Source: Missionary International Service News Agency (MISNA)
There are reports of clashes between the the ONFL and the regular Ethiopian army Woyanne in Ethiopia’s eastern region of Ogaden.
Local sources said that thirty people, mostly regular soldiers, were killed in …
Press Release
OROMOS IN EUROPE CALL FOR THE SAFEGUARDING OF HUMAN RIGHTS IN ETHIOPIA
BRUSSELS, BELGIUM — On Monday 30 June 2008, over one hundred members of the Oromo diaspora from across Europe will gather in the Place Jean Rey …
By Yilma Bekele
Some days more than others it is becoming hard to wake up being an Ethiopian. It seems like there isn’t anything good about it. Today was one of those days. First to hit me was a report …
Amara and Tigre of today’s Ethiopia and Eritrea, were the founders of ancient Gebts over 5100 years ago for the primary purpose of selling goods and produce. For more information and lists of ancient Amarigna and Tigrigna words written 5100 …
Late on June 26, Education International (EI) received a disturbing update from Gemoraw Kassa, General Secretary of the ETA, established in 1949 and EI Member, informing EI that the court of cassation at the Federal Supreme Court ruled …
… do the right thing and you will be celebrated as heroes. Or continue to kill and mayhem for Woyanne, and you are nothing but pigs.
Fri Jun 27, 2008 5:29am …
By Joe Michael
The Ethiopian Sport Federation in North America (ESFNA) is a money-spinning organization owned by few individuals who never care for sport at all. The organization maintained its tax exempt status from the Federal and State governments by …
By Andrei Engstrand-Neacsu in Wolayita
International Federation of Red Cross And Red Crescent Societies
In Wolayita, one of the most affected areas of Ethiopia, recurrent drought has reduced to almost nothing the availability of food for a chronically food-insecure population. …
UNDP PRESS RELEASE
Strengthening Local Capacity for the Achievement of the MDGs
(A joint press release between the Ministry of Finance and Economic Development of the Federal Democratic Republic Government of Ethiopia and the United Nations Development Programme)
The Government …
By Indrias Getachew, UNICEF Ethiopia
GURAGE ZONE, Ethiopia – Mubarek weighed …
Ato Zenawi Asres, the father who brought to this world one of the worst mass murderers in Africa’s history — also known as the Butcher of Addis Ababa and Mogadishu — Meles Zenawi, has died today in Addis …
Mayor-Elect of Addis Ababa and leader of the newly formed Ginbot 7 Movement, Dr Berhanu Nega, testified yesterday at the European Union parliamentary hearing on the current political crisis in Ethiopia.
The hearing in Brussels, Belgium, was organized by Member …
… and the hodams accept the money. The following is what Ethiopian Sports Federation in North America (ESFNA) posted on its web site:
THANK YOU DR. SHEIKH MOHAMMED HUSSIEN AL AMOUDI
The entire family of ESFNA, players, coaches, board members …
(Islington Gazette) LONDON, U.K. — A YOUNG woman whose body was found dumped in a burning suitcase in Islington (a suburb of London) had not been seen for weeks by her friends and neighbours.
This week …
The film “Live and Become” opens in Los Angeles area on Friday, June 27 at the Laemmle Playhouse 7 in Pasadena, Laemmle’s Music Hall 3 in Beverly Hills and Laemmle’s Town Center 5 in Encino.
The film was a huge …
Network of Ethiopian Scholars (NES)
The Resolution of Food Crises in Africa Requires Building an Integrated African National Economy
People often say when Africans argue for an integrated national African economy, they are self-indulgent entertaining nothing but a futile illusion. …
By Teddy Fikre
During the most trying times, when hope is a glimmer that seems too distant to be tangible, it is our children that serve as our bridge to hope. We — Ethiopian-Americans — immigrated to the United States …
EDITOR’S NOTE: Why doesn’t the drunkard sheik invest his own money, instead of borrowing from the World Bank in the name of Ethiopia? The answer is simple. He is in Ethiopia to plunder the country with his Woyanne buddies and …
Kinijit Washington DC Metro chapter is hosting a public meeting with Prof. Mesfin Woldemariam, UDJ council member, and Ato Asrate Tase, UDJ secretary general in Washington DC, July 6, 2008.
