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Discussion on Ethiopian Review investigation of Al Amoudi’s disappearance
Some Ethiopian Review readers expressed concerned that our report on Al Amoudi’s disappearance might have been contaminated by a Woyanne disinformation campaign. As we reported earlier, it appears the billionaire and business partner of the late Ethiopian dictator Meles Zenawi …
Al Amoudi is alive (video)
Billionaire Mohammed Al Amoudi appears to be alive — and well enough to continue looting and plundering Ethiopia. The following video was recorded by Bereket Simon’s rat named Ben at Bole Airport today.
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Al Amoudi upate
Ethiopia First website editor named Ben claims that he saw Al Amoudi today at Bole Airport and presented the photo below as evidence. Ben is Bereket Simon’s apprentice, so it is hard to believe any thing that comes from him. …
Addis Ababa abuzz over the news of Al Amoudi’s death/disappearance
Here is what we have been able to gather so far:
1. The biggest news in Addis Ababa and other cities in Ethiopia yesterday and today has been the reported death/disappearance of Ethiopian-Saudi Billionaire Mohammed Al Amoudi, even though the …
Bereket Simon office denies Al Amoudi is dead
Ethiopian Review editor has called Bereket Simon’s office this morning to verify if the TPLF regime propaganda minister knows whether Ethiopian-Saudi billionaire Al Amoudi is dead. His assistant refused to connect us to Bereket but denied the report. Click here …
BREAKING NEWS: Al Amoudi is dead
Ethio-Saudi billionaire Ato Mohamed Al Amoudi, one of the late dictator Meles Zenawi’s closest friends, has died today in Saudi Arabia after receiving medical treatment in London, Ethiopian Review Intelligence Unit sources reported this afternoon.
Ethiopian Review could not confirm …
Seyoum Mesfin, Sufian Ahmed and Indrias Eshete critically ill
UPDATE: A local newspaper is reporting that Prof Indrias Eshete is dead. Read here.
Acting head of the ruling TPLF junta in Ethiopia, Seyoum Mesfin, Finance Minister Sufian Ahmed and former Addis Ababa University President Indrias Eshete are …
The Misguided Drama of TPLF Diehards
Selam Beyene, PhD
Without regard to the opportunity presented by the death of the late autocrat Meles Zenawi to initiate dialogue, atone for the crimes committed by the ethnic-based regime, and reach out to the vast majority of the Ethiopian …
Addis Ababa homeless say goodbye to the fallen dictator (video)
Some of the 1 million homeless people in Ethiopia’s capital Addis Ababa went to the National Palace to bid farewell to Meles Zenawi and express their appreciation for every thing he did for them. The homeless people seemed to be …
Addis Ababa hospital patients dragged out of bed to visit Meles Zenawi’s body (video)
This is unbelievable! Even the North Koreans have not thought about dragging people out of hospitals to cry when they organized a mass hysteria last year following the death of their ‘beloved’ leader Kim Jong II. This is indeed the …
Bereket Simon forcing Teddy Afro to sing for Meles Zenawi
Woyanne propaganda chief Bereket Simon, aka Addis Bob, sent his goons to pressure popular Ethiopian singer Teddy Afro to sing a song in memory of the deceased dictator Meles Zenawi, Ethiopian Review has learned.
Teddy has two choices: 1. Sing …
TPLF junta orders Addis Ababa residents to set up tents for Meles Zenawi funeral
The TPLF junta is pushing its fake grief over the death of the late khat-addicted dictator Meles Zenawi too far. The junta has now ordered Addis Ababa idirs (self-help associations) to setup tents throughout the city to mourn the dictator.…
Hailemariam Desalegn moves to consolidate power
Boosted by a call from U.S. President Barack Obama on Thursday, the acting prime minister of Ethiopia, Hailemariam Desalegn, is taking steps to assert his authority, according to Ethiopian Review sources in Addis Ababa.
