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2012

Eritrea: The Fog Over the Red Sea

(The Atlantic) — Eritrean information minister Ali Abdu, who is rumored to have defected this past week, helped build one of the world’s strictest systems of media control. Eritrea sits on some of the most important real estate in Africa, occupying a thin sliver of coastline at the mouth of the Red Sea. The country

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Caught between the Gambella genocide and the Connecticut massacre. Why kids?

The Horn Times Opinion box-19 Dec 2012 By Getahune Bekele In a nation like Ethiopia, savagely devoured by a brutal clannish tyranny, there is very little difference between the living and the dead; with the living hunkering for the liberty of six feet under rather than living in penury. On 13 Dec 2012, Ethiopian ethnic

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Ginbot7 Popular Force (GPF) Formation

For Immediate Release London, United Kingdom, December 20, 2012 Ginbot7 Popular Force (GPF) makes official announcement on its formation and calls on all freedom loving Ethiopians to join the resistance against tyranny. Ginbot7 Popular Force (GPF) announces its official formation and calls on the oppressed people of Ethiopia to join the resistance and rise up

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AMHARA PEOPLE: ETHIOPIA`S MOST CULTURALLY DOMINANT AND POLITICALLY POWERFUL PEOPLE OF SEMITIC ANCESTRY

AMHARA PEOPLE: ETHIOPIA`S MOST CULTURALLY DOMINANT AND POLITICALLY POWERFUL PEOPLE OF SEMITIC ANCESTRY

December 19, 2012 The Amhara people are mostly agriculturist, one of the most culturally dominant and a powerful politically connected as well as Afro-Asiatic speaking ethnic group of ancient semitic origins inhabiting the northern and central highlands of Ethiopia, particularly the Amhara Region. The Amhara State shares common borders with the state of Tigray in

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አገርንና ሕዝብን የሚጎዱ – ይወገዱ!

(ethiopianreporter) ሥልጣን ተሰጥቶት የተመደበ ሹምና ኃላፊነት የተቀበለ ሠራተኛ ትልቁ ተልዕኮአቸው ሕዝብንና አገርን ማገልገል ነው፡፡ የሚከፈላቸው ደመወዝ፣ የሚያንቀሳቅሱት በጀት፣ የሚጠቀሙባቸው ቁሳቁሶች ከአገርና ከሕዝብ የመጡ ናቸው፡፡ በመሆኑም ተሿሚዎች የሕዝብ በጀት ተመድቦላቸው፣ የሕዝብ አደራ ተሰጥቶዋቸው ሕዝብን እንዲያገለግሉ ነው የተመደቡት፡፡ ይህንን አምነውና ተቀብለው የሚሠሩ ሹሞችና ሠራተኞች እንዳሉ አንክድም፡፡ በመልካም ግብራቸው የሚታወቁ የሕዝብ ወገኖች አሉ፡፡ ነገር ግን የተሰጣቸውን ኃላፊነት በመርሳትና

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Ethiopia postponed appeal of Eskinder Nega and opposition leader Andualem Arage

Ethiopia postponed appeal of Eskinder Nega and opposition leader Andualem Arage

ADDIS ABABA — An Ethiopian court on Thursday delayed the appeal of blogger Eskinder Nega and opposition leader Andualem Arage who were jailed earlier this year for for terror-related offences. Judge Dagne Melaku said the Supreme Court needed several weeks to look over the “bulky” case file to review the evidence against them, setting the

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Mandela “looking much better”, to stay in hospital. By Xola Potelwa

By Xola Potelwa | Reuters JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) – Nelson Mandela, South Africa’s 94-year-old former president, is “looking much better” after being treated for a lung infection and gallstones, but will remain in hospital for the time being, the government said on Tuesday. The country’s first black president was admitted to a Pretoria hospital on December 8 after being flown from his home

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Mengistu Haile Mariam – Wikipedia

Mengistu Haile Mariam (Amharic: መንግሥቱ ኀይለ ማርያም, pronunciation: [mənɡɨstu haɪlə marjam]; born 21 May 1937) is an Ethiopian soldier and politician who was the president of Ethiopia from 1977 to 1991 and General Secretary of the Workers’ Party of Ethiopia from 1984 to 1991. He was the chairman of the Derg, the socialist military junta that governed Ethiopia, from 1977 to 1987, and the President of the People’s Democratic

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For Immediate Release: 16 Members of the European Parliament Call for the Release of Imprisoned Ethiopian Journalist Eskinder Nega

December 18, 2012 For Immediate Release Contact: Patrick Griffith +1 (202) 423-7925 pgriffith@freedom-now.org 16 Members of the European Parliament Call for the Release of Imprisoned Ethiopian Journalist Eskinder Nega Washington, D.C.: Today, 16 members of the European Parliament issued a public letter to Ethiopian Prime Minster Hailemariam Desalegn expressing their grave concern regarding the continued detention

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