(APA) ADDIS ABABA, ETHIOPIA – The Inter-Parliamentary Union, which comprises 143 member countries announced on Monday plans to hold its general assembly in Addis Ababa, the Ethiopian capital in April 2009, APA learns here.
The announcement was made by the …
ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) – Ethiopia’s commodity exchange plans to trade coffee through a new electronic system, starting next month, the exchange said on Monday.
“Coffee trading will be conducted in the afternoons, beginning October, so as to link it with …
ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia (AP) — A U.N. official says the number of Ethiopians needing emergency food aid has more than doubled.
World Food Program spokesman Barry Came says 9.6 million people need emergency food. This is more than twice the …
By Alemayehu G. Mariam
Back in 1920, H.L. Mencken, “the sage of Baltimore,” made a chillingly nightmarish observation about the future of the American presidency:
“The larger the mob, the harder the test. In small areas, before small electorates, a …
By Allan Odhiambo and Zeddy Sambu
Business Daily Africa
As the race for contract stakes in the planned seven billion dollar new railway lines to link Kenya with key regional capitals begins in earnest, groups of international investors are now …
The Associated Press
CAIRO, Egypt – Sudan heads to the United Nations this week to push a behind-the-scenes lobbying effort to avert the prosecution of the country’s longtime president on charges of genocide in Darfur.
But prospects seemed dim at …
Woyanne ambassador in London, Berhanu Kebede, responds to this report that was posted on Channel 4 and Times Online. Read below what he writes. What a scumbag!
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The Associated Press
PHILADELPHIA—Yirefu Birhanu won the Philadelphia Distance Run on Sunday as Ethiopian men finished 1-2-3 in the half-marathon.
Liliya Shobukhova, of Russia, won the women’s race, edging out six-time winner Catherine Ndereba, of Kenya.
An estimated 15,800 runners …
ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) – A lion ate a local man in eastern Ethiopia after escaping from a game park, police said on Sunday.
Staff at the Metehara sugar factory ventured into a nearby cane plantation last week to search for …
BOSASSO, Somalia (Reuters) – Gunmen kidnapped a German man and his local wife in northern Somalia on Saturday, a local official said.
“They were heading to visit his in-laws. They took them towards the hills to the east. We have …
EDITOR’S NOTE: The following report is by Woyanne regime mouthpiece Walta Info Center (WIC). It talks about meat export while people in the country eat food in shifts and children are quitting school because they are too weak to learn. …
By Brie, Peace Corps Volunteer
I love Njombe – which is a strong statement for what it is. Njombe is my banking town, which basically just means that it has a bank, which of course my village does not. …
Agence France-Presse
DAR ES SALAAM — Tanzania has banned all Chinese milk products to safeguard against poisoning by the toxic industrial chemical melamine, a statement said Saturday.
The Tanzania Food and Drug Authority (TFDA) ordered “government officials at all border …
BOSTON: A diverse Ethiopan gathering
By Jennifer Schwartz, Boston Globe
American parents with adopted Ethiopian children who attended last Saturday’s Ethiopian New Year celebration in Cambridge’s Central Square forgot to adjust to “African time.”
Though the printed program slated the …
By Bruce Finley, The Denver Post
A leader of Sudan’s southern rebels has returned from a sojourn in Denver resolved to force a regime change in Africa’s largest country.
When Sudan People’s Liberation Movement Secretary General Pa’gan Amum landed last …
PRINCETON, NJ — Gallup Poll Daily tracking from Wednesday through Friday finds Barack Obama maintaining his lead over John McCain among registered voters, by a 50% to 44% margin.
Obama has held at least a small margin over McCain in …
The AIDS epidemic in Ethiopia has left more than one million children without parents. Compassionate groups and individuals have taken on the responsibility of raising them, including traditional orphanages, family members, and neighbors. This film explores the stories of these …
Bu Kim Fellner
When I first wrote about Starbucks for ColorLines in 2004, the company was riding high. Its stock was dancing near $40 and its expansion goals were projected at 40,000 stores worldwide. Today, Starbucks is clawing to keep …
ORLANDO, FLORIDA – An unidentified man was severely injured when he was struck by a hit-and-run driver early this morning.
