By Alemayehu GebreMariam
How the tables can turn…
When Mr. Hastert bottled H.R. 5680 in the International Relations Committee just before the midterm recess, most supporters of the bill were deeply disappointed, and angry. We had labored long and hard …
On Sunday, Nov. 5, at 10:30 pm, a sophomore student from Admas College was killed by a federal police officer on Bole Road.
According to sources, Bereket Hadgu, 24, was shot through the back while walking with friends, who were …
Ethiopian women reject genital cutting
Stephanie Welsh / Amnesty Österreich / afrol News
afrol News, 2 November – A recent survey reveals that a large majority of Ethiopian women believe that the harmful practice of female genital mutilation (FGM) …
By Lammii Biyyaa
I felt compelled to write this short article after listening to an eyewitness video clip posted on Ethiopian Media Forum regarding religious conflicts that reportedly took place in the Jimmaa and Ilu-Abbaa-Boora zones of Oromia. I will …
By ANTHONY MITCHELL, Associated Press
NAIROBI, Kenya, Oct. 18, 2006 — (AP) Ethiopian security forces massacred 193 people _triple the official death toll _ during anti-government protests following elections last year, a senior judge appointed to investigate the violence said …
Further notes on the Trial
By Donald Levine
Almost duped once
In 1992 I joined dozens of Ethiopia’s friends to monitor the “first democratic election” in the history of Ethiopia. Never mind that democratic elections for Parliament had been held …
By Assafa Endeshaw
1. The available accounts and reports suggest that nearly all the political parties and groups were resigned to the probability that the outcome of the 2005 elections in Ethiopia might confirm the TPLF/EPRDF’s grip on power. The …
Ethiopian Review Editorial
Now that the Meles regime has ignored the AFD’s call for a national reconciliation conference, the next step is for the AFD to go ahead and set up a transitional government in exile. A plan could be …
By Curtis Sittenfeld | Salon.com
For Melissa Fay Greene, the enormity of the AIDS orphan crisis in Africa became impossible to ignore one Sunday morning in August 2000. After reading an article in the New York Times estimating that more …
This time around we may make it
By Lealem Yitayew
The recent development in the alliance of forces in Ethiopian politics has initiated hot discussions among Ethiopians. The emergence of AFD has divided Ethiopians into opposite camps. Many Ethiopians see …
This time around we may make it
By Lealem Yitayew
The recent development in the alliance of forces in Ethiopian politics has initiated hot discussions among Ethiopians. The emergence of AFD has divided Ethiopians into opposite camps. Many Ethiopians see …
Ethiopian Review Editorial
Deputy Prime Minister Addisu Legesse was too afraid to face Ethiopians in Atlanta at the public meeting he himself had called yesterday afternoon. He decided to call off the meeting after learning that less than ten individuals …
Federal Police and soccer fans clashed this afternoon (local time) at the Addis Ababa Stadium in Ethiopia. During the soccer match, the fans started shouting slogans, which include “release CUD leaders,” and “Meles leba (thief).” The Federal Police reacted by …
Ethiopian Review Editorial
It is not a secret that the United Ethiopian Democratic Forces (UEDF) is waging an all out attack against the Alliance for Freedom and Democracy (AFD), a coalition of EPPF, Kinijit, OLF, ONLF and SLF. UEDF had …
Ethiopian Review Editorial
The pre- and post-elections political activities of Ato Lidetu Ayalew require serious examination and analysis by political scientists and historians. ER’s intention here is not to do that, because we do not have all the facts. What …
By Elias Kifle
The pre- and post-elections political activities of Ato Lidetu Ayalew require serious examination and analysis by political scientists and historians. ER’s intention here is not to do that, because we do not have all the facts. What …
Urgent call to Ethiopians in Seattle
KILLERS, NOT IN OUR CITY!!!
We, Ethiopians and Ethio-Americans living in and around the greater Seattle area, received the news of the visit by the unelected current Deputy Prime Minister of Ethiopia with great …
By Donald N Levine
For all the talk about ethnic self-determination in Ethiopia, almost no attention has been paid to the one and only ethnic group that actually seceded from Ethiopia–the Beta Israel, formerly called Falasha, whose entire population left …
ETHIOPIA’S prime minister, Meles Zenawi, now spends most of his time heading off his enemies. In the capital, Addis Ababa, the government’s response to its defeat in last year’s contested general election was to shoot scores of opposition …
“My argument is that the neo-liberal paradigm is a dead end, is incapable of bringing about the African renaissance, and that a fundamental shift in paradigm is required to bring about the African renaissance…” – a quote from Meles Zenawi’s …
Ethiopian Review Editorial
Amnesty International has reported that Addis Ababa mayor Dr Berhanu Nega’s health is deteriorating as a result of unsanitary prison conditions. The high court last month ruled that he should be transferred to a clean prison cell, …
(AFP) ADDIS ABABA – AT least 129 people were killed overnight in flash floods in eastern Ethiopia after an intense, sudden downpour pounded the region, sweeping away many in their sleep, police said yesterday.
