By Alemayehu G. Mariam
Will the Real James Inhofe, Please Stand Up!?
Oyez! Oyez! Oyez! Republican Oklahoma Senator James Inhofe, defender and self-described “brother” and “friend” of dictator Zenawi and arch nemesis of H.R. 2003 in the U.S. Senate, is …
By Joseph Olanyo, Monitor
In an effort to remain competitive, Ethiopian Airlines has signed code share flight agreements with Lufthansa, the German airline to further strengthen its position in the European Union (EU) markets.
The airline also signed a memorandum …
By Saafi Labafidhin
We have, on several occasions, stated how it is becoming increasingly difficult for international aid organizations to work in the Ogaden, and as a result they are opting to create partnerships with grass-roots, local non-governmental organizations (NGOs) …
Fans say the reggae star was framed because his music was seen as anti-government. ‘You don’t know where the line is — until you’ve crossed it,’ says one Ethiopian.
By Edmund Sanders, Los Angeles Times
ADDIS ABABA, ETHIOPIA — Sequestered …
Report in English by state-owned Ethiopian news agency ENA
ADDIS ABABA — US Secretary of Department of Health and Human Service Michael O Leavitt arrived here on Saturday [9 August] on a four-day working visit to Ethiopia.
While here, Leavitt …
By BILL WELLS, masslive.com
SHELBURNE FALLS, MASSACHUSETTS — For a day, Shelburne Falls was the running capital of New England. And for that day, three Ethiopians ruled that capital. In the largest field in the 30-year history of the always …
This is not the Ethiopian army. It is a gang of murderers, torturers and rapists who are currently terrorizing the people of Ethiopia, Somalia and the Horn of Africa under rule of Tigrean People’s Liberation Front (Woyanne). This army’s only …
(Addis Journal) ADDIS ABABA, ETHIOPIA — After an appeal to the Federal Higher Court, Teddy Afro’s lawyer, Million Assefa was released yesterday afternoon.
The lawyer was sent to Kaliti prison on Wednesday with 50 days’ sentence for contempt …
BEIJING (AFP) — Ethiopian star Tirunesh Dibaba tends to dominate most discussions when it comes to women’s long-distance running. But Dibaba’s team-mate Meseret Defar, the reigning Olympic and world champion in the 5,000 metres and triple world indoor champion in …
Christopher Heredia, San Francisco Chronicle
As Oakland reels from a string …
The Beijing Olympics was opened with an extravagant ceremony yesterday. It was indeed the mother of all shows. Athletes from a record 204 countries marched proudly through the stadium carrying flags of their respective countries. Of course we eagerly awaited …
(firstcoastnews.com) JACKSONVILLE, FLORIDA — Doctors at Wolfson Children’s Hospital are working to save the life of an infant girl from Ethiopia.
Baby ‘Rute’ arrived in Jacksonville Thursday night after a 17-hour flight from Africa into New York, followed …
By Luke Phillips, AFP
BEIJING — Ethiopian track stars are all set to dominate the 5,000 and 10,000m events at the Beijing Olympics.
But a punishing schedule, a host of tough rivals and dubious air quality in the Chinese capital …
FOOT SOLDIER: Running without shoes, Bikila, an Imperial Guardsman in Ethiopian Emperor Haile Selassie’s court, pulls ahead in the 1960 Rome marathon
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By SIMON ROBINSON
A few of the other runners sniggered when they saw Abebe Bikila …
By Dedtric Ray, FOX 26
HOUSTON — In honor of the 19th anniversary of Congressman George “Mickey” Leland’s final mission, Sen. Rodney Ellis and the widow of Leland hosted a reception at the Houston Museum of Natural Science and a …
By Gene Cherry
BEIJING (Reuters) – The spark is back for Ethiopian Olympic 5,000 meters champion Meseret Defar — and just in time.
