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Amnesty’s “Free Birtukan!” campaign in Netherlands

ethioforum — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 16:38:06 +0000

EMF (8 February 2010) As part of international campaign to demand the release of Birtukan Mideksa, charismatic leader of Ethiopia’s opposition UDJ, the Dutch chapter of Amnesty International held a colourful “Free Birtukan!” campaign programs on Sunday, 7 February 2010 in Abcoude, Netherlands. [Picture By meekspictures.nl, Nienke Meek] (more…)

Western Diplomatic Omerta in Ethiopia

ethioforum — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 08:04:30 +0000

By Alemayehu G. Mariam* | 08 February 2010

Reporting on the eerie silence of Western diplomats in Addis Abeba on Birtukan Midekssa, the first woman political party leader in Ethiopian history and Ethiopia’s # 1 political prisoner, Xan Rice, a reporter for the Guardian wrote last week: (more…)

New law forces journalists to reveal sources

ethioforum — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 12:26:50 +0000

(AFP) ADDIS ABABA — Ethiopia’s new anti-terror law strips journalists of the right to protect the identity of their sources, a top official said in a statement carried Saturday by the national news agency ENA. (more…)

ET409 and the surplus Ethiopians

ethioforum — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 08:44:18 +0000

By Yilma Bekele –It took an article on LA times to help me gather my thoughts together. I knew there was some thing missing in the story unfolding in front of me. The article by Alexandra Sandels and Borzou Daragahi of Los Angles Times brought it all in focus. (more…)

Amharic news from Addis Ababa

ethioforum — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 06:53:24 +0000

EFFORT emptied Development Bank of Ethiopia

ethioforum — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 06:51:41 +0000

Investigative reportage by Abebe Gellaw | 5 February 2010 – In mid-January, the ailing Development Bank of Ethiopia (DBE) declared once again that in need of rescue fund. The business weekly, Addis Fortune, reported that the bank called on the national bank to inject more capital ¹ to refill its empty cash registers. Read full in PDF

Misplaced Rage

ethioforum — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 15:34:36 +0000

By Fekade Shewakena – The harrowing experience of Ethiopians on the doomed Ethiopian airliner in the Mediterranean Sea last week, and the racist ways in which grieving Ethiopians who were trying to know the fate of their fellow Ethiopians on the plane were treated in Lebanon, could have been used to raise important questions and start a more important discussion. Sadly, it is being deflected in a useless direction – complaint about racism, anger at the wrong parties (more…)

Rulling junta says opposition may incite violence

ethioforum — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 15:10:59 +0000

By Jason McLure, February 10, 2010- ADDIS ABABA (Bloomberg) — Ethiopia’s ruling party said the country’s largest opposition grouping, the Forum for Democratic Dialogue (Medrek), would try to foment violence after elections scheduled for May in an effort to spur foreign governments to intervene. (more…)

Ethiopian Plane was attack by Hizbullah!?

ethioforum — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 15:11:01 +0000

Beirut, 27 Jan 2010 — Hypotheses and speculations mounted about a “sabotage” action in the Ethiopian plane crash which plunged into the Mediterranean sea in stormy weather earlier this week with 90 passengers and crew on board feared dead. (more…)

US envoy pledges to press Ethiopia on rights

ethioforum — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 19:38:37 +0000

2 February 2010– President Barack Obama’s nominee to be the next US ambassador to Ethiopia pledged on Tuesday to press the government in Addis Ababa to improve human rights, free political prisoners and make upcoming elections fair. (more…)