Monthly Archives: October 2008

Ethiopia’s endangered wolves are dying of rabies

Ethiopian Wolves, one of Ethiopia’s most endemic mammals, are currently dying because of a rabies outburst in the Bale Mountains National Park.

The main habitat for the Ethiopian Wolf are areas 3200 ms above sea level, namely Abune Josseph Mountain, …

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10 reasons why McCain might win

John Podhoretz, Commentary Magazine

This is why it might happen. Not saying it will.

1) One poll has undecided voters at 14 percent on the last weekend, which means most of them probably really aren’t undecided, that they are either …

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Gallup: Obama’s lead widens some on all bases

PRINCETON, NJ — The political landscape could be improving for Barack Obama in the waning days of the campaign. Gallup Poll Daily tracking from Oct. 28-30 shows him with an eight percentage point lead over John McCain among traditional likely

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How technology used to exploit Africa – must read

By Philip Emeagwali

According to history books, gun-wielding European slave traders kidnapped one in five Africans and transported them across the oceans to the Americas. A less visible, but no means less drastic technological tool of suppression, is the compass, …

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Indian cultural music group tours Ethiopia

ADDIS ABABA, ETHIOPIA (APA) – An Indian cultural music group has arrived in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia for a two-week cultural tour in the country, APA learnt here on Friday.

The Indian embassy in Ethiopia said that the team …

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Huge traffic from Drudge Report crashes Ethiopian Review

The popular U.S. news web site, Drudge Report, has linked a report that is published on Ethiopian Review today. A few house later, Ethiopian Review’s powerful server was overloaded and crashed several times. The site was accessed over 18,000 …

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EPPF restructuring continues; Mussie Tegegn is replaced

Chairman of the Ethiopian People’s Patriotic Front (EPPF), Arbegna Meazaw Getu, has announced that the executive committee has decided to relieve Dr Mussie Tegegn from his responsibility as head of external relations. The letter signed by Arbegna Meazaw states that …

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The Reporter’s editor Amare Aregawi attacked

ADDIS ABABA, ETHIOPIA – Editor-in-Chief of The Reporter, Ato Amare Aregawi, was beaten up today in Addis Ababa by at least three unknown individuals. Sources told Ethiopian Review that Amare was shot, not just beaten up. He is critically wounded …

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ETC Launches Bandwidth Upgrading Project

By Tizita Kebede
The Daily Monitor

The Ethiopian Telecommunication Corporation (ETC) announced on Wednesday its plans to start off operation of installed high-tech multi-inclusive equipments, and thus entertain about 6.5 million more customers during the current fiscal year.

While conferring …

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Arrest allegations in Florida judge's election race

By Julie Montanaro, WCTV.tv

TALLAHASSEE, FLORIDA – A candidate for Leon County Judge is under fire as sources tell Eyewitness News, she has a felony arrest on her record.

Nina Ashenafi Richardson, a native of Ethiopia, was the top vote …

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2 Ethiopian parents in Minneapolis ordered to leave U.S.

By Brady Gervais, TwinCities.com

Negussie Bussa and Leyouwerk Tsegaye must decide: Leave their two youngest daughters behind to an uncertain future when they are deported, or take them to the couple’s native Ethiopia where they fear possible death.

The Roseville …

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Barack Obama's family in Kenya stops media interviews

By ERIC OLOO

The Kenya family of US Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama has halted all media engagements until after the US presidential election on November 4 .

The move has been taken to give Obama’s paternal grandmother, Mama Sarah …

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Gallup: Obama lead among likely voters 5 to 7 points

PRINCETON, NJ — Barack Obama holds a statistically significant lead over John McCain in both Gallup likely voter models, according to Oct. 27-29 Gallup Poll Daily tracking. In the traditional model, which defines likely voters based on current …

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Tokyo Women's Marathon announces elite field of running

Derartu Tulu and Elfenesh Alemu of Ethiopia are among them.