The ruling TPLF junta is intending …
Barack Obama hold talks with Hailemariam Desalegn
EDITOR’S NOTE: The Obama Administration continues to push the TPLF junta to accept Hailemariam Desalegn as the new “prime minister.” President Obama’s call to Hailemariam yesterday was part of the U.S. effort to strengthen Hailemariam’s position. However, the mid- and …
Meles Zenawi died of liver cancer – CPJ
* Meles died Monday of liver cancer
* In Ethiopia, Feteh editor jailed during trial
Ethiopian authorities must immediately release Temesghen Desalegn, editor of the leading weekly Feteh, who was ordered jailed today pending his trial on defamation, the Committee …
The convening of parliament postponed because of TPLF internal revolt
The rubber-stamp parliament in Ethiopia was scheduled to meet today to formally appoint Hailemariam Dessalegn as prime minister, but Ethiopian Review sources in Addis Ababa reported this afternoon that the meeting was abruptly canceled yesterday after Meles Zenawi’s wife Azeb …
CNN’s Erin Burnett blasts U.S. foreign policy on Ethiopia
Erin Burnett of CNN’s Outfront seems to be one of the few Western journalists who have not received DLA Piper’s talking about about Meles Zenawi. In her commentator last night she blasted the U.S. anti-human rights policy in Ethiopia. Thank …
The West’s dramatic hypocrisy in praising Ethiopian tyrant – Forbes
By Thor Halvorssen and Alex Gladstein | Forbes
With the dust beginning to settle on yesterday’s death of Meles Zenawi—ruler of Ethiopia since 1991—Western leaders have been quick to lavish praise on his legacy. A darling of the national security …
In Meles’ death, as in life, a penchant for secrecy, control
By Mohammed Keitha | CPJ Africa Policy Coordinator
August 21, 2012
Ethiopians awakened this morning to state media reports that Prime Minister Meles Zenawi, 57, the country’s leader for 21 years, had died late Monday in an over
The late
Ethiopian dictator Meles Zenawi’s body left Brussels (video)
It is a staged event orchestrated by the TPLF’s junta’s propaganda machinery. The truth is that Meles Zenawi’s body arrived in Addis Ababa over 3 weeks ago and had been kept in a freezer at Bole Airport, according to an …
Meles Zenawi’s body “arrives” at Bole Airport this evening
The TPLF junta is organizing a ceremony for 9 PM (local time) tonight to receive Meles Zenawi’s body. Although they claim that he is being flown from overseas, Ethiopian Review sources report that he has been kept in a freezer …
A chance to build a new Ethiopia
By Yilma Bekele
The Ethiopian TPLF Prime Minister Meles Zenawi died three weeks ago. He died at St-Luke University Hospital in Brussels, Belgium. His Party kept him in the freezer while trying to determine what to do regarding the rules …
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Meles Zenawi’s crimes (in photos)
The crimes of Meles Zenawi and his TPLF junta
Prof. Asrat Woldeyes languished 6 years in jail deprived of medical treatment until it was too late
14-year-old Meseret Tadesse gunned down by Meles Zenawi’s soldiers
A satellite image of an …
A day of joy for Ethiopians; the blood-sucking terrorist tyrant is dead!
Today is a day of joy for most Ethiopians and all freedom loving people around the world. The ruling Woyanne tribal junta has finally admitted this morning that Meles Zenawi, the genocidal tyrant who has been terrorizing the people of …
Why is Ethiopian Airlines overcharging passengers?
Ethiopian Airlines (EAL) is consistently proving to be a bad financial deal for travelers to and from Ethiopia. EAL used to tout itself as the most affordable way to travel back home. But our research finds that at least nowadays, …
Profits drop 40% at Ethiopian Airlines
Ethiopian’s profit plunges by 40 percent
The Reporter
August 11, 2012
The net profit of Ethiopian Airlines in the 2011/2012 fiscal year has tumbled by 40 percent to 732 million birr year-on-year. In the 2010/2011 fiscal year Ethiopian earned a …
Starve the TPLF beast: Boycott Ethiopian Airlines
Statement by Boycott TPLF Task Force
Don’t hand over your hard-earned dollars, euros, any foreign currency to them! And save your own money in the process!
