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Ethiopia: Kinijit splinter group agreed to abide by the leadership’s decision

Ethiopian Review

Former chairman of Kinijit International Leadership Committee, Shaleqa Yoseph Yazew, has finally agreed to submit to the authority of the Committee. The Shaleqa and his cohorts reached this decision after receiving a stern warning and strict instructions from …

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Ethiopia: The Woyanne dictatorship ‘launches crackdown’ on Ogaden rebels

AFP
June 9, 2007

ADDIS ABABA — Meles Zenawi said Saturday his government had launched a crackdown on a rebel group blamed for several attacks in the country’s eastern Ogaden region.

“We have launched a political and military operation to …

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Woyanne puppet regime in Somalia loses key towns

June 09, 2007
By Mohamed Abdi Farah
SomaliNet

Militia loyal to former defence leader of the defeated Islamic Courts Union Yusuf Mohamed Inda-Adde have taken control of Bulo-Mareer and Qoryoley towns in lower Shabelle region, southern Somalia on Saturday after …

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ONLF denies the reported alliance with Somali opposition

ONLF PRESS RELEASE
June 9, 2007

The Voice of America (VOA) recent report citing unnamed sources alleging that Ogaden National Liberation Front (ONLF) has entered into a coalition with political entities in Somalia is far from reality and well within …

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Woyanne occupation forces in Somalia destroy shops, houses

June 09, 2007
By Mohamed Abdi Farah
SomaliNet

Ethiopian [Woyanne] and Somali forces continue wider security operations in the Somalia capital searching for weapons and suspects –- as a hand grenade bomb was targeted on the [Woyanne] base in the …

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Coalition of Ethiopian and Somali groups formed against Ethiopia’s dictatorship and its puppets in Somalia

Source: VOA
Jun 8, 2007

Reports in Somalia say that a coalition of groups opposed to Somalia’s struggling transitional government and its Ethiopian [Woyanne] backers has been formed with the support of the Eritrean government. VOA Correspondent Alisha Ryu has …

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Discuss “The Ethiopia Campaign” with President Carter

Chat with Jimmy Carter
Discuss “The Ethiopia Campaign” with President Carter

Announcement from the Smithsonian Institute
Join us here for a live chat with Nobel Peace laureate and former president Jimmy Carter to discuss “The Ethiopia Campaign” on June 28 …

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Woyanne-backed Somalia troops withdrawn from central city due to rising insecurity

MOGADISHU, Somalia June 8, 2007 (Garowe Online) – Somali government troops have began withdrawing from the interior of Beletwein town near the Ethiopian border, military officials said on Friday.

Col. Ahmed Mohamed Hubeyr, the commander of government troops …

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Haile Gebrselassie says African supremacy in distance run may not last

By John Mehaffey

LONDON, June 8 (Reuters) – Haile Gebrselassie, one of only three men to win the Olympic 10,000 metres title twice, has warned East African distance runners that they cannot take their current supremacy for granted.
In an …

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Khat use appears to exacerbate mental illness

Researchers investigating the evidence for a potential causal link between khat use and mental illness – in the first ever systematic review of the topic – have called for improved research on the stimulant plant, and its possible association with …

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Teddy Afro, the New Reggae God of Ethiopia

(NPR) — Though the late Ethiopian Emperor Haile Selassie was considered a god by Rastafarians, in Bob Marley’s day, reggae was wasn’t popular in Ethiopia. Now, though, reggae is huge i the East African nation, and there’s no bigger start …

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Bekele brothers to compete in Eugene, Oregon, on Sunday

Sources:Great Run, Prefontaine Classic

Craig Mottram after his famous 3,000 metres victory ahead of Kenenisa Bekele in last year’s IAAF World Cup final, chases another success against the Ethiopian star at the Nike Prefontaine Classic.

Mottram in what …

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European Union Members of Parliament decry human rights violations in Ethiopia

Brussels, Belgium 06/07 – A Committee of the European Parliament has strongly criticised what it called “massive human rights violations” going on in Ethiopia since 2005.

“The human rights situation has been deteriorating in Ethiopia since 2005, with opposition members …

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Arkansas: Police arrest man on suspicion of hit-and-run

THE MORNING NEWS

FAYETTEVILLE, ARKANSAS — Police arrested a man suspected of hitting a pole with a car and almost knocking down an employee from Cox Communications, who was working on the pole Friday morning.

