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Ethiopia Elections Board confirms ruling party killed 2 opposition members

ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia (AP) — Ethiopia’s elections body on Tuesday confirmed the ruling party killed two opposition members but said claims of other attacks could not be verified.

The National Elections Board was investigating allegations by an opposition coalition that …

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Voter, candidates registration ends

ADDIS ABABA (ENA) — Registration of voters and contesting candidates across the nation was officially closed at 7 p.m. (local time) on 13 February 2005 with the exception in the Somali Regional State where the election would be held in …

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Parliament amends electoral law

ADDIS ABABA (IRIN) – Ethiopia’s parliament reformed the country’s electoral law on Tuesday ahead of May’s general election, but the ruling stopped short of hopes by opposition parties.

It was the first time that the law had been amended since …

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Elections to be delayed in Somali Region

ADDIS ABABA (IRIN) – Federal elections in one of Ethiopia’s nine regions are to be delayed until several months after the rest of the country has voted, officials said on Thursday.

Tesfaye Mengesha, deputy head of the country’s National Election …

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Getaneh takes upset win at Great Ethiopian Run

Addis Ababa, Ethiopia – Ethiopia’s Genet Getaneh produced the greatest upset in the short four-year history of the Toyota Great Ethiopian Run, setting a new course record to win the women’s title in this morning’s race.

The 10km road race …

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World Bank lauds Ethiopia’s investment climate

Concluding a four-day visit to Ethiopia last month, President Jim Wolfensohn applauded the government’s vision for growth and poverty reduction. He added that the country – the second most populous in Sub-Saharan Africa – is poised to benefit from higher …

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Ethnic Cleansing In Ethiopia: Tip of the “Golden Spear”?

By Keith Harmon Snow
Global Policy Forum

Talk privately to any Anuak people in the Ethiopian state of Gambella and it won’t be long before they speak about “the problem.” Others are terrified into silence. To Anuak and other indigenous …

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Ethnic Cleansing In Ethiopia: Tip of the "Golden Spear"?

By Keith Harmon Snow
Global Policy Forum

Talk privately to any Anuak people in the Ethiopian state of Gambella and it won’t be long before they speak about “the problem.” Others are terrified into silence. To Anuak and other indigenous …

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Federal parliamentary elections set for May 2005

ADDIS ABABA (IRIN) – Ethiopia will hold national elections for its federal parliament on 15 May 2005, officials told IRIN. Ten national and 57 regional parties will run in the polls, with results announced on 8 June 2005, officials from …

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Ethiopia to invite monitors for polls in 2005

Addis Ababa – Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi has averted a possible boycott of 2005 elections by opposition parties by agreeing to their demand to invite international observers, his ruling party said on Tuesday.

Ethiopia banned international observers from monitoring …

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Electoral body pledges fair poll in 2005

ADDIS ABABA (IRIN) – The head of the National Election Board (NEB) on 24 June urged government and opposition parties in Ethiopia to ensure “free and fair” elections next year.

Asefa Biru, the NEB executive secretary, told IRIN that his …

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Gebremaria v. Ashcroft

United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Gebremaria v. Ashcroft

Petition for review form the Board of Immigration Appeals.

Elizabeth A. Holmes, argued, Bloomington, Minnesota, for petitioner.

Thomas B. Fatouros, argued, Washington, D.C (Timothy P. McIlmail, Washington, D.C. …

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Zewdie v. Ashcroft

United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit

Zewdie v. Ashcroft

Petition for review from the Board of Immigration Appeals.

Counsel who presented argument on behalf of the petitioner was Phillip F. Fishman of Minneapolis, MN.

Counsel who presented …

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Gemechu v. Ashcroft

United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit

Gemechu v. Ashcroft

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Taddese Lencho Gemechu (“Gemechu”) seeks review of a final order of removal issued by the Board of Immigration Appeals (“BIA”). The BIA affirmed the decision of the …

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Ethiopian Music Playlist

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Gebrehiwot v. Ashcroft

United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit

Uduak J. Ubon, argued, Washington DC, for petitioner.