After a surprise defeat in the African championships, the 24-year-old Olympic and world gold medalist has rallied …
By Martin Blaney
(ScreenDaily.COM) BERLIN — Cologne-based The Match Factory will handle international sales on two Venice competition titles – Christian Petzold’s Jerichow and Haile Gerima’s Teza – screening as world premieres at the festival.
Jerichow marks The …
ADDIS ABABA (IRIN) – The number of people requiring emergency food aid is expected to increase as food security has not improved, according to the latest …
(Press TV) — Four Ethiopian Woyanne soldiers were killed in heavy clashes with the Union of Islamic Court (UIC) fighters north of the Somali capital Mogadishu.
A Press TV correspondent, reporting from Mogadishu, says the fighting between the …
MEN
1500m: Derese Mekonnen, Mulugeta Wondimu, Mekonnen Gebremedhin, Demma Daba
3000m Steeplechase: Nahom Mesfin, Roba Gari, Yacob Jarso
5000m: Kenenisa Bekele, Tariku Bekele, Abraham Cherkos, Ali Abdosh
10,000m: Kenenisa Bekele, Sileshi Sihine, Haile Gebrselassie, Ibrahim Jeylan
Marathon: Tsegaye Kebede, Deriba …
(VOA) — Witnesses in Somalia say Islamist insurgents have seized control of Hudur, the capital of the Bakool region.
The governor of Bakool confirmed to VOA Somali service that he fled Hudur as Islamist fighters entered the town …
New York (Tadias) – The U.S. State of Virginia, which is home to one of the largest Ethiopian American communities in the country, hasn’t voted for a Democratic presidential candidate in four decades, but some say it might …
By Tizita Kebede, The Daily Monitor
ADDIS ABABA – The National Museum of Ethiopia, in collaboration with the University Museum of Tokyo, Japan (UMUT) showcased on Wednesday a “Special millennium exhibit” under the theme ‘Human Evolution Time Line in Ethiopia’.…
By Fikremariam Tesfaye, The Daily Monitor
ADDIS ABABA — The Ministry of Mines and Energy (MoME) and Falcon Petroleum Limited, a company from Cyprus, signed an agreement enabling the later explore and develop petroleum in the Abay Basin, around Wollo, …
By ALEX …
By Mohamed Keita, CPJ, Africa Research Associate
Journalists in the Ethiopian capital, Addis Ababa, today reported that police interrogated the editors of Awramba Times and Harambe, two fledgling independent current affairs weeklies over a series of political stories.
Officers …
(Goshen College) GOSHEN, INDIANA — After three months immersed in another culture, most college students studying abroad are ready to get back to the comforts of home. The last thing many students would want to do is start …
EMF – Editor-in-chief of Awramba times, journalist Dawit Kebede and the editor of Harambe newspapers were summoned at Addis Ababa police today, sources said. As part of new wave of attack on the press, the two editors were charged with …
By Fekade Shewakena
…They call it the green huger. Four-foot cornstalks sprout from rain-soaked earth, and wind billows fields of teff, the staple Ethiopian grain, goats and cattle are getting fat on lush grasses — but the children are still
By Melaku Tegegne
The catch-word for this epoch-making transition period should be: Preserving independence through Unity! The idea is to create a union within union – the union of the Horn of Africa in the Africa union.
Presidential hopeful Barak …
EDITOR’S NOTE: The following is reported as is by WIC, Woyanne’s own news web site. By proudly reporting about this latest land give away, Woyannes are saying to the people of Ethiopia, ‘go suck your thumb, we’ll do what we …
Elshadai Negash for the IAAF
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia – Has Olympic and World 5000m champion Meseret Defar lost some of her spark? Is she no longer the golden girl of Ethiopian athletics?
Those and many other questions were continuously asked …
By Hamsa Omar and Eric Ombok, Bloomberg
Somalia’s presidential palace was hit by four mortar shells in an assault by suspected Islamist insurgents, an army spokesman said.