Assefa G. Egziabher, 30, of …

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Haile Gebrselassie to attempt world record in 10k

By John Mehaffey

LONDON (Reuters) – Twice Olympic 10,000 metres champion Haile Gebrselassie will attempt the 16-year-old world one-hour record this year after making a surprise return to the track in the Dutch town of Hengelo last month.

Haile Gebreselassie

The 34-year-old …

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Horn of Africa alliance to defeat the Woyanne terror regime

By Elias Kifle
Ethiopian Review

In a recent interview with Dimtsi Woyanne Radio, Sebehat Nega, Woyanne moneyman and senior member of the politburo, said that if all Eritrean organizations combine, their effort would not add up to what the Tigrean …

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Ethiopia under Woyanne the 3rd worst place for Christians

Souce: Invictus Maneo

International Christian Concern has published its first ever “Hall of Shame,” an annual list of the ten nations with the worst records of persecution against Christians. The 2007 edition includes the following:

Number 10: Pakistan

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Rebecca Haile describes return to Ethiopia in a new book

By Amy Bowen [email protected]
St Cloud Times

NEW YORK CITY — Rebecca Haile finally returned home after 25 years.

Rebecca Haile

Haile, now 42, captured in a book the emotion of her return to Ethiopia years after her parents, Getatchew Haile and …

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Africa Commands Pentagon Attention

Source: ABC WMBB News 13

By JAMES W. CRAWLEY
WASHINGTON – Africa is a hot topic at the Pentagon.

The military is setting up Africa Command, a high-level headquarters akin to Tampa-based Central Command, to oversee military operations, planning, intelligence, …

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Woyanne forces go house-to-house searching for weapons in Mogadishu

The Associated Press
June 6, 2007

MOGADISHU, Somalia: Hundreds of Ethiopian [Woyanne] troops trying to protect this country’s fragile [puppet] government went house-to-house searching for weapons Wednesday, a daunting task in a city teeming with firearms.

Several people were arrested …

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European Parliament criticised Ethiopian regime’s human rights record

European Parliament Press Release
June 5, 2007

The lack of democracy and the large-scale human rights violations in Ethiopia were condemned by MEPs on Tuesday at a hearing held by the EP’s Development Committee and the Human Rights Subcommittee. The …

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Woyanne closed down Somalia FM stations; US shows concerns over the closure

By Aweys Osman Yusuf
Shabelle Media Network

Mogadishu June 6, 2007 — Shabelle Media Network has received a government decree from the prime minister’s office, ordering the closure of the station.

The Somali government has issued the decree to close …

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Five Ethiopian soldiers seek asylum in Asmara

Source: shabait.com

Asmara, 5 June 2007 – Opposing the TPLF regime’s policy of ethnic discrimination, five Ethiopian soldiers arrived in Asmara seeking asylum.

The soldiers disclosed that the regime recruited 8,000 youths under the guise of offering them computer application …

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Meles Zenawi visits his former home, Mogadishu

Meles Zenawi visits his former home and future grave yard, Mogadishu

Meles makes landmark visit to Somalia, where his troops are protecting the government

The Associated Press
Tuesday, June 5, 2007

MOGADISHU, Somalia: Ethiopia’s prime monster made a surprise trip …

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The butcher of Addis Ababa and Mogadishu pays suprise visit to the Somali capital

AFP, June 5, 2007 

Ethiopian Crime Minister Meles Zenawi [known by Ethiopians as the butcher of Addis Ababa] on Tuesday paid a surprise visit to Mogadishu, becoming the first foreign head of state to visit the lawless Somali capital …

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The growing Somalia crisis

June 5, 2007

By Jennifer Cooke, Co director, Africa Program

Hopes for a peaceful political resolution to the crisis in Somalia are dimming, as a power struggle between the Ethiopian [Woyanne]-backed Transitional Federal Government (TFG) and clan-based and Islamist militias …

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Charles Taylor’s trial puts dictators, like Meles Zenawi of Ethiopia, on notice

By Tristan McConnell
The Christian Science Monitor
Mon Jun 4, 4:00 AM ET

Ibrahim Koroma forgives the child rebels who chopped off his left hand nine years ago during Sierra Leone’s brutal civil war, saying they were “misled.” But he …

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Ethiopian Teachers Association members detained, tortured

By the Law Office of Fekadu Yami Abdi
Addis Ababa
June 4, 2007

This repot is a part of a report submitted on April 1, 2007 (Megabt 23, 1999)

– The report constitutes selected narration of the detainees. i.e. Ato …

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Denver: Hundreds of Ethiopians mourn at memorial for drowning victims

By 7News
KMGH-TV

DENVER | The family of two children who drowned in an apartment swimming pool last week held an emotional memorial service Sunday, June 3.

