By Seeye Abraha February 1, 2010 The West has provided hundreds of millions of dollars of food aid to Ethiopia in the past several years. However, donor countries have placed few monitoring and accountability mechanisms to ensure that the aid provided is delivered to the target populations. As a result, the ruling party has been [...]
Emotions have run hot in the aftermath of the Ethiopian Airlines crash, and this has resulted in some visceral exchanges between Ethiopians and Lebanese. If it wasn’t already evident, this episode has made clear that there is a great deal of anger on both sides, but especially on behalf of Ethiopians, who feel deeply mistreated [...]
By Vernon Wessels Jan. 29 (Bloomberg) — An Ethiopian Airlines plane flying to Addis Ababa from Dakar in Senegal made an emergency landing in Chad because of a radar problem, Agence France-Press reported, citing an unidentified airport official and passengers. The incident, involving a Boeing 737 with 150 passengers, comes after another Ethiopian Airlines 737 [...]
By Mengistu Adugna Over the last few days, most of us have been in sombre sadness disheartened by the disaster of the Ethiopian Airlines Flight FT-409 destined Beirut to Addis Ababa – leading to the death of 90 people onboard as it has now (at the time of this writing) been confirmed. Firstly, my condolences [...]
It’s been more than a week since anyone has heard from three students kidnapped from the Awassa University campus in southern Ethiopia by government security forces, according to the Human Rights League of the Horn of Africa (HRLHA). Whereabouts of the students, Nagga Gezaw, Dhaba Girre, and Jatani Wario, is still unknown. The students were [...]
20100120 Press Release on Birtukan Society of Canada (3) PRESS RELEASE Cypress, CA, January 20, 2010: The Free Birtukan and all Prisoners of Conscience in Ethiopia organization, in line with its mission, works with many Ethiopian and non-Ethiopian organizations to secure the release of Ms Birtukan Mideksa and other prisoners of conscience in Ethiopia. In [...]
Pilot error may have been factor in Ethiopian airliner disaster Authorities categorically rule out terror attack BEIRUT: The pilot commanding the Ethiopian Airlines plane which burst into flames and crashed into the sea with 90 people aboard on Monday morning had flown in the wrong direction, Transport and Public Works Minister Ghazi Aridi said on [...]
An Ethiopian Airlines plane carrying 90 passengers and crew exploded in a ball of flames and plunged into the sea off Lebanon during a fierce storm, officials and witnesses said. Back to ecadforum home page Related articles by Zemanta Pilot in Beirut Crash Didn’t Follow Airport Tower Directions (businessweek.com) Crash Pilot ‘Failed To Follow Instructions’ [...]
SEOUL — A North Korean embassy official in Ethiopia has defected to South Korea through Seoul’s diplomatic mission in the African country, a report said Tuesday. YTN cable news network in Seoul said the 40-year-old medical doctor, identified only as Kim, fled to the South Korean embassy in Addis Ababa and asked for political asylum [...]
Since the dawn of African independence from colonialism in the early 1960s, African liberation leaders and founding fathers qua dictators, military junta and “new breed†leaders have sought to justify the one-man, one-party state — and avoid genuine multiparty democracy — by fabricating a blend of self-serving arguments which converge on the notion that in [...]
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