By Ruth Sinai and Yigal Hai, Haartz
The state comptroller found numerous failings in steps taken by the state and local authorities to absorb Ethiopian immigrants. The government decided back in 1999 that a committee was needed to coordinate between …
(AFP) — ADDIS ABABA: Donned in bright red trunks with a mouthguard to protect his teeth, Molla Getachew works on his footwork as part of a daily early-morning routine in a steamy gym in southern Addis Ababa.
With him is …
Climate change and climate variability will have far reaching impacts on Africa’s development unless the continent takes measures to adapt to the phenomenon and makes risk management against climate change a development priority… Read more [pdf]…
The Rezidor Hotel Group arrives in Ethiopia and announces a brand new Radisson hotel in the capital city Addis Ababa. The property will feature 209 rooms and open in Q4 2009. “With this signing we are adding a new country …
UNICEF
GENEVA /ADDIS ABABA – An estimated 126,000 children are in need of urgent therapeutic care for severe malnutrition. UNICEF Ethiopia today cautioned that up to six million children under-5 years of age are living in impoverished, drought-prone districts and …
This looks like the work of Woyanne. Opposition groups do not target civilians.
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(Reuters) — An explosion on a minibus shook central Addis Ababa today, killing three people and wounding nine, Ethiopian police said.
All the dead and wounded …
ADDIS ABABA (AFP) — Three people were killed when a bomb exploded late Tuesday near the Ethiopian foreign ministry in central Addis Ababa, according to state-run radio.
The radio provided no further details but witnesses near the site of the …
“Ethiopia has recorded impressive growth during the past few years” – IMF
INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND (IMF)
Press Release No. 08/115
May 19, 2008
Statement at the Conclusion of the 2008 Article IV Consultation Mission to the Federal Democratic Republic of …
By Kelli B. Kavanaugh
Detroit Development News
DETROIT — The sign in the window of the former Cookie Factory-slash-Flying Apron claims that Taste of Ethiopia is opening in that location “By Popular Demand!” That sounds like a bold claim to …
Ethiopian Review publisher, Elias Kifle, PDD, will be a guest on Ethiopian Television Network this coming Saturday at 7:00 PM EDT. Click here to watch live.…
TOKYO, JAPAN (mainichi.jp) —
An Ethiopian woman and two other people have been arrested for filing a false marriage report, police said.
Abigale Mokonnen W/Gebrael, a 38-year-old female part-time worker of Ethiopian nationality, and two other suspects are …
(Focus News Agency) — Washington DC. The United States said Monday it was troubled by claims of irregularities in Ethiopia’s elections last month after weekend results showed that the ruling party won nearly all the seats.
“We did not have …
Ruth Eglash, THE JERUSALEM POST
It’s been nearly 10 years since the country had an Ethiopian MK (Member of Knesset) — Labor’s Adisu Messele, who held a seat from 1996 to 1999 — but within the last three months two …
EDITOR’S NOTE: The U.N. and international media are not accurately reporting about the real causes for the food shortage in Ethiopia. The main problem is mismanagement of resources. Just to mention two examples: 1) Massive quantities of food bought at …
By Assta B. Gettu
To do what is right and just is more acceptable to the Lord than sacrifice (Proverbs 21: 3).
Do Western donors know that their donated money to help the hungry in Ethiopia and other poor nations …
Educators, Activists, Entrepreneurs, and Lawyers Win Harvard University’s Berkman Awards for Internet Innovation
Cambridge, MA – On May 16 at the Berkman Center for Internet & Society’s tenth anniversary gala dinner, recipients of the Berkman Awards were chosen for their …
In an interview with Ethiopian Current Affairs Discussion Forum (ECADF) Sunday, a resident of Mekele said that food prices are skyrocketing in Tigray region except for party supporters. The elderly gentleman, whose house was confisicated by the Tigray region government, …
Ethiopians in Ottawa, Canada, are organizing a protest rally on May 23, 2008, to commemorate the fallen heroes of May 15 elections, and also to express opposition to the Ethiopia-Sudan secret boarder agreement. More in Amharic
የኢትዮጵያን ሉዓላዊነት ለማሰከበርና የግንቦት …
A Resolution from the Public Meeting held in Dallas Fort-Worth in Commemoration of the Victims of the 2005 Ethiopian Election Aftermath
A coalition of major opposition party supporters, civic organizations and patriotic individuals held a meeting on May 17, 2008 …
Ato Temesgen Zewdie, an executive committee member of the Union for Democracy and Justice (UDJ), has asked the Woyanne rubber stamp parliament to investigate the reported give away of Ethiopian land to Sudan by the Meles regime. In a letter …
(Garowe Online) — Islamist rebels ambushed an Ethiopian Woyanne army convoy in Somalia’s Lower Shabelle region, Radio Garowe reported Sunday.
