By Dan Murphy | Christian Science Monitor
Muammar Qaddafi is used to throwing his weight around internationally, and usually gets what he wants, thanks to sitting on top of the Africa’s largest proven oil reserves.
Now, he’s taking on the …
Yearly Archives: 2010
If I were the president – Dejenie A. Lakew
Ethiopian Review has asked scholars and prominent individuals what 10 things they would do immediately if they are elected president or prime minister of Ethiopia. The following is by Dr Dejenie A. Lakew. (Click here to read what others …
Posted in Ethiopia News
Opposition candidates prevented from registering
By Barry Malone
ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) – Ethiopia’s main opposition coalition said on Wednesday that some of its candidates were being prevented at gunpoint from registering for national elections in May.
The eight-party coalition, Medrek, also said it had obtained …
If I were the president – Tecola Hagos
By Tecola W. Hagos
A couple of days ago, I came across postings of some self-indulgent exercises by “scholars and prominent individuals” and very many readers/visitors of Ethiopian Review Website. It seems to me that the ever enterprising Editor of …
Official statement on the passing of Archbishop Zena Markos
Saint Gebriel Church of Ethiopians in Seattle regretfully announces the passing away of our Holy Father, His Eminence Archbishop Zena Markos, on February 13, 2010, in Seattle, Washington.
May his soul and the souls of all the faithful departed rest …
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If I were the president – Aklog Birara
Ethiopian Review has asked scholars and prominent individuals what 10 things they would do immediately if they are elected president or prime minister of Ethiopia. The following is by Dr Aklog Birara. (Click here to read what others wrote…
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Selling Ethiopian children (CBS News)
CBS News presents a special report about the adoption scam in Ethiopia. The scam is being perpetrated by businesses affiliated with the ruling Tigrean People Liberation Front (Woyanne). The adoption agencies pay hefty commissions to the notorious female gangster Azeb …
Netsanet LeEthiopia Radio on Ethiopia-Eritrea relations
By Elias Kifle
On Sunday, Netsanet LeEthiopia Radio in Washington DC conducted an interview with me and Ato Neamin Zeleke on the Feb. 22 Eritrean worldwide march where Ethiopians plan to join them. Click below to listen (forward to 15:00):…
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If I were the president – Solomon Negash
Ethiopian Review has asked scholars and prominent individuals what 10 things they would do immediately if they are elected president or prime minister of Ethiopia. The following is By Dr Solomon Negash. (Click here to read what others wrote…
Posted in Ethiopia News
Ethiopia: Tear Down the Stonewall of Secrecy!
By Alemayehu G. Mariam
It has been said that Africa’s natural resources — oil, diamonds, minerals — have often proven to be sources of woe, suffering and misery than wealth, prosperity and progress for the people of the continent. What …
Tagged with: Africa Curse of Natural Resources, ethio, Ethiopia Access to Information, Ethiopia Constitution Accountability, Ethiopia Corruption, Ethiopia Farmland Giveaway, Ethiopia Farmland Leases, Ethiopia Freedom of Information, Ethiopia Government Secrecy, Ethiopia International Fund for Agricultural Development, Ethiopia Lack of Transparency, Ethiopia Land Grab, Ethiopia News, Ethiopia Sudan Border Agreement, Ethiopia United Nations Convention Against Corruption, Ghana Oil Contract Disclosures, Ghana Oil Deal Investigations, Ghana Oil Sweetheart Deals, Meles Zenawi
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Worldwide rally against U.N. sanction on Eritrea – update
Eritrean communities around the world are organizing a worldwide protest demonstration calling for the annulment of the ill-advised U.N. Security Council resolution against Eritrea that was passed in December 2009. Eritrea is being victimized for standing up on the side …
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If I were the president – Gabe Hamda
Ethiopian Review has asked scholars and prominent individuals what 10 things they would do immediately if they are elected president or prime minister of Ethiopia. The following is by Dr Gabe Hamda. (Click here to read what others wrote…
Waiting for the other shoe to drop
By Yilma Bekele
It is an old expression meaning waiting for something bad to happen. We Ethiopians are familiar with that expression. Yes sir, nobody can take that away from us. We are unsurpassed in the art of moving ከድ …
Tagged with: Africa, Ethiopia News, failed state, Meles Zenawi, TPLF, Woyanne
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Abune Zena Markos passed away
Ethiopian Review has been informed that His Holiness Abune Zena Markos passed away Saturday.
