By Hadaro Arele
Throughout the 1990s, the international donor community supported Ethiopia as a country that embarked on a democratic path almost after 2 decades of socialist military rule. The country’s achievement, so it was said, was both economic and …
Meles Zenawi was preaching about the need to expand telecommunications technology in Africa at a recent conference, while his regime is known as one of the worst obstacles for the growth of technology in Ethiopia, as the report below shows.…
EFJA’s Anniversary Message
While almost all of its heroic journalists living currently in exile in the four-corners of the globe, the Ethiopian Free Press Journalists Association (EFJA) is again obliged to mark its anniversary in the wilderness!
EFJA is today …
(APA) Addis Ababa, Ethiopia – One hundred of the 500 city service buses which Ethiopia has purchased from China at an estimated 20 million dollars, have begun arriving in the country, APA observed here on Wednesday.
The buses are intended …
For the Woyanne tribal thugs, it seems every solution comes from the barrel of the gun. If they want to bring down the price of commodities, they go out and arrest vendors. The irony here is that most business activities …
There are two ways to be rich or super rich in Ethiopia: 1) Be a member of the Tigrean People Liberation Front (Woyanne); or 2) Be a Woyanne butt-kisser. There is no other way. The photos below show how one …
ADDIS ABABA (AFP) — German Chancellor Angela Merkel kicked off her first tour of sub-Saharan Africa with a plea for more democratic freedoms in Ethiopia and an enhanced European role on the continent.
Her first trip to the region since …
Statement by Dr Berhanu Nega, Mayor-Elect of Addis Ababa at the U.S. House of Representatives Subcommittee on Africa and Global Health hearing on Ethiopia
Tuesday, October 2, 2007
INTRODUCTION
Chairman Payne, Ranking member Congressman Chris Smith, Distinguished Members of the …
Statement delivered by Kinijit Vice President Bertukan Mideksa at a hearing before the U.S. House of Representatives Subcommittee on Africa and Global Health
October 2, 2007
INTRODUCTION
Chairman Payne, Distinguished Members …
Statement delivered by Kinijit Vice President Bertukan Mideksa at a hearing before the U.S. House of Representatives Subcommittee on Africa and Global Health
October 2, 2007
INTRODUCTION
Chairman Payne, Distinguished Members …
Somalia’s President Yusuf Loses His Grip on Power
By Dr Michael A. Weinstein, PINR
As PINR forecast on September 19, the failures of the two national conferences aimed at devising a political
formula for Somalia — the National Reconciliation Conference …
The U.S. Department of State informed ER’s Intelligence Unit that dictator Meles Zenawi is on his way back to Ethiopia after failing to convince the U.S. Congress not to pass H.R. 2003.
According to ER sources, Meles had planned to …
Chancellor Angela Merkel
c/o Mr. Klaus Scharioth
Ambassador of the Federal Republic of Germany to the United States of America
German Embassy
4645 Reservoir Road NW
Washington, DC, 20007-1998
(202) 298-4000
Dear Chancellor Merkel,
It is with much trepidation that …
ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) – Germany’s Commerzbank announced plans on Monday to open a branch in Ethiopia’s capital Addis Ababa.
The move comes before a one-day visit by German Chancellor Angela Merkel to the Horn of Africa nation this week.
“Commerzbank …
ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) – Germany’s Commerzbank announced plans on Monday to open a branch in Ethiopia’s capital Addis Ababa.
The move comes before a one-day visit by German Chancellor Angela Merkel to the Horn of Africa nation this week.
“Commerzbank …
Dictator Meles Zenawi, the butcher of Addis Ababa, Ogaden, Mogadishu, Anuak… is coming to Washington DC on Monday or Tuesday, according to Ethiopian Review sources.
Meles will be in Washington to meet with State Department officials.
The U.S. House of …
The following is a commentary by Woyanne ambassador Samuel Assefa that appeared today on Washington Times. Hodader Samuel accuses the Ogaden National Liberation Front (ONLF) of being a terrorist group. The fact, as reported by several credible human rights …
Addis Ababa (ENA) – Dictator Meles Zenawi left for New York late on Tuesday to attend “Clinton Global Initiative 2007”, an international conference deliberating on power supply, …
By Barney Jopson in Nairobi
Financial Times
Tensions between Ethiopia and Eritrea, the Horn of Africa’s most bitter enemies, are escalating after a boundary commission trying to broker a deal to demarcate their border all but conceded defeat.
