ONLF kill or wound 159 Woyanes; EPPF kill 50. Woyane instigated ethnic violence in Angerna and Dedesa region of Ethiopia, killed 400 people, women and children included. Plus recent interview with 3 Ethiopian MPs that defected to the UK.
After exhibiting arrogance for the past few days, officials of the Ethiopian Sports Federation in North America (ESFNA) have been forced to finally hold a press conference and answer questions regarding the donation of money to the Federation by Woyanne money man Ato Al Amoudi (it is an insult to Muslims to call this drunkard womanizer a ‘sheik’).
The boycott that is being called by Tegbar and other concerned Ethiopian groups is taking its toll on the Federation’s one-week event this week in Washington DC. The RFK Stadium, where the event is being held, has been empty, and today some of the vendors who had paid $3,000 each for concession stands to sell food and merchandises such as CDs, books, and teeshirts, have started to demand that their money be returned.
Even some of the soccer players seem to have boycotted the event. Out of the 600 players and their families, very few of them are showing up in the stadium. Rather they go to the several other events in Washington DC that are organized by the local restaurants, businesses and independent groups. All the Ethiopian restaurants and coffee shops are filled with Ethiopians who have come from out of town for the weekly event. They just stopped going to the stadium.
The arrogant ESFNA officials will hopefully now start to listen to the people’s voice, be humble and clean up the mess they created.
Ethiopian Review associates are currently attending the press conference and will report about it when it is over.
Ethiopian Review’s Intelligence Unity (EIU) has learned that all 17 artists who have been touring the U.S. with the Ethiopian Minister of Culture and Tourism, Wzr. Tadelech Dalacho, have defected today and are now seeking political asylum.
Wzr. Tadelech has returned to Ethiopia by herself… more details shortly.
(AFTENPOSTEN) — A body found floating in the harbour at Fredrikshavn, at the tip of northern Denmark, is believed to be that of a man suspected of murdering his young wife in Oslo early last week.
Police in Norway had issued an international warrant for the arrest of Kassa Yafet Gerbrewold, age 27. He disappeared after the body of his 19-year-old wife was found in the Anker student housing complex where they lived in Oslo.
The young woman had been stabbed to death, and her family had appealed for her husband to report to police. Instead he’s believed to have fled Norway on the cruise-ferry Stena Saga Sunday evening June 22.
A body was found floating near the North Quay 39 in Fredrikshavn Wednesday morning, reported Danish TV2. Police in Oslo were informed of the discovery, reported VG Nett.
Police in Oslo wouldn’t initially comment, though, saying the body hadn’t been formally identified. A spokesman said the Oslo police were working closely with their Danish counterparts to identify the body.
EDITOR’S NOTE: The Woyanne-run Walta Information Center (WIC) and other Woyanne media continue to refer to Meles Zenawi’s wife, Azebe Mesfin, as ‘first lady’ (referred to others as ‘First Witch’). But it is President Girma’s wife who should have been called “first lady,” not the prime minister’s wife. No other country where there is a president the prime minister’s wife is called first lady. On another note, Azeb Mesfin is one of the most hated persons in Ethiopia next to her husband Meles. In a matter of few years, she has become perhaps the wealthiest women in Africa through corruption. Most of the profitable companies in Ethiopia share their profits with her. She heavily invests the money she steals from Ethiopia in the U.S. real estate market. She is buying houses and commercial properties in several states, including Washington DC, Ohio, California, and Arizona.
ADDIS ABABA (WIC) – First Lady Azeb Mesfin is elected president of the Organization of African First Ladies (OAFLA).
[It should be named OAFB — Organization of African First Bitches — who are partners in their husbands’ crimes.]
According to a press release issued by National Coalition for Women Against HIV/AIDS (NCWH), the first lady was elected on the OAFLA General Assembly held in Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt from June 29 to July 1, 2008.
With the election of Azeb, the secretariat for OAFLA will now move to Addis Ababa from Lusaka. The outgoing First Lady of Zambia served as president for the last two years.
First Lady of Libya, Madam Safia Gadaffi, was elected vice president, the release added.
OALFA was established on 8th July 2002 as a result of the Geneva special meeting attended by thirty-seven African First Ladies, it was learnt.
NAIROBI (Reuters) — Ethiopia’s parliament has passed a new media law which bans censorship of private media and detention of journalists, but which critics said on Wednesday retained other threats to free expression.
The parliament, led by Prime Minister Meles Zenawi’s Ethiopian Peoples Revolutionary Democratic Front, said on Wednesday the new Mass Media and Freedom of Information Law was based on international concepts of press freedom.
“Under the new law, previous restrictions against private media outlets, such as detention of journalists suspected of infringement of the law, has been scrapped,” a parliament statement said. The vote passed on Tuesday.
But opposition members said the law still allowed state prosecutors to invoke national security as grounds for impounding publishing materials prior to publication and distribution.
“Although censorship is abolished, such a right to impound press material before distribution is tantamount to censorship,” opposition parliamentarian Temesgen Zewede told Reuters.
Bulcha Demeksa, leader of the opposition Oromo Federalist Democratic Movement described the new law as “draconian”.
“I consider the day on which this law was enacted as a dark day in the annals of Ethiopian history,” he said.
Journalists will under the new law have the right to set up an independent press council.
Meles, once considered a pioneer of democracy in Africa, has seen his reputation wane since post-election violence that killed some 200 people in 2005.
An ensuing crackdown on opposition members and journalists viewed as sympathetic to them prompted aid cuts and sharp criticism from the West.
(By Tsegaye Tadesse, Editing by Andrew Roche)