By Brett Larner

On Oct. 28 the Tokyo International Women’s Marathon announced the elite field for the event’s 30th and final running, to take place Nov. 16. Top domestic runners …

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Tuskegee University gets over $1.2M awarded to nursing program

Tuskegee, Alabama – Tuskegee University’s Nursing Program in the College of Veterinary Medicine, Nursing and Allied Health was recently awarded a $1,279,302, three-year grant from the Health Resources and Services Administration of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. …

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Meles begs the international community to save him

EDITOR’S NOTE: Dictator Meles Zenawi is begging the international community to save him from his Somalia debacle. Did the international community ask this chigaram Woyanne to invade Somalia in the first place? He cannot even feed his own people in

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Poll gives McCain lead in Florida early voting

EDITOR’S NOTE: Obama campaign and supporters better not be complacent. Every body should be running scared in these last few days.

BY JIM ASH, FLORIDA TODAY

TALLAHASSEE — Gov. Charlie Crist is taking heat from fellow Republicans for a last-minute …

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Obama holds leads in key swing states as election nears

By Michael Duffy, TIME

With less than a week of campaigning left, Democrat Barack Obama is holding stable or growing leads over Republican John McCain in Nevada, North Carolina and Ohio, according to a new set of TIME/CNN battleground-state polls …

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Ethiopian Airlines sets new sales targets

By Helen Massy-Beresford

PARIS (Reuters) – Ethiopian Airlines is setting a new target of sales of “at least” $1.5 billion by 2015 after coming close to its achieving its 2010 aim of $1 billion sales this year, chief executive Girma …

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Florida: Suspects in Ethiopian BP owner shooting arrested

By Anthony Anamelechi, Tallahassee.com

QUNICY, FLORIDA – A tip from the Gadsden County Sheriff’s Office helped Quincy police arrest two suspects in the Oct. 8 shooting of a local businessman.

Lewlis Telsusca, 35, and Tamika Reese, 21, were arrested Tuesday …

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Kenyan basketball team continues its winning streak in Addis Ababa

By Hallygan Agade, KBC

Kenyan teams continued with their winning streak in the second day of the Africa Zone Five basketball championships in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.

National men’s champions KCB Lions narrowly trounced Ethiopia’s Marine 71-69 after a 34-27 lead …

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Ethiopia’s dictator reshuffles cabinet

By Argaw Ashine, NATION

Ethiopian Prime Minister dictator Meles Zenawi has reshuffled his 15-member cabinet, including key ministries of Defence, Justice and Agriculture.

Zenawi, who returned on Wednesday from an Inter-Governmental Summit in Nairobi, appointed nine new ministers and presented …

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Video: A colonel defects from the Woyanne army

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Somali Prime Minister says Woyanne is causing problems

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NAIROBI, KENYA – Somali Prime Minister Nur Hasan Hussein (Nur Adde) has told some Somali MPs that the Ethiopian government Woyanne was causing trouble for the Transitional Federal Government of Somalia (TFG)

The prime minister issued this remarks following …

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What does Obama’s election mean to Ethiopia – Amharic

ባራክ ኦባማ መመረጡንስ ይመረጡ፤ ለእኛ ግን ያው “በገሌ ነው”

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ሴናተር ባራክ ኦባማ የመጀመሪያው ጥቁር የአሜሪካ ፕሬዝዳንት ሆነው ቢመረጡ ታላቅ ታሪካዊ ሁኔታ እንደሚሆን አይጠረጠርም። አሜሪካ ውስጥ ለዘመናት በጥቁሮች ዘር ላይ ከባርነት አንስቶ ከፍተኛ ጭቆና፣አድልዎና ንቀት እንዲሁም በርካታ ኢሰብአዊና

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For many U.S. voters in African Diaspora the economy is top concern

By William Eagle, VOA

Nearly two million immigrants have come to the United States in the last 30 years. Hundreds of thousands are registered voters who are expected to go to the polls next week to choose a new US …

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Zenebech Injera – ‘best Ethiopian food’ in DC

By Josh Novikoff, DCist.com

In a DCist interview several weeks ago, Tyler Cowen declared that Zenebech Injera at 6th and T Streets NW was serving up the best Ethiopian food in town. We put the advice of the economics professor/ethnic …

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African Union said Aid to Africa could fall due to global crisis

By Barry Malone

ADDIS ABABA, ETHIOPIA (Reuters) – Developed countries are planning to cut aid to Africa due to the global financial crisis, a senior African Union (AU) commissioner said on Wednesday.

