Monthly Archives: February 2009

‘Moto menesat’ – a harrowing experience of Ethiopian pilot

This is a sad story about an Ethiopian Air Force officer, Captain Teshome Tenkolu, who was forced to spend two years in underground jails by the regime of the Tigrean Peoples Liberation Front (Woyanne). When he was released after …

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Ethiopian man arrested for sending infected blood to Obama

CHICAGO, USA (The Cleveland Leader) – A Chicago man has been arrested for allegedly sending President Barack Obama and his staff envelopes containing HIV-infected blood in the hopes of killing or causing harm to them. A spokesman for …

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U.S. Department of States Human Rights report on Ethiopia

United States Department of States
Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor
2008 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices

Released on February 25, 2009

Ethiopia is a federal republic led by Prime Minister Meles Zenawi and the ruling Ethiopian People’s …

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2 Ethiopian shopkeepers killed in South Africa

By Francis Hweshe | Cape Argus

Cape Town, SOUTH AFRICA – TWO foreign shopkeepers, both immigrants from Ethiopia, have been killed in their store in Milnerton, a suburb of Cape Town. The robbers took the fruit and fled when they …

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The individual on Judge Bertukan

By Yilma Bekele

This is the second part of my series on the Ethiopian Prime Ministers Interview with local and international reporters. The Interviews took two hours with the local reporters and an hour and half with the foreign press. …

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Livestock in Ethiopia lowlands decimated by climate-change

By Alex Wynter | IFRC

Dhuko, Oromiya, Ethiopia – The numbers of livestock held by southern pastoralist families have fallen drastically over the past two decades as animals die from disease induced by climate change and the severe drought it …

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Thousands flee ethnic clashes in southern Ethiopia – BBC

(BBC) – Tens of thousands of people have reportedly fled their homes as a result of fighting between rival groups in a remote part of southern Ethiopia.

The BBC’s Elizabeth Blunt says 300 people may have been killed …

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The ‘green famine’ of southern Ethiopia: Myth or Real?

By Tegga Lendado

This article is dedicated to the victims of the recent drought, disease, malnutrition, famine, and others who are facing premature death in Southern Ethiopia. The purpose is to induce rational, religious and humanitarian response with its readers. …

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Russian companies to showcase goods at Ethiopia trade fare

By Kester Kenn Klomegah

MOSCOW (IPS) – When the 13th Addis Ababa International Trade Fair officially opens tomorrow, the Russian trade delegation hopes to make its presence felt with participating industrial companies and business enterprises.

About 50 Russian …

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Negash Mosque proposed as UNESCO's World Heritage Site

By International Islamic News Agency

Addis Ababa – Ethiopia launches activities to make Africa’s first mosque -Al Nejashi Mosque – as a tourist destination and a world heritage site by UNESCO in the coming few years. The Ethiopian Ministry of …

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Kenyan police accused of widespread extrajudicial killings

EDITOR’S NOTE: Investigations would reveal that there is far more extrajudicial killing by Meles Zenawi’s security agents in Ethiopia. Last month, for example, several bodies were seen inside the Ethiopian Federal Police detention center (Maikelawi), when a building came down

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Ethiopian judge joins EPPF freedom fighters

An Ethiopian judge from south Gondar region of Ethiopia, Ato Abuye Ayalew, has joined the Ethiopian People’s Patriotic Front (EPPF) earlier this month, according to EPPF sources.

While he was still in Ethiopia working as a judge, Abuye Ayalw had …

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Ethiopia’s export to the U.S. rose to $152 million

EDITOR’S NOTE: Most of the exporting is being done by companies that are owned by the Meles crime family, including his wife Azeb Mesfin. The money stays in the U.S. and Ethiopia gets no benefit.

ADDIS ABABA, ETHIOPIA (Reuters) – …

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Food aid to Ethiopia caught up in Djibouti port

EDITOR’S NOTE: The stupid regime in Ethiopia yesterday asked for $400 million in emergency food aid, and yet it cannot even get delivery of food aid caught up in the Djibouti port.

