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March 16/2011
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SOCEPP had in the past publicized the disappearance, since 1993, of trade union leader Abebe Ainekulu and Wondu Sirak Desta from Bahr Dar and journalist Berhanu Ijigu from Addis Abeba
By Yilma Bekele
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Humans Rights Situation in Ethiopia has deteriorated. It affects refugees who came to Norway both before and after 2005. Iyasou Alemayehu and Ghennet Girma have come all the way from Paris to Oslo to speak to the Norwegian authorities on the political situation in Ethiopia. To read the whole interview in Norwegian click here …
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OR are they shaking in their boots for the inevitable of the people's wrath! Poor Woyanes many sleepless nights! Get ready the revolution is coming home soon! Please read the full article that was posted on TPLF's website and have your say in our blog! This is our way of “Fair and Balance Reporting”, that is open to the public::
Saturday, 26 February 2011
By Hama Tuma (Source: www.afrik-news.com): The poetic rhetoric of some American officials in the face of complex political issues tend bring gist to the
mill of the satirist. “Some of the leaders we support may be bastards but they are OUR bastards” Kirkpatrick’s statement, notwithstanding its brutally direct tone, sets precedence for a famous contradictory declaration from Henry Kissinger: "if people are foolish enough to elect left wing leaders we cannot let them have their say."
MugshotWith a Libyan flag from the pre-Gadhafi era flying on the building, medical volunteers march in front of Benghazi court Tuesday. Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi continued to reject calls for his resignation, even as three more Libyan ambassadors resigned in protest. (Associated Press)
......Ethiopians, Eritreans and Tunisians joined the protest. Yohannes Woube, an Ethiopian protester, said he hoped that the winds of change sweeping the Arab world would reach his country.
He clutched a placard that read: “Today Libya, tomorrow Ethiopia.”
United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay is warning thousands of people may have been killed in Colonel Muammar Gaddafi’s assault on the growing Libyan uprising
Forces fighting to oust the Libyan leader Col Muammar Gaddafi have seized the city of Zawiya, 50km (30 miles) west of the capital, Tripoli.
The Libyan government took journalists to Zawiya on Sunday morning
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February 24/2011
In the deserts of Libya hundreds of Ethiopian and Eritrean refugees have been
languishing in containers and other holding cells. With
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By Yilma Bekele
They say 'in any relationship, if one party wants a change, that party needs to instigate change.' The Tunisian people felt change was necessary. The Egyptian people agreed. The Libyans, Yemenis, Algerians, Bahrinians and the Iranians are in the process of adapting the Tunisian model.
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International media is following protests across the 'Arab world' but ignoring those in Africa.
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The BBC's Ian Pannell looks at the latest video purportedly showing Libyan protests
Security forces and protesters have clashed in Libya's capital for a second night, after the government announced a new crackdown.
CAIRO — For more than four decades, Moammar Gadhafi was the face of Libya. He withstood international isolation and U.S. airstrikes, managing to claw his way back to a degree of acceptance by the global community.
By Tesfay Atsbeha & Kahsay Berhe - February 18, 2011
For the TPLF the month of February is officially a month of its birth day celebrations. The real celebration behind the veil of the birth day is actually the propaganda of the regime to exploit the emotions of Ethiopians, especially Tigrayans who lost their loved ones during the armed struggle, play the big benefactor for removing the military dictatorship and justify its “entitlement” to stay in power.
February 19, 2011
AGAINST ALL FOREIGN MILITARY PRESENCE ON ETHIOPIAN SOIL
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Ethiopian women are victims of modern day slavery; they end up becoming victims of human trafficking; some are forced into prostitution and others are hunted down by organ snatche
Thousands of people have been voicing anger against Bahrain's authorities at the funerals of victims of Thursday's clashes which left four dead.
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Thousands of people have occupied the centre of the Bahraini capital on a third day of anti-government protests.
The numbers of those who have been camping out in Manama's Pearl Square were swelled by many who joined the protests throughout the day.
The revolution in Egypt is a unique historical event, seperate from Iran in 1979 or France in 1789, author says.
Hamid Dabashi Last Modified: 12 Feb 2011 17:29 GMT
Comparisons between Egypt's current uprising and Iran's 1979 revolution have become something of a cliché. The mass demonstrations in Egypt against a US-backed dictator have reminded many observers of similar scenes from the Iranian Revolution of 1979, leading some to believe that another "Islamic Revolution" is in the making. This is a false reading of the Iranian Revolution of 1977-1979; and an even more flawed reading of the Egyptian Revolution of 2011.
