By By DAVE OPIYOP | Sunday Nation
One of Kenya’s most respected law scholars, Prof Hastings Winston Opinya Okoth-Ogendo, is dead.
Prof Ogendo, a former vice-chairman of the Constitution of Kenya Review Commission, died on Friday night in Addis Ababa, …
Woyanne ambassador to Washington DC Samuel Assefa at his mother’s funeral in Addis Ababa (Photo: Addis Journal)
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The funeral of Ethiopia’s first woman parliamentarian Wzr. Sinedu Gebru took place two days ago at the Holy Trinity Cathedral Church in Addis …
By MARK SCOLFORO
Pennsylvania, USA (AP). – An economics professor at a Pennsylvania university said Saturday he supports efforts to spread democracy in his native Ethiopia, but denied backing an alleged coup attempt there that led to the arrests of …
By ANITA POWELL | The Associated Press
The Woyanne-led Ethiopian government has arrested 35 people suspected of a coup attempt allegedly backed by an Ethiopian economist now teaching at a Pennsylvania university, a government spokesman said Saturday.
Government spokesman Ermias …
ADDIS ABABA, ETHIOPIA — The family home of Dr Berhanu Nega, leader of the Ethiopian opposition, Ginbot 7 Movement for Justice and Democracy (Ginbot 7), has been surrounded and his parents have been roughed up by Woyanne gunmen, according to …
Ginbot 7 has issued its own press released regarding the Woyanne cliam. Click here the statement. Below is a report by the Woyanne-controlled Ethiopian News Agency (ENA).
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (ENA) – Terrorist operation being advanced by a terrorist group …
By Kiflu Hussain
Lately, in the past four years, I learned the hard way how deep pain and grief can penetrate due to the loss of someone you love or admire. Although I’ve always felt sad when someone I know …
By Louisa Taylor, The Ottawa Citizen
OTTAWA, CANADA -A decommissioned ambulance dedicated to former Ottawa mayor Marion Dewar will soon be in service in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
At a handover ceremony outside City Hall yesterday, Councillor Diane Deans gave the …
By Peter Heinlein | VOA
Tens of thousands of Ethiopians have attended a state funeral for legendary singer Tilahun Gessesse, considered a symbol of national unity since the time of Emperor Haile Selassie. Many of Tilahun’s songs were considered anthems, …
Tilahun Gessesse funeral in Addis Ababa. The photo below shows Teddy Afro’s mother Wzr. Tilaye Arage placing a flower wreath near Tilahun’s coffin during the funeral procession Thursday at Mesqel Square. Click here to see more photos. [Exclusive photos by …
London, UK (IAAF) – Olympic bronze medallist Tsegaye Kebede is hoping to bring Ethiopia its second major marathon victory in the space of a week when he takes on one of the best marathon fields ever assembled in …
Ethiopian Airlines has announced a promotional drive to make travel cheaper in the current global economic distress.
Ermajechew Regassa, the Airline’s Uganda manager, announced recently that the promotional drive that started on April 4 would last up to May 31 …
A massive funeral procession was held for Ethiopia’s legendary artist Tilahun Gessesse today in Addis Ababa, a city where he died unable to get the most basic emergency medical care. Tens of thousands of people participated in the procession as …
By ARGAW ASHINE | The Daily Nation NATION
ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia – Western diplomats based in one of the world’s largest diplomatic hubs, Addis Ababa boycotted a dinner party organized by the Ethiopian government to honor Sudanese president Omar al-Bashir.…
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (ENA) – Funeral procession program for Ethiopia’s renowned artiste Tilahun Gesesse has been issued. The funeral is due to be conducted on Thursday.
Accordingly, a requiem service would be held overnight at the Holy Trinity Cathedral in …
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (AFP) – Sudanese President Omar Hassan al-Bashir yesterday taunted the international community by arguing that an arrest warrant against him for war crimes had earned him more support than ever.
