By Jake Tapper, ABC News’ Senior White House Correspondent
The White House had no comment Saturday on the arrest in Kenya of President Barack Obama’s half-brother George for possession of marijuana and resisting arrest.
President Obama barely knows George, 26, …
Influential Ethiopian composer and musician Mulatu Astatke will be backed by a 15-piece orchestra during a special performance on Sunday, February 1 at the Harriet and Charles Luckman Fine Arts Complex in Los Angeles. Known for combining Ethiopian music with …
ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia (AP) — The African Union urged the International Criminal Court Friday to suspend its indictment of Sudan’s president on genocide charges, saying it could jeopardize any peace process in Darfur.
The court’s chief prosecutor has accused Omar …
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (AFP) – The European Union has given Ethiopia’s dictatorship €251m (US$329 million) in aid to boost development projects across the Horn of Africa nation, the government said on Friday.
The agreement was signed on Thursday by the …
By ELIAS MAKORI | Daily Nation
The world marathon record can sink as low as one hour and 58 minutes, the fastest human being over 42-kilometres, Haile Gebrselassie, has predicted.
But the Ethiopian legend, who has been in Nairobi since …
The puppet president of the Oromiya Region of Ethiopia, Ato Aba Dula Gemeda, earlier this month donated his huge villa to his party, the Oromo People’s Democratic Organizaton (OPDO). (Read here) The following excerpt from Tesfaye Gebreab‘s just …
By Peter Heinlein | VOA
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia — The Intergovernmental Authority on Development, or IGAD, a regional grouping of six East African nations, has condemned the attempt by Islamist extremists to retake control of Somalia, following the withdrawal of …
The Unity for Democracy and Justice Party (UDJ) leaders and members held a protest rally in Ethiopia’s capital Addis Ababa demanding the release of their leader Wzr. Birtukan Mideksa.
The demonstration took place in the form of a candle light …
By Peter Clothier | Huffington Post
It is not often, these days, that I walk into an exhibition space and feel those familiar symptoms–the heart beating harder, faster, the head spinning with awe, the blood running through the veins–by which …
By MOHAMED OLAD HASSAN
MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) — Somali insurgent group Al-Shabab seized the seat of the Somali parliament and said Tuesday that it will establish sharia law in the city.
Al-Shabab took over Baidoa late Monday, a day after …
A new book by Ethiopian author and journalist Tesfaye Gebre-Ab entitled “The Journalist’s Memoir” is creating a huge political wave already. So far the book is available only in Europe and it will hit Ethiopian markets in the U.S. around …
Wolfgang Puck and Ethiopian wife Gelila Assefa arrive for the 80th Annual Academy Awards at the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood, California on February 24, 2008. (UPI Photo/Terry Schmitt)
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BEVERLY HILLS, California (UPI) — Wolfgang Puck has been tapped to …
ADDIS ABABA, ETHIOPIA – The fake patriarch of Ethiopia’s Orthodox Tewahdo Church, Ato GebreMedhin (formerly Aba Paulos), for the first time since he was appointed by Meles Zenawi as the puppet head of the Church, spoke out against the Woyanne …
By Alemayehu G. Mariam
History has two sides. A right and a wrong side. Barack Obama is on the right side of history. He is on the right side of history because he was elected rightfully by the American people …
ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia (Xinhua) — The 17th Ordinary Session of the Permanent Representatives Committee (PRC) of the African Union (AU) kicks off here on Monday, making preparation for a series of following AU meetings.
Jean Ping, Chairperson of the AU …
Barack Obama has a unique opportunity to bring something resembling stability to Africa’s Horn.
By Scott Johnson | NEWSWEEK
As a state, Somalia has racked up more failures than any other on the planet. So said Susan Rice, soon to …
By Fikre Tolossa
People often wonder whether the concept of prime ministry and presidency of the present government of Ethiopia was modeled after the structure of West European governments with their active and too powerful chancellors/prime ministers (the heads of …
By R. Jeffrey Smith, Candace Rondeaux and Joby Warrick | Washington Post
Two remote U.S. missile strikes that killed at least 20 people at suspected terrorist hideouts in northwestern Pakistan yesterday offered the first tangible sign of President Obama’s commitment …
By Yilma Bekele
‘To those who cling to power through corruption and deceit and the silencing of dissent, know that you are on the wrong side of history; but that we will extend a hand if you are willing to …
BAHRAIN – AN Ethiopian housemaid was found dead hanging from a ceiling fan yesterday, reports SARA SAMI.
Her sponsor found her body when he returned to his home in Hamad Town after work.
