This is a good example for the Ethiopian opposition to establish bases in neighboring countries, such as those that are friendly, namely Eritrea.
Botswana’s foreign minister has suggested on Wednesday that his country would be prepared to allow MDC leader …
Llodio, Spain – Ethiopia’s Tariku Bekele and Kenya’s Linet Masai captured top spots in style at the 25th ‘Cross Internacional Valle de Llodio’ held today (30) on a cold and rainy day for weather.
In doing so, Bekele became the …
By Helen Nyambura-Mwaura
NAIROBI (Reuters) – Ethiopia’s Ogaden National Liberation Front (ONLF) rebel movement has slammed a government [Woyanne regime’s] investigation refuting claims of war crimes against the people of a marginalized eastern region it operates in.
Ethiopian authorities Woyanne …
Ethiopian Television Network’s (ETN) interview with Ethiopian Review publisher Elias Kifle will be rebroadcast today, Monday, at 6:55 PM Washington DC time. Part II will run at 10:45 PM. Click here to watch.…
By Abdurrahman Warsameh
MOGADISHU (Xinhua) — With Ethiopian Woyanne regime’s announcement of withdrawing its troops from Somalia by the end of the year, as well as the signing and culmination of the Djibouti peace and power-sharing agreements between the Somali …
MELBOURNE – Peerless Ethiopian runner Haile Gebrselassie defied a serious case of jetlag to claim a commanding victory in the inaugural Great Australian Run on Sunday.
The two-time Olympic 10,000m champion and reigning marathon world record holder arrived in Melbourne …
AFP never reports about murders, corruption and other crimes by the Woyane regime in Ethiopia for fear of being expelled from the country. So this major international news organization has relegated itself to reporting local stories such as wild animals …
An Ethiopian resident of the Marsa Open Centre was jailed for 10 months yesterday after he was found guilty of trafficking in and possessing cannabis resin and escaping from custody.
The court, presided over by magistrate Lawrence Quintano, heard how …
BBC – All Ethiopian Woyanne troops will leave Somalia by the end of the year, a foreign ministry spokesman has announced.
Ethiopia Woyanne sent thousands of soldiers into Somalia two years ago to help government forces oust Islamists from the …
PRESS RELEASE
Ginbot 7 Movement for Freedom and Justice rejects the claim made by the regime in Ethiopia that no war crime took place in the Ogaden region.
On June 11 this year, the Human Rights Watch (HRW) had issued …
Ethiopian Olympic 5,000 and 10,000 metre champion Kenenisa Bekele could be out for up to four months with a stress fracture.
At the Beijing Olympic Games, the 26-year old became only the fourth man to win a Olympic distance double.…
Ethiopia Zare reports that the Unity for Democracy and Justice Party (UDJ) has been prevented from printing fliers that announce a public meeting scheduled to be held in Addis Ababa on December 6.
UDJ is a party that is daydreaming …
Sydney, Australia – Ethiopian running maestro Haile Gebrselassie could capture his 27th world record at the inaugural HBA Great Australian Run in Melbourne, organizers said Saturday.
Sunday’s 15-kilometre race around the streets of Australia’s second-biggest city is his first outing …
By Thembi Mutch
The phone call from a mobile in Ethiopia was vague: did I have resilience, a sense of humour, journalism experience? I was in my English garden at the time, and getting a phone call from the UN …
By Jason McLure
Ethiopia, Africa’s biggest coffee producer, has halted daily auctions and will begin trading the beans on the national commodity bourse from Dec. 2 to reduce fraud and help reassure buyers of quality.
The Ethiopia Commodity Exchange, which …
By Yilma Bekele
“Damn the torpedoes! Full speed ahead!” was the order given by the first American Admiral, Admir. David Glasgow Farragut at the Battle of Mobile Bay. The entrance to the Bay was heavily guarded when he ordered his …
By ABE SELIG | Jerusalem Post
Singing, dancing and reveling in the fulfillment of years spent yearning for a return to Jerusalem, thousands of Ethiopians from all over the country descended on the capital’s Haas promenade in Armon Hanatziv Thursday …
Ogaden Online Editorial
Back in June 2008 this year, the internationally recognized human rights organization known as the Human Rights Watch (HRW) published the most detailed, first hand account of the type of atrocities and genocide carried out by the …
CNN’s list of the 2008 top 10 U.S. political turkeys gave us an idea to prepare our own list of Ethiopian political turkeys.
10. Beyene Petros – has always been a turkey, not just this year.
9. Lidetu Ayalew – …
Ethiopian Television Network (ETN) will host a debate/discussion between Ethiopian Review publisher Elias Kifle and Mebt Radio host Meshesha Biru on Nov. 29, 2008.
