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Underreported: Outsourcing Agriculture

It’s estimated that China will send 1 million farm workers to Africa this year. It’s part of a growing trend of countries outsourcing their food production. On this week’s Underreported, John Parker, Globalization Correspondent for the Economist and Dr. Joachim von Braun, Director General of the International Food Policy Research Institute, look at the impact on the countries where the food is grown, and on the countries where that food is eaten. John Parker's article Outsourcing's Third Wave appeared in the May 21 issue of the Economist

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IEWO Forum’s this coming weekend discussion program.

Sunday the 5th of July our gust will be Prof Mesfin Araya.
Prof Mesfin Araya will be in IEWOForum on Sunday the 5th of July at 10 am Eastern time nd 16 hours in continental Europe.
He will be discussing the present political situation in Ethiopia and the Horn of Africa.

All ethiopians are invited to join IEWO forum in paltalk

 

Ethiopian man shackles girl with dogs for 18 years

Hundreds of women have rallied to demand the death penalty for a man who shackled a girl with dogs for 18 years and abused her, the Ethiopian News Agency (ENA) reported on Friday.Read More...

Russians order Flight Changes, after Massive Magnetic Shift downs Airliners…

To the catastrophic events occurring within the African Tectonic Plate it has been known for over a year with the reporting of a “new ocean” forming in Ethiopia, and as we can read as reported by Nature News Service: Read More...

New eruption in the Afar region of Ethiopia

Thermal anomalies and dense sulphur dioxide plumes in Ethiopia appear to indicate that a significant effusive eruption has taken place in the Manda Hararo area of the western Afar region. There is as yet no visual confirmation of the eruption from the ground. Read More...

 

Us-Installed Puppet “Government” Of Somalia Invites Everybody To Invade

The so-called government of Somalia, an updated version of the government that was installed by U.S.-supported Ethiopian invaders, is now asking American allies in the region to invade the country, again. After losing all but a small patch of Mogadishu, the capital city, to Islamic nationalist forces, the speaker of the foreign-backed parliament called on “Kenya, Ethiopia, Read More...

 

Two shot at Ethiopia church site

Ethiopian police have shot and killed two people who were helping to build a Christian church at a site which is also claimed by Muslims, officials say.Read More...

Ethiopia dismisses Somali threat, violence flares

Ethiopia Wednesday dismissed a threat of invasion from Somalia's hardline Islamist insurgents saying the rebels posed no clear and present danger.Read More...

Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Party Youth League (EPRP YL)

A congress of youth delegates held in Chicago has formed the EPRP Youth League on June 29, 2009. The congress was attended by young delegates from various places while others took part via a teleconference. A special message from the EPRP centre in Addis Ababa was read to the Congress participants.Read More...

Everybody wants Freedom, Nobody wants Responsibility

I am reminded of Diogenes, a beautiful Greek Philospher, mystic- and a mystic of a rare quality. He was a contemporary of Aristotle and he was against Aristotle.Aristotle defined man as an animal with out feathers who walks on two legs. What did Diogenes do ? He caught a peacock, he took out all the feathers and he sent the peacock to Aristotle with the message: " Please receive the gift of a human being. " Read More...

US Looks to Expand Development Aid to Strategic Partner Ethiopia 

The Obama administration is signaling its intention to keep Ethiopia as a key strategic partner, despite concerns about the country's slide toward authoritarianism. The United States is seeking to expand development assistance to the Ethiopian government. Read More...

Reports coming from Chicago

Reports coming from Chicago reveal that the founding congress of the EPRP Youth League has been completed with success on 29 June 2009.  Delegates took part and solidarity messages from Ethiopia and other places were also read to the Congress.  The Congress has approved the League’s draft constitution and structure.  More detail and official communiqué of the youth body will be posted soon.

IEWO Forum’s this coming weekend discussion program.

Sunday the 5th of July our gust will be Prof Mesfin Araya.
Prof Mesfin Araya will be in IEWOForum on Sunday the 5th of July at 10 am Eastern time nd 16 hours in continental Europe.
He will be discussing the present political situation in Ethiopia and the Horn of Africa.

All ethiopians are invited to join IEWO forum in paltalk

Washington Update

Effort to get legislation introduced in the U.S. Congress supporting human rights, democracy and economic development in Ethiopia is moving forward. We expect to be able to report on some successes in the near future. Read More...

