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 …
In what appears to be a nervous move by members of Ethiopia’s ruling party, Tigrai People’s Liberation Front (TPLF) and the well-connected elite in the wake of the disappearance of Ethiopian dictator Mekes Zenawi, big money is being transferred overseas. …
Abebe Bikila the barefoot runner
BBC
At the 1960 Olympics in Rome an Ethiopian athlete stunned the world.
He was the first black African to win an Olympic gold medal and he did it without wearing shoes.
For months, Eskinder Nega’s supporters in Washington, New York and around the world have been pleading for his freedom. In petitions, blogs and speeches, they have hailed the prominent Ethiopian journalist, …
One Man’s Attempt to Capture Ethiopian Armenians’ Dying Legacy
By Lilly Torosyan | Armenian Weekly
“TEZETA is a song form famous in Ethno-Jazz. In Amharic (the language of Ethiopia), it translates to ‘my memory,’ but it means much more. It …
By Pat Graham | Associated Press
LONDON (AP) — Tiki Gelana of Ethiopia dodged rivals and rain drops on her way to winning the women’s Olympic marathon on Sunday.
Drenched from head to toe, she soaked up the moment as …
Demonstrators demand issues raised by Ethiopian Muslims be addressed
Ethiopians and people of Ethiopian origin living in the Greater Washington, D.C., area and throughout the United States staged a huge rally on Thursday, August 2, 2012, in front of the …
Open Letter to Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton
Solidarity Movement for a New Ethiopia
This is a critical time for not only the Ethiopian people, but also for the significant global partners. We are keenly aware of U.S. interests …
The Fund for Peace today released its 2012 index of failed states. Ethiopia under the boots of the Tigrai Peoples Liberation Front (TPLF) ranked 17th. Countries such as Burundi, Congo, Ertirea and Libya did better than Ethiopia.
Somalia, a much …
By William Davison | Christian Science Monitor
July 27, 2012
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
Peaceful protests continue in Addis Ababa this week among Muslims angry over what they see as Ethiopian government interference. The government sees foreign extremist threat.
With arms …
25 July 2012
Ethiopia: Widespread violations feared in clampdown on Muslim protests Amnesty International is concerned over the fate of scores of Muslim protestors arrested in Ethiopia
By Graham Peebles | mwcnews.net
July 16, 2012
An ideological poison is polluting all life within Ethiopia, flowing into every area of civil society. Local governance, urban and rural neighbourhoods, farming, education and …
ByAislinn Laing, Johannesburg and Bruno Waterfield in Brussels | The Telegraph
Solidarity Movement for a New Ethiopia (SMNE) Calls on TPLF/EPRDF to Halt Plans for Massive Arrests and Crackdown on Muslim Leaders Following AU Meeting
SMNE Condemns Killings, Arrests and TPLF/EPRDF Inference in Religious Freedom; Calling Ethiopian Leaders and Public to …
Agence France Presse (AFP) confirms Ethiopian Review’s report on Meles Zenawi’s health from several diplomatic sources.
BRUSSELS (AFP) – Ethiopian Prime Minister khat-addicted dictator Meles Zenawi was in a Brussels hospital in a “critical” state Wednesday, several diplomatic sources told …
The Economist
July 17, 2012
ETHIOPIA’S prime minister, Meles Zenawi, likes to present himself to the world as a peacemaker and a paragon of development. At a recent summit of African …
By Simon Allison | The Daily Maverick
Hundreds of thousands of irate Ethiopian Muslims took to the streets of Addis Ababa this weekend – Africa’s biggest protests since Tahrir Square. They want the government to stop meddling in their religious …
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 …
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 …
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 …
Migrant Nightmares: Ethiopian Domestic Workers in the Gulf
By Graham Peebles | Dissidentvoice.org
July 3, 2012
Employment opportunities in Ethiopia are scarce, particularly for young women with only a basic education from rural areas where 85% of the population live. …
In a blatant miscarriage of justice, a Woyanne Kangaroo court in Ethiopia today found Eskinder Nega and twenty-three other political opponents of the regime guilty on bogus terrorism charges. The only thing Eskinder Nega and other political prisoners are guilty …
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 …
Ethiopia ‘forcibly displacing’ for sugar plantations
By BBC News
18 June 2012 . The sugar plantations will be irrigated in part by the Gibe III hydropower project, HRW says
The Ethiopian government is forcibly displacing tens of thousands from their …
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
…By Craig Wilson | Techcentral
The Ethiopian government has clamped down on Internet-based voice-calling services, making their use a criminal offence.