According to …
Open Letter to the CUDP Leaders
Dear Chairman Mr. Hailu Shawel and Executive Members of the Kinijit:
I am writing this letter to you with deep respect and gratefulness to all of you for what you have done for our …
By Jim Snyder, The Hill
Members of an Ethiopian opposition party who were jailed for 20 months in connection with a disputed election are lobbying the Bush administration and Congress to pressure Ethiopia to support a more open and democratic …
By Lauren Gelfand, World Politics Review
LONDON — Pomp, pagentry and the hip-hop group Black Eyed Peas accompanied Ethiopia’s celebration of its entry into the third millennium, seven years after the rest of the world but in line with the …
By Lauren Gelfand, World Politics Review
LONDON — Pomp, pagentry and the hip-hop group Black Eyed Peas accompanied Ethiopia’s celebration of its entry into the third millennium, seven years after the rest of the world but in line with the …
ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia (AP): The United Nations said Wednesday that the situation in Ethiopia’s Ogaden region has “deteriorated rapidly,” and called for an independent investigation into the humanitarian issues there.
The U.N. sent a fact-finding mission to the Ogaden in …
ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia (AP): The United Nations said Wednesday that the situation in Ethiopia’s Ogaden region has “deteriorated rapidly,” and called for an independent investigation into the humanitarian issues there.
The U.N. sent a fact-finding mission to the Ogaden in …
When an American reporter started digging, he was forced out of Ethiopia.
By Will Connors, slate.com
I had fallen in love. Ethiopia does that to people. It sneaks up on you with its lush, mountainous landscape, its delicious coffee, its …
At least seven people have been killed, including three police officers, in the Somali capital, following the formation of a new anti-government alliance.
Armed insurgents staged a hit-and-run attack on a government base in north-east Mogadishu, leaving six …
By F. Hager
Now that the Millennium celebrations are over, Ethiopia’s regime (Woyanne) appears ready to attack Eritrea with tacit US backing.
Over 100,000 people were slaughtered the last time these two countries fought a war in 1998 – 2000. …
Somali Islamists and opposition leaders meeting in Eritrea have joined forces in a new alliance to overthrow Somalia’s transitional government. More than 300 delegates, including Islamist leader Sheikh Hassan Dahir Aweys, have approved a constitution and central committee.
The millennium party that was organized by Woyanne billionaire businessman Sheik Al Amoudi was attended by very few people other than Meles Zenawi, his puppet, President Girma Wolde-Giorgis, Woyanne officials and some opportunist individuals.
The much-talked-about party, which was organized …
The Meles regime released today 17,765 political prisoners who are suspected of being members of the Coalition for Unity and Democracy Party (Kinijit) and the Oromo Liberation Front (OLF), according to members of the elders council Prof. Ephrem Isaac and …
The Committee to Protect Journalists writes to Meles Zenawi
Prime Minister,
We are writing to express our deep concern about the whereabouts, legal status and health of Eritrean journalists Tesfalidet Kidane Tesfazghi and Saleh Idris Gama of Eritrean state broadcaster …
By James Butty, VOA
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Ethiopia, the oldest independent country in Africa, will celebrate its millennium Wednesday, September 12. The Ethiopian calendar falls seven to eight years behind western dates as a result …
(AP – ADDIS ABABA) — Ethiopia Woyanne briefly detained what it said were four U.S. soldiers trying to contact a rebel group that has been fighting for greater autonomy for eastern Ethiopia, Ethiopian Woyanne officials said Friday.
Bereket Simon, a …
By Andrew Cawthorne
NAIROBI, Aug 31 (Reuters) – International aid agency Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) accused Ethiopia’s [Woyanne regime] on Friday of denying it access to the remote Ogaden region where battles are raging between government troops and a rebel …
Ethiopian Review Editorial
The crisis that has engulfed the Debre Selam Kidist Mariam (DSKM) Ethiopian Orthdox Church in Washington DC continues to worsen. The latest development is that on Sunday, the Church’s board had called police on members and officials …
Ethiopian Review Editorial
The crisis that has engulfed the Debre Selam Kidist Mariam (DSKM) Ethiopian Orthdox Church in Washington DC continues to worsen. The latest development is that on Sunday, the Church’s board had called police on members and officials …
The following is a speech delivered by Ato Obang Metho in Minnesota at a conference organized by the Ogaden Youth Network:
Let us Break Down the Invisible Fences of Ethiopia!
