Murder And Kidnapping In Harar And Dire Dawa

Reliable reports reaching SOCEPP have confirmed that the special security forces and Death Squads of the Meles Zenawi regime are on a rampage in Eastern Ethiopia (Harar,Dire Dawa,Jijiga,etc) kidnapping an killing  citizens linked to opposition movements

America's First War in Africa. US AFRICOM Launches Large-Scale Offensive In Somalia

Over 43 people have been killed in the Somali capital of Mogadishu in two days of fighting between Shabab (al-Shabaab) insurgent forces, who on March 10 advanced to within one mile of the nation’s presidential palace, and troops of the U.S.-backed Transitional Federal Government. The fighting has just begun.

For Conquest or Conversion?

The title seems a bit odd and perhaps ambiguous. Yes, the word ADWA has a double meaning; you guessed it right.The question is whose side are you on?

 

East Africa is Next Hot Oil Zone

East Africa is emerging as the next oil boom following a big strike in Uganda's Lake Albert Basin. Other oil and natural gas reserves have been found in Tanzania and Mozambique and exploration is under way in Ethiopia and even war-torn Somalia.

Billionaires and Mega-Corporations Behind Immense Land Grab in Africa

Ethiopia is one of the hungriest countries in the world with more than 13-million people needing food aid, but paradoxically the government is offering at least 7.5 million acres of its most fertile land to rich countries and some of the world's most wealthy individuals to export food for their own populations.

U.S. report accuses Eritrea of systematic abuses

The United States has intensified its criticism of Eritrea, saying the Red Sea state systematically abuses human rights and is a destabilizing influence in the Horn of Africa

Egyptian guards seriously wound Ethiopian trying to cross into Israel

Egyptian border guards on Friday shot and seriously wounded an Ethiopian migrant trying to cross illegally into Israel, and arrested seven others, police said. Egypt has been under mounting international pressure to both secure its border with Israel and to stop using lethal force to stop migrants from crossing the border illegally.

Looking for land in a hungry country

Wealthy developed nations are eyeing up land in some of the world’s poorest countries in order to feed their own. It sounds like good news for local economies but how can people in places like Ethiopia be sure they’re getting a fair deal? Coco McCabe reports.

Real-life drama

On stage in the Ethiopian capital, Addis Ababa, Mestihet Temane, 27, enacts the story of how, after the death of her parents, a young woman winds up alone on the streets with no money, no confidence and no support. "Sometimes I cry when I'm singing and so do a lot of the people listening," she told IRIN/PlusNews.

Somalia: US backs puppet government’s planned military offensive

The United States’ military is working closely with its Somali counterparts in planning a major offensive against Islamist militias who control the bulk of the country, including almost all of the capital, Mogadishu.

US Rights Report Lists Ethiopian Opposition Leader as Political Prisoner

The U.S. State Department's annual human rights reports says Ethiopia is holding several hundred political prisoners, including the leader of one of the country's largest opposition parties. Ethiopia has reacted strongly to past U.S. criticisms of its rights record.

Shapoorji, Ethiopia ink 50,000ha land deal

The 140-year old construction firm, Shapoorji Pallonji and Co. Ltd, on Tuesday signed an agreement with the government of Ethiopia to take on lease up to 50,000ha of land to cultivate pongamia pinnata—a feedstock for biodiesel—in its first major step to expand its fledgling renewable energy business.

Eritrean pleads not guilty to aiding terrorists

Evidence collected by the United States against an East African charged with providing support to a Somali terrorist organization linked to al-Qaida includes lengthy statements he made to authorities, a prosecutor told a judge Tuesday.

Stop Covering Up The Crimes Of The Meles Zenawi Cabal

The Meles Zenawi regime is presently using food aid donated for 14 million famine victims to further its political aims--insisting that the starving be a member of the front to get any food aid. The situation has been exposed and condemned but there is hardly a pip being heard from the donor countries.

Denounce The Brutal Murder Of Aregawi G/Yohannes

The father of six children, Aregawi Gebre Yohannes (39), was brutally murdered by a six man death squad member belonging to the ruling Tigrai People's Liberation front (TPLF). Aregawi was a member of the legal opposition MEDREK coalition.