The crash occurred about 3:20 a.m. on U.S. 441, south of Oak Ridge Road. Sgt. Kim Miller of the Florida …
Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is currently witnessing a deteriorating humanitarian situation around the town of Wardher, in the Somali Region of Ethiopia. Internally displaced people (IDPs) are gathering in the thousands on the town’s outskirts, …
By: yewoinfamilycooking
Sep 29, 2008
Simple to cook and tasty dish for vegans and lent observers.
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Until two years ago, before the rains failed and the price of maize tripled, Alem Tesfu …
Source: Catholic Relief Services (CRS) – USA
By Debbie DeVoe
CRS Regional Information Officer, East Africa
www.crs.org
TIGRAY, Ethiopia – As we crest the mountain top, a sweeping view of emerald fields, soaring mesas and scattered farms spreads in front …
(REUTERS) – Kenya is seeking investors and technical knowledge to build a small nuclear plant to meet growing electricity needs, says energy minister Mr Kiraitu Murungi.
The country with the region’s biggest economy can generate 1,100 megawatts of electricity compared …
DJIBOUTI – For the first time in the history of Djibouti, there is a firm move towards tackling the issue of khat in the country. On 4 September 2008, an inter-ministerial meeting called by the Minister of Health was hosted …
By Hilary Bainemigisha, The New Vision
A drug designed to reduce the transmission of HIV when taken as a single pill before unprotected sex is going to be tested in Uganda soon.
The pill has proved successful in monkeys and …
Heritage Oil, a Canadian oil prospecting firm has said it discovered Uganda’s largest oil deposit in the Albert Basin near the border with the Democratic Republic of Congo.
Heritage Oil said the flow of 14,364 barrels of oil per day …
Spiegel TV reports about Haile Gebrselassie’s preparation for the Berlin Marathon 2008. The video shows Haile in Addis Ababa at a training site at 3000m above sea level.
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By DONNA BRYSON
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa (AP) — President Thabo Mbeki bowed to heavy pressure from his own party to resign Saturday, tossed to the sidelines of the economic powerhouse he built up as punishment for allegedly abusing his power …
By ARomero
World Music Central
I’ve followed the career of Nick Page for a few years. He was a member of TransGlobal Underground and is now one of the components of Temple of Sound, …
PARIS (AFP) – France on Friday raised the possibility of suspending international war crimes proceedings against Sudanese President Omar al-Beshir in exchange for a “gesture” of good will from Khartoum on Darfur.
“What we want is to relaunch the search …
By Wasil Ali, ST
WASHINGTON – The Judges of the International Criminal Court (ICC) have officially started consideration of the application by prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo requesting an arrest warrant for Sudanese president Omer Hassan Al-Bashir.
Source: United Nations News Service
The situation on the Djibouti-Eritrean border remains volatile after a flaring of tensions on the border in June left over 35 dead and dozens wounded, a United Nations fact-finding mission reported today.
The mission concluded …
(UN News Service) ADDIS ABABA, ETHIOPIA – The Tripartite Commission on the voluntary repatriation of Sudanese refugees in Ethiopia projected a repatriation figure of 12,000 for the year 2009- a number close to half of the 26,492 refugees currently in …
“Lucian makes the Ethiopians to have excelled all other nations in wisdom and literature.” And, continues Cummings Antiquities: Heliodorus says, that the Ethiopians had two sorts of letters, the one called regal, the other vulgar; and that …
By Sherri Williams
THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH
COLUMBUS, OHIO – Meaza Awoke, a native of Ethiopia who lives in Westerville, registered to vote yesterday and plans to cast a ballot for the first time in her life in November.
Awoke, 44, …
UN News Service – Haile Menkerios, Assistant Secretary-General for Political Affairs, briefed Security Council members on the details of the deal, signed in Harare on Monday, which aims to end the political …
EDITOR’S NOTE: This is a good example of how the Meles regime is full of village idiots. The new doctors will leave the country as well if conditions in the country remain the same. The root cause of the economic …
By Tendai Maphosa, VOA
HARARE – The first meeting between the three leaders who signed Zimbabwe’s power-sharing agreement ended in a stalemate Thursday. The three failed to agree on the composition of a Cabinet for the new government. Tendai Maphosa …
In Ethiopia, 57 percent of girls are forced to get married before they reach their 18th birthday. In this short documentary, Tiringo, married at age 6, explains how early marriage prevented her from attending school.
