The 48-hour vigil that started yesterday has ended today after State Department officials left early for the New Year holiday. The participation was greater than anticipated by the organizers. There will be more vigils like this in the coming few days. Dec 30, 8:40 AM – A large number of Ethiopians continue holding a vigil […]
Two things I wanted to talk about today. One is the media, especially the media from fellow dictatorial countries. The other one is this heart-wrenching message that I saw on the net that I decided to post here. First what bothers me most these days is what these Chinese government media write (or not write)
7 December 2005, Ethiopian opposition to handing over the small town of Badme to Eritrea has until now prevented an international border commission ruling in 2002 being implemented – and left the uneasy peace struck when war ended in 2000 in the balance. With Eritrean frustration building, the UN’s role monitoring the ceasefire has come
By Fikru Helebo In the wake of the stolen elections of May 15, 2005 and the subsequent brutal repression of any meaningful political dissent in Ethiopia, the sole useful purpose that the continued participation of members of the Southern Ethiopian Peoples Democratic Coalition (SEPDC) in Meles’s parliament serves is to provide an appearance of a
