DIBABA SETS WORLD INDOOR 5000M RECORD IN STOCKHOLM [IAAF]
Ethiopia’s Genzebe Dibaba ran the third world indoor record * of her career when she clocked 14:18:86 for 5000m at the XL-galan meeting in Stockholm, an IAAF Indoor Permit meeting, on Thursday (19).
Dibaba took more than five seconds off the...
Ethiopia: stealing the Omo Valley, destroying its ancient Peoples [Megan Perry /Sustainable Food Trust ]
A land grab twice the size of France is under way in Ethiopia, as the government pursues the wholesale seizure if indigenous lands to turn them over to dams and plantations for sugar, palm oil, cotton and biofuels run by foreign corporations,...
Gagging the media in Ethiopia [By Graham Peebles]
Suffocating dissent
Nobody trusts politicians, but some governments are more despicable than others. The brutal gang ruling Ethiopia is especially nasty. They claim to govern in a democratic pluralistic manner, they say they observe human rights...
Exposed: “Honorable” Speaker Abadula Gemeda has fake degrees [By Abebe Gellaw]
Addis Voice can reveal that the 4th term speaker of the House of People’s Representatives has bought and used two fake degrees from a bogus university selling non-accredited diplomas online.
”Honorable” Abadula Gemeda, who is the chief...
Ethiopia’s “Odious Debt” to the Odious World Bank [Professor Alemayehu G. Mariam]
Ethiopia as “sovereign deadbeat” state due to debts incurred by the T-TPLF
In my last commentary, The World Bank and Ethiopia’s “Growth and Transformation”, I cryptically observed in passing, “… The USD$600 million is money the...
Ethiopia’s stifled press [Washington post]
By Editorial Board
WHILE ENJOYING its status as an international development darling, Ethiopia has been chipping away at its citizens’ freedom of expression. The country now holds the shameful distinction of having the second-most journalists...
ETHIOPIA : DICTATORSHIP WRESTLED BEFORE DEATH,OPPOSITION PARTY HOPES TO WIN IN THE NEXT ELECTION [diplomat.so]
BY TAJUDIN
Addis Ababa ( DIPLOMAT.SO) – According to some Ethiopian and Eritrean websites , A Week ago, the opposition party Unity for Justice and Democracy (UDJ)- widely known by its Ethiopian name ‘Andenet‘ – was brimming with confidence...
Family’s agony over Upper Holloway dad’s death sentence [Islingtongazette]
Jon Dean
Community rallies round man trapped in Ethiopia
The family of a man trapped in Ehtiopia facing a possible death setnce are desperately trying to get him home as his 60th birthday appraoches.
Andargachew ‘Andy’ Tsege, from Upper...