Place: Washington Marriott
Address: 1221 22nd Street NW, Washington DC…
ADDIS ABABA – As part of the annual, global celebration of an international day for refugees, UNHCR, with support form its partners, colourfully celebrated the 2008th edition of World Refugee Day on Friday under the theme “Protection.” The aim was …
The Gonder Mutual Association of Seattle has issued a statement denouncing the recent give away of Ethiopia’s fertile land to Sudan in a secret deal between Woyanne chief Meles Zenawi and Sudan’s al-Bashir.
The Association also condemned the arrest and …
The Messengers of the butcher of Addis Ababa, Meles Zenawi, had attempted to convene a meeting in Dallas on Sunday, June 22nd, at the Radisson Hotel located at Hwy 75 to spread propaganda …
By Douglas McGill , TC Daily Planet
An Ethiopian A Woyanne government official seeking to distance himself from what he says is a continuing attempt by Ethiopia to eradicate an African tribe, has defected to the United States.
Obang Oman, …
By Dan Robson, The Star
BRAMPTON, ONTARIO — Yonatan Gezahegne Mekonnen, a city of Brampton resident, has been charged with failing to disclose his positive HIV status to a female he had consensual sex with.
Peel Police say a man …
(Pana) ABUJA — Ethiopia’s tribal dictatorship on Tuesday asked Nigeria to deploy a contingent of its troops for ‘peace-keeping mission’ the border with Eritrea.
Making the request when he paid a courtesy call on Nigeria’s Minister of State for Defence, …
A 19-year-old woman named Bezawit Solomon, who is a Norwegian citizen of Ethiopian descent, was found murdered in Norway yesterday (Monday) morning.
The victim’s body was found in one of the apartments in …
ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) – Over a quarter of Ethiopia’s HIV/AIDS patients on drugs are not taking their medicine because of logistical problems but also due to religious beliefs, the head of a treatment body said on Tuesday.
Over 40,000 of …
By Andra Jackson, watoday.com
MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA — FERRYING passengers around in a Melbourne taxi, Abdalla Ahmed might seem to be one more refugee dreaming of bringing out those he left behind.
But Mr Ahmed harbours …
JOINT PRESS RELEASE
‘Women empowerment one of the most profitable social investments imaginable’
ADDIS ABABA – Today the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) and the Kingdom of the Netherlands launch a € 2.7 million programme that aims to reduce violence …
By Patrick Worsnip, Reuters
UNITED NATIONS – The U.N. Security Council considered on Monday a plan to disband its peacekeeping mission to the volatile border between Eritrea and Ethiopia after Eritrea forced most of its troops to go home.
The …
By H. Menelik
In this short article an effort is made to compare Meles Zenaw’s behaviour and actions against Machiavellian principle.I don’t know how historians will judge him, but for me undoubtedly he is the most feared than loved Ethiopian …
UNESCO — The first phase of the re-installation works of the Aksum Obelisk, also known as Stele 2, in its original location at the World Heritage site in Aksum, Ethiopia was completed on 12 June 2008. The first of three …
By Obang Metho
The failures of the Meles regime are rapidly accumulating and not only Ethiopians know about it now. The news and incriminating evidence is reaching out into the international community and it will soon become increasingly difficult to …
Leaders of Ginbot 7 Movement for Justice, Freedom and Democracy continue to tour Europe, meeting with Ethiopians in several European countries, as well as officials of various governments.
On Saturday, Dr Berhanu Nega …
(afrol) — Sheikh Ibrahim Abdalla Mah, the 1991-98 chairman and spiritual leader of the Ogaden National Liberation Front (ONLF), died this morning in Abu Dhabi. The 67-year-old was among the founding members of the Ethiopian Somali rebel group, now posing …
Statement by Senator Russell Feingold [Democrat – Wisconsin:
Mr. President, Ethiopia has increasingly been an active participant in the international community and a leader on the African continent–as a charter member of the United Nations, a cofounder of what are …
Zimbabwe’s opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai says he is pulling out of Friday’s presidential run-off. Mr Tsvangirai said there was no point running when elections would not be free and fair and “the outcome is determined by… Mugabe himself”.
He called …
This means Woyanne donkeys Addisu Legesse and Kuma Demeksa are living on borrowed time.
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The Wisdom of Donkeys
By Roger Lewis, telegraph.co.uk
My donkey Emily was murdered. Well, …
UN ETHIOPIA NEWS
ADDIS ABABA – UNICEF Deputy Executive Director Hilde F.Johnson today appealed for a more robust and rapid response to the urgent needs of severely malnourished children in drought-affected areas of Ethiopia.
