From Colbiniski Chronicles

HARAR, ETHIOPIA — Visited Harar this past weekend. Quick trip. Spent more time on a bus than actually on ground in Harar. But worth it. I visited with Anita, a German who is studying at University of …

By Jack Khoury, Haaretz Correspondent, and The Associated Press

Minutes before being laid to rest on Monday, a baby believed to have been stillborn began displaying signs of life.

Early Monday morning, a 26-year-old pregnant woman arrived at the Western …

CAIRO, EGYPT — Egyptian company ASEC Mining (Ascom) ASCM.CA said on Monday it was taking a 20 percent stake in a new company that will produce cement in Ethiopia.

In a statement released through the Egyptian stock exchange, it said …

BEIJING – Marathon world record-holder Haile Gebrselassie regrets pulling out of the 42-km race at the Olympics over fears that Beijing’s air pollution would damage his health.

“I’m surprised. What do you expect from me? I was here in February, …

By Yilma Bekele

I hope you saw the 10k races from Beijing. Both of them. It was our turn. It was a time to feel good about being an Ethiopian. The whole world was a witness to our unsurpassed endurance …

By Zerin Elci and Thomas Grove

ISTANBUL, TURKEY (Reuters) — Sudanese president Omar Hassan al-Bashir arrived in Turkey on Monday for a summit of African leaders this week in his first trip abroad since an international court moved to indict …

ADDIS ABABA, ETHIOPIA — Improved sanitation Ethiopia could save lives of millions of children and raise the status of local women, only if its policymakers and the general public collectively took up the challenge to bring about change, a UNICEF …

ASMARA — President Isaias Afwerki today held talks at the Denden Hall with a delegation from the Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD) that comprises the foreign ministers of Sudan and Kenya, as well as the Executive Secretary of the organization.…

ADDIS ABABA – Djibouti has dropped plans to raise port tariffs that would have cost land-locked Ethiopia an extra $22 million a year, the government in Addis Ababa said on Monday.

The Red Sea state has been Ethiopia’s main gateway …

Ethiopia’s marathon world record holder Haile Gebrselassie plans to race at the London Olympics in 2012 even though he’ll be almost 40.

The 35-year-old set the world record in Berlin last September but has opted out of the Beijing marathon …

Petroliam Nasional Bhd. is close to an agreement to resume oil exploration in Ethiopia’s Somali region, the Reporter said, citing people it didn’t identify.

The oil company is in talks with Sino Africa, an exploration company owned by Ethiopian businessman …

Ethiopian Review will hold an interview with chairman of the Ethiopian People’s Patriotic Front (EPPF), Ato Meazaw Getu, next Sunday, Aug. 24, 2008. The interview will be broadcast via ER’s Radio Network. Click here to listen.

Ato Meazaw is …

EDITOR’S NOTE: This is another false or distorted report by a major international newspaper. The global inflation is affecting every country. But it is only in Ethiopia that millions of people are facing death because of it. The reason, which …

EDITOR’S NOTE: This is a typical mis-reporting of facts on the ground in Ethiopia by international news agencies. It seems they are talking about the so-called ‘green famine’ term they fabricated in order not to ask or write about the …

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(AP) BEIJING — Kenenisa Bekele has successfully defended his Olympic 10,000 meters title in a games record, leading teammate Sileshi Sihine again in an Ethiopian 1-2 finish.

Kenenisa hit the front 450 meters from the finish Sunday and crossed in …

Kenenisa Bekele of Ethiopia wins the gold medal in the men’s 10,000 meters today out sprinting his competitors at the last lap. His compatriot Sileshi Sihine won silver. Haile Gebreselassie did not get medal.…

ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia (Garowe Online) — Interim Somali President Abdullahi Yusuf has accused the Ethiopian Woyanne army’s top commander deployed in Somalia of “taking bribes” from local business groups, inside sources tell Garowe Online.

In private talks with …

By Shlomit Sharvit, ynetnews.com

JERUSALEM — Mass demonstration held in front of Prime Minister’s Office for 8,700 Falash Mura members who were promised aliyah in 2005, yet remain in Ethiopia; nine protestors arrested.

Taish Tafaka, a 29-year-old mother of two, …

NEW YORK (nycgovparks.org) — Ethiopia’s Mahmoud Ahmed and Alemayehu Eshete will perform with Extra Golden at New York’s Lincoln Center Out of Doors on Wednesday, August 20, 2008, at 6:00 PM.

Extra Golden’s songs combine propulsive Kenyan benga …

By Simon Wroe, Camden News

AN art student with a history of mental illness killed himself less than a week after doctors discharged him as a low-risk patient with a “sunny disposition”, an inquest heard.