– Kim Haughton, photojournalist…
PRINCETON, NJ — Gallup Poll Daily tracking from Tuesday through Thursday finds Barack Obama with a five percentage point lead over John McCain in the presidential preferences …
The Red Cross is providing emergency relief to more than 75,000 people in southern Ethiopia. We need your help so we can carry on distributing food and seeds to those who most need them. Please give whatever you can now …
By Mindy Ward, Iowa Farmer Today
OSCEOLA, IOWA – Cattle backgrounders are searching for cost-effective ways to …
The latest issue of the Voice of Ginbot 7 newsletter:
* Rebel forces attack Woyanne military targets
* The Awasa EPRDF conference ousts Tefera Walwa and Netsanet Asfaw
* Amare Aregawi goes to court
* Discussion with Andargachew Tsige
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EDITOR’S NOTE: In the past 16 years, the Meles parasitic regime led Ethiopia into more poverty, more war, more disease and more misery. For Ethiopia to be on the path of development, greedy, homicidal, lawless dictators like Meles must never …
By Daniel Wallis
NAIROBI (Reuters) – Ethiopia’s Ogaden rebels demanded on Friday that the U.N. Security Council secure an aid corridor to their homeland where they said people were starving behind a military blockade.
Since June last year the Ethiopian…
By Abdi Sheikh and Ibrahim Mohamed
MOGADISHU (Reuters) – Somalia’s warring parties pounded each other with artillery in Mogadishu on Friday after an African Union military aircraft defied a rebel ban on planes using the capital’s international airport. Witnesses said …
(Afrik.com) – Drought-affected communities in Ethiopia will receive an additional food aid package of nearly US$ 60 million from the US through the UN World Food Programme, it was officially announced Thursday.
The US Agency for International Development (USAID) said …
Days after the Israeli government did an about-face and agreed to continue evaluating Ethiopia’s Falash Mura population for eligibility to make aliya, a new school opened in the northern Ethiopian city of Gondar to …
MOGADISHU (AFP) — Somalia’s business community on Thursday expressed concern over the closure of Mogadishu airport by a radical Islamist group, arguing the move was tantamount to self-inflicted sanctions.
Somalia’s Al-Shebab movement earlier this week warned that all flights should …
ADDIS ABABA (AFP) – The United States expressed concern on Thursday over an Ethiopian bill that could restrict the activities of foreign aid groups and sounded alarm bells over the food situation in the country.
The draft bill allows more …
By Liz Sidoti
WASHINGTON (AP) — The party conventions and the Sarah Palin surge behind them, Barack Obama and John McCain are neck and neck again in their race for the White House — with the momentum and the political …
Legendary Ethiopian musician Teshome Mitiku invites you to attend his CD release party in Washington DC tonight, Thursday, September 18, 2008.
Place: Langano Restaurant, Maryland
Time: Starting at 7:00 PM
Name of the CD: Zemen
More info: [email protected]
The …
By Finbarr O’Reilly, Reuters
CARE’s report quotes a 9-year-old Ethiopian boy, Mohammed, who says families he knows in the capital Addis Ababa are eating in shifts, the oldest on Monday, the second on Tuesday, the third on Wednesday. “If he’s …
ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia – A workshop to discuss and improve on a Draft Communication and Advocacy Strategy of the African Union, jointly elaborated by the Division of Communication and Information (DCI) of the African Union and the United Nations Population …
By UN Integrated Regional Information Networks (IRIN)
“The knowledge [that FGM is harmful] is increasing,” said Abate Gudunfa, head of the Ethiopian National Committee on Traditional Practices (commonly referred to as EGLDAM – its name in Amharic]. “Children born more …
The nomadic people of the eastern deserts accuse the Ethiopian government Woyanne regime of deliberately starving people to death, reports Jonathan Rugman of Channel 4 News.
Deliberately starving people to death: that’s the accusation being levelled at the Ethiopian government…
LILONGWE, MALAWI – Malawi police in the central Dedza district bordering Mozambique on Thursday intercepted 148 Ethiopian refugees who were on their way to South Africa, using Mozambique and eventually Zimbabwe as transit points, APA has learnt here.