“It is our assessment that the …
Hopefully Ethiomedia doesn’t mind the re-posting of its article about Ethiopian Review here
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ETHIOMEDIA EDITOR’S NOTE – Ethiomedia has received articles that seriously criticize Elias Kifle, editor of Ethiopian Review, …
EDITOR’S NOTE: It seems Kenya is emerging out of its post-election chaos just a few months ago, unlike Ethiopia, which is on a downward spiral following the 2005 elections. The difference between Kenya and Ethiopia is that the ruling party …
A must read piece about the cycle of failure in Ethiopian politics, particularly in regards to the Ethiopian People Revolutionary Party (EPRP), which one Ethiopian scholar referred to as an “organizer of failure.”
[Click here for PDF]
የውድቀት አዙሪት…
By Adane Atanaw
In all ages they rise up against us to destroy us; and the Holy One, blessed be He, rescues us from their hands. (The Holly Bible)
After long silence, denial and deliberate misinformation, finally in a speech …
ADDIS ABABA (IPS) – When it was announced last month that the ruling party of Prime Minister Meles Zenawi had swept local polls in this vast Horn of Africa nation, few expressed surprise.
Zenawi’s Ethiopian Peoples Revolutionary Democratic …
It is half an hour before dawn in …
EDITOR’S NOTE: This is a news from the Ministry of Information. It is a joke by Bereket Simon on the people of Ethiopia. Sialagitibin naw (ሲያላግጥብን ነው).
(ENA) …
LONDON (Reuters) – Ethiopian Petroleum Enterprise (EPE) has bought by tender 1.87 million tonnes of gas oil and jet fuel for July 2008 to June 2009, up 13 percent from a previous purchase, industry sources said on Wednesday.
EPE bought …
(BBC) — A mother and two children are among 25 people and 13 civilians, killed in fierce fighting in the Somali capital, Mogadishu, witnesses say.
They were killed when a mortar shell landed on their house, neighbours said. …
(Medecins Sans Frontieres) MADRID, SPAIN — Thousands of Somalis and Ethiopians risk their lives every year to cross the Gulf of Aden to escape from conflict and extreme poverty. The trip is fraught with danger as people are …
UNITED NATIONS — The deputy chief of the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) arrived in Ethiopia today for the start of a four-day visit to review the humanitarian situation in the south and southeast of the country, which has become …
You might have noticed the Ethiopian Top Model Liya Kebede in magazines, TV commercials or on the Internet. She has been modeling for a while and thanks to her very successful carrier, Liya was ranked eleventh on Forbes’ 2007 “World’s …
By LOU SESSINGER, The Intelligencer
PHILADELPHIA — An Ethiopian immigrant awaiting trial in an 8-year-old murder case in Towamencin was in Montgomery County Court on Wednesday as his lawyer attempted to have evidence against him suppressed for use at trial.…
EDITOR’S NOTE: Why doesn’t the puppet ‘president’ do some thing about the starving children of Ethiopia before congratulating China’s earth quake relief effort? This entitles him to be named “Idiot of the Day.”.
ADDIS ABABA (Xinhua) — The …
NEWS RELEASE
Human Rights Abusers: “Watch Out, You May Not Find the West a Safe Haven Anymore!”
As pleased as the Anuak Justice Council is with the recent decision by Canadian authorities to deny entry into Canada to Omot Obang …
(Daily Mail Reporter) — An Ethiopian boy who was born ‘inside-out’ has become the living legacy of actress Natascha McElhone’s plastic surgeon husband, who died of a heart condition last month.…
It is not a new thing for Ethiopian political leaders to betray their supporters, and the people of Ethiopia, in general. Even the great Hailu Shawel had succumbed to that tradition. So it is not with …
Harry Cohen, a British Member of Parliament, is circulating the following petition among his colleagues that condemns the atroticites of Ethiopia’s brutal dictatorship led by Meles Zenawi and his Tigrean People Liberation Front (Woyanne).
