In the previous commentary Meles Zenawi and Etrhiitorpeia posted in www.ethiopians.com (March 20, 2007), with Ethiopia smothered in the title, we scanned the zero sum game PM Meles Zenawi and his TPLF played on behalf of Eritrea at the total …
In the previous commentary Meles Zenawi and Etrhiitorpeia posted in www.ethiopians.com (March 20, 2007), with Ethiopia smothered in the title, we scanned the zero sum game PM Meles Zenawi and his TPLF played on behalf of Eritrea at the total …
Kinijit North America announced today that the Kinijit Youth League founding conference will be held in Dallas, Texas, on July 5, 2007. The conference coincides with the annual North America Ethiopian Sports Federation event which starts tomorrow, Sunday, in Dallas.…
Ethiopian political and civic groups will block the Woyanne embassy in DC on Monday, July 2, 2007, to demand the immediate and unconditional release of the elected leaders of Ethiopia.
The rally starts at 9 AM this coming Monday in …
By Sara Israelsen
Deseret Morning News
PROVO — The mental health of a man who bought high-powered guns illegally and told his roommates he wanted to kill police officers and U.S. soldiers will be reviewed against his wishes.
During an …
Sources close to the Woyanne-Qaliti mediation team in Addis Ababa have informed Ethiopian Review today that Meles Zenawi has decided to release the Kinijit leaders, but he wants to do it in his own terms, and at the time of …
By Stephanie McCrummen
Washington Post Foreign Service
NAIROBI — Meles Zenawi said Thursday that his government “made a wrong political calculation” when it intervened in Somalia, where Ethiopian troops are bogged down in a fight against a growing insurgency.
Addressing …
ADDIS ABABA, June 28, 2007 (ST) — The Oromo Liberation Army (OLA), armed wing of the Oromo Liberation Front (OLF), killed over 30 soldiers and captured nine others in an attack on Woyanne regime troops in eastern Ethiopia, a rebel …
By Dr. Getachew Workneh
Surely, help for Ethiopia will come from above with or without the support of the western powers, if we seek God in repentance. But, it is time to say enough is enough, stop negotiating with Hamman, …
ADDIS ABABA, June 28 (Reuters) – Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi slammed on Thursday calls by Western diplomats for the release of 38 opposition officials as “shameful”.
In an address to parliament, Meles lambasted the Addis Ababa-based Western ambassadors, some …
By ANITA POWELL, Associated Press
ADDIS ABABA – Ethiopia’s [dictator] said Thursday he is building up the army‘s capabilities because he fears an imminent attack by Eritrea, which he also accused of arming rebel groups inside his country.
“It is …
Ostrava (Czech Republic), June 28: Twice Olympic 10,000 meters champion Haile Gebrselassie broke the world one-hour and 20 kilometers marks at the “Golden Spike” grand prix athletics meeting on Wednesday.
The 34-year-old Ethiopian ran 21.285 km in 60 minutes to …
The Associated Press
Wednesday, June 27, 2007
MOGADISHU, Somalia: Unidentified gunmen lobbed three hand grenades at a police truck patrolling the main market in Somalia’s capital Wednesday, missing the truck and killing two shoppers, police and witnesses said.
Also on …
Valkenwaard, The Netherlands – Last night (26) on what was a cool (13 degrees CT) low windy evening Ethiopia’s Mestewat Tufa ran the fastest 10.000 metres for women of the season at Valkenswaard in the south of The Netherlands with …
By Network of Ethiopian Scholars (NES)
Justice is like fire; even if one covers it with a veil, it still burns. (Malagasy Proverb)
One of our strongest weapons is dialogue, sit down with a man, if you have prepared …
Aden, August 26 (UNHCR) – Eighteen Somali and Ethiopian refugees are currently being treated in southern Yemen after they were forced to jump off a boat into the Gulf of Aden. At least 12 others are believed to …
By Coalition for HR 2003
WASHINGTON DC – US lawmakers were stunned on Monday when Prime Minister Meles Zenawi warned that he would not set free the opposition leaders if the US Congress went ahead and marked up an Ethiopia …
(Addis Ababa)
Ethiopian women participating in the project
© UNESCO
Over a hundred young Ethiopian women will be be spending the next three months working with UNESCO under a pilot project launched today.
