ADDIS ABABA, ETHIOPIA – The United States denied Tuesday accusations that its officers tortured terror suspects detained in Ethiopian jails after Ethiopia’s 2006 invasion of …
Senior official of the Ethiopian People Patriotic Front’s (EPPF) International Council, Ato Sileshi Tilahun, has returned to Asmara after visiting the freedom fighters and their commanders in the field.
Ato Sileshi held talks with EPPF commander Meazaw Getu and several …
BANGALORE, INDIA – Karuturi Global, a Bangalore-based floriculture company, has enteretd into agriculture business in Ethiopia. The company will engage in cultivation of maize, rice, vegetables and other commercial crops in 11,700 acres of land in Bako area of Ethiopia.…
Source: news.balita
MOSCOW, Oct. 22 — Russia has been ranked 141 out of 173 countries in the 2008 press freedom index published on Wednesday by the international organization Reporters Without Borders.
The report’s authors say the Russian media “continues to …
Source: APA
At least eight Kenyan Somalis have been killed in renewed fighting between two Somali clans in and outside the north-eastern Kenyan city of Mandera bordering Somalia early on Wednesday morning, a source from Mandera told APA in Mogadishu.…
Source African News
Inflation in most East African countries is said to be rising this year. In Ethiopia it moved from 33.6 % in August to37.2 % in September; In Kenya from 27.6% in August 2008 to 28.2% in September …
PRINCETON, NJ — Barack Obama maintains a lead over John McCain in the latest Gallup Poll Daily tracking update from Saturday through Monday; the size of the lead varies between seven and 10 percentage points among likely voters, depending on …
By MICHAEL BARONE
The Wall Street Journal
Can we trust the polls this year? That’s a question many people have been asking as we approach the end of this long, long presidential campaign. As a recovering pollster and continuing poll …
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…
Somalia’s opposition leader, Sheikh Sharif Sheikh Ahmed, has declared that he is “hopeful” about the successful signing of a final peace agreement with the country’s Ethiopian Woyanne-backed interim government.
Speaking in Yemen, the chairman of the Alliance for …
GENEVA (Reuters) – The U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) is seeking clarifications from Yemen over a decision to bar Ethiopian and Eritrean refugees from entering the country, a spokesman said on Tuesday.
The UNHCR also said it was concerned …
A Pentagon official overseeing the Guantanamo war crimes court dismissed all pending charges against five prisoners on Tuesday, including a British resident accused in a radioactive “dirty bomb” plot.
The Defense Department gave no reason for the action and …
POUGHKEEPSIE, NEW YORK. – Marist High School senior Girma Segni (Bronx, N.Y.) was named the Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference Men’s Cross Country Co-Runner of the Week on Monday afternoon. This marks the second time Segni has been given the honor …
GENEVA – Yemen may move to deny entry to people from Ethiopia and Eritrea, after having recently detained 87 Ethiopians who reached the country after a perilous journey across the Gulf of Aden, the United Nations (UN) said today.…
by Selam Retta, Tsehainy.com
Donkey vs. Elephant” “Democrat vs. Republicans” “Socialism vs. Capitalism” “Free Market vs. Big Government”
Free Market? The only time that ever came close to existence is probably during the early stage of this nation’s founder’s time. …
WASHINGTON (AFP) — As millions of Americans gear to vote in the thrilling 2008 White House race, experts are warning that the expected huge turnout could strain the voting system, triggering an electoral meltdown.
With just over two weeks to …
In Georgia, Florida and many other states, voting has already started. So those of you who can vote, don’t wait until Nov. 4 and get stuck in long lines. Go out and cast your vote today. The following is a …
By Mark J. Penn
The presidential campaign’s homestretch is looking a lot more like President Bill Clinton’s 1996 solid reelection over Republican nominee Bob Dole than like Ronald Reagan’s late-breaking 1980 landslide over incumbent Democratic President Jimmy Carter. Democratic standard-bearer …
by Matt Brown, The National
NAIROBI // Nestled somewhere among the green hillsides of Addis Ababa, Ethiopia’s capital, is a cluster of small detention centres, where detainees have languished for almost two years without being charged.