Petition:
That this House is concerned …
STRASBOURG, France — Ana Gomes, Member of the Socialist Group in the European Parliament, invites her colleagues to a meeting with Dr. Berhanu Nega, Mayor-elect of Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, and former senior leader CUD, who was released from prison one …
Some of the leaders of the Coalition for Unity and Democracy Party (Kinijit) have gathered 300 people and formally created a new party named Unity for Democracy and Justice (UDJ) today in Addis Ababa. See details at Kinijit North America’s …
UN NEWS
As part of its Knowledge Sharing initiative, the UN Country Team in Ethiopia has organized a discussion forum on the theme “Biofuel, a viable alternative source of Energy?” on Thursday, 5th June 2008 at Sheraton Addis from 8:30 …
By Scott Baldauf, The Christian Science Monitor
Tshwane, South Africa — More than three weeks after beginning, South Africa’s xenophobic attacks continue as the nation’s leaders urge communities to begin bringing African immigrants from other countries back into their communities.…
MOGADISHO, Somalia — A roadside bomb killed two policemen in Mogadishu just minutes after a convoy carrying Somali President Abdullahi Yusuf Ahmed had driven past, reports said Wednesday.
Yusuf has been targeted several times in recent months, including by a …
MOGADISHU (Xinhua) — A senior Somali police commander and two of his bodyguards were killed by a roadside bomb Wednesday shortly after the arrival of Somali President Abdullahi Yusuf backto Mogadishu, a Somali government official confirmed to reporters …
ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) – Drought-ravaged Ethiopia should improve its “backward” farming systems to curb acute food shortages, which have left millions of people in need of urgent humanitarian aid, a top World Bank official said on Wednesday.
About 4.5 million …
UN News
The Ethiopian HIV Knowledge Sharing Network: Community of Practice, a joint initiative of the United Nations Country Team (UNCT) and Federal HIV/AIDS Prevention and Control Office (HAPCO) was launched on May 29 during a one-day workshop held at …
The Castel Group, France’s largest wine producer, currently harvests massive quantities of grapes just a short distance away from areas where hundreds of thousands of children die from starvation. If there is drought in southern Ethiopia, as we are told …
ABC News Talks With Aidan Hartley, the Man Behind ‘Warlords Next Door?’
By DANA HUGHES, ABC News
British author and journalist Aidan Hartley has been covering Somalia for nearly 20 years. He recently released a TV documentary called “Warlords …
NAIROBI, June 17 (Reuters) – The armies of feuding Horn of Africa neighbours Ethiopia Woyanne and Eritrea are “less than a football pitch” apart, risking a catastrophic new war on their border, a think-tank warned on Tuesday. The latest in …
The few newspapers that are struggling to survive in Ethiopia’s capital Addis Ababa under constant harassement from security forces of the Meles dictatorship have found a way to thrive in the past few weeks: Put Berhanu Nega’s photo on their …
Prof. Alemayehu Gebremariam talks about the secret border re-demarcation agreement between Woyanne and al-Bashir that gave away tens of thousands of square kilometers of land to Sudan.
Click here to listen. Forward to 16:32.…
By Hanna Tamrat
We all talk about owning a piece of Obama’s campaign. But that kind of talk didn’t hit home with me until my sister a few days after Obama’s historic nomination speech called me and left a voicemail …
Unity for Democracy and Justice (UDJ) has received permission yesterday to hold its general meeting this week, probably Wednesday, according to ER sources. They are also told that they are restricted to their office. They cannot hold a meeting in …
EPRP web sites have reported today that the discredited former chairman of the Coalition for Unity and Democracy Party (Kinijit), Ato Hailu Shawel, held a meeting with Addis Ababa’s youth and women. It is reported that some 200 people attended …
STATEMENT FROM TEGBAR
June 16, 2007
In his interview with Ethiopian Current Affairs on Sunday, June 15, Ethiopia’s most distinguished human rights activist Prof. Mesfin Woldemariam has made some assertions that Tegbar for Unity and Democracy (Tegbar) respectfully disagrees with. …
ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) – Trade and Industry Minister of Ethiopia plans to develop its vast coal reserves in the west of the country for fertilizer and power generation, at an estimated cost of $730 million.
Girma Birru said his ministry …
The Woyanne dictatorship’s attempt to cover up the ongoing famine in Ethiopia; Woyanne atrocities in Ogaden and Somalia, fighting in Ogaden, TPDM’s congress… and other news from EriTV. Watch below.
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PRESS RELEASE
BY GINBOT 7 MOVEMENT FOR DEMOCRACY AND JUSTICE
[Click here for Amharic version]
Ginbot 7 strongly Condemns the Appalling Crime against humanity Perpetrated by the Meles Zenawi Dictatorial Regime in the Ogaden region.