 

New Ethiopia law may criminalise opposition - group

A draft Ethiopian law could define criticism of the government as a "terrorist act" and be used to crack down on the opposition if it is passed by parliament, a rights group said on Tuesday. Read More...

In Lieu of Eritrean & Ethiopian Ties

For the most part the following critical issues and their analyses in this article are exclusively relevant to understand how the PFDJ regime has been consistently handling the Eritrean and Ethiopian ties since its days as a guerilla fighter front in the bushes. Read More...

 

Ethiopian church speaks out on Ark of the Covenant

"It is not going to happen so the world has to live with curiosity," said the statement, signed only "Webmaster" in response to the WND inquiry. The webmaster statement described the tempest as being caused either because of a translation mistake or "a slip [of the] tongue from the patriarch."Read More...

Lalibela Church one of The World’s 12 Most Spectacular Houses of Worship

Whether you’re seeking buildings with powerful religious or historical significance, or simply an overwhelming visual experience, here are 12 memorable houses of worship from around the globe: Read More...

 

 

Kenyan security forces accused of torture

Kenyan security forces tortured hundreds of civilians and raped at least a dozen women during a three-day operation to disarm militias in the country's remote northeast last year, a right group claimed Monday.Read More...

Somali rebels threaten violent response to US arms

A radical Islamic group in Somalia has threatened to seize weapons and ammunition the U.S. has supplied to the nation's embattled government.Read More...

Somalia Declares State of Emergency After Intense Fighting

In Somalia, thousands have fled the capital of Mogadishu as government forces continue to fight opposition Islamist fighters. Fierce street fighting over the past month has claimed hundreds of lives. Just last week, bombs killed two lawmakers, the country’s security minister, the police commander of Mogadishu and nearly two dozen civilians. We speak to Somali American writer and human rights activist Sadia Ali Aden. [includes rush transcript]

US says weapons sent to Somalia

The US has confirmed that it has sent weapons to Somalia's UN-backed transitional government.The announcement follows an urgent call for military help from the government, which has been fighting Islamist militias accused of links to al-Qaeda. Read More...

Ethiopia: Foreign travels by government officials restricted

The severe decline of foreign currency reserve and a widening gap in trade balance have been given as the principal reasons that prompted the ministry of finance to take the strict measure, according to the document sent to government ministries, which restricts spending on government travels.Read More...


Meles Goes, Meles Stays -- A Non Issue Diversion

The deceptive regime of Meles Zenawi is adept at fabricating false slogans and fake priorities which it cleverly passes to foreign news medias and agencies. In this vein, it has recently circulated a non issue like the possible stepping down of Meles Zenawi from his post as prime minister and tried to cover up the main point that the coming 2010 election is going to be rigged and false as has been witnessed before. Read More...

Michael Jackson, King of Pop, Dead at 50

Michael Jackson, the self-anointed "King of Pop" who revolutionized music but whose legacy was marred by allegations of child molestation and bizarre behavior, died after suffering cardiac arrest Thursday. He was 50 years old. Read More...

 

Somali Islamists cut off hands, feet of thieves

An Islamic court in Somalia on Thursday cut off a hand and foot from each of four men convicted of stealing phones and guns, drawing hundreds of onlookers as the weeping men were punished at a military camp. Read More...

U.S. Sends Weapons to Help Somali Government Repel Rebels Tied to Al-Qaeda

The United States has sent a shipment of weapons and ammunition to the government of Somalia, according to a U.S. official who said the move signals the Obama administration's desire to thwart a takeover of the Horn of Africa nation by Islamist rebels with alleged ties to al-Qaeda. Read More...

Ethiopia not ruling out troops return to Somalia

Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi has not ruled out sending troops to Somalia if the situation there worsens, but said there are no plans to intervene for now.Read More...

New Times Square art exhibition space opens

New York City has a new exposition center that will primarily launch large-scale, experiential exhibitions.The Discovery Times Square Exposition opens this week with two blockbuster shows. One recounts the poignant story of the Titanic and the other the discovery of the 3.2 million-year-old fossil known as Lucy. Read More...

The Ark, Ethiopia and Jesus’ return

Now, I’m having trouble reading this article translated from Italian to English, but sounds like the Ethiopian Orthodox Patriarch is going to reveal on Friday, in some way, the secret that his country has kept for 2,700 years.And this has the New Wineskins blogger a bit giddy. Because, obviously, this means Jesus is coming home: Read More...