Ethiopia’s state-owned Internet service provider, the Ethiopian Telecommunication Corporation (Ethio-Telcom), has begun performing deep-packet inspection of all Internet traffic …
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 …
Ethiopian girls as young as thirteen are being trafficked to the Middle East. The situation is so out of control that an otherwise pro-government publication has felt compelled to speak up.
This is not a small rogue operation. It is …
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 …
Ethiopia’s spy agency – the Information Network Security Agency (INSA) — has stepped up surveillance and internet censorship. INSA has adopted Deep Packet Inspection (DPI) technology to eavesdrop, data mine, censor and intercept communications, according to the TOR Project.
Repressive …
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 …
Ethiopia under the boots of the Tigrai Peoples Liberation Front (TPLF) is a two-faced country. Foreign alms givers and the ruling party pat each other on the back for a job well done. For the average Ethiopian, the country is …
Ethiopia: ‘Special Police’ Execute 10: Human Rights Watch
HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH (Nairobi) – An Ethiopian government-backed paramilitary force summarily executed 10 men during a March 2012 operation in Ethiopia’s eastern Somali region. Detailed information on the killings and other abuses …
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
…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 …
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 …
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
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 …
Editor’s Note — The Obama administration has cynically betrayed the people of Ethiopia by inviting Meles Zenawi to Camp David. Zenawi has arrested, tortured and brutalized thousands, including journalists and political opponents; he has stolen many elections; he has gunned …
By Graham Peebles | Eurasia Review
Arrested, jailed and beaten, tortured and imprisoned, this is the recipe for justice that the Ethiopian government serves up to dissenting voices. Men and women peacefully exercising their democratic right, demanding their human rights, …
By Derese Tariku, DeBirhan.com
Following the protests and arrest of students of Debre Markos University, northern Ethiopia, in the past two days, the students of Bahir Dar University and Gonder University have began large scale protests today.
It has been …
Muslim protests engulf Ethiopia; Gov’t expels two Arab ‘jihadists’
By Yuunus Hajji Mul’ataa | Anyuak Media
ADDIS ABABA – Ethiopian Muslim protests spread across the country on May 4 when hundreds of thousands in the Ethiopian capital defied government threats …
NEW YORK (AP) — An imprisoned Ethiopian journalist and blogger who could face the death penalty for advocating peaceful protests in his Horn of Africa homeland was honored Tuesday with PEN America’s “Freedom to Write” award.
Eskinder Nega was arrested …
Recent rumor regarding his state of health “attests to the mounting frustration on the part of its authors.” – President Isaias
By Eritrean Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Asmara, 28 April, 2012 – In a brief interview he conducted tonight, 28 …
Muslims outraged by heavy-handed government interference
Ethiopian Muslims angered by the heavy-handed interference of the government, staged one of the largest rallies following Friday prayers on April 27, 2012. In a move that appears designed to attract Western money and …
Is Walmart working with corrupt Ethiopian officials? According to the New York Times, giant US retailer has been caught bribing Mexican officials to the tune of $24 million dollars. Bribery and partnership with ruling party-owned businesses is a …
Editor’s Note:
Meles Zenawi has a lot to hide. There is much stealing and naked brutality that needs to be kept under wraps. There is torture, imprisonment, murder and the trafficking of women for profit. Western donors, who sustain the …
Editor’s Note: The average Ethiopian has to work two weeks to afford one chicken. Meles Zenawi’s economic nirvana is creating a living hell for Ethiopia’s 99 percent, while creating unprecedented wealth for a tiny ethnic minority.
