Paul B. Henze, a former CIA and National Security Council specialist in psychological operations who wrote a compelling and provocative book arguing that the Soviet Union had engineered an attempted assassination of Pope John Paul II, died May 19 at a rehabilitation center in Culpeper, Va.
Britain promises to feed 1.3 million starving Ethiopians for 3 months
የግፉአን እሮሮ በፈስቲቫል ጋጋታ እንዳይረሳ!
Scratch my Back and I will Bite Yours
by Henoke Yeshetlla
The un-bridged gulf
The abyss of alienated self….
First as a layman, that can be scared away by pure thought
Then as a scholar,
The un-bridged gulf
The abyss of alienated self….
First as a layman, that can be scared away by pure thought
Then as a scholar,
Ethiopia arrests 9, including 2 journalists, on terrorism charges, government official says
By Associated Press, Published: June 29
ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia — An Ethiopian official says nine people were arrested last week on suspicions of organizing a terrorist network and planning attacks.
Ethiopia: Anti-Terrorism Law Used to Suppress Dissent
Horn of Africa sees 'worst drought in 60 years'
Some parts of the Horn of Africa have been hit by the worst drought in 60 years, the UN says.
More than 10 million people are thought to be affected across the region.
The UN now classifies large areas of Somalia, Ethiopia, Djibouti and Kenya as a crisis or an emergency.
Should perennial fools be hanged?
HAMA TUMA
A controversial man himself, Kenyan Mutula Kilonzo, has blasted at corruption the hangman’s way. The corrupt should be hanged, he has recently suggested.
This was the only way the vice could be fought successfully, Justice and Constitutional Affairs minister Mutula Kilonzo said.
Fake Revolution vs. Real Revolution
June 27, 2011
By Yelfiwos Wondaya
One wonders why one makes such a public call without something on hand to
support his plan of action to implement, and even worse the movement absented itself from the event it claimed to lead up to the strike for the 28th of May 2011.
June 24/2011
TEACHER AND COLUMNIST ILLEGALLY DETAINED IN ADDIS ABEBA
On Tuesday, June 21. the security services of the ruling EPRDF apprehended teacher Riyot Alemu from her work place at the Kechenie Medhanie Alem secondary school in Addis Abeba.
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Imperialism 101
By Michael Parenti
June 22 2011 "Information Clearing House" -- -- Imperialism has been the most powerful force in world history over the last four or five centuries, carving up whole continents while oppressing indigenous peoples and obliterating entire civilizations. Yet, it is seldom accorded any serious attention by our academics, media commentators, and political leaders. When not ignored outright, the subject of imperialism has been sanitized, so that empires become “commonwealths,” and colonies become “territories” or “dominions” (or, as in the case of Puerto Rico, “commonwealths” too). Imperialist military interventions become matters of “national defense,” “national security,” and maintaining “stability” in one or another region. In this book I want to look at imperialism for what it really is.
New York, June 21, 2011--The Committee to Protect Journalists called on Ethiopian authorities today to immediately release journalist Woubshet Taye, at left, who has been held since Sunday.
Wednesday, 22 June 2011
By Pernille Dvergedal
(AP) The new report concludes that Norway oil fund gives foreign companies control of the topsoil at the expense of locals.
(AP) The new report concludes that Norway oil fund gives foreign companies control of the topsoil at the expense of locals.
Ethiopians trapped in Yemen are being evacuated
Nearly 2,000 Ethiopian migrants trapped in violence-hit Yemen are being evacuated, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) says.
It said it had so far flown out 275 Ethiopians, some of whom had gun-shot wounds.
Developmental State or a Neo-Liberal Economic Policy: Answer to Professor Messay`s Essay on a Grand Coalition to save Ethiopia.
fekadubekele@gmx.de
From the outset I would like to express my frustration that Professor Messay`s article does not have any new substance or cannot be accepted as entailing a thoughtful idea. Those who side with the position of the Professor may think and believe that Professor Messay wrote a grand theory which might be seen as a panacea to save Ethiopia from all the evils the Meles regime has inflicted.
Hypocrisy of Messay, and the rest of the elites
Monday 6/20/2011
Getachew Reda www.ethiopiansemay.blogspot.com
I want to make it clear that I am not writing this opinion of mine to argue with Prof.Tecola or Messay kebede or the naïve Seid Hassan or Prof. Tecola Hagos all the rest who are engaged in philosophical exchanges to figure out who TPLF is or how to exit from the present quagmire or whatever they are interested in when they argue like the Derg era in Addis Zemen
Meles ramps up the fear machine.