Egyptian guards catch three Ethiopian migrants at Israeli border

Al-Arish, Egypt - Egyptian border guards caught three Ethiopian migrants trying to cross illegally into Israel on Monday, police told the German Press Agency dpa. Egypt has recently been under mounting international pressure both to secure the border but also to stop shooting migrants trying to sneak across it.

Life without Internet in Ethiopia

For the first time in over ten years, I spent the night without Internet access. Ten years of working in remote parts of Mongolia, Vietnam, Palestine, Indonesia, and other small and developing countries, and in March 2010 I finally hit the access wall. My hotel in Addis Ababa does not have Internet access. And not a single WiFi or wireless connection available nearby.

How food and water are driving a 21st-century African land grab

An Observer investigation reveals how rich countries faced by a global food shortage now farm an area double the size of the UK to guarantee supplies for their citizens We turned off the main road to Awassa, talked our way past security guards and drove a mile across empty land before we found what will soon be Ethiopia's largest greenhouse.

March 8 : Struggle Of Ethiopian Women Continues

Every New Year has brought more disaster to the people of Ethiopia and it is none other than women who have been forced to bear the brunt of the dictatorship. 2010 has not brought any improvement in the sad plight of Ethiopian women whose rights continue to be trampled upon by a chauvinist regime that pays lip service to rights and equality while pursuing an all round
repressive politics.

Justifiable Concerns over Ethiopia’s Reckless Farmland Deals

Mafa Chipeta, FAO´s representative in Ethiopia, told the Washington Post that the Ethiopian Government is allowing Ethiopia to be used like an “empty womb” by foreign investors, an action which “the human spirit would not allow it.”  His statement is a stern warning that EPRDF is trading away Ethiopia’s best land for one time investments.  The deals are so reckless and void of concerns for human rights violation of tens of thousands of poor farmers who have been displaced from their farmlands without any compensation and means to generate income for their livelihood.  

On the trail of Ethiopia aid and guns

Images of the famine in Ethiopia moved millions of people around the world to reach in to their pockets and donate to international aid efforts. But as Martin Plaut has been discovering, there is a disturbing allegation few would choose to confront.

Ethiopia famine aid 'spent on weapons'

The investigation found claims that a rebel movement in Ethiopia diverted the aid to fund its attempt to overthrow the government of the time. Rebel soldiers said they posed as merchants as "a trick for the NGOs". Documents released by the CIA confirmed aid was "almost certainly being diverted for military purposes".

Ethiopian Opposition Parliamentary Candidate Killed

An Ethiopian opposition candidate was stabbed to death by six unidentified men in an attack described by government opponents as part of an intimidation campaign by the ruling party ahead of elections in May.

Ethiopia Opposition Rethinks Election Campaign After Candidate Killed

Ethiopia's main opposition bloc is reconsidering whether to contest the May parliamentary elections following brutal attacks on two candidates, one of them fatal. Opposition leaders are blaming Ethiopia's ruling party for inflaming passions in the tense Tigray region, where the attacks occurred.

Socepp Condemns Railroading Of 153 People In Negele Borena

The Meles Zenawi regime has jailed close to 200 people in Negele Borena region since November 2009 and has now charged 153 on the basis of the so called anti terror law, a repressive legislation giving the authorities carte blanche to charge and imprison any one.

Adoption watchdog suppresses Ethiopia findings

A powerful international adoption overseer is refusing to release the results of its inquiry into the disturbing activities of American adoption agencies operating in Ethiopia. The inquiry was launched after ABC TV's Foreign Correspondent exposed deep and dangerous flaws in the system.

Who said we need election ?

I am not a fan of a strong man of Eritrea, Isaias Afeworki, and I did not show up on the Feb.24 demonstration in Washington D.C. to denounce the USA sponsored sanction against Eritrea. One thing I agree with Isaias Afeworki is his stand on election. He never believes in election like his neighbor TPLF led Ethiopia. On many interviews he told us that such election is a waste of resources and lives as we saw five year ago in May 2005 in Ethiopia.

Tension high at Kenya,Ethiopia border

Security personnel were on Sunday deployed to the Kenya-Ethiopia border following the death of a senior policeman. Merille bandits are said to have shot the General Service Unit Chief Inspector on Friday evening

UK provides £20mln for Ethiopia’s emergency food

According to UN relief wing OCHA, the number of people in Ethiopia who will need food assistance this year has risen to 5.2 million, an increase of several hundred thousand from estimates released just two months ago by United Nations relief agencies and the Horn of Africa nation’s Government.