Meles Zenawi is either dead, or if he is not actually clinically dead, he …
Ode to timidity – the Ethiopian experience
By Yilma Bekele
I knew something was missing. It kept nagging at me, the little voice in side kept saying ‘you know you have been here before.’ I was driving south on the 580 Freeway when it hit me. It …
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Honoring His Holiness Abune Melketsedik
Abune Melketsedik will be honored by the Ethiopian Heritage Society in North America this weekend at the annual Ethiopian festival for his life time contribution for the betterment of Ethiopia.
By Yilma Bekele
I have the good fortune of residing …
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Meles Zenawi is said to be dead – multiple sources
An Ethiopian Airlines employee, who wants to remain anonymous, informed Ethiopian Review this afternoon that Ethiopia’s dictator Meles Zenawi has died 4 days ago. But according to our sources, his bodyguards are still at St. Luc Hospital in Belgium. If …
Hailemariam Desalegn confirms Meles Zenawi’s illness
By William Davison | Bloomberg
Ethiopia’s government ruling junta said that Prime Minister khat-addicted dictator Meles Zenawi is ill after he failed to attend an African Union summit, and an opposition group reported he may have died in a European …
Azeb Mesfin banned from leaving Ethiopia
The Ethiopian Review Intelligence Unit has learned that Meles Zenaw’s daughter Semhal Meles, who was in Washington DC during the Summer, has gone back to Ethiopia yesterday. According to our source, many of Meles Zenawi’s close relatives and friends have …
Ethiopia’s dictator in a coma
Reliable sources have informed Ethiopian Review that Ethiopia’s long time dictator Meles Zenawi is in a coma and may have died earlier today.
Meles was transported to Belgium 3 days ago and has been receiving treatment at Saint-Luc University Hospital…
Ethiopia: Unfree to Speak or Write?
Alemayehu G Mariam
Free to SpeakTo paraphrase an old expression, “There are two things that are quintessentially important in any society. The first is free speech and I can’t remember the second one.”
Free speech is the bedrock of
…Is Aiga Forum writing Meles’ obituary?
Bye, Bye Meles?
July 15, 2012
Aiga Forum, the website closely associated with Ethiopia’s intelligence services, just posted an emotional, tear-soaked, braggadocio-filled piece that appears to be the obituary of Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi.
The article titled “Meles ad …
Is national dialogue the answer? Obang Metho
Ethiopia in Danger!
Is There a Way Out Without Our Mutual Destruction?
By Obang Metho | Solidarity Movement for a New Ethiopia
A bumblebee, if dropped into an open tumbler, will be there until it dies, unless it is taken …
Inshalla Ethiopia? Sharia Law in Ethiopia? Is Meles Right After All?
What kind of people worship a God that would lay waste to a people and refuses to forgive people who do evil things?
by Teddy Fikre dated: Sunday, July 15th, 2012
“If a man still prophesies, his parents, father and …
Ethiopia’s dictator a no-show at African Union summit – AP
ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia (Associated Press) — Ethiopia’s longtime ruler and most powerful figure, Prime Minister Meles Zenawi, is not attending an African Union summit that opened Sunday in Ethiopia, which further fueled speculation that he might be seriously ill.
About …
ENTC press release on the massacre of Muslims in Addis Ababa
Ethiopian National Transitional Council
Press Release
The dictatorship in Ethiopia must be held accountable for its atrocities against Ethiopian Muslims
On Friday, July 13, Meles Zenawi’s dictatorship in Ethiopia launched a bloody crackdown against peaceful Muslim worshippers who gathered at …
Ethiopian Muslim leaders consider general strike
Tens of thousands of Ethiopian Muslims forced Woyanne security forces to retreat after a violent confrontation broke out Friday evening. It is reported that earlier Friday, the Woyanne Federal police used teargas to try to disperse Muslims who were gathering …
Meles Zenawi, Corruption, Blood Money, and USAID
We ask you as Ethiopians and Americans please stop supporting tyranny in Ethiopia and corruption in America by Ethiopians.
by Teddy Fikre dated: Friday, July 13th, 2012
September 11th did not occur on September 11th 2001. Rather, the …
TPLF and Addis Abeba
By Yilma Bekele
Dictator Meles Zenawi has not been seen for over three weeks or so. We know he is not in good health after we saw his picture with the Chinese Prime Minister in Mexico. Some are claiming we …
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USA-EU’s strange pact with Ethiopia’s dictator (New York Times)
By TOBIAS HAGMANN | New York Times
BERKELEY, CALIFORNIA — Next time I travel to Ethiopia, I may be arrested as a terrorist. Why? Because I have published articles about Ethiopian politics.
