ANALYSIS & OPINION

By David A. Schwartz, Staff Writer2:08 p.m. EDT, September 12, 2013 As the two young Jewish leaders from Palm Beach County accompanied Ethiopian Jews on an aliyah flight to Israel’s Ben-Gurion Airport early in the summer, they were struck by the historical significance of the trip. “For most of my life there has been some form of Ethiopian exodus to […]

By Kidane Alemayehu Inconsistency  Regarding Victims of Poison Gas Warfare The international community including the United Nations and members of the UN Security Council are fully engaged with the recent use of banned chemical weapons by Syria’s Bashir Al-Assad regime against its own people. A policy of accountability was witnessed in other cases involving the

What Putin Has to Say to Americans About Syria By VLADIMIR V. PUTIN MOSCOW — RECENT events surrounding Syria have prompted me to speak directly to the American people and their political leaders. It is important to do so at a time of insufficient communication between our societies. Relations between us have passed through different

By Abebe Gellaw Hundreds of Ethiopians residing in and around San Jose, California, raised their historic tricolor for the ninth time last Friday at New City Hall in the presence of Mayor Charles Rufus Reed, Councilman Sam Liccardo and other city officials. But TPLF representatives’ effort to block the historic event unless its coat of

I was reading a novel by Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy, “The Death of Ivan Ilych Golovin” . In his novel, Tolstoy tells us the story of the causation :  the story of Ivan’s death.  Ivan, a high court judge of the 19th century Russia, living a carefree yet heavenly life injured his side while hanging up

The Horn Times Sport-September 8, 2013 By Getahune Bekele –South Africa. “We want to go back to the drawing board and make very tangible plans that will help us in our preparations ahead of very important matches that will decide our destiny and determine if our dream of qualifying for the world cup is fulfilled.”

BY ADAM VAN HEERDEN, NOCAMELS · SEPTEMBER 6, 2013 · 1 COMMENTS SOCIAL AWARENESS · TAGGED: AFRICA, AIDS, ART JOY LOVE, ETHIOPIA, HIV, ORPHANS,SOCIAL AWARENESS An Israeli project called ART-Joy-Love (AJL) is providing what it says is a “cocktail of happiness and love” to HIV/AIDS orphans in Africa. The project relies on a multidisciplinary team of volunteers from Israel, ranging from pediatric AIDS experts to medical clowns. Founded in

by Keffyalew Gebremedhin – The Ethiopia Observatory Ethiopia has never been stalwart performer in international competitiveness. The poor state of its institutions, the lack of accountability, poor human and infrastructural development, quality and supply of goods and services, undeveloped goods and financial markets, and the unfavorable macroeconomic environment, especially as pertains to state-private sector relations,

By Jeff Spross A program in Ethiopia has brought distributed solar to 13,200 people, and aims to reach roughly another 11,800 by the end of this November. Roughly one third of the East African country’s population lives on $1.25 a day (adjusted for purchasing power parity) or less, and as of 2009 the country was

By Firehiwot Guluma Since the dictator TPLF seized power, it has been clearly engaged in massive corruption and unethical business practices by national or international business rules. As a ruling party, it not only owns strategic sectors of the economy and engages in commercial and trading activities, it also puts competing private sectors in a

By Meron Admasu The Ethiopian regime intensified the killing, imprisonment and persecution of the Ethiopian civilian population. Thousands of innocent people were forced to flee their homes and became refugees in the neighboring countries of Djibouti, Kenya, Sudan, and all over the world. The Ethiopian government has also actively pressed neighboring countries to abduct Ethiopian

BY ELLENI ARAYA The Federal Ethics & Anti Corruption Commission (FEACC) finally announced, last week, that it has filed charges on close to 44 people from its high profile corruption case. Learning exactly what these charges are has still proved elusive for the suspects involved, however. A couple of hearings, on Thursday and Friday, were