Witness Brady Allen describes how Arssei Hindessa pulled victim Natalie Novak’s hair and hit her in the temple, during Hindessa’s trial Tuesday, Feb. 10. 2009, in Toronto. (Sun Media/Pam Davies)
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TORONTO, CANADA (NP) – The former boyfriend of a 20-year-old …
Air Ethiopia, the newly established local private airline company, is seeking to acquire two additional Beech 1900s in three to four weeks’ time, Capital learnt.
After obtaining an operational license from the Ethiopian Civil Aviation Authority (ECAA) a month ago, …
DOHA (AFP) – Maverick Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi stole the show at Monday’s Arab summit, insulting Saudi King Abdullah before storming out to visit a museum.
But the flamboyant Gaddafi also left the door open for reconciliation with Abdullah, whose …
Genocide Watch, the international campaign to end genocide, has called on United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Justice Navanathem, to initiate an investigation against the government of Meles Zenawi. Genocide Watch cited the atrocities committed in Gambela against the …
Seriously, the toilet perils of traveling don’t get talked about enough – maybe because so many of the Africa travelogues I’ve read are written by men and, I don’t care what anyone says about gender equality, men …
By Robert Van de Weyer
The following is a description of the life of the Ethiopian monastic community (nefru gedam), based on visits to 18 major monasteries and lengthy interviews with the monks. It is remarkable that from one end …
By René Gralla
Historians and experts in cultural studies always look towards India, Persia and Arabia – and some even turn to China, more recently – when they search for the origins of chess. But with regard to Africa it …
The management team of Ethioindex.net is pleased to announce the launching of a new Ethiopian social bookmarking web site with the focus on sharing the latest news and information about Ethiopia. EthioIndex is inspired by a popular American social bookmarking …
Security Alert – Dire Dawa, Harar, Jijiga and the Somali Region
The American Embassy in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, reminds American citizens to avoid travel to the cities of Dire Dawa, Harar, and Jijiga, including the areas surrounding these cities, and …
A massive protest rally is being organized in London on April 2 to oppose the invitation by Prime Minister Gordon Brown to Ethiopia’s dictator Meles Zenawi to attend the G-20 meeting. Ethiopians through out Europe are preparing head to London …
Ethiopians Living in the U.S., Listen Up!
A study is being conducted on Ethiopians living in the United States and Health Care Utilization. To be part of the survey, just answer 5 questions at: http://tsehainy.com/survey.html.
In order to participate …
Azeb Mesfin, the wife of Ethiopia’s dictator Meles Zenawi (also known as “The Wicked Witch of Ethiopia”), has become deputy head of the Endowment Fund for the Rehabilitation of Tigray (EFFORT), which owns several multimillion-dollar companies. She will serve under …
RIYADH, SAUDI ARABIA (Reuters) – A consortium of Saudi agricultural companies is looking to invest 150 million riyals ($40 million) into food production in Ethiopia and Sudan, the Agriculture Ministry said on Sunday.
Food security has topped the policy agenda …
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Addis Ababa (APA) – Ethiopia welcomed on Monday its athletes who brought home three gold and one bronze medals from World Cross Country Championships in Amman, Jordan.
Fans and families of the athletes warmly welcomed the athletes at the Bole …
Coffee exporters in Ethiopia, Africa’s biggest producer, are stockpiling beans in anticipation of a further devaluation of the national currency, the Ethiopian Commodity Exchange said.
The stockpiling has contributed to a decline in export revenue that has been exacerbated by …
ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia (Sudan Tribune) -The national airline of Ethiopia will launch new flight to Malabo, the capital of Equatorial Guinea in central Africa within three months, a press released said today.
Ethiopian Airlines is the fourth largest airline in …
TOKYO (AFP) – Japan gave its military the green light on Friday to shoot down any incoming North Korean rocket, with tensions high ahead of a planned launch that the US and allies say will be an illegal missile test.…
Lake Turkana’s clear waters emerge like a glassy screen, breaking through the rugged rocks and dry earth that precede its approach.
This most northerly of Kenya’s lakes, on the border with Ethiopia, formerly known as Lake Rudolf and referred to …
By Yilma Bekele
Commodity is one of those terms open to many interpretations. The Marxist have their own definition of what a commodity is. To the Marxist using the labor theory of value ‘a commodity is any good or service …
RICHMOND, Virginia (AP) – Ethiopians Tilahun Regassa and Amane Gemeda have won the Ukrop’s Monument Avenue 10K race in Richmond.