At least 8 people, including four Ethiopian Woyanne soldiers, were killed after the rebels ambushed soldiers on foot.…
By Peter Heinlein, Voice of America
Shashemene, Ethiopia – Humanitarian agencies are rushing emergency aid to drought-stricken central Ethiopia, where a sudden deterioration in food supplies has led to surge of child mortality. At least 23 children have died at …
EDITOR’S NOTE: World Bank, for example, is the chief financier of Africa’s mass murderers. One hundred al Qaedas, or Talibans, or bin Ladens combined cannot do as much damage on a nation as the World Bank did to Ethiopia and …
By Ethiopians for Obama
We are Ethiopians who immigrated from our birth land and arrived in America in search of a dream. There are hundreds of thousands of us who live in this great country; working hard and sacrificing so …
By Neamin Zeleke
Sources inside the regime of Tigrean People Liberation Front (TPLF) in Ethiopia have disclosed that a secret military court has passed a death sentence on four air force pilots who sought political asylum in 2006 while on …
By Neamin Zeleke
Sources inside the regime of Tigrean People Liberation Front (TPLF) in Ethiopia have disclosed that a secret military court has passed death sentences on four air force pilots who sought political asylum in 2006 while on a …
MOGADISHU, Somalia May 17 (Garowe Online) – Heavy fighting erupted in Somalia’s capital Mogadishu on Saturday between insurgents and Ethiopian Woyanne soldiers, local sources told Garowe Online.
Four soldiers were killed when an Ethiopian a Woyanne army convoy …
EDITOR’S NOTE: The ‘opposition’ won only one seat in Addis Ababa, and the guy is not even alive, as reported by The Reporter. The election was a total joke.
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By Tsegaye Tadesse (Reuters)
ADDIS ABABA — Ethiopia’s ruling …
APA-Addis Ababa (Ethiopia) Some 13 journalist serving in government and private media in Somalia are seeking asylum in Ethiopia after crossing the border to Ethiopia fleeing “intimidations and persecutions” from the Al-Shabab group, APA learned here on Saturday.
The …
(African Press Agency) — The current power crisis in Ethiopia prompts surge of the sale of generators, mainly in Addis Ababa where many businesses and international organizations are operating. Owing to poor performance of seasonal rains, there is a short …
MOGADISHU (AFP) — Somali insurgents on Saturday seized a southern Somali town after clashes with government troops that claimed at least three lives, elders said.
Their fighters attacked Jilib township, some 400 kilometres (250 miles) south of the capital, touching …
(REUTERS) ADDIS ABABA — Ethiopian Airlines net profits for the first nine months of 2007/08 reached 484 million birr ($55.67 million), the airline said in a statement.
The state-owned carrier posted net profits of 129 million birr in 2006/07. The …
Endrias Eshete, who is known as the butcher of Addis Ababa University, has arrived at Dulles Airport in Washington DC today. He was taken to a van provided by the Woyanne embassy in a wheelchair. The tutor of Meles Zenawi’s …
By Bruck Shewareged, The Reporter
The House of Peoples’ Representatives last week discussed the newly drafted press law. The government believes that the bill will be instrumental in creating and developing a “responsible” press. But to the opposition parties, the …
Endrias Eshete, who is known as the butcher of Addis Ababa University, has arrived at Dulles Airport in Washington DC today. He was taken to a van provided by the Woyanne embassy in a wheelchair. The tutor of Meles Zenawi’s …
By Yilma Bekele
Some things are said to be unthinkable. They are beyond the norms of any behavior. They fall into the territory of No and Never. Unfortunately in today’s Ethiopia nothing is off the table. The regime is open …
By Argaw Ashine, The Monitor
Ethiopian officials say a border demarcation with neighboring Sudan is underway although an agreement has not yet been reached.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs said on Monday that the demarcation process was being executed with …
By AARON O. PATRICK, Wall Street Journal
London – A small design firm here was recently hired by an unusual client with an unconventional request: The Ethiopian government commissioned Brandhouse to come up with a logo that will make consumers …
Source: Ogaden Human Rights Committee
On May 12th 2008, Suldan Fowsi Mohamed Ali, a prominent community elder and a peace activist was sentenced to 22 years in prison by an Ethiopian regional court in Jigjiga (also Jijiga). On the same …
EDITOR’S NOTE: Mugabe is just another blood thirsty vampire like Meles. At the same time, the U.S. Administration has no moral authority to criticize Mugabe while completely ignoring the atrocities of its puppet, the Meles regime, in Ethiopia and Somalia, …
(BBC) — Peace talks on Somalia have broken up without any face-to-face discussions between the government and the main opposition alliance.
