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Just Out Of Jail, Ethiopian Leader Brings A Sharp Message To Obama [Michele Kelemen,NPR]
Just a few months ago, Bekele Gerba was languishing in a high security Ethiopian jail, hearing the cries of fellow prisoners being beaten and tortured. Now, the 54-year-old foreign language professor is in Washington, D.C., for meetings...
UN says 4.5m Ethiopians will need aid after rains fail
Aljazeera
UN says numbers who will require food aid by end of this year has surged by more than 1.5 million after failed rains.
The number of Ethiopians who will need food aid by the end of this year has surged by more than 1.5 million from...
From the archive, 24 August 1974: Ethiopia's fallen aristocrats
theguardian
The radicals are pressing for a French Revolution-style solution – a mass execution of the aristocracy
Addis Ababa, December 1974: Ethiopia’s Derg leaders, who deposed emperor Haile Selassie in September 1974....
Ethiopian Bloggers in Kangaroo (Monkey) Kourt [Professor Alemayehu G. Mariam]
Kangaroo/monkey kourt (in)justice T-TPLF style
Last week, young Ethiopian bloggers collectively known as “Zone 9 Bloggers” (named after a cell block holding political prisoners at the infamous Meles Zenawi Kality Prison, a few...
IN ETHIOPIA, RUNNING FROM SEXUAL ABUSE [BY HANNAH BORENSTEIN]
OZY
Tucked in a lush valley surrounded by mountains, Yaya Village is nothing short of a runner’s mecca. There’s a four-star resort complete with a 3,500-square-foot gym and access to physiotherapists, not to mention meals “optimized for...
Osama bin Laden's son Hamza 'calls for attacks on the West' [The Telegraph]
Al-Qaeda claim a message calling for attacks on London and other western cities comes from Hamza bin Laden
By David Lawler, Washington
Al-Qaeda has released a message, purportedly from Osama bin Laden’s son Hamza, calling for attacks...
Ethiopia: Our Need for Unity in Divinity Facing Adversity![Professor Alemayehu G. Mariam]
The Thugtatorship of the Tigrean People’s Liberation Front (T-TPLF) has been pursuing a systematic program of religious persecution and fomenting religious antagonisms in Ethiopia for quite some time.
After the T-TPLF seized power in 1991,...