While Africa is relatively protected from the global …

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Video: Ere Bati Bati – sweet!

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U.S. Attorney General awards an Ethiopian for outstanding job

Attorney General Michael Mukasey recognizes Department employees and others for their service at Annual Awards Ceremony. Tsedey C. Berhanu, a native of Ethiopia, is one of those who were recognized for outstanding service.

WASHINGTON, DC – United States Attorney General …

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President Girma asks the public to take good care of trees

EDITOR’S NOTE: Why doesn’t the fat pig talk about the children in Ethiopia who are dying of starvation while he stuffs his face 20 times a day? Here, according to WIC, a Woyanne propaganda outlet, the fake president talks about

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Protest against genocide in Ogaden – London, Nov 12

After the Holocaust the world said ‘never again to genocide’ yet our will to prevent the murder and distruction of particular people was not sufficient to stop further genocide in this world to present day.

To day in Ogaden a …

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5 Suicide Bomb Attacks Hit Somalia

By JEFFREY GETTLEMAN, New York Times

NAIROBI, Kenya — Suicide attacks rocked government and United Nations offices in two regions of northern Somalia on Wednesday, killing or wounding dozens of people and shattering a sense of relative calm there, according …

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Ethiopians to boycott UDJ visit in Europe

Leaders of the Unity for Democracy and Justice (UDJ) will travel to Europe starting Nov 7 next week. The delegation is headed by UDJ chairperson Wzt. Birtukan Mideksa. The countries they plan to visit include Germany, U.K., Sweden, Belgium and …

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Ethiopians in Virginia go the extra mile for Obama

By Eboni Farmer, The Hilltop

The power of the vote means so much to Mike Endale that he co-founded the D.C. chapter of Ethiopians for Obama — and he isn’t even eligible to vote during this election.

Endale, who immigrated …

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Gallup: The gap between Obama and McCain narrows

PRINCETON, NJ — The gap between Barack Obama and John McCain in Gallup Poll Daily tracking from Saturday through Monday has narrowed slightly, and Obama is now at 49% of the vote to 47% for McCain among likely voters using …

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U.S. Navy and Ethiopian partners dedicate refurbished school

ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia- Navy Seabees of Naval Mobile Construction Battalion (NMCB) 4, based out of Naval Base Ventura County, Calif. attended the dedication ceremony of the Abadir Primary School in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia on October 16, 2008.

With the support

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Ethiopian writers among recipients of ‘Grinzane for Africa Prize’

By Binyam Tamene, The Daily Monitor

ADDIS ABABA, ETHIOPIA – The first edition of the award “Grinzane for Africa,” an African version of the prestigious Italian literary prize, bestowed upon three figures of contemporary African literature, including the famous writer …

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Kuwait loans Ethiopia $25 million to build roads in Tigray

EDITOR’S NOTE: In southern Ethiopia, children cannot even go to school because they are too weak from hunger to attend classes.

ADDIS ABABA, ETHIOPIA (APA) – The Ethiopian government The Woyanne tribal junta in Ethiopia and the Kuwait …

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Woyannes chew out their puppet regime in Somalia

By LUCAS BARASA and JAMI MAKAN, THE DAILY NATION

NAIROBI, KENYA – Five countries have taken the Somali Transitional Federal Government leaders to task over their failure to end turmoil in the country.

The Inter-Governmental Authority on Development (Igad) …

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'American Corner' in Jimma, Ethiopia

Dancers and musicians welcome U.S.
Embassy spokesman Michael McClellan
to the opening of an American Corner
library in Jimma, Ethiopia
(photo: U.S. State Department)

JIMMA, ETHIOPIA – When Michael McClellan, spokesman for the U.S. Embassy in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, stepped …

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Ethiopia: The army is led by a tribal junta

Source: The Indian Ocean Newsletter

Since the EPRDF came to power in Addis Ababa in 1991, the Ethiopian army has been dominated by more seasoned Tigrayan officers who are members or sympathizers of the Tigray People’s Liberation Front (Woyanne, hard …

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19 people die in bus accident on Addis Ababa – Awassa road

ADDIS ABABA, ETHIOPIA (APA) – Police is investigating a bus accident late Monday evening that killed 19 and seriously wounded 10, sources said here Tuesday.

