Saturday July, 2005

Ethiopia's electoral investigation well conducted: EU
People's Daily Online - Beijing,China
The European Union said Friday the National Electoral Board of Ethiopia (NEBE) has been well conducting the investigation of complaints on the country's ...
 

US Congress keen to assist Ethiopia in democratization process
Sudan Tribune - Sudan
ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia, July 29, 2005 (ENA) -- Californian State Congressman Mike Honda said the US Congress would do everything possible toward ensuring ...
 

Army close to breaking point' as 206 immigrants land in Gozo
Malta Independent - St. Julians,Malta
... Bay, Gozo. They are believed to originate mainly from Ethiopia and Eritrea, and arrived unaided in a 30-foot fishing vessel. The ...
 

Torture suspect ordered deported
Washington Times - Washington,DC,USA
A 54-year-old Atlanta man suspected of committing numerous acts of torture in his native Ethiopia has been ordered deported by a federal immigration judge to ...
 

Fourth London bombing suspect fights extradition
Euronews.net - France
... be sent to Britain. Italian investigators now say his real name is Isaac Hamdi and he was born in Ethiopia. Britain wants him extradited ...
 

Eritrea/Ethiopia: Annan appoints yet another D. Special Rep.
Eritrea Daily - Perth Amboy,NJ,USA
... has appointed Azouz Ennifar of Tunisia as Deputy Special Representative of the Secretary-General for the United Nations Mission in Eritrea and Ethiopia (UNMEE ...

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Wednesday July 27, 2005

No outright winner in Ethiopian polls - so far
Sudan Tribune - Sdan
The National Electoral Board of Ethiopia released the results for 128 ... seats, United Ethiopian Democratic Forces (UEDF) 51 seats and Oromo Federalist Democratic ...
 

Photographer brings refugee's stories to life
Minnesota Daily - Minneapolis,MN,USA
... the radio and television industries, respectively. Hope, an Oromo woman also from Ethiopia, is the only single woman in the group. ...

Malaysia's Petronas to search for oil in Ethiopia
Reuters South Africa - Johannesburg,South Africa
... Petronas will undertake exploration, with a probability of production, on 93,000 sq km around Kelafo, Welwel-Warder and Genale sites in Ethiopia's Somali Region ...
 

Amnesty concerned over pilots
Reuters AlertNet - London,England,UK
... AI also called for an investigation to establish whether the pilots had been "forcibly returned" to Ethiopia, in breach of international conventions. ...
 

 Five killed in grenade attacks in Somali region
Reuters AlertNet - London,England,UK
ADDIS ABABA, 26 July (IRIN) - A series of grenade attacks on Sunday that killed five people in Ethiopia's Somali region was designed to disrupt forthcoming ...
 

Commission provides EUR 8.5 million in humanitarian aid for ...
EUROPA (press release) - Brussels,Belgium
The European Commission has adopted two decisions worth a total of €8.5 million to help meet humanitarian needs in Ethiopia and Eritrea. ...
 

Prof. Sachs Urges Donor Countries to Double Assistance to Ethiopia
AllAfrica.com - Africa
... UN's Secretary-General and Millennium Development Programe Director, Professor Jeffrey Sachs, said donor countries should double their assistance to Ethiopia. ...
 

Ethiopian ruling party nears victory
Reuters South Africa - Johannesburg,South Africa
ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) - Ethiopia's ruling party neared victory on Tuesday with the latest round of provisional results from a contentious May 15 parliamentary ...

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Sunday July 24, 2005

Ethiopia to return elections
News24 - South Africa
Addis Ababa - Ethiopia will rerun parliamentary elections in at least 20 of the 524 seats contested during fiercely disputed polls, said the chairman of the ...
 

Solutions for Ethiopia: Lessons Learned by an Ordinary American
Addis Tribune - Addis Ababa,Ethiopia
As the world's most powerful leaders gathered in Scotland recently for the G8 Summit, I found myself in Ethiopia, one of the countries at the centre of ...
 

