April 15, 2013 (Survival International) — Three independent reports have warned that the controversial Gibe III dam, and land grabs for plantations, risk imminent ‘catastrophe’ …
Read More »Aid agencies turn blind eye to ‘catastrophe’ in Ethiopia
Female Eritrean Air Force Captain Defects to Saudi Arabia
April 9, 2013, Addis Ababa Sudan Tribune) — A female Eritrean Air Force pilot has defected to Saudia Arabia where she is seeking political asylum in Saudi …
Read More »Wikileaks on Tadesse Birru and early days of the OLF
(OPride) — The whistleblowing website WikiLeaks has just published 1,707,500 U.S. diplomatic and intelligence documents from 1973 to 1976. While most of the latest documents have already …
Read More »Ethiopia: Dictator Meles Foundation Launched
April 6, 2013 (All Africa) – The inaugural meeting of Meles Foundation opened this morning (April 6) at the African Union Hall. The meeting is attended …
Read More »China calls for calm on Korean peninsula
All parties involved in the Korean Peninsula must remain calm and be careful not to provoke each other. The call comes from China, the only …
Read More »The TPLF variant on apartheid; Majority of the prisoners are racially Oromo
By Dawit Fanta |April 3, 2013 From the outset TPLF defines itself as a liberator for one specifically racially defined group. And still after two …
Read More »North Korea Reportedly Entering ‘State Of War’ Against South Korea: KCNA
North Korea announced early Saturday morning that it was entering a “state of war” against South Korea, its state-run news service reported, hours after …
Read More »Prisoners of conscience in Ethiopia
Independent journalists in Ethiopia face grave threat of imprisonment if they criticise the state or its laws. Birtukan Mideksa is a fellow at Harvard University’s …
Read More »Ethiopian Foreign Minister fled the scene on foot
Ethiopian Foreign Minister, Warlord Tedros Adhanom’s 30 meters sprint to a waiting car after being separated from his body guards during scuffle with refugees must …
Read More »Karuturi to Borrow From Sovereign Fund After First Ethiopia Crop
March 28, 2013 (Bloomberg BusinessWeek) –Karuturi Global Ltd. (KARG), the world’s largest rose grower, said it will borrow more than $100 million from a sovereign …
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