Police spokesperson …
MOGADISHU (AFP) — Ethiopian Woyanne forces on Thursday killed four people in a southern Somalia town after their pick-up truck collided with a civilian vehicle, police and witnesses said.
Somali police confirmed four people had been killed in Baidoa, 250 …
‘Roots Theater’ gives voice to the women of the epic flight.
By Danna Harman, The Christian Science Monitor
Beit Shean, Israel – She spent the first few days weaving in and out of the crowd, ducking here, hiding there. By …
Gelila Bekele is a model, humanitarian, and social activist. Most people recognize this Ethiopian beauty from seeing her in popular advertisements for Pantene and Colgate, but many people have no idea that there is much more behind this stunning woman …
His job has taken him all over the world. And Captain Paul Norley’s next destination is to Africa to share his love of music.
The director of music at the Band of the King’s Division has been chosen …
Report Brings Attention Back to Child Survival
“The means are at hand. It is now a question of will and of action — for there is no enterprise more noble, or reward more …
By Peter MacLean
Allana Resources Inc. of Toronto, Canada, has acquired three mineral concessions in Ethiopia’s northeastern Danakil depression totalling approximately 150 square kilometres. The project area is approximately 100 kilometres from the Red Sea coast and 600 km …
COMMENTARY
By Donald Payne
U.S. Congressman from New Jersey
Washington, DC – This is perhaps one of the most important periods in our political history.
We have come a long way despite enormous challenges and difficulties. The Democratic Party elected …
By Louis Charbonneau
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – The U.N. Security Council rebuked Eritrea on Wednesday for refusing to cooperate with a U.N. investigation of clashes on its border with Djibouti that left a number of Djiboutian soldiers dead.
Djibouti accused …
By Amy White, Indyweek
Julie Mehretu: City Sitings
North Carolina Museum of Art
On display through November 30, 2008
For those of us …
(VOA News) – The main airport in Somalia’s capital Mogadishu has been effectively shut down, following a threat by Islamist militants Somali freedom fighters.
The militant group al-Shabab had warned it would attack any plane landing or taking off at …
Army ‘is keeping food from rebel areas’
By Jonathan Rugman, Times Online
JIJIGA – Ethiopia has been accused of deliberately underestimating the scale of a deadly drought facing millions of its people, some of whom are being deprived of emergency …
By Dan Balz, The Washington Post
John McCain has a fundamentals problem. …
(RFI) – Noah Samara grew up in Ethiopia, but fled the country with his family in his teens due to mounting political violence. He studied satellite technology in the United States, and embarked on …
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Ethiopian football is in tatters with the country banned by Fifa and having been thrown out of the 2010 World Cup and Africa Cup of Nations qualifiers.
And while there seems to be no way back as …
The Daily Monitor
ADDIS ABABA — Ethiopian development researcher Dr. Nigussie Haregeweyn won an award of the Belgian Development Cooperation Prize 2007 (BDCP), Belgian Embassy in Addis Ababa announced.
A scientific research works award winner, Dr. Nigussie’s essay under the …
The Daily Monitor (Addis Ababa)
By Rose Mestika
ADDIS ABABA — The International Society of Obstetric Fistula Surgeons (ISOFS) held its first annual meeting in Addis Ababa from September 15-16, 2008.
The conference was organized in collaboration with the Ethiopian …
The Export Import Bank of India (Exim Bank) will file a reply in the Bombay High Court Sep 18 after the court stayed it from releasing funds to the Ethiopian government through lines of credit.
In a ruling Sep 9, …
(CNN) — Carly Fiorina, the former Hewlett-Packard CEO turned top John McCain aide, said she doesn’t think Sarah Palin is qualified to run a major corporation. For that matter, Fiorina said, McCain, Obama and Biden aren’t capable of …
ADDIS ABABA (AFP) — The United Nations on Tuesday warned that a shortage of food and water was worsening the effects of a searing drought in Ethiopia’s restive Somali region.
“The overall humanitarian situation in the region has worsened due …
By Kim Fellner
The following is a book excerpt from Kim Fellner’s Wrestling With Starbucks (Rutgers University Press, 2008).