The project, coinciding with the upcoming Ethiopian …
By Fisshea Tecle
Rumors are all over about the imminent release of the leaders of Ethiopia’s pro-democracy party, the Coalition for Unity and Democracy (CUD). Whether the prisoners are released at all and under what terms is entirely dependent upon …
By Prof. Donald Levine
Sem-inna worq yiqir! Dubbi qarumman dubbatani miti!
Andenat kala agar yebarekal; Andenet kelela yaweredal.
Reports of the signing of a mediated consensus document by political prisoners at Qaliti brings a fresh blast of hope to all …
NAIROBI, June 25 (Reuters) – Rebels in Ethiopia’s remote eastern Somali region accused the government on Monday of using warplanes to bomb three villages, killing around 40 people, in an escalating offensive against the insurgents.
The government said it had …
By Berhanu G. Balcha
Meles Zenawi was elected from a district from which he has never lived for the last 30 years. It is clear that he has no legitimacy even from his own electoral district. However, the 1995 constitution …
The U.S. House of Representatives, Committee on Foreign Affairs markups:
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Tom Lantos (D-CA), Chairman
You are respectfully requested to attend the following OPEN hearing of the Full Committee, to be held in Room 2172 of the Rayburn House Office …
By Juggie Naran
Independent Online
A Johannesburg business consultant, released on Tuesday from a Guantanamo-style detention centre in Addis Ababa, has told of kidnapping, assault, torture and interrogation, mainly at the hands of American intelligence officials.
Abdul Hamid Moosa, 41, …
San Francisco Chronicle
Sunday, June 24, 2007
When the sirens rang out, Karen Yifru had a bad feeling.
“I never go to sleep until all my babies are home,” she said. “I was waiting by the window, waiting for him …
AFP, June 25, 2007 (ADDIS ABABA) — Ethiopian opposition leaders convicted after violent protests in the wake of contested 2005 elections have admitted their “mistakes,” their lawyer said Sunday.
The lawyer said the thirty-eight accused, convicted by the High …
By CYNTHIA DIPASQUALE | Maryland Daily Record
An Ethiopian woman who said she was kept as an indentured servant in a Potomac home for four years won a $61,000 federal jury verdict against her employers on claims of unjust enrichment.…
Ethiopian Review sources reported that on Sunday afternoon some of the Kinijit prisoners in Qaliti sent their personal items home as they await their release. According to ER sources, the release of the prisoners may occur any time between tomorrow, …
The Holy Synod of the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church (EOTC) announced that it will join Ethiopian civic and political groups in Washington DC on June 25 and 26 to march for the release of Ethiopia’s jailed leaders.
It is announced …
Sources close to Qaliti:
Woyanne propagandists are busy trying to characterize the negotiation between the Tigrean People Liberation Front (Woyanne) and the prisoners as a plea bargain and are also trying to insinuate that the prisoners in Qaliti are asking …
University of Nottingham scientists have been instrumental in helping to establish a pioneering branch of chemistry in Ethiopia.
