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Proving them wrong – the Ethiopian way.
Proving them wrong – the Ethiopian way. By Yilma Bekele
They say all kinds of bad stuff about us. It is said so many times and so often some of us start to believe the lie. That is always the …
Tagged with: al amoudi, Dictator Meles Zenawi, dictatorship, Ethiopia Democracy, ethiopian diaspora, Meles Zenawi, TPLF, Woyanne, yilma bekele
Posted in Ethiopia News
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Al Amoudi companies that are looting Ethiopia
The group of companies listed below are owned by Saudi agent Al Amoudi. These 40 companies are currently busy looting and plundering Ethiopia in partnership with the Woyanne apartheid junta. In the meantime, Al Amoudi’s puppet-masters in Saudi Arabia savagely …
DLA Piper, a hired gun for rogue nations
A Newsweek article by Joshua Kurlantzick points out the shameful activities of some law/lobbying firms in Washington DC that are hired guns for criminal regimes around the world who are terrorizing their people. The most notorious among them is DLA …
DLA Piper back in London court to harass Ethiopian Review
DLA Piper goes to a London court again representing the Woyanne junta and their money launderer and fellow thief Mohammed Al Amoudi to harass me and try to shut down Ethiopian Review (see here). Last time, in 2011, …
Ethiopia lost $3.4 billion through capital flight in 2010 – University of Massachusetts
In a new report released this month, the University of Massachusetts at Amherst revealed that Ethiopia loses over a billion dollar every year through capital flight and in 2010 alone, USD $3.4 billion have vanished. It is not secret who …
African land grab leads to famine: Obang’s address to conference in Germany
Obang Metho speaks about Land, Water and Resource-Grabbing and Its Impact on Food Security in Africa
At the 1st Africa Congress on Effective Cooperation for a Green Africa in Bremerhaven, Germany
Solidarity Movement for a New Ethiopia (SMNE)
Thank you …
Tagged with: Addis Ababa, al amoudi, ethio, Ethiopia News, Meles Zenawi, VOA amharic
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Al Amoudi back to drinking and partying
The drunkard billionaire sheik Mohamed Al Amoudi, best friend of the late Ethiopian dictator Meles Zenawi, is back to partying, getting drunk and making a fool out of himself.
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Discussion on Ethiopian Review investigation of Al Amoudi’s disappearance
Some Ethiopian Review readers expressed concerned that our report on Al Amoudi’s disappearance might have been contaminated by a Woyanne disinformation campaign. As we reported earlier, it appears the billionaire and business partner of the late Ethiopian dictator Meles Zenawi …
Al Amoudi is alive (video)
Billionaire Mohammed Al Amoudi appears to be alive — and well enough to continue looting and plundering Ethiopia. The following video was recorded by Bereket Simon’s rat named Ben at Bole Airport today.
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Al Amoudi upate
Ethiopia First website editor named Ben claims that he saw Al Amoudi today at Bole Airport and presented the photo below as evidence. Ben is Bereket Simon’s apprentice, so it is hard to believe any thing that comes from him. …
Addis Ababa abuzz over the news of Al Amoudi’s death/disappearance
Here is what we have been able to gather so far:
1. The biggest news in Addis Ababa and other cities in Ethiopia yesterday and today has been the reported death/disappearance of Ethiopian-Saudi Billionaire Mohammed Al Amoudi, even though the …
Bereket Simon office denies Al Amoudi is dead
Ethiopian Review editor has called Bereket Simon’s office this morning to verify if the TPLF regime propaganda minister knows whether Ethiopian-Saudi billionaire Al Amoudi is dead. His assistant refused to connect us to Bereket but denied the report. Click here …
BREAKING NEWS: Al Amoudi is dead
Ethio-Saudi billionaire Ato Mohamed Al Amoudi, one of the late dictator Meles Zenawi’s closest friends, has died today in Saudi Arabia after receiving medical treatment in London, Ethiopian Review Intelligence Unit sources reported this afternoon.
Ethiopian Review could not confirm …
Meles Zenawi, Corruption, Blood Money, and USAID
We ask you as Ethiopians and Americans please stop supporting tyranny in Ethiopia and corruption in America by Ethiopians.
by Teddy Fikre dated: Friday, July 13th, 2012
September 11th did not occur on September 11th 2001. Rather, the …
AESA One: Ye Dem Genzeb Men Geza?