'Dead Aid'

Dambisa Moyo’s ‘Dead Aid’ fails in its attempt  to provide a radical critique of ‘aid’, because of Moyo’s unwilingess  to conduct it within the framework of political economy, says Samir  Amin. ‘The politics of aid, the choice of its beneficiaries, the forms  of intervention and its immediate objectives are inextricably linked to geopolitical considerations’, says Samir Amin, yet Moyo does not speak to or critique ‘the central role of aid in the strategy of domination, pillage and exploitation by imperialist capital. Neither does she address the need for a “different aid” based on the solidarity of peoples.’

Somalia: Troop surge in support of US-backed puppet government

Somalia’s neighbours Ethiopia and Kenya are key client states of Washington in the region, and it is inconceivable that the Obama administration is not party to the planned offensive. The web site Stratfor, which has close links to the US government, has discussed the plans in what the American ruling elite considers a geopolitically strategic part of the world.

San Jose to welcome Migration of Beauty

The Stanford Ethiopian Forum (SEF), a non-partisan group aiming to encourage dialogue among Ethiopians, announced that Migration of Beauty will be screened in San Jose on Sunday, March 7 to be followed by another screening in Oakland and Stanford University. 

Israel accused of dooming Ethiopian baby boom

A feminist movement has accused the Israeli government of adopting a racist policy towards the country's Ethiopian Jews. Activists believe black women are deliberately being given a controversial contraceptive drug to bring about a drop in the population – a claim the government denies. Thousands of Ethiopians have immigrated to Israel since the 1980s, but their Jewish heritage has been questioned, while their social status continues to suffer.

Egypt Police Kill Migrant At Israel Border

Egyptian police shot and killed an Ethiopian migrant Tuesday, injured two others and arrested 10 as they tried to cross the Egyptian-Israeli border, medical and security sources said.

Young amputee returns to Ethiopia armed for independence

Abayneh lost his arms three years ago in a train accident, and afterward his mother was unable to work outside the home because she had to do everything for him — from helping him bathe to feeding him, said Deanne Gillock, one of the missionaries who found him in Ethiopia. Abayneh was unable to go to school because there were no programs for disabled students.

The Great Confusion - The Poverty of Development Economics

The reorganization of the world economy after the Second World War and the emergence of the United States of America as a super power have undoubtedly influenced the forms of social and economic organizations in many Third World countries.

Egypt to build dams in Ethiopia

At a meeting in Cairo with representatives of Nile Basin countries on Sunday,  Minister of Water Resources and Irrigation Mohamed Allam announced that Egypt had agreed to build several small dams in Ethiopia with the aim of generating electricity.

President Isaias Afwerki Talk To Al Jazeera

Al Jazeera's Jane Dutton conducts a rare interview with Isaisas Afwerki, the president of Eritrea. Al Jazeera confronted him with the allegations about Eritrea's ties with Iran, Hamas, al Shabab in Somalia and rebel groups in Sudan and Houthis in Yemen.

Ecuador says Iran ties landed it on laundering list

The Financial Action Task Force (FATF), comprised of governments and regional organizations, named Ecuador this week alongside Iran, Angola, North Korea and Ethiopia as nations failing to comply with international regulations against money-laundering and financing terrorism.

Africa's Land and Family Farms - Up for Grabs?

Over the years many Big Ideas have been imposed on Africa from outside. The latest is that the region should sell or lease millions of hectares of land to foreign investors, who will bring resources and up-to-date technology. None of the blueprints has worked, and African farmers have become increasingly impoverished. It is time for Africans to turn to their own histories, knowledge and resources.

Task Force Warns Anew on Terrorist Funding From Iran

The task force report cited several other countries for “deficiencies” in their financial dealings and failure to commit to action plans to address them. The countries include Angola, North Korea, Ecuador and Ethiopia

Eritrean rebels say killed 17 intelligence agents

An Eritrean rebel group said on Wednesday it had killed 17 intelligence agents in a strike against a government increasingly painted as a pariah state by African and Western powers.

Repression In Gambela Reported

The call for the boycott of the May 2010 already rigged election is getting wide spread approval from the people at large and an incensed regime is stepping up its repression to break this movement. Previous reports have indicated that government cadres have been going from home to home even in Addis Abeba to force people to register "or else".

