Passionate! Ethiopian fans take top marks
Posted by Rahel Samuel on Jan 28th, 2013
SINCE the beginning of the Afcon games, Ethiopian fans have created a riot of colour in their stylish green, yellow and red costumes – not to mention their tastefully painted faces.
Worku Geyres (27), a tailor and designer of traditional
Ethiopian wedding gowns, who ironically predicted a 4-0 score in favour of the Black Lions before their crashing loss, is one of the side’s keenest fans.
“We have waited for 31 years for our country to return to this tournament,” he says. (Read More...)
Israel Admits Ethiopian Women Were Given Birth Control Shots
By Talila Nesher, Haaretz 27 January 13
government official has for the first time acknowledged the practice of injecting women of Ethiopian origin with the long-acting contraceptive Depo-Provera.
Tigrayanism confronting Ethiopianism
Viewpoint: How tribalism stunts African democracy
By Calestous Juma International development professor at Harvard UniversityAfrica's democratic transition is back in the spotlight. The concern is no longer the stranglehold of autocrats, but the hijacking of the democratic process by tribal politics.
Coup Attempt by Rebel Soldiers Is Said to Fail in Eritrea
GARSEN, Kenya — Eritrea, a sliver of a nation in the Horn of Africa that is one of the most secretive and repressive countries in the world, was cast into confusion on Monday after mutinous soldiers stormed the Ministry of Information and took over the state-run television service, apparently in a coup attempt.
Welcome to 2013: FEAR or Freedom?
By Oboaradashawl January 13, 2013
The Fear part
On this date January 13, 2013, you can watch a TV program on “Esat Meade Esat Ethiopia” presented by Gelila Makonnen. The main program is about Tsegaye Gebre Medhin. Who is/are Tsegaye Gebre Medhin? Ask any Ethiopian or Eritrean individual who has been in some sort of schooling. He or she will give you an answer instantly. But his/her answer may not be the right answer i.e. the right personality. If you challenge him/her, there is going to be a war of nerves leading to fear of the unknown.
TPLF and the culture of violence.
12. January 2013 by Assimba.
By Yilma Bekele.
According to ESAT the FBI has foiled an attempt by the Ethiopian government to assassinate Ato Abebe Gelaw. Goosh Abera and his accomplices are under custody. Please note here I said the Ethiopian government since there seems to be no thin line between the TPLF party and the government. Why am I not surprised? I am not surprised because for the TPLF violence is sanctioned by the party leaders as a legitimate tool to achieve political, economic and military dominance.
UK tenders to train Ethiopian paramilitaries accused of abuses
Millions of pounds of Britain's foreign aid budget are to be spent on training an Ethiopian paramilitary security force that stands accused of numerous human rights abuses and summary executions.
The Guardian has seen an internal Department for International Development document forming part of a tender to train security forces in the Somali region of Ogaden, which lies within Ethiopia, as part of a five-year £13m–15m "peace-building" programme.
The role of higher education and Ethiopia.
13. January 2013 by Assimba.
By Yilma Bekele
My beautiful and brilliant niece graduated from college a few days ago. We are all proud and happy with her accomplishment. It gave the whole family an opportunity to get together. Believe me the festival was preserved on video and camera, posted on Facebook, published on Instagram and micro blogged on tumblr. That is how important it was. No question it was a proud moment for her parents and an early Christmas present to the whole clan. We were lucky and our daughter was strong and focused and it all worked out pretty good. Here in the US Universities, Colleges and institutes of higher education are held in high reverence. The vast majority are public institutions funded by the citizen. There also exists plenty of private non-profit and commercial places of learning. They are all designed with two purposes in mind. Knowledge and Utility.
OF TABLETS AND ETHIOPIAN KIDS (or THE MESSIAH COMPLEX)
9. January 2013 - Assimba blog. By Hama Tuma
This article is provoked by a recent article in the German Der Spiegel under the title of “Ethiopian Kids using Tablets to Teach Themselves”. This is how the magazine article told the story:
“A US aid organization has handed children in the remote Ethiopian village of Wenchi tablet computers in an experiment aimed at enabling them to teach themselves. They are now speaking their first words of English — without ever having encountered a teacher”.
