November 4th, 2008, marked a great milestone in American history and the history of people of African descent. For the first time in the history of mankind, a junior senator of African heritage got elected to the …
Blog Archives
More officers are being arrested in Ethiopia
The Woyanne regime in Ethiopia is currently on a witch-hunt, arresting several military officers whom it is suspecting of supporting Ginbot 7.
Shocked by the level of infiltration in the military by Ginbot 7, Meles Zenawi’s tribal junta seems to …
Ethiopia opposition leader’s father arrested
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia — The father of Ginbot 7 high ranking official Andargachew Tsige has been roughed up and taken to Maekelawi prison by Meles Zenawi’s gunmen, according to Ethiopian Review sources.
On Friday, April 24, several gunmen surrounded Ato …
Wzr. Sinedu Gebru’s legacy
Woyanne ambassador to Washington DC Samuel Assefa at his mother’s funeral in Addis Ababa (Photo: Addis Journal)
|
The funeral of Ethiopia’s first woman parliamentarian Wzr. Sinedu Gebru took place two days ago at the Holy Trinity Cathedral Church in Addis …
Ethiopia's regime arrests 35 for coup plot
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 …
Berhanu Nega family’s home in Ethiopia surrounded
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 …
Who the hell is Tilahun?
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 …
Western diplomats boycott Bashir state dinner in Ethiopia
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.…
Tilahun Gessesse's funeral services program released
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 …
Sudan's president Al-Bashir taunts ICC while visiting Ethiopia
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 …
Ethiopians in Washington DC take on DLA Piper
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 …
Gim Legim Abro Yazgim!
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 …
Lavish dinner for al-Bashir by a beggar regime
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 …
Al-Bashir visits Ethiopia despite war-crime warrant
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 …
One problem, two solutions
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 …
UDJ holds a fake protest rally in Ethiopia
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 …
Ethiopia, USA, Somali pirates’ cover-up
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 …
TPLF crimes in Tigray as told by a survivor
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 …
Woyanne dismisses calls to investigate rights abuses
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. …
Woyanne regime in Ethiopia to boost weapons production
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 …
Nkrumah At 100 – Lessons for African Leadership
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]
|
While many African leaders have aspired to …
Ethiopia's dictator may prosecute coffee exporters
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’ …
Ethiopia coffee feud drowns out voices
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 …
Washington’s relationship with Ethiopia – Newsweek
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 …
Dead man walking
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 …
World Bank rejects growth forecast by Ethiopia's dictator
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 …
Ogaden rebels counter claims by Ethiopia's dictatorship
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 …
Madagascar's ousted president in Ethiopia for AU meetings
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 …
Saudi private investors to put $100 million into Ethiopia farm
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 …
Minister Silvan Shalom blocks anti-Israel decision in Ethiopia
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 …
Former president of Peru convicted of murder
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 …
Woyanne denies nationalizing Ethiopia's coffee sector
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 …
Woyanne bans UDJ’s 250-man march
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 …
How Tahir and I did it
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 …
In defense of the Ethiopian coffee exporters
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 …
Shocking news to Meles and other African dictators
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 …
More photos of Ethiopian rally at the G20 meeting
Click here for more photos.
…
Obama assists the London police
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).
…
Ignored and isolated
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 …
Obama scolded Ethiopia’s dictator Meles Zenawi
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 …
Ethiopia's Woyanne regime starts exporting coffee itself
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.…
Ethiopians in London held protest at the G-20 meeting
.jpg "Ethiopians in London hold protest rally at the G-20 summit venue, April 2, 2009")
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 visits Alcatraz Prison, San Francisco
Tamrat Layne and family the notorious Alcatraz Prison in California – March 2009
|
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 …
WB launches education improvement program in Ethiopia
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 calls for action against Ethiopia’s dictator
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 …
Kemer Yousef returns to Ethiopia
By John Goddard | Toronto Star
Kemer Yousef
|
TORONTO, CANADA – Kemer Yousef, who escaped Ethiopia on foot with nothing 24 years ago, has scored an unprecedented video hit with Nabek, a seven-track DVD showing him singing from a …
Police in Ethiopia arrests foreign currency dealers
EDITOR’S NOTE: This is done to eliminate the competition against Woyanne currency dealers, not to enforce the law. Foreign currency exchange is one of the businesses that the ruling party wants to monopolize.