ADDIS ABABA, ETHIOPIA (PANA) – Ethiopian authorities said …

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Ethiopia's regime appeals for food aid to feed 4.9m people

ADDIS ABABA, ETHIOPIA (PANA) – Ethiopia, battered by the effects of climate change and exceeding national hunger, launched an appeal on Tuesday for some 4.9 million people on the verge of starvation. State Minister for Agriculture Mitiku Kassa said the …

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The destruction of Ethiopia’s Lake Koka

By Tedla Asfaw

The Koka Lake I know has turned green thanks to the chemicals damped into the lake. Fertilizers, Nitrogen, Potassium and Phosphorus heavily used to grow commercial flowers and the untreated water from factories surrounding Addis Ababa are …

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Video: Woyanne’s destruction of Lake Koka

Part 1 (see Part 2 below)

Part 2

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AigaForum vs Obang Metho: Is there racism in Ethiopia?

By Obang Metho

On the morning of February 4, an Ethiopian friend called me and asked, “Did you know you were on AigaForum?” (For those readers not familiar with AigaForum, it is well known to Ethiopians as being the EPRDF …

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FIFA to receive a report on Ethiopian football dispute

Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (FIFA.com) – FIFA’s Executive Committee will receive a report on Ethiopian football next month, following a joint FIFA/CAF mission to East Africa between 17-18 February. The Ethiopian Football Federation (EFF) is currently suspended from all FIFA and …

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There are 275,000 Ethiopians registered as living in Yemen

Yemen (Yemen Times) – The rich but under-explored history between Yemen and Ethiopia dates back to ancient times. Cultural relations between two countries can be traced back to the birth of the Aksum Kingdom in Ethiopia as an extension of …

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Smugglers forced 17 Ethiopians and Somalis to drown

(CNN) — Smugglers carrying a boatload of migrants forced their passengers to jump overboard in deep water off the coast of Yemen, causing up to 17 to drown, the United Nations said Tuesday.

The 52 Somali and Ethiopian passengers in …

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Who Is Binyam Mohamed?

By Andy Worthington

As British resident (and Ethiopian-born) Binyam Mohamed stepped off a plane at RAF Northolt on Monday February 23, six years and ten months since he was first abducted by the Pakistani authorities at Karachi airport, it was …

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ICC to decide on arrest warrant for Sudan’s president

(The Daily Nation) – The International Criminal Court in The Hague will announce on March 4 whether it will issue an arrest warrant for Sudan’s president, Omar Hassan al-Bashir, for genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes in …

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Ethiopian-born Guantanamo detainee freed

By PAISLEY DODDS

LONDON (AP) — A former British resident who claims he was brutally tortured at a covert CIA site in Morocco has been freed from Guantanamo after nearly seven years in U.S. captivity — an ordeal that could …

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Ethiopian Airlines cuts flights to U.S. and China

ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) – Ethiopian Airlines said on Monday it was cutting flights to the United States and China as the global financial crisis hit passenger numbers.

Girma Wake, chief executive officer of the airline — one of Africa’s leading …

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Wiring Ethiopian Diaspora through civic dialogue

By Alemayehu G. Mariam

Seeking Paths to Ethiopian Diaspora Dialogue and Consultations (wu-yi-yit and me me-ka-ker)

At the beginning of the year, we pledged to help initiate and sustain an Ethiopian Diaspora dialogue and consultation process with the aim of …

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Wude Ayalew's shock at Ethiopia's World Cross Country trials

Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (IAAF) – African 10,000m bronze medallist Wude Ayalew’s shock defeat of cross country specialists Gelete Burka and Meselech Melkamu in the senior women’s 8km was the highlight of the 26th Jan Meda International Cross Country — Ethiopia’s …

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Newspaper editor disappeared in Ethiopia

ADDIS ABABA, ETHIOPIA – Editor of Harambe Newspaper, Wosenseged Gebrekidan, who was sent to Kality prison last week, Feb. 19, has disappeared and his family is unable to locate him in any of the Addis Ababa and Federal prisons.

Wosenseged …

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Meles Zenawi and his interview

By Yilma Bekele

Most of you know that Ato Meles Zenawi has recently granted two interviews. We have all read the twenty-second sound bites offered by the media. In the interest of fairness to the interviewee and his subjects, I …

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Obama approach to democracy-building troubling

A Quieter Approach to Spreading Democracy Abroad?