The tight-knit Ethiopian community came together to mourn and help the family take …

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Found in Gambella, Western Ethiopia: Nebraskans

Freemont Tribune
June 4, 2007

By Dean Jacobs/Letters to America

All the time I have spent traveling the world, never once had I met someone abroad who was currently from Nebraska.

Until now.

I have always jokingly told people there’s …

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Ethiopian Airlines launches first flight to Bahrain

Bahrain News Agency

MANAMA, JUNE 4, (BNA) — An Ethiopian Airlines place landed at Bahrain International Airport this morning, marking the beginning of regular Addis Ababa-Bahrain flights that will link the Kingdom with East Africa.

The initiative came in response …

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Ethiopia’s dictatorship wants Queen Elizabeth to return royal bones

By Andrew Heavens
Reuters
Sunday, June 3, 2007; 6:07 AM

ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) – Ethiopia [currently ruled by a brutal dictatorship] has called on Queen Elizabeth to return the bones of an orphan prince buried at Windsor Castle after he …

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Ethiopian victories at Reebok Grand Prix, New York

Tariku BekeleTirunesh Dibaba

 June 2, 2007

Reebok Grand Prix, New York

Tariku Bekele of Ethiopia stepped out of the shadow of his brother, Kenenisa, to post another U.S. all-comers record in the Reebok men’s 5,000m. Hoping to break 13:00, Bekele was on pace …

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Ethiopian rebel group launches a radio program

June 2, 2007

The Ethiopian People Patriotic Front (EPPF) will officially launch a weekly radio program on June 7, 2007.

The radio program, Ye Arbegnoch Dimts, will be broadcast to Ethiopia and the Horn of Africa every Thursday from 7-8 …

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Mehret Mandefro: from doctor to activist – video

Dr Mehret Mandefro, who was born in Ethiopia and raised in Washington, DC, progresses from doctor to activist as she investigates the lives of HIV-positive women in New York and Ethiopia.…

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Blair in Africa

June 2nd, 2007
From Economist.com

Tony Blair has been good for Africa. Africa has been good for him

“A SCAR on the conscience of the world” is how Tony Blair, Britain’s departing prime minister, once described Africa. In an attempt, …

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Warning of Dangers Posed by Chinese-Funded Projects in Africa

Posted 06.02.2007

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Ethiopia’s current dictator seeking death penalty for former dictator

Michael Sung

June 1, 2007 at 1:57 PM ET

[JURIST] Ethiopian special prosecutor Joseph Kiros told Reuters Friday that the Ethiopian government will seek to raise the sentence of convicted former dictator Mengistu Haile Miriam [BBC profile; JURIST

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Kinijit-Canada launches its web site

Press Release 
Kinijit-Canada
June 1, 2007

Kinijit Canada has launched its web site (kinijit.ca) today. It s with great pleasure and pride that we announce our desire to work jointly with all democratic forces and of human rights …

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Football: Ethiopia down DR Congo in Addis

BBC Sport

Ethiopian fans

Ethiopia threw Group Ten wide open on Friday when beating table-toppers DR Congo 1-0 in Addis Ababa.

