The Air Force has been secretly flying armed Reaper drones on counterterrorism missions from a remote civilian airport in southern Ethiopia as part of a rapidly expanding U.S.-led proxy war against an al-Qaeda affiliate in East Africa, U.S. military officials said.
AUGUST 25/2011
POLITICAL PRISONERS TORTURED BRUTALLY
The Meles Zenawiregime has often been accused of systematic and widespread torture of all political prisoners and present reports have confirmed this as true. The president of the Ethiopian National Unity Party, Ato Zerihun Gebre Igziabher, was detained by the security forces and tortured brutally for two days.
Slavoj Zizek: 'Now the field is open' |
The philosopher discusses the momentous changes taking place in the global financial and political system.
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From the Middle East to the streets of London and cities across the US there is a discontent with the status quo. Whether it is with the iron grip of entrenched governments or the widening economic divide between the rich and those struggling to get by. But where are those so hungry for change heading? How profound is their long-term vision to transform society?
Slovenian-born philosopher Slavoj Zizek, whose critical examination of both capitalism and socialism has made him an internationally recognised intellectual, speaks to Al Jazeera's Tom Ackerman about the momentous changes taking place in the global financial and political system.
Refugees face organ theft in the Sinai
By Fred Pleitgen and Mohamed Fadel Fahmy, CNN
updated 12:22 PM EST, Thu November 3, 2011
El Arish, Egypt (CNN) -- Bedouin smugglers involved in people trafficking are also believed to be stealing organs from refugees who are unable to pay their demands for large amounts of cash to take them into Israel.
Court amends charges against jailed Swedes
The charges against the two jailed Swedish journalists in Ethiopia will be changed from participating in terrorism to just supporting terrorism, the Ethiopian court announced on Thursday.
Eritrea denies sending weapons to al-Shabab in Somalia
Eritrea has denied reports that it delivered weapons in the last few days to Somali Islamist group al-Shabab.
The Kenyan army said two planes landed in Baidoa with weapons and ammunition for al-Shabab. It did not specify where the aircraft had come from
Swedish journalists 'wanted to train Ethiopian rebels'
Ethiopia's police chief has told the terrorism trial of two Swedish journalists that they entered the country to support rebels.
Johan Persson and Martin Schibbye were arrested in July after they were caught with fighters from an Ogaden National Liberation Front (ONLF) faction.
Why Ethiopians must unite Part three of five.
By 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.”
Human Rights Watch and Center for Strategic and International Studies
October 29/2011
COLONEL TADESSE MULUNEH "DISAPPEARED" IN ERITREA
Colonel Tadesse Muluneh, an Ethiopian air force pilot during the previous regime and one time leader of the Eritrea based Ethiopian Patriotic Front, was detained in Asmara last year and has been disappeared since. Colonel Tadesse had resigned from his leadership post and was trying to leave Eritrea to get special treatment abroad for his back ailment.
U.S. drone base in Ethiopia is operational
By Craig Whitlock, Thursday, October 27, 4:49 PM
Blind in the Mind
(By Sahlu Bekele – Toronto)
What is cooking?
What is in the thinking?
In the minds of dictators
Those who live in their cocoons
How come they don't see?
What we sense and see
How come they don't foresee
The new African land grab |
Foreign investors, with the World Bank, are acquiring vast tracks of land in Africa - at the expense of local farmers.
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Ethiopia Andnet Radio Stockholm Sweden Interview With EPRP Member Arebegna Ayalnesh 111023 
Organization, Unity, and Leadership
By Yelfiwos Wondaya
Knowing the fact that the so-called Ethiopian constitution is framed by an ethnocentric dictatorial regime to serve its narrow purpose, one would not expect to see it working for all parties on board, much less to preserve Ethiopia’s unity and territorial integrity intact.
Why Ethiopians must unite? (Part II)
Aklog Birara, PhD
In part one, I provided basic socioeconomic arguments of why unity of purpose and action among opponents of the TPLF/EPRDF is no longer an option for those who wish to see a unified, diverse and prosperous Ethiopia whose institutional foundation is grounded in fundamental principles of human dignity and freedom for the individual to choose, speak, associate and move;
Winnipegger Ali Saeed uses art and song to bring awareness to plight of political prisoners
"Art and culture are so important. Whenever I have pain inside, when I'm disappointed, and I write a poem or sing a song, it's a kind of relief, it's a kind of painkiller. When I'm driving and I'm sad about something, I get a nice singing voice and I start singing."
