NAIROBI, Kenya — A major security operation targeting Ethiopian immigrants was conducted in Nairobi on Wednesday night where 30 Ethiopians were arrested.
Police said the operation is part of tight security measures put in place to curb crime rates in …
Ethiopian Satellite Television (ESAT) that is gaining wide popularity in Ethiopia has announced today that its broadcast is back on air after a brief interruption.
“The ESAT team has worked hard to resolve the interference problem in the past weeks,” …
Memher Zebene, the charlatan preacher who has been causing havoc at the MedhaneAlem Ethiopian Orthodox Church in Maryland, has finally succeeded this Sunday in taking over the church.
In the period leading up to Sunday’s vote, Zebene and friends have …
By Elias Kifle
I am encouraged by the positive feedback I am getting from many people who attended my debate with Ethiomedia’s editor Abraha Belai Saturday in Qale Ethiopia’s Paltalk room, which was attended by some 400 people Saturday. The …
KAMPALA, UGANDA — Three bombs exploded inside a restaurant in a Kampala neighborhood known as Ethiopian village Sunday night. The blasts killed more than 40 people, a Ugandan newspaper reported.
The New Vision, which attributed the death toll to witnesses, …
By Alemayehu G. Mariam
Note: This is my sixth and final commentary on the theme “Where do we go from here?” following the rigged May 2010 elections in Ethiopia in which the ruling dictatorship won by 99.6 percent [1]. In …
Qale Ethiopian Discussion Forum in Paltalk will host an interview this coming Sunday at 2:00 PM Washington DC time (7:00 PM London time) with Ato Luel Qeskis, former Kinijit member of parliament and currently EPPF Central Committee member, and Ato …
Those who know the history of Ethiopia and the Ethiopian people know it well. International scholars, philanthropists, community and international organizations like the United Nations speak volumes about the history of a nation that safe guarded its independence from colonialism, …
By Lee Hyo-won
A Greek war correspondent travels across the globe to cover the first armed clash of the Cold War. But instead of trailing the battlefield feats of his countrymen in the Korean War (1950-53), he ends up writing …
Prof. Chojnacki was a teacher and friend to a generation of Ethiopians
Stanislaw Chojnacki was a librarian, professor, historian and horiculturalist, but his friends will remember him as the kindest and gentlest person they have known.
“He never tolerated anything, …
Ethiomedia.com editor Abraha Belai and EthiopianReview.om editor Elias Kifle will be guests in Paltalk’s Qale Room to debate current Ethiopian political issues: Saturday, July 10, starting at 2 PM New York Time. …
Close to 500 people, who claim to have been deceived by Askallucan Trading Plc were seen gathered outside the headquarters of the Ethiopian Radio and Television Agency (ERTA) located at Churchill Avenue on June 24, 2010.
Yidenekachew Abebe, 28, was …
By Adel Elbahnsawy
In line with Egypt’s policy of increasing investments in Ethiopia, a number of Egyptian businessmen have recently established a consulting firm in Ethiopia, said Mohamed Shaker el-Marqabi, member of the Egyptian-Ethiopian Business Council and head of the …
Samuel Getachew, an Ethiopian-Canadian who is running for Toronto City Council seat, is proposing that Toronto’s Danforth neighborhood be named “Little Ethiopia” in the following article that was published on Toronto Sun today.
Does Little Ethiopia belong on Danforth?
By …
The world’s earliest illustrated Christian book has been saved by a British charity which located it at a remote Ethiopian monastery.