Ethiopia’s win has lifted them off the bottle of the table

Saladine Said settled the contest with the only goal of

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Colorado: Yacob Gezaee is taken from life support

By Claire Martin
Denver Post

June 01/2007 06:27:10 AM MDT

Mulu Gebrelassiei, center, grieves the loss of her children in the basement of the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church on Thursday. (The Post / Karl Gehring)

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Serkalem Fasil of Ethiopia wins Courage in Journalism Award

May 31, 2007

IWMF Announces 2007 Courage in Journalism Award Winners

Lydia Cacho of Mexico, Serkalem Fasil of Ethiopia, and the Iraqi Women Reporters of McClatchy’s Baghdad Bureau Win Courage in Journalism Awards from the International Women’s Media Foundation

Peta

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World Bank approves 225 million dollars in credit to Ethiopia

Source: Xinhua
June 1. 2007

The World Bank approved 225 million U.S. dollars of credit to [the Woyanne warlords in] Ethiopia Thursday to help the African Horn country restore its road network and reduce poverty [actually to help the tribal …

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Tirunesh Dibaba has sights set on Meseret Defar’s record

May 31st, 2007 at 5:29 PM
Posts by David Monti

dibaba_millrose-games.jpgTirunesh Dibaba, the double world champion at 5000m and 10,000m in Helsinki two summers ago, is looking to take a bite out of the Big Apple by attacking Meseret

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Bomb hits Woyanne army convoy in Somalia

Thu. May 31, 2007 07:15 pm
By Bonny Apunyu
SomaliNet

Somalia: Bomb hits Ethiopian army convoy, four killed when a remote-controlled roadside bomb tore into an Ethiopian army convoy in Somalia on Thursday wounding five soldiers, locals and a security …

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Ethiopian elephants, lions face extinction

May 31, 2007

ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) – A thousand rare black-mane lions — an Ethiopian national symbol — and some 300 elephants are in danger after a swathe of forest that was part of their sanctuary was cut down, a …

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Getting to the Meat of The Matter at Warka

WashingtonPost.com

By Eve Zibart

Washington Post Staff Writer
Friday, June 1, 2007; Page WE19

It has been a long time since Adams Morgan could claim exclusive rights to Washington’s Ethiopian culinary community — and in any case that longtime “Little …

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Out in the cold: City planning Woyanne style

The City Administration’s campaign to dismantles houses it deems illegal settlements has begun. More than 205 residents in the Bole district have seen their dwellings destroyed as the city attempts to shape the Capital according to the Master Plan.

Addis

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CUDP secretary general beaten in prison

Alert from Kinijit International

“We have received an urgent alert from Kailiti that Muluneh Eyuel ( Secretary-General of CUDP-Kinijit) and Andualem Arage, two young heroes of the Ethiopian democratic movement, have been severely beaten and locked up in solitary confinement …

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Colorado: Ethiopian boy pulled out of pool not expected to survive


Written by: Jeffrey Wolf, Web Producer and Shawn Patrick, Reporter

Last updated: 5/31/2007 6:20:56 AM
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Boy pulled out of pool not expected to survive. 9NEWS at 10 p.m.

Aurora Police believe his sister died while trying to …

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Ethiopian girl drowns while trying to save brother

By Claire Martin
Denver Post Staff Writer
05/30/2007

With one child dead and the other dependent on life support, Gezaee and Mulu Kahsay spent Tuesday shuttling in a daze of grief between the church and the hospital.

“The doctor told …

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Roadside bomb targets Ethiopian [Woyanne] forces in Somalia

30 May 2007 09:04:07 GMT
Source: Reuters

By Guled Mohamed

MOGADISHU, May 30 (Reuters) – A roadside bomb blast tore through a convoy carrying Ethiopian [Woyanne] troops in a central Somali town on Wednesday, seriously wounding five soldiers, a security …

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Ethiopian troops open fire on bystanders after land mine blast, killing 5

Wednesday , May 30, 2007  By MOHAMED OLAD HASSAN
Associated Press Writer

MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) – Ethiopian troops shot and killed five bystanders Wednesday after a land mine exploded as their convoy passed through the center of a western Somali …

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Gunmen Kill Top Somali Intelligence Official

VOA News
Unidentified gunmen have killed a top Somali intelligence official in the latest attack on figures from the country’s interim government.

Authorities say the official, Ahmed Mohamed Odaysge, was shot in Mogadishu’s Hamarweyne neighborhood Wednesday.

On Tuesday, a gunman …

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Tony Blair rebuffs the Woyanne warlord

Tony flies in


Wednesday May 30, 2007
The Guardian

After Washington, it is Africa’s turn to bid farewell to Tony Blair. His parade started in Libya yesterday, will gather steam in Sierra Leone and will finish in South Africa. Libya’s …

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Oromo migrants in Yemen fear deportation

30 May 2007 08:55:49 GMT

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Population count in Ethiopia

May 29, 2007

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Somali court officer gunned down in Mogadishu

Tue May 29, 2007
By Guled Mohamed

MOGADISHU, May 29 (Reuters) – Gunmen killed a court official in Mogadishu in the latest rebel attack targeting authorities in the chaotic Somali capital, witnesses said on Tuesday.

