Every thing in Ethiopia is being pillaged, plundered, looted and destroyed by the gang of thugs that is currently ruling Ethiopia. After carrying out a genocidal war in Gambela [read here], the Meles regime is now preparing to destroy …

Northern California Peace Corps Association (NorCal PCA), in partnership with the Commonwealth Club of California, will hold a discussion on:

LAND GRAB IN AFRICA: THE CASE OF ETHIOPIA
presented by Fikre Tolossa, PhD, Playwright/Author

Though Africa is no longer threatened …

Ethiopian activists who are organizing an uprising against the ethnic apartheid dictatorship in Ethiopia don’t have to invent new methods. There are strategies and methods that are proven to be effective against some of the most brutal dictators around the …

Open Letter to Professor Stiglitz

Professor Joseph Stiglitz
Economics Department, Columbia University
814 Uris Hall, MC 3308, 420 West 118th Street
New York, NY 10027

Dear Professor Stiglitz,

First, we Ethiopian economists and scholars express our sincere admiration for and …

By Obang Metho

The Ethiopian Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development (MoARD) is ignoring objections from Ethiopian President Girma Wolde-Giorgis, from the Environmental Protection Authority of Ethiopia (EPA) and from the indigenous Mazenger people of Gambella, to the clearing of …

By Peter Chrichton

The latest Wikileaks cable details the US Government’s 2007 position on the ongoing conflict in the Ogaden region, following the ONLF’s attack on an oil installation. The cable considers the Ethiopian Government’s rationale for such a “brutal …

Information hungry Ethiopians who are too poor to buy newspapers are resorting to renting them per half hour basis, according to a report that is published by South Africa’s Mail & Guardian. One of the places where newspapers are …

Azeb Mesfin, the wife of Ethiopia’s tyrant Meles Zenawi, is building a new residence inside the Menelik Palace compound at the cost of 82 million birr, FORTUNE, an Addis Ababa-based business journal reports.

Azeb, who is known in Ethiopia as …

The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has issued a report today stating that the African Union (AU) is lagging in defense of press freedom and that African governments are criminalizing investigative reporting. What the CPJ forgot to add is that …

By Natnael F. Alemayehu

For those who hope to see a thriving and united Ethiopia, I say to you: “If home is where the heart is, and the heart is more powerful than the mind”. If we have Ethiopia in …

A U.S. investigative journalist, Wayne Madsen, tells RT TV that Meles Zenawi’s regime in Ethiopia is in danger of falling. Watch below
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The Algerian government announced today that it is lifting the state of emergency that has been imposed since 1992 as opposition groups plan more protests. The regime of President Abdelaziz Bouteflika is also considering additional measures such as wage increases, …

Iran pro-democracy movement is the latest to join the revolution against dictators in northern Africa and the Middle East as thousands of protesters clashed with the police on Monday and though out the night.

(Al Jazeera) — Clashes between pro-reformists …

The United Nations is currently asking the international community to donate food for 2.8 million Ethiopians, and yet the so-called “Ethiopian government” sells fertile land to foreign investors to grow oil seeds and sugarcane for export.

Chandigarh, INDIA (PTI) — …

Savage attacks by Yemen police have so far been unable to stifle the intensifying pro-democracy protests across the country. On Sunday, thousands of students who joined the demonstration came under attacks by security forces and pro-government thugs. The protesters are …

(Al Jazeera) — Bahrain’s security forces have set up checkpoints to monitor people’s movements as opposition groups blanketed social media sites with calls to stage the first major anti-government protests in the Gulf since the uprising in Egypt.

Units patrolled …

Dictators try as much as they can to restrict the free flow of information. Ethiopia’s beggar dictator pays China tens of millions of dollars to block web sites, radio programs, and satellite TVs. By some estimate, the Woyanne ruling junta …

As the revolution clock is ticking in Ethiopia, the Meles regime is acting and behaving like any other dictatorship — intensify its repressive measures. This week, the ruling party’s security agents have started to gather parents and give them stern …

SANA’A — Yemen security forces with clashed with Yemeni pro-democracy protesters on Friday and Saturday. The protesters were celebrating resignation of Egypt’s dictator Hosni Mubarak. They are also demanding President Ali Abdullah Saleh of Yemen to step down.

