Monthly Archives: January 2015

ENTC and Shengo joint Press Release – Jan 28

Shengo and ENTC have released a statement on the current situation of Ethiopia and their proposed solution of a Unified Force.

Read the Statement here (pdf)

 

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Boycotting Ethiopian National Elections: Damn if You Do, Damn if You Don’t! Messay Kebede

I maintain that the upcoming elections will be a turning point for Ethiopia, not because they will result in a major change of policy subsequent to a renovation of the ruling elite but because the absence of change will compel …

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ENTC Weekly Radio – Jan 28

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Did British intelligence help Ethiopian officials kidnap Andargachew Tsige?

 

Did British intelligence assist Ethiopian security services to kidnap Andargachew Tsige?  Did UK officials, for example, provide Ethiopian agents with Mr. Tsige’s travel itinerary?  There are telltale signs that the UK government knows more than it wants to admit. 

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World Bank-ruptcy in Ethiopia

World Bank The moral bankruptcy of the World Bank in Ethiopia

Ethiopians have been the object of a cruel bureaucratic joke by the World Bank. Last week, an official investigative report surfaced on line showing World Bank bureaucrats in Ethiopia have been …

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ENTC Weekly Radio – Jan 22

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The Invention of Ethnic Politics Messay Kebede

Take a random group of Ethiopians as you find them in any public place. You will never hear them defining themselves by a single characteristic. If you ask one of them how a person is defined, he/she will say that …

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Should Ethiopians boycott the upcoming elections?

December 16, 2015

Washington, DC, The Solidarity Movement for a New Ethiopia (SMNE) has no choice but to expose the duplicity and repression of choice in the upcoming Ethiopian National Election due to the dictatorial nature of the ethnic apartheid

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MLK: “When Will You Be Satisfied?”

MLKWhen Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. [MLK] gave his “I Have a Dream Speech” in August 1963, he asked the “devotees of civil rights” a simple rhetorical question:  “When will you be satisfied?

One of his answers …

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Elections and helicopter-an Ethiopian drama

Elections and helicopter-an Ethiopian drama. By Yilma Bekele

I am thinking you must have read my last report on Ethiopian helicopters that made an unauthorized trip to Eritrea. I felt I left the story hanging out there and it is …

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ENTC Weekly Radio – Jan 15

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Smoking in public areas banned in Mekelle, but so far OK for rest of Ethiopia

By Tesfa-Alem Tekle | Sudan Tribune

 

January 11, 2015 (ADDIS ABABA) – The capital of Ethiopia’s northern Tigray region, Mekelle, has banned smoking in public areas, making it the first Ethiopian city to implement a tobacco control proclamation bill …

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Andargachew Tsigie Before the T-TPLF Inquisition?

Andy Tsgie “Cirque d’Andargachew” presented by the Ringling T-TPLF Brothers

Voltaire (François-Marie Arouet) is often credited with the observation that one should “judge a man by his questions rather than his answers.”

Voltaire also wisely observed, “All murderers are punished unless they …

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Ethiopian women regularly sold for $2,000 in Yemen

Human trafficking or human slavery?

By Neftalem Fikre Hailemeskel | ethiopianreporter.com

January 10, 2015

 

 

 

Right now as I am writing this article any person can buy an Ethiopian woman as property for as little as USD 2000

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Former US Adoption Agency Head Admits to Bribing Ethiopian Officials

Voice of America (VOA)

January 8, 2015

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The former head of a U.S. adoption agency pleaded guilty in federal court Thursday to charges of arranging phony adoptions from Ethiopia with the aim of defrauding the U.S. government.

James Harding, who

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State Terrorism in Ogaden, Ethiopia

Widespread Repression

By Graham Peebles | counterpunch.org

January 9, 2015

“There is indeed terrorism raging throughout large parts of the Ogaden and elsewhere in the country; it is State Terrorism perpetrated by a brutal regime that is guilty of widespread

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Chinese TV presents a biography of Haile Sellassie

 

 

 

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ENTC Weekly Radio – Jan 7

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What does it take to get the helicopters back?

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What does it take to get the helicopters back? By Yilma Bekele

Normally regimes do not lose such an important asset just like that. Fighter jets or helicopters just do not fly out of the coop so easily. But we …

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እንኳን ለገና በዓል አደረሳችሁ።

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Ethiopians in Minnesota explore the importance of transcending ethnic identity

 

A Diverse Group of Ethiopians in Minnesota finds new and promising relationship as they step out of ethnic, religious, gender, and political boxes to embrace each other as valued human beings first.

Solidarity Movement for a New Ethiopia (SMNE)

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Ethiopian Dreams for 2015 and Beyond

Dream 3“Your sons and your daughters shall prophesy,… [and] see visions, and your old men shall dream dreams”

A Happy New Year to all of my readers!!!

I get to celebrate New Year twice every year. The first on September 11, …

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Andargachew Tsige and the struggle for freedom.

Andargachew Tsige and the struggle for freedom. By Yilma Bekele

Andargachew Tsige was taken prisoner by the TPLF Woyane regime on June 24/’13 while on transit at Sana, Yemen International Airport. He was removed from the airplane and flown to …

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“ለኢትዮጵያ አንድነት በጽናት እንቆማለን”፣

(የፀሐፊው ማስታወሻ — ይህን ፅሁፍ በነጻነት ለሀገሬ ስም ለአማርኛ አንባቢዎቼ  አቀርባለሁ። የነፃነት ለሀገሬ ትርጉሞች የረቀቁና የተጣሩ ናቸው። የነፃነት ለሀገሬን ድጋፍ በማግኘቴ ታላቅ ደስታና ክብር ይሰማኛል። ነፃነት ለሀገሬ ያልተዘመረለት/ያልተዘመረላቸው የኢትዮጵያ ጀግና/ጀግኖች ናቸው። ከፍተኛ ክብርና አድናቆቴን ለነፃነት ለሀገሬ አቀርባለሁ/አቀርብላቸዋለሁ  !!! ትግሉ

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ENTC Weekly Radio – Jan 1

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