According to Ato Gizaw Legesse, the program host, the main topic of the discussion …
Genet Asrat, owner of Albo African Gift Shop
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By ISABEL ESTERMAN
OAKLAND, CALIFORNIA – Inside Oakland’s Albo African Gift shop, at the corner of Alcatraz and Telegraph, a deep herbal aroma wafts from a row of colorful bottles labeled ‘frankincense.’ …
ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia (Reuters) – Ethiopia’s dictatorial regime said on Wednesday a government-Woyanne-funded probe had found no evidence to support reports by a rights group that its military committed war crimes during a campaign against rebels in the eastern …
By Tamiru L. Obole |Jimma Times
NORTH SHEWA – The unseasonable rain of last September, October and early November has damaged much of the harvest in the rural part of North Shewa of Oromya and Amhara regional states.
Leguminous …
MEKELLE (IRIN) – The humanitarian situation in the drought-affected north and north-eastern Ethiopia continues to deteriorate as severe drought bites.
“Rainfall in October, which was unexpected, was not of great help to the crops that were planted in May; only …
ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia – A three-day workshop organized by IOM, the Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD) and the African Union Commission (AUC) on border management and irregular migration in the IGAD region opens on 26 November in Nairobi, Kenya.
The …
By Liam Horan | Mayo News
MAYO, IRELAND – MONEY raised by a Crossmolina farmer in Ireland will be used to expand a new credit union-style organisation in rural Ethiopia – and Anthony Walshe says the cash will ‘go a …
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia – International Finance Corporation (IFC), which is member of the World Bank Group, opens office in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, to increase its activity in support of Ethiopia’s development. [World Bank is one of the main causes of …
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (WIC) – Unity University, the first private university in Ethiopia has become the 16th MIDROC Ethiopia sister company as of November 21, 2008. [In other words, Midroc’s owner, Ato Mohammed Al Amoudi, has bought the university.]
MIDROC …
ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia – The dictatorial regime in Ethiopia released today 44 members of the rebel Oromo Liberation Front (OLF). The decision was recommended by the by the ministry of justice, it was announced today.
The Ethiopian President Woyanne puppet …
USDA’s Office of Global Analysis (OGA) of the Foreign Agricultural Service (FAS) performed a mid-season crop assessment and spatial model validation survey in Ethiopia from October 8-17, 2008, with personnel from USAID’s FEWS-NET project, the United Nation’s Word Food Program …
Defense Secretary Robert Gates will keep the top Pentagon job for at least the first year of the Obama administration, FOX News has learned.
There was very strong support for Gates among Democrats, said one Democratic source in the Senate …
The report in this video by UK’s Channel 4 TV is about the devastating Woyanne-Eritrea war of 1998-2000 in which Woyanne tribal warlords Meles Zenawi and Seye Abraha carelessly and recklessly sacrificed over 100,000 young Ethiopians to liberate a small …
By Seid Hassan
Many observers, including those members of the Diaspora community who visit their homeland, Ethiopia, have observed that the level of corruption in Ethiopia is so unprecedented that it defies common sense. The outright theft that is going …
By Malik Abass Daabu
Ghana has been adjudged the second best country in Africa in terms of press freedom.
The country has been ranked second on only to Namibia on the continent by an international group of journalists – Journalists …
By Christopher Hitchens | Slate
It was apt in a small way that the first endorser of Hillary Rodham Clinton for secretary of state should have been Henry Kissinger. The last time he was nominated for any position of responsibility—the …
ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia – Some of Ireland’s top lawyers have swapped their wigs for teaching hats on a trip to Ethiopia.
Former Ireland Attorney General Harry Whelehan and ten colleagues hope to change the war-torn country’s legal system through a …
By Wudineh Zenebe | Addis Fortune
ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia – After 60 years of presence in the country, Shell Ethiopia has totally moved out of the Ethiopian market as of November 14, 2008, after Libya Oil Holding Ltd (OiLibya) finalized …
RAFAH, Egypt (Reuters) – Egyptian police shot dead an unidentified African migrant on the border with Israel on Monday as he tried to enter the Jewish state illegally, a security official said.
A police patrol spotted the man near the …
A company is introducing a new project that will produce cartoon shows for Ethiopian children and seeks the participation of local artists. The following is taken from the project’s web site:
Abctoon is a fresh new animation project to promote …
JERUSALEM – Two Israeli jet fighters were deployed when an Ethiopian airliner failed to identify itself as it entered Israeli airspace today, and escorted the plane to the main international airport, media reported.