The incredible Garima Gospels are named after a monk who arrived in the African country in the fifth century …
Note: This is my fifth commentary on the theme “Where do we go from here?” following the rigged May 2010 elections in Ethiopia in which the ruling dictatorship won by 99.6 percent [1]. In this piece, I express deep regrets …
The ruling Woyanne junta’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Ethiopia has posted on its web site an article that attacks Jason McClure, a correspondent for Bloomberg and Newsweek. Jason has been targeted by the genocidal regime because he dared to …
This week a conference is taking place in Mekele by Eritrean opposition groups under the auspices of Meles Zenawi’s regime in Ethiopia. One of the meeting’s main agenda is how to overthrow the current Eritrean government. The other main agenda …
In a speech in Poland at Community of Democracies meeting, U.S. chief diplomat Hillary Clinton pointed to the regime in Ethiopia as one of the enemies of civil societies. Read the full text of her speech below:
By Hillary Rodham …
Last week the leaders of the world’s largest economies met at the G20 Summit in Toronto. The key items on the agenda were global economic recovery, sustainable and environmentally-friendly growth, and the impact of the recession on social justice. Special …
By Carl LeVan
According to a “sensitive but unclassified” report from the U.S. State Department’s Inspector General on the US Embassy in Ethiopia just released, the Embassy suffered high staff turnover in the wake of unpopular decisions pushed through by …
The Meles regime plays China against the U.S. as more U.S. officials express discontent with worsening political crisis in Ethiopia. The news below about Woyanne’s military cooperation with China is Meles Zenawi’s way of telling the U.S. that ‘I do …
The U.N. and United States Department of State are slowly reversing their belligerent and misguided policy on the Government of Eritrea. U.N.’s change of heart is evident in today’s comment by Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, who praised Eritrea as working …
An Indian journal, The Hindu Business Line, is reporting that the ruling junta in Ethiopia is renting fertile Ethiopian land for $1 per acre in a form of long-term lease to foreign corporations, while starving the people of Ethiopia …
Ethiopians suspected to be victims of a human trafficking racket, were discovered on Wednesday at a bungalow on the outskirts of Nairobi.
The 41 men were found in a secluded house about three kilometres from Ngong Town. The quiet compound …
By Yilma Bekele
Foreign policy magazine had an article by Professor George Ayittey titled “The worst of the worst-bad dude dictators and general coconut heads.” As an Ethiopian I was sold by the title. I knew I was in familiar …
Five officials and activists of Ethiopian opposition parties that operate inside the country have joined the armed resistance against the Woyanne genocidal regime, according to the Press Office of Ethiopian People’s Patriotic Front (EPPF).
One of them is Seid Ali …
EDITOR’S NOTE: By supporting and covering up for Meles Zenawi’s genocidal dictatorship, the American embassy in Ethiopia remains one of the main sources of misery in the Horn of Africa. Jeff Stein of the Washington Post reports about a recent …
By Jason McClure
To a casual observer, the tens of thousands of people who poured into the central square of Ethiopian capital Addis Ababa on May 25 to peacefully celebrate the country’s elections might have been mistaken for a massive …
By Elias Kifle
Ethiopian Orthodox Church preacher Memher Zebene is once again causing havoc inside the Medhanialem Church in Maryland by turning members against each other so that he can overthrow the elected board members and make the church his …
Alemayehu G. Mariam
This is my third commentary on the theme, “Where do we go from here?”, following the rigged elections in Ethiopia last month.[1] In this piece, I urge Ethiopian intellectuals to exchange their armchairs for the public benches …
Every year the Ethiopian Media Association International (EMAI) gives recognition award to the top Ethiopian news websites. These ranking come from independent reports and the Web Information Company – ALEXA.com, which is the leading method of ranking online media popularity …
Testimony of Leslie Lefkow, Senior Researcher Africa Division, Human Rights Watch, at the U.S. House of Representatives, Committee on Foreign Affairs, Subcommittee on Africa and Global Health
Hearing of June 17, 2010
Thank you, Chairman Payne, and members of the …
Leslie Lefkow, senior researcher and Horn of Africa team leader for Human Rights Watch’s Africa Division, talks about a ‘strategy of operation’ that is adopted by Meles Zenawi’s regime in Ethiopia. Watch the video below:
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The U.S.-backed genocidal regime in Ethiopia has expelled an American journalist on Thursday. The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) reports the following.
Heather Murdock had been reporting with the U.S. international broadcaster Voice of America (VOA) in the eastern region …
Egyptian border guards arrested nine African migrants from Ethiopia attempting to enter Israel illegally, while another 10 managed to escaped, a security source said Friday.
Police said that border guards spotted a group of Africans as they were trying to …
SEATTLE — An Ethiopian Orthodox Christian ceremony began with traditional chanting by religious leaders as a memorial service got under way Friday morning at Key Arena for the victims of last weekend’s fatal fire in Fremont.
A crowd of nearly …
EDITOR’S NOTE: A smart and sound policy would be to make it suitable for the thousands of exiled Ethiopian physicians in the U.S. and Europe to return to their country and open clinics. Ethiopian doctors are fleeing their country because …
BEIRUT (AFP) — An Ethiopian Airlines plane was forced to return to Lebanon after takeoff early on Thursday when crew noticed a door was rattling, a Beirut airport official said.
