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Finote Democracy Voice of Ethiopian Unity Radio 11/23/2013
By Mirjam van Reisen* | IDN-InDepth NewsAnalysis
BRUSSELS (IDN) - In the early morning of October 3 a tourist was enjoying the beautiful quiet beach of the Italian Mediterranean Island when three swimmers appeared. Three African young men frantically asked for help. They had left their mothers behind in a ship on sea that was on fire
- DAVID CRARY - AP National Writer (AP)
To many Christian evangelicals, their commitment to finding homes for the world's orphans is something to celebrate — and they will, gathering at hundreds of churches across America to direct their thoughts and prayers to these children.
By Tedla Asfaw
Dear ESAT Producer of "Sile Ethiopia",
I followed today, Oct. 22 , program of "Sile Ethiopia". The "denouncement", by Jawar Mohamed on his facebook about the recent woyane appointment of high rank military officials which you read, is not unexpected. Jawar, the leader of "Oromo First" movement, is seeing all the politics from Oromos VS Others angle.
October 19, 2013
The Global Slavery Index has revealed that Ethiopia fares amongst the highest 12 countries that have reduced a part of their population to slavery.
ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) - Ethiopian police investigators in Addis Ababa's main detention center have tortured political detainees and regularly mistreat people in custody to extract confessions, Human Rights Watch (HRW) reported on Friday.
The Ethiopian government, long seen by the West as a bulwark against militant Islam in the Horn of Africa, has denied frequent accusations that it uses state institutions to stifle dissent and silence political opposition.
Nearly 30 million people live in slavery worldwide, with most of them in Asia and Africa, according to a report released Thursday.
Here are the highlights of the report:
-- India, China, Pakistan, Nigeria, Ethiopia, Russia, Thailand, Democratic Republic of Congo, Myanmar and Bangladesh together account for more than three-quarters of the total estimate.
OCTOBER 17/2013
Current statistics from the Food and Africultural Organization of the UN has reaffirmed that the three countries in Africa facing serious food shortage and the danger of famine are Ethiopia, Zambia and Mozambique. This contradicts the doctored statistics propagated by the regime in Addis Abeba which proclaims food sufficiency and economic growth per annum of 11%.
By Hama Tuma
Many many years ago, actually a century or so ago, satirist Johnathan Swift, made a modest proposal to combat famine and poverty and suggested it would create an all-round profit to eat children. He put it succinctly in this way: “I have been assured by a very knowing American of my acquaintance in London, that a young healthy child well nursed is at a year old a most delicious, nourishing, and wholesome food, whether stewed, roasted, baked, or boiled …” Swift being a satirist and white no one accused him of a red gummed cannibal.
By Tedla Asfaw
Moments after describing the degradation and cold-blooded murder of inmates at an Ethiopian prison, Abebech Demissie looked in the face of the man she called a killer and spoke her mind.
"I'm glad to be here today, I'm glad to face you. You don't have a gun anymore," she told Kefelgn Alemu Worku on Thursday after U.S. District Judge John Kane ordered him to face her so she could identify him.
ENVER (AP) — A man accused of torturing and killing people in an Ethiopian prison in the 1970s was convicted of immigration charges in Denver federal court Friday.
Kefelgn Alemu Worku (kah-FEH'-lun ah-LEE'-moo WER'-koo) was convicted on three counts related to immigration fraud, The Denver Post reported (http://tinyurl.com/mvbpvn9 ).
The Associated Press
Saturday, Oct. 12, 2013 | 12:11 a.m.
Thousands of people each year flee Eritrea, a small Horn of Africa nation. Despite relative peace, many leave the repressive regime taking trips that can be as perilous as the recent boat disaster off the Italian island of Lampedusa
By TOM ODULA
Associated Press
ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia (AP) - The African Union will not allow a sitting head of state to be prosecuted by an international tribunal, the body's chairman said Saturday, in a clear warning it hopes to halt the crimes against humanity trial about to begin in the Hague against Kenya's President Uhuru Kenyatta.
African countries accuse the International Criminal Court of disproportionately targeting African leaders. The court has indicted only Africans so far, though half of the eight cases it is prosecuting were referred by African governments.
By Tedla Asfaw
Tena Yestelen Obo Tesfaye,
It is now Friday Oct, 11, 2013 to be exact 8:30 pm ET. I just have finished your book “YeSedetegnaw Mastawasha”. I read it posted on PDF. Sorry It has not yet been released for sale.
Divisions are widening within the Tigray People’s liberation Front (TPLF, hard core of the ruling EPRDF).
Two of the main rival forces within the Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF) known as the Addis Gang, led by deputy prime minister Debretsion Gebremichael, and the Tigray Group, headed by the president of the Tigray Regional State and the TPLF, Abay Woldu, are locked in a no-holds-barred struggle. The conflict has deepened in Tigray itself where their supporters even came to blows at a meeting in Mekelle.
October 4/2013
More than 300 bodies are expected to be retrieved at the coast of Lampadusa as a result of the disaster that struck a boat carrying close to 500 desperate refugees from the hell hole that calls itself Libya. Most of the dead refugees were Somalis and Eritreans and we can imagine that there were some Ethiopians too as Ethiopians are prisoners in their hundreds in the containers of the Libyan Desert, left to the mercy of racketeers, sadists and rapists. Ethiopians have also died on the shores of Yemen and in the hands of modern slavery lords from Lebanon to Qatar and beyond.
At least 130 African migrants have died and many more are missing after a boat carrying them to Europe sank off the southern Italian island of Lampedusa.
A total of 103 bodies have been recovered and more have been found inside the wreck, coast guards say.
By Maggie Michael - Associated Press
KHARTOUM, Sudan — Security forces opened fire on Sudanese protesters Friday, witnesses said, as thousands marched through the streets of the capital in an opposition push to turn a wave of popular anger over fuel price hikes into an outright uprising against the 24-year rule of President Omar al-Bashir.
By Tedla Asfaw
For the 68th UN General Assembly, Ethiopian delegates travel to New York was kept secret. The regime media and its websites kept us in dark maybe as precaution from Al Shabab that massacred innocent civilians in Nairobi Westgate Mall to avenge for the military involvement of kenya in Somalia.
By Betre Yacob.
The Ethiopian journalist Bisrat Woldemichael was kidnapped, threatened, humiliated, and beaten by the Ethiopian intelligence and security agents on 28 August, 2013. He has reported this incident today to journalists.
By Kidane Alemayehu
Apologies and Compensations by Britain and The Netherlands
Two European nations, Britain and The Netherlands, have finally come to terms with the demand for justice by apologizing to and compensating the people of Kenya and Indonesia, respectively, for the crimes committed by the former colonial powers over half a century ago.
By Tedla Asfaw
This coming Sunday Sept 22 in Arlington, Virginia Ginbot 7 has called all Ethiopians for open public dialogue. On this public meeting Ginbot 7 chairman, Dr. Birhanu Nega and the Secretary, Andargatchew Tsige will be there. This is the “Mother of all Meetings”. Hope it will be aired live on ESAT.
By Hama Tuma
Many naïve people like me believe that crime does not pay while the reality shows it does. On the other hand, lying is an art of governance not only in Africa but all over the world and even Barack Obama has been caught in the act more than once. Remember Powell at the UN with his ridiculous flask and the present day dull fellow Kerry following the Powell act on Syria. Lies are part of bad governance and worse politics.
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