At least 19 people died Tuesday when a bus travelling from Addis Ababa to Hawasa …

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Ethiopians in Denver make their country proud

Ethiopians in Denver, Colorado, have built a magnificent church, and earlier this month they hosted the North America Ethiopian Demera celebration during the Meskel holiday. The church, Dagmawit Gishen Mariam, they built is simply awesome. They did all this while …

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Woyanne foreign minister blames Somali leadership for defeat

EDITOR’S NOTE: It is good to see Woyannes get their butt kicked in Somalia. Ethiopian Review would like to remind the world that the war in Somalia is between the Meles crime family and the Somali people since Ethiopia currently

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Obama and the prospects for democracy in Ethiopia

By F. Hager

Barack Obama will become the next president of the United States if all goes well in the next few days. Many Ethiopian-Americans are exuberant about the changes he will bring to America. They also hope his election …

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Afro 105.3 FM radio to launch in Ethiopia

ADDIS ABABA, ETHIOPIA – Afro, an English language radio station in Ethiopia, is to start test transmissions on FM from the end of November with music and programs for 18 hours a day. The new station will beam on FM …

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Plot to kill presidential candidate Barack Obama foiled

By Jeff Coen, Chicago Tribune

Federal prosecutors in Tennessee have charged two self-described white supremacists with making threats against Sen. Barack Obama, alleging the men talked about wearing white top hats and tuxedos when they would try to kill the …

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TOP 25 U.S. daily newspapers

NEW YORK Here are the top 25 daily papers ranked for the six-month period ending September 2008 based on a Monday-through-Friday average, according to the new FAS-FAX from the Audit Bureau of Circulations released today. The percent change compares this …

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Gallup: Obama continues to lead by five to 10 points

PRINCETON, NJ — Gallup Poll Daily tracking from Friday through Sunday finds Barack Obama with a five percentage point lead over John McCain, 50% to 45%, in the presidential preferences of likely voters using Gallup’s traditional model. He enjoys …

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Video: Azeb Mesfin says ‘we are not thieves’

This must be joke of the year. Meles Zenawi’s wife, Azeb Mesfin, the ‘mother of corruption’ in Ethiopia tells an interviewer that she and her dictator husband have barely enough money to pay for their children’s school.

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One Week Away from Change in America – by Barack Obama

By Barack Obama

CANTON, OHIO – One week. After decades of broken politics in Washington, eight years of failed policies from George Bush, and twenty-one months of a campaign that has taken us from the rocky coast of Maine to …

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Gete Wami of Ethiopia looks to rebound in New York Marathon

Gete Wami
Gete Wami, right, and Paula Radcliffe, who edged Wami in the 2007 New York City Marathon. [Photo: Frank Franklin II/AP]

By LIZ ROBBINS, The New York Times

One year the marathon fates can be charitable, the next year, crushing. Such …

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Federal agents disrupt plot to assassinate Obama

By LARA JAKES JORDAN

WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal agents have broken up a plot to assassinate Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama and shoot or decapitate 102 black people in a Tennessee murder spree, the ATF said Monday.

In court records …

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Ethiopia: Tirunesh Dibaba weds Sileshi Sihine in day-long colorful ceremony


ADDIS ABABA, ETHIOPIA (APA) – Beijing Olympics double gold medal winner Tirunesh Dibaba of Ethiopia has married fallow athlete Sileshi Sihine, with thousands of people gracing the colourful occasion held in the capital Addis Ababa on Sunday.

Those …

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2 South Africans get 10 years for killing Ethiopian

By Lynn Shaw, THE HERALD

PORT ELIZABETH, SOUTH AFRICA – Two Uitenhage men convicted of culpable homicide after the death of an immigrant from Ethiopia were each sentenced to 10 years‘ imprisonment by the Port Elizabeth High Court.

Dumisani Makuleni, …

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Insurgents reject UN-backed deal for Somalia

MOGADISHU (AFP)

Somalia’s radical insurgents on Monday vowed to fight on despite Addis Ababa’s Woyanne’s pledge to respect a UN-sponsored deal reached a day earlier that allows for a pullback of Ethiopian TPLF troops Thugs.

