By Alemayehu G. Mariam
Teddy Afro in Zenawi’s Kangaroo Court
The great Tewodros Kassahun (Teddy Afro) is Zenawi’s most famous political prisoner in Ethiopia today. Zenawi jacked Teddy on bogus charges of vehicular manslaughter, failure to assist the injured and …
By Mammo Muchie, Network of Ethiopian Scholars (NES)
Ethiopia, Like Libya, Must Also Be Compensated for Colonial Crime Against It: Italy and Other Colonizers Must Pay!
It is not enough to apologize for slavery and colonial occupation by the …
By Rachel Pope
I was lucky enough to spend time with the physicians, nurses, and patients at the world-renowned fistula hospital this summer in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. A socially stigmatizing condition, an obstetric fistula is highly operable and in most …
Workers of the famous St. George Brewery in Ethiopia complain about unfair treatment by the management and head of their own labor union. The following report is sent to ER by Getabicha Anteneh from Addis Ababa.
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Heavy explosions have rattled the Somali capital, Mogadishu, leaving dozens of Ethiopian Woyanne troops dead and many others injured.
The blasts hit north Mogadishu’s Towfikh district, which drew heavy gunfire from Ethiopian Woyanne troops and anti-government fighters, killing dozens of …
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By Fareed Zakaria | NEWSWEEK
Many in Washington have described Russia’s attack on Georgia as a turning point in international affairs. Pundits thunder that we are returning to an age of great-power conflicts. Globalization and integration have been …
ADDIS ABABA (AFP) — The United Nations’ humanitarian chief John Holmes arrived in Ethiopia Monday to tour regions affected by drought, which has left some eight million people in need of urgent food aid.
Holmes will visit the country’s drought-hit …
By DAVID MUGABE, East African Business Week
KAMPALA, UGANDA-Ethiopian Airlines has been awarded “Corporate Achievement Award’ for its excellence in the airline industry through promotion of airline infrastructure and capacity development.
This award was recently given to Ethiopian Airlines in …
Opposition fighters in Somalia appear to have made a major comeback after being ousted by Somali government troops backed up by Ethiopian Woyanne forces last year.
The fighters and remnants of the Islamic Courts Union first took the key port …
Kenenisa Bekele, who completed a 5,000m and 10,000m double in Beijing, produced a storming final lap of his 3,000m race to win in a world-leading time and stadium record at the Aviva British Grand Prix in Gateshead on Sunday.
While …
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Some of these past photos of Sarah Palin are attracting the blogsphere’s attention. But Obama Campaign is advised not to focus on her, and instead point out …
Ethiopians in Washington DC held a protest rally on Friday, August 29, 2008, demanding freedom for popular artist Teddy Afro who is currently languishing in Ethiopia jail on trumped up charges.
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Approaching 9:35 pm in the Letzigrund Stadion on …
By Anne Szustek
Somali students comprise only 6 percent of the Minneapolis school system, but one-quarter of the children in the city’s early childhood autism programs. Health officials are baffled.
Somali Children in Minneapolis Racked with Autism
Rates of childhood …
BENGHAZI, Libya (AFP) — Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi on Saturday apologised to Libya for damage inflicted by Italy during the colonial era and signed a five-billion-dollar investment deal by way of compensation.
Berlusconi made the apology during a visit …
By Chris Turner, The IAAF
Zürich, Switzerland …
ZURICH (Reuters, Track Profile) – Ethiopia’s double Olympic champion Kenenisa Bekele improved on his gold medal performance in the 5,000 metres — setting a year’s best time of 12:50.18 — at the Weltklasse Golden League meeting in Zürich, Switzerland Friday …
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All who are concerned about the future of Ethiopia are invited to a symposium where civil leaders from different organizations will speak on the topic: “Where Do We Go From Here?”
Keynote Speaker: Donald Levine
Saturday, August 30, 2008…
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Ken Livingstone’s Venezuelan adventure follows in some surprising footsteps
By Graham Stewart
“A prophet is not without honour save in his own country,” as the electorally rejected will tell you. Unfortunately, the international transfer market that finds …
EDITOR’S NOTE: Mr Ohashi, next to Woyanne, you are one of the main troublemakers in Ethiopia who are financing a brutal, repressive regime that is terrorizing Ethiopians and plundering the country. It would be a big favor to the people …
Ginbot 7 Movement for Justice and Democracy has released its latest Amharic language newsletter, Voice of Ginbot 7 (Ginbot 7 Dimts), today.