Henock Legesse Eshete, 32, was …

NEW YORK (tadias.com) — A federal judge in New Jersey has declined to stop the new immigration rule that extends the optional practical training duration from 12 to 29 months for students with F-1 visas.

This is good …

Bekoji is a small and modest town perched on top of an Ethiopian plateau but when it comes to its Olympic Games record, it boasts more trophies than several developed nations. The entire town had gathered around four television screens …

ADDIS ABABA (Sudan Tribune) – Sudanese defence minister, Abdel-Rahim Hussein met on Thursday with the Ethiopian Prime Minister dictator Meles Zenawi to discuss a number of bilateral and regional issues.

According to the official SUNA, the talks focused …

EJEGAYEHOU Dibaba Ethiopia (5000m/10,000m/cross country)

Born 21 March 1982, Chefe, near Bekoji (home of Derartu Tulu and Kenenisa Bekele), Arsi, Ethiopia.
Lives in Addis Ababa

Manager: Mark Wetmore

Coach: Dr. Woldemeskel Kostre Club: Oromiya Prisons

Third of six children in …

EDITOR’S NOTE: The people of Ethiopia have no role in this war crime against Somalis. It is Meles Zenawi, his generals, and their puppet master Jendayi Frazier at the U.S. State Department who are feasting in Somali blood. Unless Reuters …

By Sabrina Yohannes BEIJING, Aug 17 (Reuters) – Haile Gebrselassie seeks his third Olympic 10,000 metres gold and fellow Ethiopian Kenenisa Bekele bids for his second in a row in what should be a titanic Bird’s Nest battle to finish …

By Seid Hassan, Murray State University

Lately, especially after EPDRF’s realization of its defeat during the 2005 election and the rejection of its policies by the people of Ethiopia, some of its representatives and cadres have began advancing an idea, …

EDITOR’S NOTE: Finally CNN decides to report about Woyanne atrocities in Somalia. But sadly it continues to refer to the occupying troops as “Ethiopian forces.” Those are not Ethiopian forces. They are dictator Meles Zenawi’s private gang mercenary killers who …

Today’s Zaman

Ethiopian-born Elvan Abeylegesse made double Turkish history on Friday by becoming the first-ever Turk to win an Olympic silver medal in athletics.

This medal in the women’s 10,000-meter final also made her the first ever Turkish woman to …

Watch below the elegant Tirunesh Dibaba at the Beijing Olympic Women’s 10,000 meter run, Aug. 15, 2008. For more videos on ‘Ethiopia at the Olympics’ click here.

A long-distance legacy stays in the Ethiopian family

By Jere Longman, International …

Ethiopian delegation at the Beijing Olympic opening ceremony: Where are the Ethiopian athletes? What are Woyanne cadres doing in the delegation?

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EDITOR’S NOTE: African countries need to boycott the 2010 World Cup that will be held in South Africa in retaliation for the government’s lack of action in protecting immigrant from some of the evil elements in the society. The problem …

EDITOR’S NOTE: This is the kind of atrocities by Tigrean generals against civilians of a neighboring country that the Tigrean elites in the Diaspora defends. We can excuse those inside the country for they are being silenced by the repressive …

(DPA) — Somali insurgents attacked the Somali president’s convoy as he prepared to fly out to Ethiopia for crisis talks aimed at healing a rift with the prime minister, reports said on Friday.

The BBC reported that insurgents detonated two …

EDITOR’S NOTE: Guess who owns the fertilizer importing company? Farmers also complain that the chemical-based fertilizer is poisoning the land and underground water sources.

By Jason McLure, Bloomberg

Ethiopia and the World Bank are close to an agreement that will …

(UN News Center) — Troops from Ethiopia will shortly join the joint United Nations-African Union peacekeeping mission in Darfur (UNAMID), bringing with them their engineering skills to be used in the areas of water installation and the erection …

By Salaad Iidow Hasan, Hiiraan Online

MOGADISHU, SOMALIA — Ethiopian Woyanne troops have killed more than 40 people this afternoon in an area near the town of Afgoye known as Arbiska. The people were civilians traveling in passenger vehicles.

The …

(DPA) BEIJING — Ethiopian Haile Gebrselassie is taking a big gamble in a return to the 10,000 metres at the Beijing Olympics on Sunday. Even his Dutch manager Jos Hermens admitted to Deutsche Presse-Agentur dpa: “I don’t think he will …

BEIJING (AP) — Tirunesh Dibaba of Ethiopia has won the 10,000 meters in an Olympic record 29 minutes, 54.66 seconds — the second fastest time ever for a woman at that distance.