Robbin K. Blaya, argued, Office of Immigration Litigation, Washington, DC, for respondent.

Before MORRIS SHEPPARD ARNOLD, MAGILL, and MURPHY, Circuit Judges.

MAGILL, Circuit …

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New Poetic Work By Ethiopian Immigrant Promotes Respect, Courage And Cultural Sensitivity

McLean, VA – “The Healing Conscious” tells the story of an Ethiopian immigrant boy on his fascinating journey to America and adulthood. Author Kifle Bantayehu, a 23 year-old second-generation Ethiopian immigrant, recounts this poignant tale in poetic format. His inspirational …

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Ethiopia: V-SAT failure worries

By Tamiru Geda

V-SAT communication equipment purchased by the ministry of revenue has proved incompatible with the system used by the Ethiopian Telecommunication Corporation (ETC), disclosed sources close to the concerned ministry and corporation.

Some years ago the Ministry of …

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Current Constitution of Ethiopia

Constitution of The Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia
Adopted: 8 Dec 1994

Preamble

We, the Nations, Nationalities and Peoples of Ethiopia:
Strongly committed, in full and free exercise of our right to self-determination, to building a political community founded on

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Habtemicael v. Ashcroft

United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit

Habtemicael v. Ashcroft

Andre Timothy Hanson, argued, Minneapolis, MN (Michelle S. Grant, Minneapolis, MN, on the brief), for appellant.

James E. Grives, U.S. Dept. of Justice, Office of Immigration Litigation, argued, …

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Interview with Meaza Ashenafi, women lawyers association of Ethiopia


Photo: IRIN/Anthony Mitchell
Meaza Ashenafi

ADDIS ABABA (IRIN) – Meaza Ashenafi founded the Ethiopian Women Lawyers Association (EWLA) in 1995, of which she is still the executive director. After returning to Ethiopia from the US, where she received the Hunger …

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The Untimely Death of Surafel Assaminew

Office of the Mayor of Atlanta
To the Honorable Shirley Franklin

We the members and friends of the Ethiopian-American community express our deepest concern over the fatal shooting of Surafel Assaminew, a final year Electrical Engineering student of Stone Mountain, …

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EC to help ensure free and fair elections

ADDIS ABABA (IRIN) – The European Commission (EC) has pledged over € 500,000 to help ensure democratic and fair elections in Ethiopia in 2005.

The funding is part of a worldwide initiative for developing countries worth around € 31 million …

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In memory of Harold Marcus

Harold G. Marcus Harold G. Marcus, founding editor of H-Africa, died Wednesday, January 15, 2003, of cardiac arrest following complications from an ongoing heart condition. He is survived by his wife, Dr. Cressida Marcus, and a daughter, Emma Rose Marcus (from a previous …

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Deir Sultan, Ethiopia and the Black World

By Negussay Ayele

Background to Deir Sultan at a glance

Unknown by much of the world, monks and nuns of the Ethiopian Orthodox Church, have for centuries quietly maintained the only presence by black people in one of Christianity’s holiest …

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A new strategy for political change in Ethiopia: Consolidation of resources for election 2005

Elias Kifle
August 2002

The strategy of forming a “united front” to free our country from the TPLF/EPRDF tyranny needs to be reviewed and adjusted. I believe the current strategy has miserably failed. It’s about time we must admit that …

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Ethiopia’s Educated Suffer Government Repression

Testimonies from “Lessons in Repression: Violations of Academic Freedom in Ethiopia”


About the chilling effect of human rights violations on students and educators

We can’t complain publicly or we will be arrested. The students are afraid of such things. Not …

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The zonal and woreda elections 2001 in Hadiya and Gedeo

By Siegfried Pausewang

“We have the right to vote. We have registered, we have voting cards. But we can not make use of our right, because our candidates are not there. We demand our right to vote.”