The newsletter contains reports about the current rush by Woyanne government officials to move their money outside of …
Ethiopia’s hopes of reaching the next round of 2010 World Cup and Africa Cup of Nations qualifiers suffered a massive blow when Fifa cancelled their game with Morocco.
Morocco were due to travel to play Ethiopia for the game next …
(CPJ) — Reliable sources in the Ethiopian capital of Addis Ababa have informed CPJ this week that our site was inaccessible on the servers of the Ethiopian Telecommunications Corporation, the country’s official
…Watch below Alaska Governor Sarah Palin accepting her vice presidential nomination:
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi: “The selection of a vice presidential candidate is one of the most significant and telling decisions a presidential candidate can make. John McCain’s selection …
(Gallup) PRINCETON, NJ — The latest Gallup Poll Daily tracking finds Barack Obama moving to an eight percentage point lead over John McCain, 49% to 41%.
Obama’s significant lead over McCain almost certainly reflects the effects of the …
Friends and fans of Teddy Afro are organizing a protest rally in Washington DC to demand his release from jail.
Teddy (aka Tewodros Kassahun) is languishing in jail on a potentially fabricated charge of hit and run.
Last month, it …
(IAAF) Zürich, Switzerland – In Beijing last week, Ethiopia’s Kenenisa Bekele achieved a feat that even his great compatriot Haile Gebrselassie was …
EDITOR’S NOTE: As reports by Human Rights Watch and other rights groups indicate, many of these young girls will be abused and sexually exploited. There is no one to speak out for them. That is why the Saudis prefer Ethiopian …
EMF – Ginbot 7 Dimits Radio, a radio broadcast of Ginbot 7 Movement for Justice, Freedom and Democracy (G7) will start on Thursday, September 11, 2008 (Meskerem 1, 2001 Eth. Cal.), the Movement’s public relations officials told EMF.
September 11, …
By John C. Ensslin, Rocky Mountain News
DENVER — Barack Obama was the clear favorite among the majority of people dining at the Cafe Africana on East Colfax Avenue in Denver one night last week.
None of Ethiopian immigrants interviewed …
The world’s oldest running film festival opened Wednesday in the Italian coastal city of Venice with a screening of the Coen brothers film ‘Burn After Reading.’
The latest quirky film by the Academy Award winning brothers features Brad Pitt and …
While Somalia’s president and prime minister have been negotiating about how to work together, the opposition has been mobilising.
On Friday, fighters took over the key southern port city of Kismayo, after a week of fierce fighting with local clans …
ZURICH, SWITZERLAND — Kenenisa Bekele was philosophical about the lack of publicity given to his own brilliant Olympic double compared to the exploits of Usain Bolt.
Bekele 5,000 metres and 10,000 metres victories in the Bird Nest’s stadium in Beijing, …
EDITOR’S NOTE: This seems to be a drama orchestrated by Amare Aregawi’s own party, Woyanne. The company, Dashen Brewery, that sued Amare is owned by the ruling party, Woyanne. Even the car that transported him to Gondar is not a …
By Isaiah Thompson, citypaper.net
Last week, the Philadelphia office for U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) issued a proud statement to the press: Agents at a special mail facility in Philly had identified and seized 63 pounds of khat, a …
(AFP) — Foreign maids are dying each week in Lebanon often by committing suicide to escape bad treatment by their employers, the New York-based Human …
Thousands of cheering Ethiopians have lined the streets of the capital, Addis Ababa, to welcome home the country’s Olympic gold-medal winning athletes.
Ethiopian PM Meles Zenawi was at the airport to greet the team, led by Kenenisa Bekele and Tirunesh …
By Barney Jopson, Financial Times
ADDIS ABABA — Ethiopia Woyanne would be prepared to withdraw its troops from Somalia even if the interim government they were sent in to install 20 months ago were still not stable or functioning, the …
An unit of Ethiopian People’s Patriotic Front (EPPF) had carried out a military operation last night in city of Gondar. During the attack, a high level Woyanne security official named Ato Asemahegn Woldegebriel was hit several times with bullets and …
Meles Zenawi, the prime minister dictator who has led Ethiopia since the rebel movement he belonged to overthrew dictator Mengistu Haile Mariam in 1991, spoke to Barney Jopson, the U.K.-based Financial Times (FT) East Africa Correspondent, at his office in …
ADDIS ABABA (AFP) — The Ethiopian Olympic team arrived home to a hero’s welcome Wednesday, as thousands of ecstatic fans lined up the capital’s streets to greet the track stars.
