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Mengistu Haile-Mariam speaks
By Eskinder Nega | July 30, 2010
Ethiopia’s impenitent ex-dictator, Mengistu Haile-Mariam, is back in
the limelight -- nineteen years after his ouster and just before the
publication of his much anticipated memoir in the US. Full Text
July 30, 2010
1000 German-trained Somali police missing, feared joined Al Shabab (Deutsche Welle)
Ethiopia: Blessed or cursed? (Yetera Bolle)
Ethiopia: First independent satellite TV jammed (ST)
Somalia's Shabab vows to turn Mogadishu to graveyard for African troops (Reuters)
U.S. to seize money stolen from Africans (Daily Monitor)
Egyptian police shoot Eritrean migrant at border (Reuters)
Angelina Jolie relishes spy role, but only in fiction (AFP)
July 28, 2010
On the “failing” Ethiopian literature, Nobel prizes (Debru Negash, MD)
Green Revolution: A multi-pronged approach (Wondemhunegn Ezezew)
Amare Aregawi back in the storm (Addis Techane)
Ancient DNA identifies people who domesticated donkeys (Uni. of Florida)
Somali govt applauds AU decision to send troops (Haji Mustafa Abdinur, AFP)
July 27, 2010
Addis Voice gets facelift (Ethiomedia)
Besieged Ethiopia (Gizachew Admasu)
The West's rhetoric and dangerous miscalculations (Andualem Aragie)
A new opportunity for the opposition (Eskinder Nega)
"African leaders getting better at rigging elections" (The Economist)
July 25, 2010
US foreign policy versus Ethiopia (Alemayehu G. Mariam)
Eritrea says talks, not force, right approach to Somalia (Aaron Maasho, AFP)
ESAT: What is in a name? (Hindessa Abdul)
Stalin statue bad omen for Meles Zenawi (Robele Ababya)
NKorea vows nuclear response to US-SKorea drills (AP)
Ethiopia: Where food aid sustains hunger (Abebe Gellaw)
July 23, 2010
Fabrication of Ethiopian history continues unabated (Prof. Seyoum Gelaye)
Nelson Mandela - A genuine icon (Asrat Abebe)
Is OLF's call for alliance really meaningful? (Shiferaw Abebe)
Dibaba sisters get another star (IAAF)
Israeli jets intercept Ethiopian airlines jet in hijack scare (Haaretz)
July 22, 2010
Chad should arrest Sudan's al Bashir: HRW (Reuters)
Eritrea is not supporting al-Shabab (VOA)
Dictatorship and our failing literature (Solomon E. Gebreselassie)
Renewing the fight against al-Qaida in east Africa (Sen. Russ Feingold)
U.N. welcomes steps by Eritrea and Djibouti (U.N.)
Ethiopia's election: all losers (Rene Lefort)
Woyane atrocities in Afar region (APP Press Release)
July 20, 2010
U.S. Foreign Policy vs Ethiopia (Alemayehu G. Mariam)
Ethiopia court rejects final poll result challenge (Barry Malone, Reuters)
Ethiopia to adopt cyber law (Wire service)
Egypt sleepless over Nile water (DPA)
Music Review: M.I.A.'s third effort just as charming (AP)
July 19, 2010
Remember 'Lady Liberty' on Mandela Day! (Abebe Gellaw)
The hyena men of Harar (Global Post)
Suspects free with conditions in Minnesota terrorism case (AP)
Five Pakistanis among 20 held for Uganda attacks (Wire services)
July 18, 2010
Abebe Belew on VOA Amharic(Speaks about ESAT)
Ethiopians, Eritreans Face Double Suspicion in Post-Bomb Uganda (Peter Heinlein, VOA)
Welcome Dr Berhanu Nega to OSA Conf. (Jawar S. Mohamed)
July 17, 2010
The politics of appeasement and EPRDF (Eskinder Nega)
Abraham Vergheese: Extended interview (PBS)
EU gives Ethiopia $23 million to fight hunger (News Release)
Shebab fighters go international (LA Times)
The need to look beyond the horizon (Mela Tebabal)
What is to be done? A question to opposition parties (Alegn Tesfa)
North Iraq hotel fire kills 29, half foreigners (AP)
Uganda: Bombing was Abhorrent Expansion of Attacks on Civilians (Human Rights Watch)
Live Aid story to become TV movie (LA Times)
July 15, 2010
ESAT resumes satellite service (Ethiomedia)
Shebab promises 'new tide of terror' (CNN)
OLF council resolution (pdf) (Press Release)
Conventional and cultural assimilation in Ethiopia (Geletaw Zeleke)
Al Shabaab vs Uganda (BBC)
What we really need (Kuchiye)
Uganda finds suicide vest; arrests made (Reuters)
Prominent Cameroonian journalist dies in car accident (IPS)
July 13, 2010
The truth about the hummingbirds (Alemayehu G. Mariam)
Unexploded suicide vest found; 4 arrested (AP)
ICC charges Sudan's Bashir with genocide (Washington Post)
Ethiomedia has limited copies of new book (Announcement)
Ethiopia on track to halve poverty rate by 2015: UN (William Davison, Bloomberg)
Al Shabab claims deadly Ugandan attacks (BBC)
Al Shabab kills 74 (AP)
Abraha vs Elias debate
(Real; Language: Amharic)
Seattle Eth. Community Chairperson Mulu Retta on Radio Tana
(Real; Language: Amharic)
July 12, 2010
Spain basks in 1st World Cup glory (AP)
South Africa is the real winner in World Cup (Michell Kauffmann, AP)
Sudan to consider north-south confederation after vote (Andrew Heavens, Reuters)
Somali leader worried by foreign jihadists (Ibrahim Mohamed)
July 10, 2010
Egypt, Ethiopia hold talks over Nile waters (Al Masry Al Youm)
Google wins permission to keep website in China (Michael Liedtke, AP)
Elias Kifle and Abraha Belai to discuss issues on Qale Forum (Ethiomedia)
Swede on trial for human smuggling in Ethiopia (The Local)
July 9, 2010
To donors: Time to stop aiding EPRDF (Eskinder Nega)
Election 2015: History or farce? (Maimire Mennasemay, Ph.D.)
Eritreans at risk of forcible return from Libya (AI)
Founder of university college museum of Ethiopia dies at 95 (Sadbury Star)
Spain dream about World Cup glory (Reuters)
Alleged World Cup visa scam nets millions (Addis Fortune)
Cab driver accused of falling asleep behind wheel (Indiana News)
Somalis protest against deployment of more foreign troops (Alisha Ryu, VOA)
July 7, 2010
Speaking truth on behalf of Eth. women (Alemayehu G. Mariam)
Tamagne Beyene's belated appreciation (Binyam Nahosenay)
Landlocked Ethiopia seeks Chinese hand for railway renewal (Calcutta News)
Ethiopians in Norway vow to up unified struggle (organizers)
4th of July Facts: 1st Fests, Number of Fireworks, More (National Geographic)
Independence Day Rap: JibJab Celebrates 4th Of July (Video)
(Huffington Post)
Clinton: Intolerant nations 'crushing' activists
(Robert Burns, AP)
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