The detention centres are …
The Tallahassee Democrat‘s editorial-board endorsements
Nina Ashenafi Richardson
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Leon County Court, Seat 5
Nina Ashenafi Richardson, a native of Ethiopia, has the edge over challenger Sean Desmond in this nonpartisan judicial contest primarily because of her extensive volunteer and …
SANTA MONICA, CALIFORNIA – In a thrilling finish down Santa Monica’s Ocean Avenue, San Luis Obispo based runner Phillip Reid successfully held off Christian Hesch from Morro Bay to win the Los Angeles Sports and Fitness (LAS&F) Invitational …
By Muluken Yewondwossen, Capital
The Federal High Court, 8th Criminal Bench adjourned the case of Tewodros Kassahun a.k.a ‘Teddy Afro’ until Monday November 3, 2008 for a final verdict.
After his lawyer Million Assefa completed presenting witnesses and documents in …
Addis Fortune
By Wudineh Zenebe
ADDIS ABABA, ETHIOPIA – The management of the Ethiopian Airlines (Ethiopian) is in the process of acquiring a state-of-the-art information technology (IT) system, at a budgeted cost of 30 million dollars, reliable sources disclosed to …
ADDIS ABABA, ETHIOPIA (APA) – Cybercafés in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia are using the picture of US presidential candidate, Barack Obama, on their adverts to encourage Ethiopians to register for the 2009 US Diversity Visa (DV) Lottery or Green …
PRINCETON, NJ
Gallup Poll Daily tracking from Friday through Sunday gives Barack Obama an 11 percentage point lead over John McCain in the presidential vote preferences of all registered voters, 52% to 41%.
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Ethiopians in Washington DC will hold a rally in Washington DC at the State Department on Oct. 24, 2008, to protest the atrocities and war crimes that are being committed against the people of Ethiopia by the regime of Tigrean …
After spending eight years behind bars in Ethiopian jails for presumed links with the terrorist Al Qaeda network, eight Kenyans speak out about their terrible ordeal.
After being secretly detained in Ethiopia for more than one year, …
Angelina Jolie is said to be planning to adopt another child in the New Year.
The actress, who gave birth to Knox Leon and Vivienne Marcheline in July, is thought to be keen to give a home to an …
An engineer working for the UN in Somalia has died in the latest of a series of assassination-style killings of aid workers.
The Somali official, employed by UN childrens’ fund, Unicef, was shot several times in the head …
By Alemayehu G. Mariam
Modernizing savagery?
This past week an official report on riot control entitled “Modernizing Internal Security in Ethiopia” was posted online.[1] The report, prepared for the ruling regime in Ethiopia in July 2008 by retired British colonel …
Ethiopian Community Television in Amsterdam interviews Judge WoldeMikael Meshesha on the trumped up charges against Ethiopia’s popular singer Tewodros Kassahun (Teddy Afro).
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The stone huts of Deir al Sultan monastery in Jerusalem are at the heart of the row between Ethiopia and Egypt[Photo: BBC]JERUSALEM, ISRAEL – The centuries-old site, where many Christians believe Jesus was crucified, is visited by …
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.…
ADDIS ABABA, ETHIOPIA (APA) – Ethiopia will host this year Africa Zone 5 basketball club championships billed for October 28 to November 1 , organizer said here.
