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EPLF and the May 89 Coup: A Response to Mr. Tibebe Samuel Ferenji

EPLF and the May 89 Coup: A Response to Mr. Tibebe Samuel Ferenji
March 9, 2010 by Neamin Zeleke
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” ... Read More

Choosing Stability Over Democracy in Ethiopia

Choosing Stability Over Democracy in Ethiopia
March 9, 2010 by EthioSun
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 ... Read More

Ethiopia: Licensed to Steal

Ethiopia: Licensed to Steal
March 8, 2010 by Alemayehu G. Mariam
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... Read More

Headline News

Egypt Continues to Shoot At Ethiopian Political Immigrants Trying to Cross into Israel

Egypt Continues to Shoot At Ethiopian Political Immigrants Trying to Cross into Israel
March 13, 2010 by Ras Alulla
Egyptian border guards,  terrorists, on Friday shot and seriously wounded an Ethiopian migrant trying to cross illegally into Israel, and arrested seven others, police said. Egypt has been under mou... Read More

US Rights Report Lists Ethiopian Opposition Leader as Political Prisoner

US Rights Report Lists Ethiopian Opposition Leader as Political Prisoner
March 12, 2010 by EthioSun
Peter Heinlein | Addis Ababa: The U.S. State Department's annual human rights reports says Ethiopia is holding several hundred political prisoners, including the leader of one of the country's larg... Read More

How food and water are driving a 21st-century African land grab

How food and water are driving a 21st-century African land grab
March 12, 2010 by EthioSun
John Vidal in Juba, Sudan An Observer investigation reveals how rich countries faced by a global food shortage now farm an area double the size of the UK to guarantee supplies for their citizens We ... Read More

Action Alert

Ethiopian Americans in DC Metro Held A Monthly Candlelight Vigil for freedom, Democracy & Human rights

Ethiopian Americans in DC Metro Held A Monthly Candlelight Vigil for freedom, Democracy & Human rights
February 28, 2010
Washington- Ethiopian Americans in DC metro held a monthly candlelight vigil in front of the White H... Read More

Eritrean & Ethiopian Communities Around the World Protest Against UN

Eritrean & Ethiopian Communities Around the World Protest Against UN
February 10, 2010
Eritrean and Ethiopian communities around the world are organizing a worldwide protest demonstration... Read More

Politics

Claudette Colvin: The First to Keep Her Seat

Claudette Colvin: The First to Keep Her Seat
February 15, 2010 by Ras Alulla
Teenager arrested in March 1955 for refusing to yield seat to a white rider By Phillip Hoose This ... Read More

Anxious Ethiopia: Meles Zenawi will win the election. But that may not bring calm says the Economist

Anxious Ethiopia: Meles Zenawi will win the election. But that may not bring calm says the Economist
January 21, 2010 by Ras Alulla
Jangling nerves Meles Zenawi will probably win the election. But that may not bring calm "Unlike t... Read More

Books

Must Read Book: Ethiopia – Tiwoldena Kirsu [A Generation and Its Heritage]

Must Read Book: Ethiopia – Tiwoldena Kirsu [A Generation and Its Heritage]
February 10, 2010 by Belay Zeleke
Ethiopia : A Generation and Its Heritage: There has been much written about Ethiopia’s history. B... Read More

New in paperback: ‘Cutting for Stone’ by Abraham Verghese

New in paperback: ‘Cutting for Stone’ by Abraham Verghese
February 5, 2010 by Belay Zeleke
Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese (Vintage, $15.95, fiction, reprint) USA TODAY's Jocelyn McClur... Read More

A novel resolves childhood memories of the Ethiopian revolution

A novel resolves childhood memories of the Ethiopian revolution
January 26, 2010 by EthioSun
by Euan Kerr, Minnesota Public Radio So she wrote "Beneath the Lion's Gaze," a critically-acclaim... Read More

Human Rights

Ethiopia National Elections: Carter Center Slams Meles Zenawi’s Elections Ritual

Ethiopia National Elections: Carter Center Slams Meles Zenawi’s Elections Ritual
March 12, 2010 by EthioSun
THE CARTER CENTER OBSERVATION MISSION 2005 : FINAL REPORT EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Upon the invitation of... Read More

Letter to Justice Navanathem Pillay, U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights

