By Mikias Sebsibe | The Reporter
Awash Construction SC, the state-owned construction enterprise, filed a lawsuit against Wegagen Bank, which is owned by a former member of the Tigray People Liberation Front (TPLF) politburo Sebhat Nega, for the recovery of …
Alemayehu G. Mariam
Western Donors as Accessories to “Democricide” in Ethiopia
The helping hand that feeds Ethiopians is the same hand that helps bleed Ethiopia. Every year, the U.S., U.K, Germany, the Netherlands, Canada, Japan and other Western countries hand …
Meles Zenawi’s new, non-Tigrean, “Foreign Affairs Minister” Hailemariam Desalegn has assumed his position and one of his first major tasks is a meeting with an English football team, while the real Foreign Affairs Minister, Berhan GebreKristos, a central committee …
Ben Rawlence, author of a new Human Rights Watch report, “How Aid Underwrites Repression in Ethiopia,” accuses the World Bank of feeding repressing in Ethiopia in his latest piece posted today on HuffingtonPost.com. He writes:
…Publicly, the World Bank
The 5th Anniversary of Ethiopian Election Massacre Remembrance task force invites patriotic Ethiopians around the world to participate in a worldwide volunteers conference that will be held on Sunday, Oct. 24, at 4:00 PM Washington DC time.
The conference will …
A collection of international aid agencies in Ethiopia that has named itself Development Assistance Group (DAG) has issued a statement rejecting a recent report by Human Rights Watch that points out how foreign aid is being used by the ruling …
Brave Ethiopians in Seattle have dispersed a meeting called by Woyanne cadres Friday afternoon.
Woyanne Minister of Youth and Sports Aster Mamo and two other ruling party officials were scheduled to speak at public meeting.
After chasing away the Woyannes, …
By Mesrak Gessesse
October is “Breast Cancer Awareness Month” in the United States. I am writing this “letter” in hopes of raising greater awareness about the disease among Ethiopian women and encouraging them to fight the disease effectively with early …
NEWS RELEASE
Ethiopians from various cities in the U.S., Canada, Europe and Australia held a conference on Saturday to discuss and coordinate plans for the upcoming 5th anniversary of the Ethiopian Election Massacre.
The participants discussed and updated each other …
The Ethiopian Sports Federation in North America (ESFNA) is engulfed in a controversy after its Woyanne-infested 9-member executive committee has tried to reverse the 27-member board’s decision to invite Birtukan Mideksa as a guest of honor.
As reported earlier (see …
The worldwide conference to commemorate the 5th anniversary of Ethiopian election massacre will be broadcast live via video, audio and teleconference on Sunday, November 7, 2010, starting at 2 PM Washington DC time.
Teleconference
Dial: 712 432 0075, and …
Ethiopia’s despot Meles Zenawi appointed HaileMariam Desalegn as Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs. Yesterday, new ministers of state were appointed and Meles loyalist and TPLF Central Committee member Berhane GebreKristos is given the foreign ministry, keeping the …
6:30 PM — Hundreds of Ethiopians in the Washington DC Area are holding candle light vigil for Ali Mohammed on 9th and U Street. The vigil started at 6 PM. [Read about Ali here]
[Photos by Abebe Belew and …
Ali Mohammed’s family and friends, in collaboration with Ethiopian civic groups in the Washington DC Metro Area, are holding a candle light vigil at corner of 9th and U Street tonight starting at 6 PM.