The team, led by double gold medallists Kenenisa Bekele and …
NEW YORK — The Committee to Protect Journalists calls for the immediate release of Amare Aregawi, managing editor of the English- and Amharic-language newspaper Reporter, who has been detained since August 22 in northern Ethiopia.
Policemen from Ethiopia’s former capital …
ADDIS ABABA — The 10th east Africa police chiefs thugs cooperation organization (EAPCCO), annual meeting kicks off in the Ethiopian capital, Addis Ababa.
The meeting is discussing on ways of joint police cooperation to prevent from possible cross border crimes, …
Ethiopia roped in 108.3 million U.S. dollars from the export of khat, a locally grown ’refreshment’ herb, during the past ten months, Ethiopian Ministry of Trade and Industry officials announced on Monday.
Khat is mainly grown in eastern and southern …
The Ethiopian Community in Dallas, in association with Abyssinia Entertainment and Ahnam Production presents an extravagant night of music with the legendary artist Mahmoud Ahmed.
Also featuring Dereje Dubale, Eleni, Moges (sax), Mathias (keyboard), Alemeseged (bass), Tefere (drum), and DJ …
ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) Somalia’s President Abdullahi Yusuf and his prime minister signed a deal on Tuesday to work together after a weeks-long rift that threatened to wreck their interim government.
Yusuf fell out with Prime Minister Nur Hassan Hussein earlier …
Reporters Without Borders (RSF) is dismayed to learn that Amare Aregawi, the editor of the big-circulation weekly Reporter, was arrested on 22 August in Addis Ababa and was then illegally transferred to a prison in Gondar, 750 km north of …
By Alemayehu G. Mariam
The Sisterhood of Misfortune
Pakistan and Ethiopia are sisters in misfortune. First, for much of their modern political history, they have been the playgrounds of autocrats and tinhorn dictators. For over one-half of its 61 year …
RENO, NEVADA — The Ministry of Mines and Energy (“MME”) and Titan Resources Corporation (“Titan”), a US-based oil and gas energy company chaired by Nelson “Bunker” Hunt, signed two separate Production Sharing Agreements covering acreage in the Ogaden and Abay …
EthiopianReview.com holds a discussion with Ethiopian People’s Patriotic Front (EPPF), Ato Meazaw Getu, who is currently in Asmara on a working visit.
The discussion includes EPPF’s current activities, recent organizational restructuring, cooperation with other opposition parties, relation with the government …
By ER reader
What a beautiful joy to see our athletes wining their race and representing our Ethiopia in the international venues such as Beijing where the world is focusing for the last two weeks, their effort s presented to …
By Rajeev K, DH News Service
BEIJING — Kenenisa Bekele won the 5000M gold medal to add to the 10000M gold he won last Sunday, becoming the first in 28 years to achieve the long distance double…
Despite his string …
(Aqumada) — The Ethiopian team has been somewhat disappointing. The ‘usual suspects’, Keneinsa Bekele and Tirunesh Dibaba have won gold in their specialties. Seleshi Sihine, as usual, has taken the silver in the 10k. Although not the color …
By BOB BAUM
BEIJING (AP) — Samuel Wanjiru already had made a name for himself in the heady world of Kenyan distance running. Now he stands alone.
He pulled away over the final few miles Sunday to become the first …
Tirunesh Dibaba had modest ambitions when she arrived in Beijing she just wanted to compete well in her two events here…
But then, in Dibaba’s parlance, competing well simply means winning well. The …
(fiftyeight.net) — It was a great spontaneous Ethiopian “Fanfest”. Drivers of trucks, buses and private vehicles joined pedestrians and local residents in cheering their national hero. Traffic came to a complete standstill when hundreds of people gathered at …
Aides Say Obama Chose a Partner in Leadership
By JEFF ZELENY and JIM RUTENBERG, The New York Times
WASHINGTON — In the beginning, Senator Barack Obama was not entirely sold on Senator Joseph R. Biden Jr. And Mr. Biden told …
Thank you Meseret and all Ethiopian athletes for representing your country well in the Olympics despite all the hardships of living under a fascist regime. …
The 26-year-old, who retained
…Ethiopia’s Kenenisa Bekele crushed the opposition as he cruised to 5,000m gold on Saturday, adding to the 10,000m title he won eight days ago.