Bashir made his statement after meeting Ethiopian …
By Kashmir Hill | Above the Law
Some of our DC-based readers may have spotted this anti-DLA Piper (a law firm) ad making its way around town via taxi. A reader sent us this photo, saying: :I saw this …
By Yilma Bekele
A very crude translation will be ‘trash finds its own kind’. That is what went in my mind when I heard the butcher of Darfur met the butcher of Mogashio, Gambella, Ogaden, Awasa and many other sites …
Sudan’s President Omar Hassan al-Bashir has received a warm welcome on his arrival in neighboring Ethiopia for a two-day state visit. VOA’s Peter Heinlein in Addis Ababa reports Ethiopian and other African officials greeted Mr. Bashir with full honors, while …
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Sudan’s president made his sixth foreign trip since his indictment on charges of war crimes in Darfur, traveling Tuesday to Ethiopia despite the international warrant for his arrest.
An Ethiopian foreign ministry spokesman said President Omar …
By Yilma Bekele
We are all aware that the global economy is in not in good shape. Both rich industrialized countries and dirt-poor subsistence economies are in a free fall. No one knows where the bottom is. Governments that are …
EDITOR’S NOTE: The so-called “opposition” Unity for Democracy and Justice Party (UDJ) held a demonstration in Addis Ababa today in which 250 carefully screened individuals participated. The UDJ leaders said that the protest was held to demand the release of …
By Thomas C. Mountain | Online Journal
One of the best kept secrets in the international media these days is the link between the USA, Ethiopia and the Somali pirates. First, a little reliable background from someone on the ground …
According to many of your request, here is the English translation of the Tigringa/Amharic version interview of Fitawrari Gezai Reda, a resident of Tigray region, northern Ethiopia.
Let me start my view by quoting from an article I read a …
By James Butty | VOA
The Ethiopian Human Rights Commission [that is set up by the Woyanne tribal junta to produce fake reports] says Meles Zenawi’s government has designed good governance programs aimed at respect and protection for human rights. …
ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia (AFP) — Ethiopia’s dictatorial regime will boost arms production to cut weapons imports and save its dwindling foreign exchange, the tribalist junta leader Meles Zenawi has said.
“Our main objective is to reduce our defence expenditure and …
By Yao Graham | The Ghanaian Journal
Ethiopian Emperor Haile Selassie and Ghana’s founder and first President Kwame Nkrumah during the formation of the Organization of African Unity in Addis Ababa. [Getty Images]
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While many African leaders have aspired to …
By Jason McLure | Bloomberg
Ethiopia’s dictatorial regime may prosecute six of the country’s largest coffee exporters after the government said they have been hoarding beans bound for export, Prime Minister dictator Meles Zenawi said.
The government shut the exporters’ …
An internal feud between Ethiopian private exporters and the government caught the media spotlight recently but, as usual, limited journalism coverage derailed the attention off the fundamental issues.
On March 25, 2009, the government seized 17,000 tons …
By Jonathan Tepperman | NEWSWEEK
Few people outside Ethiopia have ever heard of Birtukan Mideksa. And that’s just how the government wants it. Since December, Birtukan has been kept in solitary confinement, one of hundreds of political prisoners there. Her …
By Yilma Bekele
“Why, O my friends, did ye so often puff me up, telling me that I was fortunate? For he that is fallen low did never firmly stand. – Boethius, The Consolation of Philosophy
When the prison guard …
ADDIS ABABA, ETHIOPIA (The Daily Monitor) — The recently made growth forecast for the year’s economic growth of the country by the International Money Fund (IMF) was more realistic than the forecast made by the Ethiopian government, the World Bank …
By Peter Heinlein | VOA
Rebels fighting for independence in Ethiopia’s Ogaden region say they are stronger than ever, a day after the government said the insurgency is in tatters.
A statement e-mailed to news organizations Wednesday says the operational …
ADDIS ABABA, ETHIOPIA – Madagascar’s ousted president Marc Ravalomanna was in Addis Ababa for talks with Ethiopian authorities and African Union officials, an Ethiopian official told AFP Tuesday.
“Mr Ravalomanana arrived on Monday evening in Addis Ababa for talks with …
DAMMAM, Saudi Arabia (Reuters) – A group of private Saudi investors plans to invest 375 million riyals ($100 million) to plant wheat, barley and rice in Ethiopia, one of the investors said.
The three investors met Ethiopia’s dictator Meles Zenawi …
By Roni Sofer | ynetnews.com
ADDIS ABABA, ETHIOPIA – In the first visit of an Israeli minister to Ethiopia in five years, Regional Cooperation Minister Silvan Shalom blocked an anti-Israel decision from being passed at a the Assembly of the …
EDITOR’S NOTE: Ethiopia’s Meles Zenawi, Azeb Mesfin, and the whole Woyanne mafia will no doubt face similar justice, sooner or later.