I wrote a policy report on Ethiopia’s difficulties …
Rumors about Meles Zenawi’s health engulf Addis
The health and whereabouts of Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi have become a subject of much speculation. The situation appears to border on panic, especially among regime loyalists. Addis Fortune, an otherwise compliant pro-government business publication chimes in with its …
TPLF’s anti-Muslim campaign (analysis)
Former TPLF regime official Abdellah Adem Teki provides an in-depth analysis on why dictator Meles Zenawi has launched an anti-Muslim campaign in Ethiopia. [Read here: Amharic – PDF]…
AESA One: Ye Dem Genzeb Men Geza?
You can sleep with the pharaoh or you can stand for the people—I will not let you do both!
by Teddy (revolutionary) Fikre dated: Monday, July 9th, 2012
It is done! A war I started a week ago has been …
Ethiopia in BondAid?
Alemayehu G. Mariam
“Bondage” is the state of being bound by or subjected to some external power or control. When people are bound by debt, they are in “debt bondage”. When they are held in involuntary servitude, they are in …
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Dictator Meles Zenawi receives treatment for blood cancer
Ethiopia’s khat-addicted dictator Meles Zenawi has been diagnosed with blood cancer and is receiving treatment at a Belgium hospital, according to Ethiopian Review Intelligence Unit sources. Berhane Gebrekiristos and Teodros Adhanom, both close confidants of Meles Zenawi and senior members …
Meles Zenawi and his health
Ethiopia, Ato Meles and his health. By Yilma Bekele
Ato Meles Zenawi, Chairman of Tigrai People Liberation Front (TPLF) and Prime Minster of the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia is not in good health. I became aware of that fact …
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Al Amoudi’s Woyanne festival update (video)
UPDATE (6 July 2012, 04:00 PM EST): Today was promoted to be the biggest day in the week-long AESAONE festival in Washington DC that is funded by the beggar Woyanne junta in Ethiopia. As the video below shows, the very …
Feeding Ethiopia to Lyons
Feeding Ethiopia to Lyons
Challenge duplicity where you see it and speak up against people like Professor Lyons who stand in league with tyrants and pygmy dictators like Meles Zenawi.
by Teddy Fikre dated: Friday, July 6th, 2012
Colonialism. Did …
Jeezy performs at Al Amoudi festival
Jeezy is one of the the well-known American rappers who are paid close to a million dollars to perform at AESAONE event in Washington DC this week. The event, that is fully funded by Al Amoudi and the Woyanne junta …
Only 100 people attended Al Amoudi’s festival – Washington Post
The guests of honor at the RFK tournament are members of the 1962 Ethiopian national soccer team, the country’s only team to win the Africa Cup of Nations. When four of them took their seats Sunday before the opening ceremonies, …
Paradigm Shift: TPLF Intimidation No More
The time has come for an Adwa Spring, what started with a joke of a soccer tournament come cultural sham has transformed into something bigger::
by Teddy Fikre dated: Tuesday, July 2nd, 2012
Do you feel that? Feel what you
ESFNA rocks Dallas
The Ethiopian Sports Federation in North America (ESFNA) opened its annual soccer tournament on Sunday, July 1st, in Dallas, Texas, with a big fanfare. I have been to several ESFNA events in the past, and I am sure many people …
The Free Press in Ethiopia’s Kangaroo Kourts
Alemayehu G Mariam
The Triumph of Lies
Over the past six years, I have written numerous columns defending press freedom in Ethiopia. In a 2009 commentary entitled, “The Art of War on Ethiopia’s Independent Press”, I expressed …
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Al Amoudi Woyanne festival in DC a total failure (video)
The festival that is organized in Washington DC under the name of AESAONE by Al Amoudi and Woyanne thugs, in collaboration with a bunch of hoodlums, turned into total failure on its opening day this afternoon. After spending over $2 …
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Protest rally at the Al Amoudi Woyanne festival in DC – Sunday, 5 PM
If you are angry at the Woyanne kangaroo court’s decision against Andualeam Arage and others, here is the chance to do some thing about it. Turn your anger into action.
