The World Bank recently appointed Ken Ohashi as a country director for the World Bank regional offices in Ethiopia and Sudan. Mr. Ohashi, a Japanese national, will replace the outgoing Ishac Diwan, head of the World Bank regional office in Ethiopia and Sudan.
Mr. Ohashi who holds a Ph.D. in Economic Development joined the World Bank in 1979. In a written statement made to The Reporter, the World Bank said Ken Ohashi was a “seasoned” World Bank leader who recently had held senior positions in Nepal and Kenya.
His last position was country director in Nepal where he served for six years. Mr. Ohashi is currently in Washington DC and is expected to come here next week.
Mr. Ishac Diwan, who was head of the World Bank office in Ethiopia and Sudan for over five years, left here for Washington two weeks ago. Mr. Diwan was appointed country director for five West African countries and will be based in Ghana.
Ato Dawey Ibrahim, former President of the Confederation of Ethiopian Trade Unions, currently living in exile in the Netherlands, writes this 6-page article (Amharic) about the EPRP conspiracy against Ethiopian workers and their unions. Click here to read.
Issayas said this in a recent interview, according to ETN. To help promote Ethiopia’s unity, the Eritrean government said that it has launched a new magazine named “One Ethiopia.” This is further confirmation of what Professor Ephrem Isaac had told a group of journalists a few years ago. Prof. Ephrem — who spoke with the Eritrean leader several times before the fall of the Derg regime in 1991 — said that Issayas had never intended for Ethiopia to split apart. Watch the following report by Ethiopian Television Network:
Defending champion Gete Wami (Ethiopia) will return to the 34th real,- BERLIN-MARATHON on 30th September. That means that both champions will come back to Germany’s biggest marathon race. Wami’s fellow countryman Haile Gebrselassie intends to break the world record set by his big rival Paul Tergat (Kenya/2:04:55) in 2003 in Berlin.
For Gete Wami it is also about more than just the victory in Berlin. If she will win the race with 40,000 runners again, she would take the lead in the World Marathon Majors (WMM). The first series will end at the ING New York City Marathon on 4 th November. The top man and woman will share a jackpot of one million dollar. Should Wami finish second in Berlin, she would share the lead with Jelena Prokopcuka (Lithuania). More information about the WMM series is available at: www.worldmarathonmajors.com
Gete Wami set her personal best of 2:21:34 in last year’s race in Berlin. At that time it was also an Ethiopian record. In the meantime Berhane Adere improved this to 2:20:42. To get the record back and to become the ninth runner in athletics history to run sub 2:20 are the main goals for Gete Wami in Berlin. Another target for Wami, who was the 10,000 m world champion in 1999 and who finished second in the Flora London Marathon clocking 2:21:45 this April, would be the world leading time for 2007 of 2:20:38. China’s London winner Chunxiu Zhou clocked that time in April.
The 32 year-old Gete Wami will face strong competitors at the real,- BERLIN-MARATHON. Among them are Japanese Naoko Sakamoto, whose personal best of 2:21:51 is barely slower than the one of Wami. Russia’s Irina Timofeyewa (2:25:29) or Poland’s Grazyna Syrek (2:26:22) could be in with a surprise. Furthermore German runner Irina Mikitenko has a potential for a strong marathon debut.
More information is available at: www.real-berlin-marathon.com
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The United States [that is backing the Woyanne terrorist regime in Ethiopia] is considering putting Eritrea on its list of state sponsors of terrorism, which would impose some sanctions, for allowing arms to flow into Somalia, a senior U.S. official said on Friday.
“We are looking into it,” U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs Jendayi Frazer told reporters.
“Frankly, the [mis]information so far that we have collected is fairly convincing about their activities … in Somalia.”
Eritrea is the archrival of Ethiopia, and diplomats say the two have been waging a proxy war in Somalia since last year when Asmara backed a hard-line Islamist movement against the country’s fragile government.
Ethiopia [Woyanne] sent in troops to support the government and dislodge the Islamists from Mogadishu.
According to a U.N. report released on July 26, large quantities of weapons — including surface-to-air missiles — are reaching Islamic insurgents in Somalia from Eritrea. Eritrea has denied sending the weapons.
Frazer [an apologist for African tyrants] said the United States had intelligence that substantiated the U.N. report.
She stressed that the United States did not wish to place Eritrea on the state sponsors of terrorism list and suggested Asmara now had a chance to stop Washington from taking the step by changing its behavior toward Somalia.
“We are not looking to go down this route but if they continue their behavior and we put together the file that’s necessary, I think it would be fairly convincing,” Frazer said.