It is voting …

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Local elections in the southern region of Ethiopia

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Face the Facts: The Recent Ethio-Eritrea Boundary Decision in the Eyes of International Law

By Yohannes Chane Metiku
April 2002

Third World jurists have the uncomfortable task of interpreting and applying “International Law”, which for the most part is made, shaped, twisted or even often times abused in line with the national interests of …

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Seven projects for Ethiopia’s recovery

By Donald N. Levine
April 2002

Radical politics and civil strife have transformed the face of the Ethiopian nation over the past quarter of a century. Besides drastic changes at home, refugees to more than a dozen countries have formed …

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Home Sweet Home – Part II

By Adugnaw Worku

A year ago this month, I was in Ethiopia enjoying the company of friends and loved ones. And now a year later, I am reliving the experience and wishing that I could still be there. On the …

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World Bank and Meles Zenawi defend each other’s interests

By Deki Alula

In an attempt to divert attention from the serious problems facing his administration, Mr. Meles Zenawi wrote a hollow piece of paper sometime ago called “a renewal something” and ordered his employees and party cadres to discuss …

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UN envoy reports no evidence of ‘child soldiering’ in Ethiopia and Eritrea

UN NEWS CENTER

NEW YORK – A top United Nations expert on the impact of armed conflict on children said today that during a recent visit to Eritrea and Ethiopia he had seen no systematic use of child soldiers and …

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Sossina Girma v. Immigration and Naturalization Service

United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit

SOSSINA GIRMA,
Petitioner,

VERSUS

IMMIGRATION AND NATURALIZATION SERVICE,
Respondent.

Petition for Review of an Order of the

Board of Immigration Appeals
February 20, 2002

Before JONES, WIENER, and PARKER, Circuit Judges.…

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IGPP Los Alamos Assists in Study of Early Hominid from Ethiopia

A team of researchers from UC Berkeley and the Los Alamos branch of the Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics (IGPP) announced in July the discovery of fossil bones and teeth belonging to the earliest human ancestors yet discovered—a chimpanzee-sized …

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Ethiopia’s Haile Gebrselassie targets Bristol

Haile Gebreselassie, one of the world’s all-time great distance runners, is set to make his international half marathon debut in Bristol in just over two weeks.

The Ethiopian, who currently holds both the 5,000m (12:39.36) and 10,000m (26:22.75) world records, …

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YESHWARED WOLDEMESKEL v. INS

YESHWARED WOLDEMESKEL, Petitioner,
v.
IMMIGRATION & NATURALIZATION SERVICE, Respondent.

ON REVIEW FROM AN ORDER OF THE BOARD OF IMMIGRATION APPEALS (INS No. AXX-XXX-XXX)[Copyrighted Material Omitted]

Kenneth H. Stern (Stephanie Goldsborough, with him on the briefs), Stern & Elkind, Denver, Colorado, …

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Ethiopian Security Chief Is Killed

An army officer shot Ethiopia’s security chief to death Saturday as the official, a close ally of Prime Minister Meles Zenawi, was making his way into an officers club in the capital, state radio reported.

Kinfe Gebremedhin, 46, had been …

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Tens of thousands displaced by Ethiopia floods

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Nelson Mandela: On the go in his golden years

By Jeffrey Bartholet, NewsWeek

NEW YORK — I would like to rest, and welcome the possibility of reveling in obscurity,” Nelson Mandela told a farewell breakfast for the press in Pretoria last May. He said he was ready to spend …

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Targeting cities with ‘spiritual mapping,’ prayer

By Jane Lampman
The Christian Science Monitor

Can the ‘spiritual DNA’ of a community be altered?” That’s the question posed in a Christian video called “Transformations.”

Kenyan pastor Thomas Muthee is convinced that it can be. In 1988, he and …

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Historical letters at the National Archives of Ethiopia

Letters by 
Etege Menen  
Ras Mengesha     
Lij Iyassu           
Atse Tewodros  
Zewditu 
Menelik II  
Etege Taytu
Atse Yohanes
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Asrat Woldeyes: an extraordary life

By Jonathan Steele

I WAS LYING gravely ill in the flat of a Royal Air Force doctor in Addis Ababa when I first heard someone mention the name of Asrat Woldeyes, or simply Asrat as he was always known. Even …

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Going the Distance: The Haile Gebreselassie story

By Lee Nichols

Ten thousand meters is a pretty long distance to run (6.2 miles, for us Americans). But it’s nothing compared to the distance, both figurative and literal, that separates the lives of Haile Gebreselassie and Leslie Woodhead.