After four days meeting UN diplomats in Djibouti, the two sides agreed to attend further talks in …
EDITOR’S NOTE: There is a food shortage in the south, the most fertile region of Ethiopia, because most of the food that is produced there is shipped to the northern region of Tigray and stored in grain silos and food …
By Amri Lugungulo, Kibaha
(IPP) TANZANIA — A total of 362 aliens from Ethiopia and Somalia were arrested between April 1 and May 8, this year, for entering the country contrary to immigration law.
According to Coast Region …
Ethiopian Current Affairs Discussion Forum (ECADF) will host a press conference with Ato Andargachew Tsige and other Ginbot 7 officials on Sunday, at 3:30 PM Washington DC time. The press conference will be aired live via Ethiopian Review Radio Network. …
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) today called on the Ethiopian authorities to drop charges against Alemayehu Mahtemework, the editor of monthly entertainment magazine Enku, and three others who were arrested with him after the publication of a cover story …
SUSPENDED: Pastor Diphapang Potsane |
Criticised fellow clerics for sinning
A pastor of the Ethiopian Catholic Church in Zion has been suspended for what he says was his outspokenness against sin.
“I spoke against fellow clerics who …
WELLINGTON, NEW ZEALAND — The mother of a security guard stabbed outside a Wellington bottle store last year dropped dead when he phoned her in Ethiopia to tell her, the High Court at Wellington was told …
The Voice of America (VOA) gave a wide coverage of the formation of the Ginbot 7 Movement on its afternoon broadcast. Yesterday, Dr Berhanu Nega and colleagues had announced that Ginbot 7 Movement for Justice and Democracy will be officially …
By Matt Wilkinson, Oxford Mail
OXFORD, U.K. — Seven suspected illegal immigrants have been found in a truck at Oxford logistics firm.
The six men and one woman were discovered in a truck at Unipart in Oxford Business Park, Cowley, …
Police Searching For Driver In Deadly Hit & Run
By Seema Mathur
GARLAND, TEXAS (CBS 11 News) ― Police have released new information today about a deadly hit and run case that killed a Garland mother.
Juan Pedro …
DW’s (German Radio) Amharic Program gave a prominent coverage to the formation of Ginbot 7 on its broadcast today. DW has millions of listeners as VOA and Eritrean Radio in Ethiopia. Click here to listen.…
The Associated Press
EUGENE, Oregon: A second Ethiopian will try to break a world record June 8 at the Nike Prefontaine Classic.
Meseret Defar will attempt to break her world 5,000-meter mark in a race to be held immediately after …
The Ethiopian government Woyanne is proposing a new law to restrict activities of the Non-Governmental Organisations (NGOs) in the country. The law would allow a government agency to assign a police officer or an official to attend any NGO’s internal …
By Fekade Shewakena
News of boundary demarcation between Sudan and Ethiopia that unfairly favored Sudan and reports of harm done to Ethiopian farmers along the border is a subject of intense debate among many Diaspora Ethiopians. The blockage of the …
Press Release from Ethiopians for Obama
On Saturday, May 17th, Teddy Fikre will be running to represent the 8th Congressional District for the Democratic National Convention supporting Senator Obama. The 8th Congressional District is home to Alexandria–otherwise known as the …
The UN country Team composed of 25 agencies opened its first annual retreat today May 14, 2008 in Mekelle in the Tigray region in Ethiopia in presence of the Mr. Tsegaye Berhe, President of Tigray Regional State. In his opening …
May 14, 2008
Press Release
Ethiopians’ long quest and struggle for justice and freedom is continuing today. The march, though torturous, towards democracy is on. The millions that participated in the May 15, 2005, general election have vowed that no …
Addis Ababa Mayor-Elect Dr Berhanu Nega and colleagues gave a press conference on Wednesday at the Ethiopian Television Network’s studio in …
Press conference with Dr Berhanu Nega today at 4:00 PM EDT. Click here to listen
Addis Ababa Mayor-Elect Dr Berhanu Nega and colleagues will give a press conference today, Wednesday, …
(jazzpolice.com) — The fourth installment of the Minnesota sur Seine music festival is coming to various Twin Cities locations from May 15 through May 25, 2008. Festival organizers announced the confirmed shows on a lineup that features collaborations …
Obang Metho will be the guest on VOA’s Straight Talk Africa live starting at 2:30 PM Eastern Time USA time today May 14th 2008 to discuss tomorrow’s 3rd anniversary of the May 2005 elections.
