May 2010

MAY 26, 2010 by PROF. MUSE TEGEGNE “Addis Ababa, May 25, 2010 Ethiopian People?s Revolutionary Democratic Party (EPRDF) is leading the 4th national elections by winning 499 of the 547 federal parliamentary seats, the National Electoral Board of Ethiopia (NEBE) Chairperson announced here late on Tuesday. In a news conference he gave here today, the Chairperson, …

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By Barry Malone ADDIS ABABA, May 18, 2010 (Reuters) – Ethiopians vote on Sunday in the first elections since a disputed 2005 poll — touted as the country’s first truly democratic vote — ended violently, with 193 protesters and seven policemen killed in street riots. Analysts are divided on how the parliamentary election will turn …

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Next Sunday’s election in Ethiopia is a contest for 547 seats in the House of People’s Representatives, or parliament. Of those,  a third are in Oromia, a vast farming region that stretches almost all the way across the nation’s midsection, south to the Kenyan border and north to Addis Ababa.  The contest for Ethiopia’s biggest …

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May 17, 2010 Protesters recently marched by the State Department demanding pressure for democratic change in Ethiopia Members of the Ethiopian diaspora and U.S. human rights groups want the U.S. government to put pressure on its Horn of Africa ally Ethiopia to implement democratic reform, ahead of parliamentary elections Sunday.  But Africa experts say Washington …

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VOA/ May 16, 2010 Next week, Ethiopia holds its fourth national polls since the Ethiopian People?s Revolutionary Democratic Front (EPRDF) overthrew the 17-year-old Marxist government of Mengistu Hailemariam in May, 1991. Nationwide, 43,000 stations will be open to handle an estimated 31 million registered voters. Facing the ruling party, with 501 candidates, are several opposition …

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Will Ross BBC News, Ethiopia Ethiopia’s opposition leaders have called for a rerun of Sunday’s elections, saying they were flawed. Head of the main opposition coalition Merera Gudina said he will not accept the results, which gave Prime Minister Meles Zenawi a landslide victory. Mr Merera says two party members were killed by security forces, …

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