One chicken costs US …
Africa’s Free Press Problem
By Mohammed Keita | New York Times
AS Africa’s economies grow, an insidious attack on press freedom is under way. Independent African journalists covering the continent’s development are now frequently persecuted for critical reporting on the …
Top PEN Prize to Honor Eskinder Nega, Jailed Ethiopian Journalist and Blogger
Leading Free Expression Advocate on Trial for Terrorism
New York City, April 12, 2012—PEN American Center today named Eskinder Nega, a journalist and dissident blogger in Ethiopia, …
By the BBC
The UN special rapporteur on slavery has urged the Lebanese government to carry out a full investigation into the death of an Ethiopian domestic worker.
Alem Dechasa, 33, killed …
Last week in the Ethiopian capital, Addis Ababa, while Prime Minister Meles Zenawi was making a speech about Africa’s growth potential at an African Union forum
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By Peter Clotty | Voice of America (VOA)
Eritrean Information Minister Ali Abdu said Ethiopia’s admission of its military attack is a calculated ploy to divert the international community’s attention from its continuous
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African-American Congressman Donald Payne was a great friend of Ethiopia, a relentless advocate for democracy and a permanent thorn on the side of the Zenawi regime. Ethiopians in the New York-New Jersey area and throughout the United States always knew …
MIDROC Thrives at Privatisation Tender:
Al-Amoudi targets expansion of his companies’ presence in agricultural, mining sectors
By Elleni Araya | Addis Fortune
Companies under the umbrella of Mohammed International Development Research and Organisation Companies (MIDROC) Ethiopia and its affiliates …
By Bernama | Malaysian News Agency
ADDIS ABABA, March 1 (Bernama) — Ethiopia Woyanne will be hosting the World Economic Forum on Africa in May 2012 here in Addis Ababa, reported China’s Xinhua news agency.
Mekonnen Haddis, Chief Advisor to …
SANAA, Yemen—Aides to Ali Abdullah Saleh said Monday that the ousted Yemeni president plans to go into exile in Ethiopia, as pressures mounted on him to depart the country …
Yemen’s Saleh is in Ethiopia, foreign ministry says
It would be hard to find a better symbol of media repression in Africa than Eskinder Nega. The veteran Ethiopian journalist and dissident blogger has
In famine-stricken Ethiopia, a Saudi company leases land to grow and export rice
By Public Radio International
Famine has swept through much of Ethiopia in the past year, but a new project will see a Saudi Arabian country convert one …
Ethiopia lost $11.7 billion to outflows of ill-gotten gains between 2000 and 2009, according to a coming report by Global Financial Integrity.
That’s …
The Ethiopian government is using sweeping anti-terror laws to crack down on journalists critical of the regime. In the last three months, six journalists have been
By Joshua Norman | CBS
This is an installment in the CBS WorldWatch series, “The world’s enduring dictators,” inspired by events in Tunisia and Egypt, in which CBSNews.com takes a look at the men who continue to rule their …
Is there any question about who is taking the money out of the country? The Meles crime family has has been looting Ethiopia’s treasure for the past 20 years.
By TAMRAT G. GIORGIS
(Addis Fortune) — Ethiopia may be touted …
Libya: ICC prosecutor seek warrant for Gaddafi
(BBC) — International Criminal Court Prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo (4 May 2011) Mr Moreno-Ocampo’s office reviewed more than 1,200 documents and 50 interviews.
The International Criminal Court’s prosecutor is seeking the arrest of Libyan …
The 10 Tools of Online Oppressors
Digital censorship threatens press freedom, new report shows
New York, May 2, 2011—As journalists increasingly use social media to report breaking news and the number of people with Internet access explodes worldwide, governments …
By Shannon Filed | The New Age
Ethiopia is one of the largest recipients of development aid, receiving over US$3.3bn (R22.6bn) annually. Ethiopia is perceived by Western leaders as a largely Christian country bordering two unstable Islamic states, Sudan and …
Britain has decided to give upwards of $250 million a year to shore up the Zenawi regime under the guise of helping the Ethiopian people. There is ample evidence that much of foreign aid to the Zenawi regime is used …