SOCEPP was pleased when concerned individuals and the BBC reported, albeit very belatedly, that the aid for famine victims collected through Live Aid/Band Aid and via other NGOs had been diverted by the Tigrean People’s Liberation Front (TPLF),
“Two Somali girls were executed in front of hundred of residents by anti-government militant group al-Shabaab, which had accused the girls of spying, local media reported Friday.
Norway sent around NOK 240 million to Ethiopia last year, in foreign aid, but human rights activists claim the money is being used to crush the political opposition and critics of the Ethiopian government
New York, October 29, 2010--The Committee to Protect Journalists calls upon authorities in Ethiopia's northeastern region of Afar to release a journalist who has been held without charge since September 11
Tension has grown in the Afar Regional State after Tigrayan arable farmers settled on large private land areas.
According to a tally effected in September 2010, ten private agricultural investors control 5,000 hectares of land around Gewani, in the Awash valley (Afar Regional State). Seven of these companies are owned by Tigrayans, totalling 4,790 hectares in leases attributed by the local authorities, linked to the government in Addis Ababa. The two largest of these firms, Tsegaye Agricultural Development and Lucy Agricultural Development, each hold 1500 hectares. This redistribution of land has caused local conflicts, which have sometimes turned violent. In one case, Gewani’s administrator, Yakud Hawino, was killed at the end of April following a vendetta linked to land issues. One of the three other firms with a lease in this zone is owned by Fatouma Abdella, the wife of Ismael Ali Siro, the President of the Regional Government
Professor Alemayheu Gebre Mariam (also known as Al Mariam) is a confirmed pro American whose “love America” speech I had heard some years back in Washington. It is of course his right to love or hate whosoever he pleases. Preaching it to the people of Ethiopia is another matter
The child in the man's arms is painfully thin. The father is hungry too. He lives in southern Ethiopia, where food shortages are an annual occurrence. There are food distributions in his village but the man, let's call him Joseph, is a member of the wrong political party.
OTTAWA — The Canadian International Development Agency is “deeply concerned” about revelations in a report suggesting foreign aid donated to Ethiopia has been used as a tool of political repression, the agency said Wednesday.
OTTAWA - Canada and its allies have turned a blind eye to a "repressive" Ethiopia that is using lucrative international aid as a weapon to stifle democracy, says a new human-rights audit.
Contrary to citizens’ percepts, most of the illegal crimes are committed by tyrant regimes themselves and continue to rule the country with an iron fist. Tyrants are the mother of all violence, often fail to obey, keep, and preserve the laws, the trust, and the promise they made prior to grasping power.
The right to food is a basic right that remains grossly violated by successive regimes in Ethiopia. Presently 12-14 million people depend on food handout from international sources and hunger has become a constant and deadly companion of millions.
The Eway model for Eathiopia By Obo Arada Shawl -October 13, 2010
‘They will fight, you will see’
Nega Ayele, quoted in Class and Revolution in Ethiopia
Indeed they fought or have struggled for a Revolution. Both the underlined words were interchangeable during Nega’s time.
For Your Information
Selling Ethiopia Cheap: Genet Zewde, ambassador OF Meles Zenawi to India, talking to Indian investors: “You don’t have to buy the land in Ethiopia because the government gives you the land for an almost negligible lease price for 25 to 50 years, which is then, of course, renewable. There are other government incentives as well.”
To Ethiopians in Chicago: CONFRONT WEYANE AGENT ELENI GEBRE MEDHIN. She will be in Chicago to speak on October 12, 2010, 5.30pm – 7.15pm at The Chicago Club, 81 East Van Buren Street, Chicago, IL 60605.
October 09, 2010 - Ethiopian Americans Council (EAC)
On October 6, 2010, Birtukan Mideksa, a prominent Ethiopian political prisoner was released from prison after being forced to make a public confession admitting to have broken the law. This wellorchestrated political theater was shown live on the government ran media to humiliate Mideksa, and to demonstrate the regime’s supremacy over the opposition camp.
I just cannot let some of the insane stories of chatting of the day that I heard on some of the Pal talks (Bertukan Mediksa’s news of release from prison related issue) go by without comment.
Chairman Bertukan Mideksa has been released from Kaliti Jail after spending six hundred forty four days, one hundred forty of it in solitary confinement. We are happy she is reunited with her family and loved ones.
Now that Meles Zenawi has been forced to release Judge Birtukan Midiksa, it is imperative that all human rights activists do not lose sight of the fact that close to 35,000 political prisoners are still languishing in the prisons and prison camps of Meles Zenawi.
JT: A top Egyptian newspaper “Almasry Alyoum” reported that Egypt considers ethnic division in Ethiopia important to securing its Nile River domination and the Egyptian government is also planning to use multi-million dollar investment projects in Ethiopia as economic leverage to stop future large-scale Ethiopian projects.
