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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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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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 …
By LIZ ROBBINS, The New York Times
One year the marathon fates can be charitable, the next year, crushing. Such …
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 …
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 …
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, …
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 …
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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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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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. …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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…
Tag: Ethiopia, Balageru…
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 …
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 …
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 …
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. …
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 …
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.…
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
Amazing mathematical imagery by Virginia State University professor Dejenie Lakew, a native of Ethiopia.
See more images here.
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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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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, …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
ADDIS ABABA, ETHIOPIA – The United States denied Tuesday accusations that its officers tortured terror suspects detained in Ethiopian jails after Ethiopia’s 2006 invasion of …
Senior official of the Ethiopian People Patriotic Front’s (EPPF) International Council, Ato Sileshi Tilahun, has returned to Asmara after visiting the freedom fighters and their commanders in the field.
Ato Sileshi held talks with EPPF commander Meazaw Getu and several …
BANGALORE, INDIA – Karuturi Global, a Bangalore-based floriculture company, has enteretd into agriculture business in Ethiopia. The company will engage in cultivation of maize, rice, vegetables and other commercial crops in 11,700 acres of land in Bako area of Ethiopia.…
Source: news.balita
MOSCOW, Oct. 22 — Russia has been ranked 141 out of 173 countries in the 2008 press freedom index published on Wednesday by the international organization Reporters Without Borders.
The report’s authors say the Russian media “continues to …
Source: APA
At least eight Kenyan Somalis have been killed in renewed fighting between two Somali clans in and outside the north-eastern Kenyan city of Mandera bordering Somalia early on Wednesday morning, a source from Mandera told APA in Mogadishu.…
Source African News
Inflation in most East African countries is said to be rising this year. In Ethiopia it moved from 33.6 % in August to37.2 % in September; In Kenya from 27.6% in August 2008 to 28.2% in September …
PRINCETON, NJ — Barack Obama maintains a lead over John McCain in the latest Gallup Poll Daily tracking update from Saturday through Monday; the size of the lead varies between seven and 10 percentage points among likely voters, depending on …
By MICHAEL BARONE
The Wall Street Journal
Can we trust the polls this year? That’s a question many people have been asking as we approach the end of this long, long presidential campaign. As a recovering pollster and continuing poll …
The top U.S. official for human rights and democracy issues has met Ethiopia’s TPLF leaders to express concern about pending legislation that critics say would curtail political freedoms. VOA’s Peter Heinlein in Addis Ababa reports Ethiopian…
Somalia’s opposition leader, Sheikh Sharif Sheikh Ahmed, has declared that he is “hopeful” about the successful signing of a final peace agreement with the country’s Ethiopian Woyanne-backed interim government.
Speaking in Yemen, the chairman of the Alliance for …
GENEVA (Reuters) – The U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) is seeking clarifications from Yemen over a decision to bar Ethiopian and Eritrean refugees from entering the country, a spokesman said on Tuesday.
The UNHCR also said it was concerned …
A Pentagon official overseeing the Guantanamo war crimes court dismissed all pending charges against five prisoners on Tuesday, including a British resident accused in a radioactive “dirty bomb” plot.
The Defense Department gave no reason for the action and …
POUGHKEEPSIE, NEW YORK. – Marist High School senior Girma Segni (Bronx, N.Y.) was named the Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference Men’s Cross Country Co-Runner of the Week on Monday afternoon. This marks the second time Segni has been given the honor …
GENEVA – Yemen may move to deny entry to people from Ethiopia and Eritrea, after having recently detained 87 Ethiopians who reached the country after a perilous journey across the Gulf of Aden, the United Nations (UN) said today.…
by Selam Retta, Tsehainy.com
Donkey vs. Elephant” “Democrat vs. Republicans” “Socialism vs. Capitalism” “Free Market vs. Big Government”
Free Market? The only time that ever came close to existence is probably during the early stage of this nation’s founder’s time. …
WASHINGTON (AFP) — As millions of Americans gear to vote in the thrilling 2008 White House race, experts are warning that the expected huge turnout could strain the voting system, triggering an electoral meltdown.
With just over two weeks to …
In Georgia, Florida and many other states, voting has already started. So those of you who can vote, don’t wait until Nov. 4 and get stuck in long lines. Go out and cast your vote today. The following is a …
By Mark J. Penn
The presidential campaign’s homestretch is looking a lot more like President Bill Clinton’s 1996 solid reelection over Republican nominee Bob Dole than like Ronald Reagan’s late-breaking 1980 landslide over incumbent Democratic President Jimmy Carter. Democratic standard-bearer …
by Matt Brown, The National
NAIROBI // Nestled somewhere among the green hillsides of Addis Ababa, Ethiopia’s capital, is a cluster of small detention centres, where detainees have languished for almost two years without being charged.