August 11, 2007
It is an honor to be here …
By Nick Wadhams, VOA
Wadhams report – (mp3) – Download 595k 
An Ethiopian human rights group is demanding that the United States and other international donors monitor the food and financial aid they give to Ethiopia for its impoverished Ogaden …
By Mohamed Abdi Farah
(SomaliNet) Somalia’s top Islamist Courts Union leader vowed on Saturday to wage a stronger insurgency in the capital, Mogadishu, until all Ethiopian Woyanne troops withdraw from the war-shattered Horn of Africa nation, AFP reports
Sheikh Sharif …
By Brian Blackwell
The Washington Times
Ethiopian Woyanne officials are disturbed by legislation pending in Congress that would restrict military assistance and travel to the United States by certain Ethiopian Woyanne officials unless President Bush certifies that the Addis Ababa …
AP reports that Ethiopia’s dictator Meles Zenawi has promised to invest in the country’s telecommunications network in a speech he gave at a technology conference that was held in Addis Ababa Wednesday. The fact of the matter is that the …
AP reports that Ethiopia’s dictator Meles Zenawi has promised to invest in the country’s telecommunications network in a speech he gave at a technology conference that was held in Addis Ababa Wednesday. The fact of the matter is that the …
Special Report
United States Institute for Peace
Global efforts to combat terrorism and the pressure to implement democratic reforms have collided in Ethiopia in recent years. The contradictions and challenges in these objectives became even more apparent after the country …
By Stephanie McCrummen
Washington Post Foreign Service
NAIROBI — Three Ethiopian journalists who had been held for almost two years in an Addis Ababa prison said that days after being cleared of all charges and released this spring, they each …
For Immediate Release: August 17, 2007.
We, the undersigned, as members of Ethiopian human rights organizations, Ethiopian civic organizations and in the Ethiopian religious community, call for immediate action to stop the outrageous human rights abuses going on in the …
By VOA News
A senior Eritrean minister Saturday criticized U.S. consideration to put his country on a list of state sponsors of terrorism for providing support to Islamist insurgents in Somalia.
U.S. Assistant Secretary of State Jendayi Frazer [who is …
By VOA News
A senior Eritrean minister Saturday criticized U.S. consideration to put his country on a list of state sponsors of terrorism for providing support to Islamist insurgents in Somalia.
U.S. Assistant Secretary of State Jendayi Frazer [who is …
The Ethiopian Woyanne regime’s Ministry of Justice said Saturday the pardon plea of Ato Kifle Tigneh and other 31 members of the Coalition for Unity and Democracy Party (Kinijit) has been approved by Ethiopian President Meles Zenawi’s puppet Girma Woldegiorgis.…
ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia (Reuters) — More than seven years after most of the world marked the start of the 21st century, Ethiopia is putting the finishing touches to its own millennium bash.
A screen in Addis Ababa counts down the …
ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia (Reuters) — More than seven years after most of the world marked the start of the 21st century, Ethiopia is putting the finishing touches to its own millennium bash.
