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16 die as Meles Zenawi troops and Somali villagers clash

July 11, 2010 by EthioSun

MOGADISHU — Clashes between Somali villagers and the WEYANE (TPLF) forces in a border area where the foreign forces carried out an operation left at least 16 people dead, witnesses said Sunday. Residents of El-Dibir, where the fighting erup...

June 17, 2010 by EthioSun

Leslie Lefkow: House Committee on Foreign Affairs, Subcommittee on Africa and Global Health Hearing of June 17, 2010 Thank you, Chairman Payne, and members of the subcommittee, for inviting me to participate in this hearing. My name is Leslie L...

May 20, 2010 by EthioSun

By Tom Ryan, Kansas City Star Reader Advisory Panel Despite a few opposition leaders, like Birtukan Mideksa, sequestered in jails, the nation of Ethiopia will hold parliamentary elections this Sunday. Despite my note to our Congressman Cleaver, it...

February 10, 2010 by Ras Alulla

Eritrean and Ethiopian communities around the world are organizing a worldwide protest demonstration calling for the annulment of the ill-advised U.N. Security Council resolution against Eritrea that was passed in December 2009. Eritrea is being vict...

January 20, 2010 by EthioSun

Saudi Arabia has attempted to compete for regional influence in the Horn by funding a massive proselytization of Ethiopians < the money launderers at Sheraton are funded by the larger body than what many Ethiopians think> to increase the number...

December 23, 2009 by Ras Alulla

Council accuses Eritrea of arming insurgents in Somalia and refusing to settle a border dispute with Djibouti The United Nations Security Council has imposed sanctions on Eritrea, who it accuses of arming insurgents in Somalia and refusing to set...

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...

November 5, 2009 by EthioSun

Echoing the Ethiopian government’s recent call for food aid, British diplomat, Paddy Ashdown, has requested the international community’s urgent assistance in preventing a looming humanitarian crisis. Reuters reports that 160,000 tons of food are...

August 3, 2009 by EthioSun

By Ahmed Ali The reason why the Kangaroo Court sentenced a Canadian citizen to life imprisonment on Monday is not a surprise to almost 80 million Ethiopians. What Canadian and other Westerners do often forget is that the individuals (ru...

July 6, 2009 by EthioSun

The US has urged Ethiopia not to send its troops back into Somalia. Melese Zenawi troops invaded in 2006, pulling out earlier this year The senior US official for African policy Johnnie Carson told Reuters news agency such a...

November 29, 2008 by EthioSun

Tens of thousands of ethnic Somali civilians living in eastern Ethiopia's Somali Regional State are experiencing serious abuses and a looming humanitarian crisis in the context of a little-known conflict between the Ethiopian government and an Et...