ADDIS ABABA, ETHIOPIA (APA) – The Ethiopian …
Clintons taking over Obama presidency
By Peter O. Otika | BSN
The presidential election and its drama have finally come to an end. The excitement and honeymoon is over. It is time for us all to get back to reality and lead life as we …
Somali parliament speaker begs lawmakers to return home
EDITOR’S NOTE: Somali parliamentarians are currently hiding in Kenya fearing that the puppet regime is about to collapse.
MOGADISHU (Xinhua) — Sheik Adan Mohamed Madoobe, speaker of the Somali national parliament, called on lawmakers on Monday in the Kenyan capital …
AI demands the release of detained Oromos politicians
Ethiopia: Arbitrary detention/torture or other ill-treatment
AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL
At least 15 members of the Oromo ethnic group, including those named above have been arrested in the Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, and also reportedly in eastern and western parts of the Oromia …
Finland Foreign Trade Minister visits Ethiopia, Kenya
Foreign Trade and Development Minister Paavo Väyrynen (Photo: YLE)
|
Foreign Trade and Development Minister Paavo Väyrynen embarks on a five-day visit to Ethipia and Kenya from Monday. Väyrynen will discuss Finnish development cooperation with the Prime Ministers of both countries.…
94 Oromo politicians detained so far, opposition claim
ADDIS ABABA, ETHIOPIA — Ethiopian authorities arbitrarily arrested 94 opposition members and Oromo nationals in different towns of Oromiya region but mainly in the capital Addis Ababa, confirmed two oppositions parties today.
Recently the Oromo Parliamentarians Council in a joint …
125 Oromo elders urge OLF to negotiate with Woyanne
EDITOR’S NOTE: These are opportunist cowards. Why don’t they speak up when the Meles dictatorship is turning the country into a vast prison camp for Oromos?
By Tsegaye Tadesse
ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) – An Ethiopian rebel group must listen to …
Obama’s presidency: What is there in it for Africa?
By Fekade Shewakena
Watching Barrack Obama’s election from the beginning of the campaign to the victory celebrations was like watching an epic Shakespearian movie. The death of his grandmother two days before the victory celebration appears like a plot that …
Ana Gomes: free election under Meles impossible in Ethiopia
By Yeroo Newspaper
Ana Gomes, Member of the European Parliament and Head of the European Electoral Observation Mission to Ethiopia. She gave the following interview to a Yeroo, an Oromiffa publication which has ceased publication due to repressions.
Hon. Ana …
China proposed to Ethiopia to build an agriculture technology center
ADDIS ABABA, ETHIOPIA – China proposed to Ethiopia to enhance bilateral relations through expanding joint cooperation and coordinate their positions on world affairs to safeguard their interests.
The offer was made during a visit by the speaker of the Chinese …
Time is up for dictators
By Joe Michael
The historical U.S. election is now over by electing Barack Obama as the 44th President. The landslide victory goes beyond making history. Obama’s administration is set to bring definite change for the entire world. It is a …
An Ethopian-Eritrean war looms again – France 24
EDITOR’S NOTE: The people of Ethiopia will stand with the Eritrean army if the Woyanne regime starts another one. Meles Zenawi’s tribalists junta will find that out.
By France 24
Every morning these Ethiopian Woyanne soldiers inspect the road which …
Somalia insurgents capture town on outskirts of capital
By Hamsa Omar and Jason McLure | Bloomberg
Insurgents in Somalia captured a town on the outskirts of the capital, Mogadishu, in at least the sixth incident this week in which the nation’s transitional government was unable to defend territory …
Zimbabwe’s $28 quadrillion is worth U.S. $1
Zimbabwe’s economy has all but collapsed, leaving it’s currency worth far less than the paper it’s printed on. The hyperinflation is now estimated at over a quintillion percent, although no one really knows.