A screen in Addis Ababa counts down the …
By Ahmed Osman, Jijiga
Galbeed editorial
Leadership Crisis in Somali Region
From the oil fields of Somali Region, to the diamond and copper fields of Gambelas, to the rich mineral deposits of the Great Awash lake region of Afar, to …
A demonstration in St. Paul against the Ethiopian government. Photo: Abdiaziz Ahmed/Mshale
The United States should stop supporting the Ethiopian Woyanne government’s aggression against its opposition if there is to be peace in the Horn …
By Kallacha Dubbi
In my previous writing entitled “TPLF and Tigrean Identity Politics” dated May 25, 2007, I expressed a view that Tigrean nationalism is overtly discriminatory, and it is therefore distinguished by negative manifestations of the Ethiopian integrative power. …
The Chinese News Agency, Xinhua, reports that the Woyanne regime claims to have stopped the Oromo Liberation Front from carrying out attacks against the regime. Read the news below >>>
This latest attempt was targeted at bombing infrastructures and public …
It seems that the Woyanne regime is telling Somalis that it is the Amharas who are occupying their country, as the article below by Time Magazine shows. Ethiopians must inform the people of Somali that it is the Woyanne terrorist …
By Ewnetu Ashenafi
Our indifference towards Ethiopia Somalis in Ogaden who suffer from the barbaric acts of genocide perpetrated by the TPLF regime is likely to have a long-term impact on freedom, democracy and Ethiopia’s unity
It is a sad …
OPEN LETTER TO THE ETHIOPIAN PRIME MINISTER MR. MELES ZENAWI
[በኣማርኛ, pdf]
Mr. Meles Zenawi,
Prime Minister
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
August 8, 2007
Mr. Prime Minister,
The characteristic peculiar to our country, which distinguishes it from other countries, …
The Ethiopian Somali Advocacy Council (ESAC)
Washington, Dc
Press Release
The inhuman attack on a market and religious place, a church, in Jigjiga, in the capital of Somali Region shows that the authoritarian regime of Meles Zenawi is on his …
By Simon Tisdall
The Guardian
Rising tensions in the Ogaden region of eastern Ethiopia, combined with chronic instability in neighbouring Somalia, Eritrean enmity, and human rights concerns, are testing US support for the Addis Ababa government led by Clinton-era good …
By Simon Tisdall
The Guardian
Rising tensions in the Ogaden region of eastern Ethiopia, combined with chronic instability in neighbouring Somalia, Eritrean enmity, and human rights concerns, are testing US support for the Addis Ababa government led by Clinton-era good …
ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia (Reuters) — The Woyanne regime in Ethiopia executed a military officer convicted of killing the country’s former head of security and immigration, the federal prison service said.
Major Tsehai Wolde Selassie was convicted of shooting dead Kinfe …
ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia (Reuters) — The Woyanne regime in Ethiopia executed a military officer convicted of killing the country’s former head of security and immigration, the federal prison service said.
Major Tsehai Wolde Selassie was convicted of shooting dead Kinfe …
ADDIS ABABA, Aug 6 (Reuters) – One civilian was killed and eight wounded in two bomb blasts in Ethiopia’s Ogaden region, officials said on Monday, as Ogaden rebels and the government blamed each other for the explosions.
“Two suspects have …
By Alemayehu G. Mariam
“If they will stop telling lies about us, I will stop telling the truth about them.”
Note to the reader: The following analysis may appear be a bit long for the casual reader of internet literature. …
By Alemayehu G. Mariam
“If they will stop telling lies about us, I will stop telling the truth about them.”
Note to the reader: The following analysis may appear be a bit long for the casual reader of internet literature. …
Ethiopia under the corrupt dictatorship of Meles Zenawi ranks 123rd out of 128 countries in economic competitiveness, according to a report released by the World Economic Forum’s 2007 report. No matter how much the state-controlled media talk about fake …
I was invited by our Oromo brothers and sisters through the Oromo-American Citizens Council to speak at the Second Annual International Oromo Human Rights Conference on “Conflict in East Africa and the Current Human Rights Situation.” I was to address …
By Maru Gubena
(This paper was written in early 2000, and was published in Ethiopian Review Magazine and other Ethiopian newsletters at that time. Although the text is almost a decade old, the issues analyzed are still current and …
Statement by Senator Leahy on the the Senate floor today.
After the overthrow of Ethiopia’s brutal former Prime Minister Mengistu, Prime Minister Meles Zenawi ushered in a period of hope and optimism. On May 15, 2005, Ethiopia held its …
By Jake Grovum
The Minnesota Daily
Remedan Yuya fled Ethiopia to escape the hardship and strife brought upon the Oromo people by the Ethiopian government. Dr. Negasso Gidada, an Oromo himself, served as president of that government from 1995 to …
By Stephanie Hanson
Council on Foreign Relations
After Ethiopia’s December invasion of Somalia to vanquish Islamic militants, many observers labeled Addis Ababa a proxy of the United States, and a few even called it a “puppet.” Both labels implied the …
Addis Ababa – Ethiopian opposition officials told a court on Monday that two anti-poverty activists on trial for allegedly trying to overthrow the government were never members of their movement. Daniel Bekele, 40, and Netsanet Demissie, 29, are the last …
The Honorable Congressman Richard Gephardt
Former House Democratic Leader
c/o : Richard A. Gephardt Institute for Public Service
Washington University in St. Louis
Campus Box 1196, One Brookings Drive
St. Louis, MO 63130-4899
Dear Congressman Gephardt:
It was with …
Meles buys Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Majority Leader Hoyer
Ephrem Isaac lobbied hard against H.R. 2003
The Coalition for HR 2003 has learned that Foreign Affairs Committee Chair Tom Lantos was directed by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (San Francisco) and …
By ZOE ALSOP AND NICK WADHAMS
The Globe and Mail
ADDIS ABABA, ETHIOPIA — Dressed in a black Adidas track suit and seated amid a comfortable clutter of term papers and political science tomes in his modest office at Addis …
By Ifrah Jimale, StarTribune.com
Two thousand Oromo people, part of the largest ethnic group in Ethiopia, marched Thursday to the State Capitol to raise awareness of human rights violations in Ethiopia.