VOA veteran journalist Shaka Ssali hosts …
(Dubai Today) — People who use maids and cleaners who have no official sponsor run the risk of incurring huge fines, the head of the Dubai Naturalisation and Residency Department warned yesterday. Brigadier Mohammad Ahmad Al-Mur said that …
Addis Ababa Mayor-Elect Dr Berhanu Nega and colleagues will give a press conference tomorrow, Wednesday, to announce the formation of a new political movement. The press conference will be held in the afternoon (4:00 PM) at the Ethiopian Television Network’s…
Click here for the Washington DC event
The third anniversary of the failed Ethiopian National Election is almost here. As the time approaches, the Worldwide March Committee members are working hard to plan events in cities across North America, Europe, …
Los Angeles Times Book Review: Dinaw Mengestu belongs to that special group of American voices produced by global upheavals and intentional, if sometimes forced, migrations. These are the writer-immigrants coming here from Africa, East India, Eastern Europe and elsewhere. …
ADDIS ABABA (AFP) — The Ethiopian capital faces a lengthy power outage until next month because of reduced water levels in the country’s hydro- electric plants, a state-owned generator said Monday.
Addis Ababa, a city of 5 million, will have …
Africa mobile subscribers grow 33%… the clear laggard in Africa was Ethiopia which retained a monopoly both on fixed-line and mobile telephone services.
(Reuters) — African mobile operators added 70-million users in the past year, a growth rate of 33 …
Ethiopia is the only country which still maintains a monopoly for both mobile and fixed voice.
(By Skrevet av Mikael Ricknäs, IDG News Service) — There is a lot of good news in Africa, especially in the mobile space, …
(Panapress) — Food prices in Ethiopia have continued to soar with reports of an alarming hike of the cost of the cheapest grain, maize, in some markets of the drought-hit Somali Region reaching 700 birr (about US$70) per 100-kg bag, …
(Telegraph.co.uk) — German archaeologists have claimed to have found one of the fabled resting places of the Ark of the Covenant, the chest holding the Ten Commandments which gave the ancient Israelites their power.
The University of Hamburg …
Source: UNHCR
High Commissioner António Guterres leaves for Yemen tomorrow (Wednesday) for a five-day visit that will include a first-hand look at UNHCR’s efforts there on behalf of refugees and internally displaced people and the opening of a regional conference …
India’s Neha International Ltd. has informed that its board of Directors at its meeting held on May 12, 2008, inter alias, has considered the acquisition of two floriculture units in Ethiopia.
These units have 56 hectares of land with 12 …
By Lorna Benson, Minnesota Public Radio
A 20-year-old Ethiopian woman is recovering at a St. Paul hospital after having a massive tumor removed from the base of her brain and face. Her case is remarkable because …
(Reuters) –Ethiopian Olympic champion Kenenisa Bekele will attempt to break his 10,000m world record at next month’s Prefontaine Classic in Eugene, Oregon, organisers said today.
The race will take place at the University of Oregon’s Hayward Field on June 8. …
ADDIS ABABA (AFP) — Ethiopia’s dictator said Monday that his regime has the means to secure its vital trade corridor with the Gulf of Aden in the event of conflict between Djibouti and Eritrea.