The two-time 10,000 world champion sat just behind …

Ethiopia’s Tirunesh Dibaba easily sails to victory today at the Women’s 10,000, earning the first gold medal for Ethiopia in Beijing… Photos and more details later …

Sorry to inform you that the server hosting the video stream crashed due to heavy traffic. It is disappointing that NBC decided not to air the event and blocked other stations from carrying it. This is the ugly fact about …

By Sabrina Yohannes

BEIJING (Reuters) – World 10,000-metre champion Tirunesh Dibaba says she expects to run both the 10,000 and 5,000m events in Beijing, hoping to become the first woman to scoop the Olympic distance double.

In 2005 Dibaba became …

By Jesse Squire, The Final Sprint

Men’s Marathon
The Schedule: Sunday, Aug 24 (live on NBC, Saturday at 7:30 p.m. EDT)

The Americans: Ryan Hall, Dathan Ritzenhein, Brian Sell

The Contenders: Sammy Wanjiru (KEN), Martin Lel (KEN), Robert Cheruyiot (KEN), …

By ERIK HEINRICH, Special Contributor to The Dallas Morning News

LOWER OMO VALLEY, Ethiopia – “Remember, take only what you need,” says Johnny, our driver from Addis Ababa whose real name is Yohanes Tsegaye.

As soon as I step out …

By Karen Phillips, CPJ

Merid Estifanos (CPJ/Phillips)

PARIS, FRANCE — Merid Estifanos was still in his afternoon French class when I arrived at the Maison des Journalistes (MDJ) this afternoon to meet him. I was greeted instead by Maison’s director, …

(takethemagicstep.com) — Swimming and gymnastics are great, of course, but for us, the “real” Olympics get underway on Friday, with the first track and field events. In the day’s first final, the women’s 10,000m, Ethiopia’s Tirunesh Dibaba will …

EDITOR’S NOTE: Kangaroo court in Addis Ababa orders the transfer of a 40-room building owned by the Ethiopian Teachers Association to a new teachers group set up by the Meles dictatorship that claims that it is the real teachers association, …

By Jim DeRogatis, Chicago Sun-Times

For nearly three decades, the Ex has been one of the most revered names in the rock underground. An “avant-ethno-improv-punk band” from the Netherlands, as their Chicago label Touch and Go describes the quartet, it …

By Haile Gebreselassie

There is nothing to match the experience of an Olympic Games. Sport carries a huge sense of pride and it is never more obvious than at the Olympics. It is the world’s most famous sporting stage where …

NAIROBI (IRIN) — Access to food in Djibouti has been cut by more than 50 percent because of reduced availability and rising prices, according to a humanitarian official.

“The price of rice [the main staple] had gone up by 28 …

NAIROBI (Xinhua) — The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) and regional mediation body, the Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD), have entered into a cooperation agreement that will strengthen relations between the two organizations and enhance coordination …

By Gene Cherry

BEIJING (Reuters) – U.S. shot putters and Ethiopian distance runners go for potential medals sweeps when the much heralded 10-day Olympic athletics program kicks off on Friday.

The world’s best sprinters will also be part of the …

(SUNA) – Troops from Ethiopia taking part in UNAMID force operating in Darfur will start arriving in Al Fashir as of coming Saturday, the 16th of August, in implementation of the agreement between the Sudan, the UN and the African …

By Salaad Iidow Hasan, Hiiraan Online

MOGADISHU – Today Ethiopian Woyanne troops have disarmed the Mayor of the city of Afgoye, Mr. Mohamed Omar Mudey.

The Mayor who at the time he was disarmed was being escorted by his security …

(DPA) MOGADISHU, SOMALIA — Six civilians were killed and four wounded when Ethiopian Woyanne troops opened fired on a minibus just south of this Somali capital, witnesses said Thursday.

They said the troops ‘opened fire indiscriminately’, shortly after a gun …

(Somaliweyn Media Center) — The Ethiopian Woyanne troops at Wanlaweyn district in the lower Shabelle region in southern Somalia opened fire randomly at civilian passengers.

So far 7 people were confirmed dead and 5 others seriously wounded, after …

By FOXNews.com

Sources say former Secretary of State Colin Powell will endorse Barack Obama at the Democratic National Convention, Weekly Standard editor Bill Kristol told FOX News exclusively on Wednesday.

“He may well give a speech at the Democratic convention …

Bill Clinton greets villagers during his visit to the Ethiopian highlands. Photograph: Justin Sullivan/Getty images

Sarah Boseley, The Guardian

He dropped out of the sky and left, an hour or so later, the same way, helicopter rotor blades driving a …

Israeli and American Jewish organizations grapple with the fate of thousands of Falash Mura remaining in Ethiopia.

