MEROWE, Sudan (AFP) — Sudanese President Omar al-Beshir inaugurated a massive hydro-electric project on Tuesday that has displaced tens of thousands and is the largest to be built along the Nile in 40 years.
[Nile River originates in neighboring Ethiopia, …
NEW JERSEY — The field of archaeology requires uncommon patience. Is that specimen so painstakingly coaxed from the hard earth animal or early human? Is it historically, significantly old or just old enough to be mildly interesting? The answers come …
WASHINGTON DC (examiner.com) In a report released by the Washington D.C. health department, 3 percent of residents over the age of 12 have HIV or AIDS. Nearly 70 percent of the cases are men, and 76 percent are …
The Hague (The Press Association) – Haile Gebrselassie of Ethiopia suffered a shock defeat in the Fortis City-Pier-City half-marathon in The Hague on Saturday, March 14.
Gebrselassie, whose aim was to regain the world record for the distance, was beaten …
ADDIS ABABA, ETHIOPIA (Addis Fortune) – The global financial crisis and the resultant production cut in emerging economies, compounded by the foreign reserve crunch in Ethiopia, has threatened the supply of power transformers by state power utility, the Ethiopian Electric …
EDITOR’S NOTE: Addis Fortune reports that Foreign currency shortage has forced Coca Cola bottling plant in Ethiopia to shut down. It is to be noted that Woyanne-owned or affiliated companies, such as Al Amoudi’s MOHA, are not facing the same …
On the invitation of British prime minister Gordon Brown, Ethiopia’s dictator Meles Zenawi — also known as the “butcher of Addis” — is currently visiting the United Kingdom. Meles will make another trip to London on April 20 next month …
By Tedla Asfaw
Chief Judge Iftikhar Chaudery of Pakistan who was thrown with other judges by the former western loved dictator Musharraf is now reinstated to its former position by the organized protest which is a lesson to our own …
By Alemayehu G. Mariam
From Discontent to Renewal
In the Winter of our discontent, we complained about the wasted years of antagonism, discord and strife among pro-democracy elements of the Ethiopian Diaspora. We deplored the years of infighting and useless …
WASHINGTON DC – Ethiopians Demesse Tefera and Hirut Mandefro co-opted the Irish theme by winning the men’s and women’s titles at the 21st St. Patrick’s Day 8K downtown yesterday.
Tefera, 27, twice New York Road Runners runner of the year …
RIYADH, SAUDI ARABIA – Eritrean Minister of Information Ali Abdu accused some parties in the Ethiopian government of aiding and abetting pirates off the coast of Somalia in the Red Sea.
“They are extending logistic support to the pirates besides …
Several exiled members of Ethiopian armed forces have created a support group for Ethiopian People Patriotic Forces (EPPF), a statement issued by the group announced on Sunday. Click here to read their statement.…
‘If we think we’ve got a health care crisis, let me take you to Ethiopia’ – Dr. Matt Campbell
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Dr. Matt Campbell was ready to call it a night after a long first day in an Ethiopia hospital when a …
Binyam Mohamed, the former Guantánamo Bay detainee and an immigrant from Ethiopia who claims that MI5 colluded in his torture, should be considered for deportation, the Conservative Party said.
David Lidington, the shadow foreign minister, said there was a “serious …
By Jenny Higgins
It’s 9.20am and I’m standing in a corrugated iron shed, trying to get the group of 25 third graders I am teaching to settle down. It hasn’t been the most peaceful of lessons – first a dog …
NEW YORK (UN Population Division/DESA) World population is projected to reach 7 billion early in 2012, up from the current 6.8 billion, and surpass 9 billion people by 2050, reveals the 2008 Revision of the official United Nations population …
LONDON (Financial Times) – Two days after Dominique Strauss-Kahn, IMF managing director, told a conference on the global economic crisis in Dar es Salaam that he could be Africa’s “voice” at next month’s G20 summit, Mr Kikwete told …
This video is one of the most shocking things I have seen in a long time. It is about animal suffering and abuse in Ethiopia. Our society should not allow this kind of suffering to go on any longer. Some …
By STEVEN R. HURST
WASHINGTON (AP) – Advocates fear the Obama administration may be putting the human rights issue on the back burner to focus instead on coping with the global economic crisis and national security.