LIMA, Peru (AP) — Former Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori was convicted and sentenced to 25 years in prison Tuesday …
ADDIS ABABA (AFP) — Ethiopia’s dictatorial regime said Tuesday it did not intend to nationalize the coffee sector after revoking licenses of six exporters for hoarding the beans.
Communications Minister Bereket Simon said the government will now market the product …
ADDIS ABABA, ETHIOPIA – The plan by Unity for Democracy and Justice (UDJ) to hold a march in Ethiopia’s capital Addis Ababa this coming Thursday to protest the arrest of their leader Wzr. Birtukan Mideksa has been banned by the …
By Fekade Shewakena
Some people in Ethiopia on the religious fringes are playing with fire. I have received emails of videos and audios circulating over the internet as evidences of Christians being attacked by Muslims and Christians attacking Muslims in …
By Seid Hassan | Murray State University
The latest reports from Ethiopia indicate that Prime Minister Meles Zenawi has revoked the licenses of six of the country’s main coffee exporters, accusing them of hoarding the coffee supplies. Similar threats were …
EDITOR’S NOTE: Germany’s leader Angela Merkel had said at the G20 meeting in London that corrupt dictators should not be allowed to hide their money in secret Swiss bank accounts any longer. If Merkel’s proposal is put to work, this …
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During his trip to the U.K. to participate in the G20 meeting, U.S. President Barack Obama took time out to assist the London police in apprehending Ethiopia’s genocidal dictator Meles Zenawi (Satire).
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By Yilma Bekele
When they said “a picture speaks a thousand words” they could have been thinking about this one. The setting definitely is a reception. The people sitting around the table appear very important since there appear to be …
U.S. President Barack Obama scolded Ethiopia’s dictator Meles Zenawi during a brief one-to-one encounter at the G20 meeting in London on April 2. Obama reportedly told Meles that the human rights condition in Ethiopia is deplorable and unacceptable.
Following a …
By Jason McLure | Bloomberg
Ethiopia, Africa’s largest coffee producer, will start exporting beans itself after closing the warehouses of six of the country’s largest exporters, which it claims are stockpiling coffee and contributing to a shortage of foreign currency.…
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Hundreds of Ethiopians held a protest rally in London today (April 2) at the site of the G-20 meeting.
The protesters opposed the appearance of Ethiopia’s dictator Meles Zenawi at the meeting. They demanded the G-20 countries to stop financing …
Tamrat Layne and family the notorious Alcatraz Prison in California – March 2009
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It is interesting to see that former Woyanne Prime Minister Tamrat Layne has now joined the ranks of some of the people he chased out of their …
ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia (World Bank) – The Ethiopian Government and the World Bank on March 14 officially launched the General Education Quality Improvement Program (GEQIP).
The project aims to support Ethiopia’s effort to improve the quality of general …
Genocide Watch, the international campaign to end genocide, has called on United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Justice Navanathem, to initiate an investigation against the government of Meles Zenawi. Genocide Watch cited the atrocities committed in Gambela against the …
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 …
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, …
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 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 …
United States Department of States
Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor
2008 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices
Released on February 25, 2009
Ethiopia is a federal republic led by Prime Minister Meles Zenawi and the ruling Ethiopian People’s …
(BBC) – Tens of thousands of people have reportedly fled their homes as a result of fighting between rival groups in a remote part of southern Ethiopia.
The BBC’s Elizabeth Blunt says 300 people may have been killed …
By Tegga Lendado
This article is dedicated to the victims of the recent drought, disease, malnutrition, famine, and others who are facing premature death in Southern Ethiopia. The purpose is to induce rational, religious and humanitarian response with its readers. …
By Kester Kenn Klomegah
MOSCOW (IPS) – When the 13th Addis Ababa International Trade Fair officially opens tomorrow, the Russian trade delegation hopes to make its presence felt with participating industrial companies and business enterprises.
About 50 Russian …
By International Islamic News Agency
Addis Ababa – Ethiopia launches activities to make Africa’s first mosque -Al Nejashi Mosque – as a tourist destination and a world heritage site by UNESCO in the coming few years. The Ethiopian Ministry of …
EDITOR’S NOTE: Most of the exporting is being done by companies that are owned by the Meles crime family, including his wife Azeb Mesfin. The money stays in the U.S. and Ethiopia gets no benefit.
