July 2012

By TOBIAS HAGMANN BERKELEY, CALIFORNIA — Next time I travel to Ethiopia, I may be arrested as a terrorist. Why? Because I have published articles about Ethiopian politics. I wrote a policy report on Ethiopia’s difficulties with federalism. I gave a talk in which I questioned Ethiopia’s May 2010 elections, in which the ruling EPRDF […]

(Survival International) — Survival has received disturbing reports from members of several tribes in Ethiopia’s Lower Omo Valley, which describe how the government is destroying their crops to force them to move off their land into designated resettlement areas. Those most affected by the land grabs are Suri, Bodi and Mursi pastoralists, and the Kwegu

(Trust) – It is with great sadness that UNHCR received the news that 54 people perished attempting the sea journey from Libya to Italy. According to the sole survivor, an Eritrean man, 55 people boarded the boat in Libya in late June. He reported that all the other passengers died of dehydration during a 15

(Reuters) – Eritrea said on Monday the United Nations was considering imposing sanctions on two Eritrean military officials over allegations they had helped Islamist militants in Somalia, and accused Washington of being behind the plan. The United States Treasury included the two Eritreans on a list of six people placed under sanctions last week for

By William Davison July 9 (Bloomberg) — Ethiopia’s inflation rate fell to 20.9 percent in June from 25.5 percent in the previous month, the Central Statistical Agency said. Food prices increased 21.5 percent in June from a year earlier, compared with 29.2 percent in May, the Addis Ababa-based agency said in an e-mailed statement today.

By Yilma Bekele Ato Meles Zenawi, Chairman of Tigrai People Liberation Front (TPLF) and Prime Minster of the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia is not in good health. I became aware of that fact after watching the video of a news clip made during his meeting with the President of China at the G8 meeting

(JERUSALEM (AP) – Israel’s Cabinet has approved plans to bring in the last of Ethiopia’s Jews over the next two years. More than 120,000 Ethiopian Jews live in Israel after waves of immigration over the past three decades. Advocates say some 2,200 Jews remain in Ethiopia. They are Falash Mura, members of a community that

By William Davison (Bloomberg) — Ethiopia said its state-run trucking company will offer subsidized pricing to cut the cost of hauling fresh produce as the Horn of Africa country tries to boost fruit and vegetable exports 20-fold. The state-owned Ethiopian Shipping and Logistics Services Enterprise may halve the price of getting goods to market, Horticulture

by Annys Shin The Washington Post A black pickup truck slowly circled RFK Stadium. Its sole cargo was a billboard bearing the images of a starving child, a man with a swastika on his forehead, piles of money and a soccer ball. Just inside the stadium, the All Ethiopian Sports Association’s first annual soccer tournament,

By William Davison July 5 (Bloomberg) — Allana Potash Corp. may begin exporting the fertilizer ingredient from Ethiopia’s Danakil Depression as early as the end of 2014. Allana may finish more than two years of exploration work in the next few months and start building a mine at a cost of as much as $795

thiopians V.S. Woyane The defendants are guilty on one count only; they proved the TPLF led regime posed as Ethiopian government is illegitimate and corrupt. The Judges that deliver the guilty verdict are hired gun. If truth telling makes them terrorists so we all are terrorists. The regime should stop its crud jock on the