“The sponsor and his wife were said …
ADDIS ABABA, ETHIOPIA – On Tuesday this week, construction workers have accidentally discovered mass graves inside the notorious Central Investigation’s (Maekelawi) detention center that is located behind the Addis Ababa Police Commission.
The Addis Ababa Police Commission’s headquarters is being …
By John Prendergast and John Norris | EnoughProject.org
Reframing the Overall Approach to U.S. Relations with Africa
The Obama administration has an opportunity to fundamentally remake U.S. relations with Africa during its tenure, and a …
The following are excerpts from Tesfaye Gebre-Ab’s recently published book, “Journalist’s Memoir.” The book is an explosive expose of Ethiopia’s ruling party, the Tigray People Liberation Front (TPLF). The excerpts below [posted here with the author’s permission] shed …
Tigray People Democratic Movement (TPDM) killed 294 Woyanne troops in the Tigray region earlier this month. Watch the video report below:
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Tesfaye Gebre-Ab, an Ethiopian journalist and former high-level official with an intimate knowledge of the ruling Tigray People Liberation Front’s inner workings, has just written an explosive book entitled “The Journalist’s Memoir” that lays bare a great deal …
American freedom is being protected with such impressive firepower. Our knucklehead opposition politicians, on the other hand, tell us we can save Ethiopia by being nice to the Woyanne fascist regime.
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By JAY WINIK | The Wall Street Journal
Now that the grandeur of the inauguration is over, this morning is President Barack Obama’s first in the Oval Office, and the hard work of governing finally begins. More than any president …
By James Butty | VOA
ADDIS ABABA, ETHIOPIA – A senior Ethiopian Woyanne regime official says his government has a responsibility to maintain law and order and would not be swayed by outside criticism. The official, Bereket Simon, an advisor …
…To those who cling to power through corruption and deceit and the silencing of dissent, know that you are on the wrong side of history; but that we will extend a hand if you are willing to unclench your fist.
By Alemayehu G. Mariam
It is time to close ranks against an arrogant and abusive dictatorship in Ethiopia! It is time for all Ethiopians in the Diaspora to come together and stand up against Evil. As the old saying goes, …
The former president of Ethiopia’s western region of Benishangul-Gumuz, Ato Yaregal Aysheshum, has changed his story about defecting and now he claims that he is in Canada for medical treatment. Click here to listen:
[podcast]http://www.ethiopianreview.info/audio/yaregal_ayshesum_jan2009b.mp3[/podcast]
On January 17, Ethiopian Review …
By Sun Media
WINNIPEG, CANADA – Police have indentified the woman killed on Balmoral Street this weekend and charged a man with murder for her death.
Police say the incident was reported as a domestic disturbance around 3:50 a.m. Sunday …
HOUSTON — Ethiopia’s Deriba Merga broke the 20-year-old Chevron Houston Marathon course record by more than two minutes en route to winning the 37th annual race with the fastest marathon run in Texas.
Aided in the early stages of the …
INDONESIA (Reuters) – Obama’s popularity has really spread around the world. Everything from streets, hotels, and even people are being named after the newly elected President of the United States.
For one photographer in Indonesia, it is not the name …
By Josh Meyer | Los Angeles Times
Reporting from Washington — As the multitudes arrive for the historic inauguration of Barack Obama, the most high-tech security bubble ever created is in place to protect the incoming president from any foreseeable …
YEMEN (AP) – Hundreds of people are missing and feared dead after boats carrying about 400 African migrants capsized near Yemen on Saturday, the UN says.
At least a dozen bodies have washed ashore in Yemen, said Laila Nassif, who …
U.S. Senators Russell D.Feingold, Johnny Isakson, Patrick J. Leahy, and Richard J. Durbin wrote the following letter to Ethiopia’s dictator Meles Zenawi [pdf]:
Dear Mr. Prime Minister,
We write to express our concern about several recent developments in …
President of Ethiopia’s Benishangul-Gumuz region, Ato Yaregal Aysheshum, has defected and joined the opposition camp earlier this month.
The Ethiopian Review Intelligence Unit has learned that Ato Yaregal had sought political asylum in an east African country, and when his …
By MARCIA VANDERLIP | Columbia Tribune
CULUMBIA, MISSOURI – You can learn a lot about a person’s culture by exploring her pantry. I didn’t know anything about teff, for example, until my Eritrean friend Akbaret Hailu Hagos invited me into …
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) – Haile Gebrselassie easily won the Dubai Marathon on Friday, but said steady rain throughout the race hampered his bid to claim the $1 million bonus on offer for breaking his own world record.