They have helped to introduce Green Chemistry, an emerging field of sustainable science that will help African nations to meet …
NEWS FROM THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT SOCIALIST GROUP
21 june 2007 –
Contact: Solange Hélin-Villes – +32476 510 172
Tony Robinson:+475 257 410
www.socialistgroup.eu
Socialist European Members of Parliament are seriously concerned with the fate of 38 Ethiopian political prisoners who …
The European Parliament,
– having regard to its previous resolutions on the post-election crisis and serious human rights violations, in particular those of 7 July 2005 on the human rights situation in Ethiopia1, of 13 October 2005 on the situation …
By Gemeda Humnasa
According to Washington Post, some of the CUD/Kinijit opposition leaders, earlier found guilty, have now signed a document accepting partial responsibility for the violence in exchange for their release. This is definitely a very good news and …
European Parliament – Press Release
June 21, 2007
Following up on previous resolutions on Ethiopia, MEPs take another look at the unstable situation that has persisted in that country since the 2005 elections. Opposition leaders who led protests at the …
SUPPORT THE FORBES AMENDMENT TO H.R. 2764
June 21, 2007
Dear Colleague:
As Chair of the Congressional Ethiopian American Caucus, I urge you to vote YES to Representative J. Randy Forbes amendment to H.R. 2764 restricting certain economic assistance to …
The Guilty Verdict and Why The TPLF is So Predictable
By Ethiopian-Americans for Democracy
After an 18-month charade, a politically compliant Ethiopian court on June 11, 2007 found 38 members of Ethiopia’s main opposition party, CUD-Kinijit, guilty of leading armed …
By Stephanie McCrummen
The Washington Post
DAR ES SALAAM, Tanzania — Ethiopian opposition leaders jailed in a brutal crackdown following 2005 elections have signed a document accepting partial responsibility for the violence in exchange for their release, senior U.S. and …
Press Release
June 20, 2007
That the Ogaden has been neglected by the current regime in power in Ethiopia is not in question. That what is unfolding in Ogaden amounts to war crimes is what the world is beginning to …
Tegbar Ethiopia
Press Release – June 21, 2007
Tegbar League’s executive committee in Addis Ababa today has called on the people of Ethiopia to rise up in unison for a nationwide civil disobedience to force the Woyanne dictatorship free our …
An Internet watchdog on Tuesday accused Ethiopia of blocking scores of anti-government Web sites and millions of Weblogs in one of sub-Saharan Africa’s biggest cases of cyber-censorship.
Web monitor, the OpenNet Initiative, said the Horn of Africa country was stopping …
Gulf Weekly — IT has been a week of mixed fortunes for sports in Bahrain. Where top cueist Habib Subah flattered to deceive at the Asian Snooker Championship in Pakistan by failing to make the quarter-finals, Maryam Yusuf Jamal flourished …
BY DON LIEBER , Willamette Week Online
On June 11, 38 prominent opposition leaders in Ethiopia were found guilty of multiple capital crimes, including treason and “outrages against the constitution.”The developments were the latest outrage in Africa’s third most populous …
MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) – More than a dozen gunmen attacked two police bases in Mogadishu early Wednesday with rocket-propelled grenades, sparking fire fights that killed at least two people, witnesses and police said.
The attacks came just hours after a …
By VOA News
Witnesses in Somalia’s capital say Ethiopian [Woyanne] troops shot and killed at least eight people late Tuesday, following a roadside bomb attack.
The witnesses say the bomb hit a [Woyanne] military convoy, damaging a truck and causing …
Former UVSC Student Charged With Felonies
OREM, Utah (AP, June 20th, 2007) — An Ethiopian immigrant apparently fascinated with death and shooting U.S. soldiers now faces felony charges for gun violations.
20-year-old Kidus Chane Yohannes was a student at Utah …
The Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church’s (EOTC) Holy Synod has called on the people of Ethiopia to stay away from any millennium celebration unless the elected leaders of Ethiopia are released from prison.