The 19-year-old Regassa won the men’s race Saturday in 28:21. He finished 13 seconds ahead of Alene Reta of Ethiopia.…
KHARTOUM (Sudan Tribune) — Sudan said it is undertaking extraordinary measures for president Omer Hassan Al-Bashir’s trip to the Arab Gulf state of Qatar later this month as France voiced support to any attempt to apprehend the Sudanese leader.
Sudan …
(Economist.com) — OMAR AL-BASHIR certainly gets around. In defiance of the arrest warrant for war crimes issued against him by the International Criminal Court (ICC) on March 4th, the Sudanese president has spent the past week jetting about northern Africa. …
AMMAN, Jordan (CNN) — Gebreegziabher Gebremariam kept the men’s individual title at the world cross country championships in Ethiopia after winning a sprint finish to Saturday’s championship in Jordan. Gebremariam crosses the line first to claim gold in the world …
AMMAN, JORDAN (RaceResultsWeekly.com) — Ethiopia’s Genzebe Dibaba, a younger sister of Olympic medalists Tirunesh and Ejegayehu Dibaba, defended her junior title today as the IAAF World Cross Country Championships kicked off in Amman, Jordan.
Dibaba, who turned 18 …
By Messay Kebede
We know that the genesis of ethnic conflicts and mobilization in Ethiopia sprung from HaileSelassie’s policy of nation-building. Not only did the policy mean centralization and authoritarianism, but also the integration of different ethnic groups through the …
ADDIS ABABA, ETHIOPIA (Addis Fortune) — A high-level Ethiopian government delegation led by Girma Birru, minister of Trade and Industry (MoTI) left for India last Friday to discuss sugar development projects the latter finances after the Indian financer released the …
(The Daily Galaxy) — Immortality_3 Cambridge University geneticist Aubrey de Grey has famously stated, “The first person to live to be 1,000 years old is certainly alive today …whether they realize it or not, barring accidents and suicide, …
By David Carroll | WRCB
TENNESSEE – Desta Bume’s 11th grade classmates at Signal Mountain High School listen when he speaks. Occasionally he helps teach them Pre Calculus. The 17-year-old Ethiopian exchange student is attending the school thanks to host …
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (VOA) — The American soft drink Coca-Cola has become a symbol of Ethiopia’s deepening financial troubles. The beverage is flowing again after a brief pause, even though it drains the country’s precious foreign exchange reserves.
Truckloads of …
AMMAN, Jordan — With defending champions Kenenisa Bekele and Tirunesh Dibaba out with injuries, the field is wide open for Saturday’s World Cross Country Championships.
The Ethiopian pair have dominated the event, with Bekele winning six of the last seven …
VALLETTA, MALTA (Times of Malta) – An Ethiopian migrant who was granted refugee status and the possibility of starting a new life in the United States has been remanded in custody after he allegedly tried to leave Malta in violation …
By Luke Phillips | Middle East Online
AMMAN, Jordan — Gulf states Bahrain and Qatar, each boasting a raft of African-born runners, will attempt to break the stranglehold Ethiopia and Kenya enjoy in the IAAF World Cross Country Championships here …
EDITOR’S NOTE: The flower farms in Ethiopia are destroying the land by using chemical fertilizers that are destroying the land.
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (Afrik.com) — Ethiopian flower producers and exporters have used their exhibition, which opened Wednesday, to …
Hargeisa, SOMALILAND (Somalilandpress) — Ethiopian Airlines will bring back scheduled flights to Somaliland soon, Somaliland Aviation Minister Mr Ali Waran Adde told local media on Thursday.
The route to the capital of Somaliland was scheduled to re-open in January 2009, …
EDITOR’S NOTE: This is a must read article to understand how aid by Western countries to dictatorial regime’s is devastating Ethiopia and the whole of Africa.
By DAMBISA MOYO
A month ago I visited Kibera, the largest slum in Africa. …
Next week, Lieutenant Colonel Tzion Shenkor will become the first Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) battalion commander from Israel’s Ethiopian community. He will command a Shimshon battalion in the Kfir Brigade.
On Sunday, Major Shenkor was promoted to lieutenant colonel in …
By Stephen C. Webster | Raw Story
In an essay published Monday, the head of China’s central bank proposed a plan to displace the American dollar as the world’s standard and replace it with a global reserve currency operated from …
UPDATE:
Houston judge dismisses charge against singer Wayna
(Houston Chronicle) — A judge this morning dismissed the charge against rhythm-and-blues singer Wayna, who was arrested Wednesday at a Houston airport for carrying a collapsible police baton.
