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A Victorious Happy Ethiopian New Year (2010)! [Professor Alemayehu G. Mariam]
Let us look forward happily to the new year with confidence in our hearts and resolve in our minds. Let us learn from the lessons of the past year and apply them even more magnificently in the new. Those great lesson are mass civil disobedience...

ONLF Response to the Somali Cabinet Decision on the Refoulement of Mr Abdikarin Sh Muse to Ethiopia
Statement by Ogaden National Liberation Front (ONLF)
September 8, 2017
On September 6, 2017 the minister of information of Somalia read a statement in which he claimed that ONLF has a relationship with Al-Shabab and was involved in Activities...

Rights Group Urges Saudis Not to Expel Ethiopians (voa)
Human Rights Watch is urging the Saudi government to halt its plan to expel hundreds of thousands of Ethiopian immigrants who missed a late August deadline to register or face deportation.
Felix Horne, HRW’s senior researcher for the Horn...

Ethiopia's bereaved families seek justice (Al Jazeera)
Bereaved families in Ethiopia are demanding justice for 650 anti-government protesters who were killed last year.
They were from the largest ethnic group, the Oromo, and died during a government crackdown on dissent.
Despite repeated...

Ethiopia says Somalia helped in rebel leader’s ‘surrender’ (AP)
By Elias Meseret
ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia — Ethiopia on Friday said a senior figure with the rebel Ogaden National Liberation Front has willingly surrendered, days after the group accused neighboring Somalia’s security forces of kidnapping...

Ethiopian woman's mouth 'melted shut in horrific acid attack by husband'
Independent
WARNING: Story contains graphic images of severe injuries caused by acid attack
A woman has been left near-blind, in constant agony and with her mouth melted shut after her estranged husband allegedly attacked her with acid.
Atsede...