President Barack Obama sought …
UNION COLLEGE, NEW YORK – A group of mechanical engineering students, led by professor Ron Bucinell, will spend their spring break in Boru, Ethiopia, hoping to tap a clean water source for the village’s 5,000 residents.
This will be the …
(BBC) – Some 70,000 people have fled their homes in a remote part of southern Ethiopia, after a deadly conflict broke out between rival groups – apparently triggered by the construction of a new borehole. The BBC’s Elizabeth …
By KARL ROVE
Presidents throughout history have kept lists of political foes. But the Obama White House is the first I am aware of to pick targets based on polls. Even Richard Nixon didn’t focus-group his enemies list.
Team Obama …
MANCHESTER, England (AP) — World record-holder Haile Gebrselassie of Ethiopia will compete in the 10-kilometer Great Manchester Run in May.
“I like Manchester, it is a good fast course and I’m looking forward to returning,” Gebrselassie said. “It fits perfectly …
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SUNNYSIDE, WASHINGTON — Mawi Asgedom urged Sunnyside teenagers to set goals, work hard and focus on battles greater than their latest schoolyard spats.
“No matter what happens to you in life, don’t …
By WILLIAM YARDLEY | The New York Times
SEATTLE, WASHINGTON – It was not the expansive new mural depicting evolutionary history that brought Sandy McKean down to the Pacific Science Center on a rainy winter weekday. Nor had he come …
(Ogaden Online) – Reports reaching the Ogaden Online service desk indicate raging battles between the Ogaden National Liberation Army (ONLA) and the Woyanne regime militias throughout Ogaden in eastern Ethiopia. All the latest battles took place between March …
Sudan president cancels Ethiopia trip
KHARTOUM (Sudan Tribine) – A planned trip by the Sudanese president Omer Hassan Al-Bashir to Ethiopia today, for the annual supreme joint committee meeting has been cancelled for unknown reasons.
The pro-government Sudanese Media Center …
HENGELO, THE NETHERLANDS – The organisers of the Fanny Blankers Koen Games announced yesterday that Ethiopia’s Haile Gebrselassie will attack his own World record for the One Hour in Hengelo on 1 June 2009.
The Fanny Blankers-Koen Games is an …
By Simon Vozick-Levinson | Entertainment Weekly
As if 2009 hasn’t already been jam-packed for Beyonce Knowles, the singer-actress is currently preparing a year-long world tour with dates in Canada set to launch later this month. “I’ve been working on this …
Starbucks does not know when it will open a support center for coffee farmers in Ethiopia that was scheduled to open last year, according to spokeswoman Deb Trevino.
The economic slowdown, along with delays in opening a …
EDITOR’S NOTE: We believe that the majority of the poor and exploited people of Tigray must not suffer because of the criminal and anti-Ethiopia acts of the Tigrean elites, including some of those who claim to oppose the Meles regime, …
By Tesfa-alem Teklem | Sudan Tribune
MEKELLE — A Dubai-based Sudanese communication company, MURD, installed an FM radio station in Ethiopia’s northern region of Tigray.
MURD carried out the project after it won an international tender announced by the government …
By Ayda Million
U.S.-based BirrituExpress.com claims to provide a secure, quick, cost-effective and easy way to remit money abroad.
“Sending money to Ethiopia does not have to be difficult or expensive. Your family, friends or business associates cannot wait weeks …
Ethiopian Airlines has been making waves in the greater Washington, D.C. metropolitan area. The African airline, which offers several weekly from Washington D.C.’s Dulles International Airport to Ethiopia, was the official carrier at the Adventures in Travel Expo in Washington …
ETHIOPIA (Garowe Online) – Several of civilian and commercial vehicles are stuck along the Somali-Ethiopian border following deadly battles between Woyanne regime troops and ONLF fighters in the Ogaden region of Ethiopia, Radio Garowe reports.
The fighting in …
The Oromo Liberation Front (OLF) reports that the brutal Woyanne regime in Ethiopia has arrested 80 Oromo students who are attending Bahir Dar university.