Prosecutors asked state District …
By Seifu Tsegaye Demmissie
The participation of Ethiopia’s dictator Meles Zenawi in the summit of the group of 20 or G-20 does not have any significance other than validating his status as an accredited International beggar. Zenawi is the name …
You may have heard about the raging controversy regarding a massive dam that is under construction on the Omo River in Ethiopia. It is called the Gilgel Gibe III dam and it has a wall that will …
SILVER SPRING, MARYLAND (Gazette.net) — Opening night of the New African Films Festival brought more than 400 people to the lobby of the American Film Institute’s Silver Theatre and Cultural Center March 19, but it wasn’t a typical …
Amman, Jordan – World Indoor 3000m champion Tariku Bekele has pulled out of the Ethiopian squad for the 37th IAAF World Cross Country Championships in Amman, Jordan, Saturday 28 March, after sustaining a training ground injury.
The 22-year-old, who had …
ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia (Reuters) — Ethiopians strolling on Jan Meda playing pitches have been shocked for the past few months by what many of them believe to be a group of foreign men locked in a violent brawl.
“‘What kind …
By Ashton Balaigwa
MOROGORO, TANZANIA (Guardian) — The Police Force in Morogoro Region of Tanzania, in collaboration with Immigration officers, have apprehended 10 foreigners believed to be Ethiopians. They said they were on transit to South Africa.
Speaking to journalists …
TRIPOLI (Reuters) – Sudan President Omar Hassan al-Bashir defied an international arrest warrant by traveling to Libya on Thursday to hold talks with leader Muammar Gaddafi, a Libyan official said.
Bashir arrived in the Libyan city of Sirte to have …
EDITOR’S NOTE: Is there any thing Ethiopia’s dictator Meles Zenawi and his tribal juna that are in charge of the Ethiopian regime can do right? What does the dumb dictator, whose only expertise is killing people to stay in power, …
Lalibela, Ethiopia – On the afternoon Feb. 21, I was catching up on some work in the office, when I was distracted by a man dressed in white rushing past the window, closely followed by Hafte, the …
Turin, ITALY – Ethiopian-born Alemitu Bekele caused a major shock by winning Turkey’s first ever European Indoor title and destroy Russian Anna Alminova’s hopes of winning a 1500m and 3000m on Sunday, March 22.
Alemitu controlled the race from the …
By Peter Greste | BBC News, Ethiopia
Deep in the gorge country that falls off the Ethiopian plateau, workers in boots and hard hats are hammering, drilling, blasting and digging their way into the mountainside for the foundations of the …
ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) – Ethiopia’s dictator Meles Zenawi ordered the confiscation of 17,000 tonnes of coffee from exporters on Wednesday and revoked the licenses of six companies accused of hoarding their stocks.
“They refused to comply with government orders to …
By René Lefort
Millions of Ethiopians once again face misery and famine. Addis Ababa’s desire to project an image of a new dynamic country has led to callous denial of the reality.
In 2008 famine struck Ethiopia. Now, at the …
By Professor Adugnaw Worku
Have you ever wondered why dictators such as those in Ethiopia spend sleepless nights scheming and conniving on how to keep their people in the dark and go all out to censor magazines and newspapers, block …
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (APA) – Ethiopia’s dictatorial regime led by accused war criminal Meles Zenawi on Wednesday revoked the coffee export licenses for six major export companies and shut down another 88 coffee supplier unions with warehouses stocked with coffee.…
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (APA) – Ethiopia on Tuesday bade farewell to its athletes who will take part in the 37 International Amateur Athletics Federation (IAAF) world cross country championship scheduled to be held beginning 28 March in Amman, …
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Tigrean Artist Tesfay Belay’s original Saba Sabina
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Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (APA) – Ethiopia flower exports are expected to earn $280 million in 2009, though current global financial crisis is expected to have some impact on the exports.
Tsegaye Abebe, head of the Ethiopian Horticulture Development …
Addis Ababa, ETHIOPIA (BBC) – Ethiopia’s capital Addis Ababa has run out of Coca-Cola as the credit crunch takes the fizz out of the economy.
The BBC’s Elizabeth Blunt in the city says she has known African countries to run …
HARARE, Zimbabwe (UPI) — Zimbabwean Finance Minister Tendai Biti told members of Parliament the country’s currency was essentially dead.