The attack occurred at Baidoa, 250 kilometers (155 miles) northwest of the capital, …
By Nicholas Benequista, Inter Press Service
ADDIS ABABA — A legal battle in Ethiopia over what constitutes contempt of court is likely to test the boundaries of free speech in a country where the liberty of press has deteriorated over …
(ABC Channel 7) OAKLAND, CALIFORNIA — Three robbers with at least one gun, moved in on Skyline Pizza on Keller Avenue, just before closing time. “They looked confident, they were not nervous or anything this time, they looked like they …
(BEIJING 2008) — The Ethiopian Olympic Committee (EOC) has a squad of 36 athletes bound for the Beijing Olympic Games, and the group glitters with gold medalists.
Kenenisa Bekele, 10,000-meter gold medalist at the Athens 2004 Olympiad, will be joined …
By Saafi Labafidhin
The following is a real story of an Ogadeni woman. She is only one of the many unfortunate women in this region and if Victor Hugo of the nineteenth century was present in the eastern Ethiopian region …
We look at 10 sporting rivalries worth watching at the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games.
1) JEREMY WARINER V LASHAWN MERRITT, 400 METRES
Olympic and world champion Wariner has dominated the 400 metres since before the 2004 Games. Compatriot Merritt has …
By Eskinder Nega
Source: Abbay Media
ADDIS ABABA — Judge Luel Gebremariam sentenced Teddy Afro’s defense attorney Milllion Assefa, to a month and twenty days imprisonment, while also imposing a suspended one month imprisonment on the editor of Addis Neger, …
By Douglas McGill, TC Daily Planet
When Bulcha Demeksa, an opposition member of the Ethiopian [rubber-stump] Parliament, feels compelled to denounce the Ethiopian Prime Minister dictator, he doesn’t bother to organize a political rally in Ethiopia or search …
(Reuters) — When Haile Gebrselassie was taking distance running to new levels a decade ago few could have imagined that even before he had retired he would be eclipsed by another Ethiopian, Kenenisa Bekele.
If, as expected, the two men …
New York (IANS) — Hollywood actress Angelina Jolie is planning to build an AIDS clinic in Ethiopia for her daughter Zahara to manage when she grows up. Jolie will make a trip to her adopted daughter’s native country …
U.S. presidential candidate Barack Obama writes to Ethiopian-Americans acknowledging their contribution to U.S. and urging them to register to vote.
For more information, visit ethiopiansforbarackobama.com
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Addis Fortune (Addis Ababa) — The Japanese construction firm, Kajima, is near to closing the four-metres gap on the newly constructed bridge over Abay River, 208Km north of Addis Abeba. The bridge will be open to traffic in October 2008, …
EDITOR’S NOTE: Half of that might be from child prostitution, and the profit goes to the pockets of Meles, Sebhat, Azeb and other leaders of the Tigrean People Liberation Front (Woyanne).
ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) – Ethiopia Woyanne hopes to boost …
By Henok Semaegzer Fente, VOA
Listen to the report: [podcast]http://www.voanews.com/mediaassets/english/2008_08/Audio/mp3/08-06-08%20(DBA)%20Fente%20Ethiopia%20Justice.mp3[/podcast]
In Ethiopia, the trial of a controversial pop star is raising questions about the independence of the judiciary and of the press. The government has arrested a journalist covering the …
By Alex Pellerano, QuiteColor.com
A crippled economy, government neglect, and scarce resources have left Ethiopia with one of the highest illiteracy rates in the world. Volunteers in the U.S. have united to offer their time and effort to help remedy …
Source: Missionary International Service News Agency (MISNA)
At least 10 civilians, including a woman and a child, were killed after an Ethiopian a Woyanne attack in a northeastern quarter of Mogadishu.
Witnesses said that 12 other people were wounded after …
BY ALEX P. KELLOGG, Detroit Free Press
By Jason McLure, Bloomberg
Ethiopia received 14.8 billion birr ($1.5 billion) in loans and grants last year, the Ethiopian News Agency said, citing Getachew Admassu, a spokesman for the finance ministry.