Princeton University …

Following the successful revolutions in Tunisia and Egypt that overthrew entrenched dictators, a new revolution has started in Algeria on Saturday, February 12, 2001. Instead of learning from Hosni Mubarak of Egypt and Ben Ali of Tunisia, Algeria’s dictator Abdelaziz …

Algeria police arrested hundreds of protesters who are demanding reforms at a rally on Saturday. Thousands of police in riot gear stopped the protesters from entering May 1 Square where the demonstration was called by a coalition of civic and …

Pro-democracy activists have declared Saturday, Feb. 12, “Day 1” of the Algerian Revolution against the regime of President Abdelaziz Bouteflika. The ctivists have defied a ban against public political gatherings and called a march in Algiers today in which thousands …

By Elias Kifle

Many seem to give credit to the social media (Facebook, Twitter and blogs) for helping the Egyptian and Tunisian youths who brought down the entrenched dictatorships in their country, but there is not enough mention about the …

(BBC) — Hosni Mubarak has decided to step down as president of Egypt. In an announcement on state TV, Vice-President Omar Suleiman said Mr Mubarak had handed power to the military.

It came as thousands massed in Cairo and other …

By Desalegn Sisay

ADDIS ABABA (Afrik-news.com) — Fuel prices in Ethiopia will be raised next month following a recent decision by its Sudanese suppliers could also affect fuel availability in Ethiopia. The Horn of Africa country spends an …

Ethiopian Satellite TV (ESAT) is back online today after being off air for 24 hours, according to the station’s management. ESAT is now transmitted on the following frequency:

C-BAND Intelsat 10 at 68.5E
TRANSPONDER 14
DOWN LINK 3808 V
SYMBOL …

EGYPTIAN President Hosni Mubarak has reiterated his intention to stand down in September, igniting the wrath of thousands of protesters in Cairo’s Tharir Square.

His comments in a national TV address confounded earlier reports that he was preparing to stand …

(UK Daily Mail) — Hopes were growing in Cairo this evening that President Hosni Mubarak might be about to step down – with immediate effect.

Military and ruling party officials said the unpopular 82-year-old was about to speak to the …

Brian Stewart, a journalist for CBC and one of Canada’s most experienced foreign correspondents, writes that Ethiopia’s regime has a blasé attitude about food shortage in the country and that he supports The Economist’s description of the regime as one …

Former finance head of the Tigrean People Liberation Front (Woyanne), Ato Gebremedhin Araya, has called on the people of Tigray to rise up against Ethiopia’s tyrant Meles Zenawi. Ato Gebremedhin, who accuses Meles Zenawi of crimes against humanity and looting …

MAPUTO, MOZAMBIQUE — The UNHCR said it has learned that 8 Ethiopian asylum seekers died on February 2 from suffocation aboard a closed container truck in Mozambique. The UNHCR reported the men were among a group of 26 young Ethiopians …

The ruling party in Ethiopia is going ahead with the destruction of 3,012 hectares of forestry land in the Gambela region over the objection of local population, officials, and environmental groups .

The land has been leased to an Indian …

The West’s favorite dictator in Africa, Meles Zenawi of Ethiopia, and his wife Azeb Mesfin, the mother of corruption, are busy stealing Ethiopian coffee, gold and other resources, while, according to the UN, 2.8 million Ethiopians are currently facing sever …

An Ethiopian man named Desta M. Tesfai was founded dead at the county jail in Dekalb, a suburb of Atlanta, according the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. Read the full report below:

ATLANTA (AJC) — A man charged with killing his …

Local elected officials in southern and western Ethiopia are bitterly opposing the selling away of farm land by the Woyanne ruling junta to foreign investors. Some of the local officials who take a stand are receiving threats and being summarily …

All opposition parties in Ethiopia have decided to boycott the off-term elections that is scheduled for the end of this month. The elections will be held to fill vacant seats in the rubber-stamp parliament and regional assemblies, according to Ethiopian …

Ethiopians residing in Munich, Seattle and Washington DC held protest rallies today and over the weekend demanding the resignation of Ethiopia’s corrupt and brutal dictatory Meles Zenawi.