The Holy Synod warned the Woyanne regime that …
ER obtained this email regarding postponement of the planned events at the Woyanne embassy in Washington DC
From: The Whitaker Group, [email protected]
Date: Jun 19, 2007 1:11 PM
Subject: Postponement of Ethiopia and Starbucks Events – June 20, 2007 events…
AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL
Public Statement, June 19, 2007
An Ethiopian court on 11 June convicted 38 defendants part-way through the long-running trial of leaders of the opposition Coalition for Unity and Democracy (CUD) party, journalists and civil society activists. The 38 …
The UNESCO World Heritage Centre today signed the contract with Lattanzi SRL construction company to begin the re-erection of the Aksum obelisk. Also known as Stela 2, it is the second largest stela on the Aksum World Heritage site in …
74th OREGON LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY–2007 Regular Session
Senate Joint Memorial 3
Sponsored by Senator DECKERT; Senator GORDLY, Representative HUNT (at the request of Ethiopian-American Association of Portland)
To the President of the United States, the Senate and the House of Representatives …
PRESS RELEASE FROM MINISTRY OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS, IN ADDIS ABABA, REGARDING THE NEW YORK TIMES REPORT ABOUT THE CONDITIONS IN THE OGADEN REGION OF ETHIOPIA
PRESS RELEASE
On Jeffery Gettleman and the New York Times
19.6.2007
In May, Jeffery Gettleman, …
Source: Xinhua
At least three Ethiopian [Woyanne] soldiers and seven Somalis were killed and an unknown number were wounded when a [Woyanne] military truck was hit by a roadside bomb as the convoy was passing a street in the north …
Press Relase
Lod, Israel – June 19, 2007 – Telrad Networks, an expert developer of carrier-grade telecommunications equipment, announced today that ETC (Ethiopian Telecommunications Corporation) has signed an agreement with Telrad for support and maintenance for their wireline infrastructure. This …
Seven members of a high-level Woyanne delegation visiting Saudi Arabia sustained serious injuries in a car accident on June 14, 2007.
The delegation was led by Siraj Fegesa, Minister of Federal Affairs of Ethiopia.
Siraj was admitted to a hospital …
United Nations Department of Safety and Security – Addis Ababa, Ethiopia Weekly Security Report – June 11 – 17, 2007
* Situation in Borena remains uneasy.
* On June 8, 2007 polio campaign had started in all woredas of the …
By Obang Metho
Dry bones, hear the word of the LORD! … I will make breath enter you, and you will come to life. I will attach tendons to you and make flesh come upon you and cover you with …
IFEX – News from the international freedom of expression community
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UPDATE – ETHIOPIA
18 June 2007
EFJA shocked by deteriorating press freedom situation following conviction
of editors and publishers
SOURCE: Ethiopian Free Press Journalists’ Association (EFJA), Addis Ababa
**Updates …
EMF, June 18 2007 – Hundreds of compatriots massed infront of the Woyane embassy today, condemning the verdict and court proceedings of the cangaroo court. The embassy was shut at one time as demonstrators stormed into the embassy compound. Embasy …
By Cahal Milmo and Emily Duggan, Independent.co.uk
Amid the gothic splendour of St George’s Chapel in Windsor Castle there is a little-noticed brass plaque. Erected in memory of Prince Alemayehu Tewodros, it reads: “I was a stranger and ye took …
Ethiopian Review
August 18, 2007
In the wake of guilty verdict against its top leaders, Ethiopia’s major party, the coalition for Unity & Democracy Party (Kinijit), issued a statement today asking the people of Ethiopia to prepare for massive nationwide …
By Jeffrey Gettleman
The New York Times
Sunday, June 17, 2007
IN THE OGADEN DESERT, Ethiopia: The rebels march 300 strong across the crunchy earth, young men with dreadlocks and AK-47s slung over their shoulders.
Often when they pass through …
BAHRAIN’S star middle distance runner and Olympian Maryam Yousef Jamal continued her rise on the world stage by winning the women’s 1,500m race at the ExxonMobil Bislett Games, the start of the 2007 IAAF Golden League, in Oslo. Maryam staged …
OSLO, (Xinhua) — Meseret Defar of Ethiopia smashed her own 5,000m world record by nearly eight seconds and Jamaica’s Asafa Powell cruised to a victory in the men’s 100 at a Golden League meeting here on Friday.
Defar clocked 14 …
AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL USA
PRESS RELEASE
June 15, 2007
(New York) — Amnesty International USA (AIUSA) condemns the recent convictions in Ethiopia of 38 opposition party members, journalists and a human rights defender on charges that could carry life in prison …
AFD STATEMENT ON THE CONVICTION OF CUD LEADERS
June 14, 2007
Over the last 16 years the Ethiopian people have suffered under the tyrannical rule of EPRDF. The gross violation of human rights, the absolute disregard for the rule of …
ENA – Addis Ababa, June 15, 2007 (Addis Ababa)
The Woyanne Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Ethiopia has said the report circulated by the Associated Press (AP) on Friday concerning Ethio-Eritrea border demarcation is a “gross distortion”.
