September 2012

“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 and overt operations to hammer anyone who nails out. For example, the TPLF regime frequently adopts different law-like Dictatorial Orders to suppress freedom …

Double Injustice – By Dawit Fanta Read More »

By William Davison Sept. 24 (Bloomberg) — The rebel Sudan Liberation People’s Movement-North said it will agree to a cease-fire if the Sudanese government allows humanitarian aid to reach more than half-a-million people in Southern Kordofan and Blue Nile states. Civilians have been displaced in the two states after more than a year of armed …

Sudan Rebels Offer Cease-Fire in Return for Humanitarian Access Read More »

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 new prime minister in the new year! Heartfelt congratulations and best wishes to the people of Ethiopia are in order. Hailemariam Desalegn was …

Ethiopia: A New Prime Minister in a New Year – By Alemayehu G Mariam Read More »

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 abuses and sexual violence against the workers continued to be reported. For this couple, they said that a few “bad apples should not …

UAE couples want ban on Ethiopia maids ended, as abuses mount Read More »

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 reported. According to the Committee Against Modern Slavery and the Women’s Association United, the woman was rescued after hotel workers contacted the two …

Ethiopia woman lived modern day slavery at hands of Dubai couple Read More »

(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 Shakespeare once said, “Assume a virtue, if you have it not.” The announcement by the Ethiopian Human Rights Commission (EHRC) that it will …

ONLF Statement On-Called Ethiopian Human Rights Commission Read More »

The website of Swedish state broadcaster Sveriges Television (SVT) has been blocked in Ethiopia amid claims that the reason is their reporting of the case of journalists Johan Persson and Martin Schibbye. According to sources contacted by SVT, the svt.se website has been down in the country since early on Saturday morning. Persson and Schibbye …

Ethiopia bans Swedish state television: report Read More »

By Yinegal Belachew I am writing this short note after reading some reflections about the appointment by the remnants of EPRDF of Hailemariam Desalegn as the new “PM” of Ethiopia. Yes, may be due to foreign pressure and other non-escapable circumstantial conditions, TPLF might succumb to temporary hibernation until it gets organized with a new …

‘Birds of the same feather fly together’ – By Yinegal Belachew Read More »

The sudden death of dictator Meles Zenawi has created an unexpected opportunity for the ruling junta, EPRDF, to reverse course and make peace with the people of Ethiopia whom it had been terrorizing and brutalizing for the past 21 years. Let’s be clear about the fact the Meles had never intended for Hailemariam to become …

Let’s give the new PM time to prove himself – By Elias Kifle Read More »

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE September 17, 2012 Did you know that $3.5 Billion per Year of Your Tax Dollars are used to support one of the Worst Dictatorship on the Planet, the Ethiopian Regime? Because of this, ETHIOPIAN-AMERICANS, one of PRESIDENT OBAMA’S MOST DEVOTED SUPPORTERS IN 2008, MAY BE LOOKING ELSEWHERE! Why is the Obama Administration …

Did you know that $3.5 Billion per Year of Your Tax Dollars are used to support one of the Worst Dictatorship on the Planet, the Ethiopian Regime? Read More »