“The death of the (Zimbabwean) dollar is a reality we have to live with,” he said during a 2009 budget presentation. …
Well, I can die now. I spent quality time in the presence of Haile Gebrselassie on Tuesday and Wednesday and was even more impressed by his physical abilities and outsized personality than I had expected to be. …
By Alemayehu G. Mariam
Cry Me a River, Cry Me a Lake
Amina was crying her eyes out. You could see the tear tracks on her tormented face. She is a victim of unimaginable tragedy. Her entire family has nearly …
As the Ethiopian People’s Patriotic Front (EPPF) intensifies its military operations against the Woyanne regime in Ethiopia, it leadership is calling on Ethiopians around the world for more support. One way Ethiopians can support EPPF is by joining its chapters. …
ADEN, Yemen (Reuters) – At least seven African migrants drowned and more than 20 were injured when their boat capsized off the Yemeni port of Aden on Saturday, official sources said.
The boat was carrying around 100 people, most of …
By William Easterly and Laura Freschi | Aid Watch
European donors are moving towards increasing direct budget support to governments of aid-receiving countries. Leading the charge is the UK, which gives the largest percentage of direct budget support of any …
By Eskinder Ferew
Ethiopia’s prime minister dictator Meles Zenawi has refused to say how many troops were killed or wounded during the his regime’s two-year military campaign in Somalia.
During a question-and-answer period in the Ethiopian parliament Thursday, an opposition …
EDITOR’S NOTE: This is yet another fake battle with malaria. It is to be remembered that before the Woyanne tribalist junta came to power in 1991, malaria had been effectively eradicated in Ethiopia. One of the first institutions Meles and …
An ancient civilization still lives in “Andarge Asfaw: Ethiopia from the Heart.” This Ethiopian-born, Washington-based photographer is exhibiting 44 color and black-and-white images at Howard Community College in Maryland. (See more photos here)
The cultural continuity is …
ADDIS ABABA, Ethioipa (Reuters) – Ethiopian Airlines’ first-half net profit climbed 9 percent to 515 million birr ($46 million), the airline said in a statement on Friday.
Revenue rose to 6.7 billion birr in the six months ended Dec. 31, …
WARS, GUNS, AND VOTES: Democracy in Dangerous Places
By Paul Collier
255 pp. Harper/HarperCollins Publishers
Reviewd by Kenneth Roth
These days no self-respecting government wants to present itself on the world stage without the legitimacy of a democratic mantle. Elections …
PORTLAND, OREGON – Mahmoud Ibrahim Gilani, 32, of Portland, was sentenced today to 114 months in federal prison for an armed bank robbery that occurred in Portland on June 5, 2007. Gilani is a citizen of Ethiopia.
U.S. District Judge …
EDITOR’S NOTE: While over 15 million Ethiopians are going hungry, Woyanne-affiliated companies are doubling profits from exporting livestock.
ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) – Ethiopia plans to more than double earnings from livestock exports to $85 million in 2009 by curbing illegal …
J.Crew Catalog’s April 2009 issue features Ethiopian supermodel Liya Kebede. The catalog has arrived in many of its stores this week.
Liya earlier this month took Paris Fashion Week by storm — and landed opening Balenciaga spot — and now …
By Yilma Bekele.
There is a saying in our country. የፈሩት ይደርሳል፤ የጠሉት ይወርሳል (Yeferut yedersal Ye telut yeworsal.) It means what scares you most will happen and the one you despise will inherit your wealth. So it is with …
J.Crew Catalog’s April 2009 issue features Ethiopian supermodel Liya Kebede. The catalog has arrived in many of its stores this week.
Liya earlier this month took Paris Fashion Week by storm — and landed opening Balenciaga spot — and now …
By NIDRA POLLER
At the half-marathon in The Hague on Saturday morning, all eyes were on an Ethiopian businessman, a one-man model of African economic development. Our entrepreneur, whose flourishing enterprise includes banking, car dealerships and real estate, is not …
Laguna Beach resident Marla Hodes, founder and co-executive director of the Ethiopian Family Fund, will be traveling to Ethiopia with her husband Dan and their three children – Dean, age 11, and Matt and Carly, age 10 – in April …
The town of Wardheer was burned down by Meles Zenawi’s troops. In this satellite image of the town of Wardheer, Ethiopia, from Dec. 30, 2007, yellow dots indicate structures that were burned down or destroyed. Source: AAAS
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OGADEN, ETHIOPIA – …
ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia (ST) — The regime of Tigrean People Liberation Front (Woyanne) in Ethiopia on Thursday said that its forces has destroyed OLF (Oromo liberation Front) and ONLF (Ogaden National Liberation Front) rebels who were regrouping in the …
AMMAN, JORDAN (EuropeanAthletics.com) – Alemayehu Bezabeh, an immigrant from Ethiopia, will join hands with veterans Carles Castillejo and José Luis Blanco to spearhead Spanish charge at the 37th IAAF World Cross Country Championships, Amman, Jordan on March 29.…
Lane Bunkers, Catholic Relief Services (CRS) country representative for Ethiopia, shares a story about an older woman who now has access to clean, healthy water.