“So far 129 people are confirmed …
Urgent Action
Amnesty International
Amnesty International welcomed the ruling on 19 July by a High Court judge that Dr Berhanu Negga be transferred to a less crowded, cleaner and better ventilated cell in Addis Ababa’s Kaliti prison, in compliance with …
Urgent Action
Amnesty International
Amnesty International welcomed the ruling on 19 July by a High Court judge that Dr Berhanu Negga be transferred to a less crowded, cleaner and better ventilated cell in Addis Ababa’s Kaliti prison, in compliance with …
It is with great reluctance that Ethiopian Review is once again writing about problems inside the Coalition for Unity and Democracy Party (CUDP/Kinijit). A few months ago when ER tried to discuss the problems and weaknesses on the part of …
By Aie Zi Guo
July 12, 2006  After Auschwitz the international community made a collective promise to defend humanity. Fifty years after the community witnessed multiple madness and abuse of humanity by mindless dictators from Rwanda to Srebrenica, Darfur …
ADDIS ABABA – Members of the parliamentary opposition parties — including Professor Beyene Petros (first on the left) and Dr. Merera Gudina (first on the right), both of the United Ethiopian Democratic Forces (UEDF), and Ato Temesgen Zewde (third on …
Below the full text of a speech given in Paris, France, by OLF’s Dr Shigut Geleta on June 17, 2006.
Thank you Mr. Chairperson for the nice introduction. As the chairperson said, my name is Shigut Geleta, and I am …
Getz #7, Part II
By Donald N. Levine
Whence this dramatic reversal of Tigrayan sentiment, from champions of historic Ethiopia to debunkers of its reality? The story begins following the Liberation from Italian rule in 1942. The Tigrayan populace was …
By Messay Kebede
I would like to add my voice to the ongoing debate and exchange over the creation by some opposition parties of a coalition titled “Alliance for Freedom and Democracy.†The initiative has generated a chain of diverse, …
By Olaana Abboma
AFD (Alliance for Freedom and Democracy) arrived with a bang and took almost everyone by surprise. Its birth had already generated strong reaction among all the stakeholders. Several articles and commentaries were written in this short period …
View on the Formation of the Alliance for Freedom and Democracy (AFD)
Obang O. Metho
Anuak Justice Council
There is a new reason to celebrate. Something that was never expected to happen has happened. It has caused a cool, refreshing …
By Scott A. Morgan
There is an unwritten rule in an autocratic society that the news and other information disseminated must be sanitized to paint the government in a positive light. Furthermore other sources of information have to either be …
Dawud Ibsaa’s recent interview on Les Nouvelles d’Addis and Hassen Hussien’s presentation to the EU Parliament prompted me to write this peace. There is no denying that since the May 2005 elections Ethiopia is entering a new political landscape. Finding …
By Fisseha Tecle
Should Jean-Bedel Bokassa (the former butcher of Central African Republic) sit in judgment of Idi Amin Dada? The drama of one dictator convicting another of genocide is currently underway in Ethiopia.
On Tuesday, May 23 Meles Zenawi …
Sharing my Night Memories of the 1974 Ethiopian Revolution and the Purpose of my Departure
By Maru Gubena (Ph.D.)
May 20, 2006
Among the multiple sources of Africa’s chronic economic poverty, social and political instability, and the persistent backwardness of …
GETZ # 6–A
By Donald N. Levine (aka Liben Gebre Etyopiya)
May 15, 2005 was marked by an extraordinarily large voter turnout for an unprecedentedly open multi-party election. As we know, the sweetness of that event turned sour; a year …
The Kinijit leaders who are unjustly languishing in Kaliti jail are sending out a message this weekend to all Kinijit worldwide committees announcing their selection of a new leadership that will lead the party until they are released.
