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August 29, 2008 by EthioSun

Based on his activisim and Senate history, many Ethiopian Americans believe that Senator Obama as president would likely push to expand the promotion of human rights and democracy in Africa, in particular in Ethiopia. The Ethiopian Americans also say that they look forw...

August 29, 2008 by EthioSun

Zenawi must be impeached for taking many Ethiopians into War and committing War Crime in Somalia! EthioSun, Voice for the Voiceless The Somali opposition has commented on the news about the 'urgent' Ethiopian withdrawal from Somalia saying they dashed the Ethiopi...

August 29, 2008 by EthioSun

Mr Kevin Myers writing could have been non controversial if he had targetted the African dictators (gangsters such as Melese Zenawi) who are finanically strengthened by the West, such as Ireland, under the pretext of Aid. Mr Meyer, the Irish aid to Ethiopia never rea...

August 27, 2008 by EthioSun

Melese Zenawi may not be the father of his eldest daughter and son. According to a source, the real father of the two children could have been the late Kinfe Gebremedhin who had been on and off dating Azeb Mesfin (known as also Lemlem/ Aster) until he was removed/kille...

August 26, 2008 by EthioSun

Reporters Without Borders is dismayed to learn that Amare Aregawi, the editor of the big-circulation weekly Reporter, was arrested on 22 August in Addis Ababa and was then illegally transferred to a prison in Gondar, 750 km north of the capital, in connection with a libe...

August 25, 2008 by EthioSun

Written by John Fisher Famine again is a problem in East Africa where poor rains and rising food prices have combined to cause acute shortages. Despite 25 years of western countries pouring aid into the region, the problem is not close to being solved. The reason for the f...

August 24, 2008 by EthioSun

Matthew Stein, Chronicle Foreign Service (modified by EthioSun) As a result, many are virtual prisoners in a sprawling camp where they live with destitute locals and displaced Somalis, who have fled their own conflict between Islamists, clan militias and a weak transition...

August 24, 2008 by EthioSun

Condors and Eagles from Harlem A popular fascination with Africa, and independent Ethiopia in particular, had arisen in Black American and Afro-Carribean communities in the years before the invasion. Beginning as far back as the 1880s there was a spread of "Ethiopiani...

August 23, 2008 by EthioSun

Kenenisa Bekele, left, set a cracking pace in the 5000m Ethiopian Kenenisa Bekele outsprinted his rivals with a stunning last lap to win the 5,000 metres and become the first man to complete the Olympic long-distance double since 1980. The 26-year-old, who retained his ...

August 22, 2008 by EthioSun

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August 22, 2008 by EthioSun

Dibaba Did It Again BEIJING (AP) - Tirunesh Dibaba of Ethiopia has won the 5,000 meters to complete an unprecedented women's Olympic distance double. Dibaba, the world record-holder, won the 5,000-meter race in 15 minutes, 41.40 seconds on Friday night. It's her s...

August 20, 2008 by EthioSun

Ethiopian Kenenisa Bekele keeps his bid for an elusive long-distance running double on course by coasting into the final of the men's Olympic 5000 metres. The 5000/10,000m double was last achieved by fellow Ethiopian Miruts Yifter in the 1980 Moscow Games. Bekele fini...

August 18, 2008 by EthioSun

Monologue of Deceit On August 7, 2008, Zenawi gave an interview to Time Magazine in which he flatly denied the existence of famine in Ethiopia: "We have pockets of severe malnutrition in some districts in the south and an emergency situation in the Somali region," he explai...

August 18, 2008 by EthioSun

By Rick Hampson, USA TODAY KONSO, Ethiopia - Once, the farmers walked for hours to bring their sorghum and maize here to market. These days they trod the same paths, parched grass crunching under foot, to carry their starving children to a feeding clinic. Like crops, the chi...