Gebrselassie …
By Elias Kifle
Supporters of Meles Zenawi’s dictatorship in Ethiopia are losing it. They know their end is coming soon and they are desperate. Just listen to the kind of death threats they continue to make against Ethiopian Review. Listen …
In its January 2009 report, Human Rights Watch accuses Meles Zenawi’s regime in Ethiopia of war crimes and assault on civil society:
…The Ethiopian government’s human rights record remains poor, marked by an ever-hardening intolerance towards meaningful political dissent or
By Afrik.com
Ethiopian Prime Minister dictator Meles Zenawi said Thursday he was to discuss a peaceful end to the cold war with the Eritrean government, if Asmara feels a need to discuss a peace.
“We are not uncomfortable with the …
By Tedla Asfaw
Ato Seye Abraha, former defense minister of Ethiopia under the regime of Tigrean People Liberation Front (Woyanne), has been active since he has been released from jail few years ago. He came out in public on VOA …
The Ethiopian People’s Patriotic Front (EPPF) is taking root among Ethiopians in the Diaspora. This week alone, two EPPF chapters were launched — in Norway and Washington DC.
Currently EPPF chapters are being formed in several cities, including Dallas, Toronto, …
ADDIS ABABA, ETHIOPIA (Reuters) – An apparently accidental hand-grenade explosion wounded 33 people, nine seriously, on Thursday at the central bus station in the Ethiopian capital Addis Ababa, police said.
“This does not appear to be a terrorist attack. It …
MOGADISHU (Reuters) – Ethiopian Woyanne invaders withdrew completely from Mogadishu Thursday [after a humiliating defeat at the hands of Somali patriotic forces], witnesses and a local government official said.
“I confirm that there are no Ethiopian Woyanne soldiers in the …
MOGADISHU (Reuters) – Somali insurgents fired mortars at Mogadishu’s presidential palace and ambushed departing Ethiopian Woyanne soldiers on Wednesday, underlining fears of more bloodshed in Somalia after the Ethiopian regime’s pullout. Witnesses said security forces including African Union (AU) peacekeepers …
Ethiopians residing in the Washington DC area held a protest rally in front of the State Department today demanding freedom for political prisoners, including Teddy Afro, Birtukan Mideksa, Bekele Jirata and thousands of others who are languishing in Woyanne jails.…
An Open Letter to Martin Luther King
Walk with me down memory lane. The time: 1968. In 30 months, one million dead. The setting: a dusty camp in Biafra where survivors waited and hoped for peace. The …
By Muluken Yewondwossen | Capital Ethiopia
ADDIS ABABA, ETHIOPIA – The former residence of the first post-imperial acting head of state of Ethiopia, General Aman Mikael Andom, was partially demolished on Tuesday, January 6, 2009, in an Addis Ababa City …
By Pawlos Belete and Amanyehun Redda | ADDIS FORTUNE
Duguma Hunde, a prominent Ethiopian businessman who founded DH Geda Industrial Business Group, passed away of sudden natural causes, around midnight last Friday, January 09, 2008. Duguma was immediately taken to …
By Yilma Bekele
You break into the Bank of England via computer,
then transfer the money electronically
just seconds before you set off the GoldenEye,
which erases any record of the transactions.
– Ingenious.
– Thank you, James.
But it …
By Andualem Sisay | AfricaNews
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia – Turkey is now planning to join the mining and energy development sector of Ethiopia after years of investing in the textile sector.
Last week, a Turkish business delegation led by Turkish …
Woyanne fascist regime’s head of the its invading army, General Gabre Yohannes Abate, known as “The Butcher of Mogadishu.” This monster has slaughtered 16,000 Somali civilians in the past 2 years, and made 2 million Somalis homeless. His troops beheaded |
The Washington DC Metropolitan Area chapter of Ethiopian People’s Patriotic Front (EPPF) has been officially launched on January 11, 2009.
While getting itself organized, the chapter has already made substantial contributions to the Front to be used for humanitarian needs, …
By Catholic Information Service for Africa
Ethiopia has sunk deeper into despotism after it passed a law that restricts the work of independent human rights defenders and civil society organizations.
Two international human rights organizations, Amnesty International and Human Rights …
SANA’A, Yemen (Saba) – Yemeni authorities have arrested 15 illegal Ethiopian immigrants, seven of them were arrested at the Yemeni-Omani border and eight other, including three women were arrested at Taiz’s coast while trying to enter the country …
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (U.S. Embassy) – Minister of Trade and Industry Girma Birru and U.S. Ambassador to Ethiopia Donald Yamamoto today joined the board of the newly established American Chamber of Commerce in Ethiopia for the organization’s official launch. The …
The Ethiopian People Patriotic Front (EPPF) issued a statement denouncing the imprisonment of UDJ chairperson Birtukan Mideksa and called on Ethiopians around the world to fight for her release.