The new …
U.S. Embassy Warden Message
This Warden Message is being issued to inform U.S. citizens that local police confirm that there were at least nine explosions in Addis Ababa today. The explosions occurred in the following areas: Piazza, Mercato, Old Airport, …
By E.K. Yalew
The Importance of Pursuing a National Agenda
The dream France is fostering is one of vision… a powerful concept that moves countries, leaders and people to accomplish great things, especially in transforming their lives and those who …
By E.K. Yalew
The Importance of Pursuing a National Agenda
The dream France is fostering is one of vision… a powerful concept that moves countries, leaders and people to accomplish great things, especially in transforming their lives and those who …
By Maru Gubena
As many Ethiopians and friends of Ethiopia have repeatedly stated, only the TPLF leadership and its cadres have persisted in telling God-fearing, honest, innocent and starving Ethiopians – and the international community – that the tireless efforts …
By Yohannes Edemariam and Aida Edemariam
The poet and dramatist Tsegaye Gebre-Medhin, who has died aged 69, was considered Ethiopia’s poet laureate. He was one of the most important literary figures that country has produced in the last hundred years, …
By Donald N. Levine (aka Liben Gebre Etyopiya)
1. The Ethiopian polity was transformed from a one-party state to a multi-party democracy. I am trying to think of one other polity where such a transformation took place with the same …
Part I
By Alemayehu GebreMariam
There is rumor of mass civil disobedience in Ethiopia. Over the past month, the U.S. Embassy has been reminding and urging Americans in Ethiopia to “avoid demonstrations intended to be peaceful [which] can turn confrontational.†…
By Dr. Maru Gubena
Given the image that major western leaders, financial institutions and NGO communities have had of Meles Zenawi as a progressive leader, and given the massive moral, financial and military support he has received from donor nations …
March 10
Frezer has been released today after languishing in jail for 41 days!
March 8
A judge ordered yesterday that Ethiopian Review correspondent in Addis Ababa Firezer Negash should be released as there is no evidence to keep her …
At the moment, the exemplary work for the respect of the peoples vote in Ethiopia is being carried out by the European Union representatives, while US foreign policy is being driven by a single issue, “war on terrorismâ€Â, in the …
By T. Mesfin
On February 15, 2005 C. Bryson Hull of Reuters wrote a curious piece under the heading, “Ethiopia’s Meles can weather political storms.†The “analysis†is very likely a well-timed plant.
Hull may not have done it deliberately, …
A critical look at the responses and strategies of Ethiopians to decades of political repression, divisive ethnic policy, continuing impoverishment and territorial disintegration
Before embarking on the issues to be explored in the coming article, let me make a few …
By T. Mesfin
Reliable European Union sources tell us Meles Zenawi is in dire straights. He is putting up a brave, tough face in public while desperately pleading with European and American donors to keep the aid money flowing.
The …
In a letter to Meles Zenawi, the Canadian Labour Congress condemns press freedom violations and the repeated attacks on the integrity and human rights of the Ethiopian Teachers Association leaders and rank and file members:
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January 27, 2006
Meles …
Transportation and Communications Minister Junedin Sado’s opponent during the May 15 elections, Wzt Minisha Girma, has been kidnapped by security forces.
Minisha had defeated Junedin in the Oromiya regional elections, but he accused her of cheating and asked the Election …
It was good news to hear Secretary of State, Hilary Ben, announcing from Addis Ababa, the withdrawal of direct budget support to the regime of Melese Zenawi. While appreciating this first step taken by the British Government, the campaign organized …
Ethiopian dictator Meles Zenawi has held talks with visiting U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs Jendayi Frazer on the upcoming African Union summit in Khartoum and Ethiopia-Eritrea border situations, officials said Saturday.
Meles and Frazer on Friday discussed …
ER Dec 30 – The 48-hour vigil that started yesterday has ended today after State Department officials left early for the New Year holiday. The participation was greater than anticipated by the organizers. There will be more vigils like this …
Western donors are considering withholding millions of dollars of aid to Ethiopia, after a recent crackdown on the opposition and the press. The sum of $375m in direct funding for Ethiopian government programmes is reported to be under review.
More …
By Andrew England, Financial Times
Donors are to withhold direct budgetary support worth about $375m (€317m £218m) from Ethiopia following the government’s brutal crackdown on opposition supporters last month, western development officials said yesterday.
Until the situation improves, the donors …
Ethiopian Review, Dec 29, 11:30 AM
The popular uprising in Ethiopia against the fascist regime of Meles Zenawi continues today. Most high schools in Addis Ababa and other cities are closed. Students at Wondyrad and Abiyot Qirs high schools staged …
Ethiopian Review
Dec 28, 2005
On Thursday December 22nd, police entered Felege Edget and Fasiludus schools in the early morning hours and waited for students to arrive. The unsuspected students gathered in their respective school compounds as usual before classes …
Police and students clashed at Ambo’s Meskerem Hulet high school yesterday. Police opened fire on students and arrested many of them.