You can sleep with the pharaoh or you can stand for the people—I will not let you do both!
by Teddy (revolutionary) Fikre dated: Monday, July 9th, 2012
It is done! A war I started a week ago has been …
Al Amoudi’s Woyanne festival update (video)
UPDATE (6 July 2012, 04:00 PM EST): Today was promoted to be the biggest day in the week-long AESAONE festival in Washington DC that is funded by the beggar Woyanne junta in Ethiopia. As the video below shows, the very …
Feeding Ethiopia to Lyons
Feeding Ethiopia to Lyons
Challenge duplicity where you see it and speak up against people like Professor Lyons who stand in league with tyrants and pygmy dictators like Meles Zenawi.
by Teddy Fikre dated: Friday, July 6th, 2012
Colonialism. Did …
Jeezy performs at Al Amoudi festival
Jeezy is one of the the well-known American rappers who are paid close to a million dollars to perform at AESAONE event in Washington DC this week. The event, that is fully funded by Al Amoudi and the Woyanne junta …
Only 100 people attended Al Amoudi’s festival – Washington Post
The guests of honor at the RFK tournament are members of the 1962 Ethiopian national soccer team, the country’s only team to win the Africa Cup of Nations. When four of them took their seats Sunday before the opening ceremonies, …
Paradigm Shift: TPLF Intimidation No More
The time has come for an Adwa Spring, what started with a joke of a soccer tournament come cultural sham has transformed into something bigger::
by Teddy Fikre dated: Tuesday, July 2nd, 2012
Do you feel that? Feel what you
ESFNA rocks Dallas
The Ethiopian Sports Federation in North America (ESFNA) opened its annual soccer tournament on Sunday, July 1st, in Dallas, Texas, with a big fanfare. I have been to several ESFNA events in the past, and I am sure many people …
Al Amoudi Woyanne festival in DC a total failure (video)
The festival that is organized in Washington DC under the name of AESAONE by Al Amoudi and Woyanne thugs, in collaboration with a bunch of hoodlums, turned into total failure on its opening day this afternoon. After spending over $2 …
Tagged with: al amoudi, dla piper, ethio, Ethiopia News, ethiopian airlines, Meles Zenawi
Posted in Ethiopia News
Posted in Ethiopia News
Protest rally at the Al Amoudi Woyanne festival in DC – Sunday, 5 PM
If you are angry at the Woyanne kangaroo court’s decision against Andualeam Arage and others, here is the chance to do some thing about it. Turn your anger into action.
Patriotic Ethiopians in the Washington DC area are organizing a …
Ethiopian Review frustrates the Woyanne junta – William Davison
In some cases, such as that of Ethiopian Review, it’s apparent why official frustration at the media boils over. The US-based website, the Ethiopian Review is virulently opposed to Meles’s regime, which has ruled the country since helping overthrow a …
The Al Amoudi festival in DC is managed by DLA Piper (photo)
The Al Amoudi-Woyanne blood money festival in Washington DC that is scheduled to start this coming Sunday afternoon under the name AESNONE is being managed by DLP Piper, the notorious U.S. law firm based in Washington DC that represents genocidal …
ESAT discussion on boycotting Al Amoudi festival in DC
ESAT discusses economic boycott against the Woyanne junta in Ethiopia, and particularly the boycott campaign that is currently underway against the Al Amoudi-sponsored blood money festival in Washington DC. The discussion is with Ethiopian Review editor Elias Kifle and Boycott …
Sew Tefah? Ethiopia Motech?