In Washington DC, the protest took place today at the Woyanne-controlled Ethiopian embassy. …

Ethiopia’s khat-addicted dictator Meles Zenawi likes to show off his expertise in economics to his puppets at the rubber-stamp parliament. It is always a hilarious scene when he talks about economic issues with confidence and authority while members of parliament …

Business partners of Egypt’s ruling party have started to take their money out of the country, according to Bloomberg. Ethiopia’s super rich who are looting the country in partnership with the Woyanne ruling junta have been doing that for …

When Ethiopia’s dictator Meles Zenawi announced recently that 10,000 tons (20 million pounds, or 9 million kilograms) of coffee disappeared without a trace, the Ethiopian Review Intelligence Unit (ERIU) immediately went to work to find out who took it. For …

Protesters in Sudan regrouped and launch another protest today after the security forces savagely attacked and dispersed them last week. The following is by Reuters:

(Reuters) — Police beat and teargassed students protesting in Sudan’s Sennar state, the latest in …

PRESS RELEASE

Introducing the ETHIOPIAN HERITAGE SOCIETY OF NORTH AMERICA

The Ethiopian Heritage Society of North America “EHSNA” Board is proud to announce the formation of the Ethiopian Heritage Society of North America a 501(c)(3) organization. EHSNA’s primary mission and …

Renowned Middle East journalist Robert Fisk speaks from Cairo on the historic uprising and how U.S. President Barack Obama has lost an opportunity to back a democratic movement in the Middle East. “One of the blights of history will now …

Conditions in Ethiopia are more ripe for regime change than in any other country in the world. These are some of the facts:

1. The dictator, Meles Zenawi, has been in power for 20 years. He is the most despised …

Egypt’s pro-democracy protesters, who have so far rejected the idea of storming the presidential palace, are now planning to force Mubarak out of power on Friday.

The declaration was made by Dr Mohamed El Baradei, whom the protesters and opposition …

Mubarak is tearing apart his country just so that he can stay 8 more months in power. Despite his claim to be a patriotic Egyptian, he is clearly an evil tyrant who is willing to shed the blood of his …

The Woyanne ruling junta’s agriculture minister, Tefera Derbew, has sold 1.8 million hectares of Ethiopian farmland to India, according to a report by an Indian journal. Under the deal, India will use the land for 70 years. Read the report …

The secretary general of Unity for Democracy and Justice Party (UDJ), Ato Andualem Aragie, who resides in Addis Ababa, said today that the kind of popular uprising that is currently taking place in Tunisia, Egypt and Yemen will also happen …

BY JOSHUA E. KEATING | ForeignPolicy.com

Maintaining good relations with autocrats is an unfortunate but often necessary component of the delicate balancing act that is U.S. foreign policy. But as Washington learned once again this week, supporting an strongman for …

Woyanne minister of agriculture in Ethiopia, Tafera Derbew, has dismissed a request by figurehead President Girma Woldegirogis (see here)  not to sell western Ethiopian land to Indian companies and went to India yesterday to approve a $4.4 billion investment …

By Jamal Halaby | Associated Press

AMMAN — Jordan’s King Abdullah II fired his government Tuesday in the wake of street protests and asked an ex-prime minister to form a new Cabinet, ordering him to launch immediate political reforms.

The …

On Monday, February 7, Ethiopians in Washington DC will shut down the Woyanne regime- occupied Ethiopian embassy starting at 8:30 in the morning to bring attention to the people of Ethiopia’s demand for an end to Meles Zenawi’s dictatorship.