In the town of Gedo, 68 km from Ambo, a bomb exploded injuring several students. The students say that …
Hundreds of people from the towns of Mendi and Gimbi, western Ethiopia, are rounded up and taken to Senkele Police Training Center in Ambo. Special forces surrounded these towns after the residents started holding protests demanding the removal of Meles …
Students at Ayer Tena and other high schools staged peaceful protests today. Federal Police and Agazi troops, Meles Zenawi’s private army, surrounded Ayer Tena school, rounded up all the students they can find and took them to unknown locations. Many …
The Houston Chronicle — While the West celebrates the joys of Christmas, Africa’s oldest independent nation, Ethiopia, is submerged in apocalyptic violence sponsored by the regime.
The Daily Telegraph of London recently described repression of the opposition and the media …
The student protest that was started last week in Gonder is now spreading to Addis Ababa, western Shoa and other regions of Ethiopia.
Yesterday and today, high school students in Addis Ababa are staging protest rallies demanding the release of …
Boston, Massachusetts — In a jubilant and colorful night, on Saturday, December 17, 2005, in the presence of statesmen and Ethiopians from all walks of life, young and old, men and women in Boston, Artist Tamagn Beyene was received “Man …
Statement for the Record
U.S. Senator Maria Cantwell
December 20, 2005
Mr. President, I rise to speak on the disturbing reports of political chaos in Ethiopia. With allegations of vote tampering and emerging pictures of large-scale human rights abuses taking …
Meles Zenawi’s forces are savagely beating and torturing students in the town of Ambo, western Ethiopia. Some have lost consciousness from the beatings and torture by the heavily armed police and troops who are under the direct command of Meles …
Hundreds of Ethiopians have staged a protest rally at the U.S. State Department and World Bank in Washington DC today.
The protestors appealed to the Bush Administration and the World Bank to stop financing the murderous dictatorship of Meles Zenawi …
Schools through out Gonder are being closed down after students staged protests demanding the release of all students and political prisoners.
The protest is spreading through out the region as other students picked up the same demands. Eyewitnesses told Ethiopian …
By Micha Odenheimer
The Washington Post
December 18, 2005; Page B04
The Addis Ababa airport I used to know was shabby and neglected, an overgrown shack of wood, concrete and tin. It smelled of incense mingled with the dank, sweet …
By Micha Odenheimer
The Washington Post
December 18, 2005; Page B04
The Addis Ababa airport I used to know was shabby and neglected, an overgrown shack of wood, concrete and tin. It smelled of incense mingled with the dank, sweet …
By David Blair in Addis Ababa
Telegraph
A leader handpicked by Tony Blair to champion Africa has smashed his opponents with the biggest crackdown in the continent’s recent history, jailing 40,000 people including boys of 15.
Meles Zenawi, the Ethiopian …
By David Blair in Addis Ababa
Telegraph
A leader handpicked by Tony Blair to champion Africa has smashed his opponents with the biggest crackdown in the continent’s recent history, jailing 40,000 people including boys of 15.
Meles Zenawi, the Ethiopian …
U.S. SENATOR PATRICK LEAHY
CONTACT: Office of Senator Leahy, 202-224-4242
VERMONT
Statement Of Senator Patrick Leahy
Violence And Repression In Ethiopia
December 16, 2005
On May 15, 2005, Ethiopia held the first open, multi-party, democratic elections in its 3,000 year …
(Distributed with the author’s permission.)
5 December 2005
H.E. Takeda Alemu,
State Minister for Foreign Affairs,
Addis Ababa
Dear Takeda,
Thank you for your open letter of 17 November, raising some points about my earlier ‘Comments on the Ethiopian Crisis’. …
By Tolossa GK
One-family ruling party
1. Meles Zenawi – Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF) chairman, TPLF Politburo chairman, Marxist-Leninist League of Tigray chairman, Ethiopian Peoples’ Revolutionary Democratic Front (EPRDF) chairman, and Prime Minister
2. Azeb Mesfin – (Meles Zenawi’s …
Ato Beriso Negussie, Ato Eshetu Teklehaimanot and several other Ethiopians have been murdered in the town of Kore, about 60 km from Shashemene.
In Kore and the surrounding villages, over one hundred homes have been burned and many more have …
Reuters, Nov 27, 2005 – Detained Ethiopian Opposition leaders facing possible treason charges said yesterday they would go on hunger strike this week to pressure the government to release them.