“The door had not been closed properly and some five …
UCLA professor and Third World cinema expert Teshome H. Gabriel dies at 70. The Ethiopian-born educator was ‘one of the first scholars to theorize in a critical fashion about Third World cinema,’ a fellow academic says.
By Dennis McLellan | …
Commander Zeleke Bogale has passed away on this day last year, June 17, 2010. The following is a tribute by his former colleague Commander Assefa Seifu.
By Assefa Seifu
The first batch of Apprentice Cadets for the new Imperial Ethiopian …
Distinguished Ethiopian scholar Prof. Teshome H. Gabriel has passed away. Prof. Teshome’s invaluable advise and encouragement were of great value in launching Ethiopian Review. His passing away is another great loss to Ethiopia, and the whole world. It is sad …
EDITOR’S NOTE: Professor Englebert comes up with an idea that Ethiopian Review has been advocating for a while. As long as poverty-mongering institutions such as the World Bank continue to keep genocidal dictators like Meles Zenawi of Ethiopia financially afloat …
SEATTLE, WA — Investigators are looking into whether the fire that swept through a Fremont neighborhood apartment, killing a woman and four children, may have started when a mattress inside a closet accidentally came in contact with a light bulb, …
By Messay Kebede
It is now totally clear that the form of opposition based on the goal of winning parliamentary elections is a dead-end, obvious as it is that the leadership of the TPLF has never contemplated the prospect of …
By Alemayehu G. Mariam
Note: In my first commentary [1] on the theme, “Where do we go from here?”, I suggested that the ruling dictatorship in Ethiopia following its 99.6 percent “victory” in the May 2010 parliamentary “election” will continue …
An apartment fired in Fremont, a Seattle neighborhood, last night killed 5 Ethiopians. Four of the victims are children. Seattle Times reports:
Hundreds of Ethiopians gathered at a community center in Seattle Saturday night to mourn the loss of four …
Rebels in Ethiopia’s eastern Ogaden region have accused the government of killing 71 civilians in a military operation since May 18.
The Ogaden National Liberation Front (ONLF), which says it is fighting for autonomy for ethnic Somalis in the region …
South Africa played better than most had expected in today’s opening match against Mexico. Video highlights below:
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Addis Fortune looks deeper to find some telling bits of information about the May 23, 2010, elections in Ethiopia:
An unassuming voter in Polling Station of One, of Ambo Town, Western Shewo Zone of the Oromia Regional State, marked his …
The exiled Holy Synod of Ethiopian Orthodox Church (EOTC) has issued a strongly worded statement denouncing the May 23, 2010, elections in Ethiopia as fraudulent. The Holy Synod’s statement also called on the people of Ethiopia to reject the ruling …
Editor’s Note: There is a saying in Ethiopia — Ye Ayit Misikir Dinbit or Liju Dagna, Abatu Kemagna.
National Electoral Board of Ethiopia rejects election rerun call
ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) – The National Electoral Board of Ethiopia (NEBE) rejected opposition …
By Tesfa Alem Tekle
ADDIS ABABA, ETHIOPIA (Sudan Tribune) – A second British citizen is reported having been shot to death in the volatile Ogaden region of Ethiopia bordering Somalia, a source said.
The report can’t independently be verified at …
From: Meles Zenawi, Prime Minister, Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia
To: Merga Bekana, Charmian, National Election Board of Ethiopia
Re: Troubling 2010 Election results
Dear Tagai Merga,
I wanted to wait until the final counts were all in before sending …
The Indian Ocean Newsletter (ION), whose sources include French intelligence officials, has just published an analysis of what is next for the Meles regime in Ethiopia. The ION agrees with Ethiopian Review’s prediction that the genocidal regime is now setting …
By Fekade Shewakena
If you define election to mean what it means – freely choosing between choices, and tell me that there was an election in Ethiopia on May 23, 2010, you must either be crazy or think I am …
Now that Ethiopia’s ruling junta has successfully decimated Ethiopian opposition inside the country, it is setting its sight on removing the Government of Isaias Afwerki in Eritrea. Meles Zenawi’s intention is clear: To install a puppet regime in Asmara, as …
It seems that Meles Zenawi and gang are terrified by the launching of ESAT, an independent Ethiopian satellite TV. On top of trying to jam ESAT’s broadcast, they have launched a propaganda war against it. The following article is posted …
Meles and gang are committing such crimes with impunity. Some times they are even rewarded by the World Bank and others. The U.S. Government alone gives Meles over a billion dollars per year. Most of this money goes to buy …
Alemayehu G. Mariam
Note: In my last commentary[1] on the theme, “Where do we go from here?” I suggested that the ruling dictatorship in Ethiopia following its 99.6 percent “victory” in the May 2010 parliamentary “election” will continue to do …
By Yilma Bekele
My friend came from out of town for a visit. I took him around to all the tourist places, including our local Museum of Modern Art. Lucky for us there was a Picasso exhibit the critics were …
EDITOR’S NOTE: This is business as usual. Woyanne conducts unfair elections, arrests and murders opposition members, jams radio programs, blocks access to web sites… and as a reward it gets $100 million from the poverty-monger organization.