The civilian aircraft, carrying some 200 passengers, …
ADDIS ABABA, ETHIOPIA – Special police forces surprised two villages in southwestern Ethiopia on Friday as the inhabitants slept, launching an attack that burned all the houses, killed nine civilians and wounded 23 others, said an official in Gambella region …
By Andrew Geoghegan | ABC Australia
TONY EASTLEY: Almost a quarter of a century after Ethiopia’s last major famine the country is again in deep trouble.
The failure of recent harvests and rising food prices have left eight million people …
Ethiopian Review’s List of Top 10 Things President Barack Obama should do during his first 100 days in office
1. Give the genocidal regime in Ethiopia 6 months to release all political prisoners, lift all restrictions on the press, allow …
By Michealene Cristini Risley
Behind the stench of flowing sewage and the smell of disease is a country that is beyond collapse. Yet, nowhere are there more signs of bustling activity than the countries graveyards. On a bright day, in …
Ashenafi Chote, of the Wolaytta district south of Addis Ababa, says that he regrets converting his land from food crops to caster seeds for biodiesel. He is now dependent on Food Aid and can no longer generate …
By BASHIR ADIGUN
ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — MTV launched its first-ever music award program for Africa on Saturday, with acts from across the world’s poorest continent nominated for prizes in the Nigerian capital.
Nigerian singer D’banj won the artist of …
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Just past 1 km into the 1st stage. (Video: Brett Larner)
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By Brett Larner
An Ethiopian team comprised mostly of teenagers outside their home country for the first time defeated defending champion Japan to win the 2008 International Chiba Ekiden …
KHARTOUM, Sudan: The secretary general of a Sudanese opposition party was killed in a car crash Saturday on a highway outside the capital, dealing a blow to the party as it prepares for elections expected next year.
Abdel Nabi Ahmed, …
The Ethiopian People Patriotic Front (EPPF) has launched a new web site, eppfonline.org, on Sunday, Nov. 23. The official launching of the web site was announced by the organizational affairs head of EPPF’s International Committee, Ato Sileshi Tilahun, in …
By Gurraacho Silgaa
Ali Bira and Kemer Yousuf need no introduction to Oromo communities around the world. Living in exile for over two decades, they have both been compared to Maria Makeba of South Africa for stirring hopes of freedom …
By RUADHÁN Mac CORMAIC | Irish Times
A TRADE mission of 40 Irish lawyers and business people left for Ethiopia yesterday to develop links between the two countries and encourage investment in the African state.
The delegation is travelling as …
By Alemayehu G. Mariam
Best Hope of Earth
In the first American Revolution, Thomas Jefferson declared to a “candid world” that “when in the Course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which …
A native of Ethiopia gets $305k verdict against Maryland Transportation Authority
By Brendan Kearney | Daily Record
BALTIMORE, MARYLAND – A Baltimore jury has awarded $305,000 to a former Baltimore-Washington International Airport (BWI) taxi driver who was arrested — and …
By Tesfa-Alem Tekle | Sudan Tribune
ADDIS ABEBA, ETHIOPIA – A mediation team said that the government of Woyanne regime Ethiopia has agreed to hold talks with the rebel Oromo Liberation Front (OLF) without any pre-conditions.
In January, a group …
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By PETER BAKER and HELENE COOPER | The New York Times
WASHINGTON — Hillary Rodham Clinton has decided to give up her Senate seat to become secretary of state in the Obama administration, making her the public face to the …
ADDIS ABABA, ETHIOPIA – Over 32,000 residents of Addis Ababa took part in the 8th Annual Great Ethiopian Run today.
The 10,000 meter road race is organized by Ethiopia’s long distance legend Haile Gebreselassie in partnership with Toyota.
Chala Dechasa …
By Andrew Johnson | The Independent
LONDON, UK – Ethiopia’s tribal junta is demanding that Britain’s museums return some of its most significant religious treasures. President Puppet Girma Wolde-Giorgis has personally intervened in a dispute to get the artifacts, including …
By Jonathan Stevenson | The New Republic
Somalia, a genuine failed state, ranks alongside Sudan as the world’s most conspicuous candidate for American attention in the early days of Barack Obama’s administration. Last week, capping a series of territorial gains …
MALTA- Ismael Obassa Husseina, a 26-year-old Ethiopian resident at Marsa open centre, was arraigned before Magistrate Myriam Hayman this evening and accused of resisting the police, slightly injuring a police constable, damaging a car belonging to a resident of Marsa …
By Marjorie Kehe | CS Monitor
CNN has chosen Gebregeorgis Yohannes as one of its heroes (picked as one of 10 out of 10,000 nominations) and it was an excellent choice. Yohannes has devoted himself for much of the past …
The following is a war propaganda video just released by the Woyanne regime in Ethiopia. Despite what the video tries to portray, first of all, there is no Ethiopian army under the Woyanne regime. It is a Woyanne army that …
SOUTH AFRICA: Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter says he and others have been refused entry to Zimbabwe for a humanitarian mission.