People came from around the United States, Canada, …
‘President’ Girma Woldegiorgis, Meles Zenawi’s 300 lbs puppet, doing what he likes best — eating.
.…
URGENT! For Immediate Release
Mark-up Vote for H.R. 2003 Scheduled for July 31, 2007
The Coalition for HR 2003 is informed and believes that the House Foreign Affairs Committee will calendar H.R. 2003 for mark-up on Tuesday, July 31, 2007. …
ADDIS ABABA, July 26 (Reuters) – Ethiopian opposition leaders accused the government on Thursday of waging an “intensive propaganda campaign” against them through state media, less than a week after being freed in a clemency deal.
Thirty eight …
ADDIS ABABA, July 26 (Reuters) – Ethiopian opposition leaders accused the government on Thursday of waging an “intensive propaganda campaign” against them through state media, less than a week after being freed in a clemency deal.
Thirty eight …
By J. Peter Pham, Ph.D.
World Defense ReviewTwo weeks ago a “national reconciliation congress” that Somalia’s ineffectual “Transitional Federal Government” (TFG), under pressure from international donors who are its only means of support, convened in a bullet-riddled Mogadishu garage …
By ANITA POWELL, Associated Press Writer
ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia—Five opposition members imprisoned since 2005 pleaded guilty Wednesday to attempting to overthrow Ethiopia’s government, but asked the judge for a pardon.
The Meles regime pardoned and freed 38 other opposition members …
By Ken Silverstein
Harper’s Magazine
July 25, 2007
There have been a series of accounts out of Ethiopia recently that describe a nasty situation there, including a Human Rights Watch report earlier this month that said the Ethiopian military had …
By Jim Snyder, The Hill
Despite the Ethiopian government’s decision last week to release 38 leaders of an opposition party from prison, Congress must still pass a bill that ties that country’s human-rights record to U.S. aid, say Ethiopian-Americans who …
Part II
This article is part two of my article entitled “The Revitalization of Ethiopia?s tragic and painful memories of the 1970s: The Clash of Generations.” As you may remember, the first part of this article has already …
By Aie Zi Guo
Once upon a time Ethiopians heard some scanty news about the Wild West. In school they read about Mark Twain and Shakespeare’s Romeo & Juliet. In colleges they were taught by scholars from Europe and North …
By Abdi Galgalo
With the world focused on an imminent all-out civil war looming in Iraq and the Middle East at large, the warlords in the horn of Africa are gearing up to show the world the mother of all …
By Yinegal Belachew
I read Dr. Maru Gubena’s article with a lot of interest. This interest came because we both belong to the same generation he called ‘Golden Period Generation’ and share more or less the same experiences. It would …
Part I
Before you “my readers” commence reading this article, let me just say a few things about it, its objectives and the complex issues that are assessed.
The writing of the paper was completed in early October 2006, when …
By Haile Kassahun
War in the Horn of Africa appears imminent. If large-scale violence breaks out, Prime Minister Meles Zenawi of Ethiopia and the Bush administration will bear major responsibility for the ensuing chaos and human suffering.
Zenawi, who already …
By Aie Zi Guo
As always I fail to understand the type of language that sinks into the mind of diplomats. Against this suspicion please allow me to be straight forward. Writing course language has not been my inner self. …
Oxfam, an international NGO, has launched a massive petition drive demanding Starbucks to allow the government of Ethiopia trademark its famous coffee bean names–Sidamo, Harar and Yirgacheffe. Starbucks then has to pay a huge amount of money in royalty fees …
Text of Presentation by Judge Wolde-Michael Meshesha, Vice-Chairman of the Inquiry Commission on Post-Electoral Violence
Mr. Chairman, I would have liked to come and make my presentation in person. I regret that I could not have made it.
Mr. Chairman, …
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 …
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 …
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 …
