Aklog Birara, PhD
The December 28, 2011, video on “Ethiopian domestic workers in the Middle East” represents the ugly and inhumane face of uncaring, callous and debilitating governance in Ethiopia today. The voice of the young woman whose cries and …
In famine-stricken Ethiopia, a Saudi company leases land to grow and export rice
By Public Radio International
Famine has swept through much of Ethiopia in the past year, but a new project will see a Saudi Arabian country convert one …
By Yilma Bekele
The last few months I have been inflicted with a Herman Cain (HC) moment. You remember his interview with a newspaper publisher and when asked his opinion regarding President Obama’s policy on the uprising in Libya? My …
Twenty-five-thousand-truck loads of coffee disappeared from the government warehouse this year and Meles Zenawi’s explanation was: “let’s forget about it, but don’t do it again.” Of course he knows, and we all know, who stole the coffee. It’s none other …
Nonviolent movements are faced every day with stresses in the areas of leadership, fear-management, and avoiding contamination, so they need to be prepared. They also need to be tactically innovative and choose issues and actions that put the tyrant in …
(CNN) — Two Swedish journalists who were found guilty in Ethiopia of supporting terrorism were sentenced to 11 years in jail Tuesday, the Swedish Foreign Ministry said.
“Our belief was that the court would think they were journalists and they …
Alemayehu G. Mariam
In December 2008, I wrote a weekly column entitled “Groundhog Year in Prison Nation” summarizing some of my weekly columns for that year. I used the “groundhog” metaphor from a popular motion picture in which …
Ethiopians Can Indeed Unite if they are Willing, Part Six (c) of Six
Aklog Birara, PhD
In my capacity as the World Bank Group’s first and only Senior Advisor on Racial Equality (SARE), I had the privilege of representing this …
A court in Nkhata Bay, Malawi, has found over 90 Ethiopians guilty of illegal entry into the country four days after they hang out off shore Lake Malawi to elude police security.
The immigrants have since been fined K4,000 each …
Woyanne goons are intensifying intimidation and harassment against the editor and staff of Feteh, the only independent newspaper remaining in Ethiopia. Last night Feteh editor Temesgen Desalegn’s residence was surrounded by Woyanne police. Another editor, Hailemeskel Beshewamyele, was also harassed …
By Karen Msiska
MALAWI, SOUTHERN AFRICA — Twelve Ethiopians believed to have been illegally crossing into the country via Lake Malawi from Tanzania were dumped in the lake after dying of hunger, police have said quoting the other immigrants.
About …
Women protesters filled central Cairo expressing outrage over Egyptian soldiers who dragged women by the hair and stomped on them during a crackdown on activists. The protesters also demanded Egypt’s ruling military step down. (Dec. 20)
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There is rarely victory for nonviolent movements without a strategic plan. Therefore, an understanding of basic strategic principles as well as tools and techniques is important as movements develop their strategic plans… [read more]…
By Wondwossen Mezlekia
Last month, coffee buyers across the globe had a rare glimpse into Ethiopians’ day-to-day experience, where haphazard policymaking is used by the government to interfere in and control people’s business whenever it feels like it. A new …
Once again, the attempt by Ethiopia’s khat-addicted dictator to sale bond to Ethiopians in the Diaspora in the name of building dam fails to generate even 5% of the expected revenue, according to Ethiopian Review’s investigation.
The first campaign to …
By Messay Kebede
Since the release of Aung San Suu Kyi, the iconic leader of the opposition to the military rule, Burma’s (Myanmar) political evolution has become an important discussion topic for political observers and analysts. Detecting a promising shift …
Hundreds of Ethiopians who took part in the 2011 Great Ethiopian Run in Addis Ababa two weeks ago Sunday turned the annual event into a protest rally against Meles Zenawi’s dictatorship as the video below shows. The Federal Police arrested …
Alemayehu G. Mariam
Portrait of A Poor Country
Lately, the portrait of Ethiopia painted in the reports of Transparency International (Corruption Index) and Global Financial Integrity shows a “Land of Corruption”. That contrasts with an equally revolting portrait of Ethiopia …
(VOA) — North Korea’s official news agency reported Monday that Supreme Leader Kim Jong Il has died at the age of 69.