Jailed Ethiopian journalist loses appeal over rebel ties
By Aaron Maasho
ADDIS ABABA | Tue Jan 8, 2013 12:06pm EST
ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) - An Ethiopian journalist lost an appeal on Tuesday against a five-year prison sentence for her role in promoting subversive plots by a rebel group.
Reyot Alemu, a columnist at the now-defunct Feteh newspaper, and fellow journalist Woubishet Taye were found guilty a year ago of conspiring to participate in attacks under the orders of rebel groups and sentenced to 14 years behind bars. The pair were arrested in July 2011.
January 3/2013
REGIME IN ETHIOPIA INTENSIFIES REPRESSION AGAINST MUSLIM CITIZENS
The repressive regime in Addis Abeba has not only condemned as guilty Muslim Ethiopians who had peacefully protested for their rights but is now asserting that it has captured some eight Al Qaida “ terrorists” trained by the Somali Al Shabab and infiltrated from Kenya ns Somalia with arms and explosives for sabotage in Ethiopia. Up to now has been told on the identity of these so called infiltrators or subservices.
Ethiopian Police Says Qaida Terror Cell Arrested
ABC News
Ethiopia's spy agency says that security forces have arrested 15 people alleged to be members of a terror cell linked with al-Qaida.
Semi-nude Ethiopian woman falls to death
amnewsupdate♦ January 2, 2013♦
KUWAIT CITY (Arabtimes, 03 January 2013) — An Ethiopian woman died when she fell from the window of a domestic employment agency in Hawally.
Call me by my Title: opposition without proposition
The role model of 4 Ethiopian Professors (AMMM)
By Obo Arada Shawl
December 31, 2012
Introduction
Political opposition is a healthy condition. Even better would be a political proposition as it enhances problem solving mechanisms. Four Professors have been impacting subtle views on college students, bureaucrats and among intellectual circles. Their seemingly revolutionary opinions have detracted the true process of democracy since the 1960s. Their simple opposition against individuals had earned them popularity.
December 27/2012
Letter to His Excellency Mr. Jacob Zuma
Republic of South Africa.
From Solidarity Commitee for Ethiopian Political Prisoners (SOCEPP)
Mr. President, SOCEPP is an Ethiopian human rights organization (established March 1995) that wants to bring to your honorable attention the fate of one of its member, TARIKU ABZA, who is detained illegally in the Sun City prison, South Africa, since March 2011.
To whom it may concern About Journalists in exile
December 28/2012
Email received by SOCEPP as is:
Ethiopia and Eritrea are the first and second rank by the number of imprisoned Journalists in Africa. Many Journalists are detained, sent to prison, killed and forced to leave their country to save and to protect their life.
What is going on?
Dear webmaster, What is going on?
By Tulu Forca
I am so alarmed by your selection of web postings recently. You seemed to have forgotten or some emerging lack of oversight in editorializing what is fit to print in the martyrs page. Are you competing with other web sites to attract audiences AND PANDER TO THE NEED Of THE READERS or STICK TO YOUR GUN-that is to your founding principle?
“Neutral” Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Churches (EOTCs) in the Diaspora: Is it not High Time to Take a Principled Stand?
by Walle Engedayehu, Ph.D.
Introduction
In this brief commentary, the writer attempts to show the extent to which the recently-concluded peace and unity mediation of bringing the two EOTC Holy Synods into one was doomed from the start, and why it miserably failed despite the gallant effort of the mediators.
Leveling the playing field in Ethiopia.
By Yilma Bekele
The press release was short and to the point. It was only six paragraphs long and was written in a matter of fact way. There were no trumpets blaring, no press conference with TV lights and no lavish dinner to commemorate the event. The announcement reminded me of the proverb ‘best things come in small packages.’
THE ART OF RULING BY DISTRACTION
Hama Tuma
An art is an art. You may be gifted or talented or just a hard working chap but there are some of us who insist that the art of ruling by distraction requires that you be an African in the first place. The art of ruling by destruction is universal and mastered by the West too but the fine art of distraction is beyond the capacity of the non-Africans. Blessed be Mother Africa!
Ethiopian children sold by the State
December 2nd, 2012
Written by: Kristoffer Pinholt
“Poor Ethiopian mothers are under intense pressure to give up their children for adoption to prospective parents in the Western world,” says DR correspondent Line Gertsen, an investigative journalist reporting from the impoverished African nation of Ethiopia, which right now is at the center of adoption scandal to richer parts of the world.