Ali, a young Ethiopian man, …
Over the weekend, the Ethiopian Sports Federation in North America’s (ESFNA) board decided to invite Birtukan Mideksa as a guest of honor at its annual event (read here.) Today we have learned that the Woyanne-infiltrated 9-member executive committee of …
Human Rights Watch has released a 111-page report that discusses how the $3 billion Ethiopia’s dictatorship receives annual from foreign donors is fueling the Meles regime’s machinery of repression while contributing little or nothing for the country’s development. HRW writes:…
The Ethiopian Sports Federation in North America (ESFNA) board members held a meeting over the weekend to plan for its annual event. Toward the end of the meeting, the board members voted to invite Birtukan Mideksa as a guest of …
Following recent consolidation of power by Ethiopia’s despot Meles Zenawi and his wife Azeb Mesfin, several high-ranking and mid-level members of the ruling Tigray People Liberation Front (TPLF) have lost their jobs. Many of these TPLFites have been living in …
By Alemayehu G. Mariam
Ethiopian Citizens Have the Absolute Constitutional Right to Listen to the VOA
So many lessons to learn from Columbia University! When dictator-in-chief Meles Zenawi spoke unceremoniously at Columbia on September 22, he was talking trash about …
UPDATE ( Oct. 17): A preliminary hearing has been scheduled for November 11 at the DC Superior Court. Also watch the video below.
(Oct. 16) — The owner and 4 employees of DC9, a night club on Washington DC’s …
ATLANTA (WSBTV) — A limo driver who disappeared nearly a week ago turned up late Thursday night with no explanation.
Negero Debero, a native of Ethiopia, disappeared last weekend, sparking a search when police found his smashed Lincoln town car …
By Hindessa Abdul
Ethiopia[‘s dictator] has minted a new ministry of Communication and Information Technology. It is not yet clear what it is officially entrusted to do. The most obvious thing though, the country has largely missed out on information …
The 22-yea-old daughter of Ethiopia’s despot Meles Zenawi pukes from over-eating and drinking…
… while over 80,000 resident of the capital city, including children, survive by eating trash (see here) at the city dump. See more photos here about …
Some families whose loved ones are buried at the St. Joseph (Kidus Yosef) Cemetery in Ethiopia’s capital Addis Ababa have contacted Ethiopian Review with information that the land is needed for development and that they need to remove the remains …
The video below shows a shocking story about 80,000 Ethiopians who survive on trash at the Addis Ababa city dump in an area called Korah. Many of the people who scavenge through the trash are children and women. These people …
By Neamin Zeleke
Two or three decades ago, every Ethiopian from each imaginable sector of society would have been grossly offended by the utterly sad spectacle of the brave Birtukan Mediksa, a defenseless woman, a mother of a child, paraded …
A fight broke out at a ruling party meeting chaired by Meles Zenawi last month, which ended with his spokesperson, Bereket Simon, flat on the floor, according to reliable sources close to the ruling party.
Bereket had to get medical …
By Yilma Bekele
Birtukan Mideksa is out of jail. Without exception (not including Woyane thugs) all Ethiopians are pleased. After all we are the reason why she went to jail isn’t it?
I heard about Wz. Birtukan five years ago. …
It has been crystal clear for a while that the West (U.S., U.K., Germany others) will not be of any help to the struggle for freedom in Ethiopia. In fact, they are fueling the repression with billions of dollars in …
Just a couple of decades ago Khat (ጫት) consumption was limited to a small area of Ethiopia, mainly eastern and south eastern of the country. Today, Khat use is pervasive in all parts of Ethiopia, except the Tigray region where …
Swedish based international call firm Rebtel have been making a splash in the area of international calls for quite some time now and once again, the company have posted outstanding results from the US, based on their share of the …
Alemayehu G. Mariam
An October to Remember
