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By Jennifer Riley Christian Post Reporter |Oct. 23 2006
Christians are being increasingly attacked and murdered by Muslim extremists in Ethiopia as political and religious tension rise in the region, according to a report on Friday. Read more…
andnetwork |October 23, 2006
At least 182 people are known to have died from a diarrhoea epidemic in Ethiopia. This was after floods contaminated wells and rivers. Some 20,000 people have been infected since the outbreak erupted in June. The United Nations is warning that the disease could even spread across the border to Kenya. Read more…
Mr. Foto Bedane Secretary General of the House of Federation defected. Mr. Bedane was part of the Ethiopian parliamentary delegation led by House of Federation Speaker, Degfe Bula who left for Geneva, Switzerland on Friday, 13th October, 2006, to attend the 115th Assembly of the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU). The Assembly meeting took place between 16 ““ 18 October 2006. His predecessor, Samuel Alemayhu, also defected after attending a World Conference of Speakers of Parliament on Sept 7-9, 2005 in New York City.
October 23, 2006: A member of Ethiopia’s Inquiry Commission whose report held Prime Minister Meles Zenawi responsible for massacring 193 civilian Ethiopians last year has fled the country for fear of political persecution.Mitiku Teshome of the Catholic Secretariat in Ethiopia and member of the 10-person Inquiry Commission was one of the eight votes that approved the Meles government had used excessive force to quell protests that erupted following the May 2005 elections rigged by the ruling party in power. Read more…
Mogadishu(AP): A senior leader of Somalia’s Islamic radicals urged Ethiopians yesterday to revolt against their government, which he described as an oppressive regime led by an unpopular minority ethnic group. Read more…
Mogadishu – Somalia’s powerful Islamist movement called on Monday for the start of a threatened “holy war” against Ethiopian troops allegedly on Somali territory, saying their graves would litter the country. However, Bereket Siomn, a minister without portfolio and key ally of Prime Minister Meles Zenawi, told reuters “If they try to overthrow the legitimate government, we will help the government.” Read more…
BRUSSELS: Sun Oct 22,(Reuters) – European Commission aid chief Louis Michel told Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi on Saturday the expulsion of two EU officials from the Horn of African nation endangered EU-Ethiopian relations. “He expressed the strongest regrets of the EC about the way in which the two officials were treated, which appears to have broken the rules governing their diplomatic rights, privileges and immunities,” Michel’s spokesman said in a statement.
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-Calls for immediate release of massacre inquiry report
-Says EU delegation to Ethiopia betrayed Yalemzewd
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October 21, 2006: US congressman Donald M. Payne has condemned the continued human rights violations in Ethiopia and also accused the European Commission delegation to Ethiopia of betraying Ms. Yalemzewd Bekele, who was an employee of the delegation, by asking her to leave her office where she stayed for a few days to avoid arrest by security forces. |
October 21: Addis Ababa - A former Ethiopian official extradited from the United States on Friday has started a life sentence with hard labour for his role in the Red Terror purges of the 1970s.Kelbesa Negeo was a local administrator in the capital Addis Ababa under the Marxist former dictator Mengistu Haile Mariam. Read more…
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution: 10/22/06
A father stands accused of the unthinkable: brutally cutting his daughter’s genitals. The girl was only 2. Khalid Adem, 30, was charged with aggravated battery and cruelty to children more than three years ago and, if convicted, could face 40 years in prison. He was born in Ethiopia, where circumcision is a common procedure for young girls. Read more…
BBC News, UK – Oct 20: The European Union has condemned the expulsion of two EU diplomats from Ethiopia as “totally unacceptable”. Read more…
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Oct. 20 /U.S. Newswire/ — U.S. Rep. Chris Smith (R-NJ) today expressed outrage at the Ethiopian government’s continued silence about the report linking their security forces to nearly 200 deaths during two waves of protests over election results in 2005 and called for immediate passage of his bill to promote human rights and democracy in Ethiopia when Congress reconvenes. |
October 20, (AP): The European Union said Friday two of its diplomats in Ethiopia were expelled and said the lack of an explanation was “totally unacceptable.” Read more…
October 2006: A year after the minority Ethiopian regime unleashed a reign of terror against its own citizens in broad daylight, leading to the death and injury of hundreds, the World Bank lavished millions of dollars in aid on it. Read more…
October 19, 2006 BBC: Ethiopia’s prime minister has for the first time admitted to having soldiers inside Somalia. Meles Zenawi told parliament that he had sent military trainers to help the beleaguered interim government. But he denied sending a fighting force, despite several eyewitness reports of hundreds of troops. Read more…
Globe and Mail October 20, 2006
Five new studies of immigrants of visible-minority background reveal cracks in Canada’s ability to integrate newcomers, undermining the long-held consensus that multiculturalism has been an overwhelming success. The studies, released yesterday at an international conference in Toronto on the role of diasporas, illuminated the many challenges that Afghan, Colombian, Eritrean, Ethiopian and Jamaican diasporas in Toronto face, from racism, social and economic exclusion, to a continued identification with their homeland, instead of with Canada. Read more…
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News 24 | Oct. 18, 2006 Nairobi – Eritrea on Wednesday rejected a United Nations security council call to immediately withdraw troops from a demilitarised buffer zone on its arch-foe, Ethiopia, criticising the world body for ineffectiveness. |
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October 18, 2006 Boston Herald: Ethiopian security forces massacred 193 people -triple the official death toll – during anti-government protests following elections last year, a senior judge appointed to investigate the violence said Wednesday. |