The detention centres are …
The Tallahassee Democrat‘s editorial-board endorsements
Nina Ashenafi Richardson
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Leon County Court, Seat 5
Nina Ashenafi Richardson, a native of Ethiopia, has the edge over challenger Sean Desmond in this nonpartisan judicial contest primarily because of her extensive volunteer and …
SANTA MONICA, CALIFORNIA – In a thrilling finish down Santa Monica’s Ocean Avenue, San Luis Obispo based runner Phillip Reid successfully held off Christian Hesch from Morro Bay to win the Los Angeles Sports and Fitness (LAS&F) Invitational …
By Muluken Yewondwossen, Capital
The Federal High Court, 8th Criminal Bench adjourned the case of Tewodros Kassahun a.k.a ‘Teddy Afro’ until Monday November 3, 2008 for a final verdict.
After his lawyer Million Assefa completed presenting witnesses and documents in …
Addis Fortune
By Wudineh Zenebe
ADDIS ABABA, ETHIOPIA – The management of the Ethiopian Airlines (Ethiopian) is in the process of acquiring a state-of-the-art information technology (IT) system, at a budgeted cost of 30 million dollars, reliable sources disclosed to …
ADDIS ABABA, ETHIOPIA (APA) – Cybercafés in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia are using the picture of US presidential candidate, Barack Obama, on their adverts to encourage Ethiopians to register for the 2009 US Diversity Visa (DV) Lottery or Green …
PRINCETON, NJ
Gallup Poll Daily tracking from Friday through Sunday gives Barack Obama an 11 percentage point lead over John McCain in the presidential vote preferences of all registered voters, 52% to 41%.
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Ethiopians in Washington DC will hold a rally in Washington DC at the State Department on Oct. 24, 2008, to protest the atrocities and war crimes that are being committed against the people of Ethiopia by the regime of Tigrean …
After spending eight years behind bars in Ethiopian jails for presumed links with the terrorist Al Qaeda network, eight Kenyans speak out about their terrible ordeal.
After being secretly detained in Ethiopia for more than one year, …
Angelina Jolie is said to be planning to adopt another child in the New Year.
The actress, who gave birth to Knox Leon and Vivienne Marcheline in July, is thought to be keen to give a home to an …
An engineer working for the UN in Somalia has died in the latest of a series of assassination-style killings of aid workers.
The Somali official, employed by UN childrens’ fund, Unicef, was shot several times in the head …
By Alemayehu G. Mariam
Modernizing savagery?
This past week an official report on riot control entitled “Modernizing Internal Security in Ethiopia” was posted online.[1] The report, prepared for the ruling regime in Ethiopia in July 2008 by retired British colonel …
Ethiopian Community Television in Amsterdam interviews Judge WoldeMikael Meshesha on the trumped up charges against Ethiopia’s popular singer Tewodros Kassahun (Teddy Afro).
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The stone huts of Deir al Sultan monastery in Jerusalem are at the heart of the row between Ethiopia and Egypt[Photo: BBC]JERUSALEM, ISRAEL – The centuries-old site, where many Christians believe Jesus was crucified, is visited by …
MOGADISHU (Xinhua) – Hussein Mohamed Hubsired, spokesman for the Somali president, has strongly denied media reports of a political rift within Somali and Ethiopian leaders over the future of the war-torn Horn of Africa nation, a press release said Sunday.…
ADDIS ABABA, ETHIOPIA (APA) – Ethiopia will host this year Africa Zone 5 basketball club championships billed for October 28 to November 1 , organizer said here.
According to the Ethiopian Basketball Federation (EBF), the championships will bring …
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(MSNBC) WASHINGTON – Former Secretary of State Colin Powell endorsed Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., for president on Sunday, criticizing his own Republican Party for what he called its narrow focus on irrelevant personal attacks over a serious …
By Carrie Budoff Brown
Politico.com
ST. LOUIS, MO – Casting the tax debate as a “values” issue Saturday, Barack Obama said John McCain was “out-of-touch” for equating the Illinois senator’s plan to cut taxes for middle class families with welfare.…
By Sarah Baxter
TIMES ONLINE
ROANOKE, VIRGINIA – With the economy on the brink of recession and the country in the midst of two foreign wars, Barack Obama is considering appointing a cabinet of stars to steer America through potentially …
By Scott A Morgan
There are Indications that the US Military is not even sure about which part of its Command Structure will take the lead in Fighting the Piracy in Somalia. For the Time Being it will be CENTCOM …
Patrick Richardson heads to Ethiopia in search of the Ark of the Covenant
By Patrick Richardson
TIMES ONLINE
About 500 miles north of Addis Ababa, in the province of Tigray, is the dusty overgrown village of Aksum. And at the …