Similar …

March of the Millions is underway in Egypt. It is an unbelievable scene. For Ethiopians it is a reminiscent of the May 7, 2005, rally in Addis Ababa where 4 million people turned out to express their support for change …

By Teodros Kiros

The people Ethiopia are ready to spontaneously rise as their brothers and sisters are doing in Tunisia, Egypt, Yemen and many more. Spontaneous uprisings are the necessary engines of social movements. They are infact the necessary conditions …

By Natnael F. Alemayehu

The Deadly Sins of the Educated Ethiopian

Before you begin reading the article, I urge you to think of not only what is happening today but also the steps after the inevitable revolution. I ask you …

A commentator for British newspaper The Independent laments about the Obama Administration’s hypocritical stand on the Egypt popular uprising in his latest report from Cairo. We heard that some in the Obama administration, such as Vice President Joe Biden, saying …

Ethiopia under the 20-year-old brutal dictatorship ranks at the bottom on every thing, including in the number of social media usage. A statistics by Socialbakers.com shows (see below) that Facebook penetration in Ethiopia is only 0.28 percent, which is one …

Al Arabiya News Channel is reporting that Syrians are getting organized to launch protests against the regime of Bashar al-Assad. Meanwhile, in Egypt the army ruled out use of force against civilians as a million people march and general strike …

The figurehead president of Ethiopia, Girma Woldegiorgis, has ordered the Minister of Agriculture, Ato Tefera Deribew, to stop selling forest land in Gambela to foreign investors.

This is the first instance of Girma Woldegiorgis speaking against any policy of Ethiopia’s …

Ethiopian pro-democracy activists from several cities around the world held a conference on Sunday and passed the following resolution:

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Meles Zenawi must go!

Having taken cognizance of the similarities and differences among the dictatorships that have been …

The events in Tunisia and Egypt have unveiled Washington’s foreign policy flaws in Africa. In both cases, Washington tolerated despotic regimes because they served a particular purpose. However, in the wake of the upheavals in both countries, Washington is now …

By Kiflu Hussain

Right at this time, most of our African commanders-in-thug have assembled in my hometown, Addis Ababa. Imagine how these thugs would panic if Ethiopians suddenly rise up in unison like the Tunisians and Egyptians. The thugs would …

The domino effect of the Tunisia jasmine revolution reaches Ethiopia’s neighbor Sudan today where protesters who demanded the resignation of the al Bashir dictatorship clashed with police, according to Al Jazeera.

(Al Jazeera) — Sudanese police have beaten and arrested …

The latest Wikileaks release of U.S. diplomatic cables contains the American embassy’s assessment of Meles Zenawi’s giveaway of Ethiopian land to foreign investors. Read the full text below:

NCLAS SECTION 01 OF 02 ADDIS ABABA 000247

SENSITIVE
SIPDIS

DEPARTMENT FOR …

The central committee of the ruling party in Ethiopia, the Tigrean People’s Liberation Front (Woyanne) along with its puppet, Ethiopian People’s Revolutionary Democratic Front (EPRDF), has reportedly scheduled an emergency meeting for Monday to discuss possible impacts of Tunisia, Egypt …

By Msmaku Asrat

This is a tribute and in memoriam to the millions of Ethiopians who have been murdered; disposed; driven out of their country and refused reentry on pain of death; subjected to grinding poverty, drought, and famine by …

Inspired by the popular uprisings in Egypt, Tunisia, Yemen, and Jordan against corrupt dictators, Ethiopian activists around the world will meet on Sunday to discuss conditions in their own country and what can be done to reignite the people’s struggle …

Unlike the notorious Egyptian police, the restraint shown so far by the Egyptian army in the face of a nation wide popular uprising is becoming no doubt worrisome to Ethiopia’s tyrant Meles Zenawi who himself is sitting on a ticking …

President of France Nicolas Sarkozy will travel to Ethiopia on January 30. The Human Right Watch (HRW) has issued a statement today urging Sarkozy to speaking out against human rights abuses in Ethiopia by the regime of brutal dictator Meles …

By Abeba Fekade

As many scholars and historians have stated and a living history that is written in our hearts testifies, Ethiopia is truly one of the best and magnificent of the ancient nations with great contribution to the wonders …

Thousands of Jordanians have marched through the streets of Amman today demanding Prime Minister Samir Rifai to resign. In Egypt, some police officers started to disobey orders to attack protesters, according to Al-Arabiya.