Patriotic Ethiopians in the Washington DC area are organizing a …
Who jailed Eskinder and the rest?
By Yilma Bekele
The headlines screamed ‘Ethiopian court convicts 24 of terrorism charges’. As usual it was a misleading and incorrect statement. There is no such animal called Ethiopian court. There is a TPLF controlled judicial arrangement in Ethiopia. Prime …
U.S. Supreme Court cites an Ethiopian scholar’s work
By Selam Beyene
At a time when many Ethiopians in the Diaspora are disenchanted with President Obama’s gestures toward the Ethiopian tyrant Meles Zenawi, it is ironic that the work of an Ethiopian scholar, Dr. Berhanu Alemayehu, is cited as …
Ethiopian Review frustrates the Woyanne junta – William Davison
In some cases, such as that of Ethiopian Review, it’s apparent why official frustration at the media boils over. The US-based website, the Ethiopian Review is virulently opposed to Meles’s regime, which has ruled the country since helping overthrow a …
The Al Amoudi festival in DC is managed by DLA Piper (photo)
The Al Amoudi-Woyanne blood money festival in Washington DC that is scheduled to start this coming Sunday afternoon under the name AESNONE is being managed by DLP Piper, the notorious U.S. law firm based in Washington DC that represents genocidal …
ESAT discussion on boycotting Al Amoudi festival in DC
ESAT discusses economic boycott against the Woyanne junta in Ethiopia, and particularly the boycott campaign that is currently underway against the Al Amoudi-sponsored blood money festival in Washington DC. The discussion is with Ethiopian Review editor Elias Kifle and Boycott …
Sew Tefah? Ethiopia Motech?
The choice is simple, be about Hebret and charity or take part in evil and do Eskista as you protest AESA One as everyone—including me—laughs at you::
by Teddy (Ambessa) Fikre dated: Tuesday, June 26th, 2012
I am writing this …
Ethiopia: The Sky(pe) is Falling!
Alemayehu G. Mariam
The Sky is Falling!
Most of my readers know how much I enjoy “bedtime stories”. Recently, I wrote about my favortie bedtime story of Pinocchio in Africa. Ever heard of the story of Chicken Little? One …
Yachi Neger: Ethiopia Killers by the Name of AESA One
Yachi Neger is a condom called our conscience, if we wear it we can reside in the grace of God or we can disrobe from this same condom and dwell in the abode of Saytan::
by Teddy Fikre dated: Friday, …
Boycott Al Amoudi’s festival in Washington DC
የአላሙዲ አሽከሮች በዋሽንግተን ዲሲ ባዘጋጁት የወያኔ ፌስቲቫል ላይ ሀገር ወዳድ ኢትዮጵያውያን እንዳይሳተፉ የቀረበ ጥሪ
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የኢትዮጵያ ስፖርት ፌዴሬሽን ዓመታዊ ዝግጅት በዳላስ ቴክሳስ ከጁላይ 1 – 7፥ እንዲሁም የኢትዮጵያ ሄሪቴጅ በዋሽንግተን ዲሲ ከጁላይ 27 – 29 ይካሄዳሉ። እነዚህን የኢትዮጵያውያን …
New Fashion Trend: Habesha Men Wearing Habesha Kemis
Two years ago in America, it was the year of the “metrosexual”, it seems we have arrived at a new day, we have arrived at the age of the “Habeshasexual”::
by Yohannes Aramaji dated: Thursday, June 21st, 2012
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How long will West tolerate Ethiopia’s dictator? Graham Peebles
Internet intrusion and increased repression in Ethiopia
By Graham Peebles | Redress.cc
19 June 2012
Graham Peebles views the Meles Zenawi regime’s chronic suppression of the internet and media freedoms in Ethiopia and asks how long will Addis Ababa’s allies …
Discussion on Al Amoudi blood money festival in Washington DC
Saudi agent Al Amoudi, in collaboration with Woyanne junta leaders Meles Zenawi and Azeb Mesfin, is pillaging and looting Ethiopia by creating over 40 mega corporations during the past 20 years, while forcing into exile so many hard working Ethiopian …
Influential senator slams Zenawi for assault on press
US senator condemns Ethiopia’s persecution of the press
By Mohamed Keita | Committee to Protect Journalists
June 15, 2012.