Tadesse Meskela, general manager of the Oromia Coffee Farmers Cooperative Union in Ethiopia, an organization of 115 cooperatives representing more than …
By Sara Vilkomerson, The New York Observer
It’s hard enough to get mainstream movies made and distributed (even Jennifer Aniston’s Toronto film Management is still looking …
By SOPHIA TAREEN
CHICAGO (AP) — Here’s something about Barack Obama you probably didn’t know: He’s related to a rabbi.
His wife’s cousin, Rabbi Capers C. Funnye Jr., leads a mostly black Jewish congregation on Chicago’s Southwest Side. He is …
BERLIN (AFP) — Ethiopia’s Haile Gebrselassie said Thursday he is convinced he can lower his own world record at this year’s Berlin marathon, on September 28.
The 35-year-old set the current marathon world record of two hours 4min 26sec on …
The Philadelphia Inquirer
The Rev. Teclezghi M. Ucbaghiorghis, 59, of Mount Laurel, a Cistercian monk who ministered for 11 years to parishioners of St. John Neumann Church in Mount Laurel and to emigres from his African homeland in several states, …
By Shumon Alam, Oxfam
It rains a lot in Addis Ababa. The day can start with nice bright sun, shining down on the highest city in Africa, but within hours it can become dark and gloomy, with drizzle pouring on …
By Lovise Aalen
In the 2001 local elections in southern region, Ethiopian Peoples Revolutionary Democratic Front (EPRDF) and its southern member party, the Southern Ethiopian People’s Democratic Front (SEPDF), won a great majority of the seats for …
HARARE, ZIMBABWE — A group of more than 60 Somali and Ethiopian asylum seekers is being vetted by Zimbabwean police after entering into the country Monday from Mozambique, Radio Zimbabwe reported here Tuesday.
The radio said the asylum seekers entered …
Ruth Eglash , THE JERUSALEM POST
Interior Ministry representatives will continue checking the eligibility for aliya of some 3,000 Ethiopian Falash Mura, who claim that under a 2003 government directive they should be allowed to immigrate to Israel, the government …
By Grace
This flight is long! We are just about to land in Rome to refuel, and I am already more than done with flying! Alas, there are several hours yet to go. At nearly 6 feet tall (and most …
By IWPR
HARARE — Zimbabwe’s political rivals smiled for the cameras, the crowds cheered and the bitter enemies shook hands.
Six months after the country’s momentous March 29 general elections, which delivered to President Robert Mugabe and his ZANU-PF party …
By Alisha Ryu, VOA
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Another Ugandan peacekeeper mercenary has been killed by insurgents in the Somali capital Mogadishu, the second soldier to die there in as many days. A militant Somali Islamist group called the Shabab has taken …
By Evelyn Ratigan
CAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS – Though most people rang in 2001 eight years ago with paper hats, noisemakers and champagne, hundreds of Ethiopians officially started partying this past weekend in Cambridge.
STUTTGART — It has been a frustrating year for 24-year-old Ethiopian distance runner Meseret Defar. She first lost her world record at the 5000m to teammate Tirunesh Dibaba; she then failed to retain the 5000-meter title in the Olympic final …
Gondar
Gondar, which I constantly mispronounced as Gondor (from The Lord of the Rings), was nice but the two days we spent there was too much. Gondar was the place everyone said you had to see …
The following information is about the phone and internet communications that are available in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, and the cost of these services.
Telephone Service
International telephone service in Ethiopia is quite expensive compared to many other countries. Telephone calling …
PRESS RELEASE
Source: galbeed.com
The Ethiopian Somali Advocacy is supporting the reformed bill that U.S Senator Russ Feingold has introduced to the floor. The bill entitled “Support for Democracy and Human Rights in Ethiopia Act of 2008” will hold the …
ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) — Two Ethiopian companies said on Monday they will work with Chinese telecoms gear maker ZTE Corp to build the African nation’s first mobile phone assembly plant.
The $5.2 million facility in the northern town of Bhar …
MOGADISHU (AFP) — Somalia’s Islamist militia, Al-Shebab, has issued an ultimatum ordering all traffic in and out of Mogadishu airport to cease as of Tuesday.
The group argued in a statement posted on the Internet and confirmed to AFP by …