Notice to Ethiopians: You are Being Evicted from Ethiopia—You are Unwanted!
Imagine this notice being posted in Ethiopia:
People of Ethiopia:
You are hereby warned; you are being given notice of your eviction from the country. You are no longer welcome here. Find a new place to live. We do not care where. All we want is your land, water an...
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The Tigrai Bandits & Election Repression in Ethiopia
According to the Reuters, Barry Malone, the Tigrai Bandits who are sucking the blood of starving Ethiopians denounced on Thursday a rights group report that accused it of cracking down on the opposition and restricting the work of aid agencies ahead of national elections in ...
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The Raw Machismo of Dictatorship
By Alemayheu G. Mariam:
It was a remarkable display of raw machismo: “My way or the highway… or jail!” It was a one-man political theatre, a monologue about absolute power, domination, toughness, brawn and pugnacity. It was a demonstration of sang froid machismo cal...
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Sarkozy, Obama Pressure Ethiopia’s Corrupt Tyrant Meles Zenawi (the Tigrai Ruler) to Betray Africa’s Future at Copenhagen Climate Talks
By Jamie Henn:
NGOs and civil society groupings are reacting with anger and disappointment to a joint appeal by France and “Ethiopia, representing Africa” for a so-called ‘Copenhagen Accord’ to result from the current COP15 negotiations being held in the Danish ca...
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Meles Zenawi’s Fake Gold Business
By Theo Gray* :
The Tigrai Liberators who were "masterminds" behind the false-gold scandal at the Ethiopian central bank might not have gotten caught if they'd used Theo Gray's formula or had paid lobbysts like the DLA piper.
On Wednesday, the BBC reported about ...
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Ethiopia: ከውጭ በርዳታ የሚገኘው በሙስና የተዘፈቀው ድጎማ (Safety Net) በኢትዮጵያ ምን ይምስላል?
The Corruptive Structure of the The Safety Net Program in Ethiopia
ጤና ይስጥልኝ ዶ/ር ስይድ።
ኢትዮጵያን እያሽመደመደ የሚገኘውን ሙስና በሚመለከት ትኩረት ሰጥተው በመያዘዎ አመሰግናለሁ። ...
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The US Tax Payers Help A Dictoatarial Government Destablizing the Horn of Africa
Nov. 25 (Bloomberg) – Beyene Petros criticized a U.S. aid program for helping a textile plant with ties to the country’s ruling dictators win a multimillion dollar contract from an American company.
The program, known as the AGOA Plus project, is designed to help ...
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Africorruption, Inc.
Alemayehu G. Mariam:
Transparency International (the global coalition against corruption) has just released its 2009 Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI). Once again, Africa has the dubious honor of being Kleptocracy Central, the continental home of the most corrupt gover...
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Ethiopia: FBI links ex-chief of taxi panel to bribes
Affidavit tells of probe into alleged scheme to obtain D.C. licenses
By Del Quentin Wilber
Washington Post Staff Writer
Friday, November 20, 2009
The former head of the D.C. taxi commission participated in a long-running bribery scheme that sought his influence t...
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Guna, Owned by Tigrai Gangsters Ruling Ethiopia, Eyes Coffee-Export Share
According to information obtained from Jason McLure's report , Oct. 27 (Bloomberg) -- Guna Trading House Plc, owned by gangsters ruling Ethiopia, said it plans to become one of the nation’s biggest coffee exporters. Guna is among at least four other companies (that i...
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Saudi Billionaire Does not only Invest on Women But Also in Ethiopian Farms
According to sources , the Saudi billionaire who sometime claim to be from Tigrai, bought $80 million in equipment from Caterpillar Inc to overuse his agricultural holdings in Ethiopia.
An agricultural development company owned by Saudi billionaire to use as much as...
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Was the Ethiopian Abdulaziz Kamus an FBI informant?
More than two dozen people have been indicted in the rapidly expanding federal bribery investigation into the D.C. taxi industry, the Post's Del Quentin Wilber is reporting. That's a whole lotta people. So who, besides Ted Loza, are they? They're "cab drivers or others w...
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DC Taxicab Indictments; 27 Arrested
By Jason Cherkis :
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27 individuals have been arrested in connection with the growing taxicab bribery scandal. Moments ago, two indictments were unsealed. You can read them here and here. Nearly 30 individuals ha...
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39 Indicted in Taxicab Bribery Scandal
By MYFOXDC STAFF/myfoxdc
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WASHINGTON, D.C. - The corruption probe involving the D.C. Taxicab industry widened considerably Friday with the indictment of 37 people-- most of them cab drivers-- all charged with conspiracy to commit bribery.
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What’s wrong with Ethiopia’s Exchange
By Wondwossen Mezlekia:
The Economist magazine describes the Ethiopian government as "one of the most economically illiterate in the modern world." This portrayal, albeit contentious, is not without truth. But, the government's recent meddling in the coffee trade has to d...
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