The choice is simple, be about Hebret and charity or take part in evil and do Eskista as you protest AESA One as everyone—including me—laughs at you::
by Teddy (Ambessa) Fikre dated: Tuesday, June 26th, 2012
I am writing this …
Yachi Neger: Ethiopia Killers by the Name of AESA One
Yachi Neger is a condom called our conscience, if we wear it we can reside in the grace of God or we can disrobe from this same condom and dwell in the abode of Saytan::
by Teddy Fikre dated: Friday, …
Boycott Al Amoudi’s festival in Washington DC
የአላሙዲ አሽከሮች በዋሽንግተን ዲሲ ባዘጋጁት የወያኔ ፌስቲቫል ላይ ሀገር ወዳድ ኢትዮጵያውያን እንዳይሳተፉ የቀረበ ጥሪ
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የኢትዮጵያ ስፖርት ፌዴሬሽን ዓመታዊ ዝግጅት በዳላስ ቴክሳስ ከጁላይ 1 – 7፥ እንዲሁም የኢትዮጵያ ሄሪቴጅ በዋሽንግተን ዲሲ ከጁላይ 27 – 29 ይካሄዳሉ። እነዚህን የኢትዮጵያውያን …
New Fashion Trend: Habesha Men Wearing Habesha Kemis
Two years ago in America, it was the year of the “metrosexual”, it seems we have arrived at a new day, we have arrived at the age of the “Habeshasexual”::
by Yohannes Aramaji dated: Thursday, June 21st, 2012
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Discussion on Al Amoudi blood money festival in Washington DC
Saudi agent Al Amoudi, in collaboration with Woyanne junta leaders Meles Zenawi and Azeb Mesfin, is pillaging and looting Ethiopia by creating over 40 mega corporations during the past 20 years, while forcing into exile so many hard working Ethiopian …
When we were the achievers
By Yilma Bekele
I am always harking back to the pleasant years of our past. Believe me it not being nostalgic rather it is the lack of good news that makes me reach deep to salvage a little bit of …
Tagged with: al amoudi, ethio, Ethiopia Democracy, Ethiopia Dictatorship, Ethiopia News, Ethiopian economy, Meles Zenawi, self reliance Ethiopia, yilma bekele
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Ethiopia for sale – Graham Peebles
The Ethiopian Land Giveaway – OpEd
What’s yours is mine, what’s mine’s my own
By Graham Peebles | Eurasia Review
It is a colonial phenomenon, appropriate land for the needs of the colonists and to hell with those living upon …
Tagged with: al amoudi, ethio, Ethiopia News, ethiopian airlines, Meles Zenawi
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Oakland Institue asks Obama not to support Ethiopia land grab
Obama Urged to Reassess Ethiopian Relations Over Land Evictions
By William Davison | Bloomberg News
The U.S. should reassess its support for the government of Ethiopia, amid concern that more than half a million people are being evicted to make
Al Amoudi employees, Pakistanis, attacked in Gambella
EDITOR’S NOTE: The Woyanne regime-controlled Ethiopian News Agency (ENA) reported today that several employees, including Pakistani nationals, working for Al Amoudi in the southwestern Ethiopian region of Gambella have been killed and wounded by an armed group last night. Read …
Rebels attacked Al Amoudi’s farm in southwest Ethiopia
By William Davison
(Bloomberg) – Gunmen attacked the camp of an agricultural company owned by a Saudi billionaire Al Amoudi in southwest Ethiopia, killing at least one person, Federal Affairs Minister Shiferaw Teklemariam said.
The assault on Saudi Star Agricultural …
Clearing out the Al Amoudi trash
Removing the Al Amoudi and Woyanne thugs from the Ethiopian Sports Federation in North America (ESFNA) is a major victory that must be replicated in all other Ethiopian organizations and places of worship. The fight is hard, but we are …
Court ordered Al Amoudi thugs to stop using ESFNA
A U.S. court ordered Al Amoudi thugs to stop using the name Ethiopian Sports Federation in North America (ESFNA) and any reference to it. After the ESFNA board kicked out the Woyanne-Al Amoudi cadres and thugs from the organization, they …
Amhara cannibalized by hodam Amharas
By Elia Kifle
The recent ethnic cleansing of 78,000 Ethiopians of the Amhara ethnic group from southern Ethiopia by the Woyanne junta is a horrible crime. Ethiopian Review has been reporting similar ethnic cleansing campaigns against other Ethiopian ethnic groups, …
Tagged with: al amoudi, ethio, Ethiopia News, ethiopian airlines, Meles Zenawi
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Lebanese men kidnap Ethiopian woman in front of Ethiopian embassy
They drag the Ethiopian girl by the hair in broad daylight in front of the Ethiopian embassy on a major street full of people, throw her in a car and take off. This is a great shame on us Ethiopians …
TPLF to Al-Amoudi: give me cash, I will give you public property
MIDROC Thrives at Privatisation Tender:
Al-Amoudi targets expansion of his companies’ presence in agricultural, mining sectors
By Elleni Araya | Addis Fortune
Companies under the umbrella of Mohammed International Development Research and Organisation Companies (MIDROC) Ethiopia and its affiliates …
Ato Bereket writes a book?