On Wednesday, the same day the White House announced a strategic plan committing the United States to elevating its efforts in
…Woyanne delegation to Canada confronted by protestors
Protestors demand end of Ethiopian politican’s visit
By Jason Warick | The Star Phoenix (Canada)
The University of Saskatchewan should not be hosting an Ethiopian politician implicated in corruption scandals and the forcible removal of tens of thousands of peasant …
The Great Renaissance Dam as a wedge issue
By Yilma Bekele
The Ethiopian government was peddling its ponzi scheme of selling bonds for the pie in the sky project named The Grand Renaissance Dam’ on the Abbay river here in the Bay Area. It was not as lavish …
Ethiopia tightens press & internet censorship: RSF
GOVERNMENT STEPS UP CONTROL OF NEWS AND INFORMATION
By Reporters sans Frontieres
May 7, 2012
Ethiopia’s only ISP, state-owned Ethio-Telecom, has just installed a system for blocking access to the Tor network, which lets users browse anonymously and access blocked …
Waldeba in my heart
Waldeba in my heart. By Yilma Bekele
Truth be told I was not aware of Waldeba Monastery until quite recently. Today I live Waldeba, I breathe Waldeba, and I believe Waldeba has taken over my soul. Mind you I am …
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Church leaders call for economic boycott of the TPLF junta
Secretary of the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church’s Holy Synod in exile, Archbishop Abune Melketsekik, and other church leaders have called on the people of Ethiopia to boycott all businesses that are affiliated with dictator Meles Zenawi’s ruling party, the Tigray …
Ethiopia: Food for Famine and Thought!
By Alemayehu G. Mariam
The New Alliance for Food Security and Nutrition
At the recent 2012 G8 Food Security Summit in Washington, D.C., Abebe Gellaw, a young Washington-based Ethiopian journalist, stood up in the gallery and thunderously proclaimed to dictator …
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When we were the achievers
By Yilma Bekele
I am always harking back to the pleasant years of our past. Believe me it not being nostalgic rather it is the lack of good news that makes me reach deep to salvage a little bit of …
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Ethiopia for sale – Graham Peebles
The Ethiopian Land Giveaway – OpEd
What’s yours is mine, what’s mine’s my own
By Graham Peebles | Eurasia Review
It is a colonial phenomenon, appropriate land for the needs of the colonists and to hell with those living upon …
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Meles Zenawi’s Unequivocal Advocacy for Stalinism
Tyranny substitutes one absolute boss for the pluralism of competing institutions. It substitutes terror for responsibility. It does indeed do away with the institutions, but only by submerging all of them in the one all-embracing bureaucracy of the apparatus… […
Ethiopia: Meles, Speechless!
Alemayehu G Mariam
The Man Who Cried “Freedom!”
On May 18, 2012, dictator Meles Zenawi learned a lesson he will not easily forget. In the land of free speech, he …
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Further discourse on the Washington DC undressing
By Yilma Bekele
The Washington DC incident with Ato Meles is the talk of all Ethiopians in the Diaspora. I found out there is no reason for me to raise the issue, every one I met sooner or later will …
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Nervous Meles Zenawi arrests VOA reporter
VOA Reporter Detained in Ethiopia
It appears Meles Zenawi’s troops are gearing up to attack and destroy Muslim protestors. TPLF forces have been waiting for two events to pass before waging full–scale suppression of the Mulim protests. The first event
…How Meles rules Ethiopia
By Richard Dowden
Meles Zenawi is the cleverest and most engaging Prime Minister in Africa – at least when he talks to visiting outsiders. When he speaks to his fellow Ethiopians, he is severe and dogmatic. But he entertains western …
Ethiopia: Are the Islamists Coming?