Carter says he and other members of The Elders group were informed Friday night by former South African President …
GENEVA – More than three-quarters of AIDS-related deaths occur in sub- Saharan Africa and South Africa is now officially the country with the highest prevalence of HIV in the world, a new UN report said Wednesday.
Improved monitoring of the …
Forbes magazine has declared Beyonce Knowles and hubby Jay-Z as Hollywood’s Top-Earning Couple, with a total earnings of 162 million dollars between June 1, 2007 and June 1, 2008, defeating star couple Will Smith and his actress wife Jada Pinkett …
By Jenny Hontz | Harper’s Bazaar
Ethiopian-born designer Gelila Assefa sips champagne in the kitchen of her Beverly Hills home, wearing a flowing leopard-print James Galanos gown, while her fiancé, celebrity chef Wolfgang Puck, fries up some steaks. Suddenly, flames …
Rolling Stone magazine should have written the title as “The 100 Greatest American Singers of All Time” since over 90 percent of those in the list are Americans. The magazine’s editors must also have been high on some thing when …
By Elshadai Negash
Many foreigners who have come to the Ethiopian capital Addis Ababa and taken part in various road races including the Great Ethiopian Run, an annual international 10km road race, will tell you that it is not just …
By Tedla Asfaw
Dear John Goddard (reporter for the Toronto Star newspaper)
Who does not want to go home after twenty four years to visit a 100-year old father and 70-year old mother? I myself have been out of Ethiopia …
CAIRO, EGYPT (AFP) – EGYPTIAN police have rounded up hundreds of teenage boys in Cairo in a day-long crackdown on sexual harassment.
“We have arrested a large number of boys who were flirting with girls,” Cairo’s police director Faruq Lashin …
Ato GebreMedhin (formerly Aba Paulos), the Woyanne cadre who is posing as patriarch of the Ethiopian Orthodox Church, is coming to Washington DC in the next few days, according to Ethiopian Review Intelligence Unit sources.
The gun-toting fake patriarch is …
By Javier Blas | Financial Times
Daewoo Logistics of South Korea has secured farmland in Madagascar to grow food crops for Seoul, in a deal that diplomats and consultants said was the largest of its kind.
The company said it …
By John Goddard | Toronto Star
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VIDEO: One of Kemer Yousuf’s latest songs that have made him popular. Nice music, but poor video and terrible choreography
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TORONTO, CANADA – Kemer Yousef, who escaped Ethiopia on foot with nothing 24 years …
KIGALI, RWANDA (AFP) — Rwanda is poised to issue indictments and arrest warrants against 23 French military and political officials over their suspected role in the country’s 1994 genocide, judicial sources said Tuesday.
Indictments against France’s late president Francois Mitterrand …
By FX TRADER
We have all read about the recent strong performance of the US dollar and the Japanese Yen on Forex exchanges. Forex traders and investors are flocking to these two currencies to avid risk in volatile Forex markets. …
As part of a growing protest against state censorship ten Sudanese newspapers suspended publication on Tuesday, journalists said.
Sudanese reporters said it was the biggest voluntary shut down of the media since the days of British rule in the 1950s.…
TADJOURA, Djibouti – In hundreds of military training programs from the Sahara to the Seychelles, the U.S. is quietly bolstering Africa’s ragtag armies to fight extremism so the Pentagon won’t have to.
Some experts have taken to calling this strategy …
Lakuka and her children, Afar, Ethiopia. (Photo: Jane Beesley)
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By Jane Beesley | Oxfam
AFAR, ETHIOPIA – Worsening drought and high food prices are pushing many families in Ethiopia to the brink. Humanitarian Communications Officer Jane Beesley reports.
Afar, close …
JUBA, Sudan (AFP) — The European Union is ready to bankroll Sudan’s electoral commission, which is tasked with preparing landmark polls laid out in a scheduled democratic transformation, a diplomat said Tuesday.
“The EU is ready to give full support …
China on Tuesday defended its presence and investments in the Democratic Republic of Congo after a rebel leader there demanded commercial contracts between the two nations be reviewed.