Gunmen stop Ethiopia candidates registering-group

Ethiopia's main opposition coalition said on Wednesday that some of its candidates were being prevented at gunpoint from registering for national elections in May.

35 years of the TPLF and 34 years of MelesThe Tyranny of a Traitor

Meles was one of those people who in 1975 went to start an armed struggle in Tigray, but who on his way to a military training of the EPLF fled from Asmara without informing his “friends” like Seeye and Aw-alom. Despite his untrustworthy behaviour (which was covered up by the leadership clique of the TPLF), Meles was not only allowed to rejoin the TPLF after some months but also promoted to a deputy leadership of the Front in 1976.

Eritrea – Pushing the Panic Button to Its Peaks

As I write, aware of the impending demise of Afewarki and his military Junta’s dictatorship, PFDJ-henchmen including Ali Abdu, Minister of Information, Yemane Gebreab, Head of the Political Affairs (PFDJ),  and Teame “Mekele” a member of PFDJ are said to be in  Frankfurt, Germany at the Innside Premium Hotel Niederrand.

CPJ urges Ethiopia's Zenawi to pursue press reforms

We are writing to draw your attention to conditions that undermine press freedom as guaranteed in Article 29 of the Ethiopian Constitution. We would welcome your leadership in furthering reform by working for the repeal of draconian provisions in recent antiterrorism and media legislation.

Child: U.S. Adoption Agency Bought Me

CBS News investigation has discovered that growth has turned Ethiopia into fertile ground for child trafficking - a country in which some American agencies and their staff engage in highly questionable conduct.

Ethiopian Factories Ordered to Halve Power Use, Capital Reports

Ethiopia’s state-run power utility, the Ethiopian Electric Power Corp., has ordered factories in the country to halve energy consumption following the collapse of a tunnel that halted production at the country’s largest power plant, Capital reported.

Lebanon hands over bodies of 10 foreign victims of Ethiopian airlines crash

Lebanon on Saturday handed over the bodies of 10 foreign victims killed in last month’s Ethiopian plane crash. Ethiopian Airlines flight ET409, bound for Addis Ababa, crashed into the Mediterranean Sea on January 25 shortly after take-off from Beirut’s Rafik Hariri International Airport. All 83 passengers and seven crew are presumed dead. 

The Missing Link Footprints of Assimba and Wallelign, II

In the 1970s, the educated class of M’huran and Tsinhate M’huran collided head on ideological as well as on the political agendas for Ethiopia. But for the average man or woman, there was no difference between these two concepts – ideology & politics.

"Ze Follies" Of Africa

From the son of Zenawi to Zuma, the follies of Africa are indeed the presidents and prime ministers, the power mongers and corrupt officials staining the face of our beloved continent. Some are funny, most are not but they all add up to spell folly and destruction for Africa, It is evident I prefer Juma to Meles Zenawi, the goat faced tyrant who runs an ethnic discriminatory politics making some 80 million Ethiopians suffer.

“Code of Conduct”

The document was carefully outlined, arranged and put together by the regime. And the participants signed the document to behave, act, and comply with the rules and regulations of TPLF/EPRDF. Regrettably, though it is an unfortunate episode that caused public outrage allover, and brought shame on the signatories themselves and members and supporters associated with them.

My Simple Views on Ethnic-Based Political Organizations and Their Proponents

With this understanding, I believe ethnic-based political parties in Ethiopia should not be given any support while functioning under this label, even though they may appear providing significant challenge to TPLF.  They should, however, be encouraged and helped to change their objectives and activities along with their names to those with national appeals

Torture Shames America Itself Protesting The Injustice Against Binyam Mohamed

Ethiopian born British citizen, Binyam Mohamed, was arrested by Americans in Pakistan and then taken to Morocco, one of the countries where the CIA runs secret prisons. The British MI5 was fully aware of this fact. The guilt of Binyam was never proven and his long detention and suffering was illegal and a travesty of justice. A report follows:

 

ከአቶ ገ/መድህን አርአያ የቀድሞ ወያኔ ሀርነት ትግራይ ከፍተኛ ባለስልጣን ጋር የተደረገ ቃለ መጠይቅ (ክፍል አንድ ፤ ክፍል ሁለት) መደመጥ ያለበት