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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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