According to the Ethiopian Basketball Federation (EBF), the championships will bring …
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(MSNBC) WASHINGTON – Former Secretary of State Colin Powell endorsed Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., for president on Sunday, criticizing his own Republican Party for what he called its narrow focus on irrelevant personal attacks over a serious …
By Carrie Budoff Brown
Politico.com
ST. LOUIS, MO – Casting the tax debate as a “values” issue Saturday, Barack Obama said John McCain was “out-of-touch” for equating the Illinois senator’s plan to cut taxes for middle class families with welfare.…
By Sarah Baxter
TIMES ONLINE
ROANOKE, VIRGINIA – With the economy on the brink of recession and the country in the midst of two foreign wars, Barack Obama is considering appointing a cabinet of stars to steer America through potentially …
By Scott A Morgan
There are Indications that the US Military is not even sure about which part of its Command Structure will take the lead in Fighting the Piracy in Somalia. For the Time Being it will be CENTCOM …
Patrick Richardson heads to Ethiopia in search of the Ark of the Covenant
By Patrick Richardson
TIMES ONLINE
About 500 miles north of Addis Ababa, in the province of Tigray, is the dusty overgrown village of Aksum. And at the …
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.…
Source: United Nations General Assembly
Culminating its discussion on child rights, in a meeting that fell on the International Day for the Eradication of Poverty, delegates to the Third Committee (Social, Humanitarian and Cultural) today underlined the links between poverty, …
CALGARY, CANADA – City Police hope someone has information that could help them solve a murder. August 18th, several gunshots rang out near an alley between 12th and 13th Avenue and 11th Street Southwest. Police found 30 year old Efrem …
PRINCETON, NJ — The latest Gallup Poll Daily tracking report from Tuesday through Thursday shows Barack Obama with a 50%to 43% lead over John McCain among registered voters.
This three-day rolling average includes one full night of interviewing after Wednesday …
By Mike Allen, Politico.com
Retired Gen. Colin Powell, once considered a potential running mate for Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.), now may endorse his opponent, Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.), according to Republican sources. But an air of mystery surrounds Powell’s planned …
The video below shows several soldiers serving under the regime of Tigrean People Liberation Front (Woyanne) surrendering to the brave Somali freedom fighters. It seems that most of the soldiers are from southern Ethiopia who are being made cannon fodders …
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 …
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 …
More than 150 participants from 18 African countries attended the five-day meeting of the 12th Africa Forum which ended in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia on 3 October 2008.
Bringing all stakeholders together and sharing experience was essential to achieve results in …
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 …
Western Michigan University
KALAMAZOO – A longtime faculty member and the advisor to one of Western Michigan University’s major outreach efforts have been named recipients of the University’s 2008-09 Distinguished Service Award.
The award will go to Dr. Sisay Asefa, …
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 …
By Jörg Wenig for the IAAF
Berlin, Germany – In a recent interview in the German press Ethiopia’s Haile Gebrselassie, possibly the best long distance runner ever, reconfirmed his ambition to run in next summer’s World Championship Marathon in Berlin, …
By Aaron C. Davis
Washington Post
Sometime late Wednesday, a man flagged down a cab, ordered the driver, Tekola Bekele, an immigrant from Ethiopia, to a quiet street, shot him in the back of the head, pulled his body to …
By Louisa Taylor, The Ottawa Citizen
The case of a Canadian citizen who has been held in an Ethiopian jail for almost two years — without trial or access to a lawyer — while other foreign prisoners are released is …
By DAVID ESPO , Associated Press
VIDEO
NEW YORK – Presidential candidates John McCain and Barack Obama swapped self-deprecating jokes instead of campaign jabs Thursday night, the Republican saying he had replaced his team of senior advisers with “Joe the …
Ethiopian Proverbs ( ምሳሌዎች)
ሁሉ አማረሽን ገበያ አታውጧት
ከወፈሩ ሰው አይፈሩ
ሲስሟት ቀርቶ ሲስቧት
ቀድሞ ማን ቢስምሽ ታሞጠሙጫለሽ
እግረ ቀጭን ይሞታል ሲሉ እግረ ወፍራም ይቀድማል
ያልታደለ ከንፈር ሳይሳም ያረጃል
በቦሃ ላይ ቆረቆር
የቸገረው እርጉዝ ያገባል፣ የባሰበት እመጫት
የአህያ ስጋ አልጋ …
By Matthew Russell Lee
Inner City Press
UNITED NATIONS – Information about the Horn of Africa flowed Wednesday in the half-light outside the UN Security Council, after an uneventful session about Sudan and Guinea-Bissau. Unprompted, the representative of Saudi Arabia …
By CHRIS LAMBIE, TheChronicleHerald.ca
UNIVERSITY OF HALIFAX, CANADA – Born in an Ethiopian prison, all Elias Mebrate knew by the age of 10 was how to clean the guards’ guns. By 14, he was learning to train his own rifle …
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. …
ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia, 16 October 2008 – Addis Ababa’s Maskal Square came alive in the spirit of handwashing yesterday as 1 million Ethiopian children united to wash their hands with soap and water in celebration of the first-ever Global Handwashing …
By Anthony Anamelechi, Tallahassee.com
QUINCY, FLORIDA – The suspected getaway car used in last week’s shooting of a BP gas station owner in Quincy has been found, said Quincy Police Department Chief Ferman Richardson.
