Call for Papers & Participation
Conference on Good Governance, Peace, Security, and Sustainable Development in the Horn of Africa
Washington DC, April 9 to 11, 2010
The Horn of Africa continues to be extremely fragile. The sub-region?s volatility has increased significantly in the post 9/11 period. The total collapse of Somalia and the irresponsible and imprudent intervention of outsiders in the affairs of Somalia have created fertile ground for the rise of radical Islam in the region. More »
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Amnesty’s “Free Birtukan!” campaign in Netherlands
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 »
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Western Diplomatic Omerta in Ethiopia
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 »
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New law forces journalists to reveal sources
(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 »
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ET409 and the surplus Ethiopians
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 »
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EFFORT emptied Development Bank of Ethiopia
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
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Misplaced Rage
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 »
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Rulling junta says opposition may incite violence
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 »
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Ethiopian Plane was attack by Hizbullah!?
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 »
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