Most Zimbabweans are switching to barter and …
Ethiopia: Woyanne troops gun down 3 civilians in Somalia
MOGADISHU, SOMALIA – Meles Zenawi’s troops in Mogadishu have indiscriminately opened gunfire on unarmed civilians killing three people on Tuesday, witnesses told Mareeg.
Eyewitnesses confirmed to Shabelle that they saw the dead bodies killed by the soldiers in Hamar Bile …
Construction starts for AU center in Ethiopia's capital
ADDIS ABABA, ETHIOPIA (Xinhua) — To the sound of horns, the revving of engines by the assembled construction vehicles and much applause from the delegates, the start of the construction of the new conference center of the African Union (AU) …
UDJ in the service of a fascist regime
LONDON UK – The chairperson of Unity for Democracy and Justice, Wzt. Birtukan Mideksa, and executive committee member Ato Akilu Girgire, held a public meeting in London on Sunday, Nov. 9. In a dramatic shift from a similar meeting last …
Ginbot 7 condemns mass detention of Oromos
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Ginbot 7 condemns the ongoing mass detention of Oromos by the Meles dictatorship
[pdf]
Meles Zenawi’s dictatorship in Ethiopia continues to use terrorism as a pretext to terrorize Ethiopians and silence political dissent. It is …
Woyanne says an OLF commander killed in western Ethiopia
ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) – An Ethiopian rebel leader blamed for blasts in Addis Ababa was lured into a farmer’s house in the rural west and then shot dead, [Woyanne] authorities said on Friday.
[Dictator] Meles Zenawi’s government, the biggest U.S …
Woyanne arrests rebel suspects, tightens security
ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) – Ethiopia The Woyanne regime tightened security in the capital on Thursday after police said they had arrested more than a dozen leaders of the rebel Oromo Liberation Front (OLF) and accused them of plotting terrorist attacks.…
Ginbot 7 congratulates President-Elect Obama
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Ginbot 7 Movement
Ethiopians joyfully celebrate, with Americans and the rest of the world the election of Barack Obama to take the office of the presidency of the United States of America. Ginbot7 recognizes the symbolic and …
The recent TPLF fundraising and the Diaspora’s foul play
By Seid Hassan
Professor, Murry State University
As the recent write-ups on many Ethiopian related web pages and the daily Paltalk shows can attest, there is an uproar regarding the so-called “Millennium Telethon”, which was released in a video by …
Meles dissolves the Ministry of Information
By Bruck Shewareged, The Reporter
ADDIS ABABA, ETHIOPIA – In a move that came as a surprise to many watchers, Prime Minister dictator Meles Zenawi announced the dissolution of the Ministry of Information and made a reshuffle in his cabinet. …
An Ethiopian opposition leader arrested
By Barry Malone
ADDIS ABABA, ETHIOPIA (Reuters) – Ethiopia said on Monday an opposition leader had been arrested for working with insurgent groups opposed to Prime Minister Meles Zenawi’s government.
The Oromo Federalist Democratic Movement (OFDM) confirmed its general secretary …
The 843-Day War
By Alemayehu G. Mariam
It’s Time to Cut and Run!
In mid-July 2006, Zenawi sent his troops to Somalia to prop up the so-called transitional government in Baidoa. By late December, 2006 his tanks rolled into Mogadishu to dislodge the …
Human Rights and Governance in Ethiopia – CSIS panel
The CSIS Africa Program cordially invites you to attend a panel on: “Human Rights and Governance in Ethiopia” with opening remarks by
David Kramer
Assistant Secretary of State, Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor
followed by a panel with…
Video: Meles Zenawi on Hard Talk (satire)
Interview with Ethiopia’s dictator Meles Zenawi (satire)
…
Ginbot 7 remembers the November 2005 massacre
Ginbot 7 Movement for Justice and Freedom issued a statement remembering the massacre of pro-democracy protesters in Addis Ababa and other cities through out Ethiopia.
Following the May 2005 elections, in which Meles Zenawi’s regime was defeated, Meles suspended the …
Meles calls big farming “patently stupid”
EDITOR’S NOTE: What does this ችጋራም Woyanne knows about farming? Over 6 million people are starving because of his regime’s mismanagement of Ethiopia’s resources.