The …

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Human waves fall as war aims unfold

By David Hirst in Tsorona, on the Eritrean-Ethiopian border
Guardian

Six weeks after the battle of Tsorona, the bloodiest yet of this desert ‘border’ war, Ethiopian soldiers still lie unburied on the baking plain, just yards from Eritrean trenches; an …

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Ethiopia Across the Red Sea and Indian Ocean

Dr. Richard Pankhurst
May 14, 1999

1 Ethiopian-Indian Relations in Ancient and Early Medieval Times

Contacts between the lands which became to be known as Ethiopia and India date back to the dawn of history. The two countries, though geographically …

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History of Northern Ethiopia – and the Establishment of the Italian Colony or Eritrea

Dr. Richard Pankhurst
First published as an article in the Addis Tribune newspaper in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia on 19 February 1999.

1 Ancient Times

Since time immemorial the area which is now called Eritrea played an important role within the …

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Is Professor Asrat an Ethiopian First or an Amhara?

By Fikre Tolossa
January 1999

Now that Professor Asrat Woldeyes is a free man, it seems that there is a confusion about his real identity. Quite a number of people think that he is an Amara first and Ethiopian second. …

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Erracha Oromo Tradition in Thanksgiving: Its Assimilation in Ethiopia

By Admasu Shunkuri

Americans usually ask their student guests and their new immigrants: Do you have Thanksgiving in your country? My own reply has not always been as persuasive as I or the questioners would have liked it to be. …

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Ethiopia: The Curtailment of Rights (HRW)

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

This report, based on findings from two missions to Ethiopia during 1996 and 1997, was written by staff of Human Rights Watch. The report was edited by Peter Takirambudde, executive director of the Africa division of Human Rights Watch, …

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Feleke v. INS

United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit

Feleke v. INS

Janis M. Clay (argued), Minneapolis, MN, for Petitioner.

Joan E. Smiley, Washington, DC, argued (Frank W. Hunger, on the brief), for Respondent.

Before MAGILL,1 BEAM, and LOKEN, Circuit …

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The brutal murder of Assefa Maru by the Woyanne regime in Ethiopia

Ethiopian Human Rights Council
Special Report – May 13, 1997

EXTRA-JUDICIAL KILLING

Ato Assefa Maru was killed on May 8, 1997 at 8:20 a.m. while he was walking from his home in Woreda 12 Kebele 06 to his office. He …

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101st BAA Boston Marathon: Fatuma Roba Wins

By Michelle LeBrun and Larry Eder

Fatima Roba becomes First African Women to win Boston in 2:26:24!

Lameck Aguta wins the 101rst BAA Boston Marathon today in 2:10:33. Joseph Kamau of Kenya was second in 2:10:44, with Dionicio Ceron in …

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A historical explanation as to why members and supporters of TPLF are ethnocentric

By Fikre Tolossa

In these days of ethnic madness, many Ethiopians consider Tigreans to be self-centered, and even tribalistic. “Where is the Tigrean sense of Ethiopian nationalism?” they ask. If they are not Ethiopians, who is? I hesitate to make …

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Obituary: Crown Prince AsfaWossen HaileSelassie

By Richard Greenfield

The death of Asfa Wossen, Crown Prince of Ethiopia since 1930, almost certainly marks the final demise of thousands of years of Ethiopian monarchic tradition.

He was born in 1916 in the ancient Adare walled city of …

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Berihun Assfaw v. U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service

United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit

Berihun ASSFAW, Petitioner,
v.
U.S. IMMIGRATION & NATURALIZATION SERVICE, Respondent.

