I have recently been in direct contact with members and staff of the United States Senate;
amongst them Senators Leahy, Feingold, and Obama in helping us to amend and improve S3457 (formerly H.R. 2003). The amendment that we seek should include several items specifically:
October 9 2008
Political Prisoners deported by force from Nairobi to Mogadishu and then taken to Ethiopia to be imprisoned in fetid secret prisons in Addis Ababa have now revealed that they were tortured both by EPRDF soldiers and by Americans. I think the prison and the interrogation was under the control of the Americans, has said one detainee. Some of these detainees have now been released to Kenya while more than 22 are still being held in what is now being called the African Guantanamo.
October 3 2008
Leave aside the increasing violence and mayhem in Mogadishu and other places, the recent report that the Somali Transitional Government is to be moved out of Somalia to Nairobi is enough proof that the invasion by the troops of Meles Zenawi has turned into a complete fiasco.
October 6/ 2008
The Kenyans who were detained illegally by the EPRDF in a detention center in Addis Ababa have now been released and they have exposed the brutal torture to which they were subjected by EPRDF security personnel and foreign intelligence operatives allied to Meles Zenawi.
by Zelalem Misikir
There is at present a concerted campaign launched from several quarters to vilify the Ethiopian generation of the 60s and 70s that struggled for change and for the basic democratic rights of the people. This really dirty campaign is orchestrated, on the hand, by the remnants of the defunct regimes (both feudal and military-totalitarian), by the ethnic centrist Tigrean regime and its poodles, by intellectuals knowingly or otherwise sold to the super power.
(BBC NEWS)
The head of the new US military command for Africa (Africom) has told the BBC it has "no hidden agenda".
General William Ward said the command would not be used to gain control of African natural resources such as oil.
He also dismissed fears that the US intended to build large military bases on the continent
The Associated Press
Published: September 28, 2008
ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia: An explosion outside a hotel in Ethiopia's volatile eastern region killed four people Sunday and injured 20 others, a federal police spokesman said.
The explosion occurred at 10:20 a.m. (0720GMT) outside a hotel in the eastern Ethiopia town of Jijiga, some 430 miles (700 kilometers) east of the capital, Addis Ababa, said spokesman Demsash Hailu.
By Obang Metho
Are we so absorbed in our own lives or groups or in competition with others that pity for the less fortunate has disappeared from our souls?
By Scott A Morgan
In what appears to be a effort to reward stability in a highly unstable part of the World ,The US is going to increase the amount of aid it sends to the "Breakaway Region" of Somaliland. On the surface that can be seen as the US growing increasingly frustrated with the Pace of " Nation Building" within Somalia
K. Mohieddine , PhD ( Khartoum)
I have observed recently an interesting but not focused discussion going on concerning Ethiopia and what is the meaning and worth of Ethiopiawinet. At the base of this discussion, argument at times is the tenet of Ethio centrism which is actually derived from afro centrism. What is afro centrism? Is it even relevant to Ethiopia?
Obo Arada Shawl alias Wolde Tewolde- September 23, 2008
That the Ethiopian government is biologically organized is an open book.
That the Eritrean government is based on physical geography has become a fact.
That EPRP is based on Ideas is well established.
So, what is yours, opposition groups? Read more>>
Addis Ababa - The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) on Monday appealed for 460 million dollars as a food crisis in Ethiopia and the wider Horn of Africa continued to grow. "The Horn of Africa region is facing the worst humanitarian crisis since 1984, and Ethiopia is caught in the middle," WFP Executive Director Josette Sheeran said in a statement.
(BBC NEWS)
About 40 people have been killed in the Somali capital, mostly when shells were fired on the busy Bakara market.
Witnesses say Ethiopian troops fired mortars after insurgents launched simultaneous attacks on the two main African Union peacekeeping bases.
By Getachew Reda
Dr. Abeba Fekade
Part I: An Overview
This discussion note is an attempt to briefly explore some of the underlying internal and external factors, which are presumed to be root causes of the current psychosocial and political realities in Ethiopia. It is in deed an attempt to, by way of questioning and identifying the inherent problem, enable us formulate possible solutions to the tremendous challenge Ethiopia is facing today.
(BBC NEWS)
Nearly 17 million people in the Horn of Africa are in urgent need of food and other aid - almost twice as many as earlier this year, the UN has said.
Some $700m (£382m) in emergency aid is needed to prevent the region descending into full-scale famine, it said.
By Elizabeth Blunt
BBC News, Addis Ababa
Emergency food aid is not getting out fast enough to the people who need it in Ethiopia's troubled Somali region, a top US official says
BAKGROUND
This question has to be answered. Unless we respond to this question truthfully and objectively, there is no guaranty that the future struggle will succeed. Within a short period following the election of May 15, 2005 result, the struggle, instead of vehemently being upheld and defended, it was literally abandoned.
The Miseducation of an Irish Racist or Who Really Cares for Kevin Myers? By Hama Tuma
Kevin Myers is no Gobineau. No sophistication, just crude. He seems to me an attention grabbing pedestrian racist with a special hostility for Africa and Africans. Not that he has focused on Africans and refrained from attacking others (he calls the Scots "obese and dependent on welfare"), single mothers (producers of "bastards")
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THE SALE OF ETHIOPIAN WOMEN- SEPTEMBER 15/2008
UNTO MODERN SLAVERY MUST STOP
The regime of Meles Zenawi has signed a deal with Saudi Arabia to send thousands of young Ethiopian women as maids and the agreement is being put into practice. Thousands of young Ethiopian women are in Lebanon and other Middle Eastern countries in a situation that has been characterized as modern day slavery.
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CALL ME BY MY ADDRESS: Solutions with DEBTERAW, I
Obo Arada Shawl alias Wolde Tewolde
Today, on the beginning of our AEthiopian Millennium new year, I want to present personal histories of struggle of three individuals in the hope that their experience will lead to some lessons to be learned from their Education and Experience (EE). Read More.....
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N. humanitarian office said Monday that food shortages in Ethiopia have reached alarming levels following widespread drought in the countr
By Getachew Reda
Let the healing begin by saying “Never again!” Help us stop blaming the victims of “Red Terror” by signing “Red Terror Condemnation Registry” today! Let us all stand guard against any political prosecutions and killings by any government in Ethiopia!
Come and let us honor the martyrs together and say thank you for giving us life sacrificing theirs, hold up high their history and most of all promise them to continue the fight to bring about Democracy and Rule of Law in Ethiopia.
Their fight was nothing but to empower our people. Let us come together as a community and condemn what went on then and what is going on now! Let us say “Never Again!” and vow not to let political prosecutions and killings continue unchecked in Ethiopia starting today!
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