The Korean Central News Agency said the reclusive dictator died Saturday of a heart attack while on a …
Ethiopians Can Indeed Unite if they are Willing, Part Six (b) of Six—continuation
Aklog Birara, PhD
In Part Six (a), I offered a set of suggestions about our individual and group behaviors that must change in order to advance the …
(VOA) — Amnesty International issued a report today saying that the Ethiopian authorities Woyanne junta have been using anti-terror laws as a pretext to arrest and silence politicians and journalists who criticize government policies.
In a report released Friday, the …
By William Davison
(Bloomberg) — Ethiopia, Africa’s second-most populous nation, lost $3.3 billion to illicit outflows such as bribery and corruption in 2009, Global Financial Integrity said.
Mispricing of trade transactions to facilitate money laundering accounted for $1.9 billion of …
[Updated with some corrections]
By Elias Kifle
An Ethiopian man named Yared (his real name is withheld for his safety) went to Ethiopia a few months ago to sell his family house after his parents moved to the …
By Janice Winter
COP17 is being hailed as “groundbreaking” as a deal was agreed after 14 days of difficult and, at times, deadlocked talks. One of the most contentious issues for Africa was the Green Climate Fund, which will go …
The Timeless Attributes of Nonviolent Resistance Project to Remove Tyrants:
1. Without UNITY, There is no Mass Disobedience.
2. Without Freedom FUND, There is no Self-Liberation Strategy.
3. Without STRATEGY There is no Effective Action.
4. Without Organization (Activists), There …
The following is a list of 20 richest Ethiopians in 2011. The list is compiled by Ethiopian Review Intelligence Unit. Except for a few of the individuals in the list, most of them, particularly the TPLF members, have enriched themselves …
PRESS RELEASE
Swedish mobile VoIP provider Rebtel have announced that they are set to decrease their international call rates to Ethiopia from the 1st December 2011.
As of that date, the cost of calling the country with Rebtel internationally …
At a press conference with representatives of Ethiopian Review and other media on Sunday, the newly elected president of Ethiopian Sports Federation in North American (ESFNA), Ato Getachew Tesfaye, announced that the 2012 soccer tournament will be held in Dallas, …
Alemayehu G. Mariam
Ethio-Corruption, Inc. (Unlimited)
“The people of Ethiopia are being bled dry. No matter how hard they try to fight their way out of absolute destitution and poverty, they will be swimming upstream against the current …
By Elias Kifle
I’ve been observing the effort by the Woyanne junta in Ethiopia to sell bond for financing the construction of a mega dam on the Nile river. One thing I have noticed is that while Woyanne delegates are …
Ethiopians Can Indeed Unite if they Choose, Six (a) of Six
Aklog Birara, PhD
The road ahead calls for sea changes in mindset
I should like to set the framework for the set of specific suggestions promised in Part Five …
Meles Zenawi and his Woyanne junta in Ethiopia have been flooding the state-controlled media with ‘news’ and discussion about the so-called “renaissance dam” (Hidasse Gidib) and is asking Ethiopians to contribute money, some times forcibly confiscating one-month salary from employees. …
(This article is part of an Ethiopian Review weekly series that is intended to highlight and help stop the growing problem of domestic violence in the Ethiopian community.)
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Sometimes courts require abused women to participate in services with their …
Artiste Tamagne Beyene highlights the many lies and contradictions in Woyanne propaganda chief Bereket Simon’s documentary, Akeldama, that accuses journalists and dissidents of plotting to carry out acts of terrorism.
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A civil resistance movement must unify the widest possible spectrum of society around a limited set of achievable goals, and designate for the moment a leadership that has legitimacy to mobilize all these groups in service of those goals… […
Ethiopia lost $11.7 billion to outflows of ill-gotten gains between 2000 and 2009, according to a coming report by Global Financial Integrity.
That’s …
The 2011 Ethiopian Review Top 20 Non-Ethiopians Who are Best Friends of the Struggle for Freedom in Ethiopia.