Human Rights Watch, a respected …
EDITORS NOTE: It is true that Mugabe is another bloodsucking African dictator. But the British are worse. They have done more harm to Zimbabawe, and Africa, in general, than 100 Mugabes could possible have done. Take a look at what …
By Selam Beyene, Ph.D.
The conscience of the world is challenged once again by the outrageous crimes of Meles Zenawi, who is using famine as a weapon of mass destruction and economic exploitation against the very people that he has …
By Dr Seid Hassan
Many Ethiopians, especially those in the Diaspora community have been and still are puzzled by two contradictory phenomena regarding the Ethiopian economy. On the one hand, the ruling party, the EPDRF, has been reporting record-breaking growth …
Ato Gizachew Shiferraw, chairman of the UDJ general assembly organizing committee, told Kinijit North America officials that the Meles regime’s security forces have dispersed the party’s delegates on Saturday.
First, the delegates, about 400 of them, went to the Imperial …
A few years ago, Meklit Hadero was doing a 9-to-5 administrative gig at the Haas Foundation here and taking private vocal lessons on the side. The sweet-voiced, Ethiopian-born Yale graduate wasn’t figuring on a singing career. But after …
Statement from Unity for Democracy and Justice (UDJ)
June 13, 2008
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
At about 4:00 PM today, the police told Unity for Democracy and Justice (UDJ) — former CUDP — that it cannot hold its Founding Congress which …
British Member of Parliament George Galloway calls to question the U.K. and U.S. support to the dictatorship in Ethiopia and the over all policy on Africa. It is a must watch video.
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EDITOR’S NOTE: Very sad. Our condolences to his family and colleagues. Tim was a role model for ER as far as making politicians accountable.
By Howard Kurtz and William Branigin, Washington Post
Tim Russert, the Democratic operative turned NBC commentator …
The Imperial Hotel in Addis Ababa told leaders of Unity for Democracy and Justice Party (UDJ) today that they cannot hold their meeting tomorrow because the Woyanne regime has ordered them to cancel it.
UDJ has been planning to hold …
EDITOR’S NOTE: Deputy Prime Minister and Agriculture Minister Addisu Legese says figure of needy is deliberate exaggeration by some institutions. There are only 4.5 million people who are hungry, according to Addisu. Read more about what this sick heartless Woyanne …
Source: The Dinah Project
There are some causes of illness and misery that demand advanced diagnostics, expensive medication and even cutting edge technology. There are many other tragic conditions that need information, and care that exists, if only people have …
(UNESCO) ‘Tsehai Loves Learning,’ an Ethiopian children’s television show sponsored by UNESCO, was honoured with an award at the Prix Jeunesse International 2008 Festival. The 2008 Next Generation Prize was bestowed upon the creators of the show, Whiz …
(CBC) — Ethiopia’s Dire Tune set a new world record …
By Fekade Shewakena
Yep, there you go again. The pictures of your shame and, for all practical purposes, your national identity, are running everywhere again. The terrifying pictures that show emaciated and famished children are popping up on our television …
Brigadier General Legesse Teffera is one of the ultimate Ethiopian war heroes of the modern era. A Washington based Committee has organized an event in his honor to be held this coming July. The General shall be …
A senior member of the Coalition for Unity and Democracy Party (Kinijit), Dr Yacob Hailemariam, has informed his colleagues that he will not present himself for the top leadership of the party after the general meeting this …
EDITOR’S NOTE: Today, the Ethiopian Television was showing Addisu Legesse, the Minister of Agriculture and Deputy Prime Minister, saying that there are no more than 50,000 people who are facing starvation and that the problem is being purposely exaggerated to …
(By David Gollust, VOA) — The United States said Thursday it has “persistently” expressed concern about human rights in Ethiopia with top officials in Addis Ababa, including alleged abuses in the Ogaden region. The comments follow an assertion by …
EDITOR’S NOTE: Please note that ONLF doesn’t refer the Woyanne army as “Ethiopian Army” as some of the international media, and even some fools in the Ethiopian opposition camp shamelessly do. We thank ONLF for not associating the horrible crimes …
LONDON — The partner of a failed suicide bomber was jailed for 15 years Thursday for not telling police about his plans to carry out an attack on the London subway system.
Judge Paul Worsley told Yeshimebet (Yeshi) Girma, 32, …
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Satellite images confirm reports that the Ethiopian Woyanne military has burned towns and villages in the remote Ogaden region of eastern Ethiopia, the American Association for the Advancement of Science reported …