Abune Zena Markos has been the pillar of Ethiopian community in Seattle for the past several years. He is also one of the most revered figures …
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Netsanet LeEthiopia Radio on Eritrean worldwide march
The Washington DC-based Netsanet LeEthiopia Radio will have a special program on Eritrean worldwide march against UN sanction tomorrow, Sunday, Feb. 14, at 1:00 PM EST.
One of the cities where the march will be held is in Washington DC …
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Visiting Ethiopian freedom fighters (video)
The video below is about my recent visit with Ethiopian freedom fighters in the field. It shows training centers and fighters of Ethiopian People’s Patriotic Front, Ethiopian People’s Front for Justice and Equality, Tigray People’s Democratic Movement, Benishangul Liberation Front, …
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If I were the president – Messay Kebede
Ethiopian Review has asked scholars and prominent individuals what 10 things they would do immediately if they are elected president or prime minister of Ethiopia. The following is by Dr Messay Kebede. (Click here to read what others wrote…
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This week on Ethiopian Review’s Paltalk Room
Ethiopian Review’s Paltalk Room this Sunday, 14 Feb. 2010, will have two programs:
* 4:00 – 5:00 PM (Washington DC time)
Discussion on the upcoming selections in Ethiopia
* 5:00 – 6:00 PM (Washington DC time)
Discussion on Ethiopians …
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If I were the president – Sioum Gebeyehou
Ethiopian Review has asked scholars and prominent individuals what 10 things they would do immediately if they are elected president or prime minister of Ethiopia. The following is by Ato Sioum Gebeyehou. (Click here to read what others wrote…
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This is what African “leaders” do to their people (video)
Some readers were upset with me for calling African leaders “thieves and murderers” last week as they met in Addis Ababa for African Union meeting. Look at the video below and you will arrive at the same conclusion that these …
TEZA premiers in Maryland on Feb. 26
Hyattsville, Maryland — In celebration of Black History Month, the Anacostia Trails Heritage Area, (ATHA) Inc. and the Hyattsville Community Development Corporation (CDC), in cooperation with the City of Hyattsville, are proud to present the premiere Maryland showing of TEZA, …
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Robel Teklemariam receives a hero’s welcome in Vancouver
Ethiopian Winter Olympics athlete Robel Teklemariam arrived at Vancouver Airport (YVR) yesterday, Feb. 10, 2010, where he was warmly received by several Ethiopians adorning the tricolor flag. Upon arrival, Robel took photos with fans and signed autograph.
The Ethiopian community …
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The GDP propaganda
The Woyanne minority junta in Ethiopia, with the collaboration of the World Bank, has been disseminating misinformation about the phantom economic growth in Ethiopia. The following analysis by Gadaa.com exposes Woyanne’s GDP propaganda.
(Gadaa.com) — The real (inflation-adjusted) …
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If I were the president – Teddy Fikre
Ethiopian Review has asked scholars and prominent individuals what 10 things they would do immediately if they are elected president or prime minister of Ethiopia. The following is by Ato Teddy Fikre. (Click here to read what others wrote…
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Why March with Eritreans
By Amanuel Biedemariam
Every time Eritreans come across their Ethiopian counterpart, the favorite statement of Ethiopians is that we are the same. We are brothers. Well, here is your time to prove it!
Prove it by standing with your brothers …
Health minister contradicts govt claims on ET-409 crash
EDITOR’S NOTE: Lebanon’s Health Minister is contradicting claims and leaks by his own government that Ethiopian flight 409 crashed because of weather and pilot error. Jawad Khalifeh said yesterday that the plane exploded.
BEIRUT (AFP) — An Ethiopian jet which …
Ethiopian Airlines does not rule out sabotage
EDITOR’S NOTE: Ethiopian Airlines responds to leaked information that the crash of ET409 may have occurred due to pilot error. It is becoming all too apparent that the Lebanese regime, with the complicity of Woyanne, is trying to cover up …
More Woyanne propaganda assault against EPPF (video)
Woyanne junta chief Meles Zenawi told the opposition parties, if you want a change of government, do it like we did it, i.e., through armed struggle. The Ethiopian People’s Patriotic Front (EPPF) is doing just that. So why is Woyanne …
Ethiopian Hydropower-Plant Output Halted by Tunnel Collapse
By Jason McLure
ADDIS ABABA (Bloomberg) — Electricity output at Ethiopia’s largest hydropower generator, Gilgel Gibe II, has been halted after part of a tunnel that supplies water to the facility collapsed, the builder of the project said.