Demonstrations ripple through Egypt and Jordan

(Los …

To those of us who have hoped that U.S. President Barack Obama would make a drastic change in the U.S. foreign policy in favor of people’s aspirations for freedom are terribly disappointed at not only his broken promise to proactively …

Latest Developments
Mubarak deploys the army to enforce a curfew
Police pulls back
Protesters defy curfew, burned down ruling party’s headquarters
Internet sites shut down
Egypt Air cancels flights

CAIRO (Reuters) – President Hosni Mubarak sent troops and armored cars …

Egypt’s 80-year-old brutal dictator has shut down Facebook, Twitter, SMS and blogs today as protest grows. Mubarak’s regime is also resorting to brutal measures against protesters who are demanding his resignation. Egyptian police are known to be blood thirsty killers …

The revolution that has started in the north African nation of Tunisia against entrenched dictators has now spread to Egypt and Yemen. Ethiopia’s genocidal junta also faces an imminent uprising, and reportedly many of the ruling party officials have already …

By Maru Gubena

I have often wished, especially given that things have started very recently in Tunisia and Egypt, to prove me wrong. I have even begged my Lord God, kneeling down and bowing my head to the ground, to …

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has called on Egypt’s dictator Mubarak to make reforms and not to block peaceful protests. A similar uprising is imminent in Ethiopia. It is NOT a matter of if, but when. When it happens, …

A Founding member of the Ethiopian Peoples Patriotic Front (EPPF), Ato Melke Mengiste, has spoken out about the disappearance of several members and officials of his organization during a 3-hour discussion at Qale Ethiopian Forum on Sunday.  Ato Melke also …

A major newspaper based in Madrid, Spain, ABC Internacional, has reported that Azeb Mesfin, the wife of Ethiopia’s dictator Meles Zenawi is squandering the 1.2 billion euros her husband has stolen during the past two decades. (Read here)

The …

WASHINGTON DC — Faced with protests by Ethiopians in the DC area, the luxurious Willard Hotel in Washington DC that is located a block away from the White House has canceled the meeting that was organized by Woyanne embassy this …

Founding and senior member of the Ethiopian People’s Patriotic Front (EPPF), Ato Melke Mengiste, in an interview on Sunday with Netsanet LeEthiopia Radio in Washington DC, has expressed concern about the disappearance of Col. Tadese Muluneh, Ato Adane Mekuanent and …

Ethiopia’s tyrant Meles Zenawi and his wife Azeb (mother of corruption) may think that they have friends in Obama, Sarkozy and other Western leaders. Watch what happened to his friend in Tunisa, Ben Ali. The following video is satire, but …

Ethiopians in the Washington DC area will stage a protest rally tomorrow, Tuesday, January 25, at the Willard Hotel (see map) to confront senior members of the Woyanne ruling junta in Ethiopia, Seyoum Mesfin and Girma Birru.

The …

By Elias Kifle

EthiopianReview.com’s server has been crashing for the past two days due to a coordinated attack. The attack continues today. I don’t want to go into details about what security measures we are taking to protect the web …

Atlanta police have released sketches of two men they want to talk to in connection to the shooting death of Jagama Beyene, a 26-year-old Ethiopian film producer who worked part time as a store clerk.

(Fox 5) — …

The Obama Administration has requested Congress $583.5 million in assistance for Ethiopia’s genocidal junta for FY 2011, according to the U.S. Department of State, Office of Foreign Assistance.

This amount does not include grants and loans from other U.S. Government …

Ethiopia’s Aselefech Mergia wins the Dubai Marathon in the Women’s field today and her fellow Ethiopian Eshetu Wendimu finished third in the men’s field. In both fields Ethiopians dominated the course. In the women course 6 out of the top …