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Tigrai Tribalists Sell of Ethiopian Farms Lure Investor Funds as Ethiopians Live in Poverty

December 30, 2009 by Atse Yohannes

By Jason McLure Dec. 31 (Bloomberg) -- Until last year, people in the Ethiopian settlement of Elliah earned a living by farming their land and fishing. Now, they are employees. Dozens of women and children pack dirt into bags for palm se...

December 21, 2009 by EthioSun

After intense overnight wrangling, delegates from 192 countries on Saturday passed a motion simply "noting" a loose deal aimed at limiting temperature rises to less than 2C, which was agreed by the US and four other large-scale polluting nations. ...

December 20, 2009 by EthioSun

Source: Human Rights Watch. If you are an Ethiopian, you must read! (New York) - The Yemeni government should stop systematically arresting Ethiopian asylum seekers and forcibly returning them to Ethiopia, Human Rights Watch said in a repo...

December 18, 2009 by EthioSun

While the bigger industrialized nations have wrangled over cutting CO2 emissions, smaller states have attempted to make their mark at Copenhagen. Ethiopia is hoping to export renewable energy, South Korea has founded a Global Green Growth Institute...

December 18, 2009 by EthioSun

Ethiopians Dominate Flood Of Africans to Yemen GENEVA (Reuters) - More than 74,000 Africans fled to Yemen this year, a 50 percent increase over 2008 despite instability in the country, according to figures issued on Friday by the Office of the U.N...

December 17, 2009 by EthioSun

By Mantoe Phakathi Tyrant Zenawi: 'Because we have more to lose, we should compromise and be flexible with other countries.' Credit: Servaas van den Bosch/IPS COPENHAGEN, Dec 17 (IPS) - Ethiopian Tyrant Meles Zenawi says Af...

December 15, 2009 by EthioSun

“I have posted Watchmen on your walls, O Jerusalem; they will never be silent day or night. You who call on the LORD, give yourselves no rest, and give him no rest till he establishes Jerusalem…” (Isaiah 62:6-7) On December 13-15, 2009, it w...

December 11, 2009 by EthioSun

By Ethioguardian: The United States of America today accused the Ethiopian government of favoring one ethnicity in appointing government positions. Mr. Douglas M. Griffiths, USA representative in the United Nations Human Rights Council, stated...

November 20, 2009 by EthioSun

Dr. Robert Zeigler, an eminent American botanist, flew to Saudi Arabia in March for a series of high-level discussions about the future of the kingdom’s food supply. Saudi leaders were frightened: heavily dependent on imports, they had seen the pri...

October 22, 2009 by EthioSun

By Mike Wooldridge BBC world affairs correspondent, Ethiopia Dying crops are giving greater urgency to Ethiopia's battle to make its people less vulnerable to hunger - 25 years after the 1984 famine that killed an estimated one million people. B...

October 3, 2009 by EthioSun

East Africa Drought In Fifth Year, Millions Hungry In Ethiopia, 13.7 million people are at risk of severe hunger and need help, Oxfam said. Many are selling cattle to buy food. Farmers in northern Uganda have lost half their crops. NAIR...

October 2, 2009 by EthioSun

In the ever-shrinking space for freedom of expression and association in Ethiopia, Daniel Bekele has faced heavy-handed government repression as a prominent anti-poverty activist and human rights lawyer. Daniel has dedicated his life to build...

October 1, 2009 by WEGESHAW

Meles – Look, now we are found out of that enemy zon and flag. Why don’t you transform the “EFFORT” money to my account? Azeb – I am looking after our children, I am struggling to connect one end with another in order to reach fro...

September 30, 2009 by EthioSun

By Wondwosen TESHOME (PhD): ABSTRACT The aim of this paper is to study the merits and the demerits of colonial boundaries in Africa by using the Ethiopia-Sudan boundary as a case study. The paper tries to examine how the existing boundary bet...

September 10, 2009 by EthioSun

A coalition of opposition parties accused the Ethiopian rulers on Thursday of arresting some of its members on trumped up charges to stop them running in an election scheduled for next May. Eight parties have allied under the banner of the...

September 5, 2009 by EthioSun

By Gwynne Dyer A quarter-century after a million Ethiopians died in the great hunger of 1984-85, the country is heading into another famine. The spring rains failed entirely and the summer rains were three weeks late. But why is famine is stalking...

August 23, 2009 by EthioSun

Mar Ena Whehtet: Milk & Honey by Mitmita: Fresh from our return after feting the Ethiopian Commodity Exchange in Addis, we decided to spend a night enjoying our favorite activity of “Mar Ena Whehtet” (Milk & Honey). For those of you...

August 21, 2009 by Alemayehu G. Mariam

In a report on Internet filtering in sub-Saharan Africa, the OpenNet Initiative (ONI), a collaborative partnership of four leading academic institutions, reveals that Ethiopia is the only country in sub-Saharan Africa to actively engage in political ...

August 21, 2009 by EthioSun

By SMNE: With only three weeks left before the March to Stop Genocide and Dictatorship in Ethiopia/Africa, we want to remind people to clear their schedules and to make arrangements to come. Let your consciences stir you to put everything el...

August 20, 2009 by EthioSun

Ethiopian singer freed The country’s Bob Marley can return to what he does best, at a price IT WAS a euphoric week for younger Ethiopians. The country’s great long-distance runner, Kenenisa Bekele, ran down an Eritrean rival to win gold in...