By PETER BAKER | The New York Times

WASHINGTON — Fresh from orchestrating a historic victory, President Obama’s campaign manager, David Plouffe, headed to the remote seaside town of Baku for a lucrative …

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Music video courtesy of Gebru, Seye and Birtukan

This can be a good propaganda song for the new tribalist party that has just been formed by Gebru, Seye, Beyene and Birtukan’s UDJ to participate in the 2010 fake elections. Despite what the singer is saying, Ethiopians are forced …

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Video: Ethiopian residents in UK vow to support EPPF forces

ONLF Fighters put out of action 289 Woyane Soldiers, Ethiopian residents in UK vow to support EPPF forces, and other news. Watch below:

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Ethiopian-born Guantanamo prisoner's health fragile after hunger strike

By Rosa Prince | Telegraph.co.uk

In a statement, David Miliband, the Foreign Secretary, revealed that a team of officials will accompany the doctor to prepare for the Ethiopian-born former British resident’s return to the UK.

Britain is seeking to secure …

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Sudanese oil company breaks in to Ethiopian market

By Tesfa-alem Tekle | Sudan Tribune

ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia — A Sudan based petroleum company has penetrated to Ethiopian oil market to start operation on lubricants, fuel distribution and to provide related service in the country

Wadi Alsundus Petroleum Co, …

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Kia Motors announces donation of a mobile clinic in Ethiopia


NEW YORK, USA (AVING) – Kia Motors announced today the donation of a mobile clinic in Ethiopia, one of the world’s least developed countries, as a means to help improve maternal and infant health. According to current Ethiopian health data, …

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Eritrea rejects mediation on Ethiopia border row

NAIROBI (Reuters) – Eritrean President Isaias Afwerki has rejected any effort to mediate a border dispute with Ethiopia’s tribalist regime led by Meles Zenawi (Woyanne), calling it a “wicked ploy”, state media said on Saturday.

Last week, Ethiopia’s dictator Meles …

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Ethiopia's regime urged Japan to lift ban on coffee imports

By Jason McLure and Ichiro Suzuki | Bloomberg

Ethiopia’s tribalist dictatorship urged Japan to lift a ban on imports of its coffee, saying the Horn of Africa country has taken measures to prevent pesticide contamination that led Japan to halt …

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Exhibition of Elias Sime's works in Los Angeles

By KCET Local Events

The first survey exhibition in the United States of one of Ethiopia’s most original and prolific contemporary artists. The exhibition, co-curated by Meskerem Assegued, a revered Ethiopian curator and anthropologist, and visionary theater, opera, and multi-disciplinary …

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Meseret Defar's redemption for Beijing and Stuttgart


When Ethiopia’s Meseret Defar smashed the World indoor 5000m record* on Wednesday, Feb. 18, 2009, running 14:24.37 in Stockholm, it confirmed a stellar start to the year after a 2008 that saw her lose both her outdoor World record and …

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Arrest in fraudulent takeover of Ethiopia’s Citibank account

PRESS RELEASE
U.S. Department of Justice
United States Attorney Southern District of New York
FEBRUARY 20 , 2009

LEV L. DASSIN, United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and JOSEPH M. DEMAREST, JR., the Assistant Director-in-Charge of …

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Nigerian accused in scheme to swindle Ethiopian bank

EDITOR’S NOTE: Ethiopia’s dictator Meles Zenawi and wife Azeb Mesfin should also be arrested and charged with looting the country’s national treasure.

By BENJAMIN WEISER | The New York Times

Swindles in which someone overseas seeks access to a person’s …

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ONLF fighters killed 140 Woyanne troops

ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia (AFP)–Clashes have broken out in the restive Ethiopian region of Ogaden, with rebels saying Friday they have killed 140 government troops and allied militia fighters.

The Ethiopian government Woyanne tribalist regime in Ethiopia disputed the claims from …

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6 fake opposition parties form alliance in Ethiopia

By Barry Malone

ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) – Six [fake] Ethiopian opposition parties formed an alliance on Thursday and accused the government of clamping down on dissent ahead of parliamentary elections next year.

