Jerusalem Post, Israel

компютриUN peacekeepers resupplied their food but were running low on fuel Tuesday after being forced to withdraw all personnel to the Eritrean capital, unable to get permission to cross into Ethiopia, UN officials said.

Tedla Asfaw
August 5, 2007

This is not ordinary August in New York City weather wise it is unusually cool dramatic fall from days of heat and humidity. The race as you heard it was between Haile and Abdi and the Last year Boston Marathon winner from Kenya. Read the rest of this entry »

Yesterday I read on the New York Times two Iranians scholars confessed in
video for being a USA agent in Iran and on another related story few months
ago we heard the British sailors kidnapped by Tehran did the same confession
and now the TPLF kidnappers are telling us that after two years the elected
leaders of Ethiopia apologized may be for winning election and if there is a
contest for the joke of our millennium no one will come close to this one. Read the rest of this entry »

I read Captain Teshome Tenkolu’s ordeal on underground dark room by TPLF fascists and I am still shaken by his 33 pages detail account of his suffering posted on
Ethiomedia. Read the rest of this entry »

VOA Amharic did interview on July 11 with Ato Seye at his home freed from
jail after separated from his family including an 8 month year old child for
six years and Ato Seye’s political future is not yet closed according to
this interview. Read the rest of this entry »

By Issayas Mekuria, Addis Fortune (Addis Ababa)
July 11, 2007

Siye Abraha, former strongman of the TPLF, made his way out of jail on Wednesday, June 11, after spending six years there, accused of involvement in grand corruption. He was released a day after the Federal Supreme Court sentenced him for five years imprisonment and 500 Br fine. Read the rest of this entry »

The Associated Press / July 10, 2007

NEW YORK: Two-time Olympic gold medalist Haile Gebrselassie will compete in New York for the first time in next month’s New York City Half-Marathon next month. Read the rest of this entry »

Tue, 10 Jul 2007 23:38:59

Ethiopian scientists are hoping to fill the gap in understanding human evolution with the discovery of 3 million-year old hominid fossil.

The fossil fragments were unearthed in the Afar desert at Woranso-Mille, near the spot where the famous fossil skeleton known as Lucy, which lived between 3.3 million and 3.6 million years ago, was found in 1974.
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by Stephen Gowan

When Africa scholar Mahmoud Mandani looks at the slaughter and displacement of civilians in Darfur he notices something odd. The mass death of civilians in Darfur has been called a genocide, but slaughters of civilians of similar magnitude in Iraq and on a larger scale in Congo have not. Read the rest of this entry » Posted in blog | No Comments » Ethiopia death call surprises US July 10th, 2007   The opposition blames the violence on the security forces The United States has said it is “surprised” at the call by an Ethiopian prosecutor for the death penalty for 38 opposition leaders. The 38 were found guilty of links to violent election protests in 2005. A US spokesman urged the Ethiopian government and the High Court to “promote much-needed reconciliation” in final sentencing. The US is a close ally of Ethiopia’s Prime Minister Meles Zenawi and helped his forces oust Islamists in Somalia. Ethiopia’s government has always stressed that the courts are independent and denies that the trial is political. Read the rest of this entry » Posted in blog | No Comments » Playing with Fire July 9th, 2007 Tedla Asfaw / July 9, 2007                                                        I was lousy this Monday because of the July heat and tried to catch up with the expected court day drama of July 9 late in the day and my blood almost freezes when I read the BBC headline Ethiopian called for death penalty for the 38 of our CUD leaders. Read the rest of this entry » Posted in blog | No Comments » Ethiopia’s democracy on trial July 9th, 2007       By Elizabeth Blunt BBC News, Addis Ababa The opposition leaders have been in jail for 18 months As they turned up in court, expecting to hear their fate, Ethiopia’s 38 detained opposition leaders put on a show of bravado. The CUD leader and principal accused, Hailu Shewal, flaunted a scarf in the colours of the Ethiopian national flag. One of his colleagues had a ribbon in the national colours tucked into his hatband. Indeed, the lack of any visible sign of regret for what they had done was one of the reasons cited by the prosecutor for demanding the heaviest possible sentences on those convicted - the death penalty. Read the rest of this entry » Posted in blog | No Comments » Ethiopia- ATHLETICS:Gebrselassie not quitting track just yet July 8th, 2007 by ELIAS MAKORI The Nation Publication Date: 2007/07/08 If you thought Haile Gebrselassie is headed to the pensioners’ queue, then think again. Read the rest of this entry » Posted in blog | No Comments »