The great American novelist Thomas Wolfe wrote: “All things on earth point home in old October; sailors to sea, travellers to walls and fences, hunters to field and hollow and the long voice …
NEWS RELEASE
Ethiopian civic and political groups, media, activists, scholars, and artists announce that November becomes “Ethiopian Election Massacre” commemoration month around the world. In preparation to commemorate the 5th anniversary of the Ethiopian Election Massacre, a worldwide task force …
The man who is fondly called by TPLFites (Woyannes) as Abo Sebhat is reportedly spending more of his time in his home region of Tigray after the ruling couple Meles Zenawi and Azeb Mesfin unceremoniously ousted him from the party …
TIME magazine writes about opposition leader Birtukan Mideksa’s release and questions whether it is for show. TIME also points about the West’s implicit approval of Meles Zenawi’s anti-human rights conducts by continuing to give him hundreds of millions of dollars …
Ethiopia’s beggar dictator Meles Zenawi thought by forcing opposition leader Birtukan Mideksa to sign an apology letter he can humiliate her and her supporters. But when you look at the interview she was forced to give today on the Woyanne-controlled …
By Yilma Bekele
Opposition leader Bertukan Mideksa has been released from Kaliti jail after spending six hundred forty four days, one hundred forty of it in solitary confinement. We are happy she is reunited with her family and loved ones.…
Birtukan Mideksa has been released today after spending over 600 days in jail, out of which 200 days in solitary confinement where she was subjected to mental torture. The Woyanne beasts released her having accomplished their mission of conducting a …
The arrest of Birtukan Mideksa was a criminal act in the first place
Ethiopian civic, political, and media groups, as well as activists in the Diaspora held a meeting today and issued the following statement on the release of Birtukan …
Ethiopian Review sources in Addis Ababa are reporting that opposition leader Birtukan Mideksa has been released today.
Birtukan was thrown in jail by the ethnic apartheid junta in Ethiopia almost 2 years ago, Dec. 29, 2010.
Birtukan left Kality jail …
In a cabinet reshuffle that is announced today, Ethiopia’s khat-addicted dictator Meles Zenawi has replaced TPLF veterans Seyoum Mesfin and others with puppets like Hailemariam Desalegn (photo on the right). Dumber than a door knob, Hailemariam’s only qualification is the …
A press conference is scheduled for tomorrow by Prof. Ephraim Isaac and other members of the elders committee regarding the release of Birtukan Mideksa, a political prisoner and chairperson of the opposition Unity for Democracy and Justice Party (UDJ) of …
Hailemariam Dessalegn, Abadula Gemeda and other puppets were summoned to Ethiopia’s fake parliament yesterday to officially “elect” their puppet-master Meles Zenawi as prime minister for another five years. VOA reports the daytime realty show as follows:
(VOA) — Ethiopian Prime …
Kjetil Tronvoll will speak at Colombia University on
Ethiopia: Towards Totalitarian State?
Time: Tuesday, October 5, 2010, 12:00pm – 2:00pm
Place: Knox Hall
Kjetil Tronvoll is professor of human rights at the University of Oslo and holds professorial competence in …
Abigail, the daughter of our own Prof. Alemayehu G. Mariam, has been named “Young Humanitarian of the Year” by the California-based St. Mary Hospital Foundation.
It is not surprising that Abi is named a humanitarian. Her father, who is giving …
The Oromo Liberation Front (OLF) was engulfed by a disastrous internal crisis during the past two years. This week, it was announced that the crisis has finally been resolved. The leadership with split in to two camps — one led …
Alemayehu G. Mariam
“Let Ethiopians Debate Ethiopia”
Following Meles Zenawi’s speech at Columbia University on September 22, Prof. William Easterly of New York University expressed his delight in seeing Ethiopians “participating in a debate about Ethiopia.” In his AID WATCH …
The Washington DC-based Addis Dimts Radio is holding its annual event this coming Sunday, Oct. 3, 2010, at the Washington DC Marriott Hotel.
The event includes cultural music, discussion of current issues related to Ethiopia, and various other activities.