By Teklemichael Sahlemariam
I do not doubt Ethiopian Review’s account of what happened to Artiste Debebe Eshetu and there is enormous evidence to suggest that TPLF agents abused him into confessing things he did not do. However, I do not …
Awramba Times: More Powerful Than Ten Thousand Bayonets“Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousand bayonets,” fretted Napoleon Bonaparte, dictator of France, as he summed up his determination to crush that country’s independent
…CNN’s Nima Elbagir talks with an exiled Ethiopian journalist Abiye Teklemariam in London who is accused of “terrorism” by Meles Zenawi’s dictatorship in Ethiopoia.
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In a special discussion that was held on Saturday, December 3, Ethiopian Review and Current Affairs Discussion Forum have agreed to launch a joint campaign against Woyanne. The campaign involves social and economic boycott of the Woyanne fascist regime in …
Woyanne ambssador Girma Birru, one of the 20 dumbest regime officials in Ethiopia, had called a public meeting in Minneapolis on Saturday, Dec. 3, to hoodwink some gullible Ethiopians into contributing money to the fake Abay dam project. Upon …
The Woyanne embassy in Washington DC is organizing a meeting in Minneapolis this coming Saturday, Dec. 3, 2011, to sell bond to unsuspecting Ethiopians and some donkeys. Ethiopian Review Intelligence Unit has obtained the following letter that was sent out …
Aklog Birara, PhD
In Part Five (a) of this series, I presented what I believe is a compelling case why the current political and socioeconomic system is inimical to the vast majority of the Ethiopian people. Among other things, the …
Ethiopian Review’s 2011 Person of the Year … click here…
By Elias Kifle
Meles Zenawi regime’s propaganda chief Bereket Simon released a 4-part documentary video this week that accuses journalists and opposition politicians of plotting to carry out terrorist acts (One only needs to read what the U.S. Gov’t says …
By Abebe Gellaw
After the news about the first known politically motivated self-immolation in Ethiopian history spread across the globe like wild fire, the shock-wave the rare tragedy caused has been unprecedented. As much as 29-year old Yenesew Gebre’s self-sacrifice …
The Woyanne propaganda machinery that is accused by a U.S. ambassador, among others, of exploding bombs and blaming opposition groups, has released a new 4-part fiction on “terrorism” this week. The following is one of them. It is a well-known …
(This article is part of an Ethiopian Review weekly series that is intended to highlight and help stop the growing problem of domestic violence in the Ethiopian community.)
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Abusers often do not take responsibility for their behavior. They blame …
By Elias Kifle
Meles Zenawi and his Woyanne junta have a disturbing, and some times comical, obsession with Eritrea. They blame the Eritrean government for every bad thing that is happening to them. They like to call their opponents, such …
The 2011 Ethiopian Review Top 20 Dumbest Politicians in Ethiopia
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Hailemariam Desalegn, deputy prime minister of the Woyanne regime, comes from the Wolayita ethnic group in southern Ethiopia, allows himself to be used by his boss Meles Zenawi …
First, Why is Africa Poor?
George Ayittey, the renowned Ghanaian economist and president of the Free Africa Foundation swears that “Africa is poor because she is not free”. Like Ayittey, Robert Guest, business editor for The Economist, in his book …
The Ethiopian Youth National Movement (EYNM) invites you to a public meeting that will be held today, Sunday, Nov 27, 2011.
Venue: Sheraton National Hotel, 900 South Orme Street, Arlington, VA 22204
Date: November 27 (Sunday)
Time: 2 pm – …
Why Ethiopians Must Unite, Part Five (a) of Five
Aklog Birara, PhD
“Give a man a fish and he will eat it for a day. Teach a man to fish and he will eat for a life time.”
Confucius
In …
Ethiopian Review’s 2011 Person of the Year choice will be announced next month. Person of the Year choice has been Ethiopian Review’s annual tradition for the past many years. The criteria for selecting Person of the Year is that the …
(This article is part of an Ethiopian Review weekly series that is intended to highlight and help stop the growing problem of domestic violence in the Ethiopian community.)