Tensions have grown between the two …
By Alain Lallemand, lemonde
(Translated from the French)
No less than 80 percent of weapons and munitions sold today in the Somali black markets are transported by commanders of the Ethiopian Woyanne Army and the Transitional Federal Government (TFG), although …
By Lisa Schlein, VOA News, Geneva
The U.N. refugee agency reports the number of people arriving on the coast of Yemen after being smuggled across the treacherous Gulf of Aden from the Horn of Africa has more than doubled this …
EDITOR’S NOTE: There is no food shortage in Ethiopia. The problem is caused by mis-allocation of resources, mismanagement, and extreme greed by the tribal Woyanne regime. Large quantities of food produced in southern Ethiopia is loaded up daily on thousands …
The Daily Monitor (Addis Ababa)
The UN World Food Programme (WFP) said last week it was forced to cut assistance to malnourished mothers and children in Ethiopia because it could not respond to increasing hunger resulting from the drought in …
By Faiza Elmasry, VOA
Listen audio report [podcast]http://www.voanews.com/mediaassets/english/2008_05/Audio/Mp3/ELMASRY%20State%20of%20Worlds%20Mothers%20Report.Mp3[/podcast]
Over 200 million children around the world lack basic health care, and nearly 10 million youngsters under the age of five die every year. These are some of the findings of Save …
The 1996 Atlanta Olympic’s 10,000 metres champion Derartu Tulu “has joined a star-studded women’s field for this weekend’s office furniture in BulgariamebeliBupa Great Manchester Run,” according to the Press Association.
Derartu, who currently resides in Addis Ababa, …
(Press TV) — Landmine explosions have killed more than 12 Ethiopian Woyanne troops, and eight Somali government soldiers, in the war-torn East African nation.
Anti- Ethiopian Woyanne groups detonated a massive landmine in Towfiikh district, killing at least …
(Press TV) Ethiopian Woyanne troops have removed the governor of central Somalia’s Hiiran district from his post and disarmed his supporters, a report says.
Hundreds of Ethiopian Woyanne soldiers marched into the main town of Baletweyn in Hiiran …
This is part of Woyanne’s preparation to invade Eritrea. They did the same thing — creating a puppet Somali government — before invading Somalia.
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ADDIS ABABA (AFP) — A coalition of Eritrean opposition groups elected a chairman over the …
By Yilma bekele
Two of my favorite characters were in the news last week. I do not think they know each other. I am sure of that. But they were both in the news. One was pleading for his life …
The Kinijit Support Group in Dallas, Texas, has issued the follwing statement opposing the illegal land give away of Ethiopian land to Sudan.
መሐል ዳር እንዳይሆን
ከዳላስ ቅንጅት ድጋፍ ቻፕተር የተሰጠ መግለጫ
የኢትዮጵያ ህዝብ ፀር እና ባላንጣ የሆነው የወያኔ ኢሀአዴግ …
Addis Ababa Mayor-Elect Dr Berhanu Nega and colleagues are preparing to make a major announcement next Wednesday in Washington DC, about their future political move. They have scheduled a press conference at the Ethiopian Television Network’s studio on May 14 …
By Catherine Hickley
(Bloomberg) — A team of archaeologists from the University of Hamburg said they discovered the Queen of Sheba’s palace and an altar that may have once held the Ark of the Covenant in Axum, Ethiopia.…
KHARTOUM, Sudan (AP) – A curfew in the Sudanese capital has been lifted a day after Khartoum was assaulted by rebels.
That’s according to state-run radio in Sudan. It also reports that a curfew remains in effect in the capital’s …
MOGADISHU (Garowe Online) – Islamist rebels ambushed an armored convoy transporting Somalia’s internal affairs minister Saturday in the outskirts of the capital Mogadishu, sources said.
Muse Nur Amin, the Interior Minister, was in one of the vehicles but …
ST LOUIS, MO (KSDK) – Saturday night on the University City Loop, a homecoming party at the restaurant known as Red Sea had a distinctly international flavor. The red, white, and blue sat silently next to the green, …
By Opheera McDoom
KHARTOUM (Reuters) – A Darfur rebel commander said on Saturday his JEM group had entered Khartoum and was aiming to take power in Sudan.
Khartoum was placed under an overnight curfew after fighting in the west of …
The Ethiopia-Sudan Border Committee is reporting that the ruling Tigrean People Liberation Front (Woyanne) has given to Sudan 1,600 square kilometers of fertile farm land. Click here to read the full report [pdf, Amharic]. The Woyanne regime denies the …
The Ethiopia-Sudan Border Committee is reporting that the ruling Tigrean People Liberation Front (Woyanne) has given to Sudan 1,600 square kilometers of fertile farm land. Click here to read the full report [pdf, Amharic]. The Woyanne regime denies the …
The Kinijit North America support group takes a stand against the give away of western Ethiopian farm lands to Sudan by the ruling Tigray People Liberation Front (Woyanne). Click here to read [pdf, Amharic]…
