Proposed Ethiopia Law Worries Bloggers, Activists
By Marthe van der Wolf/ VOA ADDIS ABABA – For years, the Ethiopian government has been accused of using its anti-terrorism law to crack down on internal political dissent. Now, bloggers and political...
View ArticleETHIOPIA’S DREAM FACES GHANA TEST
Ethiopia’s dream of reaching the U-20 AFCON Zambia 2017, for the first time since 2001, will be tested on Sunday when they entertain Ghana in a Second Round first leg clash in Addis Ababa. Head coach...
View ArticleEthiopia: Making Sense of Dr. Tsegaye Ararssa’s Self-Contradictions (Tedla...
The rationale for this piece: Tedla Woldeyohannes Saint Louis University, Philosophy, Graduate Student | One of the key reasons for my decision to write this piece consists in my desire, which I hope...
View ArticleHow TPLF conned born suckers of the world and who muddied President Obama’s...
Ethiopians continue to wonder; how a small time world recognized terrorist group known as Tigray People Liberation Front (TPLF) pulled the greatest scum in history of Ethiopia. President Barack Obama...
View ArticleEthiopia: How a $1 million Patek Phillipe watch sparked a decades-long dispute
Despite allegations that it was stolen from the Ethiopian Imperial Palace more than 30 years ago, a sequestration order on the timepiece may be lifted in the next weeks. Bloomberg Geneva prosecutors...
View ArticleSOMALILAND POLITICIAN BLAMES ETHIOPIA FOR DELAYED RECOGNITION
By Yohannes Anberbir, Hargeisa, Somaliland Somaliland’s ruling party chairman and potential successor of the sitting president blamed Addis Ababa for delaying Somaliland’s plea for recognition, which...
View ArticleEthiopia: More than 8, 000 people attended the public meeting in Welkait
http://www.satenaw.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/esat-news-may-22-2016_dvd-1.mp4 Ethiopia: More than 8, 000 people attended the public meeting in Welkait
View ArticleDoes Ethiopia Need a Constitution? (Al Mariam)
By Alemayehu G.Mariam The question is NOT if Ethiopia needs a new constitution. The question is, “Does Ethiopia need a constitution?”, since it currently does not have one. The so-called “1995...
View ArticleEthiopian foreign minister wants to be first African WHO chief
By AFP Ethiopian Foreign Minister Tedros Adhanom on Tuesday launched his candidacy to lead the World Health Organization, insisting it was time for an African to occupy the key UN job. “The fresh view...
View ArticleIt is about Time for the Amhara Ethnic Group to Defend itself and Survive!
May 24, 2016 By Kirk Bekele Amhara Region in northwestern Ethiopia. Editor’s Note: For the last 25 years, TPLF has committed unimaginable crime on the Amhara ethnic group. It has expelled Amharas from...
View Article“I TOLD [YOUR PRIME MINISTER] THAT A REAL LEADERSHIP DOESN’T DEPEND ON...
Addis Standard On March 30 – April 1, a group of three EU parliamentarians from the Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats (S&D), the second largest grouping within the European...
View ArticleGet rich or end up in jail; the tale of an Ethiopian intel (Hindessa Abdul)
Convicting an intel After almost three years of proceedings, former head of domestic intelligence at the Ethiopian National Intelligence and Security Service (NISS), Woldeselassie Woldemichael, has...
View ArticleSudan and Eritrea crackdown on migrants amid reports of EU incentives (Kristy...
By Kristy Siegfried Migration Editor Authorities in Sudan have launched a crackdown on Eritrean migrants – arresting those living in the capital, Khartoum, and intercepting hundreds travelling north...
View ArticleHuman Rights and the “Virtue-ization” of Hypocrisy by Barack Obama (Al Mariam)
President Barack Obama and Vietnamese General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong Last week, Barack Obama was in Vietnam preaching the gospel of human rights. He told his tired old story about human rights to...
View ArticleState Terrorism and “Computer Crimes” in Ethiopia – by Alemayehu G Mariam
Smoke and mirrors: The T-TPLF replacing its “anti-terrorism law” with a “computer crimes law”? The Thugtatorship of the Tigrean People’s Liberation Front (T-TPLF) is getting hammered left and right and...
View ArticleNearly 900 Migrants Died in Mediterranean Over Past Week, U.N. Says
Agency repeats call for EU to allow more legal pathways for refugees to reach bloc Migrants are seen on a capsizing boat before a rescue operation by Italian navy ships “Bettica” and “Bergamini” off...
View ArticleAndargachew Tsege’s daughter says “if my father was a white man they would...
Girl, 9, sues the government over Holloway father being held on death row Menabe: ‘They would try harder if my father was a white Englishman’. Right: Andargachew ‘Andy’ Tsege is being held in Ethiopia...
View ArticlePRISON POLICE BRINGS BEKELE GERBA ET.AL TO COURT BAREFOOT, WEARING ONLY...
The police failed to bring Tesema Regasa and 15 others in the same file to the court By Mahlet Fasil / Addis Standard The Addis Abeba prison administration Qilinto prison police have this morning...
View ArticleMuhammad Ali, ‘The Greatest of All Time’, Dead at 74
Heavyweight champion Muhammad Ali stands over fallen challenger Sonny Liston, shouting and gesturing shortly after dropping Liston with a short hard right to the jaw on May 25, 1965, in Lewiston,...
View ArticleEthiopia team doctor to AP: 5 athletes failed for meldonium
By ELIAS MESERET ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia (AP) — Five of the six Ethiopian athletes suspended and under investigation for doping by the country’s authorities tested positive for the newly banned...
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