CRS donated several drilling rigs to the Ethiopian Catholic Church to tap deep groundwater. Our …
ADDIS ABABA (AFP) — An Ethiopian court on Thursday postponed the trial of a Canadian suspect who has been in prison for two years on terror-related charges, an AFP correspondent reported.
Bashir Makhtal, an Ethiopian-born Canadian citizen, was among a …
ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) – Ethiopia’s dictator Meles Zenawi threatened on Thursday to seize and sell coffee stocks being held by exporters who he accuses of hoarding.
Some exporters have been reluctant to sell their beans through the country’s new electronic …
By Fekade Shewakena
Meles Zenawi’s economic statistics and the platitude with which he presents it remind me of the statistician who puts your head in the oven and your legs in the ice and conveniently tells you that you are …
OLIVETTE, MISSOURI — The parents of two children are dead after a man shot his wife before turning the gun on himself inside the couple’s home in city of Olivetter, a suburb of St. Louis, police said.
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The Ethiopian Telecommunications Corporation (ETC) has begun installing another new Customer Care and Billing System (CCB). This investment is an attempt to prevent a repeat of the 2006 incident when ETC lost more than 70 million birr ($6.3 m) due …
By Neil Spencer | The Observer
‘There have been very difficult times. Harsh times, when it was frankly hell to be here, but some of us were lucky and survived. Thank God. Now this place’ – Alemayehu Eshete gestures towards …
MARYLAND, USA – Ethiopian natives living in Hyattsville no longer have to travel to Washington, D.C., or Montgomery County to get a taste of home with the opening of Shagga Coffee and Restaurant last summer.
Zewdi Tsegay of Burtonsville, who …
It is reported that Haregewoin Teferra has died yesterday of natural causes at her home in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
The following story about Haregewoin is taken from Mellisa Fay Greene’s book, “There is No Me Without You.”
Haregewoin …
NAIROBI, KENYA (KBC) – The Government of Kenya on Wednesday launched the multi-billion shilling Kibwezi- Mwingi- Maua road that will when completed connect Mombasa at the coast to the town of Moyale in North Eastern Province.
The multi-billion shilling project …
By Yilma Bekele
Enabling is one of those terms with a double meaning. In its positive aspect enabling is an empowerment act. In the US the Civil Right Act is considered an empowerment act. It outlawed racial segregation thus empowering …
The following video is Part 2 of a 5-part series that has just been released by Ethiopian People Patriotic Front (EPPF). To watch all the videos click here.
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KHARTOUM, Sudan — A defiant Sudanese president rallied Arab supporters in Darfur Wednesday by saying no war crimes court or the U.N. Security Council can touch even “an eyelash” on him despite an international order for his arrest.
Speaking to …
OTTAWA, CANADA — Days before a Canadian businessman is to appear in an Ethiopian court to face terrorism charges, the government officials are sending “strong signals” that they are watching to see whether Bashir Makhtal has any hope of a …
As if it is not enough that they have been decimated by the Democrats in the past couple of elections, the Republican survivors are now turning their guns on each other.
At the heart of these internal …
NAIROBI, KENYA (Business Daily) – Kenya continues to lose out in the lucrative shipping industry as it continues to rely on ships for hire to transport its exports.
The hope that one day the country could own its …
Ethiopians from several European cities are mobilizing for a massive protest rally against Meles Zenawi — also known as the Butcher of Addis — in London where he will arrive on April 2 for the G20 meeting.
Ethiopian lawyers, in …
Portrait of Ethiopian royal couple Prince Asfawossen and Princess Medferiashwork
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Addis Ababa, Ethiopia – Princess Medeferiashwork Abebe, the wife of the late Crown Prince Asfawossen, has passed away on Sunday at the age of 84. The funereal ceremony was …
Do you have one good reason to start your business right now?
How about 10?
Regardless of what people around you (including the media) may say, right now is the best time to get into business. Just
AUSTRALIA (smh.com.au) – The world’s 43rd richest person, Mohammed Hussein Ali Al Amoudi of Ethiopia, has been named as the mystery sheikh being courted by officials of Tasmania United FC who are bidding to become an A-League team.
The club’s …