Sheikh Mohamed Muse Duale, the …

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Ethiopian physicians filling a need in Delaware

Feeling right at home
Foreign-born physicians filling a need in Delaware

By LULADEY B. TADESSE, The News Journal
Tuesday, May 29, 2007

Dr. Isaias Irgau, who fled his native Ethiopia at the age of 16, received his medical training in

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Ethiopia Starts to Take a Census

Tuesday May 29, 2007 7:46 PM
By ANITA POWELL
Associated Press Writer

ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia (AP) – Ethiopia began counting its population Tuesday, a daunting task in a country where asking personal questions is considered socially taboo but where the …

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ETHIOPIA: Delays in third national census

ADDIS ABABA, 29 May 2007 (IRIN) – Ethiopia began a nine-day national census on 29 May to determine demographic trends in the country, but the exercise was delayed in Afar and Somali, officials said.

“Due to the mobility of their …

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Fourt dead after gunbattles and blasts in Somali capital


The Associated Press
Published: May 28, 2007

MOGADISHU, Somalia: Two explosions and a prolonged gunbattle shook northern Mogadishu overnight, leaving two people dead, officials and witnesses said Monday, while police killed two other men suspected of robbing civilians.

Government officials …

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Ethiopia honors victims of Marxist junta

ANITA POWELL, AP News

Thousands of Ethiopians gathered in the capital on Sunday to remember victims of a brutal Marxist junta, weeping at the sight of flower-covered coffins with remains from mass graves across the country.

The service marked the …

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Ethiopia: The trailing identity

Ethnicity as the main cause of the problems following the period 1991

By Abeje Tesfaye

I wrote this piece after the religious crisis in Jimma last year. It appears to me that more of such a crisis will happen now …

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Ethiopian-American back home after 3-nation African ordeal

The New York Times

Published: May 27, 2007

A 24-year-old New Jersey man who traveled to Somalia to help establish an Islamic state there but was instead imprisoned by three different nations, was released Friday and returned …

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Endowment Fund For Rehabiltiation of Tigray (EFFORT)?

I followed Ato Gebremedhin Araya’s interview on Tinsaye Radio (May 24) based on Abaye Tsehai’s recent interview with Dimtsi Woyane.

The claim by Abaye Tsehai that TPLF has been a fighting and business force that profited from business deal early …

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East Africa Attracts Big Oil Hunters

International Herald Tribune 

Oil companies, both western and Asian, are hunting in earnest for oil and gas in East Africa, a still largely under-explored region, as energy nationalism in Russia, Venezuela and the Middle East closes off opportunities in more

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Addis Ababa’s Forgotten Underground Children


BBC Special Report


In hiding

Blink and you will miss the underground children in Ethiopia’s capital city.

They live in tunnels, sewers and drainage holes, hidden beneath Addis Ababa’s teeming streets.

They move from one makeshift shelter to the next, …

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Solomon Tekaligne: “Ande Belu Sewe Atemenu”

Ato Solomon Tekalegn declared himself a patriot when he arrived in Addis this week and was heard saying that the whole Addis is shaking on his victorious arrival.

On the thirty minutes video interview he gave on the EriTV two …

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Ethiopia’s dictatorship reaps U.S. aid by enlisting in war on terror and hiring influential lobbyists

Allegiance Rewarded

By Marina Walker Guevara
Center for Public Integrity

May 22, 2007

WASHINGTON — One dramatic act sets Ethiopia apart from the array of countries with poor human rights records that have become United States counterterrorism allies since the …

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Energy-hungry Beijing suffers a backlash in Ethiopia

von William Wallis (London)

FTD.de, 22.05.2007

China’s funding to Africa is becoming increasingly controversial.

Chinese state companies have been expanding across the African continent in pursuit of raw materials at an accelerating pace and with apparently far less attention to …

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OLF and ONLF carry out joint military action in eastern Ethiopia

Two Ethiopian rebel groups carried out a joint military operation against the Tigray People’s Liberation Front (Woyanne) army in the eastern part of the country. A rebel statement alleged 157 soldiers were killed during the attack.

