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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
Warnings for holidaymakers visiting Ethiopia were stepped up by the British government today.
The Foreign Office now advises holidaymakers against all travel within 50 kilometres of all of Ethiopia’s borders.
“We advise against all travel to areas off the principal …
Addis Ababa University students expressed outrage and anger on Tuesday after doctors at Menelik II hospital allegedly took out some parts from the body of a student. Daily Monitor reports as follows:
The deceased Ahmed Abdurrahman, a 3rd year physics …
The Ogaden National Liberation Front (ONLF)
Our people have been subjected to persecution including, killings, torture, arbitrary arrest and other forms of abuse by successive governments in Ethiopia. The current regime in power in Ethiopia led by the Prime Minister …
As Mogadishu endures an eighth day of fighting, one sombre conclusion is unmistakable. A new regional war is now being fought in the Horn of Africa.
The latest clashes are probably among the bloodiest in Somalia since America’s disastrous intervention …
MOGADISHU (Thomson Financial) – Shells and machinegun fire pounded the Somali capital today, setting buildings ablaze, as Ethiopian [Woyanne] forces and Islamist guerrillas battled for the ninth day.
After a night of sporadic shelling, columns of …
ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) – Ethiopian rebels who killed 74 people and seized seven Chinese workers in a raid on an oilfield said on Thursday they had no plans to hold the hostages or to attack other foreign companies.
A London-based …
By Martin Fletcher in Mogadishu
The Times
April 26, 2007
Said Muhammad Abukar, a mere 40 days old, lay grey and trembling on an operating table in Madina hospital. His tiny stomach was slit down the middle. Doctors were searching …
Addis Ababa – Dozens of students were injured on Thursday in clashes with each other and the police at Ethiopia’s largest university, said students.
One student said he saw another killed by demonstrators, and about 50 wounded in …
By Anita Powell in Addis Ababa
The Guardian
Rebels stormed a Chinese-run oilfield in eastern Ethiopia yesterday, killing 74 workers and destroying the facility, guerrillas and government officials said.
The Ogaden National Liberation Front, an ethnic Somali group that has …
Addis Abeba, 24 April – As the Somali population of Mogadishu is facing decimation, Somali fighters have taken over the city of Kisimayo. Nonetheless, Minister Meles Zenawi said military operations to clean Somalia of Islamist extremists were going well. Despite …
Before dawn this morning At 0430 AM local time in Ogaden, the ’ Dufaan’ commando unit of the Ogaden National Liberation Front (ONLF) conducted a military operation in the vicinity of Obala, 30km North-West of Degah-Bur in in Northern Ogaden. …
By Aweys Osman Yusuf
More than 16 people were killed and dozens more were wounded in the port city of Kismayu, 500 km south of the capital Mogadishu, Monday after a heavy gun battle between rival clans, Majegten and Marehan, …
By Mohamed Abdi Farah
(SomaliNet) At least 20 people mostly civilians have been killed and more than 40 others were wounded in a renewed fighting that raged in the Somalia capital Mogadishu overnight, local medical sources said on Wednesday – …
Sana’a – Scores of Ethiopian army troops serving the Woyanne tribal junta have arrived off the coast of Yemen onboard two boats belonging to smugglers after they fled fighting with Islamic insurgents in Somalia, a press report said on Tuesday. …
By Abdurrahman Warsameh
ISN Security Watch
The deputy prime minister of Somalia’s transitional government, Hussein Mohamed Farah Aideed, has accused Ethiopian troops of committing “genocide” against the Somali people in the capital, Mogadishu, taking already high tensions to a new …
Reports of torture in Ethiopia are widespread
By Nick Wadhams
San Francisco Chronicle
Ghimbi, Ethiopia — First, the police threw Tesfaye into a dark cell. Then, each day for 17 days, it was the same routine: Electric shocks on his …
Ethiopia remains at the bottom (119th out of 122 countries) when it comes to the effective use of information and communication technology (ICT), according to a new report from the World Economic Forum. The WEF’s Global Information Technology Report (GITR) …
Ethiopia’s offenses noted by State Dept.
Nick Wadhams
The San Francisco Chronicle
Monday, April 16, 2007
The State Department’s 2006 human rights report for Ethiopia cited “numerous credible reports that security officials often beat or mistreated detainees.” It included more …
Source: UN Integrated Regional Information Networks
Somali community leaders in Sana’a said on Saturday that 130 Ethiopian and Somali migrants died at sea when their boat capsized off the Yemeni coast after coast guards opened fire on them.
Three boats …
By Mohamed Diriye Abdullahi
The scenes coming out of Mogadishu are so horrible that they are unbearable to watch. Civilians are lying dead in their homes and on the streets; there is no water; no electricity; hospitals have been shelled …
(Full text of speech given at the University of Minnesota Law School, Conference “On the New Breed of African Leaders and the Future of Human Rights and Democracy in Africaâ€Â, April 6, 2007.)
It feels great coming back to my …
By Alisha Ryu, VOA
Ethiopia has denied allegations its soldiers in Somalia attacked and killed innocent civilians during heavy fighting against insurgents in the Somali capital earlier this month, calling the charges false and unfair. VOA Correspondent Alisha Ryu reports …
Is this Dr. Getatchew Haile? the caller asks.
Yes, Getatchew answers into the telephone.
Can I come over and talk to you?, the voice asks.
Why and about what?, Getatchew asks, skeptical.
It’s Oct. …
By Mammo Muchie (Ethiopia) & Osman Abdulkadir Farah (Somalia)
Introduction
Once again the Horn of Africa is on the news radar screen with the usual nauseating projection and imaging of a region embroiled with a seemingly unending litany of violence, …
By Aweys Osman Yusuf
Mogadishu 15, April.07 (Sh.M.Network) Speaking with journalists, an 18 year old Somali girl said she was raped by Ethiopian [Woyanne] soldiers in Mogadishu’s Hamar Bille neighborhood.
Fardowsa Abdi Hashi told local stringers that she was tortured …
By EthioZagol
In a remarkable precedent in Ethiopian legal history, the court in charge of the treason trial of CUD leaders, independent journalists and civil society members ruled today that Andargachew Tsgie, Mesfin Aman and Elias Kifle are guilty of …
Press Release
April 04, 2007
“Young people are fitter to invent than to judge; fitter for execution than for counsel; and more fit for new projects than for settled business.” Francis Bacon
The successful rally led by Oromo youth on …