A meeting organised by Woyanne embassy was cancelled after Ethiopians demanded to express their views
A public meeting that was organised by the Ethiopian embassy in the Netherlands was cancelled yesterday due to demands from the participants for an open …
ASMARA (shabait.com) — In a live interview he conducted with the Eritrean media last night regarding the objective situation in Ethiopia and regional issues, President Isaias Afwerki underscored that the TPLF clique’s strategy of creating enmity among the …
Spiegel
06.11.6007
Terror suspects have been questioned by US officials in Ethiopia after being transferred from Somalia and Kenya. The captives included Europeans who were detained, interrogated and then released without charge.
The CIA’s system of unlawful kidnappings of terrorist …
Fiche, Ethiopia (ENA) – The renowned athlete Kenenisa Bekele here on Friday signed an agreement providing for constructing a 9.9 million Birr sport complex in Sululta Woreda with the North Shoa Zone Investment Office
Kenenisa Bekele
According to the signed …
BBC
June 11, 2007
A court in Ethiopia has found 38 senior opposition figures guilty of charges connected to mass protests after disputed elections two years ago.
The charges ranged from armed rebellion to “outrage against the constitution”.
Sentencing is …
By Katie Nguyen
LONDON, June 11 (Reuters) – Ethiopian rebels accused government troops on Monday of raping women and destroying villages in the southeastern Ogaden region to suppress an insurgency.
Prime Minister Meles Zenawi announced a crackdown at the weekend …
The model of perfection
LONDON, England (CNN) — Born in 1978 and raised in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, Liya Kebede attended the French Lycee in Addis. It was here that she was talent-spotted by a French film director and …
Presented at The Symposium on Human Rights in the Horn of Africa
[see also in pdf]
Horn of Africa Social Justice Forum, York University, Toronto, Canada
Presented by SOCEPP-CANADA
June 9, 2007
On behalf of the Solidarity Committee for …
Ethiopian Review
Former chairman of Kinijit International Leadership Committee, Shaleqa Yoseph Yazew, has finally agreed to submit to the authority of the Committee. The Shaleqa and his cohorts reached this decision after receiving a stern warning and strict instructions from …
AFP
June 9, 2007
ADDIS ABABA — Meles Zenawi said Saturday his government had launched a crackdown on a rebel group blamed for several attacks in the country’s eastern Ogaden region.
“We have launched a political and military operation to …
June 09, 2007
By Mohamed Abdi Farah
SomaliNet
Militia loyal to former defence leader of the defeated Islamic Courts Union Yusuf Mohamed Inda-Adde have taken control of Bulo-Mareer and Qoryoley towns in lower Shabelle region, southern Somalia on Saturday after …
ONLF PRESS RELEASE
June 9, 2007
The Voice of America (VOA) recent report citing unnamed sources alleging that Ogaden National Liberation Front (ONLF) has entered into a coalition with political entities in Somalia is far from reality and well within …
June 09, 2007
By Mohamed Abdi Farah
SomaliNet
Ethiopian [Woyanne] and Somali forces continue wider security operations in the Somalia capital searching for weapons and suspects –- as a hand grenade bomb was targeted on the [Woyanne] base in the …
Source: VOA
Jun 8, 2007
Reports in Somalia say that a coalition of groups opposed to Somalia’s struggling transitional government and its Ethiopian [Woyanne] backers has been formed with the support of the Eritrean government. VOA Correspondent Alisha Ryu has …
Chat with Jimmy Carter
Discuss “The Ethiopia Campaign” with President Carter
Announcement from the Smithsonian Institute
Join us here for a live chat with Nobel Peace laureate and former president Jimmy Carter to discuss “The Ethiopia Campaign” on June 28 …
MOGADISHU, Somalia June 8, 2007 (Garowe Online) – Somali government troops have began withdrawing from the interior of Beletwein town near the Ethiopian border, military officials said on Friday.