Wednesday, 16 February 2011
Front for the Restoration of Unity and Democracy (FRUD)
Email: frud_Djibouti@hotmail.com
February 16/2011
FRUD supports the demonstration on 18 February 2011, organized by the UAD, with participation of the UMD and all democratic forces in Djibouti.
FRUD calls all his supporters, activists and the people of Djibouti, to participate in this event for freedom, democracy, dignity, against the third term of IOG and his mafia-style and predatory family.
EPRP joins the peoples of Tunisia and Egypt to express its sincere joy in the success of the first stage of their popular revolutions. The ouster of Ben Ali and Hosni Mubarak is reverberating all over the Middle East, in the Sudan and Djibouti as well, and heralds a wind of change and revolution in the whole of Africa too. Mabruk indeed! Inkuan des Alachihu!
The last of nearly 100 Ethiopian refugees who failed to qualify for asylum in Norway gave up their week-long occupation of the Oslo Cathedral (Domkirken) on Monday. Now they’ll await their fate at an asylum center in Oslo’s Torshov district.
February 10, 2011
SOCEPP CONDEMNS THE ECOLOGICL DISASTER
BEING PERPETRATED BY THE MELES ZENAWI REGIME
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More than 3000 acres of protected forest land has been leased by the regime to Indian firms that plan to fell the trees and farm the fertile land. Protest by the local people has been ignored and local officials who raised their voice against this damaging deforestation removed from their posts.
By Yelfiwos Wondaya
Knowing the fact that the so-called Ethiopian constitution is framed by an ethnocentric dictatorial regime to serve its narrow purpose, one would not expect to see it working for all parties on board, much less to preserve Ethiopia’s unity and territorial integrity intact
From Saudi Arabia to Uzbekistan to Chad, the U.S. keeps some very bad autocrats in power.
Washington Post Foreign Service
Saturday, February 5, 2011; 1:00 PM
CAIRO - The united front among Egyptian opposition parties fractured Saturday as several of them began negotiating with Vice President Omar Suleiman, despite earlier promises that they would not agree to talks until President Hosni Mubarak stepped down.
By Noam Chomsky
A common refrain among pundits is that fear of radical Islam requires opposition to democracy on pragmatic grounds. That formulation is misleading.
By Karen DeYoung
Friday, February 4, 2011; 2:56 PM
The Obama administration, encouraged by the relative calm in Egypt on Friday, is urgently trying to persuade opposition groups to participate in a dialogue with Vice President Omar Suleiman in a meeting scheduled for Saturday morning.
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Hama Tuma
The ongoing mass protest and popular change going on in North Africa, the Sudan and the Middle East highlights that the Western powers, for all their strutting, are in most cases paper tigers who cannot prevent a people’s revolutionary uprising. Paper tigers have no teeth and, as a Wiki leak cable revealed vis a vis Egypt, they have no ears either
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Ethiopia has offered to Indian investors 1.8 million hectares of farmland, equalling nearly 40 percent the total area of principal grain-growing state of Punjab, in what could give a big push to the country's food security.
"So far, we have transferred 307,000 hectares of land to foreign and domestic investors. Some 79 percent of this land has been transferred to Indian companies. This land is on 70-year lease," said visiting Ethiopian Agriculture Minister Tefera Derbew.
A student has died from his injuries after clashing with Sudanese police during anti-government protests, activists say.
By By Khaled Abdelaziz | January 30, 2011
KHARTOUM (Reuters) – Sudanese police beat and arrested students on Sunday as protests broke out throughout Khartoum demanding the government resign, inspired by a popular uprising in neighbouring Egypt.
By Yilma Bekele
According to Wiki “in contemporary usage, dictatorship refers to an autocratic form of absolute rule by leadership unrestricted by law, constitutions, or other social and political factors within the state.” That is what we have in Ethiopia
Getachew Reda
Yelfiwos Wondaya
One would say that it is a defining moment and a moment of truth for Ethiopians and friends alike to tell the good apart from the ugly. Every genuine patriot who desires to continue the union of all Ethiopians must join an alliance formed by Ethiopians of all persuasions to protest against an ethnocentric dictatorial regime in Addis Ababa.
By Hama Tuma
I have to admit that vicious and cruel as they are most of our dictators take time out from sadism and try to entertain us in one way or another. Take Egypt’s Mubarak, whose demise has already been concluded by its previous Godfather (Washington) in a hurry to stop a possible Moslem Brotherhood takeover.
fifth straight day of anti-government protests begins in Egypt as President Hosni Mubarak prepares to appoint a new cabinet.