Ali Saeed is lucky to be alive. After surviving torture in 11 different prisons in Ethiopia and Somalia, Saeed is happily living in Winnipeg. Music helped Saeed through his years as a prisoner. And his music and his poetry now help others as he continues the fight for political prisoners.
Security Council to consider new Eritrea sanctions
UNITED NATIONS — The Security Council will begin Tuesday discussing a draft resolution on imposing new sanctions on Eritrea for what a UN report describes as destabilizing actions in East Africa.
Trees 'boost African crop yields and food security'
Planting trees that improve soil quality can help boost crop yields for African farmers, an assessment shows.
Fertiliser tree systems (FTS) also help boost food security and play a role in "climate proofing" the region's arable land, the paper adds.
Ethiopia readies 3 mn hectare for investors |
| K Rajani Kanth / Chennai/ Hyderabad October 17, 2011, 0:57 IST |
Book Review:- By Ayal-Sew Dessye:
Author: Dr. Aklog Birara; Title: “Ethiopia: The Great Land Giveaway - Yemeret neteka ena kirimit”, 486 pages; Printed by: Signature Book Printing; Price: $30.00.
The anti-Meles protest demonstrations in Oslo
The arrival of Meles Zenawi in Oslo had sparked and was met with a big protest demonstration. The demonstration highlighted the human rights violations and atrocities of the regime of Meles Zenawi in Ethiopia. The participants denounced Meles Zenawi and called for the freezing and termination of all aid to his brutal regime which has one of the worst human rights records in the world.
Ethiopian leader met by protests
October 11, 2011
A chorus of critics demonstrated outside the Oslo hotel where Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi was attending an international energy conference this week. He brushed off the criticism, while Norwegian leaders say they took up some of it with him.
At least 23 dead as Egyptian forces clash with protesters
At least 23 people were killed Sunday when Egyptian army forces clashed with thousands of people protesting more than a week after the burning of a Coptic Christian church, officials said.
October 8/2011
UNPARDONABLE PARDON—VIOLATION OF THE RIGHT OF THE PEOPLE
The regime of Meles Zenawi has made a mockery of justice throughout the process of what it called the Red Terror trials and it has now capped this with its arbitrary pardon of no less than 16 confirmed top criminals while it continues to hold 35,000 political prisoners in its dungeons and prison camps.
Paltalk Room Tyrants !!!
Tedla Asfaw
I have been a regular at Assimba PaltalkRoom for sometimes. Some of my
writings were even posted on their site way back and I am writing and
participating in paltalk rooms with my own name, Tedla and NY, where I have
been residing for more than two decades .
(Editor’s Note: We posted the above article for your comments on our blog. Please feel free to comment on the issue. Thank you,)
| Iewo Aesed will be interviewing writer *Berhanu Sertsu* this Sunday, the 9th of October about his 3rd book "*Be baed Ager Nuro*", which could be freely translated into * "Life in Foreign Lands". The author is a resident in the UK and casts a sympathetic & critical appraisal of Ethiopians scattered all over the world and their impact back home. Please join us in our www.paltalk.com forum by entering the International Ethiopian Women Organization's Forum at 3pm UK time, when it will be 4pm in Central Europe, 10 am New York and early morning in the Oceania region. An invitation in Amharic is here-in attached.* -- Women's rights is a human rights question !!! |
Ethiopia’s ‘bulldozer’ government arrests 100 tribal people over dam
6 October
Unidentified Human Remains
This facial reconstruction was completed by a forensic artist. It is not an exact likeness. The BC Coroners Service and Prince George RCMP request the public's assistance in identifying this male whose remains were discovered November 2010 in a wooded area south of Tyner Boulevard in Prince George. He is thought to have died some weeks before his discovery.