Production at …
Horn of Africa conference
Advocacy for Ethiopia hosts Conference on Good Governance, Peace, Security, and Sustainable Development in the Horn of Africa in Washington DC, from April 9 – 11, 2010.
Announcement and call for papers:
The Horn of Africa continues to be extremely …
Lebanese leak information on Ethiopian jet crash investigation
EDITOR’S NOTE: Any investigation conducted by the regimes in Lebanon and Ethiopia cannot be taken seriously. Both of them seem to have some thing to hide. The Lebanese, in particular, are acting in a highly suspicious manner.
BEIRUT (Reuters) — …
NBC Actor Andrew McCarthy arrested in Ethiopia
The star of NBC TV show “Lipstick Judge,” Andrew McCarthy, had a harrowing experience while on assignment for the travel magazine AFAR recently, as he was escorted at gunpoint out of an historic underground church for intruding without documentation.
On …
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Lebanon hands over ET-409 black box to France
ADDIS ABABA (PANA) — Lebanon will hand over the recovered Flight Data Recorder (Black Box) of the crashed Ethiopian Airlines jet, ET 409, to the French authorities for investigations, Ethiopian Airlines Chief Executive Girma Wake said on Sunday.
‘The flight …
Crashed Ethiopian plane’s black box recovered
Navy commandos have recovered the flight recorders from the Ethiopian Airlines jet that crashed off the coast of Lebanon last month, killing all 90 people on board.
The Lebanese military says navy commandos retrieved the jet’s flight data recorder and …
Western Diplomatic Omerta in Ethiopia
Alemayehu G. Mariam
Last week, in a piece reporting on the eerie silence of Western diplomats in Addis Abeba on Birtukan Midekssa, the first woman political party leader in Ethiopian history and Ethiopia’s # 1 political prisoner, Xan Rice, a …
Questions over Ethiopia dam persist
ADDIS ABABA (IPS) -- Ethiopia's regime is building a 240-metre high dam on the Omo River that is intended to end the country's electricity shortage and supply power to neighbouring countries. Not everyone's happy.
The Gilgel Gibe III dam will…
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Chinese is now being taught in Ethiopian schools
By Legesse Allyn
As I sit here reading EthiopianReview.com report that China may be investing in and unfairly influencing Ethiopia, even too much for Ethiopia’s own good, I reflect on my research of 20 years into the ancient Ethiopian investment …
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Searchers locate black boxes of crashed Ethiopian plane
Searchers located the black boxes of an Ethiopian Airlines plane that crashed in the sea off Lebanon last month killing 90 people, Transport Minister Ghazi Aridi said on Saturday.
“The boxes have been found under the rear part of the …
Ethiopian painter Adey Gulilat presents her work in Atlanta
Hanatzeb Ethiopian Art Gallery in Atlanta has invited Adey Gulilat, an accomplished Ethiopian artist and designer, to present her paintings this coming weekend.
Date: Saturday Feb. 6 and Sunday Feb 7, 2010
Time: 4:00 PM on Saturday and 2:00 PM …
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Gilgel Gibe tunnel collapsed two weeks after inauguration
By Peter Bosshard | International Rivers
On Januar 13, Ethiopia’s Prime Minister [genocidal dictator] Meles Zenawi inaugurated the Gilgel Gibe 2 scheme, the country’s biggest hydropower project. “It is possible to speed up development without polluting the environment,” Zenawi proudly …
Chinese workers injured in clashes with Woyanne in Mekele
By Girmay Gebru
MEKELE, ETHIOPIA (VOA) — An estimated 400 Chinese employees on strike for the past two weeks at the Messebo Cement Factory in Mekele charge some have suffered physical injuries in clashes with company officials over wages.