Angelina's adopted daughter Zahara Marley Jolie
Newindpress - Chennai,India
Angelina Jolie, along with Brad Pitt and her adopted son Maddox, flew for about eight hours on a private jet from London to Ethiopia. ...
 

Eritrea rejects claims of mass arrests
Reuters AlertNet - London,England,UK
... Most Eritreans say cycles of drought, lingering poverty and prolonged military tensions with Ethiopia have made life tough in a country where almost one in 10 ...

Peace, famine and Ethiopia's 'Green Revolution'
Nazret.com - College Park,MD,USA
... It says: "The Board of the Yara Foundation has chosen to award the first African Green Revolution Yara Prize, to the Prime Minister of Ethiopia, Meles Zenawi ...
 

FEATURE-Border town strangled by Ethiopia-Eritrea tensions
Reuters AlertNet - London,England,UK
SENAFE, Eritrea, July 24 (Reuters) - Before the war with Ethiopia, buses and trucks rumbled through Eritrea's border town of Senafe, shuttling daily between ...
 

US State Information on the Federal Democratic Republic of ...
Community Dispatch (press release) - USA
... Ethiopia is located in the Horn of Africa and is bordered on the north and northeast by Eritrea, on the east by Djibouti and Somalia, on the south by Kenya ...
 

Chinese ensemble to visit Ethiopia
AngolaPress - Angola
ADDIS ABABA, 07/24 - A Chinese ensemble of 25 members will visit and perform in Ethiopia in August to celebrate the establishment of diplomatic relations ...

 

Lynchburg's delegation to Gimbie, Ethiopia, keeps growing
Lynchburg News and Advance - Lynchburg,VA,USA
That's the first thing Sue Leister noticed when she returned to Gimbie, Ethiopia, for her third summer visit last month. "I ...
 

The Tragic Fate of the Heroic Air force Pilots who fled to ...
Nazret.com - College Park,MD,USA
... These gun ship helicopter pilots are persons who chose to leave Ethiopia rather than comply with orders to participate in the violent suppression of a ...

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Friday July 15, 2005

 

Probe into rebel link as outrage mounts
Standard - Nairobi,Kenya
... Ethiopian authorities are investigating claims that members of Oromo Liberation Front ... He said the assailants escaped towards Ethiopia, where security personnel ...

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Political parties urged to renounce violence
Reuters AlertNet - London,England,UK
... The European Union and the United States appealed on Thursday for the peaceful resolution of disputes stemming from the 15 May national elections in Ethiopia. ...
 

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Fears for missing Ethiopia pilots
BBC News - UK
... " We still have not seen them and we are growing increasingly concerned that the pilots might have been returned to Ethiopia against their will," UNHCR ...

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Kenya kills more bandits in north, death toll 80
Reuters AlertNet - London,England,UK
... for ignoring security in the remote north, vowed to pursue any leads amid concerns that local politicians or interests in neighboring Ethiopia might be behind ...
 

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EU, US Call On Political Parties to Abide By Joint Declarations
AllAfrica.com - Africa
... inflammatory, defamatory or ethnic hate messages via the media or Internet, and any other action that is likely to further increase tension in Ethiopia. ...
 

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Wednesday July 6, 2005

BBC grills Meles to embarrassment, OK's new voting
Eritrea Daily - Perth Amboy,NJ,USA
4 July 2005, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (BBC): In an interview on July 4 th with BBC radio show, HARDtalk, Stephen Sackur, the host, grilled PM Meles Zenawi of ...
 

BBC Interview with Ato Hailu Shawel Ethiopia's CUD party chairman
Nazret.com - College Park,MD,USA
In a HARDtalk interview on July 5th, Stephen Sackur talks to the Chairman of Ethiopia's CUD party, Hailu Shawel. Who won Ethiopia's ...


