(Washington Business Journal – by Michael Neibauer) Gas prices in D.C. are high. In some cases (we’re looking at you, Watergate Exxon) inexplicably, off-the-charts high. Now the District is investigating what role one thriving gas station owner, who happens to own more than 150 D.C.-area gas stations and their associated real estate, has played in […]
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Haile Gebrselassie won his fourth Great Manchester 10km Run, while Britain’s Helen Clitheroe set a personal best in triumphing in the women’s race. Ethiopia’s Gebrselassie, 38, who beat Britain’s Chris Thompson, said: “My big challenge right now is trying to be better than the youngsters.” He added he hoped to compete in the marathon in
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(The Daily Mail) So there we have it. Manchester United have done it again. Just as some of us thought they would all along. But how have they done it? How are they kings of English football yet again? UNGER I don’t know how United manage to maintain that hunger year in, year out. Different
Getachew Reda (getachre@aol.com http://www.ethiopiansemay.blogspot.com/ Let me start by saying “Why should the above hungry and abused Ethiopian should ask apology to the Ogaden people or ONLF? Why the above abused Ethiopian just about equally abused like the Ogaden Ethiopians should expect or beg “forgiveness” from ONLF which is a criminal entity by its nature that
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By Elias Mengesha (Heppenheim-Germany) The recent campaign of the Meles regime throughout the Diaspora to raise funds by selling bonds and using the proceeds to build a dam on the Blue Nile river has met fierce resistance. It’s ironic to oppose such a development project but the fact of the matter is that the Meles
The secret to those explosive finishes could be the training regime conducted in single file along unpredictable forest paths (www.guardian.co.uk) Apparently there are hyenas in this forest. I’m running behind Tadele Geremew Mulugeta, an Ethiopian marathon runner, zigzagging back and forth on tiny narrow trails, leaping over rocks, ducking under overhanging branches. It’s not like
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By William Davison (Updates with food-price inflation in second paragraph.) May 10 (Bloomberg) — Inflation in Ethiopia accelerated to 29.5 percent in April as food prices jumped, the Central Statistical Agency said. The inflation rate increased from 25 percent in March, the Addis Ababa-based agency said on its website today. Food prices, which make up
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By Getachew Reda I am addressing my commentary in English rather than to use our language in order to be readable for those delusional Arabic or English speaking Liberation Front elite leaders who claim not to understand or refuse to speak and read Amharic, the Ethiopian national language. So here follows my commentary on the
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(Gadda.com) Even since it came to power in 1991, the TPLF regime has relied on a number of gimmicks, which are catchphrases with no policy solutions, to deny and delay freedom and democracy. From the so-called Article-39 to GTP, it is through such gimmicks that TPLF intends to keep its hegemony over the oppressed in
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(Ogaden Online) Regardless of our differences in language, culture or religion, all the panellists agree the power of unity. All also see the need for a united front against Meles’s tyranny and total economic domination of Ethiopia. The panellists saw the need for putting a stop to the Woyane-driven genocide being committed in places such
Ethiopian Airlines made its historic maiden flight to Hangzhou on May 03, 2011. Hangzhou is our fourth destination in china along with Beijing, Guangzhou and Hong Kong. Hangzhou is a great alternative to the busy Shanghai airport for those traveling to/from Shanghai as it is only 45 minutes away by high-speed train. Hangzhou is also
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