Run for Birtukan: September 19, 2010 in Tuebingen, Germany

Today I would like to ask you to participate in 1st Annual Run for Birtukan. Whether you choose to walk, run, this event is a great way to get some exercise [...] Continue Reading…

Riyadh – Five Ethiopians died in a crowded Saudi centre for deporting illegal immigrants, the Arab News reported on

Monday.

The five died in the deportation centre in the southern Red Sea port of [...] Continue Reading…

After being denied official construction permission back home, Muslim Ethiopians in the United States built the First Hijrah mosque and community center to commemorate the first immigration in the history of Islam and counter discriminatory practices [...] Continue Reading…

Teshome Debalke

There is a saying in reference to the impunity of tyrants; when one kills a person he goes to jail, when he kills 20 people he is condemned to a mental institution and when he kills 1000s he [...] Continue Reading…

August 26, August 2010

Press Release

When the TPLF/EPRDF forces controlled Addis Ababa and ended 17 years of tribulation, the majority of Ethiopians gave the TPLF leaders the benefit of the doubt and received them with a warm welcome hoping that [...] Continue Reading…

Ethiopia: Fear expressed over India’s massive land grabs in Gambela
AFRIK-NEWS

Gambela, one of the nine regional states of Ethiopia is fast growing into what the local media has described as “a land grabbing” hub among Indian companies.
Gambela’s [...] Continue Reading…

Dear Friend and Colleague,

I am contacting you because you are one of those who has already enabled the work of the Solidarity Movement for a New Ethiopia (SMNE); not only through your counsel and encouragement, but also through your [...] Continue Reading…

My friends and I are proud to release this new video entitled “Birtu Kahen” to commemorate our patriots who are thrown to jail to serve unjust and unlawful sentences. Their sacrifice is not in vain. We will fight till [...] Continue Reading…

On Friday, September 10, at 12:00 noon pride will light up the face of every Ethiopian and Ethiopian American who comes to celebrate the six annual Ethiopian flag raising ceremony in [...] Continue Reading…

By Amanuel Biedemariam

One of the biggest mistake Ethiopians could make in the fight against one of the most brutish of leaders the world has ever seen is [...] Continue Reading…

Earlier on Wednesday police in Nairobi arrested some 90 foreigners who were crammed in a single house in one of the suburbs. Investigators believe the Ethiopians, most of them without travel documents, were on their way to South Africa. [...] Continue Reading…

Jawar S. Mohammed

In recent years, Prime Minister Meles Zenawi has been pushing hard to signal to the West that they cannot use their leverage to pressure him into undertaking economic and political reforms that threaten his power. At times, [...] Continue Reading…

By Zelalem Feleke

It is in fact inevitable that we all die…. But why should someone die for nothing? Why do some people pay their only life for someone’s living?

If you are an Ethiopian, today you or your compatriot is [...] Continue Reading…

Dr. Berhanu Nega, chairman of Genbot 7 responded to Meles Zenawi’s recent invitation for negotiation.  Dr. Berhanu stated that there will be no negotiation with a pathological liar Meles Zenawi. If negotiation is to be held, it should be [...] Continue Reading…

By Ephrem Madebo

The fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, signaled the reunification of Germany, brought the demise of the Soviet Union, initiated the birth of a single super power, and created a wave of new democracies in Eastern [...] Continue Reading…

By Seifu Tsegaye Demmissie

The last week`s Pro- Meles Zenawi demonstration in Washington DC using the Nile as one of the rallying issues, is Zenawi`s political maneuver in the waters of the Nile. The main purpose and timing of this maneuver are all combined in a [...] Continue Reading…

Amanuel Biedemariam

Leading up to the fake “demonstration” the TPLF or Meles Zenawi’s supporters conducted, they run an ad detailing the reasons for the event. The sign read, “Come for a peaceful demonstration. A huge turnout Demonstration at the White [...] Continue Reading…

By Netsanet Zegeye

This short note of mine was originally meant to give a short comment on the advertisement ESAT’s management posted on Ecadforum today. But as I am a little bit lengthy in such writings which provoke [...] Continue Reading…

Netsanet Zegeye

Dear Ethiopians:

I hope we all understand the reasons why we are dispersed in all over the world. Though I cannot substantiate my allegation with researched data, I shall say that our country might be included on the list [...] Continue Reading…

By Ephrem Madebo
“But the OPDO development is – development and repression at the same time. They can build roads to the moon but I won’t vote for them until we’re equal” Anonymous Oromo Peasant
The above quote is not a [...] Continue Reading…