[All this is orchestrated by the American embassy …

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Most Africans are grateful to George W. Bush

By Zarina Fazaldin | Richmond Times-Dispatch

I am Kenyan-born and was raised in Tanzania, which is — with a population of about 35 million — the thirdlargest country in the world at risk of malaria. Malaria, a mosquito-borne disease, is …

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Former insurgents take control of Mogadishu checkpoints

By Derek Kilner | VOA

Troops from the Islamic Courts Union, a former insurgent group that now backs Somalia’s new president, have taken over control of checkpoints in the capital Mogadishu from government soldiers. The development comes as Ethiopian Woyanne …

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Ethiopia's Dire Tune and Deribe Merga will run the Boston Marathon on April 20

By David Monti | Race Results Weekly

Organizers of the Boston Marathon announced today that they have completed their elite fields for the 113th edition of the race scheduled for Monday, April 20.

In addition to defending champions, Robert Kipkoech …

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Tesfaye Gebreab’s The Journalist’s Memoir available online

The genuine version of YeGazetegnaw Mastawesha (The Journalist’s Memoir) by Tesfaye Gebreab is now available online. To order, write to Selama Distribution at [email protected] or click here here.

In Atlanta, it is available at Merkato Ethiopian Grocery.
MERKATO MARKET, …

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Newspaper editor, unable to post bail, sent to prison

ADDIS ABABA, ETHIOPIA – Harambe Newspaper editor Wosenseged GebreKidan has been taken to the notorious Kality prison today after he told the court that he doesn’t have 3,000 birr to pay for bail.

The U.S.-financed regime in Ethiopia has brought …

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Ethiopia’s dictatorship says it will not free telecoms, banking

EDITOR’S NOTE: The only reason the vampire regime in Ethiopia will not liberalize the telecom industry is that it wants to limit the people’s access to information.

By Jason McLure | Bloomberg

Ethiopia’s tribalist dictatorship will pursue membership of the …

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Bashir vs. the International Criminal Court

By Paulos Milkias

Crimes against international law are committed by men, not by abstract entities, and only by punishing individuals who commit such crimes can the provision of international law be enforced.” – World War II Nuremberg Tribunal

Darfur …

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Seattle shows little love for Ethiopia's Lucy fossil exhibit

SEATTLE (AP) – Who loves Lucy? Far fewer people than a Seattle science center hoped when officials paid millions to show the fossil remains of one of the earliest known human ancestors.

Halfway through the five-month exhibit, the Pacific Science …

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Ethiopia's Bekana Daba wins Men's 3k at Reebox Games

By Elliott Denman | The Oregonian

BOSTON – Designated pacesetter Haron Lagat pulled the nine-man 3,000-meter field through a 1:01.7 opening 800, a 2:01.7 800, and a 2:34.3 kilometer with Rupp tucked back safely in fourth. Another “rabbit,” Solomon Kandie, …

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Meseret Defar captures 5k World Indoor Record in Stockholm

Ethiopia’s superstar distance runner Meseret Defar, who lost her 5000m world record to Tirunesh Dibaba last summer, evened the score tonight (Feb. 18, 2009) at the GE Galan meeting at the Ericsson Globe Arena in Stockholm, clocking a new world …

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EU should not tolerate Ethiopian regime's repression

By Lotte Leicht |European Voice

The EU should have condemned one of world’s worst laws on NGOs. Instead, it gave Ethiopia €250 million.

On 30 January, European Union policymakers sent a clear signal to Ethiopia: no matter how repressive …

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Woyanne troops re-enter Somalia

BIADOA, Somalia (Xinhua) — Heavily armed Ethiopian Woyanne troops have entered a district in south Somalia nearly a month after the troops left the war-torn country, witnesses said Wednesday.

Villagers in the southern Bakool region say the troops have crossed …

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For Ethiopian artist Elias Sime, every object tells a story

The Santa Monica Museum of Art surveys an Ethiopian artist who ‘takes you into this micro-universe of intense experience.’

By Scarlet Cheng | Los Angeles Times

The main gallery space at the Santa Monica Museum of Art has been marked …

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Kangaroo court reduces Teddy Afro’s sentence to 2 years

ADDIS ABABA, ETHIOPIA – The Woyanne high kangaroo court today reduced Teddy Afro’s 6-year prison sentence to 2 years, allowing him to go free in 5 months from now.