Col. Ahmed Mohamed Hubeyr, the commander of government troops …
By John Mehaffey
LONDON, June 8 (Reuters) – Haile Gebrselassie, one of only three men to win the Olympic 10,000 metres title twice, has warned East African distance runners that they cannot take their current supremacy for granted.
In an …
Researchers investigating the evidence for a potential causal link between khat use and mental illness – in the first ever systematic review of the topic – have called for improved research on the stimulant plant, and its possible association with …
(NPR) — Though the late Ethiopian Emperor Haile Selassie was considered a god by Rastafarians, in Bob Marley’s day, reggae was wasn’t popular in Ethiopia. Now, though, reggae is huge i the East African nation, and there’s no bigger start …
Sources:Great Run, Prefontaine Classic
Craig Mottram after his famous 3,000 metres victory ahead of Kenenisa Bekele in last year’s IAAF World Cup final, chases another success against the Ethiopian star at the Nike Prefontaine Classic.
Mottram in what …
Brussels, Belgium 06/07 – A Committee of the European Parliament has strongly criticised what it called “massive human rights violations” going on in Ethiopia since 2005.
“The human rights situation has been deteriorating in Ethiopia since 2005, with opposition members …
THE MORNING NEWS
FAYETTEVILLE, ARKANSAS — Police arrested a man suspected of hitting a pole with a car and almost knocking down an employee from Cox Communications, who was working on the pole Friday morning.
Assefa G. Egziabher, 30, of …
By John Mehaffey
LONDON (Reuters) – Twice Olympic 10,000 metres champion Haile Gebrselassie will attempt the 16-year-old world one-hour record this year after making a surprise return to the track in the Dutch town of Hengelo last month.
The 34-year-old …
By Elias Kifle
Ethiopian Review
In a recent interview with Dimtsi Woyanne Radio, Sebehat Nega, Woyanne moneyman and senior member of the politburo, said that if all Eritrean organizations combine, their effort would not add up to what the Tigrean …
Souce: Invictus Maneo
International Christian Concern has published its first ever “Hall of Shame,” an annual list of the ten nations with the worst records of persecution against Christians. The 2007 edition includes the following:
Number 10: Pakistan…
By Amy Bowen [email protected]
St Cloud Times
NEW YORK CITY — Rebecca Haile finally returned home after 25 years.
Haile, now 42, captured in a book the emotion of her return to Ethiopia years after her parents, Getatchew Haile and …
Source: ABC WMBB News 13
By JAMES W. CRAWLEY
WASHINGTON – Africa is a hot topic at the Pentagon.
The military is setting up Africa Command, a high-level headquarters akin to Tampa-based Central Command, to oversee military operations, planning, intelligence, …
The Associated Press
June 6, 2007
MOGADISHU, Somalia: Hundreds of Ethiopian [Woyanne] troops trying to protect this country’s fragile [puppet] government went house-to-house searching for weapons Wednesday, a daunting task in a city teeming with firearms.
Several people were arrested …
European Parliament Press Release
June 5, 2007
The lack of democracy and the large-scale human rights violations in Ethiopia were condemned by MEPs on Tuesday at a hearing held by the EP’s Development Committee and the Human Rights Subcommittee. The …
By Aweys Osman Yusuf
Shabelle Media Network
Mogadishu June 6, 2007 — Shabelle Media Network has received a government decree from the prime minister’s office, ordering the closure of the station.
The Somali government has issued the decree to close …
Source: shabait.com
Asmara, 5 June 2007 – Opposing the TPLF regime’s policy of ethnic discrimination, five Ethiopian soldiers arrived in Asmara seeking asylum.