ADDIS ABABA (APA) The …
ADDIS ABABA (The Economist) — THERE are two colours I associate with Ethiopia. Grey for the dust, the bare hills, stony soil and donkeys. Grey for the Soviet-era buildings in the towns and the fumes of ancient Lada …
The following is a statement from the Ogaden National Liberation Front (ONLF)
A claim made by Ethiopian Prime Minister, Melez Zenawi at his most recent press conference that his regime will “soon sign an agreement” with the Ogaden National Liberation …
By Jason McLure | Bloomberg.com
Ethiopia’s government ruling junta has detained about 1,000 opposition activists in the country’s Oromia region since May 22, the day before national elections, a leader of the Medrek opposition alliance said.
While most of those …
BY CYNTHIA HAVEN
On May 23, Ethiopia’s incumbent Prime Minister Meles Zenawi was reelected in a landslide. Despite claims of fraud and coercion, Zenawi said: “We have no regrets and we offer no apologies.”
Ethiopian journalist and democracy activist Abebe …
Asmara — President Isaias Afwerki is attending the Franco-African Summit that is being held in the City of Nice, France, this week.
More than 50 Heads of State and Government, as well as representatives of a number of international and …
By Tony Okerafor
One of the big African stories of the last eight days or so has been the holding of key parliamentary elections in one of the continent’s most populous countries. Ethiopia has been such a major player in …
By Barry Malone
ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) — Girma Seifu was at home hosting a dinner party to celebrate what looked like a sure parliamentary seat win when he got the phone call that would force him into the spotlight.
Ethiopia’s …
By Filip Hruby
Ethiopian movies Teza (Haile Gerima), Atletu (Rasselas Lakew, Davey Frankel) and LEZARE (Zelalem Woldemariam) won the main awards at 7th African Film Festival in Tarifa (FCAT). Teza won the award “Wind Griot” for the best feature film. …
By Sally Healy
Ethiopia’s ruling party has already staged a victory rally in Addis Ababa to mark their satisfaction with the elections held last Sunday. The official results will not be announced until 21 June. But it is already clear …
Alemayehu G. Mariam
Note: Over the past week, I have received numerous requests from those who read my last commentary “Ethiopia at the Crossroads of History[1], to share my views on the on the question, “Where do we go …
(Press Release) — For the past three days and intermittently before that, Ethiopian Satellite Service (ESAT) broadcasts in Ethiopia have been interrupted due to undetermined electronic interference.
Following preliminary investigations, we have confirmed the following facts:
Our service providers have …
Ethiopian Satellite TV (ESAT)
(Press Release) — The Ethiopian Satellite Broadcasting Service (ESAT) has been off the air for the past 24 hours.
We have received thousands of telephone calls and email inquires concerning the interruption of service. We thank …
By Christopher Vouralias | Variety
Ethiopia’s first independent satellite TV launched in May, breaking the monopoly long held by Ethiopian Television.
Ethiopian Satellite Television (ESAT) began a trial run May 14, with plans to unveil a full slate of original …
Nineteen years and counting. Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi and his ruling EPRDF party are cruising to an easy “victory” in the May 23 elections. Taking power in 1991, Meles is as entrenched as they …
By Messay Kebede
I am still struggling to make sense of Sunday’s election from the viewpoint of the Woyanne government itself. There is no doubt that its results represent a crushing and demoralizing defeat for the opposition. Such a colossal …
U.S. Department of State Assistant Secretary for Public Affairs P.J. Crowley slammed the tribal ruling junta in Ethiopia for conducting an unfair election on May 23. Mr Crowley spoke at the Daily Press Briefing of the U.S. Department of State …
Union of African thieves, murderers and rapists (AU) has issued a report today on the May 23 elections in Ethiopia stating that it was free and fair. What else can be expected from these goons? The following is a report …
Shambel (Captain) Fikreyesus Seyoum, a distinguished Ethiopian elder in Atlanta and a great friend of Ethiopian Review, passed away on Tuesday, May 25, 2010.