Teddy has been held in prison for the past 11 months …

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Beijing Olympics distance races analysed at 100m intervals

The Beijing Olympics threw up a huge amount of statistics, too much in fact to take in at the time of the Games. Now we have had a chance to disseminate a unique set of readings taken during virtually all …

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Corrupt African first ladies are tearing down the continent

By Nkwazi Mhango

I do not understand what geared Kenyan belligerent first lady Lucy Kibaki to demand written explanations from a minister for Internal Security, George Saitoti. Mrs. Kibaki wanted to know why many people perished in the Molo inferno …

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Guantanamo in Ethiopia

Kality Prison in Ethiopia
The notorious Kality Prison in Ethiopia

By xcroc

In January 2007, after the Ethiopian invasion, and US bombing of Somalia, at least 85 different people from at least 25 countries, including the US, were part of Africa’s first mass rendition …

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UN says 15% Of Ethiopian population is facing starvation

GENEVA (AFP) – Some 4.9 million more Ethiopians are in urgent need of food aid, the U.N. said Tuesday, bringing the total number of people in Ethiopia who need relief aid to 12 million, or 15% of the population.

“In …

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Ethiopia's Tsegaye Kebede tunes up for London Marathon

Harar, Ethiopia (IAAF) – Ethiopia’s Olympic marathon bronze medallist Tsegaye Kebede fine-tuned his preparations for April’s Flora London Marathon with a comfortable victory on Sunday (16) in the Major General Hayelom Araya Memorial, an annual 15km race that serves as …

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Ethiopia’s regime runs out of foreign currency reserve

ADDIS ABABA, ETHIOPIA (PANA) – Ethiopian Prime Minister tribal dictator Meles Zenawi has ordered a total freeze in government borrowing, but the country still faces a major foreign reserve crisis with the current reserves only enough to cover one month …

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Monkeys have a sense of morality, say scientists

EDITOR’S NOTE: We cannot say the same thing about the cannibalistic Woyannes.

Jonathan Leake, Science Editor
TIMES ONLINE

MONKEYS and apes have a sense of morality and the rudimentary ability to tell right from wrong, according to new research.

In …

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Operating at half capacity

By Yilma Bekele

The economic downturn is taking a toll. There is a scarcity of capital. Both demand and supply are out of whack. Thus, factories are operating at reduced capacity. States and cites have their workers on forced furlough …

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Somalia, a graveyard of American foreign-policy blunders

The Most Dangerous Place in the World

By Jeffrey Gettleman | Foreign Policy

When you land at Mogadishu’s international airport, the first form you fill out asks for name, address, and caliber of weapon. Believe it or not, this disaster …

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Climate change in Ethiopia taking toll on livestock

Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (Daily Monitor) – Climate change-induced livestock diseases are causing more illness and death of livestock in southern lowlands of the country, a study conducted to assess the local level of impacts of climate change said.

The study …

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Morgan Tsvangirai’s “Fierce Urgency of Now”!

By Alemayehu G. Mariam

Zimbabwe Saved From the “Brink of a Dark Abyss”

A year ago, Morgan Tsvangirai won the first round of presidential elections in Zimbabwe. He refused to participate in the run-off calling it a “violent sham” for …

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Ana Gomes calls for the release Birtukan Midekssa

PRESS RELEASE

Member of European Parliament Ana Gomes asks Ethiopian Parliament Speaker to help release Birtukan Midekssa

MEP Ana Gomes asked the Speaker of the Ethiopian Parliament “not to leave a stone unturned until Birtukan Midekssa is released”. The request …

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19 million homes in the U.S. stood empty in 2008 as housing market collapsed

By Kathleen M. Howley

(Bloomberg) — A record 19 million U.S. homes stood empty at the end of 2008 and home ownership fell to an eight-year low as banks seized homes faster than they could sell them.

The number of …

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Mr. Meles is posturing

By Paulos Milkias

I do not believe that Ethiopia’s dictator Meles Zenawi is going to quit. He is simply posturing. Here are reasons why?