[Messebo …
ET-409 and the surplus Ethiopians
By Yilma Bekele
It took an article on LA Times to help me gather my thoughts together. I knew there was some thing missing in the story unfolding in front of me. The article by Alexandra Sandels and Borzou Daragahi …
Tagged with: Africa, ethio, Ethiopia News, ethiopian airlines, Meles, TPLF, Woyanne
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Al Amoudi demands retraction
The following is a letter from DLA Piper, a law firm in Washington DC.
February 5, 2010
Mr. Elias Kifle
Publisher, Ethiopian Review
Annandale, Virgina
Re: January 27, 2010 On-Line Article Entitles “Ethiopian billionaire’s daughter faces stoning in Saudi”
Dear …
OLF fighters attacked Woyannes in eastern Ethiopia
The Oromo Liberation Front (OLF) is reporting that members of its military wing, the Oromo Liberation Army (OLA), have killed 6 and wounded 9 Woyannes on January 21 in Hararge Zone, eastern Ethiopia.
The attack was carried out at two …
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Azeb and gang drive Ethiopian banks to the verge of collapse
By Abebe Gellaw
In mid-January, the ailing Development Bank of Ethiopia (DBE) declared once again that it is in need of rescue fund. The business weekly, Addis Fortune, reported that the bank called on the National Bank of Ethiopia (NBE) …
153 opposition party members arrested after protests
By Jason McLure
ADDIS ABABA, ETHIOPIA (Bloomberg) — At least 153 Ethiopian opposition party members were arrested after protests at a remote gold mine controlled by Ethiopian-born Saudi billionaire Sheikh Mohammed Al Amoudi, a leader of the opposition said.
“They …
Our misplaced rage at the Lebanese
By Fekade Shewakena
The harrowing experience of Ethiopians on the doomed Ethiopian airliner in the Mediterranean Sea last week, and the racist ways in which grieving Ethiopians who were trying to know the fate of their fellow Ethiopians on the …
Ethiopia’s ruling party says opposition may incite violence
By Jason McLure
ADDIS ABABA (Bloomberg) — Ethiopia’s ruling party said the country’s largest opposition grouping, the Forum for Democratic Dialogue (Medrek), would try to foment violence after elections scheduled for May in an effort to spur foreign governments to …
Proud Teddy at the Proud Bird in L.A.
Alemayehu G. Mariam
It is really great to be young; but for those who are not, the next best thing is to be at a Teddy Afro concert and jam late into the night with a ballroom full of irrepressible …
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Egypt to grow tobacco in Ethiopia
EDITOR’S NOTE: Grow tobacco while the people don’t have enough food to eat. Stupid.
CAIRO (Reuters) – Egypt’s cigarette monopoly Eastern Company (EAST.CA) is negotiating with the Ethiopian government ruling tribal junta in Ethiopia to buy 10-20 hectares of land …
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EPPF organizing town hall meeting in Washington DC
The Washington Metro Chapter of Ethiopian People’s Patriotic Front (EPPF) is organizing a town hall meeting to be held on February 20 in preparation for EPPF’s upcoming general assembly.
On January 24, a similar meeting was held in London by …
Posted in Ethiopia News
African thieves re-elect Meles Zenawi to represent them
ADDIS ABABA (APA) — The 14th African Union Summit on Tuesday unanimously re-elected Ethiopian Prime Minister genocidal dictator Meles Zenawi to represent Africa in future consecutive global climate conferences. [In Africa, failure and betrayal are rewarded. That is …
Selling away Ethiopia piecemeal (video)
Watch how the Meles crime family is selling away Ethiopia’s fertile land to foreign corporations while millions of Ethiopians are starving.
…
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Ethiopian student killed in Phoenix car crash involving police chase
By Michael Ferraresi | The Arizona Republic
PHOENIX — Dozens of friends gathered Monday at the Laveen home of an Arizona State University student killed in a traffic collision caused by a suspected red-light runner.
Abel Abebe, 27, an immigrant …
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Islamist groups unite and proclaim loyalty to al Qaeda
Somalia’s hardline al Shabaab insurgents have agreed to join forces with a smaller southern militia and both groups professed their loyalty to al Qaeda.