The Horn of Africa country received about $600 million …
EDITOR’S NOTE: Millions of Ethiopian are currently facing starvation while companies affiliated with the ruling Tigrean People Liberation Front (Woyanne) use the country’s fertile lands in southern Ethiopia to grow crops for producing gas — which is more profitable than …
(AFP) ADDIS ABABA: At the age of 35, Ethiopia’s Haile Gebrselassie has won all the honours in long-distance running but is risking his status by lining up in a competitive 10,000m showdown in Beijing.
So is one of Africa’s greatest …
By Scott A Morgan
According to a Ethiopian Newspaper the Addis Fortune, the Bush Administration is concerned about the “narrowing” of Democracy in Ethiopia. The report indicates that there are two pieces of Legislation at the Heart of the Concern …
(Capital) ADDIS ABABA – A project for a multi- billion dollar bridge that would span the Red Sea at an 18-mile-wide strait, connecting the southern tip of Yemen with Djibouti, was launched on Monday, July 28, in Djibouti …
By Indrias Getachew
SHEBEDINO, Ethiopia, 5 August 2008 – The rainy season is well underway in …
New York (Tadias) — Among some of the most exciting out-door music events scheduled in New York this summer, is a concert on August 20th, featuring Ethiopia’s most noted musical artists: Mahmoud Ahmed, Alemayehu Eshete and the legendary …
(CPJ) – NEW YORK — Ethiopian police in the capital, Addis Ababa, threatened on Monday to block distribution of an independently owned newspaper if it continues its leading coverage of a new political opposition movement, according to local journalists.
The …
Despite what has been reported by some media, it seems the current split in the leadership of the Oromo Liberation Front (OLF) has been caused by disagreements over how fast to bring change in the organization… As things stand now, …
Kangaroo court judge Leul Gebremariam has ordered the arrest of Teddy Afro’s lawyer, Ato Million Assefa today. On the judge’s order, and publishers of AddisNeger newspaper, Ato Mesfin Negash and Ato Girma Tesfaw, have also been arrested today in Addis …
(Telegraph.co.uk) By Ben Lynfield in JERUSALEM — The move evoked a furious reaction from leaders of the 120,000-strong Ethiopian …
Ethiopians for Obama will hold our next meeting at Bahir Dar Waterfront Gourmet Ethiopian Restaurant in Old Town Alexandria. The entire second floor has been reserved for Ethiopians for Obama and Obama’s African-American Virginia Constituency Director will be in attendance.…
PRESS RELEASE
NEW YORK, August 5, 2008 – A professor at The Faculty of Health Sciences at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU) is beginning an intensive program in Ethiopia this August to eradicate intestinal worms which affect as much …
VOA’s Amharic program has interviewed leaders of the Oromo Liberation Front (OLF), Dr Bayan Asoba and Ato Lencho Batti, on the leadership split. Click below to listen [forward to 33:00].
[podcast]http://www.ethiopianreview.info/audio/voa_08052008a.mp3[/podcast]…
(JTA) — The era of large-scale Ethiopian aliya is over, the Jewish Agency for Israel said. The last official airlift of Ethiopian Jews was scheduled to land in Tel Aviv on Tuesday, bringing to an end a state-organized …
By Edmund Sanders, Los Angeles Times
AJEE, ETHIOPIA — They call it the green hunger. Four-foot cornstalks sprout from rain-soaked earth, and wind billows fields of teff, the staple Ethiopian grain. Goats and cattle are getting fat on lush grasses …
By Omer Redi, Addis Fortune
ADDIS ABABA — The state telecom monopoly, Ethiopian Telecommunications Corporation (ETC), has suspended internet services in seven towns of the Oromia, Amhara and Harari regional states, as well as in Dire Dawa town.
