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 …
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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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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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. …
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 …
United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Gemechu v. Ashcroft
1
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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, …
 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 …
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, …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
“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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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.…
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 …
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, …
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, …
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 …
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 …
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 …
Letters by Etege Menen Ras Mengesha Lij Iyassu Atse Tewodros Zewditu Menelik II Etege Taytu Atse Yohanes…
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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. …
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. …
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, …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
| 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 |
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
(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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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, …
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 …
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, …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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. …
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 …
