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(Audio) Deutsche Welle: Plight of Ethiopians in Sudan

Sudanese government is harassing Ethiopian refugees says a report by the German news radio, Deutsche Welle.



BBC Pictures: Ethiopia's Impending Famine




Olympic Rookie Going for Gold

Tsegaye Kebede’s rise to the top level has shocked the athletics community in Ethiopia. He has only been training seriously for less than two years, yet...



WJC To Visit Ethiopia Next Week

Former US president Bill Clinton, starting next week, will visit Ethiopia, Rwanda, Liberia and Senegal, to promote new programs by his Foundation.

-Paper publishes Obama Western Wall prayer
-VIDEO: In Berlin, Obama Urges Joint Fight Against Terror

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Obama Speaks to Berliners

Barack Obama looked more like a rock star than a politician yesterday at Berlin’s Tiergarten Park, where he spoke to a crowd of tens of thousands of roaring fans waving American flags.


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The new is not yet born: The battle for African democracy


 

Unfreedom in Ethiopian Universities


Steven Friedman

 

What is happening now, in Africa, is that Africans are trying, more effectively than ever before, to win the right to govern themselves, to ensure that leaders lead because the people put them there and stay only as long as the people want them. (More...)

Professor Alemayehu G. Mariam

 

The recent history of academic freedom and free intellectual inquiry in Ethiopian higher education is deeply scarred by political interference, political correctness, arbitrary purges of professors, harassment and persecution of faculty and students, and general intellectual repression. (More...)


New Media Law, New Threat to Press Freedom


 

Ethiopia’s political landscape worrying


IPS

 

The new Ethiopia media law, analysits say, clears the way for the government to continue to harass and persecute the messenger when the message is not in line with the whims of the rulers. (More...)

MICHAEL DEIBERT

 

Observers contend that this year’s ballot was even more compromised than the 2005 vote. Opposition parties were only able to register some 16,000 candidates due to obstacles placed in their path by the country’s electoral council. (More...)



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Ethiopia's Olympic delegation to Rome 1960 (Picture - tessemas.net)


At the 1960 Olympics in Rome-Italy, Abebe Bikila (seen here far right) broke the marathon world record running barefoot, winning Ethiopia's first ever Olympic medal. He was also the first athlete representing an African nation to win the gold. He repeated the performance in Tokyo four years later.

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