March 10, 1995

ARGUED: Antoinette Josepha Rizzi, LAW OFFICES OF ANTOINETTE J. RIZZI, Arlington, VA, for Petitioner. Joan Estelle Smiley, Office …

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Makonnen v. INS

United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit

Makonnen v. INS

Janis M. Clay, Minneapolis, MN, argued, for appellant.

Richard M. Evans, U.S. Dept. of Justice, Office of Immigration Litigation, argued (Frank W. Hunger, U.S. Asst. Atty. Gen., and …

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Ethiopia: Profesor Asrat Woldeyes jailed

On Monday 27 June, the Central High Court in Addis Ababa sentenced a medical professor and four other members of an opposition group, the All-Amhara People’s Organization (AAPO), to two years’ imprisonment.

“The five convicted prisoners appear to have been …

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Common Factors Uniting the Peoples of Ethiopia

By Fikre Tolossa

“The Tigreans had Aksum, but what could that mean to the Gurage? The Agew had Lalibela, but what could that mean to the Oromo? The Gonderes had castles, but what could that mean to the Wolayita?” Meles …

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Alemitu Gebregiorgis v. Immigration and Naturalization Service

Title Alemitu Gebregiorgis v. Immigration and Naturalization Service
Publisher United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Country Ethiopia | United States of America
Publication Date 12 January 1994
Reference 92-70362; 92-70670
Cite as Alemitu Gebregiorgis v. Immigration and
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Ethiopia: Looking Back into the Future

By Abebe Zegeye and Siegfried Pausewang

Ethiopia made a new start in 1991, but it is yet too early to give an objective assessment of the direction in which it is likely to move. The provisional government is facing a …

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Tigray Contributions to Ethiopian Civilization

By Fikre Tolossa

In my last two articles I wrote about the contributions of the Oromo and the Amhara to Ethiopian civilization. This article deals with the contributions of the Tigrean to Ethiopian civilization.

Let me make it clear from …

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Ethiopians in North America: Behind the Soccer Scene

By Fikre Tolossa
Ethiopian Review, August 1993

In my article about the soccer event in North America (ER, June 1993) I predicted that the Walia Club of San Francisco will be this year’s champion. And indeed, that prediction has been …

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Ethiopian Soccer Games in North America

By Fikre Tolossa
Ethiopian Review, June 1993

It has now become a tradition for the Ethiopian Community in North America to hold an annual soccer tournaments in different cities in the United States and Canada. For some, this event is …

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Ethiopia – Eritrea: From Shared Values to a Strategic Partnership

By Abraham Z. Kidane

The dust over part of the Horn of Africa is about to settle. In April, 1993, Eritreans will have a long awaited opportunity to exercise their right of self determination and to tell the world in …

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Amhara Contributions to Ethiopian Civilization

By Fikre Tolossa
Ethiopian Review, April 1993

In the March 1993 issue of the ER I wrote about some of the contributions of the Oromo people to Ethiopian civilization. In this article I will attempt to depict a few of …

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Annals of political terror in Ethiopia

(The New Yorker) — ANNALS OF POLITICAL TERROR about political prisoners in Ethiopia. Tells about the rise, in 1974, of a revolutionary party known as the Derg, led by Col. Mengistu Haile Mariam, a 5’3″ ordnance officer known …

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Population Distribution in Ethiopia: Beyond the Myths

By Abate Mammo
December 1992

Accurate and timely economic and demographic data are essential for fair and efficient allocation of resources as well as for acceptable electoral representation. Sensible public debates and compromises among various interest groups should no longer …

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Nobles of Oromo Descent Who Ruled Ethiopia

By Fikre Tolossa

Ethiopia has not always been ruled by “pure” Amhara and Tigre Monarchs. The fact is that some Oromo blood did indeed flow in the veins of Ethiopian monarchs since the 18th Century. By then the Oromo had …

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The philosophy of Ethiopian ethnicity

Fikre Tolossa
July 1992

Ethnic pluralism, if handled in the right way, is an asset to the well-being of a nation. Each ethnic group has its own unique features rooted in its language, culture, rituals and value systems. Ethnicity provides …

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EPRDF implicates OLF in massacre

OLF is implicated in brutal killings near Dre Dawa. Ethiopian television reported that OLF supporters killed and severely injured several innocent civilians from the towns of Bedeno and Belange by throwing them off from a mountain cliff alive. The victims …

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Ethiopian Radio reported renewed conflicts between OLF and EPRDF forces

Shortly after the signing of the Mekele ceasefire agreement, Ethiopian Radio reported renewed conflicts between OLF and EPRDF forces in some parts of Southern Ethiopia.

