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Archive for February, 2012

TPL Inc. the ‘aid’ hurdle: commentary nine By Aklog Birara, PhD

February 29th, 2012

“Men’s hearts ought not to set against one another, but set with one another and all against evil today.”
Thomas Carlyle

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ESFNA Dallas

February 27th, 2012
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End Torture in Ethiopia

February 27th, 2012
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Political Prisoners Inside Ethiopia’s Gulags By ALEMAYEHU G MARIAM

February 27th, 2012

The Plight of Andualem Aragie and Other Political Prisoners in Ethiopia

The “Gulag” prison system in the old Soviet Union was infamous for warehousing and persecuting dissidents and opponetns. Read more…

Ethiopia and Syria revisited. By Yilma Bekele

February 25th, 2012

The Syrian regime is killing its own people to save the country from terrorists (Ashebari). The world is watching and keeping score. Thanks to social media such as Twitter and Facebook we are all witnessing this display of total madness safely from our home. Read more…

Top patriot Abichu & his wartime heroic compatriots By Robele Ababya

February 24th, 2012

Safeguarding dignity, liberty and sovereignty

The distinguished young patriot Abichu from Selalle in his twenties and compatriots in his peer group scored magnificent victories in battle fields in northern Ethiopia over Italian Fascist invaders in 1935. Read more…

TPLF Inc. as a ‘silent killer’: commentary eight Aklog Birara, PhD

February 24th, 2012

“Communities need leaders who create a better place to live. Children need leaders who help them reach their potential. Family and friends need leaders who model purpose-driven lives.”
John Maxwell, Leadership for Every Day
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Africa’s Hall of Shame in Addis Ababa By Fekade Shewakena

February 23rd, 2012

The debate on whether Emperor Hailesilassie’s statue deserves to stand along with that of Kwame Nkrumah in front of the newly inaugurated AU headquarters in Addis Ababa Read more…

37 years of the TPLF and the footprints of Meles By Tesfay Atsbeha and Kahsay Berhe

February 23rd, 2012

On 19 February 2012, the official 37th birthday of the TPLF, many people in Tigray have to think of their loved ones as martyrs as every year; it is a day for remembering the loss of about 60 000 young women and men; Read more…

Andinet Party Discussion Forum on the Land Leasing Law

February 20th, 2012

A must watch Video of Andinet Party Discussion Forum On Zenawi’s Land Leasing Policy. Read more…

Lecturer in law/blogger challenges Ethiopia’s public procurement law on grounds of its inapplicability to state agencies By Keffyalew Gebremedhin

February 20th, 2012
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The other day, I came across an interesting article on the Ethiopian Legal Brief, which deals with Ethiopia’s Federal Government Procurement and Property administration Proclamation No.649/2009. Read more…

Deutsche Welle (Ethiopia): A Disgrace to Press Freedom? By Alemayehu G. Mariam

February 20th, 2012

In a memorandum sent to Deutsche Welle’s (DW) [Germany's international broadcaster] “correspondents outside Ethiopia” in late 2010, Ludger Schadomsky, editor-in-chief of DW’s Amharic program, blasted “Ethiomedia and similar sites by extension” as a “disgrace” to press freedom. Read more…

The famous Ethiopian author Sibhat gebregziabher has passed away

February 20th, 2012

Awramba Times (Washington DC):- The famous Ethiopian author Sibhat gebregziabher has died at the age of 84 in the capital Addis Ababa. Read more…

An African Victory, A Powerful Woman, A Racial Truth

February 19th, 2012

Ethiopian Victory Affects the World

Though it may not be noted in every history book, in 1896 the Battle of Adwa took place on the Horn of Africa. Read more…

The Regime is dying, but a new one can’t be born By Elon Samson

February 19th, 2012

There is no better expression more than Antonio Gramsci’s “the old is dying and the new one cannot be born” to express the current political atmosphere in Ethiopia. The regime in Ethiopia is dying: Read more…

Gambella villagization — tidbit of truths slowly emerging in defiance of coverups & falsehoods By Keffyalew Gebremedhin

February 17th, 2012

The objections and criticisms to the resettlement programs in Ethiopia, past and present, are not fostered or designed by someone or a sinister group out there to render Ethiopia squishy because of ideological hostility to the country and its leaders, Read more…

TPLF institutionalization of ethnicity, party and state and the undoing of shared power and resources: commentary seven Aklog Birara, PhD

February 17th, 2012

The pursuit of justice and political pluralism in Ethiopia has been severely compromised deliberately and systematically by the architects of an ethnic polity that is doing irreparable damages to all Ethiopians. Read more…

A call for Responsible Investment in USA and in Africa !!!! ByTedla Asfaw

February 17th, 2012

It was a very educational and activism in its best form on the Fund Raising and Celebration night for Responsible Endowments Coalition (REC) in Manhattan on Feb. Read more…

How long can a patient stay in ICU? By Kiflu Hussain By;Kiflu Hussain

February 17th, 2012
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One of the protagonists portrayed as a pathologist in Arthur Hailey’s book titled “The Final Diagnosis”observed that “the remarkable thing about the human body Read more…

The 13th Timiket Celebration in LA

February 16th, 2012
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