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2012

Ethiopians in South Africa protest outside AU Summit

JOHANNESBURG – Eyewitness News. Ethiopians living in South Africa voiced their opposition to Prime Minister Meles Zenawi’s “dictatorship” on Wednesday afternoon. They took to the streets of Sandton to hand over a memorandum of demands to African Union (AU) members. Officials are holding a summit at the Sandton Convention Centre in northern Johannesburg. Zenawi’s government […]

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Mr. Obama, I voted for you in 2008, I’m not even sure if I’m voting this year

By Ephrem Madebo social life, political or any, I don’t remember to have seen any movement that captivated the imagination of the entire segments of a society like the 2008 Obama presidential campaign did. Obama 2008 was one for the ages so much so that it brought an end to the Anglo-Saxon domination of the

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The Ethiopian Engima

Ben Rawlence. Senior Researcher, Africa Division, Human Rights Watch Mariam was painfully thin. Several of her 13 children peered out from behind her with hollow eyes. “I am trying to save my children. We are not living. We are subhuman,” she told me. Food aid was available in her village in Southern Ethiopia. But not

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Institutions Urge Obama to Address ‘Land Grabbing’ Issue in Ethiopia

(New Business Ethiopia) – The united States-based Oakland Institute and the Solidarity Movement for a New Ethiopia (SNME) call up oon President Obama to talk on the issue with Ethiopian prime Minister Meles Zenawi, who is expected to arrive Washington today. The two institutions argue that large-scale land investments, which is often characterized as land

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Ethiopia to export half a million maids annually to Saudi Arabia

(Durame)- Ethiopia commenced sending 45,000 Ethiopian housemaids per month to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA), an Ethiopian official said by phone today. The controversial recruitment strategy will send 500,000 Ethiopian women annually to a country long known for abusing housemaids and foreign nationals in the strict Sharia-governed Kingdom. Amid tougher restrictions for housemaids working

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Trials of Politicians, Journalists Test Ethiopia’s Anti-Terrorism Law

(VOA News) – In Ethiopia, a series of high-profile trials is being closely watched as a test of recently-enacted anti-terrorism legislation. A three-judge federal panel is hearing the trials of as many as 150 people arrested on terrorism-related charges last year, including prominent politicians and journalists. Almost every week for the past few months, a

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Melese attacks the Amharas’ peasants again – By Kaleab Tessema

  Kaleab Tessema Of course, the brutality of Woyane leader will not rest until his dream comes true about the Amharas to dehumanize and  ethnically cleanse them until they become a minority or nonexistent in the country.  Melese, whatever excruciating torture he does to the Amharas, he cannot take away their Ethiopia-ness, it will make

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The End of TPLF – By Amanuel Biedemariam (former TPLF supporter)

(By Amanuel Biedemariam – former TPLF supporter ), posted a Press Release, “TPLF down-sized to a single-family party,” and quoted a former TPLF Seeye Abraha saying, “That TPLF no more exists today in the fashion that we used to know it years ago.” Seeye, further noted, “ The present socio-economic situation in Ethiopia is in

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