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Western Diplomatic Omerta in Ethiopia

Western Diplomatic Omerta in Ethiopia
February 8, 2010 by Alemayehu G. Mariam
Last week, in a piece reporting on the eerie silence of Western diplomats in Addis Abeba on Birtukan Midekssa, the first woman political party leader in Ethiopian history and Ethiopia’s # 1 political prisoner, Xan Rice, a reporter for the Guardian wrote: That foreign emba... Read More

Advocacy for Ethiopia Calls for Papers & Participation

Advocacy for Ethiopia Calls for Papers & Participation
February 8, 2010 by EthioSun
Conference on Good Governance, Peace, Security, and Sustainable Development in the Horn of Africa Washington DC, April 9 to 11, 2010 The Horn of Africa continues to be extremely fragile. The sub-region’s volatility has increased significantly in the post 9/11 per... Read More

Iran and Israel in Africa

Iran and Israel in Africa
February 8, 2010 by Atse Minilik
A search for allies in a hostile world Iran’s proclaimed ambitions in Africa are particularly worrying for Israel, which once had a lot of friends on the continent and wants to keep the few that remain Feb 4th 2010 | DAKAR AND NAIROBI | From The Economist print edition ... Read More

Headline News

The Tigrai Liberation Front Troops Troops Cross Somalia Border Border

The Tigrai Liberation Front Troops Troops Cross Somalia Border Border
February 7, 2010 by EthioSun
MOGADISHU (Mareeg)—The Tigrai Liberation Front (TPLF) troops with armoured vehicles have crossed the Somali border and reached Elbarde town in Bakol region in south western Somalia, witnesses said on Sunday. Pro government Somali militias trained recently in Ethiopia ha... Read More

Ethiopia gets Microsoft software in Amharic

Ethiopia gets Microsoft software in Amharic
February 6, 2010 by EthioSun
(AFP) ADDIS ABABA — US software giant Microsoft has launched Windows Vista in Amharic, the first operating system in the national language of Ethiopia, the official news agency said Saturday. "Launching the Amharic version software is a major step forward for Amharic to ... Read More

Scientists, Donors Blast Ethiopia’s Bio Safety Law

Scientists, Donors Blast Ethiopia’s Bio Safety Law
February 4, 2010 by Atse Minilik
by Peter Heinlein: VOA Scientists and farmers are urging Ethiopia to reconsider a new biodiversity law they say restricts agricultural research and could hamper delivery of urgently needed food aid. The law has prompted foreign donors to cut off funding to Ethiopian scienti... Read More

People

Like Mother, Like Daughter: Emmeline Pankhurst daughter Sylvia Pankhrst

Like Mother, Like Daughter:  Emmeline Pankhurst daughter Sylvia Pankhrst
February 3, 2010
Sylvia in 1915, photographed by Malcolm Arbuthnot. Image reproduced by courtesy of the Inter... Read More

A Fierce Eye

A Fierce Eye
February 2, 2010
Retiree’s photos reveal struggles for equity, justice in Israel.  by Leslie Berliant, Contribu... Read More

Politics

Anxious Ethiopia: Meles Zenawi will win the election. But that may not bring calm says the Economist

Anxious Ethiopia: Meles Zenawi will win the election. But that may not bring calm says the Economist
January 21, 2010 by Ras Alulla
Jangling nerves Meles Zenawi will probably win the election. But that may not b... Read More

Ethiopian rebels play down defections

Ethiopian rebels play down defections
January 21, 2010 by Atse Yohannes
A recent defection of 80 Oromo Liberation Front (OLF) fighters to Ethiopian auth... Read More

Books

New in paperback: ‘Cutting for Stone’ by Abraham Verghese

New in paperback: ‘Cutting for Stone’ by Abraham Verghese
February 5, 2010 by Belay Zeleke
Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese (Vintage, $15.95, fiction, reprint) USA TO... Read More

A novel resolves childhood memories of the Ethiopian revolution

A novel resolves childhood memories of the Ethiopian revolution
January 26, 2010 by EthioSun
by Euan Kerr, Minnesota Public Radio So she wrote "Beneath the Lion's Gaze," ... Read More

Human Rights

Judges allow genocide charge against , Meles Zenawis body, Sudanese Ruler

Judges allow genocide charge against , Meles Zenawis body, Sudanese Ruler
February 3, 2010 by Atse Minilik
(CNN) -- Judges at the International Criminal Court ruled Wednesday that Sudanese President Omar al-... Read More

Ethiopia’s jailed victim of Western realpolitik

Ethiopia’s jailed victim of Western realpolitik
February 1, 2010 by EthioSun
XAN RICE At noon every Sunday an old Toyota sedan donated by supporters of Ethiopia's most famous p... Read More

Culture

True love never dies

True love never dies
February 8, 2010 by EthioSun
SHAKESPEARE knew the course to true love never did run smooth. And Bright... Read More

The only functioning cell phone in Ethiopia!