Watching Susan twist in the wind or don’t mess with Ethiopia
By Yilma Bekele
Good news is always welcome. Then there is the extraordinarily good news that jars you from your slumber. And when the good news happens right around Christmas there is nothing one can do other than put more log in the fire place, take a generous helping of the twelve year old scotch light up a fat Cohibas and sit back with Cheshire cat smile imprinted on ones face. That is what I wanted to do yesterday if only I had a fireplace, aged scotch or a fat cigar. Not to worry I had the good news and it brought a wide smile.
EYONA: Fusion of cultural communities
By Ashao Tewolde - December 13, 2012
On public Holidays
On Thanks Giving Day, in a form of email, I asked several friends, relatives and my readers whether Ethiopians or Eritreans have a “Thanks Giving Day” or for that matter public holidays. I did this to find out whether there is a correlation between political unity and public holiday. The responses were alarming, the Eritreans gave me May 24, as a day for national holiday, and the Ethiopians gave me a mixed bag of holidays ranging from religious holiday to the battle of Adwa. Some Americans told me of July 4 as a public holiday.
The Great Rice Sham
by Jacob Heilbrunn (The Daily Beast)
The ambassador built her career on catering to authority, even some of Africa’s most loathsome dictators. Why the Libya fiasco had nothing to do with the Beltway insider’s demise.
With her decision to withdraw from consideration as secretary of state, Susan Rice—and her greatest champion, President Obama—is finally bowing to the inevitable. Her supporters concocted any number of reasons to promote her ascension to the top floor of Foggy Bottom. She was, they said, being demonized by the right. She was being subjected to racism. She was just trying to please her superiors.
The Latest Reconciliation Talks for Peace and Unity within the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church (EOTC): Are there any Tangible Results for the Faithful to Celebrate?
by Kidus Bekalu (wallywassie@yahoo.com)
The most recent round of mediation efforts that took place in Dallas, Texas in the first week of December, 2012 to bring the two EOTC Holy Synods—the exiled and the indigenous– into harmony has not been, from all indications, as reassuring as many of the faithful would like it to be. No new grounds were unearthed in the talks, nor has a promising drive toward a final resolution of the crisis, which has beleaguered the Church for more than two decades, been discerned. For all practical purposes, the issue of divide still remains fully unaddressed. The core dispute within the centuries-old, storied Church is that the violation of the canonical law governing Oriental Orthodoxy was violated 21 years ago, when the regime that came to power removed a living Patriarch and replaced him with another, thereby forcing the former into exile. To exact “the wrong” then would be to return the exiled Patriarch to his rightful throne, without preconditions.
Susan Rice’s Personality 'Disorder'
by Lloyd Grove Dec 12, 2012 7:45 AM EST
 Susan Rice, Spokeswoman for Tyranny in Ethiopia (Tedla Asfaw) Awramba Times It is exactly three month since the terrorist attack of Benghazi that took the life of US Ambassador Chris Stevens and three other officials. Ambassador Susan Rice the US Ambassador to United Nations has become a very controversial figure since Obama ... |
Why is the birth rate in Israel’s Ethiopian community declining?
By Talila Nesher | Dec.09, 2012|
Women say that while waiting in transit camps in Ethiopia they were coaxed into agreeing to injections of long-acting birth control drugs.
Women who immigrated from Ethiopia eight years ago say they were told they would not be allowed into Israel unless they agreed to be injected with the long-acting birth control drug Depo Provera, according to an investigative report aired yesterday on the Israel Educational Television program “Vacuum.”
Ethiopia's Anti-Terrorism Law Squelches Opposition, Activists Say
(allAfrica)
Addis Ababa — Ethiopia's Anti-Terrorism Proclamation is once again stirring debate in this Horn of Africa nation as lawyer Temam Ababulga challenges the 2009 law in the highly-publicised "Muslim terrorism" case.
Ethiopia’s new leader keen for face-to-face talks with Eritrean president
By Tesfa-Alem Tekle
(Sudan Tribune)
December 6, 2012 (ADDIS ABABA) - Ethiopia’s newly elected prime minister, Hailemariam Desalegn, on Wednesday affirmed that he is willing to hold direct talks with Eritrea on the long-standing dead-lock over border dispute.
