May 31, 2007 |
IWMF Announces 2007 Courage in Journalism Award Winners
May 31, 2007 |
IWMF Announces 2007 Courage in Journalism Award Winners
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 …
May 31st, 2007 at 5:29 PM
Posts by David Monti
Tirunesh 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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
Feeling right at home
Foreign-born physicians filling a need in Delaware
By LULADEY B. TADESSE, The News Journal
Tuesday, May 29, 2007
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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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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, …
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 …
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 …
von William Wallis (London)
FTD.de, 22.05.2007
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 …
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 …
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. …
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. …
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 …
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, …
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 …
CARSON, 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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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…
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…
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 …
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, …
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, …
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 …