ADDIS ABABA, ETHIOPIA (Reuters) – …
EDITOR’S NOTE: The stupid regime in Ethiopia yesterday asked for $400 million in emergency food aid, and yet it cannot even get delivery of food aid caught up in the Djibouti port.
ADDIS ABABA, ETHIOPIA (PANA) – Ethiopian authorities said …
ADDIS ABABA, ETHIOPIA (PANA) – Ethiopia, battered by the effects of climate change and exceeding national hunger, launched an appeal on Tuesday for some 4.9 million people on the verge of starvation. State Minister for Agriculture Mitiku Kassa said the …
By Tedla Asfaw
The Koka Lake I know has turned green thanks to the chemicals damped into the lake. Fertilizers, Nitrogen, Potassium and Phosphorus heavily used to grow commercial flowers and the untreated water from factories surrounding Addis Ababa are …
By Obang Metho
On the morning of February 4, an Ethiopian friend called me and asked, “Did you know you were on AigaForum?” (For those readers not familiar with AigaForum, it is well known to Ethiopians as being the EPRDF …
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (FIFA.com) – FIFA’s Executive Committee will receive a report on Ethiopian football next month, following a joint FIFA/CAF mission to East Africa between 17-18 February. The Ethiopian Football Federation (EFF) is currently suspended from all FIFA and …
Yemen (Yemen Times) – The rich but under-explored history between Yemen and Ethiopia dates back to ancient times. Cultural relations between two countries can be traced back to the birth of the Aksum Kingdom in Ethiopia as an extension of …
ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) – Ethiopian Airlines said on Monday it was cutting flights to the United States and China as the global financial crisis hit passenger numbers.
Girma Wake, chief executive officer of the airline — one of Africa’s leading …
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (IAAF) – African 10,000m bronze medallist Wude Ayalew’s shock defeat of cross country specialists Gelete Burka and Meselech Melkamu in the senior women’s 8km was the highlight of the 26th Jan Meda International Cross Country — Ethiopia’s …
ADDIS ABABA, ETHIOPIA – Editor of Harambe Newspaper, Wosenseged Gebrekidan, who was sent to Kality prison last week, Feb. 19, has disappeared and his family is unable to locate him in any of the Addis Ababa and Federal prisons.
Wosenseged …
By Tesfa-alem Tekle | Sudan Tribune
ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia — A Sudan based petroleum company has penetrated to Ethiopian oil market to start operation on lubricants, fuel distribution and to provide related service in the country
Wadi Alsundus Petroleum Co, …
NAIROBI (Reuters) – Eritrean President Isaias Afwerki has rejected any effort to mediate a border dispute with Ethiopia’s tribalist regime led by Meles Zenawi (Woyanne), calling it a “wicked ploy”, state media said on Saturday.
Last week, Ethiopia’s dictator Meles …
PRESS RELEASE
U.S. Department of Justice
United States Attorney Southern District of New York
FEBRUARY 20 , 2009
LEV L. DASSIN, United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and JOSEPH M. DEMAREST, JR., the Assistant Director-in-Charge of …
EDITOR’S NOTE: Ethiopia’s dictator Meles Zenawi and wife Azeb Mesfin should also be arrested and charged with looting the country’s national treasure.
By BENJAMIN WEISER | The New York Times
Swindles in which someone overseas seeks access to a person’s …
ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia (AFP)–Clashes have broken out in the restive Ethiopian region of Ogaden, with rebels saying Friday they have killed 140 government troops and allied militia fighters.
The Ethiopian government Woyanne tribalist regime in Ethiopia disputed the claims from …
By Barry Malone
ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) – Six [fake] Ethiopian opposition parties formed an alliance on Thursday and accused the government of clamping down on dissent ahead of parliamentary elections next year.
[All this is orchestrated by the American embassy …
ADDIS ABABA, ETHIOPIA – Harambe Newspaper editor Wosenseged GebreKidan has been taken to the notorious Kality prison today after he told the court that he doesn’t have 3,000 birr to pay for bail.
The U.S.-financed regime in Ethiopia has brought …
EDITOR’S NOTE: The only reason the vampire regime in Ethiopia will not liberalize the telecom industry is that it wants to limit the people’s access to information.