By Barney Jopson, Financial Times
ADDIS ABABA, ETHIOPIA – In the past four years the rain …
Meles begs the international community to save him
EDITOR’S NOTE: Dictator Meles Zenawi is begging the international community to save him from his Somalia debacle. Did the international community ask this chigaram Woyanne to invade Somalia in the first place? He cannot even feed his own people in …
Ethiopia’s dictator reshuffles cabinet
By Argaw Ashine, NATION
Ethiopian Prime Minister dictator Meles Zenawi has reshuffled his 15-member cabinet, including key ministries of Defence, Justice and Agriculture.
Zenawi, who returned on Wednesday from an Inter-Governmental Summit in Nairobi, appointed nine new ministers and presented …
Ethiopia: The army is led by a tribal junta
Source: The Indian Ocean Newsletter
Since the EPRDF came to power in Addis Ababa in 1991, the Ethiopian army has been dominated by more seasoned Tigrayan officers who are members or sympathizers of the Tigray People’s Liberation Front (Woyanne, hard …
Woyanne foreign minister blames Somali leadership for defeat
EDITOR’S NOTE: It is good to see Woyannes get their butt kicked in Somalia. Ethiopian Review would like to remind the world that the war in Somalia is between the Meles crime family and the Somali people since Ethiopia currently …
Video: Azeb Mesfin says ‘we are not thieves’
This must be joke of the year. Meles Zenawi’s wife, Azeb Mesfin, the ‘mother of corruption’ in Ethiopia tells an interviewer that she and her dictator husband have barely enough money to pay for their children’s school.
…
Ethiopians in DC protest Woyanne war crimes in Ogaden
WASHINGTON DC – Ethiopians in Washington DC held a rally to protest the widespread human rights violation against innocent civilians and systematic repression of ethnic Somalis that is taking place in the Ogaden region of Ethiopia.
As reported by the …
Ethiopia’s dictator Meles Zenawi suspends Mauritania
COTONOU, BENNIN – Ethiopian prime minister dictator announces Mauritania’s suspension from African Peer Review Mechanism.
Mauritania has been suspended from the African Peer Review Mechanism (APRM), Ethiopian Prime Minister dictator Meles Zenawi, announced Saturday at the opening of the ARPM …
US Says Draft Ethiopian NGO Law Would ‘Close Political Space’
The top U.S. official for human rights and democracy issues has met Ethiopia’s TPLF leaders to express concern about pending legislation that critics say would curtail political freedoms. VOA’s Peter Heinlein in Addis Ababa reports Ethiopian…
'No rift between Somali, Ethiopian leadership' – spokesman
MOGADISHU (Xinhua) – Hussein Mohamed Hubsired, spokesman for the Somali president, has strongly denied media reports of a political rift within Somali and Ethiopian leaders over the future of the war-torn Horn of Africa nation, a press release said Sunday.…
Ethiopia: Disputed NGO law sent to rubber stamp parliament
ADDIS ABABA, ETHIOPIA (AFP) — The Ethiopian government Woyanne dictatorial regime in Ethiopia has submitted to the rubber stamp parliament draft legislation on non-governmental organisations (NGOs) which has drawn fire from rights activists, the state news agency said on Saturday.…
Ethiopia’s man-made famine deteriorating, UN warns
NEW YORK (UN News Center) – Drought-hit Ethiopians are facing a worsening food situation as the cost of maize soars nearly three-fold in some areas of the Horn of Africa country compared to last year, the United Nations Office for …
The gov’t in Ethiopia puts war before famine
On the front line of an invisible Ethiopian famine, government forces stand between the dying tribes scattered across a closed hinterland and outside aid.
By Damien McElroy
Telegraph.co.uk
The restrictive Ethiopian Woyanne security regime hiding the worsening crisis in the …
UK stops aid to Ethiopia as Woyanne hides famine victims
By Catherine Philp
TIMES ONLINE
KEBRE DEHAR, ETHIOPIA – Britain is to withhold future aid commitments to Ethiopia over concerns that its Government is obstructing efforts to help millions at risk of famine in the drought-stricken Somali region in the …
UN Deputy Secretary General Migiro departs for Ethiopia for development talks
NEW YORK – Deputy Secretary-General Asha-Rose Migiro will visit Addis Ababa, the Ethiopian capital, this weekend to attend a development meeting and to hold talks with the Horn of Africa nation’s top officials.