The Ethiopian News Agency (ENA) on April 19 quoted Hayalom Araya, the southern commander of …

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Lost Ark, Aksum Obelisk

The well-known British author Graham Hancock has been actively researching what happened to the Ark of the Covenant containing the Ten Commandments. While Hancock does not fully accept the traditional account of the Ethiopian Orthodox Church, he is nevertheless convinced …

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U.S. Congress passed the Horn of Africa Food Security and Recovery Act

In a bid to encourage leaders in the Horn of Africa who have been meeting on humanitarian issues in Addis Abeba, the U.S. Congress this week approved new legislation designed to alleviate hunger in the region.

The Horn of Africa …

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Over a million people are facing severe famine in Southern Ethiopia

Over a million people are facing severe famine in Southern Ethiopia. At least 7,000 people have already died and more are dying everyday. The famine has been caused by two years of failed rains and widespread civil strife mainly in …

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The first Horn of Africa Summit meeting was held in Addis Abeba

The first Horn of Africa Summit meeting was held in Addis Abeba on April 9. The heads of state of Sudan, Kenya, Ethiopia, Djibouti and the leader of the provisional administration of Eritrea attended the meeting.

An agreement was reached …

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A foreign aid worker was murdered in the town of Gode, Ethiopia

A foreign aid worker was murdered in the town of Gode on April 1. Lourenco Mutaca, a Mozambican working with the U.N. High Commission of Refugees, was shot dead by unidentified gunmen. A few days later the government announced that …

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OLF – EPRDF signed ceasefire agreement

Concerned about the conflict between the EPRDF and OLF, the U.S. government and the Eritrean People’s Liberation Front (EPLF) arranged a meeting in Mekele which reportedly produced an immediate ceasefire agreement in mid-April. The two sides stressed the need to …

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Haile-Girogis Brook is named Ethiopian ambassador to China

Newly-appointed Ethiopian ambassador to China, Haile Girogis Brook, presented credentials to Chinese President Yang Shangkun in early April. Ato Brook arrived in Beijing on March 23.

In early March, the newly-appointed Chinese ambassador to Ethiopia, Jin Sen, presented his credentials …

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Ethiopia agrees to devalue Birr

Minister for Foreign Economic Relations Abdul-Mejid Hussein said on April 16 that Ethiopia has accepted a World Bank recommendation to devalue the birr. He told Reuter the details and timing of the devaluation, the first in more than two decades, …

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Ethiopian Somalis Agree to Unite

Twelve Ethiopian-Somali clans have reportedly agreed to organize themselves under a single political group. A conference has been scheduled for July in Dre Dawa to draft the group’s political program and establish a committee to promote development and humanitarian assistance …

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Bombings in Addis Abeba

At least 17 people were wounded as bombs exploded in early April in downtown Addis Abeba. The blast, which took place at the National and Adam Hotels also caused other property damages.

Mulugeta Seyoum, commander of the Second Police Station, …

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An Ethiopian man hijacked an Ethiopian Airlines plane to Aden

An Ethiopian man hijacked an Ethiopian Airlines plane to Aden on April 2. The hijacker later surrendered. The Boeing 727, which was on a domestic flight, was carrying 135 passengers and eight crew members. The plane was allowed to land …

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Barcelona Olympics

Ethiopia will take part in the 25th Summer Olympics in Barcelona, Spain in July, according to the Ethiopian Sports and Culture Ministry. The last time Ethiopia participated in the games was 12 years ago in the 1980 Moscow Olympics.