The failed Horn of Africa state has not had an effective central government for nearly two …
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World Bank, Microsoft Sign Agreement to Promote Development in Africa
ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia — The World Bank and Microsoft have announced a new partnership that will seek to reinforce social and economic development in Africa by leveraging information and communication technology (ICT). The two institutions signed a Memorandum of Understanding …
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POLITICS-SUDAN: Security Essential to Ensure Peaceful Elections
By Amelia Lawrence ADDIS ABABA , Feb 01 (IPS) Peace in Sudan remains an uncertainty ahead of the country’s first general elections in 24 years, according to the African Union Commission chief.
With two months to go before the decisive …
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POLITICS: Security Essential to Ensure Peaceful Elections
By Amelia Lawrence ADDIS ABABA , Feb 01 (IPS) Peace in Sudan remains an uncertainty ahead of the country’s first general elections in 24 years, according to the African Union Commission chief.
With two months to go before the decisive …
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Insuring Pastoralists Against Increasing Risks
By Susan Anyangu-Amu
NAIROBI (IPS) The droughts in the Turkana region were less severe when she was growing up, says Laura Letapalel, and pastoralists could still find some grass and water for their animals. Now, she laments, the droughts are…
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Ethiopians in Beirut hold memorial service for crash victims
By Joshua Hersh | The Faster Times
Sunday morning, I went with the photojournalist Matthew Cassel (Just Image) to the Ethiopian Full Gospel Church, in Sebtiyeh, just outside of Beirut, for Sunday services and the funeral of one …
Ethiopia, a victim of Western realpolitik
By Xan Rice | Mail & Guardian
At noon every Sunday an old Toyota sedan donated by supporters of Ethiopia’s most famous prisoner pulls up near a jail on the outskirts of the capital.
A 74-year-old woman in a white …
Putting Lipstick on a Pig, Ethiopian Style
Alemayehu G. Mariam
Last week, there was a great deal of teeth-gnashing, knuckle-cracking and gut-wrenching by Ethiopia’s dictators over Human Rights Watch’s (HRW) 2010 report. The dictators belched out much sound and fury that signified nothing. Their fury had to …
African leaders meet the master swindler in Addis Ababa
By Assta B. Gettu
African leaders gangsters have come in great numbers with great enthusiasm to Ethiopia’s capital Addis Ababa to get some more training in the art of robbery from the master of swindle, Meles Zenawi and his wife …
Yemen police arrests 95 Ethiopians
ABYAN, YEMEN (Saba) — Yemen law enforcement sources in the Abyan and Lahj provinces have arrested 95 Ethiopians, including 20 women, who have entered the country illegally, according to Interior Ministry.
In Ahwar, security forces have captured 89 Ethiopians and …
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Undeterred
By Teddy Fikre | Ethiopian-Americans For Change
I want to believe, I truly do. I want to believe that Ethiopians, Eritreans, the African Diaspora can throw off the collective chains of self imposed poverty and work together to a collective …
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The crew of Ethiopian Flight 409 (update)
* Captain Habtamu Benti Negasa
* Co-pilot Alula Tamerat
* Flight Attendant Seble Gebretsadik
* Flight Attendant Helen Addissie
* Flight Attendant Netsanet Yifru
* Flight Attendant Gelila Gedion
* Flight Lead Attendant Seblewengel Seyoum
R.I.P.
– – – – …
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4,000 thieves are headed for Addis Ababa
EDITOR’S NOTE: The ruling Woyanne junta in Ethiopia is hosting some 4,000 African heads of state and ministers looters and murderers in Addis Ababa for the African Union summit this week.
ADDIS ABABA (APA) — Ethiopia’s regime said …
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Ethiopian Airlines jet makes emergency landing in Chad
NDJAMENA (AFP) — An Ethiopian Airlines passenger jet which made an emergency landing in Chad due to a radar problem took off again today, but 120 of its 150 passengers refused to board, airport authorities said.
The plane, a Boeing …
Mortgage crisis to hit Ethiopia
The housing market bubble in Ethiopia is about to burst as mortgage holders, including many of those in the Diaspora, fail to make payments to the Commercial Bank of Ethiopia (CBE), an investigation by the Ethiopian Review Intelligence Unit reveals. …
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Ethiopian families grieve
Ethiopian families mourn for their loved ones who died in Monday’s plane crash (video)
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Ethiopian, Lebanese relations sour
By Dalila Mahdawi and Wassim Mroueh | The Daily Star
As investigations continue into the Ethiopian Airlines plane crash on Monday, relations between the Ethiopian and Lebanese communities seem to be under strain.
