Ethiopia, Kenya and the leadership vacuum. By Yilma Bekele
Somalia would take a long time to recover and start acting like a Nation. Kenya the sane among the group has entered the warring Nations club. South Sudan has become a …
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Ethiopia, Kenya and the leadership vacuum.
The Diaspora as a teacher
By Yilma Bekele
There are a lot of Ethiopians outside of their homeland. I have not seen a reliable statistics to tell us the real number, but there is no hiding from the fact that we have become a Nation …
Tagged with: African Dictators, Ethiopia Democracy, Ethiopia Dictatorship, ethiopian diaspora, exile, Somalia
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Ethiopia: The Art of War by Mass Distraction
Alemayehu G. Mariam
The Common People Don’t Want War
At the Nuremberg Trials in 1945, Hermann Goering, Hitler’s right-hand man, told his interrogator:
…Naturally the common people don’t want war. That is understood. But, after all, it is the leaders
Somalia threatens to degenerate
By FRED OLUOCH | The East African
The insecurity in Somalia is fast threatening regional peace, with calls for international intervention to avert a continental crisis.
Kenya, Ethiopia and Djibouti are at most risk because of their porous borders, the …
Somali members of parliament stranded in Kenya
ADDIS ABABA, ETHIOPIA – More than 200 Somalian parliamentarians have found themselves stranded in Nairobi, lacking the money to pay for air tickets for their return home, BBC reported Friday.
Citing a spokesman for the parliamentarians, who had attended an …
Tagged with: Addis Ababa, ethio, Ethiopia News, Kenya, Nairobi, Somali, Somalia
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Bomb blast wounds Somali official, kills 3 guards in Baidoa
MOGADISHU (AFP) — At least five people were killed Saturday in a roadside bomb attack targeting a local official in the Somali town of Baidoa, south of Mogadishu, witnesses and police said.
The blast went off as district commissioner Hasan …
Eight people killed at Kenyan border-town fighting
Source: APA
At least eight Kenyan Somalis have been killed in renewed fighting between two Somali clans in and outside the north-eastern Kenyan city of Mandera bordering Somalia early on Wednesday morning, a source from Mandera told APA in Mogadishu.…
Group says US used Woyanne for dirty work
by Matt Brown, The National
NAIROBI // Nestled somewhere among the green hillsides of Addis Ababa, Ethiopia’s capital, is a cluster of small detention centres, where detainees have languished for almost two years without being charged.
The detention centres are …
UN worker assassinated in Somalia
An engineer working for the UN in Somalia has died in the latest of a series of assassination-style killings of aid workers.
The Somali official, employed by UN childrens’ fund, Unicef, was shot several times in the head …
Saudi Denies Shipping Arms to Somalia
By Matthew Russell Lee
Inner City Press
UNITED NATIONS – Information about the Horn of Africa flowed Wednesday in the half-light outside the UN Security Council, after an uneventful session about Sudan and Guinea-Bissau. Unprompted, the representative of Saudi Arabia …
Meles orders full withdrawal from Somalia
EDITOR’S NOTE: This is a glorious moment for the people of Somalia. A job well done for kicking Woyanne invaders out of your country. Ethiopian Review sends heartfelt congratulations to Somali freedom fights who stood up and fought the Woyanne …
Ethiopia: Meles orders full withdrawal from Somalia
By Steve Bloomfield, Sunday Herald
SOMALIA’S FRAGILE government appears to be on the brink of collapse. Islamist insurgents now controls large parts of southern and central Somalia – and are continuing to launch attacks inside the capital, Mogadishu.
Ethiopia Woyanne, …
Woyanne turned Somalia into the worst state in the world
EDITOR’S NOTE: As if terrorizing and starving millions of Ethiopians is not enough, the regime of Tigrean People Liberation Front (Woyanne) – supported by the U.S. State Department and the World Bank – has invaded Somalia and turned it into …
Army raids Mogadishu market in search of weapons
MOGADISHU (AFP) — Columns of joint Ethiopia-Somali forces scoured for weapons in the capital’s main market on Monday to stem an escalating insurgency that has killed at least 60 people in five days.
The troops blocked roads then swooped from …