In an interview …
The Eritrean government issued a statement today dismissing Woyanne offer to return Badme as “misleading.” Eritrea rejects Woyanne’s precondition that there must be a dialogue to improve relations before returning the land. Eritreans are saying, just the land, bozos… Read …
Perspectives for Political and Leadership Change
By Dr. Maru Gubena
Almost all relatively professional institutions or political organizations see an evaluation – or a brief presentation of policy-related activities or past experience – as a healthy and even vitally important …
By Mohamed Amiin Sheikh Addow
Mogadishu 15, June.07 (Sh.M.Network) Osman Ali Hassan Atto, a member of Somalia’s transitional parliament has accused Ethiopian [Woyanne] forces who searched his home in Mogadishu of robbing him around four thousand US Dollars.
In an …
BERLIN (AP) – Two white men were acquitted Friday of the racially motivated beating of an Ethiopian-born engineer in a case that raised fears of xenophobic attacks before last year’s soccer World Cup, which turned out to be unwarranted.
The …
The budget will be wholly funded by taxes as western donors have withheld direct budgetary support to the Horn of Africa country in protest over a government crackdown on opposition supporters.
Ethiopia’s Council of Ministers has forwarded a 43.9 billion …
By Alisha Ryu
Mogadishu
14 June 2007
Ryu report (MP3) – Download 603k
One day after Somalia’s interim government postponed a national reconciliation conference for the third time in three months, some residents of Mogadishu are expressing doubt the conference …
Friday, 15 June 2007
Press Release: United Nations
Members of the United Nations Security Council leave today on a weeklong mission to Ethiopia, Sudan, Ghana, Côte d’Ivoire and the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) in support of ongoing peace …
Source: AP
UNITED NATIONS — After years of conflict and a tense border dispute, the Woyanne regime in Ethiopia has accepted a U.N. commission’s ruling to turn over a disputed town to Eritrea.
The Woyanne dictatorship gave its unconditional acceptance …
By PINR
From late May through mid-June, Somalia remained frozen in its state of political collapse described by PINR in its May 3 and May 24 reports on the country.
Somalia’s weak and internationally recognized Transitional Federal Government (T.F.G.) continues …
By Guled Mohamed
Reuters, Thu Jun 14, 6:56 AM ET
Somali insurgents assassinated a local official on Thursday and attacked Ethiopian [Woyanne] troops overnight just hours after a second attempt to start a peace conference was postponed, residents said.
Islamist-led …
By Kedir Yimam
The recent beheading of three Ethiopian nationals by the Saudi government was a sad moment for all Ethiopians and for all others who believe in the goodness of all human beings. But for some of us, the …
By Dr. Moges Mekuria
Projecting ones nightmares onto others will only lead to insanity and ultimate doom
The Treason charge and conviction once again proves the politics of projection that has been consistently applied on the people of Ethiopia by …
By Amina Mire
On 12 June 2007, the UN’s Human Rights Council issued a damning report on widespread human rights violations against the Somali population between December 2006 and April 2007. What is not clear from this report is who …
In the coming few days, Kinijit International Leadership, the group that has been delegated to represent the top leaders of the Coalition for Unity & Democracy Party (Kinijit), will elect a new chairman and restructure itself.
Ever since this committee …
Ethiopian Review
June 13, 2007
The Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church’s (EOTC) Holy Synod issued a statement strongly denouncing the court verdict on Monday, June 11, against opposition leaders in Ethiopia as “an injustice and an obstacle to peace.”
The Holy …
Report from the court room
The second criminal bench of the federal high court has on Monday, June 12, 2007, passed a guilty verdict against most of the defendants in the Hailu Shawel case file. The timing of the ruling …
Tuesday, June 12, 2007
Reported by: Shannon Sims
WVEC-TV
Tuesday, the U.S. State Department confirmed a former Norfolk State University professor was convicted of crimes against the Ethiopian government.