Addis …
Ethiopians who oppose Meles Zenawi’s ethnic apartheid tyranny persistently ask the U.S. and European governments to stop financing the regime, while forgetting that we in the Diaspora send over a billion dollars in hard currency to Ethiopia per year in …
Woyanne apartheid regime is busy getting U.S. universities carry out development projects in Tigray with funds received in the name of Ethiopia. The water capacity building project in Tigray by the University of Connecticut that is reported below is a …
First, Columbia University moved the speech venue from the grand Low Library to a campus auditorium. Then the university president avoided being seen with Ethiopian despot Meles Zenawi, and sent his deputy. Just to make sure there is no World …
Member of European Parliament Ana Gomes asks President Zuma of South Africa to help release Ethiopian Birtukan Mideksa
(Brussels) MEP Ana GOMES (S&D, PT) asked President Jacob Zuma of South Africa today, during a meeting of the Foreign Affairs Committee …
By Duncan Green
OK, back to Ethiopia week. On leaving Addis, we head off to the Rift Valley on one of Ethiopia’s many excellent roads (shame about the driving…) to an enormous flower farm owned by a company called Sher, …
By Yilma Bekele
It was a beautiful weekend in Oakland. It was sunny, warm and clear blue skies. We celebrated Meskel like never before. Every year you see more young ones scurrying around between your legs and all over the …
The politburo member of Eritrea’s ruling party, PFDJ, Ato Yemane Gebreab, visits Washington DC. Ato Yemane, who also serves as political adviser to President Isaias Afwerki, met with Eritrean community leaders and youth association members on Saturday.
Contrary to reports …
In a recently published book, World Bank economist Dr Aklog Birara explains that Ethiopia’s largest export has become educated citizens. Ethiopia’s highly educated people are leaving the country in staggering numbers, depriving the country the social capital that is required …
Alemayehu G. Mariam
After the Dust Settled
After the dust settled following Meles Zenawi’s speech at Columbia’s World Leaders Forum, a dark shadow and glowing light were visible on stage to behold. The dark shadow was cast by the …
Unable to freely live and work in their own country, Ethiopians are migrating to Kenya in unprecedented numbers. In exile their dreams of better life turn into more nightmares as they fall prey to corrupt authorities and human traffickers. What …
Columbia University Protest Organizers issue the New York Manifesto
Following the successful demonstration staged against the visit of the Ethiopian dictator to Columbia University, the organizers of the protest from New York, D.C. area, and other north-eastern states issued the …
A court in Kenya sentences 89 Ethiopian refugees 10,000 shillings each and orders their immediate deportation. These Ethiopians went to Kenya to escape from the fascist junta in Ethiopia led by the despot Meles Zenawi. Kenya court’s decision is not …
Azeb Mesfin, the wife of Ethiopia’s despot Meles Zenawi, has been on a shopping spree in Washington DC these past two days while her husband is in New York, according to Ethiopian Review sources.
On Wednesday, Azeb was seen shopping …
By Alemayehu G. Mariam
Reinventing Zenawi
In 47 B.C., the Roman Emperor Julius Ceasar sent his senators news of his military victory in a simple declaration: “Veni, Vidi, Vici.” (I came, I saw, I conquered.) “Emperor” Meles Zenawi, …
Ethiopia’s genocidal regime led by the Woyanne junta has a new propaganda strategy. Here it is: After conducting a fake election in May 2010 and claimed to have won 99.6 percent of the seats in parliament, its propaganda chief Bereket …
Today’s event at Columbia University was a huge disaster for Woyanne. In having Meles Zenawi invited to the University to give keynote address on African leadership, his supporters intended to revive his image that has been soiled with the blood …
Ethiopia’s genocidal despot gave a short speech today at Columbia University, which was followed by 20 minutes of questions and answers. The whole program took less than 1 hour.
The University’s president, Lee Bollinger, did not show up at the …
6:30 PM – The demonstration at Columbia against the despot in Ethiopia is now over. The protesters are dispersing. Today’s demonstration has been exceedingly successful in that it has educated Columbia University and others about Zenawi’s dictatorship and the devastation …
Ethiopian Review sources in Addis Ababa are reporting that Meles Zenawi’s Woyanne junta has blocked Columbia Spectator from being accessed in Ethiopia’s capital.