The Woyanne gunmen took the action following a protest by Oromo students against ethnic slurs by …
(BBC) – The Ogaden National Liberation Front (ONLF) said it had seized the town of Mustahil and was also fighting for the towns of Wardheer and Khalavo in eastern Ethiopia.
It said at least 80 Ethiopian Woyanne regime soldiers had …
By DESMOND TUTU
THE expected issuance of an arrest warrant for President Omar Hassan al-Bashir of Sudan by the International Criminal Court tomorrow presents a stark choice for African leaders — are they on the side of justice or on …
By Alemayehu G. Mariam
How Sweet It is!
“Justice is like a train that is nearly always late”, but it did arrive just in the nick of time for Omar Hassan al-Bashir, President of the Sudan. Al-Bashir is now a …
SANA’A – Yemeni police in Haradh border region has seized four Ethiopians, aged 34-39 years, who have sneaked into Yemeni lands illegally through the Saudi border in Haradh.
The security officials in Haradh border said that the four Ethiopians crossed …
By Katrina Manson
BURKINA FASO (Reuters) – A film set in Ethiopia about a bloodthirsty regime under which political dissidents and village children alike were ruthlessly killed has won best movie award at Africa’s top film festival.
“Teza,” a feature …
(AFP) – The Ogaden National Liberation Front (ONLF) claimed it killed 24 Ethiopian Woyanne soldiers in the Ogaden’s eastern region of Degah Bur and added that the fighting was ongoing.
“24 Woyanne troops have been killed in this latest round …
By Mary Engel | The Los Angeles Times
HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, is one of the fastest-evolving entities known. That’s why no one has yet been able to come up with a vaccine: The virus mutates so rapidly …
By MICHELLE FAUL
JOHANNESBURG (AP) – The International Criminal Court’s decision to pursue a sitting head of state on war crimes charges puts others around the world on notice, but it’s also raising questions about which leaders are being targeted.…
By Jenny Pope and Analiz Gonzalez Schremmer
BANTU, Ethiopia — This year, impoverished children in one Ethiopian village have something they’ve never known before—hope for the future.
Children attending the Bantu school, founded by Buckner International and Bright Hope, …
By Josh Green | Gwinnett Daily Post
LAWRENCEVILLE – Detectives are searching for a fourth suspect, known on the streets as “Money Mark,” in the murder of Lilburn convenience store owner Tedla Lemma, an immigrant from Ethiopia.
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EDITOR’S NOTE: IMF and the World Bank are financiers of genocidal regimes such as the one in Ethiopia. Their blood money is fueling many of the civil wars in Africa. They claim that Ethiopia’s economy is the fastest growing in …
By Javier Blas | Financial Times
Saudi Arabia has announced the arrival of the first food crop harvested in Saudi-owned farms abroad, in a sign that the kingdom is moving faster than expected to outsource agricultural production.
Rice, harvested in …
After unblocking access for the past week to web sites that are deemed critical, Meles Zenawi’s dictatorial regime in Ethiopia has made them inaccessible again starting yesterday.
Ethiopian Review associates in Addis Ababa confirmed today that all of the previously …
By John Owur | Aidsmap
ADDIS ABABA, ETHIOPIA – The roll-out of antiretroviral therapy has led to a decline of about 50% in adult AIDS deaths in Ethiopia’s capital, Addis Ababa, over a period of five years, according the findings …
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (PANA) – The Foreign Affairs Ministry in Ethiopia has lambasted the human rights report issued by the US State Department on Ethiopia. In a statement released here Wednesday by the ministry, the Ethiopian government said the report …
SANA’A (SABA) – Yemeni police arrested 112 immigrants, among of them 15 women, who arrived to Khanfer coastline in Abyan province and Dhubab coastline in Taiz province.