Bekele led all the way and sprinted to a new Olympic record time of 12 min …
Kenenisa Bekele. Call him the emperor, call him the King. Maybe just call him magnificent. Magnificent Bekele was in the Bird’s Nest stadium Saturday, winning the 5000 metres in an Olympic record 12 minutes 57.82 seconds to become the first …
By Omulo Okoth, (The Standard) —
Another titanic battle is on the cards Saturday
BEIJING — National champion Edwin Soi is the man billed to stop Ethiopia’s …
(roocha.net) — This race is not getting the same level or hype as the Women’s 5000. Had Legat won the 1,500, the hype around this race would be incredible. Nonetheless, it should be a thrilling and wide open …
EDITOR’S NOTE: Just two days ago, Woyanne foreign minister Seyoum Mesfin was telling the media that the insurgents “had been critically weakened.” He said: “They cannot sustain their own activities, let alone disband the government.”
MOGADISHU (AFP) — Somali …
By Tedla Asfaw
The Beijing Bird’s Nest was rattled tonight and the push and shove seemed an incentive for Ethiopian athletes to let the birds fly. Into the 14th minutes of the 5,000m it all became obvious who are going …
By JERÉ LONGMAN, The New York Times
BEIJING — The women’s 5,000 meters has become less of an open race than a personal tug of war between Ethiopia’s Tirunesh Dibaba and Meseret Defar.
The women are neither enemies nor friends, …
Ethiopia’s Tiruneh Dibaba, Meseret Defer, and Turkey’s Ethiopian-born Elvan Abeylegesse sweep the women’s 5,000 meter race in Beijing today. Watch the thrilling race on video below.
(AFP) BEIJING – Ethiopia’s Tirunesh Dibaba produced another astonishingly fast …
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Three rivers in the Gambella region of western Ethiopia have burst their banks following torrential rains that fell in the area for three consecutive days, government officials in the area said.
“We have not yet finalised our assessment, however, an …
(The Sydney Morning Herald) — Kenenisa Bekele and Haile Gebrselassie may not yet have quite settled the issue as to who is the current emperor of Ethiopian distance running; but the matter of who is the empress is …
BEIJING (AP) — Tirunesh Dibaba of Ethiopia has won the 5,000 meters to complete an unprecedented women’s Olympic distance double.
Tirunesh, the world record-holder, won the 5,000-meter race in 15 minutes, 41.40 seconds on Friday night. It’s her second gold …
BEIJING (AP) — Tirunesh Dibaba of Ethiopia has won the 5,000 meters to complete an unprecedented women’s Olympic distance double.
Watch video here.
Tirunesh, the world record-holder, won the 5,000-meter race in 15 minutes, 41.40 seconds on Friday night. It’s …
New York (Tadias) – Wow, what an event! On Wednesday (Aug. 20) evening, Damrosch’s Park was packed with Ethiopiques enthusiasts and curious New Yorkers who were treated to an astonishing concert of fusion rock, jazz and Ethiopian music. …
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Come and be entertained, inspired and support as we look back the 8th year of achievement and beyond.
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By C. Bryson Hull, Reuters
NEAR ISIOLO, Kenya — After a century of broken promises, a paved road linking Kenya to Ethiopia is no longer a mirage for a desert region choked by remoteness.
Hurling up a cloud of blinding …
Olympic return
Sileshi Sihine of Ethiopia will make his second career Olympic appearance in Beijing this summer, where he figures to contend for gold medals in both distance races. At the 2004 Olympics in Athens, Sihine won a silver medal …
By Catherine Bremer
BEIJING (Reuters) – Ethiopia’s Olympic champion distance runner Kenenisa Bekele has left his actress wife at home to avoid any distractions as he seeks double gold in Beijing.
Bekele, who generated one of the biggest roars yet …
Photos by heartonastick
LINCOLN CENTER, NEW YORK — Well, we here at the station are still riding on the high of WFMU’s broadcast from Damrosch Park last …
(civicus.org) — Under a draft law, Ethiopia could see severe restrictions on civil society and even closures of organisations working on contentious issues, such as human rights and governance, cautions CIVICUS: World Alliance for Citizen Participation in a …
BEIJING (Reuters) — Defending champion Meseret Defar, 10,000 metres winner Tirunesh Dibaba and African champion Meselech Melkamu are bidding for an Ethiopian sweep of the medals in the Olympic women’s 5000 final tomorrow.