By Michele Chabin, The Jewish Week

MEVASSERET, ISRAEL — After waiting almost a decade to emigrate from Ethiopia to Israel, Masaret Assafa, who, …

By Bret McCabe, CityPaper.com

Dutch punk outfit the Ex has been a globally aware and politically minded musical force of nature since the late 1970s, but since the late ’80s the band has fervently and organically intertwined that awareness into …

(GNA) – Africa Welfare and Care Foundation (AWCF), a Non Governmental Organization (NGO) that assist the needy in society, is organising a 10-day health and peace walk to raise funds for the victims of war and other unfortunate …

By Douglas McGill , TC Daily Planet

ROCHESTER, MN—“Why the hell are you messing with my country’s political affairs?” goes a typical e-mail from the dozens I’ve received this summer from readers living in Ethiopia, from immigrants living in Minnesota, …

By Andualem Sisay, AfricaNews

ADDIS ABABA — Emami Biotech Ltd, a member of India’s Emami Group Company, which is engaged in various investment areas, on Friday, began covering 10, 000 hectares of land in Ethiopia with jatropha for production of …

BAIDOA (Garowe Online) — Fierce fighting erupted in parts of southern Somalia on Tuesday, as Ethiopian Woyanne occupation forces traveling along a key road were ambushed different times by Islamist guerrillas, Radio Garowe reported.

The fighting was concentrated …

By Anshel Pfeffer, Haaretz.com

The Jewish Agency has left a skeleton infrastructure in Ethiopia, even though the mass immigration of Falashmura has been halted – which means it could start bringing in large groups again.

The cabinet is expected to …

NAIROBI — As fortunes in the coffee sub-sector continue to dwindle, an international charity organisation has moved to assist farmers.

The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has embarked on a multi-million shilling East African Coffee Initiative Project that will see …

By William Reed, Final Call

Collectively Black Americans are the richest blacks in the world. But, only two Black Americans can claim a nine-figure income. Times are changing and Black Africans are making more money than Black Americans and have …

The partnership will focus
on the area of Hintalo Wajerat
in the Tigray region where
only 22% of the population
currently has access to safe water
[Photo: WaterAid / Marco Betti]

Ecover, the world’s leading manufacturer of ecological cleaning products, …

By Steve Bloomfield, The New Zealand Herald

It sounds like a joke. The brother of the world’s most famous terrorist wants to build one of the world’s longest suspension bridges, linking two continents across some of the world’s most dangerous …

Bekoor.com presents the latest Ethiopian Gospel Songs (Mezmur) at affordable prices. It is the first Ethiopian online store of its kind.

The store carries hundreds of songs by well known gospel singers such as Sofia Shibabaw, Bethelhem Woldu and Naod …

ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) – A Chinese company has signed a $34 million deal with Ethiopia to build four factories producing leather goods north of the capital Addis Ababa.

A statement issued by the Ethiopian government on Wednesday said the firm, …

(hurriyet.com) The Turkish-Ethiopian Business Council, which will serve under the umbrella of Turkey’s Foreign Economic Relations Board (DEIK), has been established, DEIK said in a statement on Wednesday.

The number of business councils operating in Africa had risen …

Ethiopian Israelis hold photos of their relatives still in Ethiopia during a protest against the Israeli governments decision to stop the immigration of Ethiopian Jews in Jerusalem. (The Associated Press)

GONDAR, Ethiopia – Sitting in a leaky, flyblown hut, a …

(Sudan Tribune) KHARTOUM — Sudanese and Kenyan foreign ministers are expected in Asmara within two days for talks with the Eritrean president in abide to convince him to return to the Inter-Governmental Authority on Development (IGAD).

Increasingly disillusioned …

EDITOR’S NOTE: He is done. That’s it. He better go back to his London home and hide.

(Press TV) — Somalia’s president rejects an offer by Ethiopia Woyanne to mediate between him and the prime minister, saying he …

By Francis A. Clifford Cardozo

(Arab Times) — KUWAIT CITY : Starting Aug 11, the Kuwaiti authorities stopped issuing all types of visas to Ethiopian nationals after three Ethiopian maids recently tested HIV positive, says Hashem Majed, the …

(Middle East Online) TRIPOLI – State-run Libya Oil Holding on Tuesday announced it had bought subsidiaries of Shell in Sudan, Djibouti and Ethiopia.

