Ethiopia’s main opposition leader has been sent to prison to serve a life sentence, after a pardon granted to her last year was revoked. Birtukan Medeksa was among more than 100 people jailed for offences after controversial polls in 2005. A dispute over the terms of her release caused her re-arrest. Her colleague Berhanu Nega, […]
By UDJ Support Group | December 4, 2008 Leaders of the UDJ opposition party and their local hosts while presiding over a meeting in Oslo, Norway. Ethiopia has been under a one-party dictatorship since 1991. Ethiopian residents in Norway attend political briefings by leaders of UDJ, an opposition party which enjoys significant Ethiopian Diaspora support.
By Wondimu Mekonnen November 12, 2008 In the past years, London has hosted trade and human rights defenders and rising political starts of Ethiopia. This unaffiliated and independent observer had written his reactions in his own amateurish ways about all of them and this time it wouldn’t be any different. On November 9 it was
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By Mammo Muchie A year on from Ethiopia’s new millennium, Mammo Muchie highlights the country’s historic role as the cradle of African nationalism. Arguing that reparations remain due from the period of fascist Italy’s occupation in the 1930s, Muchie stresses that it is only through rediscovering her essential civic-nationalism that Ethiopia will locate her glory
Revolt, Ideology and Mobilisation in Ethiopia Aregawi Berhe Amsterdam 2008 VRIJE UNIVERSITEIT First and foremost though, I am deeply grateful to my promotor Professor Jon Abbink forhis unreserved support and guidance throughout the research undertaking, which started as a book project. Under the hard life in exile, this study would have not come near completion
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By Professor Mammo Muchie July 11 2008 Inspiring Quote! “A human being is a part of the whole, called by us, “Universe,” a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest — a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a
WASHINGTON, DC – The government of Meles Zenawi in Addis Ababa is ready to receive thousands of Eritrean refugees “stranded in Egypt and scheduled for deportation,” an Eritrean opposition website reported on Saturday. “The Ethiopian government has communicated to the Eritrean Democratic Alliance (EDA) and to the Eritrean Global Solidarity (EGS) its willingness to receive
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By Tesfaye Maru A lot of positive and negative things have been said about Elias Kifle, the publisher of the Ethiopian Review. There were times that he appeared like any citizen who is genuinely angry about the gross human rights violations that are taking place in Ethiopia and is doing his part to expose them.
By Selam Beyene (Ph.D.) The conscience of the world is challenged once again by the outrageous crimes of Meles Zenawi, who is using famine as a weapon of mass destruction and economic exploitation against the very people that he has ruled with an iron fist for almost two decades. Without regard to repeated calls for
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Secretary General of Ethiopia’s major opposition party, the Coalition for Unity and Democracy Party (Kinijit), has resigned this week saying that he is unable to carry out his responsibilities because of the worsening political climate in the country. Ato Muluneh told ER sources that as of this week he is a private citizens and that
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By Neamin Zeleke | May 19, 2008 A military tribunal recently sentenced four Ethiopian Air Force pilots to death. The pilots who sought a political asylum in 2007 and were tried in absentia are Captain Samuel Getachew, Lt. Haimanot Gebre-Mariam, Lt. Fikre-Selassie Feleke, and Lt. the whereabouts of two Ethiopian pilots remained unknown nearly three
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