An official who is determined to quit will not qualify it by another possibility. An excellent …

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Tekeze Dam runs out of water on its 1st anniversary

By Tedla Asfaw

I followed the interview Meles Zenawi gave to an Ethiopian audience this past week. For the question of making Ethiopia an exporter of power while there is domestic power shortage including in the capital Addis Ababa, the …

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120 Ethiopian asylum seekers arrested in Mozambique

MALAWI (Nyasa Times) – Police in Mozambique are keeping in custody about 100 Ethiopians arrested this week for illegally attempting to cross Malawi for South Africa.

The 100 are said to have escaped from Dzaleka Refugee Camp in …

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South African man with drug capsules in stomach arrested in Ethiopia

Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (APA) – Ethiopian security officials on Saturday arrested a South African man with over 70 capsules of suspected drug inside his stomach.

The arrest of the South African man happened a few days after the …

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Ethiopia's economy hurt for not having stock exchange

ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia (PANA) – Ethiopia’s financial sector will miss out on the possible investments from American major financiers because of its lack of a domestic stock exchange market to help attract foreign capital, an investor said.

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Ethiopia’s dictator Meles Zenawi plans to quit in 2010

Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (Afrique en ligne) – Ethiopia’s dictator Meles Zenawi said on Friday he was in consultations with his ruling party about the possibility of quitting as Prime Minister and retaining his role as the party leader after next …

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Ethiopia's dictator defends arrest of opposition leader

ADDIS ABABA, ETHIOPIA (EuroNews 24) – Ethiopia’s Prime Minister dictator Meles Zenawi has said the arrest of the country’s opposition leader was not a political decision, arguing the authorities were left with no other choice.

Authorities arrested and …

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Baalu Girma Foundation formed

It was 25 years ago today that the famous Ethiopian writer and journalist, Baalu Girma, was abducted by the military junta (Derg) in Ethiopia. He hasn’t been heard from since, but his legacy continues.

We are happy to announce that …

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President Obama lets CIA keep controversial renditions tool

By Greg Miller | Chicago Tribune

WASHINGTON — The CIA’s secret prisons are being shuttered. Harsh interrogation techniques are off-limits. And Guantanamo Bay will eventually go back to being a wind-swept naval base on the southeastern corner of Cuba.

But …

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Ethiopia’s tribalist regime and South Africa sign defense agreement

ADDIS ABABA (SAPA) – The defense ministers of South Africa and Ethiopia’s tribalist dictatorship signed a memorandum of understanding in Addis Ababa on Friday, South Africa’s defense spokesman Sam Mkhwanazi said. [The current South Africa regime is as full of …

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United States of Africa may take off in 2017, Senegal president says

(The Guardian) – AHEAD of a proposal for the proclamation of the United States of Africa by 2017, continental leaders will by January next year establish an Authority of the Africa Union to work out the details of …

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New Boston family extends ties to Ethiopia

By Chantal Mendes | Boston Globe

When Nick Semine and Drucilla Roberts returned to the United States from the town of Adwa in Ethiopia, where they had gone to meet the two little girls they adopted in 2004, they came …

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Ethiopia's Haile Gebrselassie pulls out of Lagos marathon

By Nurudeen Obalola | The Punch

World marathon record holder, Haile Gebrselassie of Ethiopia, will be in Lagos for the Glo-Lagos International Half Marathon but he will not be competing with other runners for the $50,000 top prize.

The Ethiopian …

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Ethiopian-American recognized at the Grammy Music Award

By Henok Semaegzer Fente | VOA

At the 51st Grammy music award last Sunday, the best of the industry were recognized for their achievements. The highlight of the televised event featured, nine months pregnant rapper M.I.A, who took center stage …

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Scientists find health benefits from drinking coffee

By Sarah Irani | EcoSalon

Although coffee gets a bad rap, it’s actually a medicinal food. In fact, this stimulating bean isn’t nearly so bad as we’ve all been taught. Although I’m skeptical about grande latte supplementation in the long …

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Ethiopian taxi driver dies in Seattle car accident

SEATTLE, WASHINGTON – Icy roads were a contributor to the death of a cab driver when he was on his way to work Wednesday in Burien, a suburb of Seattle.

