in association with Abyssinia Entertainment.

Also …

EDITOR’S NOTE: This is a good demonstration of the Woyanne regime’s misplaced priorities. The $10 million could have been used to save tens of thousands of children who are dying of starvation. This is a criminal neglect of the most …

By Valita Walston

Among the many groups that make up Washington’s diverse community is it’s Ethiopian population. For over 20 years this community has left a unique and culturally enriching impression on the city.

“Ethiopians are adventurous by nature. You …

By A. Saleh

KUWAIT: The Immigration Department is currently preparing a g statistical study based on detailed official information concerning health hazards reportedly threatening Kuwait from certain Asian and African laborers. A department official alleged that at least 30 percent …

Interview with Kinijit’s Member of Parliament from Gondar, Ato Leul Qeskis
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(The Canadian Press) — MOGADISHU, Somalia — Mortar shells slammed into Somalia’s capital of Mogadishu on Wednesday as insurgents vowed to intensify attacks during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan.

Witnesses say at least two people died in …

By Karin Brulliard, Washington Post

Jeanne Tshibungu imparts her lessons wherever African immigrants agree to listen — at apartments, hair braiding salons, taxicab stands and, on one particular rainy morning, inside a steamy garage at a Silver Spring day-labor center …