EYONA: Fusion of cultural communities
By Oash Tewolde December 3, 2012
A quarter of a century ago, an Ethiopian scientist asked me “to sum up” the Eathiopian Student Movement. He asked me this question because at the time, I had written an article on how the Ethiopian college student movement was initiated.
“Legal Imperialism” and International Law: Legal Foundations for War Crimes, Debt Collection and Colonization
By now we are familiar with imperial states using their military power to attack, destroy and occupy independent countries. Boatloads of important studies have documented how imperial countries have seized and pillaged the resources of mineral-rich and agriculturally productive countries, in consort with multi-national corporations. Financial critics have provided abundant data on the ways in which imperial creditors have extracted onerous rents, royalties and debt payments from indebted countries and their taxpayers, workers, employees and productive sectors.
Eritrea players missing in Uganda after regional championship
By Andrew Jackson Oryada BBC Sport, KampalaSeventeen players from the Eritrea football team and the team doctor are believed to have absconded in Uganda.
OPEN LETTER TO THE NORWEGIAN GOVERNMENT STOP ASSISTING THE ADDIS ABEBA REGIME IN ITS DRIVE TO DIVIDE THE OPPOSITION
The EPRP has come to know that the Norwegian government has invited the notorious Ephrem Yishak and a delegation led by him to Oslo to organize a so called reconciliation of certain political groups with the tyrannical regime in Ethiopia. We remember other similar and ill fated attempts made by Norway in the past.
Quote of the Week: Knowing your enemy and yourself
[Sun Tzu in “The Art of War “ (translated by Luo Zhiye)]: “ So it is said that if you know both the enemy and yourself, you will fight a hundred battles without any danger of defeat;
November 15/2012
THE IMMESNSE SUFFERING OF ETHIOPIAN REFUGEES IN LIBYA
Khadafy is gone but Ethiopian refugees and workers in Libya are being imprisoned, held in containers, tortured, raped and even killed by racist Libyan police, officials and extremists. If Khadafy’s daughter in law burnt a maid’s body with hot water others like her are doing worse things especially to Ethiopian women in Libya.
OF SERBS AND AMHARAS
By Hama Tuma
“An appeal court at The Hague war crimes tribunal has overturned the convictions of two Croatian generals for the expulsion of ethnic Serbs in 1995, in a ruling hailed in Croatia as a vindication of its war of independence but denounced in Serbia as evidence of bias”:
The world talks of endangered animals but there are human species that are also slated for extermination. The Serbs are the Amharas of Yugoslavia. The Amharas are a major ethnic group in Ethiopia for whose extermination the ruling Tigrean regime in Addis Abeba, other ethnic separatists, foreign powers and regional forces have all coalesced.
Summary of NOAS’s Report on Ethiopia: «13 Months of Sunshine?»
Political Oppression
Ethiopia has experienced continuing economic growth and has progressed in many fields the recent years. However, the human rights situation in the country remains a matter of concern. Organizations focused on improving human rights are impeded. Political opposition is subject to abuse. Journalists who report on the state of affairs are harassed and persecuted.
Comrade Kassa Kebede: put up or shut up
Espionage against Ethiopians in Norway by the TPLF-regime in Ethiopia (By Samson Seifu)
FROM RICE TO SHINN: THE TRAGEDY OF REAL POLITIK
Hama Tuma Former US Ambassador to Ethiopia, David Shinn, was, alas, no exciting personality. Just the usual messenger of lies and a man serving his country to the best of his ability. He recently attended a memorial service in New York’s Abyssinian Baptist Church in Harlem for the late dictator and mass murderer Meles Zenawi. Along with the Korean Ban Ki-moon and Susan Rice, US representative to the UN, and shrilled in his blog against Ethiopians protesting the whole idea of having a memorial for a man who should have been tried for mass murder. But then again what is a diplomat but a suave and professional liar!
MELES ZENAWI WAS THE SYSTEM
Mankelklot Haile Selassie (PhD)
November 3, 2012
I have read 18 articles, taking down points and statements to organize this article that I am going to share. I borrowed the opinions and the implications of the opinions from the 18 articles, embodied them into my thinking, and applied them in the five, briefly discussed, specific sub-topics I have already outlined.