By Yilma Bekele
That is the capability the Meles regime is trying to build in Ethiopia. Anthony Daniel observed this and other strange behaviors by human beings during his travels inside totalitarian regimes of East Germany, Albania, North Korea and Cuba. The Ethiopian regime is modeled after them. All the above countries were/are economically backward, single party dominated with a sick megalomaniac in charge and highly armed.
Grandma and the Kitchen Story: The Forbidden Territory for Males
What follows is a brief excerpt from my forthcoming book (planned to be a little over 300 pages), “The Ethiopian Revolution and the Generation of the 1970s: Dreams, Memories and Harsh Realities.” The two main characters – Jembernesh and Kurat – were childhood lovers in the 1970s. After being apart for many decades, they unexpectedly met at a conference in May 2006. The Kitchen Story takes place while Kurate is visiting Jembernesh in Paris, where she lives.
By Maru Gubena
June 20/2011
WORLD REFUGEE DAY THE PLIGHT OF ETHIOPIAN REFUGEES HAS WORSENED
From Yemen to Lampadusa,from Libya to Norway the plight of Ethiopian refugees has worsened. Hundreds have died trying to reach safe harbors, hundreds are in squalid prisons all over the world, many more are facing deportation threats and a substantial number have been victimized, beaten and raped by human traffickers.
June 20/2011
EPRP DENOUNCES THE EVICTION OF PEOPLE FROM METEMA
The regime of Meles Zenawi, that is busy selling Ethiopian land cheaply to foreign firms, is trying to uproot by force thousands of people who have lived in Metema (Ethio- Sudanese border) for years and years. The official reason given by the regime is that Metema is a garrison town and the civilian population must move away to nearby Shehdi and other places while the people concerned know that the real reason is that part of the land around Metema has been ceded to the Sudan and other parts leased out.
JUNE 14/2011
ETHIOPIA: TORTURE AND DISAPPERANCES REPORTED
SOCEPP has received the following letter of ALERT from concerned sources. “ Six Female Students of Wollo University, Kombolcha campus (Amhara Region) were abducted by security forces on June 01,2011.
LET US TALK OF DAMS
Amanuel Dagim (Water Technologist, Durban, SA) - Part I
A lot of ink has been wasted on numerous criticisms of the dams being built in Ethiopia, particularly the Gilgel Gibe III on the Omo River and the so called Renaissance Dam on the Nile. Supporters of the project have also written one piece after another exuding their enthusiasm—often unsupported by hard facts on the ground or adequate information and research.
US creates ‘shadow’ networks for dissidents and revolutionaries – report
The Signs of the Time: Cooperation or Confrontation (CC)?
Obo Arada Aba Shawl June 13, 2011
Distortion on IBSA’s profile and belief
Introduction
I have read Amnewsupdate’s blog “The OLF controversy: Veteran OLF hardliner Ibsa Gutema…”as was posted in Assimba Website. I have also read Obo IBSA’s article titled “In Defense of Bilisummaa” that was attached also dated on same date as posted – May 22, 2011…
What IBSA Gutema wrote on colonial history and of economics is his own readings and belief. I think he belongs to a category of ADWA I in terms of history and Adwa II in terms of economic policy.
Volcano eruption in Eritrea cuts short Hillary Clinton visit
Hillary Clinton, the US Secretary of State, was forced to cut short a tour of Africa after an Eritrean volcano that has lain dormant since modern records began erupted.Hillary Clinton warns Africa of 'new colonialism'
By Matthew Lee, Huffington Post | June 11, 2011
LUSAKA, Zambia -- U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton on Saturday warned Africa of a creeping "new colonialism" from foreign investors and governments interested only in extracting the continent's natural resources to enrich themselves and not the African people.
20 YEARS OF "DISAPPERANCE" OF EPRP LEADERS
JUNE 1991—TPKF/EPRDF forces, backed by others, attacked EPRP/A forces in Gondar and Gojjam and they were fortunate enough to capture
several EPRP leaders while others like Geleb Dafla, Wasihun, Dereje etc got martyred.
June 10/2011
GALLOPING INFLATION, INCREASED POVERTY,COOKED UP STATISTICS= EPRDF RULE
For the last 20 years, the regime of
Meles Zenawi has been boasting of double digit economic growth and proclaiming to all who would listen that Ethiopia under its rule has defeated poverty. Nothing could be farther from the truth. The economic policy of the ruling regime has been and is bankrupt.
