US and European officials urge Ethiopia to release Andy Tsege
Politicians from the United States, United Kingdom and the European Union have sent a letter to Ethiopian Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn urging the release of British citizen Andargachew “Andy”...
View ArticleEgyptian-Ethiopian disputes stall Renaissance Dam
CAIRO — Studies analyzing the effects of the proposed Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam were due six months ago, but the parties involved have yet to agree on how consultants should even approach the...
View ArticleHow would you spend one million US dollars? [By Yilma Bekele]
You can take your family and friends on a Caribbean cruise. May be buy a one way ticket to Las Vegas and hope to turn it into four million. Who needs a return ticket when you are going back to wherever...
View ArticleRepublunatics at the Debate (Gate)?[Prof Alemayehu]
“When I hear a man preach, I like to see him act as if he were fighting bees,” said Abraham Lincoln, the first Republican President of the United States. At the first Republican presidential hopefuls...
View ArticleAustralian man who killed Ethiopian girlfriend during sex will be sentenced soon
It was only seconds after Anthony Freeman’s girlfriend had insulted him when they were having sex that he fatally stabbed her, a court has heard. Freeman, 45, grabbed a knife from the top of a table...
View ArticleRadiation threatens 40/60 condominium site in Addis Abeba
YONAS ABIYE, Reporter The planned 40/60 housing construction by Addis Ababa’s City Administration Housing Development Agency, set to be constructed in the Kality area, faces a potentially hazardous...
View ArticleEthiopia Deports South Sudan Cabinet Affairs Minister
Addis Ababa , Ethiopia ( Agencies + DIPLOMAT.SO) – A group of pro-government political parties headed by South Sudan’s Cabinet Affairs Minister Dr. Martin Elia Lomuro have been deported from Ethiopia...
View ArticleMoving To Israel Makes Ethiopian Jews Sick
Yosef Yabarkan was a six-year-old boy in 1999 when he left his village in Ethiopia with his parents and nine sisters. Like tens of thousands of Jews before them, they made the 1,600-mile trek north to...
View ArticleEthiopian Man found alive in Stockholm plane hold
UPDATED: An asylum seeker has been discovered alive in the hold of a plane that landed at Stockholm’s Arlanda airport on Friday morning, after smuggling himself on to an Ethiopian Airlines flight from...
View ArticleEthiopian migrants continue walking into Yemen war zone
By Katie Riordan | IRIN HARGEISA – Qader and Abdi are two weeks into their journey. Carrying only one empty plastic water bottle each, flattened, with no liquid to return it to its cylindrical shape,...
View ArticleEthiopia: Hacking Team Lax on Evidence of Abuse
Leaked Documents Show Need to Regulate Surveillance Sales (New York, August 13, 2015) – The Italian spyware firm Hacking Team took no effective action to investigate or stop reported abuses of its...
View ArticleEthiopia: Our Need for Unity in Divinity Facing Adversity! [Prof Alemayehu]
The Thugtatorship of the Tigrean People’s Liberation Front (T-TPLF) has been pursuing a systematic program of religious persecution and fomenting religious antagonisms in Ethiopia for quite some time....
View ArticleEthiopian Bloggers in Kangaroo (Monkey) Kourt [Prof Alemayehu]
Kangaroo/monkey kourt (in)justice T-TPLF style Last week, young Ethiopian bloggers collectively known as “Zone 9 Bloggers” (named after a cell block holding political prisoners at the infamous Meles...
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