In a joint military …

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Scholars Refute Kanazawa’s Theory of Intelligence and Health

By Tadeos Daniel

In several papers published in the current issue of the British Journal of Health Psychology, scholars from the US and the UK refuted the controversial study of Satoshi Kanazawa that attempted to link health to intelligence.  …

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Scholars Refute Kanazawa's Theory of Intelligence and Health

By Tadeos Daniel

In several papers published in the current issue of the British Journal of Health Psychology, scholars from the US and the UK refuted the controversial study of Satoshi Kanazawa that attempted to link health to intelligence.  …

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The Woyanne dictatorship released 3 Swedes from Ethiopian jail

May 19, 2007

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The “Sheik” vs. Ethiopian Review

By Yared Nerayo

Comments made on EthiopianReview.com are being scrutinized by one of the largest foreign investors in Ethiopia, Al-Amoudi, and his high-powered lawyers, for possible legal action against the magazine’s publisher. Al-Amoudi, A.K.A. the “Sheik”, has embraced the Tigray …

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Saudi Arabia displays bodies of two Ethiopians beheaded

Kuwait Times
May 17, 2007

RIYADH: Saudi authorities yesterday beheaded two Ethiopians convicted of killing a Saudi national in an armed robbery and displayed their bodies in public after the execution, the Interior Ministry said in a statement. The statement, …

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Ninty-nine illegal immigrants are Ethiopians: minister

The 99 illegal immigrants detained by Tanzanian immigration officers and local police have turned out to be Ethiopian civilians instead of previously alleged Somali militiamen.

The Tanzania ministry for home affairs said in a press statement, available on Wednesday, that …

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Meseret Defar to Compete in Los Angeles this Sunday

Meseret DefarCARSON, Calif. (May 15) – Olympic gold medalist Meseret Defar has committed to run in the adidas Track Classic this Sunday, May 20, organizers have announced. Meseret comes to California with an eye on breaking the 2-Mile World Record.

Meseret …

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The second anniversary of the May 15, 2005 historic elections in Ethiopia

The elected are still in Jail: Shame on all of us!

Democracy still in jail

It is exactly two years since Ethiopia experienced one of the most open elections in its history. All of us who expected finally our country …

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Ethiopian organizations meet to discuss plans for Ethiopia 2000

A group of Ethiopian political, civic, and media groups, as well as civil rights activists and religious leaders are holding weekly conferences to discuss how to receive the Ethiopian millennium (Ethiopia 2000) this coming September.

So far, the group has …

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Ethiopia’s opposition parties need to rethink relations with Eritrea

By Haile Lemma

Most Ethiopians, particularly the hardline Nationalists, hold the perception that Eritrea is still conspiring with the woyanne regime against the interests of Ethiopia. They believe that even the bloody border conflict between the two countries is an …

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Ethiopia's opposition parties need to rethink relations with Eritrea

By Haile Lemma

Most Ethiopians, particularly the hardline Nationalists, hold the perception that Eritrea is still conspiring with the woyanne regime against the interests of Ethiopia. They believe that even the bloody border conflict between the two countries is an …

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Who will cry for Khadija, the Ethiopian?

By Hibret Selamu

Various websites have reported that Khadija Ibrahim Moussa, an Ethiopian woman, has been beheaded by the Saudi regime.

The report alleges that she was beheaded for killing an Egyptian after a dispute. However, no further information is …

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Broken Promises

By Prof. Adugnaw Worku

The month was October and the year was 1971. And my life was about to take a sharp turn with unintended long term consequences. That month and that year, I received two important documents I was …

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An Engaging Book on Ethiopia by Rebecca Haile

Rebecca Haile, daughter of Professor Getatchew Haile, has just published an engaging book on Ethiopia , entitled “Held at a Distance: My Rediscovery of Ethiopia.”

The book is available on Amazon and other book sites now and will be in …

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Hearing at the U.S. Congress on U.S. policy towards Ethiopia

Subcommittee on International Organizations, Human Rights, and Oversight
Bill Delahunt (D-MA), Chairman

Subcommittee on Africa and Global Health
Donald M. Payne (D-NJ), Chairman

You are respectfully requested to attend the following OPEN hearing of the Subcommittee on International Organizations, Human …

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Saudi Arabia beheads Ethiopian woman convicted of murdering Egyptian man

The Associated Press

RIYADH, Saudi Arabia: Saudi authorities beheaded Wednesday an Ethiopian woman convicted of killing an Egyptian man over a dispute, the Interior Ministry said in a statement.