The Somali government and an …

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Woyanne troops to relocate under Somalia ceasefire deal

EDITOR’S NOTE: Woyannes are already withdrawing in defeat. This is just a face saving attempt.

By Alisha Ryu, VOA

Somalia’s Ethiopia-backed transitional government has agreed on a date for the withdrawal of Ethiopian Woyanne troops from two major Somali cities …

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Interview with Ginbot 7 offical Andargachew Tsege

[podcast]http://www.ethiopianreview.info/audio/andargachew_tsege_interview_10262008.mp3[/podcast]

It’s been six months since Ginbot 7 Movement for Freedom and Democracy in Ethiopia was formed. In June 2007, EthiopianReview.com wrote (read here) that the new movement has less than 6 months to prove itself. Did it prove …

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Biting the Hands That Feed Millions

By Alemayehu G. Mariam

NGOs as the New “Whipping Boys”?

If you can’t feed your people, bite the hands that feed them. That seems to be the metaphysics (first principles that define reality) of the Zenawi regime. Oxfam, Save the …

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Intense fighting erupts as Somali fighters ambush TPLF thugs

By Bonny Apunyu, SomaliNet

Intense battle erupted on Saturday morning in Somalia in an area between Lego and Yaqbariweyne in the Bay region (south) when Al-Shabaab forces ambushed Ethiopian TPLF and Somali government troops heading to the capital, Mogadishu, residents …

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Adilo Roba of Ethiopia wins Eurasia Marathon in Istanbul

ISTANBUL, TURKY – Adilo Kasime Roba of Ethiopia won the men’s event at the 30th International Eurasia Marathon in İstanbul on Sunday. Roba finished with a time of 2:11:16.

Lishan Yigezu Fanta of Ethiopia came in second at 2:11:37, while …

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Ogaden and Somalia ‘forgotten tragedies’ – Donald Payne

PRESS RELESE

U.S. Congress Subcommittee on Africa Chairman Donald Payne calls Ogaden and Somalia “The Forgotten Tragedies”

Tenth District Representative Donald M. Payne, Chairman of the Foreign Affairs’ Subcommittee on Africa and Global Health, issued the following statement on Oct. …

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A day in the life of Haile GebreSelassie

ADDIS ABABA, ETHIOPIA – Haile GebreSelassie is an Ethiopian long distance track and road running athlete. Gebrselassie has achieved major competition wins at distances between 1500 metres and the marathon, moving from outdoor, indoor and cross country running to road …

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Ethiopia: Ginbot 7 on hot seat – Interview, Sunday 2 PM

It’s been six months since Ginbot 7 Movement for Freedom and Democracy in Ethiopia was formed. In June 2007, EthiopianReview.com wrote (read here) that the new movement has less than 6 months to prove itself. Did it prove itself …

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Ethiopians in DC protest Woyanne war crimes in Ogaden

WASHINGTON DC – Ethiopians in Washington DC held a rally to protest the widespread human rights violation against innocent civilians and systematic repression of ethnic Somalis that is taking place in the Ogaden region of Ethiopia.

As reported by the …

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Top 10 items on UDJ’s To Do List

Fresh off their successful event, “Poety night” with the ‘youth league,’ below are the top 10 events Birtukan Mideksa and her UDJ (Andinet Party) are currently organizing:

10. Non Violence Poetry night Part II
9. Peaceful stand up comedy night

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Video: ‘Balageru’ by Gossaye and Ephrem


Tag: Ethiopia, Balageru…

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Sudan kidnappers want Chinese oil firms out of the country

KHARTOUM (AFP) — Kidnappers of nine Chinese oil workers seized near a disputed oil district in Sudan want Chinese oil firms to leave the area in return for the hostages’ release, a pan-Arab newspaper reported on Friday.