By Yilma Bekele
Did you see what was coming out of North Korea this week? Someone referred to it as the ‘world’s largest display of uncontrollable grief.’ Kim Jung un ‘the Brilliant Comrade’ succeeded his father Kim Jung il ‘the …
Tagged with: African Dictators, al amoudi, Eskinder Nega, ethio, Ethiopia News, ginbot7, Meles Zenawi
Posted in Ethiopia News
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Tesfaye Gebreab demolishes Bereket Simon’s new book
Author and journalist Tesfaye Gebreab has written a review of Woyanne propaganda chief Bereket Simon’s new book that was financed by Saudi-Ethiopia billionaire Al Amoudi. In the book review, Tesfaye points out several falsehoods and exposes the writer for what …
Top 20 Richest Ethiopians – 2011
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 …
ESFNA to hold its 2012 tournament in Dallas, Texas
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, …
Top 20 Dumbest Politicians in Ethiopia
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 …
Why Ethiopians Must Unite, Part Four (b) of Five
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 …
Why Ethiopians Must Unite, Part three of five
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.” …
Al Amoudi concubines fight over crumbs in Virginia
Yet another shameful drama is currently taking place involving Al Amoudi’s concubines (የጭን ገረዶች) who misrepresent themselves has officials of the Ethiopian Sports Federation in North America (ESFNA). During the past couple of days, the concubines have been holding a …
Ethiopia’s mother of corruption bitch-slaps Al Amoudi
At a recent party at Sheraton Hotel in Ethiopia’s capital Addis Ababa, Azeb Mesfin, the wife of Ethiopia’s tyrant Meles Zenawi, slapped Saudi billionaire Al Amoudi in front of hundreds of guests, according to Ethiopian Review Intelligence Unit sources.
Azeb, …
Latest Wikileaks releases of U.S. diplomatic cables from Ethiopia
Wikileaks: Secret diplomatic messages sent from the American Embassy in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia by U.S. diplomats
2010-02-13 ETHIOPIAN GOVERNMENT HOSTS DIASPORA INVESTMENT FORUM
2010-02-13 JANUARY REGIONAL ENVIRONMENT NEWSLETTER, EAST AFRICA
2010-02-12 Ethiopia: Information on Child Labor and Forced Labor
2010-02-10 …
Ethiopian fascination with the “Arab Spring.” Part II of III
Part II of III
By Aklog Birara*
Part one identified similarities and differences between the Egyptian and Tunisian popular revolutions on the one hand and conditions in Ethiopia on the other. Differences aside, the Ethiopian admiration for an interest in …
Ethiopian fascinations with the ”Arab Spring” – Part II
By Aklog Birara
Part II of III
Part I identified similarities and differences between the Egyptian and Tunisian popular revolutions on the one hand and conditions in Ethiopia on the other. Differences aside, the Ethiopian admiration for and, interest in …
Is al Amoudi wanted for questioning in the United States?
According to a reliable source, Saudi billionaire Mohammed al-Amoudi is wanted for questioning by the United States authorities to investigate about possible links with questionable groups. It appears that al-Amoudi has not visited the United States in years. Ethiopian Review …
Mohammed Al-Amoudi v Elias Kifle at UK Court – July 2011
Case Reference [2011] EWHC 2037 (QB)
Court QBD
Judge HHJ Richard Parkes QC
Date of Judgment 29 Jul 2011
Summary
Libel – assessment of damages
Facts
The Defendant is the publisher and editor in chief of the Ethiopian Review, …
Saudi billionaire wins libel action against Ethiopian editor
(BBC) An Ethiopian-born billionaire has won £175,000 in libel damages over allegations he had hunted his daughter down so she could be stoned to death.
Mohammed Hussein Al-Amoudi was born in Ethiopia, but now spends his time at …
Al Amoudi testifies about his daughter Sarah
Woyanne/Saudi businessman Mohammed Al Amoudi, who is looting and plundering Ethiopia, has submitted a testimony for his lawsuit against Ethiopian Review editor. His testimony is full of real funny stuff such as he doesn’t fund terrorists and that he keeps …
Al Amoudi’s servants feasting in Atlanta
Woyanne money-man Al Amoudi has sent his chief servant Abinet Gebremeskel to Atlanta this week to reassert control over the Ethiopian Sports Federation in North America, and so far it seems that he is succeeding by bullying the timid board …
Lowest ever attendance at ESFNA Atlanta 2011 (video)
Most Ethiopians are staying away from the ESFNA event this year to protest its continued association with the Woyanne junta and its agent Al Amoudi who are looting and plundering Ethiopia. ESFNA has a clear choice to make: cleanse itself …
Boycott ESFNA’s Atlanta event
The Ethiopian Sports Federation in North America (ESFNA) is holding its annual event this week. This year’s event is being held in Atlanta. When ESFNA was formed about 28 years ago, it had a lofty goal of bringing Ethiopians in …
Ethiopiawinet in North America is reborn
By Elias Kifle
This past weekend (July 1st – 3rd) the Ethiopian Heritage Society in North America (EHSNA) held a highly successful Ethiopian festival in Washington DC. During the same period, on July 2nd, members and friends of Ethiopian Review …
Al Amoudi gives $240,000 to his bootlickers in ESFNA
Ethiopian-born Saudi billionaire Ato Al Amoudi has given $240,000 to his thugs who have hijacked the Ethiopian Sports Federation in North America (ESFNA), according Ethiopian Review sources.
