Ethiopia: VOA Amharic walking a tight rope

VOA Amharic walking a tight rope in Ethiopia

Voice of America’s relationship with the Ethiopian authorities has been a rocky one. For over a decade, after the TPLF (Tigray People Liberation Front) ascension to power VOA was hardly a major source of news for many Ethiopians.

Hillary Clinton to Travel to Ethiopia

In Ethiopia, Secretary Clinton will focus on regional issues, visiting the African Union (AU) headquarters and meeting with AU Chairperson Jean Ping, in addition to bilateral meetings.

Open letter to Prime Minster of India

Your mission Prime Minster is to help your business community to make money. Indian companies are leasing more than 300,000 hectare of land for a price of one Dollar per hectare.

Can mobs of the millennium be trusted to build The Renaissance Dam?

PM Meles Zenawi Asres

According to the report, a staggering 8.4 billion US dollar has over the past two decades been illegally and corruptly appropriated from the world’s poorest country [Ethiopia], almost all of it by a group of ethnically assembled politicians whose political ideology has no demarcation between a political party, the state and the economy.

Outrageous and unjust Virginia traffic penalties as I experienced it

The officer took my license and asked me whether I drank alcohol or not. Innocently I said I drank 2 bottles of beer about 2 hours ago. In my mind at that time, I waited at least an hour before starting driving. So it better to tell the truth. But in …

OPEN LETTER TO THE UNHCR: PROTECT ETHIOPIAN REFUGEES IN YEMEN

A few days ago four Ethiopian refugees were killed in the ASABA area of Sana’a, Yemen, as result of the fighting between government forces and armed rebels. Very many Ethiopian refugees are facing death in many part of Yemen and their attempt to go t…

Stop playing a political game on the Oromo people

The political bankruptcy and lack legitimacy created due a repeated failure to convince the public at large with old cards have forced the TPLF regime to bit the Abay Dam construction drum in a bid to avert the public anger and the momentum of popular uprising from the Oromo and other peoples in Ethiopia.

Ginbot 7 Calls for an End to the 20 year Brutal Rule of Meles Zenawi

Press Release 27 May 2011 Today marks the 20th anniversary of one of the darkest days in Ethiopian history. It’s a day marked by 20 years of treachery, national humiliation and ethnic dictatorship. While millions of Ethiopians remember May 28, as a d…

Ghana to protest ‘detention’ of journalists in Ethiopia

Mr Kwesi Quartey, Ghana’s Ambassador to Ethiopia, has stated that he would file an official protest to the Government of Ethiopia for the ‘detention’ of Ghanaian Journalists and the subsequent seizure of their Television Cameras at the Addis Abab…

Hope Springs Eternal in Africa

Alemayehu G. Mariam

Saving Africa From Thugtators Two historic events are unfolding before our eyes in Africa today. The new president of Cote d’Ivoire, Alassane Ouattara, is asking the International Criminal Court (ICC) to conduct an investigation into gross human rights violations in his country. In a letter to ICC prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo, Ouattara wrote: “It appears the [...]

ESAT NEWS DC PUBLIC MEETING 19 FEBRUARY 2012 OLF & TIMRET

Public Meeting Held in Washington D.C. OLF and Timret.

ALEJE and OLF International Public Meetings
Artist Tamagn Beyene on Akeldama “documentary”

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