An Islamist leader in Somalia says he will step up an insurgency against his country's government after taking control of an opposition alliance. Sheikh Hassan Dahir Aweys told the BBC that he wants to oust the Ethiopian forces protecting Somalia's weak transitional government.He made the comments after claiming control of the exiled Alliance for the Re-Liberation of Somalia (ARS).

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Parallel to the surge in the global price of oil is an increased demand for the liquid gold in Ethiopia. A shortage in the supply of the commodity in the country has seen the formation of queues at filling stations. In order to avert a possible crisis, the Ethiopian Petroleum Enterprise has once again borrowed from the national reserve as WUDINEH ZENEBE, SPECIAL TO FORTUNE reports.

The long queues at the retailing stations of oil companies subsided last week. This is because the Ethiopian Petroleum Enterprise (EPE), having borrowed 60 million litres of diesel from the National Petroleum Depot Administration, began distributing diesel to oil companies on July 17, 2008.

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የታሰሩት “ችሎት ረብሻችኋል፣ ድንጋይ ወርውራችኋል” ተብለው ነው

Ethiopia Zare (ማክሰኞ ሐምሌ 15 ቀን 2000 ዓ.ም. July 22, 2008)፦ በትናትናው ዕለት የቴዲ አፍሮን ችሎት ለመከታተል ከመጡ ችሎት ተከታታዮች መካከል አስሩ ታሰሩ። በዛሬው ዕለትም ፖሊስ ሜክሲኮ በሚገኘው የአዲስ አበባ ከተማ ነክ ፍርድ ቤት አምስቱን አቅርቧቸው የ14 ቀን የጊዜ ቀጠሮ የጠየቀባቸው ሲሆን፣ ፍርድ ቤቱ ፈቅዶለታል።

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Tedla Asfaw

The fake justice of TPLF is dragging our people on empty belly for this rainy season and this staged court drama as we know looks more like the TPLF's court drama staged on the late professor Asrat more than fourteen years ago. As we know professor Asrat was falsely accused on organizing armed resistance against TPLF and with the collaboration of bribed witnesses he was sent for long term jail and was released only after his health deteriorates and to get the Diaspora Ethiopians support for the Ethio-Eritrea war of the 1998-2000.



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ADDIS ABABA, July 22 (Reuters) - Land-locked Ethiopia has given Djiboutian President Omar Ismail Guelleh large tracts of land for wheat farming and a lakeside holiday home, officials said on Tuesday.The Red Sea state has been Ethiopia's major outlet to the sea since Addis Ababa lost the ports of Assab and Massawa when Eritrea won independence in 1991.

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LONDON (Reuters) - The U.N. food agency urgently needs $222 million to avert a major food crisis in Ethiopia, where millions are struggling to cope with drought and high prices, it said on Monday.The Ethiopian government and aid agencies estimate that 4.6 million people in the Horn of Africa country need emergency food aid to tide them through to the next harvest in November.Another 5.7 million who receive food and cash under a regular welfare programme live in areas where drought is biting and need extra help.

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EMF(21 July ‘08) The TPLF kangaroo court ruled today the famous Ethiopian artist, Teddy afro to defend the charge, despite clear signs of false evidences presented to it. Teddy was told to appear on 4th October 2008 with his defence. Teddy Afro was accused of being involved in a fatal car accident. All evidences provided to the court by procecutors have been proved to be false and couldn’t even convince Zenawi’s appointed judge. “I did not kill anyone and I have been jailed in lice infested jail for the last three months”, Teddy Afro told judge Leul at the drama after his attorney call for the dismissal of the case due to forged document provided by the prosecutor