 

Ethno-centric Fascism in Ethiopia

In my opinion, the presence of a fascist force and person commanding absolute political power in Ethiopia is not as adequately debated and discussed as it ought to be. The purpose of this piece is to make a modest contribution to understanding the nature and variant of fascism in Ethiopia and waging an appropriate struggle to abolish it. Read More...

Somalia MPs flee assassinations

Scores of Somali politicians have fled the war-torn Horn of Africa nation in the last month amid escalating clashes.As few as 280 MPs remain, with 250 needed to make a quorum in the 550-seat assembly, based in the capital. Read More...

 

Kenya rejects call for military help in Somali

Somalia's transitional government has the right to request military help from its neighbors against armed militants, the African Union said Monday, but Kenya was quick to reject the idea of sending troops and suggested the AU should spearhead such a move.Read More...

 

Ark of the Covenant to be Revealed in Three Days

[The] Patriarch will make [an] official world announcement next Friday [6/26] at 14:00 hours [CET], from [the] Hotel Aldrovandi in Rome, together with the Prince Aklile Berhan Makonnen Haile Selassie, and Duke Amedeo D’Aosta. Read More...

Aba Diyabilos

Malicious Web Site / Malicious Code: Compromised Site: Embassy of Ethiopia in Washing

Websense® Security Labs? ThreatSeeker? Network has discovered that the official Web site of the Ethiopian Embassy in Washington, D.C., has been compromised with malicious code. The Web site has been injected with obfuscated JavaScript (the code is in an Iframe). The code redirects users to sites that deliver malicious software that is installed without needing any explicit user interaction. The domains hosting these links are being monitored by Websense Security Labs. They currently host malicious files, such as Trojan Downloaders.Read More...

Locusts swoop down on Ethiopia

Crops in large swathes of Ethiopia risk being destroyed by swarms of locusts coming from northern Somalia, the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said Tuesday.Read More...

Haile Selassie

In 1935 Europe's perennial Men of the Years, Stanley Baldwin, Benito Mussolini, Joseph Stalin, Adolf Hitler, Kamal Ataturk and Dr. Eduard Benes held undiminished sway. The outstanding exhibition of the century in French political tight-rope walking was given in 1935 but as the year entered its last hours the fate of Premier Pierre Laval, 1931's Man of the Year, continued to tiptoe. In Asia practical control of North China was obtained by Japan in 1935 so adroitly and inconspicuously that it was a major Japanese triumph to have avoided producing a Man of the Year. Read More...

Ethiopia's Zenawi aims to become exception

On the surface of it the announcement by the leader of Africa's second most populous nation that he wanted to stand down before the next election ought to be a cause for celebration.Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi said he has "had enough" after 18 years in power and called on the rest of his generation of leaders to follow him through the exit door. Read More...

Ethiopia Says World Bank to Blame for Power Blackouts

Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi said the World Bank and international donors share the blame for nationwide power cuts that led the government to trim its economic growth forecast. Read More...

Ethiopia and Zenawi’s gangster capitalism

A couple of weeks ago, Sebhat Nega, the man who is credited to be the father of the Tigray People’s Liberation Front, flew to Washington DC to inspect whether the VOA Amharic service can join the self-congratulatory band of the tyrannical regime. In the course of his mission, he told VOA Amharic listeners that he was disappointed with the performance of VOA Amharic section which he referred to as a stable for dissidents. Read More...

World Refugee Day The Plight Of Ethiopian Refugees Worsens

The deplorable human rights situation and the economic crisis have led to the increase in the number of Ethiopian refugees. Hundreds have perished this year alone trying to reach Italy or Yemen. Thousands of young women have also been trafficked to the Middle East and Europe to face a precarious existence as refugees/sex workers. Read More...

Ethiopia troops 'return to Somalia'

Ethiopian troops have reportedly crossed into neighbouring Somalia after it made a plea for foreign troops to help it battle opposition fighters seeking to overthrow the government. Somalia's parliamentary speaker made the request on Saturday after several days of heavy fighting in the north of the capital, Mogadishu.Read More...