122 Ethiopian emigrants, 76 Somali arrive in Yemen
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The security bodies …
Fiction that takes us from Ethiopia to the suburbs
‘Cutting for Stone’ By Abraham Verghese (Knopf, 560 pp., $26.95)
Abraham Verghese is a doctor, an accomplished memoirist (My Own Country) and, as he proves in Cutting for Stone, something of …
The Al-Bashir indictment and its implication on Ethiopia and other countries
By Kadiro A. Elemo
The issuance of an arrest warrant for the President of Sudan, Omar Hassan Al-Bashir, by the International Criminal Court (ICC) on charges of war crimes …
ADDIS ABABA – Ethiopia’s dictatorial regime will disregard the International Criminal Court’s arrest warrant against Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir for war crimes in Darfur, the government chief propagandist Bereket Simon said on Wednesday.
Bereket said his regime supported the African …
BADHAASAA, Ethiopia (AP) — A cattle-herding tribe in southern Ethiopia has crowned a new king in a secret ceremony considered so sacred that the Borena people believe it has the power to kill unauthorized observers.
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Asmara (allAfrica.com) – A defecting Ethiopian police officer who arrived here recently said that the Woyanne (Tigray People Liberation Front) regime is stepping up its divisive ploy aimed at instigating conflict among various ethnic groups to prolong its stay in …
By Bill Daley | Chicago Tribune
Ethiopians have for centuries made a honey wine known as tej. You can sometimes find this meadlike beverage for sale at some Ethiopian restaurants. Or, you could try a mead made domestically.
For most …
By Ikal Angelei | International Rivers
Lake Turkana is a miraculous anomaly of life-giving water in a parched and unforgiving land. Formed millions of years ago in the tectonic upheavals that created East Africa’s Great Rift Valley, Turkana is the …
By Mutwiri Mutuota and IAAF
Ethiopia is gearing for Amman, Jordan, with grim realisation that the trio, which constitutes its most potent distance running assault weapons, will not line up for battle.
On Tuesday, reports from Addis Ababa confirmed that …
EDITOR’S NOTE: What better is expected from the dumbest government in the world? Even monkeys know how to get food out of a warehouse.
ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia (IRIN) – Beneficiaries of food aid in Ethiopia could face tougher times unless …
A month ago, Ryan contacted me and said he was possibly looking for a filmmaker to accompany him to Ethiopia to do a short film about clean water and the improvement it can make to people’s lifestyle …
This poem is inspired by Alexander Pushkin’s “Message to Siberia.” It is written by Ethiopian linguist Mesfin Arega. Click here to read.…
Journalists in Ethiopia informed CPJ over the weekend that our Web site, which was blocked to Internet users in the capital, Addis Ababa, since August, was accessible again.
Independent Ethiopian online news
By Victoria Moores | Flight Global
Ethiopian Airlines is looking to take a further seven Boeing 787-8s and additionally may order up to 10 787-9s, 777-200LRs or Airbus A350 XWBs this year as it looks to grow its fleet to …
WASHINGTON, March 4, 2009
The following release was issued today by the Embassy of the Republic of the Sudan
Sudan strongly condemns the decision of the International Criminal Court’s (ICC) Judges. We reject this decision on the basis that it …
(DW) – International Criminal Court (ICC) judges have issued an arrest warrant for Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir over alleged atrocities in Sudan’s western Darfur province. It is the first time that the Hague-based war crimes tribunal has sought …
By Vivek Wadhwa | Business Week
As the debate over H-1B workers and skilled immigrants intensifies, we are losing sight of one important fact: The U.S. is no longer the only land of opportunity. If we don’t want the immigrants …
Ethiopian regime’s head of propaganda (chief liar) Bereket Simon is among those who are outraged by Tesfaye GebreAb’s tell-all book, “The Journalist Memoir”
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There is no doubt that Tesfaye GebreAb’s book, “The Journalist’s Memoir” (YeGazetegnaw Mastawesha), went under …
The Ethiopian Athletics Federation (EAF) this week named its provisional squad of twenty-four athletes for the 37th IAAF World Cross Country Championships in Amman, Jordan on Saturday 28 March 2009.