Ethiopian Airlines flight ET409 crashed into the …
Crashed Ethiopian Airlines black boxes have been found, not yet recovered
Search teams on Thursday sought to recover the black boxes from an Ethiopian aircraft that crashed off Lebanon’s coast, with hope the data would provide answers to the mystery surrounding the tragedy.
“We expect to have them some time today,” …
EPPF in London holds historic meetings
The U.K. chapter of Ethiopian People’s Patriotic Front (EPPF) held a historic meeting in London Sunday, January 24 where for the first time Ethiopians and Eritreans came together under one roof to discuss about their common interests.
The public meeting …
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Meles writes Obama
By Yilma Bekele
To my dear friend Barack Obama. I hope this letter finds you well. We are doing fine here in this location that will stay nameless. Except for that little matter of famine, deflation and inflation most things …
Tagged with: Africa, ethio, Ethiopia News, ginbot7, Kenya, Meles Zenawi, Obama, Woyanne
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U.S. Navy locates Ethiopian flight 409 black boxes
By Yara Bayoumy
BEIRUT (Reuters) – A U.S. navy vessel located on Wednesday the flight recorders from an Ethiopian Airlines plane that crashed off the coast of Lebanon two days ago with 90 people aboard, a security official said.
“The …
The truth must be told about Ethiopian Flight 409
By Mengistu Adugna
Over the last few days, most of us have been in sombre sadness disheartened by the disaster of the Ethiopian Airlines Flight FT-409 destined Beirut to Addis Ababa – leading to the death of 90 people onboard …
AI calls on Ethiopia’s dictator not to execute Melaku Tefera
Amnesty International (AI) has called on Ethiopian authorities not to execute Melaku Tefera, a member of the Union for Democracy and Justice Party (UDJ), the only one of five men sentenced to death on 22 December 2009 who remains in …
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The kidnapping of Awassa University students
It’s been more than a week since anyone has heard from three students kidnapped from the Awassa University campus in southern Ethiopia by government security forces, according to the Human Rights League of the Horn of Africa …
Ethiopian Flight 409 black box found
(BBC) — The “black box” flight recorders from a passenger jet which crashed off the coast of Lebanon two days ago have been found, officials say.
A search team located the recorders from the Ethiopian Airlines flight just over 1.3km …
Correction: Captain originally assigned to fly ET-409 escapes crash
Ethiopian Airlines sources have revealed that the captain who was originally assigned to fly Ethiopian Airlines Flight 409 was not on board when the plane crashed into the Mediterranean Sea.
According to Ethiopian Review sources, Captain Amaha Fisseha went to …
Lebanon’s mistreatment of grief-stricken Ethiopians
By Patrick Galey
Even though there were nine nationalities aboard the Boeing 737 jet which burst into flames and crashed into the sea minutes after taking off in a violent thunderstorm on Monday morning, the Lebanese, naturally enough, only concerned …
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Lightning reported in the path of crashed Ethiopian plane
(AccuWeather) — Frequent lightning was in the area of Monday morning’s Ethiopian Airlines Flight 409 crash into the Mediterranean Sea, according to data compiled by AccuWeather.com.
“A significant bolt was detected at 2:37 a.m., local time, 10 miles …
Ethiopian billionaire’s daughter faces stoning in Saudi
The identity of the alleged Saudi Princess given secret asylum in the United Kingdom early last year has now been revealed. The young woman, who is in her late 20s is reported to be Sarah Mohammed Al-Amoudi, originally from …
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Flight 409 pilot flew into violent storms
By Charles Bremner | Times Online
The crew of an Ethiopian airliner that crashed off Lebanon on Monday apparently flew into violent storms after failing to follow controllers’ instructions to avoid them, it emerged today.
“A traffic control recording shows …
China’s massive investment in Ethiopia at what cost?
By Mary Fitzgerald | Irish Times
ADDIS ABABA, ETHIOPIA — China’s minister for commerce says trade with Ethiopia will reach $3 billion by 2015
ASK AN Addis Ababa taxi driver to take you to Ethio-China Friendship Road and he might …
The mystery of Ethiopian Airlines Flight 409
By Charles Bremner | TimesOnline
Stormy weather or sabotage are being cited in the aviation world as possible factors in the crash of Ethiopian Airlines flight 409 off Beirut.
