We had been told by Prime Beggar Meles Zenawi and his cheerleader in the U.S. State Department, Ms. Jendayi Frazer, that the Somali Islamist Courts Union (ICU) is a terrorist group, Taliban-like, linked with al Qaeda, etc. After several months …
We had been told by Prime Beggar Meles Zenawi and his cheerleader in the U.S. State Department, Ms. Jendayi Frazer, that the Somali Islamist Courts Union (ICU) is a terrorist group, Taliban-like, linked with al Qaeda, etc. After several months …
Documents obtained under the Freedom of Information Act by DuPage College could shade some light as to why the State Department gave gree light to the Woyanne warlord to invade Somalia. Is the ICU’s 10,000 or less rag tag militia …
By Ewunetu Feleke
“There are two kinds of fools: Those who can?t change their opinions and those who won’t.” – Josh Billings
More than a year and half after the May 15, 2005 Elections, Ethiopian opposition parties, civic organizations, media …
We had been told by Prime Beggar Meles Zenawi and his cheerleader in the U.S. State Department, Ms. Jendayi Frazer, that the Somali Islamist Courts Union (ICU) is a terrorist group, Taliban-like, linked with al Qaeda, etc. After several months …
By Rachel Lewis
In a country where politics is regarded as a man’s domain, Ethiopian women are leading the struggle against tyranny, writes KE’s Women’s Affairs correspondent Rachel Lewis.
A woman in her twenties walks on a muddy path sporadically …
CHARLOTTE, NORTH CAROLINA – Police arrested a man after a cab driver (an immigrant from Ethiopia) was stabbed in Myers Park.
Akim Lockwood, 25, is in the Mecklenburg County Jail, charged with attempted murder. Police say he stabbed a cab …
By Stephanie McCrummen, Washington Post Foreign Service
ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia — War or no war with Somalia, Mulunesh Abebayhu wants out. Out of her teaching job, where Ethiopian security forces constantly harass her because of her political views. Out of …
By Stephanie McCrummen, Washington Post Foreign Service
ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia — War or no war with Somalia, Mulunesh Abebayhu wants out. Out of her teaching job, where Ethiopian security forces constantly harass her because of her political views. Out of …
By Yilma Bekele
As far as our ruthless tyrant is concerned the Somali situation is a dream come true. Since the general election of 2005 he has been in a general state of funk. This is what the Americans call …
By Abdi Galgalo
Realizing that “…Iraq’s neighbors greatly affect its stability”, the Iraq Study Group puts forth a recommendation to the Bush administration to ?[s]top destabilizing interventions and actions by Iraq’s neighbors.? The report vividly shows that countries can willingly …
Part II
This article is part two of my article entitled “The Revitalization of Ethiopia?s tragic and painful memories of the 1970s: The Clash of Generations.” As you may remember, the first part of this article has already …
As the World watches as a full scale war threatens to erupt in Somalia, The Zenawi regime had better watch its Northern Border With Eritrea. The countries which have already fought one border war could find themselves in another if …
By Mohamed Mukhtar Hussein
The United Nations policy towards Somalia, and for that matter the greater Horn of Africa, oscillated from “stay the course†and “cut and run†during its existence. Over five decades ago, it passed a resolution on …
At the very end of the 1980s, when we witnessed the irreversible and forceful speed of the winds at the end of the Cold War, we all anticipated that a relatively peaceful, free world and a harmonious international community were …
Reporters Without Borders
2006 Report
Two countries moved into the Index’s top 20 for the first time. Bolivia (16th) was best-placed among less-developed countries and during the year its journalists enjoyed the same level of freedom as colleagues in Canada …
Remembering the Forgotten Victims
As shown by the historical records of the past three decades, the people’s power has not been effective in Ethiopia. It is therefore difficult to consider this power as a source of protection for political leaders …
The following is a speech delivered by Tsehafi Tizaz Aklilu Habtewold, former Prime Minister of Ethiopia, at the first African Summit (May 1963, Addis Ababa) in response to a speech made by the President of Somalia accusing Ethiopia of seizing …
By Aie Zi Guo
Once upon a time Ethiopians heard some scanty news about the Wild West. In school they read about Mark Twain and Shakespeare’s Romeo & Juliet. In colleges they were taught by scholars from Europe and North …