The towns …
By Holly Jackson, cnet.com
Citizens of Ethiopia and Thailand (we originally said Taiwan here, which is not included) are among the international Web users who will be able to view online content from the Beijing Olympics via YouTube, according to …
(CPJ) New York — A judge in Ethiopia overseeing the high-profile trial of an imprisoned pop singer jailed the editor of an independent weekly for contempt of court today. The contempt charge came after the weekly published an interview with …
Kangaroo court judge Leul Gebremariam has ordered the arrest of Teddy Afro’s lawyer, Ato Million Assefa today. On the judge’s order, and publishers of AddisNeger newspaper, Ato Mesfin Negash and Ato Girma Tesfaw, have also been arrested today in Addis …
EDITOR’S NOTE: You are crossing into the Twilight Zone.
(KBC) – Prime Minister Raila Odinga on Monday said Kenya may import power from Ethiopia [where the capital Addis Ababa goes dark several times a week] following the current …
By by el Vagabundo, TravelBlog
The following is a sad story. I enjoyed being back in Addis. People are amazing, and last year as a tourist I discovered the beauties of this culturally rich country. But there is a dark …
(Garowe Online) MOGADISHU – The Ethiopian Woyanne army’s top two generals serving in Somalia have been recalled to Addis Ababa.
A private plane transported Gen. Gabre and Gen. Yohannis from Aden Adde International Airport, in the Somali capital …
Tegbar gives 1 point for each of the Kinjit’s 8 points peace proposal that UDJ successfully accomplishes, and 0 point for those that it fails to deliver. We publish the Score Card every month.
As in June, for the of …
(AP) — Bill Clinton says making sure that HIV-infected children in the developing world are well-fed is crucial in fending off the virus.
Clinton says he saw children in Ethiopia who were so malnourished they couldn’t absorb antiretroviral drugs. The …
In this piece, we meet Mulatu Astatke, the father of Ethiopian jazz. A pioneering ‘global citizen,’ Astatke became in 1959 the first African to ever attend the famous Berkelee College of Music in Boston. He played with Duke Ellington in …
By MOHAMED OLAD HASSAN
MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) — A bomb hidden under a pile of garbage killed at least 20 people, half of them women who were sweeping the street in Somalia’s capital, witnesses and doctors said Sunday.
The explosion …
A three-part feature about Ethiopian Haile Gebrselassie, the greatest distance runner of all time.
Part 1
Part 2
Part 3
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(Colbinski Chronicles) — I am sitting on an outside patio of a small café enjoying my afternoon macchiato. I am gazing southward down the street for no real reason. As my eyes turn back in front of me …
(Press TV) — At least 24 Ethiopian Woyanne soldiers have been killed in heavy clashes with the Union of Islamic Courts (UIC) fighters in southern Somalia.
The remaining Ethiopian Woyanne soldiers started to flee the Jiro Kulow district, …
Assefa Abraha, brother of former defense minister Siye Abraha, has been released from jail yesterday for good behavior after serving 7 of his 9-year prison sentence.
About a year ago, the Woyanne kangaroo court in Ethiopia, had sentenced Assefa to …
By Groum Abate, Capital Ethiopia
Khadra Mohammed, First Lady of Djibouti, has received the 20 hectares of land in the Sebeta area for a flower farm, on Tuesday July 22, 2008, from Alemu Sime, Investment Bureau Head of the Oromia …
EDUCATION INTERNATIONAL (EI), world’s largest teachers union, has written to Ethiopian Prime Minister dictator Meles Zenawi to deplore that the Charities and Societies Proclamation, a draft law, is a covert means of placing civil society organisations under government control. EI …
Larry Derfner, THE JERUSALEM POST
In the photograph his mother keeps of him, Skinder Germay, born in Sudan, is smiling widely, unguardedly. His mother thinks he was 20 when he was killed, but she’s not sure of his exact age. …
(AFP) GODINO JITU, Ethiopia: Former US president Bill Clinton on Friday pledged more support to combat HIV/AIDS in Ethiopia, where he started a four-nation African tour.
His Clinton Foundation announced the Horn of Africa nation will receive five million dollars …