We have independently verified the report with multiple sources. In Bahr Dar and a few other cities, …
Columbia University has announced today that Ethiopia’s dictator Meles Zenawi is still scheduled to speak Wednesday at 4 PM, but the speech has been moved to a smaller venue, according to Columbia Spectator.
The University did not explain the …
The following is a letter by Prof. Theodore M. Vestal of Oklahoma State University to Columbia University president Lee Bollinger on the invitation of Ethiopia’s tyrant:
Dear President Bollinger:
I am a constitutional scholar who has admired your writing …
Alemayehu G. Mariam
Zenawi’s Charm Offensive in America?
Fresh on the heels of shutting down all private distance education, including distance higher education, and “winning” the parliamentary election in May by 99.6 percent, dictator-in-chief Meles Zenawi is scheduled to speak …
On its Sunday editorial, Columbia Spectator has asked students at Columbia University to show care about Ethiopia and speak out against the despot, Meles Zenawi. The paper expressed its disappointment that Meles Zenawi’s visit to the campus is not receiving …
A newspaper run by Columbia students, Columbia Spectator, writes about student reactions to the invitation to Ethiopia’s genocidal tyrant Meles Zenawi to give keynote address on September 22.
Initially, Columbia asked Meles to speak about Ethiopia and African leadership…
For the past 20 years, the Ethiopian people have suffered from repressive political governance and a socioeconomic architecture that has enabled a minority-ethnic based leftist political party, the Tigray Peoples’ Liberation Front, to dominate the national economy by merging ethnicity, …
The Oakland Institute has released a report titled (Mis)Investment in Agriculture: The Role of the International Finance Corporation in the Global Land Grab, which points out that more than 13 million Ethiopians are in need of food aid, “but …
By William Easterly
I have been getting a lot of email from Ethiopian-Americans who are very upset that Columbia University has invited Prime Minister Meles Zenawi to speak this coming Wednesday, like this one:
…Most of the professors who
In an email message sent to Columbia Economics faculty, world-renowned economist, Jagdish Bhagwati, vehemently denounces the ill-advised tribute earlier accorded to Ethiopia’s dictator, Meles Zenawi.
Characterizing the Columbia faculty who were behind the invitation of Zenawi as “entrepreneurs,” Professor …
Columbia president Lee Bollinger tries to portray the university as an oasis of free speech that is tolerant of even dictators such as Meles Zenawi who repress their people.
However, a speech freedom group named Foundation for Individual Rights in …
It may be hard for those who are as yet not aware of the relationship between Meles on the one hand, and Professors Jeffrey Sachs and Joseph Stiglitz on the other hand, to imagine that two renowned scholars from a …
When many of us learned about Columbia University’s invitation to dictator Meles Zenawi to give a keynote address on “leadership,” it was not difficult to figure out who were behind it — Sachs and Stiglitz, two American professors who exhibit …
Selling away Ethiopia’s fertile lands piece by piece to foreigners is one of Meles Zenawi’s methods of looting the country. The money he receives in hard currency leaves the country while the people of Ethiopia are stuck with agreements that …
Ethiopians are organizing a protest rally asking Columbia University to disinvite genocidal dictator Meles Zenawi. The protest organizers urge every one to join the demonstration on Sept. 22, 2010, at 2 PM. Place: Columbia University, Broadway and 116th Street, New …
By Yilma Bekele
Let just say it is painful to hear that a prestigious University like Columbia has invited Ethiopia’s tyrannical leader Meles Zenawi to speak at the annual World Leaders Forum. As an Ethiopian I feel insulted and mocked …
Alemayehu G. Mariam
September 17, 2010
President Lee C. Bollinger
Office of the President
Columbia University
202 Low Library
535 West 116th Street
New York, NY 10027
By Fax: (212) 854-9973 and
Email: [email protected]
Dear President Bollinger:
On September 22, …
Dictator Meles Zenawi said his country is expected to achieve the World Banks’s (WB) lower-middle income level classification by 2015, under the recently launched development and transformation plan – a new strategy aimed at creating an ambitious 15% growth in …
Columbia Spectator, a daily paper produced by Columbia University students, investigates how the university came up with the statement that described Ethiopia’s tyrant as a “seasoned” leader.
