NASA This animation follows Hurricane Isabel (2003) from its birthplace in the Ethiopian Highlands of East Africa, across the Atlantic Ocean, to the United States. Atlantic hurricanes are often formed as winds…
MoreBy Messay Kebede, PhD Scholars loyal to the Woyanne regime, often for the sake of ethnic solidarity, but with some scruples left for the objectivity of scholarly studies engage in a risky…
MoreBy Hama Tuma (The Africa Report) — Sometimes we Ethiopians like to boast. The first in everything! The cradle of mankind. The first bare foot runner to win the marathon… … The…
MoreBy NitroEthiopian This was a segment of the Ethiopian parliament discussing about census results. The census committee chair Mrs. Samira is detailing the result on Amahras. She details that 2.5 million Amharas…
MoreBy Derese Tariku, De Birhan Media Staffer Addis Abeba 31 October 2012 Debre Berhan University, located in Amhara Region, North Showa Zone, in Debre Berhan town, 130 kms far form Addis Ababa…
MoreBy William Davison Oct. 31 (Bloomberg) — The African Union urged the United Nations Security Council to bolster its peacekeeping force in Somalia and lift arms-import and charcoal-export bans on the Horn…
MoreBy William Davison Oct. 30 (Bloomberg) — Ethiopian authorities charged a minister’s wife with terrorism for using money from the Saudi Arabian Embassy to pay for Islamic protests against the government, defense…
MoreBy DONALD G. McNEIL Jr. (New York Times) The search for a vaccine against AIDS has been long and fruitless — mostly because the virus mutates so fast. As is well known,…
MoreLower Manhattan goes dark during superstorm Sandy, on Monday, Oct. 29. Sandy continued on its path Monday, as the storm forced the shutdown of mass transit, schools and financial markets, sending coastal…
MoreBy Julia Belluz On a recent visit to Debre Libanos, a 13th-century monastery outside Addis Ababa, one of Ethiopia’s few psychiatrists found 17 people in chains. Suffering from serious mental health issues…
MoreBy T.Goshu Never the only one; but one of the most hypocritical and disingenuous political drama on the very fake political game of “the transfer of historic and peaceful political power” manifested…
MoreBy Alemayehu G Mariam There are few things more difficult or dangerous than speaking truth to abusers of power. But for Reeyot Alemu, the 31 year-old young Ethiopian heroine of press freedom,…
MoreZelalem Eshete, Ph.D. It takes two to tango. In part 1 of my article, I focused mostly on the opposition. Now, I present my reflections regarding the call for a paradigm shift…
MoreBy Dawit Fanta On October 27, 2012, a turnout of more than 300 Ethiopians who came from all over Germany held a demonstration which was called-up by the Ethiopian People Patriots Front…
MoreBy Jenny Vaughan (AFP) ADDIS ABABA — With hands clasped together as a symbol of unity, lines of Muslims gather under the beating sun outside Addis Ababa’s Anwar mosque after Friday prayers…
MoreI chose to start writing this peace with this quotation by Thomas Jefferson: “Eternal Vigilance is the Price of Liberty”. I chose it because liberty cannot be guaranteed to the vast majority…
MoreThe Ethiopians who has been living in Norway held a protest demonstration against the dictatorial regime in Ethiopia for about two hours on October 18, 2012. The march started after a speech…
MoreBy William Davison [Bloomberg] Ethiopian exports dropped 7 percent to $699.1 million in the first quarter as shipments of coffee and oil seeds fell, the Trade Ministry said. Foreign sales of coffee…
MoreSimon Allison| The Guardian | It is has been a little more than two months since the death of Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi. Since then, the country that he ruled over…
MoreOROMO LIBERATION FRONT, Press Release The TPLF – EPRDF government has stayed and continues to stay on the shoulders of Ethiopia peoples at gun point. Extra-judicial killings, mass arrest and torture have…
MoreReeyot Alemu, Ethiopia 2012 Courage in Journalism Award A CRITICAL VOICE LOST TO ETHIOPIA’S WAR ON INFORMATION Reeyot Alemu has been imprisoned in Ethiopia for more than a year, branded as a…
MoreAWOL ALLO and ABADIR M. IBRAHIM 23 October 2012 (Open Democracy) — From the periphery, Ethiopian Muslim protesters have recently turned a page in the history of the country. They have proven…
MoreEthiopian troops are reported to have illegally detained unknown number of Ogaden civilians in Degabour for the last 48 hours. It is reported that these civilians have been taken to the military…
MoreThe First Hijrah Foundation 4324 Georgia Avenue, NW Washington, DC 20011 firsthijrah.com In the Name of Allah, Most Gracious, Most Compassionate Once again, as the shock of the shooting of innocent Muslims…
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