Company president Ali Shamekh said the deal with the Anglo-Dutch group Royal Dutch Shell concerns …

NAIROBI (IRIN) — Drought and recent fighting around the town of Beletweyne, in central Somalia’s Hiiraan region, have aggravated the plight of at least 1,000 Ethiopian refugee families, who were already facing acute food shortages, local sources told …

A must watch video about how the Meles regime in Ethiopia mismanaged the economy and lies about it with the full knowledge and complicity of the the World Bank and other financial backers of the Tigray People’s Liberation Front (Woyanne). …

By Omer Redi, Addis Fortune

ADDIS ABABA — The state-owned Commercial Bank of Ethiopia (CBE) may not claim a pioneer place in the introduction of the electronic banking card system to Ethiopia. But, it is trying to catch up with …

Ethiopian Minister of Mines and
Energy Alemayehu Tegenu

(foodbev.com) — The Ethiopian Ministry of Mines and Energy on Thursday (Aug 7, 2008) signed an agreement with the local Moha Soft Drinks Industry S.C., alloting an additional 56.8 thousand …

By Mikael Deribe

The life line of TPLF’s iron clad hold of power is the reluctance and inability of different Ethiopian political forces (in organization level) to move beyond their archaic and rigid political maneuvers. Each group seeks to obtain …

ALEXANDRIA, VIRGINIA — On Sunday, August 10th, over 50 Ethiopians attended the Ethiopians for Obama meeting with Senator Obama’s African-American Constituency Director. The importance of each person’s vote was discussed as well as ways that Ethiopian-Americans can participate in the …

Union of Ethiopian Democratic Forces (UEDF) evaluates the policies and strategies of the opposition parties and comes up with its own proposal on how to bring an end to the fascist Woyanne regime in this 6-page statement. Click here to …

By Nicholas Benequista, OneWorld

ADDIS ABABA – Ethiopian Woyanne officials have said that the country will increase its appeal to the international community for a third time this year, criticizing donors for failing to commit resources to a hunger crisis …

The fruit of $1.5 billion donation to the Meles regime by the U.S., EU, and other international donors.

People seeking assistance at a clinic run by the NGO Medècins Sans Frontieres in Ethiopia, Thomas Dworzak / Magnum for TIME

By …

By Rose Mestika, The Daily Monitor

ADDIS ABABA — Kangaroo Mother Care (KMC), care service training on treating a newborn premature baby, low birth weight baby, was offered to 13 Doctors and Nurses at Black lion Hospital in Ethiopia’s capital …

MOGADISHU (AFP) — Two Ethiopian Woyanne soldiers were killed Monday in a roadside bomb explosion in southern Somalia, prompting their colleagues to open fire and killing six civilians, witnesses said.

The soldiers were checking for mines on their way to …

Andualem Sisay, Africanews

Aero vodochody, a Czech company, is to start assembling aircrafts in Ethiopia, which will increase the number of its assembling plants in Africa to three.

The company is going to start assembling AE 270, the model, installed …

ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) – African carrier Ethiopian Airlines plans to buy six aircraft to improve its domestic service, its chief executive said on Monday.

“Our aim is to upgrade our 16 domestic routes throughout the country by adding new aircraft …

By Yilma Bekele

Famine and hunger are two different things. We all fell hungry if me miss a meal or two. But famine is a different story. Famine is ‘when there is not enough food for a great number of …

By Mammo Muchie

In Africa, research and knowledge are far from being ivory-tower pursuits. They are critical to making poverty history and preparing countries to cope with disasters.

However, to achieve this, research should be understood not just as a …

(Mohamed Omar Hussein, Somaliweyn Media Center) — A convoy of Ethiopian Woyanne troops were attacked at Sinka Dheer some 14KM from the Somali capital Mogadishu.

These Ethiopian Woyanne troops departure from the capital Mogadishu and were heading towards the commercial …

(Turkish Press) ISTANBUL – A Charity Foundation from Turkey sent aid to 350 families in Ethiopia, which is struggling with famine caused by draught.

The Foundation for Human Rights Freedoms and Humanitarian Relief (IHH) announced Monday that it …

(Garowe) — The Ethiopian Woyanne army’s top generals in Somalia have began holding private discussions with interim Somali President Abdullahi Yusuf and Prime Minister Nur “Adde” Hassan Hussein in a bid to avert the transitional government’s collapse, confidential …

By Hernán Rozemberg, Express-News

After more than two decades on the books, a little-known yet strictly enforced federal law barring foreigners with HIV or AIDS from entering the country is on its way out.

Tucked in a bill pledging $48 …

EDITOR’S NOTE: A joke to start the week with.

Press Release: Ministry of Information

Political objective and leadership devoid of public support shall never be victorious

Various international sources including the leadership of the self-proclaimed Oromo Liberation Front (OLF) are …