…We just told you about how the website for the World Leaders Forum,
Armin Rosen of Reason Magazine presents a powerful argument against Columbia University’s invitation to Ethiopia’s genocidal tyrant:
…Whoever signed off on inviting Meles Zenawi to speak at Columbia University’s World Leaders Forum probably figured that the Ethiopian dictator’s obscurity would
Columbia University’s daily paper, Columbia & Spectator, has written about the invitation to Meles Zenawi and the controversy that it has caused.
World Leaders site raises eyebrows
By Alix Pianin
The World Leaders Forum is no stranger to controversy—its famous …
The following letter was sent to Ethiopian Review today by Robert Hornsby, Director of Media Relations, Columbia University:
from: Robert Hornsby
to: Elias Kifle
The longstanding editorial policy of the World Leaders Forum website has been to provide only the …
Columbia University posted the following statement about Meles Zenawi and later removed it after receiving complaints from angry Ethiopians:
…Under the seasoned governmental leadership of Prime Minister Meles Zenawi, now in his fourth term, and vision of the Tigrai Peoples
Below is a powerful letter addressed to Professor Joseph E. Stiglitz who has invited Ethiopia’s genocidal tyrant to Columbia University to talk about “leadership” in Africa.
– – – – –
Joseph E. Stiglitz
University Professor
Uris Hall, Room 814, …
The TPLF-junta controlled Ethiopian News Agency (ENA) reported today that Ethiopian Airlines CEO Girma Wake has been replaced by Tewolde G. Mariam.
The news doesn’t indicate why Seyoum Mesfin, chairman of Ethiopian Airlines’ board, decided to replace Girma, who has …
In announcing the invitation to Ethiopia’s brutal tyrant, Columbia University had posted the following appalling statement on its web site:
…Under the seasoned governmental leadership of Prime Minister Meles Zenawi, now in his fourth term, and vision of the Tigrai
A committee of Ethiopian in the Tri-State Area (New York, New Jersey and Connecticut) has issued a press release today calling for a “Grand Public Demonstration Against Dictator Meles Zenawi at Columbia University.”
Date/Time: Sep. 22, 2010, 3:00 PM
Place: …
Columbia University in New York has invited Ethiopia’s genocidal dictator Meles Zenawi to give a speech on September 22, 2010.
The brutal dictator is asked to give a keynote address “on the topic of Ethiopia and African Leadership.”
Click here …
The Los Angeles Little Ethiopia neighborhood hosted its 9th annual street festival on Sunday, September 12. Over 20 Ethiopian businesses in Los Angeles took part in the festival. Shockingly, the Woyanne cadres in Los Angeles were also given a table …
Encouraged by the worldwide attention it has drawn, organizers of Facebook’s Free Birtukan Week have extended the campaign until the end of September.
The organizers also want to involve other social networks and IMs, including Myspace, Linkedin, Digg, Yahoo Buzz, …
Alemayehu G. Mariam
The great Nelson Mandela said, “In my country we go to prison first and then become President.” He assured the masters of the apartheid system, “You may succeed in delaying, but never in preventing the transition of …
The biggest loser in this week’s reshuffle inside the TPLF top leadership is the 72-year-old Sibhat Nega, who was a one-time chairman and most powerful person inside the tribal organization that is currently ruling Ethiopia.
The media that is under …
By Elias Kifle
EthioMedia.com has been publishing a series of articles [1, 2] by some one pen named Tikur Chaka in the past few weeks. I have received requests by some EPPF supporters and Ethiopian Review readers …
The 10th conference of the ruling Tigray People’s Liberation Front (Woyanne) this week selects new executive and central committees. The selection brought little change. Some of the changes are:
Sibhat Nega has been forced out. His ouster has been engineered …