Guardian
March 14, 2010
Bob Geldof demands the heads of reporter and World Service chiefs
It had been a while since Bob Geldof had been seen out, other than on the podiums where he still fetches up to collect awards for his humanitarian work. But last week he was back at his ferocious best, shaking his grey mane [...]
Category Archives: Ethiopia
BBC feels force of Bob Geldof’s anger over arms claim
March 15, 2010 – 8:15 am
Lawyer cautions about Ethiopian Airlines crash reports
March 14, 2010 – 8:37 am
VOA
March 12, 2010
Alula Kebede
An attorney in Seattle sees Lebanese government statements about an incomplete investigation of the crash of Ethiopia Airlines Flight 409 in January as inappropriate.
“Until the final findings of the probe are known, it seems gross speculation for anyone to try to determine what may or may not have happened and to [...]
Gov’t says: human trafficking becomes a matter of grave concern
March 14, 2010 – 8:35 am
Reporter, Ethiopia
March 13, 2010
Kaleyesus Bekele
Human trafficking in Ethiopia has become a matter of grave concern to government authorities.
Zenebu Tadesse, State Minister of the Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs, told The Reporter that illegal traffickers charge citizens looking for employment overseas to transport them through areas bordering Djibouti, Somaliland, Kenya, and Sudan. She added the [...]
Ethiopian Jewry gets its first Haggada
March 12, 2010 – 8:26 pm
Jerusalem Post, Israel
March 12, 2010
RUTH EGLASH
Historic saga will be incorporated into mainstream Pessah story for first time.
The historic saga of Ethiopian Jewry, with its unique traditions and customs, will be incorporated into the mainstream Pessah story for the first time in a new Haggada written by Ethiopian-Jewish history expert Rabbi Menachem Waldman.
Set to reach bookstores [...]
Ethiopian court sentences killer of opposition candidate to 15 years in prison
March 12, 2010 – 8:12 pm
APA
March 12, 2010
Addis Ababa (Ethiopia) An Ethiopian court has sentenced to 15 years imprisonment the convicted killer of an opposition candidate for Ethiopia’s parliamentary election in the May 2010, APA learns here Thursday.
The opposition party candidate, Aregawi Gebre-Yohannes, a member of Arena opposition party was killed 10 days ago at a restaurant he owned near [...]
US Rights Report Lists Ethiopian Opposition Leader as Political Prisoner
March 12, 2010 – 11:09 am
VOA
March 11, 2010
Peter Heinlein
Addis Ababa
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.
The 2009 human rights report says Birtukan Mideksa, president of Ethiopia’s [...]
2009 Human Rights Reports: Ethiopia
March 12, 2010 – 8:48 am
US State Dept.
March 11, 2010
Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor
2009 Human Rights Reports: Ethiopia
Ethiopia is a federal republic led by Prime Minister Meles Zenawi and the Ethiopian People’s Revolutionary Democratic Front (EPRDF) coalition. The population is estimated at 77 million. In the 2005 parliamentary elections, the EPRDF won a majority of seats to remain [...]
Ethiopian to hire consulting firm on data recording machines
March 12, 2010 – 8:21 am
Reporter, Ethiopia
March 6, 2010
Kaleyesus Bekele
Following the controversy over the plane crash investigation process, the management of Ethiopian Airlines is contemplating hiring an international consulting firm that specializes in Flight Data Recorder (FDR) and Cockpit Voice Recorder (CVR) machines, it was learnt.
The Reporter last week reported that the Lebanese authorities had tampered with the CVR’s memory [...]
The BBC’s allegations over Ethiopian aid: what is the truth?
March 11, 2010 – 5:45 pm
New Statesman Blog, UK
March 10, 2010
Nicolas Winer
Nicholas Winer is the former director of Oxfam in Sudan and Ethiopia.
Aid workers must be pragmatic – if food was getting to people, then the money was doing its job.
The food shortage in Ethiopia is still on-going.
I have followed, with a certain incredulity, the recent story put out [...]
East Africa is next hot oil zone
March 11, 2010 – 5:43 pm
UPI
March 10, 2010
NAIROBI, Kenya — 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.
The region, until recently largely ignored by the energy industry, [...]