“We don’t have …

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Elias Wondimu profiled in ‘Who’s Who in Black Los Angeles’

Tsehai Publishers’ Elias Wondimu Among 2008 Honorees of “Who’s Who in Black Los Angeles”

Elias Wondimu, the publisher and editorial director of the Tsehai Publishers and Marymount Institute Press, is profiled in the inaugural edition of Who’s Who In Black …

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Video: A glimpse of Addis Ababa by German photographer

Stick in ADDIS ABABA, ETHIOPIA
Just a quick one, two days. Two intense ones, though. So many people, so much car exhaust…you gotta like your daily dose of CO2 if you want to spend time there (what’s this ridiculous EU-commission …

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Circus Party for Ethiopia – Pittsburgh, Oct 26

Zany Umbrella Circus in conjunction with the One Love Theater from Ethiopia presents:

Circus Party for Ethiopia

Icehouse Artists’ Studios in Lawrenceville
100 43rd St, Pittsburgh PA 15201 USA

Sunday, October 26, 6:30PM

Proceeds will promote youth activities in Ethiopia. …

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Ethiopia’s dictator Meles Zenawi suspends Mauritania

COTONOU, BENNIN – Ethiopian prime minister dictator announces Mauritania’s suspension from African Peer Review Mechanism.

Mauritania has been suspended from the African Peer Review Mechanism (APRM), Ethiopian Prime Minister dictator Meles Zenawi, announced Saturday at the opening of the ARPM …

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U.N. council considers action in Eritrea-Djibouti dispute

By Louis Charbonneau

UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – The U.N. Security Council is considering stepping up the pressure on Eritrea to avoid a renewal of fighting in the Horn of Africa between Asmara and its neighbor Djibouti, diplomats said on Friday.…

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Land O’Lakes, Inc. collaborates with farmers in Ethiopia

ARDEN HILLS, MINNEAPOLIS – The global fight against HIV/AIDS has received a boost from a partnership between Ethiopian dairy farmers and Land O’Lakes, Inc., supported by funding from the President’s Emergency Program for HIV/AIDS Relief (PEPFAR).

Working together, Land O’Lakes …

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Addis Ababa to Khartoum highway completed

A highway linking the capital cities of Sudan and Ethiopia has been completed. The land transport will help promote trade, increase economic exchange and investment opportunities between them. The highway will also enable them to begin a road transportation service …

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The plight of donkeys in Ethiopia

A heart-rending dispatch from Ethiopia reveals the plight of donkeys – at the hands of the people who need them most

Animal-lover Liz Jones travels to Ethiopia and finds that when people are desperate, animals suffer even more.

Ever since …

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Volunteer wins award for work in Ethiopia

Wetherby News

WETHERBY, UK – A dedicated volunteer from East Witton, England, has been commended for her work with an international sight charity.

Michele de Vaal, 54, received an outstanding contribution award from Vision Aid Overseas, which provides free eye …

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Amazing mathematical imagery by Dejenie Lakew

Amazing mathematical imagery by Virginia State University professor Dejenie Lakew, a native of Ethiopia.

See more images here.

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Canada Government no longer trusted to help free Canadian jailed in Ethiopia

By Louisa Taylor
The Ottawa Citizen

The cousin of a Canadian being held in an Ethiopian jail says an official from the Department of Foreign Affairs urged him yesterday to keep the case “low-key” because Canada is doing its best …

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Ethiopia: Interview with Ginbot 7 official – Sunday 2 PM

It’s been six months since Ginbot 7 Movement for Freedom and Democracy in Ethiopia was formed. In June 2007, EthiopianReview.com wrote (read here) that the new movement has less than 6 months to prove itself. Did it prove itself to …

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Ethiopia Inflation Rate Fell to 59.6% in September

By Jason McLure

ADDIS ABABA, ETHIOPIA (Bloomberg) — Ethiopia’s annual inflation rate declined to 59.6 percent in September from 61.7 percent in August, the Central Statistical Agency said.

Food prices increased by 80.9 percent, slower than the annualized …

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Sudan apologizes to Woyanne over party raid

KHARTOUM (AFP) — Sudan has apologised to Ethiopia Woyanne after police arrested the Ethiopian Woyanne military attaché’s sister and impounded liquor from the diplomat’s home in the capital Khartoum, an Sudanese official said on Friday.

Sharia law applies in predominantly …

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GHaile ebreSelassie and other top runners ready for Dubai Marathon

UAE (BI) – Runners from across the world have been quick to sign up for the 2009 Standard Chartered Dubai Marathon following the announcement that Haile Gebrselassie of Ethiopia will launch an attempt on his own world record …

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National Bank of Ethiopia loses $27 million in fraud

ADDIS ABABA, ETHIOPIA (APA) – National Bank of Ethiopia admitted on Thursday that $27 million has been withdrawn fraudulently from its City Bank account in New York by three Nigerians.

