September 2007

By Teodros Kiros September 25, 2007 On a beautiful Saturday night, September 22, 2007, Kinjit and its delegates arrived at an Armenian Church in Cambridge, MA. At this defining moment, the delegates gave a landmark performance to the calm crowd. This was Kinjit’s rendezvous with victory, fated to announce itself in the next election, if …

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September 24, 2007 The controversy and heated debates caused by the recent dictatorial behavior of Hailu Shawel, instigated and promoted by the EPRP-Shaleqa unholy alliance, will soon be dwarfed by another issue — the upcoming local election in Ethiopia. Next April, in about 7 months from now, there will be kebele, woreda and zonal elections …

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by Peter Holslin [Dr. Berhanu Nega at the New School two weeks ago. Photo by Sam Lewis. A shorter, slightly different version of this article appears this week in The New School Free Press.] A year ago, Dr. Berhanu Nega wrote Ye Nestanset Gohe Sekede—Amharic for The Dawn of Freedom—in Ethiopia’s Kaliti prison, smuggling it out a few …

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By Martin Plaut BBC Africa analyst War could resume between Ethiopia and Eritrea unless they accept a resolution of their border conflict, a former Horn of Africa UN envoy has warned. Experts are to meet both countries in the Hague, for what is being described as a last chance for a peaceful resolution of their …

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September 4, 2007  A high-level delegation of the Coalition for Unity & Democracy Party (Kinijit) will depart Addis Ababa for Washington DC on Saturday, Sept. 8, according to Ethiopian Review’s reporter in Addis Ababa. It has now been confirmed that members of the delegation, Wzt. Bertukan Mideksa, Dr Hailu Araya, Ato Gizachew Shiferraw, and Ato …

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