September 2012

By Alemayehu G Mariam Respeaking Truth to the Powerless For several years now, I have been “speaking truth to power”. In fact, the tag line for my blog page is “Defend Human…

 “Meaningful Reforms, Reconciliation and the Restoration of Justice” SMNE Urges New Prime Minister to Take Bold Steps That Will Lead the Country to a New Ethiopia An Open Letter to Prime Minister…

There is no place on planet earth that begs for change like our country. There is no need to itemize all the areas where we stand at the tail end of human…

MARKA, Somalia (Reuters) – “Paradise lies under the shade of swords,” reads the Arabic inscription on an arch leading into the Somali port of Marka, abandoned last month by Islamist al Shabaab…

By Tedla Asfaw The rainy cloudy Sept. 28, 2012 was not a welcome weather for anyone. It was raining hard from early morning and we followed the weather hour by hour fearing…

By Selamu Yibejal [peace4horn@gmail.com] As much as there is a positive attitude towards the new PM Hailemariam Desalegn and expectation by the Diaspora Ethiopian community and even the western nations in regards…

By Abebe Gellaw Hailemariam Desalegn’s recent interview with Peter Heinlein of VOA confirms that his rise to the helm of power can be largely attributed to his opportunistic imitation of how the…

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(By Addis Journal Blog) Singer and songwriter Teddy Afro and his fiancé Amleset Muchie, an occasional actress and model, tied the knot on Thursday at the Holy Trinity Cathedral in Addis Ababa.…

Ethiopian Activist Tedla Asfaw on C-SPAN Tedla Asfaw, Ethiopian American activist and frequent critic of the Ethiopian regime, has called on President Obama to distance himself from Susan Rice, the US Ambassador…

By: Kiflu Hussain* Sept 27, 2012 When  the late Meles Zenawi of Ethiopia disappeared from public life, particularly  from international gathering which he never failed from basking in, the  mainstream media began…

By William Davison Ethiopia Sugar Corp. said it’s signed agreements with state-owned China Development Bank Corp. for $500 million in loans to build two refineries, part of a plan to boost output…

(The dam on Blue Nile may take over 10 years to build) Khartoum— An Egyptian official has emphatically denied the veracity of allegations that his country had reached agreement with neighboring Sudan…

by Robele Ababya Lesson from the demise of the USSR Yuri Vladimirovich Andropov was in charge of KGB before he became President of the defunct Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR)…

(Ethiopian Herald) — Ethiopia has been able to lease 70 thousand hectares or land to domestic and international investors in the past financial year according to the Ministry of Agriculture. A large…

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“Crash one, then the rest will keep in line” Absolutist regimes like as in Ethiopia are infamous in such a way that they are utterly intolerant to dissent. They employ both covert…

Ethiopians had their new year on September 11. It is now 2005 in the Gregorian calendar. On September 21, they also got a new prime minster. How delightfully felicitous to have a…

By Sharifa Ghanem DUBAI: Abdullah and Monica, a couple based in Dubai, have lost their help after Ethiopia banned sending women to the Gulf region earlier this summer after a range of…

By Mohammad Awad ADDIS ABABA: Women’s rights groups in France successfully rescued an Ethiopian woman who had been living in modern day slavery by a Dubai couple vacationing in Paris, Trust Law…

(Ogaden Online) – Assuming a virtue it has not: the Ethiopian Human Rights Commission’s attempt to divert attention from the violation of Human rights in Ethiopia and cover-up the truthSeptember 21, 2012…