Al Amoudi is a major financial backer of the ethnic apartheid junta in …
UK high court decides in Al Amoudi vs. Elias Kifle
U.K.’s High Court of Justice has issued an order in favor of Saudi billionaire Mohammed Al Amoudi in his libel lawsuit against Ethiopian Review editor Elias Kifle. (click here to read the order)
Bloomberg’s Kristen Schweizer wrote this about …
Al Amoudi’s Sheraton Hotel to be closed down
General Manager of Al Amoudi’s Sheraton Addis told department managers last week that the hotel will be closed down soon and will stop taking reservations starting February 15 unless the management is unable to reach an agreement with the union, …
Land grabbing and its dire consequences in Ethiopia
By Hundee Dhugaasaa
The suffering of farmers in Ethiopia, especially in Oromia, Benishangul, Somali and Gambella regions is going from worse to the worst in Ethiopia as a result of inequitable land acquisitions, better called “neo-colonial land grabbing,” by foreign …
Chronicle of Addis Ababa’s extreme makeover
By Getachew Belaineh
Every city in the world has its own unique personality. Each represents a unique blend of history, natural settings, cultural patterns, and lifestyles. Some are old-fashioned yet attractive, others modern but boring. Likewise, Addis Ababa has its …
DLA Piper’s blood money at work
The Washington DC and London-based DLA Piper law and PR firm that is trying to shut down Ethiopian Review is receiving $50,000 per month from Ethiopia’s tyrant Meles Zenawi and partner in crime Al Amoudi. The following is a list …
DW Radio on Al Amoudi vs Elias Kifle (audio)
Deutsche Welle (የጀርመን ድምጽ ራዲዮ) has reported today about the lawsuit against Ethiopian Review editor by the richest man in Africa, Mohammed Al Amoudi. Click below to listen.
[podcast]http://dw-world-od.streamfarm.net/Events/dwelle/dira/mp3/amh/7C8EA3DB_1.mp3[/podcast]
Al Amoudi is an Ethiopian-born Saudi billionaire who is a self-acknowledged …
Defending against Al Amoudi
By Elias Kifle
In getting ready to defend Ethiopian Review against Woyanne money man Al Amoudi’s malicious lawsuit, we are encouraged by the outpouring of support from Ethiopians around the world, including those with whom some times we disagree. …
ESFNA falling apart
The Ethiopian Sports Federation in North America (ESFNA) is falling apart in the face of leadership crisis and an impending boycott. The 28-year-old organization has been confronted with numerous problems during the past five years after it was hijacked by …
U.K. libel law is “an international laughing-stock” – DPM
In a recent speech on civil liberties, British Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg said that the U.K. coalition government would restore civil liberties with the same systematic ruthlessness with which the former government took them away. It is this corrupt …
Al Amoudi files lawsuit in London against Ethiopian Review
By Elias Kifle
Ethiopian billionaire businessman Ato Al Amoudi has filed a lawsuit against Ethiopian Review in a U.K. high court. The lawsuit claims that the magazine:
……has gravely injured the reputation of the Claimant, has exposed him to public
Ethiopian soccer legend Mengistu Worku passed away
Ethiopian soccer legend Mengistu Worku who helped Ethiopia win the 3rd African Cup has passed away.
Memorial service for him will be held on Friday in Addis Ababa at the St. Petros Church where he will be laid to rest.…
Al Amoudi servant makes legal threat
One of Al Amoudi’s servants in the Diaspora, Ato Eyaya Arega, is imitating his boss by hiring a lawyer to harass Ethiopian Review. The lawyer, Steven Sarfatti of Washington DC, wrote a letter (read here) demanding that we …
Santon speaks based on first hand knowledge
By Assta B. Gettu
A moving, inspiring, and galvanizing speech by Dr. Gregory Stanton, President of Genocide Watch, is a blessing in disguise for all of us Ethiopians, especially for some of our Tigrean brothers and sisters who are intentionally …
Is reforming ESFNA possible?
By Elias Kifle
Al Amoudi’s aid Abinet Gebremeskel has apparently ordered his servants Ayaya, Fassil and gang at the ESFNA to stay firm on Birtukan disinvitation and ride out the storm, according to Ethiopian Review sources. Having Birtukan as ESFNA’s …