EPLF and the May 89 Coup: A Response to Mr. Tibebe Samuel Ferenji
Part II, Separating facts from fiction:
By Neamin Zeleke:
“A man should keep learning as long as he is ignorant, as long as he lives” Seneca
“The whole glory of virtue lies in activity” Cicero
In his latest article, written as a response to my response, Mr....
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Choosing Stability Over Democracy in Ethiopia
By Lauren Gelfand :
NAIROBI, Kenya -- It's easy to confuse the interior of Nairobi's Habesha restaurant with a lost corner of Ethiopia. The smell of frankincense and thick, dark coffee waft through the air as the latest tunes by Teddy Afro vie to be heard over the Amharic-...
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Ethiopia: Licensed to Steal
Alemayehu G. Mariam:
If democracy is a government of the people, kleptocracy is a government of thieves.
Last week the secret world of Meles Zenawi’s kleptocracy, famine aid-sharking and money laundering in Ethiopia was exposed by two of his former comrades-in-arms i...
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Senator Russ Feingold Speaks On the Political Crisis in Ethiopia
Congressional Record Statement of March 3, 2008
Mr. President, I rise today to discuss the political situation in Ethiopia. The US-Ethiopian partnership is an incredibly important one – perhaps one of the more significant on the continent given not only our longstanding h...
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The Eritrean People’s Liberation Front (EPLF) and the attempted Coup of 1989: Setting few of the Records Straight.
By Neamin Zeleke:
I read successive recent articles by Mr. Tibebe Samuel Ferenji in Ethiomedia raising objections to the opposition’s relationship with Eritrea. I have found the latest article, his third on this subject, to be particularly misleading and laden with fabr...
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Ethiopia: How Criminal Meles Zenawi Deceived the Western Aid for Famine
By Martin Plaut :
Africa editor, BBC World Service News
The BBC has evidence that millions of dollars, earmarked for victims of the Ethiopian famine of 1984-85, went to buy weapons.
The investigati...
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Waiting for Godot to Leave?
Last week, a couple of interesting political statements grabbed the cyber headlines. One was a truly entertaining piece entitled “Letter from Ethiopia,” by the indomitable Ethiopian journalist Eskinder Nega. Eskinder’s “Letter” sought to make sense of the power joc...
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Ethiopian Americans in DC Metro Held A Monthly Candlelight Vigil for freedom, Democracy & Human rights
Washington- Ethiopian Americans in DC metro held a monthly candlelight vigil in front of the White House on Sunday evening asking for the release of Ethiopian Democratic Leader, Birtukan Midekssa and thousands of political prisoners in Ethiopia.
The Ethiopian Americans ...
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Ethiopia: Tyrant Meles’s Sham Bid to Stay
Addis Ababa - When a small, rag-tag band of terrorists from Ethiopia's northern Tigray province took up arms against the government in 1975, few thought they could win a minor scuffle, let alone lead a whole country.
But the thugs who call themselves Tigray People's Liberat...
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Ethiopia: Keepers of the Lost Ark (must watch videos)
By Paul Raffaele :
"They shall make an ark of acacia wood," God commanded Moses in the Book of Exodus, after delivering the Israelites from slavery in Egypt. And so the Israelites built an ark, or chest, gilding it inside and out. And into this chest Moses placed stone tabl...
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Ethiopia: The Hand That Rocks the Broken Cradle, Part II
When I wrote Part I of “The Hand That Rocks the Cradle” nearly a year and eight months ago, the heartbreaking and outrageous scandal in the broken adoption system in Ethiopia was a shocking molestation crime committed against two recently adopted Ethiopian children -- on...
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Carter Center Declines to Observe Meles Zenawi’s Farce Election of 2010
The Carter Center declined Meles Zenawi's invitation to observe the 2010 farce elections. Carter Centers letter sent to the ruling thugs Ministry of Foreign Affairs states “After careful consideration and with deep regrets, The Carter Center has decided not to observ...
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Ethiopian Military Leadership & Ethnocentrism
1. Introduction
A few months ago, Ginbot 7’s research team presented an extensive list of the top military commanders of the Woyane regime including their names, their position in the military and their ethnic background. That meticulously researched study showed how the ...
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Tear Down the Stonewall of Secrecy!
It has been said that Africa’s natural resources -- oil, diamonds, minerals -- have often proven to be sources of woe, suffering and misery than wealth, prosperity and progress for the people of the continent. What should have been a blessing for Africa’s poor has become...
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In African hot spots, journalists forced into exile
by Tom Rhodes:
High numbers of local journalists have fled several African countries in recent years after being assaulted, threatened, or imprisoned, leaving a deep void in professional reporting. The starkest examples are in the Horn of Africa nations of Somalia, Ethiopia...
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