Monday, an Ethiopian court convicted Yacob Hailemariam and 38 other defendants …
Yale University
June 12, 2007
New Haven, Conn. — Researchers at Yale’s Department of Epidemiology and Public Health and staff of the Clinton Foundation HIV/AIDS Initiative recently published and released a document for Ethiopia’s hospitals that is designed to improve …
Wed Jun 13, 2007 11:21AM BST
By Guled Mohamed
MOGADISHU (Reuters) – Organisers of a national reconciliation conference in Somalia due to start on Thursday have postponed it for one month in the second delay to long-awaited peace efforts in …
Source: ABC 4, Salt Lake City, UT
Last Update: Jun 13, 2007 10:40 PM
Police are calling it a preemptive strike. They’ve arrested 20-year-old Kidus Yohannes after a roommate noticed his strange habits.
“He wasn’t normal, very quiet, very …
WASHINGTON, June 13, 2007 (Reuters) – The United States said on Tuesday it was very concerned by an Ethiopian court’s guilty verdict of 38 opposition officials and said it was watching the situation very closely.
Ethiopia, a close ally of …
Abraham Yayeh went on Hagerfiker Radio (June 10, 2007) to accuse what he called an Amhara plot behind the Aider School bombing during the Badme war. He elaborated what he called the hidden motive of the Amharas to instigate hate …
By Kedir Yimam
Recently a delegation was sent to Ethiopia by Bedr Ethiopian Muslim Federation to address the violations of God-given and constitutional rights of Ethiopian Muslims by the present government. A body that is composed of Ethiopian Muslims from …
Ethiopian Revew News
June 12, 2007
The exiled Holy Synod of the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church has announced [Amharic, pdf]today that it will launched a weekly radio broadcast to Ethiopia starting on July 2, 2007. The radio will be …
Joint Statement by Congressman Donald M Payne and European Parliament Member Ana Maria Gomes
June 12, 2007 [pdf]
We are deeply shocked and dismayed to hear the guilty verdict of the 38 courageous human rights advocates, elected parliamentarians, …
From: Tegbar League Central Executive Committee, Addis Ababa
Attn: All foreign companies operating in Ethiopia
Date: June 12, 2007
Re: Ethiopian millennium
Tegbar League-Ethiopia is calling on all foreign companies that are operating in Ethiopia to cease their operations in …
Press Statement
The Coalition for Unity & Democracy (Kinijit)
June 12, 2007
June 11, 2007 once again marks another episode, in a series of excessive lawlessness and brutality that had been the order of the day in Ethiopia, ever since …
By Joe De Capua, VOA
June 12, 2007
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A human rights group says it’s deeply concerned about the nearly 40 …
A federal high court verdict finding four journalists and three press groups guilty yesterday of trying to “overthrow constitutional rule” was condemned today by Reporters Without Borders as a serious retrograde development. Two of the …
An Ethiopian judge adjourned Tuesday a trial launched by prosecutors seeking a death sentence for Mengistu Haile Marian, an exiled former dictator already sentenced to life in prison.
Judge Desta Gebru adjourned the trial till July 3 after defence …
Ethiopian capital’s home wreckers
Shack dwellers in Addis Ababa are being forced out of their homes as massive development takes place in the Ethiopian capital, writes the BBC?s Amber Henshaw as part of a special report on cities …
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Mogadishu 11 June 2007 |
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In a new sign of trouble for Somalia’s transitional government, elders of the Hawiye clan, which …
By CPJ
New York, June 11, 2007— Ethiopia’s High Court today convicted four editors and three publishers of now-defunct weeklies of anti-state charges linked to their coverage of the government’s handling of disputed parliamentary elections in 2005, according to
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PETRONAS, Malaysia’s national petroleum corporation, has been awarded the exploration Block G in Ethiopia, marking its entry into the upstream sector of the African country. The award of the block …