Ethiopia opposition calls for probe into "massacre"
ADDIS ABABA, June 30 (Reuters) - An Ethiopian opposition party called on Monday for an official probe into what it said was a massacre of 400 women and children in the west of the Horn of Africa nation.
The government, which has put the n (Read more...)
Quarter of Ethiopia AIDS patients have stopped drugs
Text [+] ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) - Over a quarter of Ethiopia's HIV/AIDS patients on drugs are not taking their medicine because of logistical problems but also due to religious beliefs, the head of a treatment body said on Tuesday.
NAIROBI (AFP) -- Former Ethiopian rebel chief Sheikh Ibrahim Abdalla Mah, among the founders of the Ogaden National Liberation Front rebels, died on Sunday in Abu Dhabi at the age of 67, the group said. (Read more...)
Obbo Bulcha Demeksa says Woyanne is a genuine dictatorship
ADDIS ABABA (IPS) - When it was announced last month that the ruling party of Prime Minister Meles Zenawi had swept local polls in this vast Horn of Africa nation, few expressed surprise.
“TPLF/EPRDF; instead of seeking a genuine solution for problems pertaining to nations and nationalities in Ethiopia in line with the constitutional provision, has resorted to opportunistically exploit this same legal framework to sow hatred among th (Read more...)
Satellites confirm Ethiopia destruction, group says
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Satellite images confirm reports that the Ethiopian military has burned towns and villages in the remote Ogaden region of eastern Ethiopia, the American Association for the Advancement of Science reported on Thursday.
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Famine-hit Ethiopia ups army budget
The UN estimates four million people in Ethiopia are at risk of starvation [AFP] The Ethiopian government has announced plans to increase its military budget by $50m to $400m, just one week after it appealed for international help to tackle it (Read more...)
Hunger in Ethiopia now spreading to adults
SHASHAMANE, Ethiopia (AP) — Like so many other victims of Ethiopia's hunger crisis, Usheto Beriso weighs just half of what he should. He is always cold and swaddled in a blanket. (Read more...)
Flash floods kills 25 in Jijiga
ADDIS ABABA, May 30 (Reuters) - Flash floods following torrential rain in Ethiopia's eastern town of Jijiga killed 25 people while they slept, a government official said on Friday.
The underdeveloped area in the Somali region is usually b (Read more...)
Woyanne Faces Credibility Crisis
(OMFEU)Woyanne’s Prime Minister, in the recent address he made to the parliament on 21 May 2008, was compelled to state the position of his government on some of the burning issues in the country that it unsuccessfully tried to shun to publicly addr (Read more...)
Oromo Liberation Front denies responsibility for last week blast
May 29, 2008 — On May 26, 2008, the Ethiopian Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF) dominated regime issued a fabricated statement regarding a minibus blast that occurred on May 20, 2008, in Finfinnee aka Addis Ababa. (Read more...)
Islamic group takes responsibility over Ethiopia’s hotel bombing
May 29,2008 (Ethiopia) —A little known Somalian Islamic group calling itself ‘the Islamist gorilla’ has taken full responsibility over yesterday’s hotel bombing in Oromiya’s region of Negele town.
The group has declared a new Jihad-war ag (Read more...)
Blast in Borana, Negele kills three
ADDIS ABABA, May 28 (Reuters) - An explosion in a hotel in Ethiopia killed three and wounded five in the southern region of Borana, a government official said on Wednesday.
Spokesman Zemedhun Tekle said "terrorists" planted the explosive (Read more...)
Ethiopian court sentences former dictator Mengistu to death
May 26, 2008 (ADDIS ABABA) — Ethiopia’s supreme court on Monday sentenced to death former Marxist ruler Mengistu Haile Mariam, granting a prosecution appeal that argued a life sentence he was given for genocide was unequal to his crimes.
An ongoing clash between neighboring ethnic Gumuz and Oromo leave hundreds dead and thousands displaced in Eastern Wellag of Oromia state. (Read more...)
Three killed in Addis Ababa bomb blast: police
(AFP)Three people were killed and four wounded when a bomb exploded late Tuesday near the Ethiopian foreign ministry in central Addis Ababa, police told state-run radio."Three people died when a bomb exploded on a minibus," federal police official T (Read more...)
Ethiopia ruling party wins polls opposition boycotted
ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) - Ethiopia's ruling party swept local polls largely boycotted by opposition parties who accused the government of intimidating voters and blocking their candidates, results released on Sunday showed.
May 14, 2008 (ADDIS ABABA) — A continued Conflict among Konso and Borena tribes in a remote area in Southern part of Ethiopia has left 36 people dead and over 5,000 residents displaced.
The conflict erupted after Borena tribes, who have b (Read more...)
Ethiopia’s "government" attacks Macha-Tulama, Jimma Ti
Ethiopia’s "government" attacks Macha-Tulama, Jimma Times media & Oromo opposition party:
In an effort to destroy all peaceful Oromo movements and institutions in Ethiopia, the Meles Zenawi Woyane regime is attacking all Oromo civil socie (Read more...)
Oromo rally ends talks with Ethiopian officials in Australia
(13May0 UP to 60 protesters from the Oromo community forced a meeting involving Ethiopian government officials to be cancelled last Tuesday in Footscray. (Read more...)
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UP to 60 protesters from the Oromo community forced a meeting involving Ethiopian government officials to be cancelled last Tuesday in Footscray. (Read more...)