Friends told KIRO 7 Eyewitness News that Getenet Endeshaw, 28, …

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Two men arrested in slaying of Ethiopian man in California

By Mark Gomez | Mercury News

SAN JOSE, CALIFORNIA – Police have arrested two men whom they say played a role in the death of a 25-year-old immigrant from Ethiopia whose body was found Monday morning in a South San …

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Ethiopian scientist advises U.S. Air Force on satellite projects

The University of Minnesota’s entry into January’s final University Nanosatellite Program competition won’t be launched into space.

However, the U.S. Air Force has selected the University team to participate again. Team members are already recruiting new students, while some are …

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ICC judges decide to arrest Sudan’s President

EDITOR’S NOTE: Bad news for Ethiopia’s murderous tyrant Meles Zenawi.

(VOA News) – U.N. diplomats and officials say judges at the International Criminal Court have decided to indict Sudan’s president for war crimes in Darfur.

Officials say on the of …

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Suspect arrested in U.S. diplomat’s death in Ethiopia

ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia (Reuters) – Ethiopian police have arrested a local man suspected of killing of a U.S. diplomat at his home in Addis Ababa, officials said on Wednesday.

The unnamed suspect was being transferred to the capital after he …

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Ban Ki-moon says al-Bashir should cooperate with int’l court

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon urged Sudan’s president on Tuesday to fully cooperate with the International Criminal Court if it decides to issue an arrest warrant over for his alleged role in atrocities in Darfur.

The world’s …

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Woyanne and Turkish govt discuss arrest warrant for al-Bashir

By TODAY’S ZAMAN

ANKARA — Foreign minister of the tribalist dictatorship in Ethiopia has urged the International Criminal Court to postpone a decision on issuing an arrest warrant for Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir for his alleged role in atrocities in …

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Global economic crisis cuts down Ethiopia flower earnings

EDITOR’S NOTE: The flower exporters are destroying Ethiopia’s fertile land by using fertilizers that are toxic. It would be good if they all get bankrupt and out of business. Ethiopia’s fertile land need to grow food, not flower.

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Ethiopian group concerned about Al Amoudi donation

almoudi-clintonAn Ethiopian-American human rights advocacy group writes a letter to former President Bill Clinton expressing its concern about a large donation made to the Clinton Foundation by a high-profile member of the brutal dictatorship in Ethiopia.

The Honorable William Jefferson …

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Ethiopian man found dead in San Jose, California

By Mark Gomez | Mercury News

SAN JOSE, CALIFORNIA – San Jose police say the death of a man whose body was found in a South San Jose neighborhood early Monday morning has been ruled a homicide.

Police identified the …

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Ethiopian police inspector defects to Eritrea

Interview with Major Yehualashet Alebachew, an Ethiopian Police Inspector from the “Amhara Killil” (Region) who recently defected to Eritrea; Libyan leader and current Chairman of the African Union Muammar Al-Khadafiʼs trip to Massawa; Foreign currency shortage in Ethiopia; More Ethiopians …

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Update on the death of U.S. diplomat in Ethiopia

United States Department of States
Public Affairs
Office of the Spokesman
Washington, DC

Question Taken at the February 9, 2009 Daily Press Briefing
February 9, 2009

Question: Any update on the investigation into the death of the Foreign Service Officer …

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2 Tanzanians die after drug capsules burst in their stomach

Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (APA) – Two Tanzanians, aged 27 and 32 years old, who were arrested and accused of concealing drugs inside their stomachs died in Addis Ababa after the drugs burst in their stomach, the Ethiopian police …

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Berhanu Nega to address Ethiopians in Seattle

Leaders of Ginbot 7 Movement, Dr Berhanu Nega and Ato Muluneh Eyoel, will hold a town hall meeting with Ethiopians in Seattle next Saturday.

Date/Time: Saturday, Feb. 14, 2009
Time: 1:00 – 4:00 PM
Place: Yesler Community Center, 917 …

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Bereket Simon says Queen Elizabeth II has Ethiopian roots

By Edward | Politics & Poetry

A spokesman for the Ethiopian government said on Sunday that the English monarch Queen Elizabeth the 2nd was descended from a 19th century tribeswoman from the Semien Mountains in northern Ethiopia. Records from the …

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