Tuesday July 5, 2005

Why turn a blind eye to tyranny?

Chris Albin-Lackey International Herald Tribune
NEW YORK Making aid count II
 
When people around the world came together on Saturday for the Live 8 concerts, they were hoping to recapture the magic of "the day that rock 'n' roll changed the world" at Live Aid in 1985. Twenty years later, Ethiopia has again emerged as a potent symbol - not only of the cause behind the concert, but also of the consequences of oversimplifying the debate on aid to Africa.
 
As famine decimated Ethiopia in 1985, Live Aid brought together rock stars on two different continents for a huge concert aimed at mobilizing worldwide concern. The concert was watched by 1.5 billion people worldwide and raised more than $100 million for its cause. ...
  

Monday July 4, 2005

Ethiopian PM warns opposition from dreaming to overthrow govt

ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia, July 1, 2005 (Ethiopian TV) -- Prime Minister Meles Zenawi has warned those who attempt to over throw the government in unconstitutional manner to stop from their futile attempt. In an hour-long exclusive interview with the Ethiopian radio and television, the premier said the Ukraine and Georgia-style orange revolutions will not be repeated in Ethiopia.


Meles Zenawi
The following is excerpts from the interview by Ethiopian TV on 1 July: Subheadings inserted editorially.  

-  Thank you your excellency the prime minister. The opposition have filed an accusation against the ruling coalition Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Democratic Front (EPRDF) saying that election had been defrauded in rural areas. The EPRDF as well had filed a similar accusation and an investigation to find out the said irregularities is under way. Your excellency the prime minister what is your view regarding this issue of defrauding? What would be the solution if there was defrauding? ....


Friday July 1, 2005

Press Statement from OLF on Ethiopian elections
Sudan Tribune - Sudan
... We thus urge the Oromo and all peoples in Ethiopia to remain steadfast in the struggle and continue the popular resistance until victory. ...

Spotlight on stark poverty divide
Age (subscription) - Melbourne,Victoria,Australia
... "But there are lots of good things about Ethiopia, too: there ... was kidnapped for being a member of the country's largest ethnic group, the Oromo, suspected of ...
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Africa's dark heart
Sydney Morning Herald (subscription) - New South Wales,Australia
... Bariso. A member of the Oromo people of southern Ethiopia, Bariso grew up herding his father's cattle. But "I rebelled", he says. ...

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NES - The Role of the Opposition Inside and Outside Ethiopia
Sudan Tribune - Sudan
... from autocracy to the opportunities of ushering an irreversible democratic epoch in Ethiopia. ... They cannot use Oromo sounding pseudo names to attack some of the ...
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Ethiopia releases 878 suspects arrested in recent violence
People's Daily Online - Beijing,China
Some 878 suspects, arrested in connection with the recent violence in the capital Addis Ababa, were released on Wednesday and Thursday, police said. ...
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Ethiopia begins fraud poll probes
BBC News - UK
Teams of fraud poll investigators in Ethiopia have begun visiting the 135 constituencies where the result of May's election is fiercely disputed. ...
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 UNHCR close to phasing out operations in the east
Reuters AlertNet - London,England,UK
ADDIS ABABA, 30 June (IRIN) - The UN refugee agency, UNHCR, shut down a camp in eastern Ethiopia on Wednesday after repatriating the last of its residents to ...

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Donors demand full probe into post-election deaths
Reuters AlertNet - London,England,UK
... "The government has the primary responsibility for ensuring that the rule of law is upheld in Ethiopia and that such a tragic loss of life is not repeated ...
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IPI Criticises Arrest of 4 Editors in Ethiopia, Says Government ...
noticias.info (press release) - Spain
... The Ethiopian government must stop harassing independent journalists in Ethiopia merely because their stories cause embarrassment or are viewed as being ...

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Read Congress of the United States Letter to Meles Zenawi here

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