Tedla Asfaw: The Sept.22 rally in New York by Ethiopians remind me the rally in in the South Lawn of the White House during the first term of the Clinton Administration in 1990s. Back then Ethiopians in thousands denounced one of the “new breed “of African leaders, Meles Zenawi based on his anti-Ethiopia stand of the party he led, TPLF
Professor Alemayehu Gebre Mariam (aka Al Mariam) seems to have provoked some reactions by his last weekly column “Meles Zenawi Goes to College” in which he defends (!) Columbia University’s invitation of the tyrant Meles Zenawi to address students. Here below are some comments
“Education for colonial people must inevitably mean unrest and revolt; therefore, had to be limited and used to inculcate obedience and servility lest the whole system be overthrown.”
The corridors of Columbia University will reek from the odious smell of oppression that surrounds this dictator. His halitosis of ethnic hatred might be disguised by breathmints but Columbia University will NEVER be able to remove the stench of death, pain and sorrow that follows this killer....
A biography of a World Leaders Forum guest, Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi, was called into question.
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His short biography has since been removed from the website and replaced with a note that he will be speaking on “the current global economy and its impact.”
ountry, now want to try their hands offshore, with a group of progressive farmers all set to acquire 50,000 hectares of farm land on lease in Ethiopia for growing high-value cash crops, including pulses and maize.
Mr. President: My name is Ali Hussein Saeed. I am writing you to officially condemn in the strongest possible terms your University’s hosting of Ethiopian head of state Meles
Let just say it is painful to hear that a prestigious University like Columbia has invited Ethiopia’s tyrannical leader Meles Zenawi to speak at the annual World Leaders Forum. As an Ethiopian I feel insulted and mocked upon
It was not accidental that the legal opposition lacked the willingness and the capacity to become a viable force in the struggle against the TPLF. At each turn of events, it flaunted all opportunities handed to it by history, choosing its own survival to the advancement of the noble cause which it claimed to uphold.
The Committee on Global Thought, Columbia University በሚለው መድረክ ላይ "The Current Global Economy and its Impact" በሚል ርዕስ በመጪው ረቡዕ ከሰዓት በኋላ ንግግር እንዲያደርግ መጋበዙን የሰሙ ኢትዮጵያውያን ተቃውሞአቸውን ማሰማት ጀመሩ።
Date: September 22, 2010 from 4:00 pm to 5:00 pm EDT
Location: Columbia University Morningside Campus Low Library, Rotunda
Sir, I am an Ethiopian writer and some years back I had presented my book in your university. I am addressing to you this protest letter following the announcement that Columbia University has invited the bloody Ethiopian tyrant to make a key note address on African leadership.Read More...
Mr. President: My name is Ali Hussein Saeed. I am writing you to officially condemn in the strongest possible terms your University’s hosting of Ethiopian head of state Meles Zenawi at this month’s global forum. … I am truly shocked and outraged that an institution as distinguished and world-reknowned as Columbia University would allow this man on its premises, let alone invite him, the best example of bad governance and brutal repression, to give an address on the topic of Ethiopia and African leadership! Read More
From Zenebe G. Tamirat
Dear Professor Joseph Stiglitz, I was shocked to read at the event page of the official website of the Committee on Global Thought (CGT) of Colombia University, that the notorious tyrant Melese Zenawi has been invited to make a key note address to the global forum on September 22, 2010.Read More…
SOCEPP: Two individuals (one in Toronto and one in Ottawa) who have been illegally using the name of SOCEPP Canada have continued to besmirch the name of SOCEPP and have recently associated themselves openly with political factions calling for a political "united front" against the regime in Ethiopia. Read More
Harrisons Malayalam Ltd is looking at Ethiopia to acquire land on lease for developing plantations, the company's Managing Director, Mr Pankaj Kapoor, said on Tuesday.
It took me sixty-seven years to own a car, a car that was manufactured fifty years after my birth date. Why am I telling this is to remind my readers that as Eathiopians we were neither producers nor consumers of goods and services? As a nation, we were and are still peasant/farmers where no science and technology existed.
EPRP sticks out in Ethiopia
Indian Ocean Newsletter (No. 1292, 09/11/2010): On 1st September this year, stickers carrying the logo of the opposition organisation Ethiopian People’s Revolutionary Party (EPRP) and a slogan in the Amharic language calling to step up the fight against the TPLF (hard core of the governing coalition) appeared simultaneously at several places in Addis Ababa. They could be seen on the walls of the university, taxis and minibuses, at the main bus station and the market, in bars and restaurants and even on electricity pylons. The very next day, the head of security services, Getachew Assefa, gathered his agents in charge of surveillance of this illegal organisation and gave them a dressing down, asking them to remove the stickers as quickly as possible. It was at least two years since the last time the EPRP distributed leaflets in Addis Ababa
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SOCEPP was pleased when concerned individuals and the BBC reported, albeit very belatedly, that the aid for famine victims collected through Live Aid/Band Aid and via other NGOs had been diverted by the Tigrean People’s Liberation Front (TPLF),
Ethiopians from New York, New Jersey, Washington D.C. and Boston descended up on Columbia University, New York City protesting Columbia University’s invitation of Meles Zenawi as a guest speaker. 
