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 is no Capacity to Translate Strategy into Reality.
5. Action without Nonviolent DISCIPLINE Leads to Chaos and Vandalism… [read more]
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 through corruption and outright thievery. Girma Birru and Tadesse Haile, for example, forced construction companies to make them partners if they want to win bid for government projects. These are the parasites who made Ethiopia one of the poorest nations in the world. Only Eyob Mamo, who owns most of the gas stations in the Washington DC Metro Area, became rich through sheer hard work, business savvy, and some luck. Omer Ali, Ketema Kebede, and Minwuyelet Atnafu are not affiliated with the ruling party, but they pay huge sums of money to Azeb Mesfin and the other TPLF thugs to keep working inside the country.
The 20 Richest Ethiopian in 2011
(The net worth amount is in U.S. dollar)
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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 will fall by almost a quarter from $0.2050 to $0.1590 per minute.
Ethiopia is an important market for Rebtel
This announcement is just the latest in a raft of cuts to international call costs to the country announced by Rebtel over the past few years. In December 2009, Rebtel announced that they were slashing their initial rate by 20% and then three months later, in February 2010, the rates were again cut by a further 6%.
Since October 2009, the Ethiopian market has proven to be a crucial one for the company. Rebtel has seen an increase in international call traffic to the country of over 400% in that two year period. That increase has meant that the Ethiopian call market is now the fifth largest destination in terms of call volume for Rebtel.
Rebtel pricing manager Mickael Rosengren also revealed that 90% of the calls made to Ethiopia originate from the United States and that the average length of an international call with Rebtel to the African country is around nine minutes.
This sustained growth in the number of users making calls with Rebtel to Ethiopia, not to mention many other destinations, has allowed the company to pass on the savings it makes to them, through the new price cuts.
Lowest rates on the market
Rebtel are able to keep call costs lower than their competitors are by harnessing the power of the Internet. Rather than transmitting calls by expensive telephony lines under the sea, Rebtel transmit the call digitally via the Internet, ensuring the cost of the international part of the call is much lower.
The result of this innovation is two-fold, firstly the quality of the calls is much better and secondly, using the Internet to transmit the calls means it is a much cheaper way of staying in contact than using traditional phone lines or satellites.
Strong US presence
It is interesting to note Rebtel have a strong US base of clients who call Ethiopia, and many other countries on a regular basis. Of course, part of that is that the US has a large percentage of Ethiopians living on US soil, but equally important is the fact that Rebtel have nurtured a growing base of customers in the US, who are impressed with the value of the service and the quality of the calls they receive.
From the 1st December 2011, these people will continue to receive a great service from Rebtel, but now at an even cheaper price than ever before.
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, Texas, next July.
Ato Getachew, and the new head of ESFNA public relations, Ato Yohannes Berhanu, said that ESFNA selected Dallas among Denver, Las Vegas, Los Angeles and other cities, based on several criteria, including the level of preparedness by the local Ethiopian community to host the event.
To the question posed by Ethiopian Review regarding what steps the new executive committee has taken to stamp out corruption and free ESFNA from the influence by the Woyanne junta, Ato Getachew answered that ESFNA’s books are open for inspection by the media, and that the new leadership will make sure that the organization will no longer be influenced by any political party.
Congratulations to ESFNA board for cleansing itself off Woyanne and al Amoudi thugs.
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 trying to hoodwink gullible Amharas, Oromos, Guraghes, Tigreans and others into buying the bond, Woyanne Tigreans are in a hurry to take their money out of the country, let alone buy any bond that will have no value as soon as Woyanne is gone. Is it because Woyanne Tigreans and Egyptians — who are conspicuously quite about the project — know what we don’t know about the “dam”?
Ethiopian Review Intelligence Unit is busy investigating the matter. The preliminary result of our investigation so far shows that Meles and Bereket are spending more money promoting the “dam” than actually building it. This is on top of the information we just received that Bereket has received $40 million to wage a propaganda campaign to improve Woyanne’s image, while labeling journalists and dissidents as terrorists.
Watch some fools in London buying bond in the video below:
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. The junta has also been sending delegates to Diaspora to sell government bonds to “finance” the project. Since almost every thing that comes out of the Woyanne progapanda machine headed by Bereket Simon is a lie, to find out if there is really a construction project going, Ethiopian Review recently dispatched members of its Intelligence Unit to Benishangul-Gumuz, western Ethiopia.
Woyannes say that the construction started 2 and half years ago in secrecy under the name “Project X.” In April 2011, they renamed the project “Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam.” In the previous month, March 2011, Salini Construttori was awarded $4.8 billion to construct the dam. However, as the photos below show, two and half years after the construction is said to have started, there is no major activity at the site where Woyanne media is telling us that the dam is being constructed 24/7. The few hundred construction workers spend most of their day chewing khat and fighting off mosquitoes. They get busy only when visitors and camera crew arrive. No Wonder Egyptians are quite. (Photo: Ethiopian Review Intelligence Unit)