”We’ve done good preparation and we came …
MOGADISHU, Somalia (CNN) — Heavy shelling struck Somalia’s capital city on Thursday, leaving pools of blood around a neighborhood mosque, a devastated market and 11 civilians dead, according to witnesses and a local journalist.
Many of the dead …
By Jason McLure, Bloomberg
Titan Resources Corp., owned by U.S. billionaire Nelson Bunker Hunt, won agreements to explore two areas in Ethiopia for oil and gas, the Mines Ministry said.
The Dallas, Texas-based company will invest as much as $60 …
By Barney Jopson, Financial Times
Ethiopia Woyanne has expressed frustration with “internal squabbles” within the Somali government, as Addis Ababa hosted talks between the country’s president and prime minister in an attempt to heal the rift between them.
Thousands of …
MOGADISHU (AFP) — Somali insurgents attacked the president’s residence in Mogadishu on Thursday, sparking fierce exchanges with Ethiopian Woyanne and government forces in which six civilians were killed, witnesses said.
Two mortar shells landed in the compound of President Abdullahi …
Meles Zenawi, the prime minister of Ethiopia the butcher of East Africa, is also enthusiastic. After welcoming a Saudi agriculture delegation two weeks ago, he said: “We told them [the Saudis] that we would be very eager to provide hundreds …
(Roocha.net) — Unlike the men, two qualification heats (heats and semi-finals), the women have to pass though just one qualification heat. Ethiopia had entered four runners (three runners and an alternate) but just two will be running in …
(EMF) — Ginbot 7 Movement for Justice, Freedom and Democracy (Ginbot 7) is about to launch a fund raising campaign, its public relation official told EMF. According to the official, the fund will be used to carryout opposition …
BEIJING — Matthew Tegenkamp of the United States has run the fastest time in the preliminary round of the Men’s 5000m at the National Stadium.
Tegenkamp’s time of 13:37.36 minutes put him ahead of Kenya’s Eliud Kipchoge at 13:37.50 and …
BEIJING (AFP) — Ethiopian Kenenisa Bekele on Wednesday cruised into the final of the men’s Olympic 5000 metres to keep his bid for an elusive long-distance running double on course.
Bekele finished third in his heat and advanced to Friday’s …
(Doctors Without Borders) — Mumishene was not yet two years old. The doctors in the intensive nutrition center at Shinshicho had struggled long and hard, even resuscitating him several times. But on a Sunday morning, as day broke, …
By Getachew Teklemariam Alemu, PM Forum
ADDIS ABABA — The biggest solar power project in East Africa, which is being implemented by a German Solar Energy Foundation, is achieving its milestones by installing 2,000 solar systems in/around Rema village in …
MOGADISHU (Xinhua) — Fourteen people including four Ethiopian soldiers Woyanne mercenaries were killed and 20 others wounded on Wednesday in separate clashes between insurgents and Somali government forces and foreign forces in south and central Somalia, witnesses and …
ADDIS ABABA (IRIN) — Bellissima, on bustling Gabon Street in the Ethiopian capital, Addis Ababa, could be just another upmarket café, except that each order comes with a packet of ‘Sensation’ …
By Miriam Jordan, The Wall Street Journal
The State Department has suspended a humanitarian program to reunite thousands of African refugees with relatives in the U.S. after unprecedented DNA testing by the government revealed widespread fraud.
The freeze affects refugees …
Nokia is customising a range of handsets, including some 3G models for the Ethiopian market by adding Ethiopic text capabilities to their phones. BravoCom, the local distributor for Nokia has ordered the handsets following a surge in sales of PrePay …
GENEVA (AFP) — The Red Cross on Wednesday revised its emergency appeal for Ethiopia to five million euros (7.9 million dollars) as the situation in the drought-hit south of the country got worse.
“Over the past two months the situation …
By Javier Blas, Financial Times
The race by food-importing countries to secure farmland overseas to improve their food security risks creating a “neo-colonial” system, the United Nations’ top agriculture official has cautioned.
The warning by Jacques Diouf, director-general of the …
By Elshadai Negash, Runners World
A day after the women’s 5000m semi-finals, Ethiopia’s defending Olympic and world champion Meseret Defar and the country’s world record holder Tirunesh Dibaba both say they are still very tired. Dibaba has run two races …