Ethiopia confirms first cases of H1N1

Ethiopia has confirmed its first cases of H1N1 flu virus, Health Minister Tewedros Adhanhom said on Friday.It was the second country after South Africa to report the deadly flu.Read More...

 

Washington update, June 19t h, 2009

The new Congress in Washington is just now showing renewed interest in human rights legislation on Ethiopia.  Our sources on Capital Hill tell us that their Congressional contacts are reporting continuing contacts from Ethiopians and Ethiopian-Americans urging action to help bring human rights to Ethiopia.Read More...

Behind the Suicide Bomb in Somalia

Weeks of heavy fighting in Somalia took an even deadlier turn Thursday when a suicide bomber drove a car full of explosives into the front of a hotel in the west of the country, killing Somalia's national security minister, a former ambassador and at least 20 others. Somalia's extremist Islamist militia, al Shabaab, said it carried out the attack. Read More...

Somalian car bomb kills security minister, 22 others

Reporting from Mogadishu, Somalia, and Nairobi, Kenya -- Islamic insurgents killed Somalia's top security minister and 22 other people today in a suicide car-bomb attack at a hotel frequented by government officials. Read More...

 


An Open letter to Ato Mersha Yoseph

VOA (voice of America) on June 13 - a day of reckoning - broadcasted an interview with two veteran members of EPRP leadership.The interview by Tizta Belechew was poignantly straightforward. Here are the two main points of contention. Read More...

UN 'runs out of aid for Ethiopia'

The UN has warned that it has run out of food to provide for nine million Ethiopians who rely on its assistance. A UN spokesman told the BBC the port of Djibouti was seriously congested and there was little prospect of supplies arriving for the next five months. Read More...

 

13-Year-Old Ethiopian Squash Player Shines At Ioc Presentation

Today marked a crucial step for the sport of Squash in its bid for inclusion in the Olympic Games from 2016.  A team of six Squash representatives made their most important presentation so far to the International Olympic Committee (IOC) Executive Board in Lausanne, Switzerland. But it was the youngest member of the group, 13-year-old Hanna Fekede Balcha, who was the star of the show.Read More...

Ethiopia-2007/2008 Human Development Report

The HDI for Ethiopia is 0.406, which gives the country a rank of 169th out of 177 countries with data (Table 1).Each year since 1990 the Human Development Report has published the human development index (HDI) which looks beyond GDP to a broader definition of well-being. The HDI provides a composite measure of three dimensions of human development: living a long and healthy life (measured by life expectancy), Read More...

Ethiopia – Born Again Politicians

‘Born Again’ type of political manipulation is usually borrowed from the churches, where the pastors and mullah rabbis are specialized in providing fake emotion to their masses of Believers. The newly crafted G7’s born again politicians are trying hard relentlessly to the extent of turning Afewarki’s messages to Ethiopians filled with concocted crocodile tears in full display. Read More...

 

Accused Ethiopia Plotters Ask for Protection

A group charged with conspiracy to overthrow Ethiopia's government has asked a court for special protection, alleging their human rights have been violated during detention.  Our correspondent reports relatives say some defendants have been tortured. Read More...

Denounce The Torture And Mistreatment Of Prisoner

The charade of the kangaroo court of the ruling EPRDF is in full swing. Citizens accused of plotting assassination and other terror actions are being parade before State controlled judges who trample on due process as a matter of routine. Read More...

Ethiopian Police Arrest Coffee Exporters for ‘Hoarding’ Beans

Ethiopian police arrested and charged six managers from coffee exporting companies accused of “hoarding” the beans earlier this year, a manager with one of the companies said. Read More...

From Georgia to Ethiopia: the Fight against Blinding Trachoma

The Atlanta-based Carter Center has been fighting neglected tropical diseases like river blindness and guinea worm all over the world. In our week-long series "From Georgia to Ethiopia", WABE's Odette Yousef focused on the Center's fight against another disease, called "trachoma." Trachoma is the leading cause of preventable blindness in the world... and the most affected country is Ethiopia. Read More...

Defenders of TPLF: The Mighty Opportunists

After two decades, the camps of TPLF, which were once bustling quarters of thousands of celebrating ‘Tagayoch’ and ‘Bandawoch’ have finally began turning into deserted barracks. The flocking army of the mindless, greedy and selfish loyalists who defended every action and policy of TPLF have become less visible in the Media and political forums that they once used to invade. Read More...