Samuel Tafesse flashes his wealth – in America
There are three classes of the rich in Ethiopia: 1. the Woyannes (the super rich), 2. their hodam supporters (bottom-feeders), and 3. honest wealthy Ethiopians whose number is diminishing by the day.
(Note to non-Ethiopian readers: Hodam is one wh...
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Who Is in Control – Meles or the Security Apparatus?
By Zinab Amde:
In today’s Ethiopia, the grip of real power is blurred as a real political system has given way to the rise of a dictatorship that sustains its existence on sheer power, brute force and arbitrary actions.
Under a democratic system,...
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Yes, a Fake Election, but for what Purpose?
by Messay Kebede
Friday, 28 May 2010
I am still struggling to make sense of Sunday’s election from the viewpoint of the Woyanne government itself. There is no doubt that its results represent a crushing and demoralizing defeat for the opposition....
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The Rubber Stamp and the “Speakers’ Corner” of Ato Meles and Co: the Ethiopian “Parliament”
By Fitsum Alemu :
After one watches the “parliamentary” meetings and sees the assembled members with their varied “intelligence”, one has to pray for the country.
It is well-known that a Parliament supposed to be a deliberative assembl...
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Horn of Africa Conference Could Shake Foundation of Flawed System of Exclusionary Dictatorships
This coming weekend, from April 9-11, a historic gathering, the “Ethiopia and the Horn of Africa Conference on Governance, Peace, Security and Development,” will be held at the Double Tree Hotel in Washington D.C., organized by Advocacy for Ethio...
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Virtual detention of the fugitive cartoon would come true
Police:
“East Africa’s butcher” has been virtually detained and asked for security measure!
“Are you His Excellency, „Ayte ”, Prime Minister?”
Chairman of “Hewhat”, “respected leader”,
“EPFDF” Chair person and “TPL...
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Ethiopia: an aid success story or a tyranny?
By Camilla Cavendish:
Our money is eradicating poverty. But it may also be used to prop up a repressive regime
I’m talking to an Ethiopian journalist who has fled his country rather than face charges under his Government’s new anti-terror law...
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Ethiopia: Meles Zenwai’s Cooked Economic Numbers Do Not Hold Water
Ethiopia's February inflation rises to 8.1 pct
ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) - Ethiopia's inflation rose to 8.1 percent in February, year-on-year, from 7.6 percent in January on the back of rising food, fuel and construction material prices, its statistics ...
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On Human Rights, Obama’s Words Soar Above Actions
January 20, 2010
Kenneth Roth is the executive director of Human Rights Watch.
As one would expect from so eloquent a leader, Barack Obama has brought a marked improvement in presidential rhetoric on human rights compared with his predecessor...
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Ethiopian ex-symbolic president, ex-TPLF minister join opposition, Hailom Shawel goes bancrupt
A former Ethiopian symbolic president and a former TPLF rebel leader who became defense minister for four years from 1991 have joined the same opposition party, Unity for Democracy and Justice (UDJ) .
Negasso served the Tigrai authorit...
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Major Argaw Kabtamu of AEUP Resigned; AEUP Members Say Remove Hailu (Hailom) Shawel
Via email:
Major Argaw Kabtamu, one of the senior leaders of the All Ethiopian Unity Party (AEUP) , has resigned from the Hailom Shawel's sekt group protesting the fake election code agreement between Hailom Shawel and the tribal gang leader ...
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Do Ethiopia’s politicians mean it on democracy or hoodwink the West ?
On the evening of the 20th of March 1878, Ethiopia’s two great rivals, Emperors Yohannes IV and Menelik II, came face-to-face to thrash out their differences.
As the two men met for the first time, traditional Ethiopian singers are said to...
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G 20 Protest Report
By March 4 Freedom:
March 4 Freedom announced its plan to conduct a protest to denounce the invitation of War Criminal and Tyrant Meles Zneawi just a week before the G 20 summit once information was leaked to the group about the Tyrants trip to the ...
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The Unkempt & Less Experienced Ethiopian Rulers Representative (Diplomat) May have been Recalled
The drunk and the morally decadent TPLF (Tigrean Rulers) Ambassador to the US, Samuel, has been recalled to be replaced by well-groomed and highly experienced lier (diplomat), according to sources.
The tribalists servant and enabler Sa...
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African Auschwitz is on the Making in Ethiopia: The War Criminals from Tigrai Are Responsible
By M Hailae:
After almost three years of unfair trial, appointments, extended abuse, and mental torture, the Woyane kangaroo court, controlled by the thugs from Tigrai, on May 9, 2009, sentenced some 55 Ethiopians on fabricated charges to variou...
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Ato Meles and his interview:The individual on Judge Bertukan
Let Bereket Speaks
Part two by yilma bekele:
This is the second part of my series on the Ethiopian ruler Prime Ministers Interview with local and international reporters. The Interviews took two hours with the local reporters and an hour a...
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Ato Meles and his interview
Melese says his operation in Somalia has been highly successful...just like the economic growth.
Part one by yilma bekele:
Most of you know that Ato Meles’s has recently granted two interviews. We have all read the twenty-second sound bites off...
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Teddy Afro: A Hostage by The Gang Leader & Terrorist Melese Zenawi
By Tedla Asfaw
We saw the final episode of the abduction and jailing of Teddy Afro yesterday wrapped in the name of Justice for the homeless man who was killed in a hit-and-run accident more than two years ago. We saw in the past, many Ethiopian ...
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