May 29, 2007

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Tue May 29, 2007
By Guled Mohamed

MOGADISHU, May 29 (Reuters) – Gunmen killed a court official in Mogadishu in the latest rebel attack targeting authorities in the chaotic Somali capital, witnesses said on Tuesday.

Sheikh Mohamed Muse Duale, the …

Feeling right at home
Foreign-born physicians filling a need in Delaware
By LULADEY B. TADESSE, The News Journal
Tuesday, May 29, 2007

Dr. Isaias Irgau, who fled his native Ethiopia at the age of 16, received his medical training in …

Tuesday May 29, 2007 7:46 PM
By ANITA POWELL
Associated Press Writer

ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia (AP) – Ethiopia began counting its population Tuesday, a daunting task in a country where asking personal questions is considered socially taboo but where the …

ADDIS ABABA, 29 May 2007 (IRIN) – Ethiopia began a nine-day national census on 29 May to determine demographic trends in the country, but the exercise was delayed in Afar and Somali, officials said.

“Due to the mobility of their …

The Associated Press
Published: May 28, 2007

MOGADISHU, Somalia: Two explosions and a prolonged gunbattle shook northern Mogadishu overnight, leaving two people dead, officials and witnesses said Monday, while police killed two other men suspected of robbing civilians.

Government officials …

ANITA POWELL, AP News

Thousands of Ethiopians gathered in the capital on Sunday to remember victims of a brutal Marxist junta, weeping at the sight of flower-covered coffins with remains from mass graves across the country.

The service marked the …

Ethnicity as the main cause of the problems following the period 1991

By Abeje Tesfaye

I wrote this piece after the religious crisis in Jimma last year. It appears to me that more of such a crisis will happen now …

By TIMOTHY WILLIAMS

The New York Times

Published: May 27, 2007

A 24-year-old New Jersey man who traveled to Somalia to help establish an Islamic state there but was instead imprisoned by three different nations, was released Friday and returned …

I followed Ato Gebremedhin Araya’s interview on Tinsaye Radio (May 24) based on Abaye Tsehai’s recent interview with Dimtsi Woyane.

The claim by Abaye Tsehai that TPLF has been a fighting and business force that profited from business deal early …

International Herald Tribune 

Oil companies, both western and Asian, are hunting in earnest for oil and gas in East Africa, a still largely under-explored region, as energy nationalism in Russia, Venezuela and the Middle East closes off opportunities in more …

BBC Special Report

In hiding

Blink and you will miss the underground children in Ethiopia’s capital city.

They live in tunnels, sewers and drainage holes, hidden beneath Addis Ababa’s teeming streets.

They move from one makeshift shelter to the next, …

Ato Solomon Tekalegn declared himself a patriot when he arrived in Addis this week and was heard saying that the whole Addis is shaking on his victorious arrival.

On the thirty minutes video interview he gave on the EriTV two …

von William Wallis (London)

FTD.de, 22.05.2007

China’s funding to Africa is becoming increasingly controversial.

Chinese state companies have been expanding across the African continent in pursuit of raw materials at an accelerating pace and with apparently far less attention to …

Two Ethiopian rebel groups carried out a joint military operation against the Tigray People’s Liberation Front (Woyanne) army in the eastern part of the country. A rebel statement alleged 157 soldiers were killed during the attack.

In a joint military …

By Tadeos Daniel

In several papers published in the current issue of the British Journal of Health Psychology, scholars from the US and the UK refuted the controversial study of Satoshi Kanazawa that attempted to link health to intelligence.  …

By Tadeos Daniel

In several papers published in the current issue of the British Journal of Health Psychology, scholars from the US and the UK refuted the controversial study of Satoshi Kanazawa that attempted to link health to intelligence.  …

May 19, 2007

Kuwait Times
May 17, 2007

RIYADH: Saudi authorities yesterday beheaded two Ethiopians convicted of killing a Saudi national in an armed robbery and displayed their bodies in public after the execution, the Interior Ministry said in a statement. The statement, …

The 99 illegal immigrants detained by Tanzanian immigration officers and local police have turned out to be Ethiopian civilians instead of previously alleged Somali militiamen.

The Tanzania ministry for home affairs said in a press statement, available on Wednesday, that …

CARSON, Calif. (May 15) – Olympic gold medalist Meseret Defar has committed to run in the adidas Track Classic this Sunday, May 20, organizers have announced. Meseret comes to California with an eye on breaking the 2-Mile World Record.

Meseret …

The elected are still in Jail: Shame on all of us!

Democracy still in jail

It is exactly two years since Ethiopia experienced one of the most open elections in its history. All of us who expected finally our country …

A group of Ethiopian political, civic, and media groups, as well as civil rights activists and religious leaders are holding weekly conferences to discuss how to receive the Ethiopian millennium (Ethiopia 2000) this coming September.

So far, the group has …

By Hibret Selamu

Various websites have reported that Khadija Ibrahim Moussa, an Ethiopian woman, has been beheaded by the Saudi regime.

The report alleges that she was beheaded for killing an Egyptian after a dispute. However, no further information is …

By Prof. Adugnaw Worku

The month was October and the year was 1971. And my life was about to take a sharp turn with unintended long term consequences. That month and that year, I received two important documents I was …

Rebecca Haile, daughter of Professor Getatchew Haile, has just published an engaging book on Ethiopia , entitled “Held at a Distance: My Rediscovery of Ethiopia.”

The book is available on Amazon and other book sites now and will be in …

Subcommittee on International Organizations, Human Rights, and Oversight
Bill Delahunt (D-MA), Chairman

Subcommittee on Africa and Global Health
Donald M. Payne (D-NJ), Chairman

You are respectfully requested to attend the following OPEN hearing of the Subcommittee on International Organizations, Human …

The Associated Press

RIYADH, Saudi Arabia: Saudi authorities beheaded Wednesday an Ethiopian woman convicted of killing an Egyptian man over a dispute, the Interior Ministry said in a statement.

Khadija Bint Ibrahim Moussa was found guilty of fatally stabbing Mohammed …

By Tedla Asfaw

When I came across a pro government website accusing Elias Kifle of Ethiopian Review inciting Ethiopians to destroy big hotels and mines owned by Sheik Almoudi, a bank roller of the EPRDF/TPLF, I went to the Addis …

The Massachusetts Legislature has adopted a resolution introduced by State Representative William Brownsberger on May 3rd, 2007, memoralizing Congress to demand that Ethiopia’s government meet its obligations under the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Click below to read the resolution…

Dear ER readers,

As a result of Ethiopian Review’s aggressive reporting of the Woyanne crimes against the people of Ethiopia, the tribal bandits and their opportunist collaborators are unleashing all kinds of attacks against us–fabricated accusations, false charges, lawsuits, death …

Source: CPJ

The top 10 worst countries for press freedom are Ethiopia, Gambia, Russia, Democratic Republic of Congo, Cuba, Pakistan, Egypt, Azerbaijan, Morocco and Thailand, a US-based media watchdog said.

“The behaviour of all of these countries is deeply troubling, …

Source: CPJ

The top 10 worst countries for press freedom are Ethiopia, Gambia, Russia, Democratic Republic of Congo, Cuba, Pakistan, Egypt, Azerbaijan, Morocco and Thailand, a US-based media watchdog said.

“The behaviour of all of these countries is deeply troubling, …