A graduate of Harar Military Academy, Shambel Fikreyesus served Ethiopian armed forces in several capacities until …
Medrek, the eight-party opposition coalition in Ethiopia, has issued a 7-page strongly worded statement expressing its outrage at the ruling party, Woyanne, for the way it has conducted the May 2010 elections. In the statement, Medrek thanked European Union observers …
The following articles, which is posted on WaltaInfo.com, a web site run by the propaganda chief of Ethiopia’s ruling junta, Bereket Simon, accuses Western countries of orchestrating violence in Ethiopia. What these professional beggars seem to forget is that without …
In a Letter to the Editor, European Union Chief Election Observer takes to task the Woyanne-controlled Ethiopian News Agency (ENA) for publishing a distorted report about a statement released by the Election Observation Mission. Read the letter below:
Letter to …
Eritrean Ministry of Information’s Shabait.com has posted the following editorial today regarding the May 23, 2010 elections in Ethiopia:
The Ethiopian people had in 2005 once and for all made their choice clear in no uncertain terms, voting for the …
Woyanne propaganda chief Bereket Simon makes a fool out of himself on Al Jazeera TV by trying to defend his regime’s conduct in the May 2010 elections in Ethiopia. Watch below:
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Author Tesfaye GebreAb analyzes Ethiopian election 2010 in which he gives us insight into what possible measures Meles Zenawi and his Woyanne ruling junta are preparing to take in order to consolidate their 99% ‘victory’ at the May 23 election. …
European Union Election Observation Mission has issued an 11-page preliminary statement on the May 23, 2010, elections in Ethiopia. (Click here for the full statement, pdf)
Executive Summary
The fourth elections to the House of People’s Representatives and …
By Rene Lefort
It means that the EPRDF had decided — and successfully taken the appropriate authoritarian measures — not only to be the unquestionable winner of the 2010 elections, but also to get its revenge on the opposition by …
By KJETIL TRONVILL, UNIVERSITY OF OSLO
In the near future, I do not see any changes of policy either from the EPRDF’s side, or from the international side versus Ethiopia: it will be business as usual.
The donor group will …
By Douglas Mpuga | VOA
A former top U.S. official on Africa says Ethiopian opposition parties failed to get equal access to the media in the run-up to Sunday’s parliamentary elections.
Former U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs …
By Jonathan Manthorpe | Vancouver Sun
After Ethiopia’s previous dictator Mengistu Haile Mariam murdered the man he had deposed, Emperor Haile Selassie, he capped his triumph by having the body buried under his office floor.
Ethiopia’s current leader dictator, Meles …
By Naomi Hunt | International Press Institute (IPI)
Ethiopia’s electoral board said on Tuesday that the ruling Ethiopian People’s Revolutionary Democratic Front (EPRDF) and allied parties had won a Sunday election by a landslide.
European Union chief election observer Thijs …
The European Union’s chief election observer Mr.Tijis Berman’s comments have confirmed other reports coming from Ethiopia that the national elections held on Sunday, May 23rd were neither fair nor free. During a press conference in Addis Ababa, Mr. Tijis …
The Woyanne ruling junta in Ethiopia handed out 50 birr and a wrist watch to homeless and unemployed people to come to its ‘victory’ rally yesterday at Mesqel Squre, according to Ethiopian Review sources.
Most of those who were seen …
ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) — An eight-party opposition coalition called Medrek called Wednesday for a rerun of the election and said it would not be deterred by the ruling party’s desire to have a single-party state.
“In spite of all the …
By Barry Malone
Ethiopian police Woyanne gunmen shot dead two opposition members in the sensitive Oromia region after an election the ruling party won by a landslide, an opposition party and the government said Wednesday.
The electoral board said Tuesday …
The European Union Election Observation Mission has issued the following press statement regarding last Sunday’s (May 23) general elections in Ethiopia. It is reported that after reading the statement, Meles Zenawi called the Chief Observer, Thijs Berman, to his office …