The soldiers disclosed that the regime recruited 8,000 youths under the guise of offering them computer application …
Meles Zenawi visits his former home and future grave yard, Mogadishu
Meles makes landmark visit to Somalia, where his troops are protecting the government
The Associated Press
Tuesday, June 5, 2007
MOGADISHU, Somalia: Ethiopia’s prime monster made a surprise trip …
AFP, June 5, 2007
Ethiopian Crime Minister Meles Zenawi [known by Ethiopians as the butcher of Addis Ababa] on Tuesday paid a surprise visit to Mogadishu, becoming the first foreign head of state to visit the lawless Somali capital …
June 5, 2007
By Jennifer Cooke, Co director, Africa Program
Hopes for a peaceful political resolution to the crisis in Somalia are dimming, as a power struggle between the Ethiopian [Woyanne]-backed Transitional Federal Government (TFG) and clan-based and Islamist militias …
By Tristan McConnell
The Christian Science Monitor
Mon Jun 4, 4:00 AM ET
Ibrahim Koroma forgives the child rebels who chopped off his left hand nine years ago during Sierra Leone’s brutal civil war, saying they were “misled.” But he …
By the Law Office of Fekadu Yami Abdi
Addis Ababa
June 4, 2007
This repot is a part of a report submitted on April 1, 2007 (Megabt 23, 1999)
– The report constitutes selected narration of the detainees. i.e. Ato …
By 7News
KMGH-TV
DENVER | The family of two children who drowned in an apartment swimming pool last week held an emotional memorial service Sunday, June 3.
The tight-knit Ethiopian community came together to mourn and help the family take …
Freemont Tribune
June 4, 2007
By Dean Jacobs/Letters to America
All the time I have spent traveling the world, never once had I met someone abroad who was currently from Nebraska.
Until now.
I have always jokingly told people there’s …
Bahrain News Agency
MANAMA, JUNE 4, (BNA) — An Ethiopian Airlines place landed at Bahrain International Airport this morning, marking the beginning of regular Addis Ababa-Bahrain flights that will link the Kingdom with East Africa.
The initiative came in response …
By Andrew Heavens
Reuters
Sunday, June 3, 2007; 6:07 AM
ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) – Ethiopia [currently ruled by a brutal dictatorship] has called on Queen Elizabeth to return the bones of an orphan prince buried at Windsor Castle after he …
June 2, 2007
Reebok Grand Prix, New York
Tariku Bekele of Ethiopia stepped out of the shadow of his brother, Kenenisa, to post another U.S. all-comers record in the Reebok men’s 5,000m. Hoping to break 13:00, Bekele was on pace …
June 2, 2007
The Ethiopian People Patriotic Front (EPPF) will officially launch a weekly radio program on June 7, 2007.
The radio program, Ye Arbegnoch Dimts, will be broadcast to Ethiopia and the Horn of Africa every Thursday from 7-8 …
Dr Mehret Mandefro, who was born in Ethiopia and raised in Washington, DC, progresses from doctor to activist as she investigates the lives of HIV-positive women in New York and Ethiopia.…
June 2nd, 2007
From Economist.com
Tony Blair has been good for Africa. Africa has been good for him
“A SCAR on the conscience of the world” is how Tony Blair, Britain’s departing prime minister, once described Africa. In an attempt, …
June 1, 2007 at 1:57 PM ET
[JURIST] Ethiopian special prosecutor Joseph Kiros told Reuters Friday that the Ethiopian government will seek to raise the sentence of convicted former dictator Mengistu Haile Miriam [BBC profile; JURIST …
Press Release
Kinijit-Canada
June 1, 2007
Kinijit Canada has launched its web site (kinijit.ca) today. It s with great pleasure and pride that we announce our desire to work jointly with all democratic forces and of human rights …
BBC Sport
Ethiopia threw Group Ten wide open on Friday when beating table-toppers DR Congo 1-0 in Addis Ababa.
Ethiopia’s win has lifted them off the bottle of the table
Saladine Said settled the contest with the only goal of …
June 01/2007 06:27:10 AM MDT
Mulu Gebrelassiei, center, grieves the loss of her children in the basement of the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church on Thursday. (The Post / Karl Gehring)
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