According …

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The EPRDF-OLF Confrontation

The widely reported tension between the EPRDF and OLF ever since the new government came to power turned to armed conflict last month. In a broadcast statement the EPRDF gave warning to the OLF that “a point has been reached …

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Ethiopian Review Editor’s Note – April 1992

In this month’s issue we present Sultan Ali Mirha. He is currently one of the most intriguing political leaders in Ethiopia. The article about the Sultan is intended to introduce him to our readers. In a future issue we shall …

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Journey to Massawa

By Paul B. Henze
April 1992

The Escarpment Highway
We went to Massawa for an overnight visit during our first weekend in Asmera. The escarpment route from Asmera to Massawa is now free of checkpoints and military patrols. As of …

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Give credit where it is due

By Tekeste Wolde Meskel
April 2002

In the past year, Ethiopia has seen great changes. Seventeen years of civil war came to a sudden end and the dictatorship of Mengistu Haile Mariam was wiped out to the great relief of …

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Does the Past Have Any Authority in Ethiopia?

Harold G. Marcus
Ethiopian Review, April 1992

The primacy of politics in Africa has led to serious distortions of the historical record. This is no where more evident than in Ethiopian studies. The misrepresentation commenced with the student activism of …

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Amharic Speakers and the Question of Nationalities

By Getatchew Haile
April 1992

Ethiopian Ethnicity
The issue of ethnicity in Ethiopia is not well understood. Tragically, I suspect present rulers misunderstood the problem of ethnicity when they divided the country “along ethnic lines.” For example, when they designated …

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The people Amha Selassie deserted

By Getachew Garedew
April 1992

Is Asfaw Wossen (Atse Amha Selassie) capable of providing any type of leadership in Ethiopia today? To fully address this question, it is necessary to understand Asfaw Wossen’s political history and past activities.

Prior to …

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Ethiopia: The Looming Showdown

Faisel A. Roble
April 1992

There are enough indications to suggest that Ethiopia is once again headed towards a civil war. A recent article in the Los Angeles Times which painted a bleak picture of the possibility of peace disturbed …

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The politics of Sultan Ali Mirha – From pastoralism to nationalism

Ethiopian Review
April 1992

We began our journey north on the highway leading out of Addis Abeba. Sultan Ali Mirha, the septegenerian leader of the Afar people had agreed to grant us an interview. As we left Addis Abeba we …

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Ethiopia: rebuilding an economy in ruins

By Bulcha Demeksa

Economic recovery or development in an environment of conflict, insecurity and fear is virtually impossible. The coalition government of Ethiopia therefore must impartially and peacefully mediate between the warring parties in order to create a peaceful atmosphere …

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The Ethiopian Orthodox Church’s contribution to Ethiopian civilization

Fikre Tolossa
Ethiopian Review, April 1992

There was a time when almost all progressive Ethiopians condemned the Ethiopian Orthodox church believing it to be partly responsible for the country’s under- development. Indeed, there would not have been Ethiopian civilization without …

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Will the ‘Real’ Ethiopians, please stand

Fikre Tolossa
Ethiopian Review, January 1992

The question of self-identity is significant in this age of ethnic consciousness and revolt. Today Ethiopia is in the throes of ethnic rivalry. Both self-identity and national identity have become troublesome questions in the …

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Dr Mekonnen Meshesha: A Point of Light

President George Bush on November 5 recognized Dr. Mekonnen Meshesha of Boston, Massachusetts, as “The 606th Daily Point of Light” for the Nation. Dr. Meshesha, a native of Ethiopia, helps to resettle and support African refugees in his community.

Dr. …

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Ethiopia: Mo Anbessa attracts a huge crowd in Addis Ababa

Amidst prayers, and religious ceremony, Mo Anbessa, Ethiopians for Constitutional Monarchy, held its first public meeting in Addis Ababa on November 18 at the former Haile Selassie I Theater (renamed National Theater by the Derg). The playing of the old …

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