Members of the Coalition for Unity and Democracy (CUD) arrested …
Oct 26, 2005
Ethiopian Review
The Coalition for Unity & Democracy (CUD) is preparing for major peaceful actions to pressure the Meles regime to accept its demands. The Meles regime is expected to react with brute force, as it did …
8-point Proposal for Peace presented by the Coalition for Unity and Democracy Party (Kinijit) to Meles Zenawi’s dictatorship in Ethiopian (Oct. 2005)
1. The Restructuring of the Election Board into an Independent body;
2. Freedom of and access to All …
Oct 4, 2005, 12:10 PM EST
Ethiopian Review
The EPRDF meeting with opposition parties went on the whole day and still continuing. No information is currently available on how the meeting is going… 12:10 PM EST
It’s also reported that …
By the Network of Ethiopian Scholars (NES) – Scandinavian Chapter
October 2, 2005
“The will of the people shall be the basis of the authority of government; this shall be expressed in periodic and genuine elections which shall be by …
UPDATE
Oct 2, Ottawa – Ethiopians and Ethio-Canadians hold a demonstration in front of the Canadian Parliament in Ottawa, Canada. Over 200 Ethiopians braved the smouldering heat and chanted respect the vote of the people, stop killing and arresting opposition …
UPDATE
Oct 2, Ottawa – Ethiopians and Ethio-Canadians hold a demonstration in front of the Canadian Parliament in Ottawa, Canada. Over 200 Ethiopians braved the smouldering heat and chanted respect the vote of the people, stop killing and arresting opposition …
September 29, 2005
Source: CUD-Addis Ababa office
Extrajudicial acts of the EPRDF against CUD members and supporters
North Gonder
Kebele militia men: Ato Kidane Gebrehawariat, Ato Awisew Worku and Ato Zinnaw Worku Beat Ato Daniet Ayenew until be fell unconscious …
September 29, 2005
Source: CUD-Addis Ababa office
Extrajudicial acts of the EPRDF against CUD members and supporters
North Gonder
Kebele militia men: Ato Kidane Gebrehawariat, Ato Awisew Worku and Ato Zinnaw Worku Beat Ato Daniet Ayenew until be fell unconscious …
By Shakespear N. Feyissa, Esq.
On August 1, 2005, Ethiopia’s eleven current top governmental officials, including the Prime Minister, Mr. Meles Zenawi, and his spouse Mrs. Azeb Mesfin, in two separate lawsuits, filed a defamation and conspiracy action in Virginia …
Ethiopian Review Editorial
September 21, 2005
On May 15, 2005, the overwhelming majority of registered voters in Ethiopia voted for CUD. It was a vote of confidence for the coalition, particularly for AEUP and UEDP-Medhin, since the two received the …
Ethiopian Review Editorial
Sep 21, 2005
A statement has been posted in the name of CUD on Kestedemena Party’s web site that contradicts Ato Hailu Shawel’s announcement that CUD will not enter parliament. The statement does not bear CUD’s official …
Sep 20, 2005
Ethiopian Review
Meles Zenawi left New York in a hurry and arrived in Addis Ababa last Saturday after attending the United Nations General Assembly on Sep 15. Meles used to go to Washington DC after attending UN …
ADDIS ABABA (ENA) — Registration of voters and contesting candidates across the nation was officially closed at 7 p.m. (local time) on 13 February 2005 with the exception in the Somali Regional State where the election would be held in …
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ADDIS ABABA (IRIN) – Ethiopia’s parliament reformed the country’s electoral law on Tuesday ahead of May’s general election, but the ruling stopped short of hopes by opposition parties.
It was the first time that the law had been amended since …
ADDIS ABABA (IRIN) – Federal elections in one of Ethiopia’s nine regions are to be delayed until several months after the rest of the country has voted, officials said on Thursday.
Tesfaye Mengesha, deputy head of the country’s National Election …
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia – Ethiopia’s Genet Getaneh produced the greatest upset in the short four-year history of the Toyota Great Ethiopian Run, setting a new course record to win the women’s title in this morning’s race.
The 10km road race …
By Keith Harmon Snow
Global Policy Forum
Talk privately to any Anuak people in the Ethiopian state of Gambella and it won’t be long before they speak about “the problem.” Others are terrified into silence. To Anuak and other indigenous …
By Keith Harmon Snow
Global Policy Forum
Talk privately to any Anuak people in the Ethiopian state of Gambella and it won’t be long before they speak about “the problem.” Others are terrified into silence. To Anuak and other indigenous …
ADDIS ABABA (IRIN) – Ethiopia will hold national elections for its federal parliament on 15 May 2005, officials told IRIN. Ten national and 57 regional parties will run in the polls, with results announced on 8 June 2005, officials from …
Addis Ababa – Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi has averted a possible boycott of 2005 elections by opposition parties by agreeing to their demand to invite international observers, his ruling party said on Tuesday.
Ethiopia banned international observers from monitoring …