The only functioning cell phone in Ethiopia!
February 6, 2010 by EthioSun
The lonely mobile phone used by the chosen, In a vast country of 80 million! W... Read More

Ethiopia: Teddy Afro Out, Teddy Yo In

Ethiopia: Teddy Afro Out, Teddy Yo In
February 2, 2010 by EthioSun
All Man, No Myth Hans Larson: Teddy Yo, a young, vibrant rapper, has been... Read More

History

Ethiopia: The Thirty Minutes War of Chelenquo (ጨለንቆ)

Ethiopia: The Thirty Minutes War of Chelenquo (ጨለንቆ)
November 29, 2009 by EthioSun
Though much was talked about the war of Chelenquo, it probably was the shortest ... Read More

Ethiopia – Emperor Menelik’s Watch sold for $52,000 at Geneva auction

Ethiopia – Emperor Menelik’s Watch sold for $52,000 at Geneva auction
November 29, 2009 by EthioSun
    A watch made specially for Ethiopia 's emperor Menelik II, has sold ... Read More

Famine

Food assistance needs in Zenawi’s Ethiopia rising for 2010, UN relief wing reports

Food assistance needs in Zenawi’s Ethiopia rising for 2010, UN relief wing reports
February 3, 2010 by Belay Zeleke
3 February 2010 – The number of people in Ethiopia who will need food assistance this year has risen to 5.2 million, an increase of several hundred thousand from estimates released just two months ago by United Nations relief agencies and the Horn of Africa nation’s Government. The worsening food security situation is attributed to poor rainf... Read More

Ethiopia’s “Silently” Creeping Famine

Ethiopia’s “Silently” Creeping Famine
January 11, 2010 by Alemayehu G. Mariam
Alemayehu G. Mariam : “Oh! What a tangled web we weave, when first we practice to deceive,” said Sir Walter Scott, the novelist and poet. Is there “famine” in Ethiopia, or not? Are large numbers of people “starving” there, or not? Is convulsive hunger a daily reality for the majority of Ethiopians, or not? No one wants to use the ... Read More

Viewpoints

Western Diplomatic Omerta in Ethiopia

February 8, 2010 by Alemayehu G. Mariam
Last week, in a piece reporting on the eerie silence of Western diplomats in Addis Abeba on Birtukan... Read More

Ethiopia’s jailed victim of Western realpolitik

February 1, 2010 by EthioSun
XAN RICE At noon every Sunday an old Toyota sedan donated by supporters of Ethiopia's most famous p... Read More

Putting Lipstick on a Pig, Ethiopian Style

February 1, 2010 by Alemayehu G. Mariam
Last week, there was a great deal of teeth-gnashing, knuckle-cracking and gut-wrenching by Ethiopia... Read More

The Politicization of Food Aid in Ethiopia

January 31, 2010 by Seye Abraha
The West has provided hundreds of millions of dollars of food aid to Ethiopia in the past several ye... Read More

Emperor Meles’ New Clothes

January 31, 2010 by mitmitaye.com
Some images are etched in our minds—whether we experienced them first hand or because they are par... Read More

Ethiopia: Some more stuff I must wonder about

January 30, 2010 by EthioSun
Dwain Walden In my opinion, the History Channel and the Discovery Channel are two of the best... Read More

Ethiopia Opposition Says World Ignores Jailed Leader’s Plight

January 30, 2010 by EthioSun
Peter Heinlein | Addis Ababa An Ethiopian opposition group says the international community is igno... Read More

The Democracy Before Democracy in Africa

January 25, 2010 by Alemayehu G. Mariam
Alemayehu G. Mariam Since the dawn of African independence from colonialism in the early 1960... Read More

The Mitmita Girls’ Naughty List: Madame Financier-Eleni Gabre-Madhin

January 23, 2010 by Atse Yohannes
Name: Eleni Gabre-Madhin Title: CEO of Ethiopia Commodity Exchange (ECX), Affectionately known to t... Read More

Future of the Future Country[¹], Part II Reinventing Ethiopian Politics

January 18, 2010 by Alemayehu G. Mariam
Reinventing Ethiopian Politics Aristotle wrote that “man is a political animal” to suggest that... Read More

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