Letter to Justice Navanathem Pillay, U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights
March 8, 2010 by EthioSun
Petitions Team Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights UNOG-OHCHR 1... Read More

Culture

Ethiopia’s Defar wins fourth straight indoor 3000m title

Ethiopia’s Defar wins fourth straight indoor 3000m title
March 13, 2010 by Belay Zeleke
DOHA — Ethiopian Meseret Defar won a record fourth consecutive women's world indoor 3000m title on... Read More

The sacred and sublime in Ethiopia

The sacred and sublime in Ethiopia
March 13, 2010 by EthioSun
TYLER STIEM: LALIBELA, ETHIOPIA — From Saturday's Globe and Mail For a moment, as I ponde... Read More

Democratic election “ala” Meles

Democratic election “ala” Meles
March 8, 2010 by EthioSun
"The election will be democratic free and peaceful” Said the tyrant when he lied to th... Read More

History

Ethiopia: The Thirty Minutes War of Chelenquo (ጨለንቆ)

Ethiopia: The Thirty Minutes War of Chelenquo (ጨለንቆ)
November 29, 2009 by EthioSun
Though much was talked about the war of Chelenquo, it probably was the shortest ... Read More

Ethiopia – Emperor Menelik’s Watch sold for $52,000 at Geneva auction

Ethiopia – Emperor Menelik’s Watch sold for $52,000 at Geneva auction
November 29, 2009 by EthioSun
A watch made specially for Ethiopia 's emperor Menelik II, has sold for $5... Read More

People

Burying myths, uncovering truth

Burying myths, uncovering truth
March 11, 2010 by EthioSun
In the aftermath of fighting or repression, people are often told to forget things. But in free societies, selective memory cannot be imposed for ever. THE 15 boxes of bones were wrapped in the red, ... Read More

Eritreans and Ethiopians Working for Peace in the Horn of Africa

Eritreans and Ethiopians Working for Peace in the Horn of Africa
February 20, 2010 by Atse Yohannes
By Amanuel Biedemariam: At this stage there is a clear consensus amongst the people of the Horn of Africa that peace must prevail in the region. Peace must prevail to revive the cultures, way of life... Read More

Viewpoints

BBC Bob, Band Aid and how the rebels bought their arms

March 11, 2010 by Atse Minilik
By Andrew Whitehead An edition of the BBC World Service programme Assignment, alleging that money ... Read More

Choosing Stability Over Democracy in Ethiopia

March 9, 2010 by EthioSun
By Lauren Gelfand : NAIROBI, Kenya -- It's easy to confuse the interior of Nairobi's Habesha resta... Read More

Ethiopia: Licensed to Steal

March 8, 2010 by Alemayehu G. Mariam
Alemayehu G. Mariam: If democracy is a government of the people, kleptocracy is a government of... Read More

The Eritrean People’s Liberation Front (EPLF) and the attempted Coup of 1989: Setting few of the Records Straight.

March 4, 2010 by Neamin Zeleke
By Neamin Zeleke: I read successive recent articles by Mr. Tibebe Samuel Ferenji in Ethiomedia rais... Read More

Waiting for Godot to Leave?

March 1, 2010 by Alemayehu G. Mariam
Last week, a couple of interesting political statements grabbed the cyber headlines. One was a truly... Read More

Eritrea’s president declares me ‘insane’

February 22, 2010 by Ras Alulla
By Jane Dutton: Jane Dutton visits an art deco city, watches women and children being beaten and i... Read More

Western Diplomatic Omerta in Ethiopia

February 8, 2010 by Alemayehu G. Mariam
Last week, in a piece reporting on the eerie silence of Western diplomats in Addis Abeba on Birtukan... Read More

Ethiopia’s jailed victim of Western realpolitik

February 1, 2010 by EthioSun
XAN RICE At noon every Sunday an old Toyota sedan donated by supporters of Ethiopia's most famous p... Read More

Putting Lipstick on a Pig, Ethiopian Style

February 1, 2010 by Alemayehu G. Mariam
Last week, there was a great deal of teeth-gnashing, knuckle-cracking and gut-wrenching by Ethiopia... Read More

The Politicization of Food Aid in Ethiopia

January 31, 2010 by Seye Abraha
The West has provided hundreds of millions of dollars of food aid to Ethiopia in the past several ye... Read More
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