Thursday, 17 July 2008 13:35

Ethiopia Zare (ኀሙስ ሐምሌ 10 ቀን 2000 ዓ.ም. July 17, 2008)፦ “አንድነት ለዲሞክራሲና ለፍትህ” በሚል ስያሜ ፓርቲ ለማቋቋም ጠቅላላ ጉባዔውን አካሂዶና አስፈላጊውን ማስረጃዎችና ፎርማሊቲዎች አሟልተው ባለፈው ሣምንት ረቡዕ ለምርጫ ቦርድ ፈቃድ መጠየቂያ ማመልከቻውን ያስገቡትና መሥራቾቹ “አንድነት” የሚለውን ስም መጠቀም እንደማይችሉ ምርጫ ቦርድ በዛሬው ዕለት መግለጹን ለጉዳዩ ቅርብ የሆኑ ምንጮቻችን ገለጹ።

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130 million birr for tyrannical control command and training centre
By Wudineh Zenebe [Addis Fortune Writer] |
Owners of major businesses grouped into five sectors have been asked to raise funds that would be used in financing the construction of a headquarters and a training centre for the ruling party.
The Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Democratic Front (EPRDF) needs 130 million Br in order to build its political command center up at Arat Kilo, and a training centre to an army of its cadres in Sendafa.

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Picture and news by , Ethiopia Zare
(ማክሰኞ ሐምሌ 8 ቀን 2000 ዓ.ም. July 15, 2008)፦ ቴዲ አፍሮ ባለፈው ዓርብ ሐምሌ 4 ቀን 2000 ዓ.ም. በዋለው ችሎት "… እኔ አንድም ሰው አልገደልኩም ሰውም አልገጨሁም። ነገር ግን በማላውቀው ነገር ሰብዓዊ መብቴ ተገፍፎ ቅማል እየበላኝ ሦስት ወር ታስሬያለሁ። …" ብሎ በመናገሩ ምክንያት ወደ ጨለማ ቤት መወርወሩንና የልደት በዓሉን ትላንት በጨለማ ቤት ማክበሩን የኢትዮጵያ ዛሬ ምንጮች ገለጹ።

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LONDON — Albert Einstein: arch rationalist or scientist with a spiritual core?

A letter being auctioned in London this week adds more fuel to the long-simmering debate about the Nobel prize-winning physicist's religious views. In the note, written the year before his death, Einstein dismissed the idea of God as the product of human weakness and the Bible as "pretty childish." The letter, handwritten in German, is being sold by Bloomsbury Auctions on Thursday and is expected to fetch between $12,000 and $16,000.
Einstein: Bible Is 'Primitive, Pretty Childish'

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Tedla Asfaw

Dr.Paulose Milkiase on VOA Amharic (July 15) argued that there is an inconsistency on international justice for those who committed crime against humanity. He said persons who committed red terror under the Ethiopian dictator Mengistu Hailemariam were not charged for the crime in International Court. Regarding the charging of Beshir of Sudan for genocide against the Darfur population by International Criminal Court (ICC) yesterday he said such indictment will deter others from committing such crime with impunity in future.

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Nairobi

Ethiopia Monday named a strong track team for the Beijing Olympics with world champions Kenenisa Bekele and Tirunesh Dibaba doubling up in the 5,000 and 10,000 metres races. The other significant development is the inclusion of multiple world record holder Haile Gebrselassie in the 10,000m Gebrselassie. Gebrselassie, also the world marathon record holder, pulled out of the marathon race at next month's Games due to what he termed as bad air quality in Beijing.

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Repressive New Legislation Should Be Amended or Scrapped
For Immediate Release
(New York, July 1, 2008) – Ethiopia's government should immediately abandon plans to impose strict government controls and draconian criminal penalties on nongovernmental organizations (NGOs), Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International said today. The two groups called on donor governments, whose behind-the-scenes efforts to see the bill reformed appear to have failed, to speak out publicly against the de facto criminalization of most of the human rights, rule of law and peace-building work currently being carried out in Ethiopia.

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President Bashir and Genocide
By Nicholas D. Kristof, New York Times

The 10-page application for an arrest warrant against President Bashir of Sudan, for committing genocide, is a remarkable document. For five years, the international community has minced its way around the slaughter, pretending not to notice, but the International Criminal Court’s chief prosecutor, Luis Moreno-Ocampo, is blunt about what has happened:

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