The blue Mercury Grand Marquis was …
ADDIS ABABA, ETHIOPIA – (APA) Ethiopia and a Canadian petroleum company on Thursday signed an agreement in Addis Ababa for the exploration of oil in several locations in the African country.
Ethiopian Ministry of Mines and Energy and …
Ethiopian starlet Tirunesh Dibaba’s hopes of ending the year with the IAAF Female athlete of the year received a boost this week when she was named in the shortlist of ten women up for the awards.
In an extremely productive …
MOSHI, TANZANIA – Dr Asrat Mengiste arrives at the Kilimanjaro Christian Medical Centre in Moshi, Tanzania. It’s 8am, and already 70 patients are lined up for a consultation. In the operating room are 20 local doctors. Dr Mengiste talks them …
MOGADISHU (AFP) — At least 23 people were killed in the Somali capital Mogadishu when insurgents attacked camps housing African Union and Ethiopian Woyanne troops on Thursday, triggering heavy clashes, witnesses and police said.
The insurgents shelled bases housing AU …
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 …
SINGAPORE/TOKYO (Reuters) – Oil fell for a third day on Thursday, plumbing a 13-month low near $72 as commodity investors again rushed for the exit on fears of a collapse in demand growth, with the world economy tilting toward recession.…
By Vaughn Ververs
CBSNews.com senior political editor
“Joe the plumber” achieved sudden national fame in the final presidential debate, but it was John McCain who needed the headlines. Although the Republican nominee was energetic, focused and, at times, emotional in …
Both candidates continue to tinker with their strategies.
By KARL ROVE, The Wall Street Journal
In the campaign’s final two weeks, voters will take a last serious look at both presidential candidates. The outcome of the race isn’t cast in …
UPDATED WITH FINAL RESULTS As in the previous debates, CBS News and Knowledge Networks have conducted a nationally representative poll of uncommitted voters to get their immediate reaction to tonight’s presidential debate.
In the first presidential debate, second …
MEKELLE, TIGRAY (ST) – The President of Tigray Region in northern Ethiopia blames the United Nation Security Council (UNSEC) for failing to carry out its responsibility to “halt Eritrea’s repeated disruptions that crippled the Ethiopia-Eritrea UN peace keeping mission (UNMEE).” …
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 …
By Obang Metho
The Solidarity Movement for a New Ethiopia is a grass-roots, non-political pan-Ethiopian movement whose mission is to establish a viable alliance all dissatisfied groups, irrespective of their ethnic backgrounds, religious affiliations and political tilts, with the common …
(CBS News) – Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama is entering the third and final presidential debate Wednesday with a wide lead over Republican rival John McCain nationally, a new CBS News/New York Times poll shows.
The Obama-Biden ticket …
EDITOR’S NOTE: In the case of Ethiopia, the Woyanne dictatorship is purposely impeding Information Technology development in the country by outlawing private sector ownership of Internet services. The state-run Ethiopian Telecommunication Corporation (ETC) that is the sole provider of Internet …
UNITED NATIONS, Oct. 13 (Xinhua) — UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has transmitted to the Security Council the last report issued by the independent commission on Ethiopia and Eritrea’s common boundary, said the United Nations in a statement Monday.