EPPF also condemned the continued detention of all political prisoners, including …
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia – Meto Aleqa (Lieutenant) Alemayehu Yeneneh, a national council member of the Unity for Democracy and Justice Party (UDJ), has died today after suffering stroke.
Following the May 2005 elections, Lt. Alemayehu, who had worked as southern …
Ethiopia’s ex-prime minister Tamrat Layne repents at a church in Addis Ababa.
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By Peter Heinlein | VOA
ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia – The leader of Ethiopia’s Unity for Democracy and Justice Party, Birtukan Mideksa, who was imprisoned for life last month after a dispute with the government, has ended a hunger strike and …
By SCOTT GOLDSTEIN | The Dallas Morning News
DALLAS, TEXAS – Behind the cash register at Don’s Food store, a heavy-set 60-year-old convicted felon named James minded the shop on a recent afternoon, his mere presence capturing what slain shopkeeper …
Washington, DC – Congressman Donald M. Payne, Chairman of the Subcommittee on Africa and Global Health, issued the following statement January 9, 2009:
“I am concerned over the continued targeting and imprisonment of innocent civilians by the Ethiopian government.
Ms. …
An Ethiopian Boeing 757 airliner made an emergency landing at Malta International Airport this morning after one of its two engines failed, sources said.
The Boeing 757 was on a flight from Addis Ababa to Rome Fiumicino when it declared …
By Jack Broom | The Seattle Times
A lot of people would have given up by now. Many would have surrendered to the hassles of coordinating a project 11 time zones from home, or been choked by the red tape …
EDITOR’S NOTE: U.S. investors don’t need to tell us that. The plan to break up Ethiopia into 9 small countries has been in the works for a while. It is clearly stated in TPLF’s manifesto that calls for the creation …
By Messay Kebede
In sharing my reflections and comments on Seye’s article, posted on to the website Ethiomedia, my main purpose is to open up a debate on the course of action that opposition forces need to take in …
By David Landes | TheLocal
Ethiopian-born Swedish chef Marcus Samuelsson, founder of New York’s acclaimed Aquavit restaurant, is among those being tipped as possible candidates to prepare meals for Barack Obama at the White House.
In an interview with the …
(AFP) – Sweden’s government on Friday expressed deep concern over the arrest of an Ethiopian opposition leader last week after her pardon from a life sentence was revoked.
Authorities arrested and sentenced Birtukan Midekssa, the head of the Unity for …
Duguma Hundie, the owner of DH Gheda Industries and one of the richest businessmen in Ethiopia, has died today.
Ato Duguma is the third prominent businessman to die within the past 30 days in Ethiopia, Awramba Times reported.
Two weeks …
With the highly possible increase in downsizing trends, more and more people are made redundant. The next logical step for those people are: looking for another job and starting a business. The former is more desirable for those who place …
NEW YORK – On January 6, 2009, Ethiopia’s parliament enacted a new law on nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) that criminalizes most human rights work in the country, Human Rights Watch said today. Human Rights Watch said that …
ADDIS ABABA (AFP) — The United States, Ethiopia’s main donor, warned Friday that a new law adopted by Addis Ababa restricting foreign-funded aid groups may curtail its assistance.
Under the new law, any group that draws more than 10 percent …
Press Statement
Robert Wood, Deputy Spokesman
U.S. Department of State
Washington, DC
The United States is concerned that the Charities and Societies Proclamation (CSO law) passed this week by the Ethiopian Parliament appears to restrict civil society activities and international …
ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia (Reuters) – Ethiopian rebels who warned oil explorers against working in their region are issuing empty threats that will not deter the government from developing their homeland, a senior Ethiopian Woyanne official said on Friday.
This week …
PASADENA, California (UPI) — A U.S. researcher has made great strides recently in the field of fuel cell research.
Sossina M. Haile, a fuel cell researcher at the California Institute of Technology and a founding member of the company Superprotonic …
By Scott McCabe | Examiner
U.S. marshals continue to hunt for a college student accused of abducting a Prince George’s County family in a failed bank robbery scheme last month.
Authorities are asking for the public’s help in capturing Beruk …
By Peter Goodspeed | National Post
In a land tormented by poverty, famine, drought, war and HIV/AIDS, Amanuel Hospital is Ethiopia’s only psychiatric hospital.