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People who abuse their intimate partners may also abuse their children. …
Egypt’s Ministry of Health reports at leasts 30 deaths in since Saturday as second round of uprising engulfed Cairo. Egyptian military leaders promised to hasten transition to civilian rule. Al Jazeera reports:
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By Ted Debirhan
I read Dr. Akolg Birara’s five-part series entitled “Why Ethiopians must unite?” with profound interest. The most monotonously used cliché in the Ethiopian opposition discourse, unity, has been hard to establish in the past 20 years. Some …
By Messay Kebede
I am surprised that the Woyanne regime does not see how unfailingly the shameful propaganda machine unleashed to discredit Yenesew Gebre’s political message is bound to fall flat. The attempt to describe his self-immolation as the act …
Ethiopia’s khat-addicted dictator is once against embarking on a military adventure in Somalia. The 2006 invasion ended in total disaster and defeat for Woyanne, causing the slaughter of over 30,000 Somali civilians and displacing 2 million people. This time Meles …
(Bloomberg) — The managing editor of an independent Ethiopian newspaper fled to the U.S. because he fears his pardon by the government will be revoked.
“I wanted to live in my beloved country,” Dawit Kebede said in an …
Give me Liberty or Give me Death!
On 11/11/11, Yenesew Gebre, a 29 year-old Ethiopian school teacher and human rights activist set himself ablaze outside a public meeting hall in the town of Tarcha located in Dawro Zone in Southern …
TRIPOLI, Libya (New York Times) — Libya’s transitional government said Saturday that its fighters in the southwestern desert had captured Seif al-Islam el-Qaddafi, the last fugitive son and onetime heir apparent of Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi.
In a scene of celebration …
Senior leader of the Ethiopian Orthodox Church Abune Mekarios has called on Ethiopians to prayer for Yenesew Gebre, the Ethiopian teacher who burned himself to death to protest Meles Zenawi regime’s injustice (ESAT – 18 Nov. 2011). Listen below:
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Meles Zenawi’s regime said that Yenesew Gebre, the Ethiopian teacher who burned himself to death to protest the gross injustice in Ethiopia, was a mental patient, according to VOA. Listen below:
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Woyanne prosecutor presents what it claims as audio/video ‘evidence’ at Elias Kifle et al kangaroo court hearing in Addis Ababa on Wednesday, 16 November 2011 – DW Radio. Listen below:
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Aklog Birara, PhD
“Ethiopia’s long-awaited democracy has stalled over the last half decade…Today; there are fewer constraints on the EPRDF’s power than at any time in its 20 year rule.”
Leonardo Arriola, Countries at the Cross-roads, 2011
The above sums …
Ethiopian Review is increasingly becoming a major target of the Woyanne tribal junta because of our aggressive reporting of the regime’s crimes against the people of Ethiopia. The onslaught by the tribal bandits include fabricated accusations, false charges, and kangaroo …
BBC World Service reports about Yenesew Gebre, the Ethiopian teacher who burned himself to protest violations of his civil rights by Meles Zenawi’s regime in Ethiopia. Listen below:
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(This article is part of an Ethiopian Review weekly series that is intended to highlight and help stop the growing problem of domestic violence in the Ethiopian community.)
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Local domestic violence programs are a valuable resource. They provide confidential…
Yenesew Gebre, the 29-year-old teacher in southern western Ethiopia who burned himself Friday after being subjected to unbearable abuse and injustice by the Meles regime, was buried this afternoon. Meles Zenawi’s security forces prevented his family members and friends from …
An Ethiopian teacher named Yenesew Gebre, who was said to be subjected to constant abuse and injustice by Meles Zenawi’s regime, has burned himself Friday in the southern Ethiopian town of Waka. Details by ESAT:
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By Alemayehu G Mariam
Remember June and November, 2005
“The world is a dangerous place to live, not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don’t do anything about it,” cautioned Albert Einstein. Because …
Abebe Tola, one of the most prominent columnist and satirist in Ethiopia, was forced to leave his country this week. Abebe, who uses the pen name Abe Tokichaw, told AddisNeger that he didn’t even have the chance to say …
ESAT reports Woyanne kangaroo court hearing on the trial of Elias Kifle et al (08 Nov. 2011)
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The following information is the newly launched radio program:
1. ESAT Short Wave radio, 7 days a week, one hour a day program
2. ESAT 24 hours of Satellite audio broadcast to Ethiopia.
Frequency Details
7 days a week, one …
The Woyanne ruling junta in Ethiopia is relentlessly trying to control people’s access to independent media. Among its first targets were news web sites such EthiopianReview.com that have been blocked in Ethiopia for the past five years. Woyanne then went …
Tinsae Ethiopia Patriots Union executive committee member Col. Abebe Geresu speaks with Helina Radio about Woyanne attempt to foster animosity among the various Ethiopian ethnic groups, particularly between the Oromo and Amhara. Click here to listen the interview. …
By Aklog Birara, PhD
In part three of this series, I indicated that there are major social and economic hurdles ordinary Ethiopians face each day that should compel Ethiopian opposition groups within and outside the country and the rest of …
(AFP) – Ethiopian authorities The Woyanne junta charged 24 people with terrorism offenses Thursday including an opposition politician and a journalist, a government spokesman said.