The bank, however, said the withdrawal has not …

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U.S. warns Eritrea to resolve dispute with Djbouti

UNITED NATIONS (AFP) — The United States on Thursday warned Eritrea that it faces “appropriate action” from the UN Security Council if it refuses to cooperate to resolve its border dispute with Djibouti peacefully.

US Ambassador to the UN Zalmay …

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Ethiopian journalists detained, charged over misidentification

NEW YORK – An Ethiopian editor is facing criminal charges today because she accidentally misidentified a judge in a high-profile trial, according to local journalists. Two other journalists have been in police custody since Monday because of the same …

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Sudanese security storms Woyanne diplomat’s home

KHARTOUM, SUDAN – Sudanese security agents stormed the home of an Ethiopian Woyanne diplomat in Khartoum and detained some of the attendees, a newspaper reported today.

The daily Al-Hayat newspaper published in London quoting unidentified diplomatic sources said that the …

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Journalists reporting Teddy Afro’s trial in Ethiopia arrested

ADDIS ABABA, ETHIOPIA – The publisher of Inbilta weekly newspaper in Addis Ababa, Wzt. Tsion Girma, and two journalists, Ato Habte Derese and Ato Atnafu Alemayehu, have been arrested yesterday for misidentifying the last name of the judge who is …

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Djibouti says it may need to go to war with Eritrea

EDITOR’S NOTE: This must be Joke of the Week. Djibouti’s government is run by khat-addict whores. They have no respect for international law. They have demonstrated their lawlessness by handing over 8 Ethiopian helicopter pilots — who sought political asylum

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VIDEO: TPDM concert, EPPF’s 9th year and Famine in Tigraye

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The slippery slop in Somalia

By Abukar Arman

In light of the development of several critical issues that include U.S. economic volatility and the new political direction it’s likely to turn towards, it’s not farfetched to predict that Washington-supported Ethiopian Woyanne occupation of Somalia will …

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Video: How Elias Kifle affected the outcome of U.S. election

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Nigerians, massive banking scam, with an Ethiopian twist

AFP

South Korean police said Thursday they had arrested three Nigerians for allegedly obtaining millions of dollars from Citibank with a forged document purportedly from Ethiopia’s central bank.

Police said the suspects were caught Monday in the Yongsan district of …

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Obama or McCain? First-time voter is”proud to be an America”

by Julia N. Opoti, Mshale

For Madin Dula, this election is different. The thought of casting her vote makes her smile. This is her third U.S. presidential election, but the first one in which she can vote.

Ten years ago, …

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Ethiopian Awareness Theater To Perform In Jamestown, Maryland

By Nicholas L. Dean
Jamestown Post Journal

JAMES TOWN, NEW YORK – In only three years, John McKay and the Awassa Youth Campus have accomplished ”a good amount” for youths in Ethiopia and the rest of Africa.

Formed initially as …

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Among those who already voted, Obama leads by 27 points

Zogby

UTICA, New York – Democrat Barack Obama moved very close to a double–digit lead over Republican John McCain in the national horserace for President, continuing his slow push forward above the 50% mark, gaining 1.3 points in the last …

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Reuters/C-SPAN/Zogby: Obama leads McCain by 10 points

By John Whitesides

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Democrat Barack Obama has expanded his national lead over Republican John McCain in the presidential race to 10 points, according to a Reuters/C-SPAN/Zogby poll released on Wednesday.

Obama leads McCain 52 percent to 42 …

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Profile: Lydia Asghedom – fashion model, champion wrestler

Lydia Asghedom is an Eritrean-Ethiopian fashion model currently residing and working in Germany. The following is Lydia in her own words:

Lydia Asghedom-Teshome: I was born and raised in Addis Abeba, Ethiopia. My mother is Eritrean-Ethiopan from Asmara and …

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Mulatu Astatke at the MIT, Thursday

The Ethio-jazz artist Mulatu Astatke will present a public talk titled “Ethiopian Contributions to the Development of World Music Instruments” at the Massachussettes Institute of Technology (MIT) on Thursday, Oct. 23, 2008.

The conversation is a result of his recently …

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