Until recently, its 360 beds were the last and only refuge for the mentally ill in …
BOSTON, Massachusetts (AFP) – Ethiopian Tirunesh Dibaba, who claimed double Olympic gold at 5,000 and 10,000 meters at Beijing, will run at the Boston Indoor Games on February 7, organizers announced Thursday.
Dibaba, the only woman two capture two athletics …
An early morning fire rips through a home in the Lakes Subdivision near Grand Canyon and Lake South.
The good news is, that all seven people sleeping inside, including five children managed to escape the flames.
Action News Anchor, Tiffani …
By Jason McLure | Bloomberg.com
Ethiopia’s leading opposition politician is in her 10th day of a hunger strike after she was jailed for life on Dec. 29 following a dispute with the government, according to her mother.
Birtukan Mideksa, 34, …
MIAMI, Florida (CBS4) ― By all accounts 39-year old Samuel Abate Balcha, a native of Ethiopia, had no enemies. He was well loved by his friends and neighbors and was a hard worker. But on January 1st, 2009 …
After their respective Beijing disappointments, Ethiopiaʼs World Indoor 3000m champion Meseret Defar and Sudanʼs World Indoor 800m champion Abubaker Kaki will attempt to put their careers back on track when attempting World Indoor records at the 2008 Sparkassen Cup meeting …
By Prince Ofori-Atta
Banned in the United States, Canada, Uganda, and in some European countries, khat is exported to countries in the sub-region as well as the United Kingdom, which has been struggling to effect a ban. But despite its …
TOKYO (Xinhua) — Japan’s Foreign Ministry on Thursday confirmed the release of Keiko Akahane, a female 32-year-old doctor abducted in Ethiopia in September, was freed on Wednesday.
“I am pleased from the bottom of my heart for the people concerned. …
By Yilma Bekele
Ghana is at it again. They insist on trailblazing. Not that we complain, no we just envy Ghana. Ghana envy is spreading all over Africa like a wild fire. It is not the first time Ghana is …
By Tecola Hagos
(Former legal adviser to Ethiopia’s tyrant Meles Zenawi)
The right to defend ones own rights individually or as part of an organized group is a legitimate cause irrespective of the identity of the adversary. However, such militancy …
ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia (IRIN) – Ethiopia’s [rubber-stamp] parliament has passed a law to regulate charities, despite strong criticism from opposition politicians, international human rights groups and national civil society organisations.
The Proclamation for the Registration and Regulation of Charities and …
Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt are reportedly going to adopt another Ethiopian child this month.
The couple – who already have three biological children Shiloh, two, six-month-old twins Knox and Vivienne, and three adopted children, Cambodian Maddox, seven, Pax, five, …
By Jason McLure | Bloomberg
Ethiopia’s [rubber-stamp] parliament ratified a law that critics say will prevent groups from promoting human rights and democracy in the Horn of Africa country, strengthening the government’s hand to crack down on dissent.
The so-called …
BAIDOA, Somalia (Garowe Online) – Members of Somalia’s federal parliament have criticized the continued detention of ex-Mogadishu Mayor Mohamed “Dheere” Omar by Ethiopian regime troops, Radio Garowe reports.
MP Yusuf Mohamed “Gurow” told reporters in Baidoa Tuesday that a group …
Ethiopia’s Haile Gebrselassie doesn’t need to make a New Year’s resolution, in order to break another World record. For a start, the Ethiopian New Year begins on September 11, “so we don’t celebrate the European New Year,” said the man …
By Sylvia Perez and Christine Tressel | ABC News
An Ethiopian doctor in Chicago says a life saving diagnosis is also wake up call for Americans to start thinking globally when it comes to illness.
Rahel Taye has a smile …
Find Out How Tory Johnson Started Her Own Business With Virtually No Money
By TORY JOHNSON
If you can’t find someone to hire you, consider hiring yourself. Not only can entrepreneurship bring great personal fulfillment, but launching a small business…
A document obtained by Ethiopian Review’s Intelligence Unit reveals that the U.S. Department of State has asked Congress to give $472 million in 2009 to Ethiopia’s brutal dictatorship that has just been kicked out of Somalia. The document states:
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LISBON, Portugal (AP) – A woman who lived to see five of her great-great grandchildren born and was believed to have been the world’s oldest person has died in Portugal at the age of 115, officials said.
Maria de Jesus …
ONLF Statement
On Exploitation Of Ogaden Oil & Gas Wealth
The Ogaden National Liberation Front (ONLF) has stated on multiple occasions that we will not allow the exploitation of the oil and gas wealth of our country as long as …