“They are accused under the anti-terrorism law of being members of a terrorist network and …
Kenya Wildlife Service rangers in Taveta, a boarder town in southern Kenya, have arrested 35 Ethiopian immigrants. The immigrants were arrested at the Tsavo West national park. Sources said that they had been trailed for several hours by KWS rangers …
(This article is part of an Ethiopian Review weekly series that is intended to highlight and help stop the growing problem of domestic violence in the Ethiopian community.)
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Many people who are abused by their intimate partner just want …
By Hiyawkal Gizachew
“Why would I want advice from a stranger? All counselors do is nod their heads and ask questions.” These are some of the myths people have about the counseling profession. The dictionary describes counseling as the provision …
By Messay Kebede
What I have grown to dislike is the reading of articles predicting the imminent collapse of Meles and his regime. Often written by people who sound serious, the articles affirm, with a nauseating regularity, that the regime …
The case of Solomon Tekalign – a person who sold his country for crumb. a sellout
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Alemayehu G. Mariam
A Plague of Thieves Visited on Africa
For the past four decades, a plague of cold-blooded thieves has descended upon Africa like a swarm of blood sucking ticks. These thieves masquerading as leaders have been trafficking in …
The Woyanne junta in Ethiopia has secretly printed over 50 billion birr in preparation for further devaluation of the Ethiopian currency, according to Ethiopian Review Intelligence Unit’s sources. News of the planned devaluation started to leak this weak, causing anxiety …
Artiste Tamage Beyene at ESAT special meeting in Washington DC, 30 Oct. 2011
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Ethiopians of all backgrounds who reside in Washington DC and surrounding areas are cordially invited to this important public meeting. The objectives of the meeting are to come to an understanding and agreement on the steps that need to be …
Pushing for what it says is as a way for needed economic development and the betterment of
indigenous populations, the corrupt Ethiopian regime has put up vast hectares of ancestral or heritage farmlands and pastures for lease to the highest …
Ethiopian Satellite TV (ESAT) held a special meeting in Washington DC last Sunday. Watch the report below:
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What is Domestic Violence?
Domestic violence is when one person does a variety of things to control another person in an intimate relationship. The shift in power can happen very slowly, over a period of time, so that the other …
Why is it that activists who have the vision of bringing political freedom to their people should so rarely prepare a comprehensive strategic plan to achieve that goal? Unfortunately, often most people in democratic opposition groups do not understand the …
By Elias Kifle
One can conclude that domestic violence in the Ethiopian and Eritrean communities has reached an epidemic level after reading a stream of news over the past couple of years about men killing their wives and girlfriends. I …
The Woyanne chigaram regime is fomenting resentment between Rastafarians and other Ethiopians in Shashemene. Some Rastafarians are now relocating to other African countries, like Ghana and South Africa, where the governments are more accommodating.
Rastafarians make it life’s goal to …
Why Ethiopians must unite
Part three of five
Aklog Birara, PhD
“In addition to its complete dominance of local and national government institutions, a number of large businesses are linked to the ruling party, either directly or through family members.” …
KETV in Omaha, Nebraska, reports that currently close to 20 percent of Ethiopian children are orphans and 1 in 8 die before they reach the age of 5.
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Alemayehu G. Mariam
In February 2011, at the onset of the Libyan Revolution, Moamar Gadhaffi trumpeted to the world, “They love me. All my people with me, they love me. They will die to protect …
By James Eng | MSNBC
Sometime on Oct. 31, the world’s population is projected to hit 7 billion. Is that numerical milestone a cause for celebration or concern?
A little bit of both, according to the United Nations Population Fund.…