Ethiopian athletics legend Haile Gebrselassie won the Trier Corrida here on Thursday as he warms up for next month’s Dubai Marathon. The 36-year-old two-time 10,000metres Olympic champion won the 8 kilometres event in a time of 22minutes 22.seconds, 19 seconds outside the race record set in 1996 by Kenyan Peter Githuka. Gebrselassie beat home Kenyan [...]
Teddy Afro, Ethiopia’s biggest pop star, will kick off his 2010 American tour Saturday night at the D.C. Armory. Afro, born Tewodros Kassahun, is known as Ethiopia’s Bob Marley, thanks to his occasionally sociopolitical lyrics and his frequent use of roots-reggae rhythms. Heralded throughout the Ethiopian diaspora since 2001, Afro is little-known in the Anglo [...]
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 seedlings along the banks of the Baro River, seedlings whose oil will be exported to India and China. They work for [...]
Click here for PDF version Dr. G Bekele Meles Zenawi is the only human being Jesus must have yelled at. Hence, how do you deal in peace and debate humanely to win with these cursed, barking mad TPLF dogs that do not give values to the precious human beings’ God-given lives? I did ask these [...]
VOA News Hundreds of Birtukan Mideksa’s supporters jam her Unity for Democracy and Justice Party headquarters, wearing yellow T-shirts bearing her image, holding candles, demanding her freedom One of Ethiopia’s main opposition parties has held a candlelight vigil to mark the first anniversary of the day their leader was imprisoned for life. But the observance [...]
Ethiopia’s biggest opposition coalition, Forum for Democratic Dialogue (FDD-MEDREK), who accused government of obstructing foreign aid on Saturday said that its members are being arrested for speaking-out on the alleged aid abuse. Last month, the opposition group accused Prime minister Meles Zenawi-led government of politicizing foreign-funded humanitarian assistance, using it as a weapon to retain [...]
Press Release Solidarity Committee For Ethiopian Political Prisoners – Canada (SOCEPP Canada) unequivocally condemns the brutal sentencing of leaders and alleged members of the Ginbot (May) – 7 Movement! December 24, 2009 On December 22, 2009, the TPLF/EPRDF regime handed 5 death and 33 life sentences against the leaders, suspected members and supporters of the [...]
UDJ Press statement The strategy used to dismantle Addis Neger will not succeed on UDJ It is to be recalled that the Extra-Ordinary Congress called by Unity for Democracy and Justice (UDJ) and scheduled to be held at the Imperial Hotel, on 29 November 2009, was disrupted by a group of people dismissed from UDJ [...]
With Best Wishes for Christmas and the New Year Do you really know the following facts? I trust you all do. In Chemistry, He turned water to wine. Isn’t He? In Biology, He was born without the normal conception; In Physics, He disapproved the law of Gravity when He ascended into heaven and when He [...]
A resident of the Dutch town of Haarlem was sentenced to death by an Ethiopian court on Tuesday. He was found guilty of disrespect for the Ethiopian constitution and, along with four other people, for attempting a coup. But Mesfin Aman is not worried about his safety. “I have an official refugee status, and the [...]
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