Khadija Bint Ibrahim Moussa was found guilty of fatally stabbing Mohammed …

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Elias Kifle on Addis Dimts Radio

By Tedla Asfaw

When I came across a pro government website accusing Elias Kifle of Ethiopian Review inciting Ethiopians to destroy big hotels and mines owned by Sheik Almoudi, a bank roller of the EPRDF/TPLF, I went to the Addis …

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The EPRDF, Civil Society Organizations and Human Rights in Ethiopia

By Paulos Milkias

The EPRDF party is driven by power as an end in itself. The lure of the current Ethiopian government’s authority has in fact transformed the political party into a power-machine that crushes everything on its way, including …

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Massachusetts Legislature adopts resolution on Ethiopia

The Massachusetts Legislature has adopted a resolution introduced by State Representative William Brownsberger on May 3rd, 2007, memoralizing Congress to demand that Ethiopia’s government meet its obligations under the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Click below to read the resolution

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Fear of torture or ill-treatment for political detainees in Ethiopia

Amnesty International

Further Information on UA 88/07 (AFR 25/002/2007, 16 April 2007) – Incommunicado detention/

Bashir Ahmed Makhtal (m), Canadian national
Halima Badrudine Hussein (f), Comorian national
Ayub Abdurazak (m), French resident
Tesfaldet Kidane Tesfasgi (m), Eritrean national, television cameraman…

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Ethiopian Review legal fund

Dear ER readers,

As a result of Ethiopian Review’s aggressive reporting of the Woyanne crimes against the people of Ethiopia, the tribal bandits and their opportunist collaborators are unleashing all kinds of attacks against us–fabricated accusations, false charges, lawsuits, death …

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Ethiopia’s regime worst for press freedom: report

Source: CPJ

The top 10 worst countries for press freedom are Ethiopia, Gambia, Russia, Democratic Republic of Congo, Cuba, Pakistan, Egypt, Azerbaijan, Morocco and Thailand, a US-based media watchdog said.

“The behaviour of all of these countries is deeply troubling, …

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Ethiopia's regime worst for press freedom: report

Source: CPJ

The top 10 worst countries for press freedom are Ethiopia, Gambia, Russia, Democratic Republic of Congo, Cuba, Pakistan, Egypt, Azerbaijan, Morocco and Thailand, a US-based media watchdog said.

“The behaviour of all of these countries is deeply troubling, …

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Ethiopia blocks opposition Web sites: watchdog

By Andrew Heavens
Reuters

An Internet watchdog on Tuesday accused Ethiopia of blocking scores of anti-government Web sites and millions of blogs in one of sub-Saharan Africa’s biggest cases of cyber-censorship.

Web monitor, the OpenNet Initiative, said the Horn of …

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How rescued British diplomats in Ethiopia abandoned their local staff – for the second time

By BARBARA JONES
The Daily Mail

The chandeliers in the grand drawing room of the Ambassador’s Residence sparkled overhead.

Swathes of tartan were draped round the room and a bottle of whisky stood at the centre of every table as …

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The only way the US can prop up its client regime in Somalia is through lawlessness and slaughter

By Salim Lone
The Guardian

This is the most lawless war of our generation. All wars of aggression lack legitimacy, but no conflict in recent memory has witnessed such mounting layers of illegality as the current one in Somalia. Violations …

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Al Amoudi lawyer threatens Ethiopian Review

Ethiopian/Saudi billionaire Al Amoudi is unleashing his lawyers at Ethiopian Review. He has the audacity to threaten ER with a lawsuit for associating him with Meles Zenawi’s terrorist regime.

Dear Attorney David H. Bamberger,

Do you want to know how …

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Mogadishu: Another Darfur in the Making?

Congressman Donald Payne
For Immediate Release

Innocent civilians in Mogadishu are being killed and maimed by Ethiopian security forces and the militia of the Transitional Federal Government (TFG). The atrocities being committed against innocent civilians in Mogadishu are war crimes …

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