“China’s business activities and investment programmes in DR Congo are based on …
By E. J. Dionne
WASHINGTON — While the nation’s capital obsesses over who will be the next pick for Barack Obama’s Cabinet, the president-elect’s lieutenants are engaged with what may be a more important long-term issue: What will become of …
Ethiopia’s superstar musician Teddy Afro continues to languish in jail. His crime is caring for his country. The fascist dictatorship in Ethiopia was threatened by that, so they fabricated false charges and threw him in a dark prison cell.
The …
EDITOR’S NOTE: ER begs to disagree with Joe’s view below about Aregawi Amare’s predicaments, but let’s see what readers think.
By Joe Michael
The authoritarian Ethiopian ruling party, Ethiopian Peoples Revolutionary Democratic Front (EPRDF) loyalists have turned their backs on …
Q400 Nextgen Airliner sold to Ethiopian Airlines
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TORONTO, ONTARIO – Bombardier Aerospace announced today that Ethiopian Airlines has signed a contract to purchase eight Q400 NextGen turboprop airliners, and has taken options on four additional Q400 NextGen aircraft. Including this …
DebreTsion is in charge of the Ethiopian Information & Communicatiion Technology Development Agency, but his main job is to block most Ethiopians from having access to information.
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The Meles dictatorship in Ethiopia has jammed a radio program that was being …
U.S. Embassy, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
United States Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Implements New Pre-Travel Authorization for U.S.-Bound Travelers from Visa Waiver Countries
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security has added seven countries to its Visa Waiver Program (VWP), and …
By Jason Horowitz | The New York Observer
Why, if you’re Barack Obama, would you choose Hillary Clinton to be your secretary of state?
Yes, since it was first reported last week that the two had met to discuss the …
See more photos of Gondar at Ethiopian Multimedia Gallery (click here)
Gondar or Gonder (Ge’ez: ጎንደር Gōnder, older ጐንደር Gʷandar, modern pronunciation Gʷender) is a city in northern Ethiopia, which was once the old …
ADDIS ABABA, ETHIOPIA – Extraordinary circumstances often bring out the best in ordinary people. Take, a businesswoman from the American west. Becky didn’t plan to become an angel to women suffering from a horrible condition in a far off African …
ADDIS ABABA, ETHIOPIA–After an incredibly uplifting morning observing a meeting of young African social entrepreneurs, I caught up with the Danish Minister for Development Ulla Tomaes who was touring a number of innovative economic development projects here. We stopped at …
By John Goddard | Toronto Star
Kemer Yousef
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TORONTO, CANADA – Kemer Yousef, who escaped Ethiopia on foot with nothing 24 years ago, has scored an unprecedented video hit with Nabek, a seven-track DVD showing him singing from a …
ALBUQUERQUE, NEW MEXICO – Tobyn Pulice, a 9-year-old third-grader, never expected to get a visit from someone half way around the world.
But Wednesday, an Ethiopian man with a special mission made an appearance at Georgia O’Keeffe Elementary School.
Yohannes …
Chief Executive Officer, Ethiopian Airlines, Mr Girma Wake, has said increase in air accidents in Africa and the dangerous situation experienced by pilots due to poor navigational facilities have made the continent the graveyard of aviation in the world, thus …
NIGERIA – The productive capacity of the sector is so low to the extent that about 90 per cent of textiles fabric needs of the country is being fed through importation.
As year 2005, the contribution of the industry to …
Gondar or Gonder is a city in northern Ethiopia, which was once the old imperial capital and capital of the historic Begemder province. As a result, the old province of Begemder is sometimes referred to as Gondar.
Located in the …
Dear Friends of Ethiopia Reads,
It is my great honor to be named a CNN Hero of the Year, especially among such a wonderful group of people working hard to make a difference in the world. This nomination has …
By Bassma Al Jandaly | GulfNews.com
SHARJAH, ABU DHABI – Tsegaye Wolde Asfaw did not enter the country illegally, nor did he abscond from his sponsor.
Yet, for the past three years, the 32-year-old Ethiopian has been counting his days …
Reigning Olympic bronze medalist Tsegaye Kebede, and former Chicago and London Marathon champion Felix Limo lead the list of international entrants for the 62nd Fukuoka Marathon on Sunday, December 7. Reigning Fukuoka champion and course record holder, and Olympic marathon …
EDITOR’S NOTE: This is done to eliminate the competition against Woyanne currency dealers, not to enforce the law. Foreign currency exchange is one of the businesses that the ruling party wants to monopolize.
ADDIS ABABA, ETHIOPIA (APA) – The Ethiopian …