Security personnel were on Sunday deployed to the Kenya-Ethiopia border following the death of a senior policeman. Merille bandits are said to have shot the General Service Unit Chief Inspector on Friday evening. The Turkana Regional Commissioner Christopher Musambu said a team of security officers would assess the security situation in the area. “Additional policemen [...]
By Abebe Gellaw The Stanford Ethiopian Forum (SEF), a non-partisan group aiming to encourage dialogue among Ethiopians, announced that Migration of Beauty will be screened in San Jose on Sunday, March 7 to be followed by another screening in Oakland and Stanford University. President of the Forum, Dr. Worku Negash noted that sponsoring the widely [...]
The Green Revolution that ended food shortages in parts of the world decades ago may be coming to East Africa, bringing the promise of bountiful harvests in a region more often associated with drought and famine. But from the Oromia region of Ethiopia, critics see the project as a neo-colonial land grab. Farming in Ethiopia [...]
Part 1: EPRDF’s pending schism By Eskinder Nega Addis Ababa. With the upcoming elections just around the corner, one discernable dissimilarity between the EPRDF, still clinging to incumbency after almost two decades in power, and the multitude of its electoral opponents, is in how they perceive, exercise and have thus structured power. Scratch beyond the [...]
A European Union exploratory team is visiting Ethiopia to determine whether to send an observer mission to monitor national elections in May. The election campaign has taken a negative turn amid questions about whether the vote would be fair. A series of televised debates opened last week with a furious exchange among parties vying for [...]
By Jason McLure (Bloomberg) — Ethiopia’s main opposition grouping disputed a government claim that political opponents of Prime Minister Meles Zenawi’s ruling party are colluding with the country’s arch-enemy, Eritrea. State radio reported yesterday that the opposition is “covertly and overtly†collaborating with neighboring Eritrea ahead of elections on May 23. Ethiopia and Eritrea fought [...]
Click here for pdf version and Amharic Saint Gebriel Church of Ethiopians in Seattle regretfully announces the home going of our Holly Father, His Eminence Archbishop Zena Markos, on February 13, 2010 in Seattle, Washington. May his soul and the souls of all the faithful departed rest in perpetual peace. Information regarding the funeral arrangement [...]
It has been said that Africa’s natural resources — oil, diamonds, minerals — have often proven to be sources of woe, suffering and misery than wealth, prosperity and progress for the people of the continent. What should have been a blessing for Africa’s poor has become a curse of corruption, malfeasance and bad governance. Could [...]
by Daniel Kobialka Ethiopian Olympic skier Robel Teklemariam has a much more important goal than winning the gold in Vancouver, according to Yahoo Sports. “My real goal now is to get Ethiopians involved in skiing,†Teklemariam told Yahoo! Sports. “I don’t want to be the first and the last.†Teklemariam finished 84th in men’s cross-country [...]
Robel Teklemariam waved Ethiopian flag at the Vancouver Olympic opening ceremony. Back to ecadforum home page
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