America’s Ally: What’s Next For Ethiopia
Ethiopia is a strong U.S. ally and a regional power in east Africa. Over the last decade, it has pulled millions up from poverty through a combination of economic growth and foreign development assistance. But the country’s ruling party, led by Prime Minister Meles Zenawi, has also brutally suppressed dissent by jailing journalists and political […]
Read More →The Meles Mystery: Has Anyone Seen Ethiopia’s Prime Minister Zenawi – OpEd
By:Â Graham Peebles August 14, 2012 To many Ethiopians the sudden disappearance of Prime Minister Zenawi is a source of joy and excited expectation, for his die-hard supporters apprehension no doubt and concern for their leader. Is he dead they ask, or perhaps critically ill, has he run away, finally overwhelmed by guilt and shame at […]
Read More →New book on Ethiopia details child slavery
A new book published in the United Kingdom has detailed child slavery in Ethiopia. Author Judie Oron, a journalist, had rescued a young Ethiopian Jewish girl from slavery in 1992, paying $111 for the then 17-year-old. Today, that girl, Wuditu, lives a life in freedom, away from the struggles that formed her early years. That […]
Read More →Solar power gets German boost in Ethiopia
ADDIS ABABA: Solar power in Ethiopia is on the rise and a German company is assisting the East African company to make solar power a reality. Berlin-based Solarkiosk has developed a solar powered vending kiosk and it has launched the first units in Ethiopia, as part of the company’s pilot program to bring solar power […]
Read More →HRLHA fears torture in Ethiopia after reported kidnappings, disappearances
The Human Rights League of the Horn of Africa is highly concerned about the safety and whereabouts of two Oromo nationals who were kidnapped and taken away by Ethiopia’s government security agents.                        […]
Read More →Owners of Desta, the Ethiopian Restaurant on Greenville, Shot to Death on the Porch of Their East Dallas Home
Amidst a cluster of Ethiopian businesses near Greenville Avenue and 635 sits Desta, “one of a few restaurants in Dallas with the patience” to make their own injera, the classic Ethiopian spongy bread, as our food critic wrote last year. The owners of Desta were found dead on their porch just after midnight. It’s a process […]
Read More →Imagine flying from New York to London in under an hour
By Mike Mount, CNN Senior National Security Producer Perhaps Han Solo said it best in Star Wars when, describing his hyper-fast smuggling spaceship the Millennium Falcon, he said, “It may not look like much, but it’s got it where it counts.” While the Air Force might take exception to being likened to the Falcon, in […]
Read More →Free Media for Ethiopia Ethiopians to Forgo Food for Freedom of the Press
Ethiopian American Council (EAC) August 11, 2012 Free Media for Ethiopia Ethiopians to Forgo Food for Freedom of the Press Washington, D.C. – Free Media for Ethiopia, an activist group fighting for freedom of the press in that nation on the Horn of Africa, is organizing a 72-hour hunger strike to be held in Lafayette […]
Read More →Ethiopia stadium deal goes to Qatar, Australia consortium
Ethiopia’s to FIFA/Olympic-standard stadium is to be built by a Qatar and Australia consortium, the Doha-based Australian company Designsport said in a statement. The company, in partnership with local Ethiopian architects JDAW, won the bid based on its design for a sunken arena for a new national stadium and sports village in the Ethiopian capital, […]
Read More →Magic Mo-ment! Farah wins gold in the 5,000m to add to his 10,000m crown
Britain’s Mo Farah won his second gold medal of London 2012 with a thrilling victory in the 5,000 metres on the final night of athletics action. Seven days after claiming Britain’s third gold in the space of 45 minutes on ‘Super Saturday’ in the 10,000m, Farah produced another brilliant performance to complete the long-distance double. […]
Read More →