There is no evidence yet to suggest what caused the modern …
Names of Ethiopian Airlines Flight 409 passengers
All the Ethiopians are women whom the Woyanne junta exploits by exporting them to Arab countries as domestic workers.
Names of passengers aboard Ethiopian Airlines Flight 409:
1) Addis Abera Demise (Ethiopia)
2) Bahrnesh Megersa (Ethiopia)
3) Kidist Wolde Mariam …
No survivors found in Ethiopian Airlines plane crash (video)
Update
BEIRUT, Lebanon (Los Angeles Times) Airlines flight that crashed into the sea early Monday during a fierce winter storm.
The Boeing 737-800 bound for Addis Ababa, Ethiopia’s capital, was carrying eight crew members and 82 passengers when it crashed …
Notice to Ethiopians: You are Being Evicted from Ethiopia
By Obang Metho
Imagine this notice being posted in Ethiopia:
People of Ethiopia:
You are hereby warned; you are being given notice of your eviction from the country. You are no longer welcome here. Find a new place to live. …
Ethiopian Airline flight crashes, no word on survivors
An Ethiopian Airlines plane with 90 people on board crashed into the sea shortly after taking off from Beirut in stormy weather early on Monday. The airline’s chief executive said there was no word of survivors.
The Boeing 737-800, heading …
U.S. Part of Lebanon Search
We're told the US Navy is part of an international effort to find any survivors of the Ethiopian Air Lines crash off Beirut Lebanon. The 6th Fleet guided missile destroyer USS Ramage which was on maneuvers in the area is …
Rescue teams search for survivors in Ethiopian plane crash (video)
Lebanese rescue teams Monday recovered 10 bodies from the wreckage of an Ethiopian airliner that plunged into the Mediterranean Sea minutes after takeoff in heavy rains and storms from the Beirut International Airport earlier in the day.
“We have so …
Worries growing about Ethiopia elections – The Economist
ADDIS ABABA (The Economist) — Worries about Ethiopia’s election, due in May, are growing. Aid-giving Western governments hope it will pass off without the strife that followed the last one, in 2005, when 200 people were killed, thousands …
Storm appears to have caused the crash of Ethiopian Airlines jet
A fierce storm appears to have caused the crash of an Ethiopian Airline jet that plunged in a ball of fire into the sea with 90 people on board, Lebanese Defense Minister Elias Murr said yesterday.
“Bad weather was apparently …
Ethiopian plane crash should not sully success story
When news of the Ethiopian Airlines plane crash broke this morning my heart sank at the thought of covering yet another negative story about Ethiopia.
It’s particularly galling for Ethiopians that the airline is one of the few international success …
The Democracy Before Democracy in Africa
Alemayehu G. Mariam
Since the dawn of African independence from colonialism in the early 1960s, African liberation leaders and founding fathers qua dictators, military junta and “new breed” leaders have sought to justify the one-man, one-party state — and avoid …
Ethiopian Airlines jet crashes after taking off from Beirut
BEIRUT (Reuters) – An Ethiopian Airlines plane with 85 passengers on board crashed into the Mediterranean sea shortly after taking off from Beirut international airport in the early hours of Monday, airport sources said. The plane, said to be a …
Ethiopia on a deteriorating human rights trajectory
(HRW) — Ethiopia is on a deteriorating human rights trajectory as parliamentary elections approach in 2010. These will be the first national elections since 2005, when post-election protests resulted in the deaths of at least 200 protesters, many …
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Ogaden civilians fight back Woyanne death squads
(Ogaden Online) — Reports reaching the Ogaden Online service desk from the city of Diridhaba in the province of Shiniile confirm the existence of a recent pitched battle that took place between the Tigrean People’s Liberation Front (TPLF) troops stationed …
Posted in Ethiopia News
How will Chinese culture influence Africa?
So far, media coverage of China’s involvement in Africa has mostly been about investment. Stories of Chinese engineers in hard hats standing by roads up mountains in Ethiopia. Stories of Chinese farmers moving to Zambia.
But, in a push to …
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