ዶ/ር ብርሃኑ ነጋ የጥምረት ስብስቦቹ ሁሉም አንድ ዓየነት መግለጫ አላወጡም ያሉትን እነሆ የስምንቱን ድርጅቶች መግለጫ አንብበውከድርጅት ስም ለውጥ በስተቀረ ያለውን ልዩነት ይመልከቱ እየተናዛም ያለውን ውሸት ልብ በሉልን
Is G-7 becoming a rubber stamp of OLF?
US universities in Africa 'land grab'
Institutions including Harvard and Vanderbilt reportedly use hedge funds to buy land in deals that may force farmers out
The world's enduring dictators: Meles Zenawi, Ethiopia
This is an installment in the WorldWatch series, "The world's enduring dictators," inspired by events in Tunisia and Egypt, in which CBSNews.com takes a look at the men who continue to rule their lands unimpeded by law. See a complete explanation of the series and a list of others profiled here.
Meles Zenawi, Ethiopia
PRESS RELEASE June 4/2011
THE FARCE OF A CRIMINAL REGIME PARDONING MASS MURDERERS
The regime of Meles Zenawi has announced a few days ago that it has cancelled the death sentence imposed by its own courts on 23 top officials of the former regime accused of mass murder during the notorious Red Terror campaign (late seventies).
JUNE 4/2011
SOCEPP CONDEMNS REPRESSION AGAINST ARBA MINCH STUDENTS
Arba Minch students (Gamo Goffa, Southern Ethiopia) are still on strike refusing to pay levies for the so called Renaissance Dam (80 billion Birr/close US$ 5 billion) and for the "Development" bodies of the government.
June 02/2011
PRESS RELEASE SUDANESE SOLDIERS KILL FIVE ETHIOPIANS
Paul B. Henze, former CIA and national security specialist, dies at 86
By Emma Brown, Published: June 2
When the Nile Runs Dry
By Brad Holland
A NEW scramble for Africa is under way. As global food prices rise and exporters reduce shipments of commodities, countries that rely on imported grain are panicking. Affluent countries like Saudi Arabia, South Korea, China and India have descended on fertile plains across the African continent, acquiring huge tracts of land to produce wheat, rice and corn for consumption back home.
Neoliberalism, Poverty and Ecological Destruction
The World Bank's Africa Strategy
By PATRICK BOND
A renewed wave of development babble began flowing soon after the February launch of the World Bank's ten-year Strategy document, "Africa's Future and the World Bank's Support to It"
May 30/2011
OPEN LETTER TO THE UNHCRPROTECT ETHIOPIAN REFUGEES IN YEMEN
A few days ago four Ethiopian refugees were killed in the ASABA area of Sana'a, Yemen, as result of the fighting between government forces and armed rebels. Very many Ethiopian refugees are facing death in many part of Yemen and their attempt to go to the Sana'a office of the UNHCR has not borne fruit.
May 27/2011
DENOUNCE SUDAN'S DEPORTATION OF CHADIAN OPPOSITION LEADERS
The Sudanese government handed two leading members of the Chadian armed opposition to Ndjamena two days before a tripartite summit in Khartoum gathering President Idriss Deby and Central African President François Bozizé with President Omer Al-Bashir.
MAY 25/2011
SIDAMA PEOPLE’S BLOOD STILL CRIES FOR JUSTICE
May 24/2002, EPRDF special forces were unleashed on peaceful demonstrators at Loque (Hawassa). Dozens of people lay dead. The violent repression was commanded by top EPRDF officials including Abay Tsehaye, Bereket Semon, Haile Mariam Desalegn (now deputy prime minister), Mulugeta Alemseged (now ambassador in Rome). Meles Miremo and Shifferaw Shigute
May 27, 2011
Addis Ababa, May 28, GNA - Mr Kwesi Quartey, Ghana's Ambassador to Ethiopia, has stated that he would file an official protest to the Government of Ethiopia for the 'detention' of Ghanaian Journalists and the subsequent seizure of their Television Cameras at the Addis Ababa International Airport.
THE OLF CONTROVERSY: VETERAN OLF HARDLINER IBSA GUTEMA BACKS DAOUD IBSA AGAINST “MODERATE” OROMOS
Ibsa Gutema is no novice to hate politics. Back then in the 1960s he did write a poem called “Manew Ethiopiawi” (who is the Ethiopian) that was positive and far from the hatred and poisoned words that characterize him these days. A critic puts the mentioned poem as a “a caustic critique, in one sense, of ethnicism, which the system used for its divide-and-rule scheme.” Ibsa does not want to be reminded of that time.
