Posted by Uncategorized Wednesday, June 30th, 2010 Contact: Shawn Street – Public Relations <mailto:[email protected]>[email protected] www.publishamerica.com PublishAmerica Presents Poverty Unpacked by Daniel L. Asfaw Frederick, MD June 30, 2010 — PublishAmerica is proud to present Poverty Unpacked: Knowing EPRDF from Its Fruits by Daniel L. Asfaw of Hyattsville, Maryland. Poverty Unpacked discloses the veracity in Ethiopia, in fact, in a kind of fictional [...]
Posted by Uncategorized Monday, June 28th, 2010 Note: This is my fourth commentary on the theme, “Where do we go from here?” following the rigged elections in Ethiopia last month in which the ruling dictatorship won by 99.6 percent[1]. In this piece, I express deep anguish over the enormous problems and challenges faced by Ethiopia’s youth, and urge them to emancipate their [...]
Posted by Uncategorized Thursday, June 24th, 2010 A.G from Addis Ababa Ethiopia’s Information Network Security Agency (INSA) office which is administered by Meles Zenawi’s private chief intelligence, Getachew Assefa, is hacking individuals’ credit cards, Payment System and ATM cards while transaction being carried out in Ethiopia. Recent report from insider indicated that Dashen, one of the private banks in Ethiopia, its client’s [...]
Posted by Uncategorized Thursday, June 24th, 2010 This week, the results of the recent Ethiopian general election were confirmed. The Ethiopian People’s Revolutionary Democratic Front (EPRDF), the incumbent government whose leader Meles Zenawi has been prime minister for twenty years, have claimed a landslide win that is neither revolutionary nor, allegedly, entirely democratic: 90 percent of parliamentary seats have gone to the [...]
Posted by Uncategorized Wednesday, June 23rd, 2010 By Yilma Bekele Foreign policy magazine had an article by Professor George Ayittey titled “The worst of the worst-bad dude dictators and general coconut heads.†As an Ethiopian I was sold by the title. I knew I was in familiar territory. That is one category we can claim ownership. There are a few human experiences [...]
Posted by Uncategorized Monday, June 21st, 2010 This is my third commentary on the theme, “Where do we go from here?”, following the rigged elections in Ethiopia last month.[1] In this piece, I urge Ethiopian intellectuals to exchange their armchairs for the public benches and leave their comfort zones of passivity and silence to become advocates of peaceful change and democracy in [...]
Posted by Uncategorized Wednesday, June 16th, 2010 By Bihil Lul (CSA Ethiopia: Summary and Statistical Report of the 2007 Population and House Census, December 2008) more than 65 million (77% of the 85 million) Ethiopians currently are below the age of 33 years. Indicates individuals who were under the age of 13 and/or born after the racially prejudiced tplf faction clench state [...]
Posted by Uncategorized Monday, June 14th, 2010 Note: In my first commentary [1] on the theme, “Where do we go from here?”, I suggested that the ruling dictatorship in Ethiopia following its 99.6 percent “victory” in the May 2010 parliamentary “election” will continue to do business as usual in much the same way as it has over the last two decades. In [...]
Posted by Uncategorized Tuesday, June 8th, 2010 An Open Letter to Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, Concerning Peace and Stability in Ethiopia and the Horn of Africa June 7, 2010 Secretary of State Hillary Clinton US Department of State 2201 C Street NW Washington, DC 20520 VIA FACSIMILE Dear Secretary Clinton, We, the Solidarity Movement for a New Ethiopia, (SMNE),[1] a [...]
Posted by Uncategorized Tuesday, June 8th, 2010 By Tess Debalke Brave leaders come in different shapes and forms and only once-in-a-lifetime. We have one; no one come close to the bravery and elegance-Ethiopian style than the young, charismatic, soft-spoken mother and a natural leader like Ehet Birtukan Medeska. She, unlike any frightens the coward regime wearing the pants and carrying the big-gun [...]
