September 2012

 “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 Hailemariam Desalegn, September 26, 2012 His Excellency Hailemariam Desalegn, Prime Minister of the Federal Republic of Ethiopia Office of the Prime Minister P.O. …

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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 achievement. That is the bad news. The good news is we can’t get any lower than where we are at now thus the …

Regarding our new Prime Minster – By Yilma Bekele Read More »

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 militants under pressure from advancing African Union peacekeepers and government troops. The inscription, along with a white column by the beach where al …

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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 for a washout of our rally scheduled for 3pm at 47 Street and 2nd Avenue at UN. Rain started to tamper down at …

Hailemariam Desalegn Unwelcome in New York City Read More »

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 to some change and easement of the state control and a shift in policy from the authoritarian one‐man (Meles) rule into a more …

Why we should not expect the much anticipated change from the new PM Hailemariam Desalegn? Read More »

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 late dictator talked and walked as well as his commitment to serving TPLF bigwigs that control him as their Trojan horse. Hailemariam called …

Hailemariam Desalegn parroting dead tyrant – By Abebe Gellaw Read More »

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 to United Nations. Mr. Asfaw said, “Dr. Rice, she has a problem when she was secretary of African Affairs during the Clinton administration, …

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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 speculating on his “serious illness” unlike the “fringe”  Medias that accurately concluded on his death long ago. Consequently, the East  African newspaper of …

How Hailemariam Desalegn’s vow amended pathologists’ maxim Read More »

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 of the sweetener almost tenfold by 2025. Ethiopia’s Finance Ministry and the state-run sugar company have signed memorandums of understanding with the Chinese …

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(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 to use its territories as a launchpad for potential attacks on Ethiopian damming facilities over the dispute of Nile water-sharing. Sudan Tribune reported …

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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) and General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU) on 12 November 1982 following the death …

Ethiopia: Internal feud dismantling EPRDF Read More »

(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 percentage of the farmland leased by investors is intended for the cultivation of agricultural products such as cotton, palm oil and sugar cane …

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