The report …
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, …
EDITOR’S NOTE: This is a glorious moment for the people of Somalia. A job well done for kicking Woyanne invaders out of your country. Ethiopian Review sends heartfelt congratulations to Somali freedom fights who stood up and fought the Woyanne …
By Steve Bloomfield, Sunday Herald
SOMALIA’S FRAGILE government appears to be on the brink of collapse. Islamist insurgents now controls large parts of southern and central Somalia – and are continuing to launch attacks inside the capital, Mogadishu.
Ethiopia Woyanne, …
By Carl Little, The Washington Post
NEW YORK – Solomon Haile, an immigrant from Ethiopia, won the Manhattan Invitational yesterday in New York and set a course record.
The Sherwood High School senior finished the 2.5-mile course at Van Cortlandt …
NAIROBI, KENYA – Sixty-five illegal migrants from southern Ethiopia were seized by police in a container on a Mombasa-bound truck on Monday evening.
One said they paid Sh15.6 million to agents who promised to help them look for …
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 …
The Woyanne regime in Ethiopia has made an agreement with a retired British colonel to study better ways of training Woyanne thugs (death squads) to control riots. The study was done by Colonel Michael Dewar, who is a former Deputy …
By Sheera Frankel, TIMES ONLINE
JERUSALEM – An unholy dispute over the rights to a rooftop section of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre could bring the entire structure tumbling down, destroying Christendom’s holiest site.
While renovations are needed across …
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 …
VOA News
Peacekeeping units from Jordan, Kenya and other countries began leaving Ethiopia in August. The state-run Ethiopian News Agency Monday said the last batch of peacekeepers, a battalion from India, left the city of Mekele on Sunday.
There was …
ADDIS ABABA, ETHIOPIA – Scholars, policy makers and civil society leaders from within and outside Africa are currently meeting in Addis Ababa in a three-day United Nations-sponsored conference aimed at giving momentum to the fight against corruption …
ADDIS ABABA (AFP) — Ethiopia on Tuesday condemned Human Rights Watch’s call on the country’s lawmakers to reject a draft law that would give government more control in the affairs of foreign aid groups.
The New York-based rights group on …
By Sarah Scire, The GW Hatchet
A man robbed the Foggy Bottom Grocery at gunpoint Friday afternoon and left with more than $500, police and witnesses said.
At about 1:35 p.m., a black male in …
By Abdinasir Moh-Guled
A train accident occurred between Ethiopia and Djibouti, on Sunday, sent several people with non life-threatening injuries, according survivors.
The accident occurred at highway between the two countries.
Officials are currently investigating the crash. At this time, …
EDITOR’S NOTE: The starvation in Ethiopia is caused by the corrupt, brutal dictatorship that spends hundreds of millions of dollars to buy weapons that are used to terrorize the people of Ethiopia and neighboring countries. It should be noted that …
By Wudineh Zenebe, Addis Fortune
ADDIS ABABA, ETHIOPIA – The management of the Ethiopian Airlines (Ethiopian) is in the process of acquiring a state-of-the-art information technology (IT) system, at a budgeted cost of 30 million dollars, reliable sources disclosed to …
NAIROBI, KENYA (APA) – The Kenya police in the Eastern province on Tuesday arrested 65 Ethiopian youths along the Nairobi-Mombasa highway in a suspected human trafficking syndicate, the state owned television, Kenya Broadcasting Corporation (KBC), reported.
The aliens …
PRINCETON, NJ — Voter preferences in the presidential race continue to be generally auspicious for Barack Obama’s election prospects only three weeks ahead of the eve of …
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 …
Ato Sileshi Tilahun, a senior official of the Ethiopian People’s Patriotic Front (EPPF), has arrived in Asmara over the weekend to hold discussions with Ato Meazaw Getu, the chairman, and other leaders of the resistance group. During his two-week stay …
By Andrew Heavens
KHARTOUM (Reuters) – Sudan summoned the Kenyan and Ethiopian Woyanne ambassadors on Monday to protest against what it said were illegal shipments of arms to its semi-autonomous south, state media reported.
Khartoum was protesting over “violations” linked …