She will chair a meeting of UN …
Heavy Fighting in Somali Capital Kills at Least 18
By VOA News
Heavy fighting has broken out in Somalia’s capital, Mogadishu, leaving at least 18 people dead, many of them civilians.
The fighting began when insurgents attacked African Union Dictators-R-Us and Ethiopian troops Woyanne thugs Thursday, drawing retaliatory fire. …
Meles rejects Somalia withdrawal timetable
It is reported by Sunday Herald that Woyanne has already started withdrawing troops.
By Peter Heinlein, VOA
ADDIS ABABA, ETHIOPIA – Ethiopia’s dictator Prime Minister Meles Zenawi has rejected opposition calls for a timetable for withdrawing his country’s troops from …
Corruption costs countries like Ethiopia up to 30% of GDP
EDITOR’S NOTE: The mother of all corruptions is right there in Addis Ababa — Azeb Mesfin, the wife of Ethiopia’s dictator Meles Zenawi.
ADDIS ABABA, ETHIOPIA (AFP) – Corruption absorbs up to 30 percent of most African countries’ gross domestic …
Ethiopia on the brink of a major famine
SODO, Ethiopia (AFP) — Okume Ochubo’s tiny plot of land in southern Ethiopia is lush with waist-high maize sprouts and other crops, but she and her seven young children are struggling to feed themselves.
“We cannot survive without food aid, …
Woyanne defends draft law to criminalize NGO activities
By Peter Heinlein, VOA
Listen the report: [podcast]http://www.voanews.com/english/figleaf/mp3filegenerate.cfm?filepath=http://www.voanews.com/mediaassets/english/2008_10/Audio/Mp3/LCR%20Heinlein%20ETHIOPIA%20NGO%20LAW%202350155%20%20329P%20gg.Mp3[/podcast]
ADDIS ABABA, ETHIOPIA – Ethiopia’s government The Woyanne dictatorial regime in Ethiopia is coming in for fierce criticism over a draft law before parliament that would prohibit or criminalize many activities of …
Tagged with: Addis Ababa, ethio, Ethiopia News, Meles Zenawi, NGO, VOA amharic, Woyanne
Posted in Ethiopia News
Posted in Ethiopia News
Ethiopia's dictator holds talks with UN peacekeeping chief
ADDIS ABABA (Xinhua) – Ethiopia’s dictator Meles Zenawi on Monday held talks with Alain Le Roy, United Nations under-secretary-general for peacekeeping operations, focusing on a joint peacekeeping mission in Sudan’s Darfur region.
During their talks, Meles reassured Ethiopia’s commitment to …
The political economy of remittances in Ethiopia
By Alemayehu G. Mariam
A Thankless Job, But Somebody’s Got to Do It!
It is gratifying to know that Ethiopian Americans are carrying their fair share of the load in helping the economy of their homeland. It was an eye-opening …
Ethiopian need ‘under-estimated’
By Martin Plaut BBC News
Aid agencies are warning that Ethiopian authorities are under-estimating the scale of the country’s drought.
Official estimates of the number of people facing hunger and hardship stand at 4.6m but agencies warn the real figure …
Woyanne turned Somalia into the worst state in the world
EDITOR’S NOTE: As if terrorizing and starving millions of Ethiopians is not enough, the regime of Tigrean People Liberation Front (Woyanne) – supported by the U.S. State Department and the World Bank – has invaded Somalia and turned it into …
Dossier of Crimes Against the People of Ethiopia and Somalia
…In keeping silent about evil, in burying it so deep within us that no sign of it appears on the surface, we are implanting it, and it will rise up a thousandfold in the future. When we neither punish nor
Meles sacks head of Somali regional state
ADDIS ABABA, ETHIIOPIA (APA) – Meles Zenawi’s dictatorship in Ethiopia has sacked the president of the Somali regional state, which is one of the country’s nine regional states bordering Somalia, APA learns here Sunday.
Abdulahi Hassen was fired …