Posted by Uncategorized Tuesday, August 31st, 2010 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 in support of free Birtukan and all Prisoners of Conscience in Ethiopia. Birtukan Mideksa, an [...]
Posted by Uncategorized Monday, August 30th, 2010 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 Jizan of “asphyxiation due to overcrowding,” according to a local police official, the newspaper said. Ethiopia’s consul in Jeddah Tekleab Kebede [...]
Posted by Uncategorized Sunday, August 29th, 2010 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 by the Ethiopian government. The First Hijrah mosque, literally meaning the mosque of the first immigration, is located in [...]
Posted by Uncategorized Saturday, August 28th, 2010 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 will be invited for negotiation. In the same analogy in economics of Woyane corruption; when [...]
Posted by Uncategorized Friday, August 27th, 2010 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 change towards freedom, justice and democracy was around the corner. However, 19 years and [...]
Posted by Uncategorized Thursday, August 26th, 2010 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 new tag as a land grabbing hub comes as BHO Agro Plc becomes the third Indian [...]
Posted by Uncategorized Wednesday, August 25th, 2010 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 willingness to provide concrete support. I truly thank you for being part of the SMNE, [...]
Posted by ecadforum Uncategorized Tuesday, August 24th, 2010 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 we see justice and democracy prevail in Ethiopia. Lij Tekle and his friends. Related articles by [...]
Posted by Uncategorized Monday, August 23rd, 2010 *UPDATE: The time pushed out a bit it’s going to be at 1:15 PM Â Â 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 San Jose. The Annual Ethiopian Flag raising Festival is a [...]
Posted by Uncategorized Sunday, August 22nd, 2010 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 to believe that Meles is their problem and theirs only. Meles Zenawi is a problem for all peace loving people in the Horn of Africa, East Africa, [...]