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By Rosanne Zammit |Times of Malta
Former street boys are seeing a dramatic change in their lives after having moved into a home run by a Maltese woman in Ethiopia. The home was set up by a 72-year-old Maltese …
By Ethiopundit
The voices of the Western world concerned with human rights routinely make clear that Ethiopia’s government is one of the most oppressive on earth. From sources as varied in perspective and interest as the U.S. State Department Human …
ADDIS ABABA, ETHIOPIA (afrol News) – The Ethiopian Broadcasting Agency (EBA) has ordered the existing newspapers and magazines to re-register within three months time and further barred property owners of such media from holding positions of editor or …
Following a critical report by the U.S. Department of State last week, the Woyanne tribal regime in Ethiopia has lifted its blockade on all news web sites such as Ethiopian Review, EMF and opposition web sites such as Ginbot7.org.
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By Victoria Moores | Flight Global
My recent visit to Addis Ababa in Ethiopia revealed it to be a place filled with contrast, extremely warm characters and confusing timelines.
First up, the timelines. It’s like travelling back in time. No, …
With over 10 million inhabitants residing in LA, cultural diversities coexist in a dynamic relationship that is unparalleled in most parts of the world. If you happen to drive ten miles in any one direction you can …
Bahrain’s Alemu Bekele, originally from Ethiopia, wins the junior men’s race at the 10th Asian Cross Country Championships
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Bahrain’s Alemu Bekele Gebre has been tipped as the next Kenenisa Bekele. Alemu is said to have a similar running style as …
EDITOR’S NOTE: The Ethiopian and Somalis who drowned and died were trying to escape the hell on earth created in Ethiopia and the Horn of Africa by the U.S.-financed Tigrean People Liberation Front (Woyanne). According to the U.N., so far …
By Sarah Boslaugh | Play Back
The award-winning film Live and Become (Va, vis et deviens) by Romanian-French director Radu Mihaileanu uses the story of an Ethiopian Christian boy airlifted to Israel in 1985 as part of Operation Moses to …
By Yilma Bekele
Adwa was a turning point in the history of non-Europeans everywhere. Adwa’s significance extends beyond our national borders. Our ancestor’s victory over the Italians made the smug Europeans rethink their relationship with those they considered ‘savage’ and …
EDITOR’S NOTE: This is a good news since the flower farms in Ethiopia are destroying the soil. The Woyanne-affiliated flower exporters are using chemical fertilizers that are toxic to the soil and nearby lakes.
ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) – Ethiopia says …
By Charles Cooper | cnet.com
An Internet security company claims that Iran has taken advantage of a computer security breach to obtain engineering and communications information about Marine One, President Barack Obama’s helicopter, according to a report by WPXI, NBC’s …
By RUPA SHENOY
CHICAGO (AP) — Paul Harvey, the news commentator and talk-radio pioneer whose staccato style made him one of the nation’s most familiar voices, died Saturday in Arizona, according to ABC Radio Networks. He was 90.
Harvey died …
CHINHOYI, Zimbabwe (CNN) — Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe was celebrating his 85th birthday with a lavish all-day party Saturday despite the fact that the country is gripped by an economic and health crisis.
Mugabe’s ZANU-PF party said it …
By Munaif Nayef | Arab Times
KUWAIT CITY – Anti-drug officials acting on the directives of the head of the Drug Control General Department (DCGD) Sheikh Ahmed Al-Khalifa Al-Sabah arrested an Ethiopian for selling “Qat” which is proscribed by Kuwaiti …
Here is another interesting review of Tesfaye GebreAb’s book, “The Journalists Memoir” (YeGazetegnaw Mastawesha). It is written by Prof. Getatchew Haile who has a lot of positive things to say about the book, as well as …
By Alemayehu G. Mariam
Free Birtukan and All Political Prisoners in Ethiopia!
On March 2, 2009, Ethiopians and friends of Ethiopia throughout the world will be taking to the streets to protest human rights violations by the ruling regime, and …
ADDIS ABABA (AFP) – Two people were killed and eight wounded when a bomb went off in a restaurant in a small town in western Eritrea, the foreign ministry said Saturday.
The explosion rocked the restaurant Wednesday. There have been …
YEMEN (Al Jazeera) – At least 45 people have drowned after a boat carrying them from Somalia across the Gulf of Aden capsized in deep waters off Yemen.
The boat, transporting 46 migrants from Somalia and Ethiopia, capsized …