CAIRO — Egypt was engulfed in a fifth day of protests on Saturday but an attempt by President Hosni Mubarak to salvage his 30-year rule by firing his cabinet and calling out the army appeared to backfire as troops and demonstrators fraternized and called for the president himself to resign. Read full article @ New York Times
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Twenty Years After the Cold War, New Winds of Change in Africa
By Maru Gubena
I have often wished, especially given that things have started very recently in Tunisia and Egypt, to prove me wrong. I have even begged my Lord God, kneeling down and bowing my head to the ground, to prove me wrong, at least at this time, at this very moment - to allow us to share and enjoy the newly ripening fruits of political and power changes that have taken place in Tunisia and are currently under way in Egypt.
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At least three people are reported to have been killed during a day of rare anti-government protests in Egypt.
In Cairo, where the biggest rallies were held, state TV said a policeman had died in clashes. Two protesters died in Suez, doctors there said.
Thousands joined the protests after an internet campaign inspired by the uprising in Tunisia.
Price controls on many staple food items ordered by Ethiopia's government early this month have reduced grocery bills for many low-income families. But now shopkeepers are upset and some basic items are disappearing from store shelves. Economists are concerned about the long-term effect of the government's price-fixing strategy.
By Getachew Reda editor Ethiopian Sema
By Maru Gubena
Scared that you, the highly loved, respected and wise mother, might possibly not enjoy the subject matter here and such talks in general, I seriously don’t know how or where to start – how to formulate the issues to be discussed and the questions to be raised.
By Yilma Bekele
Well there was a controversy a while back. The regime got tired of creating political drama. Like the US Army announces “three division headquarters and eight brigade combat teams have been scheduled to support Operation Iraqi Freedom in the next rotation beginning this fall”, the Meles regime announced ‘the Political Drama Group (PDG)
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EPRP Youth League on the CKUW Radio
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By Yilma Bekele
Here we are celebrating New Year in Tahesas. Accepting January, as Meskerem is a tall order. Enqutatash or Adis Amet is Adey Abeba blanketing the mountains with its vibrant bright yellow colors and the sun shining with all its strength. We are in the middle of winter here in the Northern Hemisphere. It is dark, cold and gloomy.
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Tuesday, 18 January 2011
By Tedla Asfaw
www.debteraw.com Finote Radio Call !!!
A timely call for the TPLF controlled armed groups to stand with the Ethiopian people on the coming "Ye Godana Newte" reminiscent of the Tunisian revolt that send the tyrant to Saudi Arabia.
The president and prime minister in Tunisia's day-old interim government have left the ruling RCD party, state TV says, in an apparent bid to calm protests that have raged for days.
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By Maru Gubena
Dear readers,
This is part one of about ten pages. This article was written in early September 2006, when both the actual climate in the western world and the political temperature within the Ethiopian Diaspora community were too hot,
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January 16/2011
Background: After the TPLF/EPRDF took over power in 1991 it incorporated to its home region of Tigrai many fertile regions from Wello and Gondar. Thus the fertile Humera region near the Sudanese border was merged into Tigrai. Since then, the ruling regime has tried to displace the locals and replace them with settlers from Tigrai.
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Early results from Southern Sudan's referendum indicate the region has voted overwhelmingly to split from the north and form a new country.
Full results of the poll are not due until next month, but the region is widely expected to choose to secede.
A Symbol of Pride and a Source of Unity for the Ethiopian Diaspora, and a Substantial and Commanding Influence in Ethiopian Affairs
By Maru Gubena
As may be recalled, the issue of the Ethiopian Diaspora, its origin, and more particularly its potential role in and contribution to the process of political stabilization and democratization in Ethiopia, has been discussed relatively widely, if not as deeply as the community’s role and the extent of its involvement deserves.
By Ben Wedeman, CNN Senior International Correspondent
January 15, 2011 -- Updated 1817 GMT (0217 HKT)
TUNIS, Tunisia (CNN) -- Are jackboots already trampling the "Jasmine Revolution"?
It happened with breathtaking speed. Within a matter of weeks, Tunisia went from being a beacon of authoritarian, pro-Western stability to a country in open, nationwide revolt. A largely leaderless, spontaneous popular movement drove the head of state from power.
At the moment it's not clear whether that movement will result in real change, or just a change at the top.
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