South Sudan: Rethinking citizenship, sovereignty and self-determination
Mahmood Mamdani: Reflecting on the context behind South Sudan's exercise in self-determination and the potential sources of political violence following the country’s independence, Mahmood Mamdani explores Sudan's longer-term historical experience – the role of imposed administrative identities under the colonial system, migration, religion, slavery and the emergence of a politicised Islam – and the contemporary challenges around rethinking political citizenship
Ethiopia: Are “Land Grab” Deals a Path to Food Security?
Posted 18 May 2011 13:41 GMT
This post was commissioned as part of a Pulitzer Center/Global Voices Online series on Food Insecurity. These reports draw on multimedia reporting featured on the Pulitzer Gateway to Food Insecurity and bloggers discussing the issues worldwide. Share your own story on food insecurity here.
Meles and our BEKA! moment.
By Yilma Bekele
By all accounts the minority based dictatorial regime in Ethiopia is in big trouble. Circumstances in the neighborhood are a bit disconcerting to Meles and company. You can tell from the flurry of activity being orchestrated the last three months that Arat Kilo is on pins and needles
Africa Counts: The continent's autocrats must recognize that time is running out for despotism
Uganda government may fall as protests continue
(Part II) You let it be.... and the mud settled down on its own'
Getachew Reda
(getachre@aol.com www.ethiopiansemay.blogspot.com
Call me by my title: AADWA III
Obo Arada Abashawl - May 13, 2011
The signs of the time: Cooperation or Confrontation (CC)?
Introduction
On April 22, 2011, on Good Friday, I have attended a book signing ceremony by Professor Bereket H. Sellasie. The book is titled “Wounded Nation” with reference to Eritrea.
Land scarcity drives a bout of ethnic violence in Kenya, Ethiopia
The Turkana of northwest Kenya and Daasanach of southern Ethiopia have been at odds for years, but food scarcity, drought, and changing lifestyles are exacerbating tensions.OF CRIMINAL WALKS—UGANDA STYLE
Hama Tuma
Back in 2006, I wrote a short story called The Case of the Criminal Walk in which I lampooned the Meles Zenawi regime’s ridiculous ethnic bantustanization of Ethiopia. In the story, a man who had walked outside of “his region” was accused of being a criminal and a saboteur. And the prosecutor was interested in the type of walk the man had engaged in. Here is how that prosecutor in the story asked his question:
Itching the unitching (Yalbeluten Makek)
By Elias Mengesha (Heppenheim-Germany)
The recent campaign of the Meles regime throughout the Diaspora to raise funds by selling bonds and using the proceeds to build a dam on the Blue Nile river has met fierce resistance.
Ethiopian Inflation Accelerates to 29.5% as Food Costs Jump
By William Davison
(Updates with food-price inflation in second paragraph.)
May 10 (Bloomberg) -- Inflation in Ethiopia accelerated to 29.5 percent in April as food prices jumped, the Central Statistical Agency said.
Ship 'with 600 people aboard' sinks as refugees flee from Libya
By Catrina Stewart
A ship carrying up to 600 migrants has sunk off the coast of Libya, witnesses have reported, in what would be one of the worst accidents to have befallen refugees fleeing recent unrest in North Africa, if confirmed.
OUR DOG OF A LIFE
Hama Tuma
Dogs and cats as pets live much better than most Africans—this is no news really. And yet, the depravity and cruelty of it all continues to amaze. Consider one newspaper report below:
MAY 6/2011
VIOLATION OF THE RIGHT TO PROPERTY AND DECENT SHELTER
Universal human rights declarations affirm the right of property and of families to have decent shelter or home. In Ethiopia, hundreds of thousands of people do not have decent shelter at all.
Ethiopia Says It May Grant Additional Land to Karuturi Global
By William Davison
May 5 (Bloomberg) -- Karuturi Global Ltd. may receive an additional 200,000 hectares (494,211 acres) of land from the Ethiopian government if its current 100,000-hectare concession is developed within two years, the Agriculture Ministry said.
New York, May 5, 2011--Officials in Ethiopia hijacked a local UNESCO-sponsored World Press Freedom Day event, installing government-backed journalists as speakers and nixing independent journalists slated to speak. There was no discussion, as originally planned, of this year's global theme on new media and the Internet at the Tuesday forum, according to local sources and news reports.
