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Addis Voice Launches New Theme

July 28, 2010 by Abebe Gellaw

Addis Voice is pleased to announce the re-launch of its website after taking time off to complete its upgrading project. The new cutting-edge site integrates a number of new and upgraded multimedia features. With increasing demand for service upgrad...

July 23, 2010 by Abebe Gellaw

Live Aid, which celebrated its 25th anniversary earlier this month, was conceived after heart wrenching TV footages of dying children and emaciated adults weeping for the dead, as well as the abhorrent misery they had to face, globally brought in...

July 18, 2010 by Abebe Gellaw

By Abebe Gellaw Today marks the first Nelson Mandela International Day. It was last November that the United Nations General Assembly adopted a special resolution declaring July 18th an international Mandela day to be observed annually. Mandela...

June 2, 2010 by Abebe Gellaw

Visiting scholar Abebe Gellaw says the United States has traded silence for security and military cooperation by ignoring Ethiopia's "appalling human rights record." He exhorts the United States to live up to promises to support democratic refo...

June 1, 2010 by Abebe Gellaw

By Abebe Gellaw Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi, one of America’s key allies in Africa, is gloating over his “landslide victory” in the country’s national elections earlier this month. The ruling party has claimed to have swept all but...

April 11, 2010 by Abebe Gellaw

A tale of Ethiopia’s brutal revolution By Abebe Gellaw Since the 1974 revolution, Ethiopia has witnessed cycles of unimaginable violence. City streets as well as remote villages that are normally far from the influence of the brutal political e...

April 6, 2010 by Abebe Gellaw

Press Release I April 6, 2010 Fifty-nine young leaders from around the world have collectively called on Meles Zenawi to release Birtukan Mideksa unconditionally and allow her to have access to proper medical care. In an unprecedented open petiti...

March 16, 2010 by Abebe Gellaw

Ethiopian and Eritrean scholars took turns to lay the blame for the separation of the Ethiopian and Eritrean people on dictatorial rulers and extremist “liberation fronts” that took secession as the only viable solution to a complex problem. Spea...

February 5, 2010 by Abebe Gellaw

In mid-January, the ailing Development Bank of Ethiopia (DBE) declared once again that it is in need of rescue fund. The business weekly, Addis Fortune, reported that the bank called on the National Bank of Ethiopia (NBE) to inject more capital to ...