By Jason McLure | Bloomberg
Ethiopia’s tribalist dictatorship will pursue membership of the …
By Paulos Milkias
Crimes against international law are committed by men, not by abstract entities, and only by punishing individuals who commit such crimes can the provision of international law be enforced.” – World War II Nuremberg Tribunal
Darfur …
The Santa Monica Museum of Art surveys an Ethiopian artist who ‘takes you into this micro-universe of intense experience.’
By Scarlet Cheng | Los Angeles Times
The main gallery space at the Santa Monica Museum of Art has been marked …
ADDIS ABABA, ETHIOPIA – The Woyanne high kangaroo court today reduced Teddy Afro’s 6-year prison sentence to 2 years, allowing him to go free in 5 months from now.
Teddy has been held in prison for the past 11 months …
The notorious Kality Prison in Ethiopia
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By xcroc
In January 2007, after the Ethiopian invasion, and US bombing of Somalia, at least 85 different people from at least 25 countries, including the US, were part of Africa’s first mass rendition …
Harar, Ethiopia (IAAF) – Ethiopia’s Olympic marathon bronze medallist Tsegaye Kebede fine-tuned his preparations for April’s Flora London Marathon with a comfortable victory on Sunday (16) in the Major General Hayelom Araya Memorial, an annual 15km race that serves as …
ADDIS ABABA, ETHIOPIA (PANA) – Ethiopian Prime Minister tribal dictator Meles Zenawi has ordered a total freeze in government borrowing, but the country still faces a major foreign reserve crisis with the current reserves only enough to cover one month …
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (Daily Monitor) – Climate change-induced livestock diseases are causing more illness and death of livestock in southern lowlands of the country, a study conducted to assess the local level of impacts of climate change said.
The study …
By Tedla Asfaw
I followed the interview Meles Zenawi gave to an Ethiopian audience this past week. For the question of making Ethiopia an exporter of power while there is domestic power shortage including in the capital Addis Ababa, the …
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (APA) – Ethiopian security officials on Saturday arrested a South African man with over 70 capsules of suspected drug inside his stomach.
The arrest of the South African man happened a few days after the …
ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia (PANA) – Ethiopia’s financial sector will miss out on the possible investments from American major financiers because of its lack of a domestic stock exchange market to help attract foreign capital, an investor said.
An American investment …
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (Afrique en ligne) – Ethiopia’s dictator Meles Zenawi said on Friday he was in consultations with his ruling party about the possibility of quitting as Prime Minister and retaining his role as the party leader after next …
ADDIS ABABA, ETHIOPIA (EuroNews 24) – Ethiopia’s Prime Minister dictator Meles Zenawi has said the arrest of the country’s opposition leader was not a political decision, arguing the authorities were left with no other choice.
Authorities arrested and …
ADDIS ABABA (SAPA) – The defense ministers of South Africa and Ethiopia’s tribalist dictatorship signed a memorandum of understanding in Addis Ababa on Friday, South Africa’s defense spokesman Sam Mkhwanazi said. [The current South Africa regime is as full of …
(The Guardian) – AHEAD of a proposal for the proclamation of the United States of Africa by 2017, continental leaders will by January next year establish an Authority of the Africa Union to work out the details of …
ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia (Reuters) – Ethiopian police have arrested a local man suspected of killing of a U.S. diplomat at his home in Addis Ababa, officials said on Wednesday.
The unnamed suspect was being transferred to the capital after he …
EDITOR’S NOTE: The flower exporters are destroying Ethiopia’s fertile land by using fertilizers that are toxic. It would be good if they all get bankrupt and out of business. Ethiopia’s fertile land need to grow food, not flower.
ADDIS ABABA …
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February 9, 2009
Question: Any update on the investigation into the death of the Foreign Service Officer …
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (APA) – Two Tanzanians, aged 27 and 32 years old, who were arrested and accused of concealing drugs inside their stomachs died in Addis Ababa after the drugs burst in their stomach, the Ethiopian police …
By Edward | Politics & Poetry
A spokesman for the Ethiopian government said on Sunday that the English monarch Queen Elizabeth the 2nd was descended from a 19th century tribeswoman from the Semien Mountains in northern Ethiopia. Records from the …