First, Why is Africa Poor? George Ayittey, the renowned Ghanaian economist and president of the Free Africa Foundation swears that “Africa is poor because she is not free”. Like Ayittey, Robert Guest,…
More‘I took revenge’ – Ethiopian maid who murdered Kuwaiti woman Source: Arab News KUWAIT CITY: The Ethiopian maid who murdered a 25-year-old Kuwaiti woman, identified as Aisha Al-Failakawi, on Thursday re-enacted the…
MoreDENVER – It’s been a little more than two years since a 24-year-old immigrant from Ethiopia was gunned down and killed in Denver. Police have been following up on leads to no…
MoreYoung Ethiopian Activist Turns to Self-Immolation Death becomes preferable to a life without justice and liberty under PM Meles. Ethiopian American Council FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Regime Isolates Town, Cuts Phone Lines “Death…
MoreBy Alemayehu G. Mariam Give me Liberty or Give me Death! On 11/11/11, Yenesew Gebre, a 29 year-old Ethiopian school teacher and human rights activist set himself ablaze outside a public meeting…
MoreBy Associated Press/ NAIROBI, Kenya — East African officials are considering having Ethiopian troops join the war in Somalia to create a third front against al-Qaida linked insurgents, officials said Friday, as…
MoreBy Temesgen Zewdie/ It is certainly pleasing to belong to a nation of people known for their hospitality, communal life of sharing and caring, refined social mores, compassionate to faults and longest…
MoreBy Abebe Gellaw Paris (ESAT News)–Former judge and pro-democracy icon Birtukan Mideksa told the United Nations Human Rights Council here on Monday that Ethiopians would change the ruined relationship between the state…
MoreWASHINGTON, DC (TADIAS) – When Physicist Solomon Bililign was a young teacher imprisoned in Ethiopia during the “Red Terror” era, he never imagined that he would one day receive a Presidential Award…
Moreby Jawar Mohammed The self-immolation of Ethiopian high school teacher, Yenesew Gebre, 29, signals a clear message to Ethiopian leaders and their international supporters. In Ethiopian politics, practically everything is contested, a…
MoreThe world is a dangerous place to live, not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don’t do anything about it,” cautioned Albert Einstein. Because Germans…
MoreBy Fayyis Oromia* There was a time, when the Oromo freedom fighters wanted to liberate the Oromo people from any sort of subjugation in Ethiopia without trying to demarcate a national area…
MoreOver the last three months, Ethiopia has ramped up crackdown on dissent using its sweeping anti-terrorism legislation. According to Human Rights Watch, the legislation is “premised on an extremely broad and ambiguous…
MoreNew Hope Aide Admits Touching Boy on Bus Beyene Buliye jailed in Hennepin County by Bill Keller / FOX 9 News NEW HOPE, Minn. – Entrusting a child to a stranger’s care…
MoreSomalia drew 0-0 with 10-man Ethiopia in their World Cup qualifier in neutral Djibouti on Saturday as the last two of Africa’s 22 lowest-ranked teams began their quest to qualify for football’s…
MoreOTG is an award-winning airport food & beverage operator with more than 135 restaurants and eateries. Since its entry into airports in 1996, OTG has been recognized throughout the industry for its…
MorePresident Kiir’s oldest daughter, Adut, was handed over in marriage on Saturday, in a church ceremony attended by almost the entire cabinet for South Sudan. Hundreds of South Sudanese, government ministers and…
MoreEthiopia is among the bottom three countries in an index that measures prosperity as a function of both income and well-being for 110 countries. According to the 2011 Legatum Prosperity Index, Ethiopia…
MoreUpon taking power in 1991, the ruling Tigrayan People’s Liberation Front (TPLF) liquidated non-military assets held by the movement to found a series of companies whose profits would be used as venture…
MoreName: Meron Bekure Country you are representing: I’ll be representing the BEAUTIFUL country and the amazingly diversed people of ETHIOPIA!!!!! Tell me something about yourself?: I was born and raised in Addis…
MoreNew York – Ask anyone who runs regularly in Central Park: Ethiopian native Buzunesh Deba is a New Yorker. The Bronx resident, who is coached by her husband and fellow runner Worku…
MoreBy Kent Bush (evening tribune) Sometimes it is hard to give to charity. Many people worry that they are giving to the wrong charity, their money will be wasted or their donation…
More(PRI) Rastafarian artist Bandi Payne leads visitors through the jungle-like garden that surrounds his house in Shashamane, Ethiopia, pointing out the many trees he’s planted in his two decades here. “That’s guava,…
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