Ethiopia Andnet Radio Stockholm Interview With EPRP High Official Ato Eyasu Alemayehu 110925
Let us give real meaning to Ethiopia and being Ethiopian today
Aklog Birara, Ph.D.
It will be an understatement to state that, regardless of ethnic, religious, gender, age or ideological affinity, Ethiopians and people of Ethiopian origin discuss their country of origin with passion and genuine interest. Broadly, they share a common set of principles. This is the good news
US drone bases in Africa to focus on al-Qaida targets and Somalia
American unmanned vehicles based in Ethiopia, Seychelles and Arabian peninsula to target piracy and terrorism
September 18/2011
Anti Terror or Anti Free Press?Brutal repression against independent journalists
The repressive regime of Meles Zenaw has decreed a convenient anti terrorism law that is it is invoking to justify its repression against free journalist and all political dissidents. The sp called law is such that a mild critic of the regime qualifies as terrorism
More than 3,000 Ethiopian migrants stuck on Yemeni-Saudi border
By Stephanie Nebehay and Katie Nguyen
GENEVA/LONDON (AlertNet) - More than 3,000 Ethiopian migrants who desperately want to go home have been stranded on the Yemeni-Saudi border in extremely difficult conditions for several months, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) said on Tuesday.
The New Scramble for Africa
by CONN HALLINAN
Is current U.S. foreign policy in Africa following a blueprint drawn up almost eight years ago by the rightwing Heritage Foundation, one of the most conservative think tanks in the world? While it seems odd that a Democratic administration would have anything in common with the extremists at Heritage, the convergence in policy and practice between the two is disturbing.
by Bretton Woods Project
New research accuses the World Bank Group's policies of facilitating land grabs in Africa and favouring the interests of financial markets over food security and environmental protection.
Agriculture and the food crisis are a high-profile agenda topic at the upcoming World Bank annual meetings, and critical voices are growing on the Bank's approach to food price volatility (see Update 77, 76). Recent in-depth research by the US-based Oakland Institute raises further difficult questions on agriculture policy for Bank officials.
September 16/2001
DENOUNCE THE INTENSIFIED REPRESSION IN ETHIOPIA
The ruling EPRDF regime is panicking. It has arrested and tortured many journalists, dissidents and political personalities in the last few months so viciously that may are suggesting it is in a state of panic
September 17/2011
ETHIOPIANS IN THE SUDAN FACING DANGER
Andualem Alemayehu, an Ehiopian who had been expressing, over the Eritrean Television, his disapproval of the Meles Zenawi regime is presently in the central prison of Khartoum awaiting possible deportation.
Wikileaks Ethiopia Files: Ethiopia Bombs Itself, Blames Eritrea
by Thomas C. Mountain September 16, 2011Recently released Wikileaks Ethiopia files expose how Ethiopian security forces planted 3 bombs that went off in the Ethiopian capital Addis Ababa on September 16, 2006 and then blamed Eritrea and the Oromo resistance for the blasts in a case that raises serious questions about the claims made about the bombing attempt against the African Union summit earlier this year in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
UPDATE 1-Ethiopia inflation up in Aug on food prices
* Inflation pushed higher by rising cereal prices
* High inflation a problem in region (Adds details, background)
By Aaron Maasho
ADDIS ABABA, Sept 13 (Reuters) - Ethiopia's year-on-year inflation jumped to 40.6 percent in August from 39.2 percent a month before as food prices rose, especially for cereals, the statistics office said on Tuesday.
We are all prisoners
By Yilma Bekele
East Europe suffered under Soviet domination for over fifty years. While West Europe was marching forward East Europe was engulfed in darkness and hopelessness. The Arabs with all their vast population and abundant natural resources stumbled around for so long they were considered people of no consequences. The East Europeans emerged from their forced slavery and are now trying to rebuild a new reality. The Arabs are showing signs of life. From the shores of the Atlantic all the way to the Indian Ocean Arab awakening is the talk of the planet.
Ethiopian journalist named in WikiLeaks flees country
ADDIS ABABA — An Ethiopian journalist identified in a diplomatic cable released last month by WikiLeaks has fled after being questioned by authorities, a media rights watchdog said Thursday.