By Alemayehu Fentaw
Ethiopia has been swept by Islamic protests in opposition to what the Muslim community calls government-sponsored propagational activities of the little-known Islamic sect known as Al-Ahbash throughout the country and the suspension of the Addis Ababa-based Awaliya …
Congressmen to Zenawi: Stop Persecution of Journalists
Members of Congress urge Meles to end repression
By Mohammed Keita | CPJ Africa Advocacy Coordinator
Two members of the U.S. Congress, a Republican and a Democrat, have publicly voiced indignation at Ethiopia’s persecution of journalists under the leadership of …
My brother Abebe and his WMD
By Yilma Bekele
I doubt there is an Ethiopian in the Diaspora not familiar with what happened last Friday. As they say the video has gone viral. The act has brought deep satisfaction to the psych of the oppressed and …
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Ethiopia: The Bedtime Stories of Meles Zenawi
Alemayehu G Mariam
At the “World Economic Forum Meeting” in Ethiopia last week, dictator Meles Zenawi lectured:
……. My view is that there is no direct relationship between economic growth
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Camp David protestetors expose Zenawi
Ethiopian activists protest Zenawi rule in demonstration near Camp David G-8 summit
Washington Post
THURMONT, Md. — Dozens of police officers in riot gear contained more than 200 Ethiopian activists who jammed a small Maryland town’s square Saturday to protest …
Ethiopia’s tyrant gets a shock treatment (video)
An Ethiopian journalist rattles khat-addicted dictator Meles Zenawi with loud shouts. He was visibly shaken. See the video below:
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Ethiopians in DC confront Dictator Meles Zenawi (photo)
Hundreds of angry Ethiopians confronted khat-addicted dictator Meles Zenawi today in Washington DC. Meles was invited by President Obama to discuss food security in Africa, forgetting that it is dictators like Meles who are causing food insecurity.
Supporters of Meles …
Emirates takes advantage of boycott against Ethiopian Airlines
Several Ethiopian media organizations have recently called for boycott of Ethiopian Airlines as part of the civil resistance campaign against the genocidal junta in Ethiopia. To those of you who are asking for an alternative, here is an answer for …
Oakland Institue asks Obama not to support Ethiopia land grab
Obama Urged to Reassess Ethiopian Relations Over Land Evictions
By William Davison | Bloomberg News
The U.S. should reassess its support for the government of Ethiopia, amid concern that more than half a million people are being evicted to make
Arrest Meles Zenawi at the Reagan Building in DC – Friday 7 AM
The khat-addicted dictator Meles Zenawi will be attending the 3rd International Food Security Symposium at the Washington DC Ronald Regan building on May 18, 2012, on the invitation of President Obama.
This is a great opportunity for all Ethiopians residing …
Dictator Meles Zenawi at the Reagan Building on May 18
The khat-addicted dictator in Ethiopia, Meles Zenawi, has been invited by President Barack Obama to a symposium on food security on Friday, May 18, in Washington DC at the Ronald Reagan Building & Int’l Trade Center, 1300 Pennsylvania Avenue NW, …
African Hunger Games at Camp David
Alemayehu G Mariam
White House spokesman Jay Carney announced last week that President Obama has invited the presidents of Ghana, Tanzania, Benin and Meles Zenawi to attend the G8 Summit (the forum for the governments of eight of the world’s …
Expel the AU from Ethiopia (George Ayittey)
By George Ayittey
Ethiopia is a police state, where journalists are branded as “terrorists” and jailed – over 200 so far. It has only ONE national radio station, ONE national television station, ONE national daily for 83m people, ONE internet …
Church leaders support protest of Ethiopian Muslims
In a historic and unprecedented move, His Grace Abune Melke Tsadik of the Ethiopian Orthodix Tewahdo Church (EOTC) called on Christians to support the uprising of Muslims against the Ethiopian regime.
Abune Melke Tsadik made the announcement at a press …
A note to President Obama
By Yilma Bekele
Dear President Obama,
I am sure you do not have time to read my letter nonetheless it gives me a certain amount of release from the pain I am feeling and the little chance of this letter …