News - Ethiopia
Tuesday, November 25th, 2008
By Elizabeth Blunt
BBC News, Addis Ababa
Non-governmental organisations in Ethiopia are waiting anxiously to see if the effects of a proposed new law will stunt their growth or stop their operations altogether.
The controversial bill to regulate the country's charities and societies has been months in the making and has been through ...
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Friday, November 21st, 2008
ENA
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Addis Ababa, Ethiopia - Prime Minister Meles Zenawi held discussions with the US Africa Command head, General William E. (Kip) Ward in Addis on Friday.
Speaking at the occasion, Meles said Ethiopia and the US have done a lot in ensuring peace and stability in the Horn of ...
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Friday, November 21st, 2008
by Mark Leon Goldberg
ADDIS ABABA, ETHIOPIA -- It's something of an understatement to say that President-elect Barack Obama is admired here in Ethiopia. Outside the UNICEF headquarters, a young street vendor was hawking bootleg copies of Obama's acceptance speech at the Democratic National Convention. I passed on the DVD, but ...
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Wednesday, November 19th, 2008
US State Department
David J. Kramer, Assistant Secretary for Democracy,
Human Rights and Labor
Remarks at the Center for Strategic and International Studies
Washington, DC
David J. Kramer
Listen to the AUDIO version Here
ASSISTANT SECRETARY KRAMER: Thank you very much for the introduction and thanks for inviting me to join you here today and to be ...
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Wednesday, November 19th, 2008
General William E. “Kip” Ward
(ENA) Addis Ababa, Ethiopia - General William E. “Kip” Ward, Commander of the United States African Command, will come here (Addis Ababa, Ethiopia) on Thursday to make his regular visit to the African Union, Public Affairs of the US mission to the AU said.
The commander is ...
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Tuesday, November 18th, 2008
by Andnet Dallas
Dr. Yacob H/Mariam
On November 16, the Dallas Chapter of Andinet/Kinijit Support Group hosted a public meeting at the Radisson Hotel, in Richardson, TX featuring the foreign relations committee head of Unity for Democracy and Justice Party (UDJP), Dr. Yacob H/Mariam.
The meeting was attended by residents of Dallas and ...
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Tuesday, November 18th, 2008
Addis Fortune
As the reshuffling the Federal Government began two weeks ago at the highest echelons of the government continued, Mukhtar Kedir, vice president of Oromia Regional State, has been brought to the central government as Advisor to Prime Minister Meles Zenawi on Public Mobilization with Ministerial Portfolio last week.
His predecessor, ...
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Monday, November 17th, 2008
ADDIS ABABA, ETHIOPIA - Ethiopian Ministry of Justice officials on Sunday said 226 out of the 273 people arrested, have been charged with genocide committed during an ethnic clash in May.
The rest, 47 of them, have also been charged with "serious crimes" they committed during an ethnic clash which erupted ...
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Monday, November 17th, 2008
African Union (AU) Peacekeeping Forces patrol a street in Mogadishu
MOGADISHU (AFP) — African Union (AU) peacekeepers have started moving into positions usually manned by Ethiopian troops in the capital Mogadishu, witnesses and an AU mission source told AFP Monday.
The rotation of the AU mission in Somalia (AMISOM) is a key ...
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Monday, November 17th, 2008
Commentary
By Alemayehu G. Mariam
For the survivor who chooses to testify, it is clear: his duty is to bear witness for the dead and the living. He has no right to deprive future generations of a past that belongs to our collective memory. To forget would be not only dangerous but ...
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