News - Ethiopia
Wednesday, August 27th, 2008
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ADDIS ABABA (AFP) — The Ethiopian Olympic team arrived home to a hero's welcome Wednesday, as thousands of ecstatic fans lined up the capital's streets to greet the track stars.
The team, led by double gold medallists Kenenisa Bekele and Tirunesh Dibaba, was greeted by Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi ...
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Tuesday, August 26th, 2008
APA - Ethiopia has established a national committee to welcome its Olympic athletes from Beijing.
The national committee is established by the Ethiopian Ministry of Youth and Sports, together with the Ethiopian Athletics Federation and the Ethiopian Olympic Committee.
Accordingly, the national committee will organize a special welcome ceremony for ...
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Monday, August 25th, 2008
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Capital - The National Electoral Board of Ethiopia (NEBE) has issued a certificate of accreditation to the latest national political party, Unity for Democracy and Justice (UDJ).
In its ordinary session held on Friday August 22, 2008, the Electoral Board decided to issue accreditation after it examined that UDJ ...
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Thursday, August 21st, 2008
The Financial Times
Ethiopia has blasted Somalia’s political leaders for getting bogged down in ”internal squabbles” while millions of Somalis live on the brink of a humanitarian disaster in a country that remains violent and ungoverned.
Thousands of Ethiopian troops invaded Somalia at the end of 2006 to reinstall an interim government ...
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Thursday, August 21st, 2008
21 August 2008 – Under a draft law, Ethiopia could see severe restrictions on civil society and even closures of organisations working on contentious issues, such as human rights and governance, cautions CIVICUS: World Alliance for Citizen Participation in a recent analysis.
“We appeal to the government to stop the introduction ...
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Wednesday, August 20th, 2008
Rosemary Righter
It was at a railway crossing near Diri Dawa, the provincial capital in the Ethiopian Ogaden desert, that I saw them: small children's hands, blackened by sun, clutching at the slats of a cattle truck dumped on a siding. The year was 1984, the height of the Ethiopian famine ...
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Tuesday, August 19th, 2008
Amharic Article - Addis Admass
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Tuesday, August 19th, 2008
KHARTOUM, Sudan, (UPI) -- Additional Ethiopian troops arrived in Sudan Monday, deployed to support U.N. security efforts in the violent Darfur region.
Officials say 116 Ethiopian troops arrived Monday in Sudan, joining the more than 200 Ethiopian forces who have arrived since Saturday, according to a release from the U.N. Office ...
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Friday, August 15th, 2008
By Dr. Seid Hassan
Murray State University,
Professor of Economics and Finance
I. Introduction
Lately, especially after EPDRF’s realization of its defeat during the 2005 election and the rejection of its policies by the people of Ethiopia, some of its representatives and cadres have began advancing an idea, possibly concocted up at the ...
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Thursday, August 14th, 2008
The following is a 13 August 2008 International Press Institute (IPI) letter to Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi:
H.E. Meles Zenawi
Prime Minister of the Federal Republic of Ethiopia
c/o H.E. Ambassador Kongit Sinegiorgis
Embassy of the Federal Republic of Ethiopia to Austria
Wagramer Str.14/1/2
A-1220 Vienna
Austria
Fax: +43-1-710 21 71
Your Excellency,
The International Press Institute (IPI), the ...
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