Ethiopia: Ethiopia Devalues Its Birr Currency 17% Against Dollar, Central Bank Says
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Wednesday 01 September 2010 Ethiopia: Ethiopia Devalues Its Birr Currency 17% Against Dollar, Central Bank SaysBy Jason McLure , Ethiopia devalued its currency, the birr, by 17 percent against the dollar, the third such move in the past 14 months, according to the National Bank of Ethiopia. The exchange rate was quoted at 16.351 per dollar today compared with 13.628 yesterday, according to the website of the Addis Ababa-based central bank. It was trading at 11.381 on July 10 last year. [ Read the rest... ]
Ethiopia: Ethiopia bans distance education, cracks down on private universities By Peter Heinlein, VOA ADDIS ABABA - Ethiopia has banned off-campus education, and ordered private universities to close degree programs in law and education. A directive issued by Ethiopia's Education Ministry describes distance learning at off-campus sites as "unnecessary at this stage" and orders all such operations to stop enrolling new students immediately. The proclamation also prohibits private universities from accepting new applicants in teaching or law degree programs. [ Read the rest... ]
Ethiopia: The latest in the incessant self-serving lies of TPLF regime By Robele Ababya, Botswana and Japan are paragons of democracy in our global community; both have achieved truly enviable results in socio-economical and political spheres in a short time – the former since its independence in 1966 and the latter since the end of the raging flame of World War II in which it was an aggressor. Japan is now a giant democratic industrial power and a key member of the G8 in its own right growing to its present stature despite its poor natural resources. It is therefore totally wrong that tyrant Meles cited these two countries as examples of states, where one party held dominant power and ruled uninterrupted for decades, to justify his Stalinist hold on power for 19 years. [ Read the rest... ]
Ethiopia: ESAT Started Online Streaming  By ESAT, The management of Ethiopian Satellite Television (ESAT) is proud to announce that it has started a 24hrs online streaming live service through its official website Initially there is a two-week free trial service to allow Ethiopians all over the world access our transmission free of charge. However to get a continued service ESAT'S management has arranged a monthly subscription base option for a minimal fee. Therefore we would like to request your cooperation in posting this information with the streaming link (http://ethsat.com/##) on your respective website. [ Read the rest... ]
Tuesday 31 August 2010 Ethiopia: Five Ethiopians die in Saudi deportation centre: report By AFP RIYADH — Five Ethiopians died in a crowded Saudi centre for deporting illegal immigrants, the Arab News reported Monday. The five died in the deportation centre in the southern Red Sea port of Jizan of "asphyxiation due to overcrowding," according to a local police official, the newspaper said. Ethiopia's consul in Jeddah Tekleab Kebede said he could not confirm the deaths, which occurred sometime this month, according to the report. "We are following the case," he told AFP by telephone. [ Read the rest... ]
Ethiopia: UN says 270,000 at risk as floods loom in Ethiopia By Barry Malone, ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) - More than a quarter of a million Ethiopians are risk from severe flooding next month when heavy rain is expected in the country, according to government estimates issued by the United Nations on Monday. The U.N. Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said 19 people were killed in mudslides after flooding last week and nearly 12,000 people had been displaced since then. "Some 270,000 people could be affected by flooding in the (Amhara region)," OCHA said in a statement, quoting a contingency plan issued by regional authorities. [ Read the rest... ]
Ethiopia: It’s the Development, Stupid By Ephrem Madebo,  Just days after the ground invasion of Iraq, 90% Americans approved President Herbert Bush’s job performance. In just a little over a year, President Bush’s job performance rating was 29%; and he eventually lost his re-election bid to Bill Clinton. Why? It’s the economy, stupid. President Barak Obama enjoyed 69% job approval rating in 2009, in August 2010; his approval rating was 42%. Why? Well, the jobless economic recovery may not be stupid, but it’s not astute either. In Ethiopia, the economy has been dormant for 12 of the past 19 years, but the man and party responsible for the dormancy are guaranteed to stay in power at least until 2015. In the last seven years, larger amounts of foreign aid and loan have over heated the Ethiopian economy. However, the heat of the economy gave more heat for less than 5% Ethiopians and left 95% of the population in the cold. If this is what Zenawi’s regime tells us- “economic development” It’s not only the development that is stupid – It’s the regime, Stupid![ Read the rest... ]
Ethiopia: Why can’t we just get along? By Alemayehu G. Mariam, A Comedy of Errors: (Act I) Rodney King’s videotaped brutal beating by members of the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) eventually triggered the L.A. riots of 1992. Rodney made a public appearance on the third day of the anarchy and pleaded in his inimitable style: People, I just want to say, can we all get along? Can we stop making it, making it horrible for the older people and the kids? It’s just not right…. Let’s try to work it out. [ Read the rest... ]
Sunday 29 August 2010 Ethiopia:Court passes jail sentences against 30 on terrorism charges By Tesfa-Alem Tekle August 28, 2010 (ADDIS ABABA) — Ethiopian high court passed jail terms ranging between 16-19 years behind bars against 30 defendants who were found guilty of perpetrating terrorism acts. According to the state-run Ethiopian television, four of the defendants are sentenced each to 19 years of rigorous jail while the remaining 25 are sentenced to 16 years each and a 5-year ban from any of their constitutional rights. [ Read the rest... ]
Saturday 28 August 2010 Ethiopia: U.S. Senate introduces new bill on Ethiopia United State Senators have introduced a new legislation titled, Support for Democracy and Human Rights in Ethiopia Act of 2010. The bill aimed at reaffirming United States objectives in Ethiopia and encourage critical democratic and humanitarian principles and practices, and for other purposes. Read full text PDF Here [ Read the rest... ]
Ethiopia: Seye Abraha and the Ethio-Eritrean War By Eskinder Nega “I never thought that the war (the Ethio-Eritrean war) would lead me to permanent fallout with my lifelong friends,” ponders Seye Abraha of his lost camaraderie with Meles Zenawi and his allies in a book that was released in Addis on Tuesday. “But so apprehensive was I to become of the ideas they promoted, I lost hope in them in due course.” [ Read the rest... ]
Friday 27 August 2010 Ethiopia: Ugly steel-and-glass buildings pollute Addis Ababa By The Economist, AMHARIC has no precise word for architecture, but it needs one. Ethiopia’s capital, founded by Emperor Menelik II in 1886, now has 4.6m people but that figure may well double by 2020. Dirk Hebel of Addis Ababa’s revamped architecture school says that “the first thing we do is to sit down with the students for a day and explain what [it] is”. According to the UN, Addis has one of the higher densities of slum dwellers in the world. But their geographical pattern is unusual. Most African cities separate fairly neatly into poor and rich areas “like a sunny-side-up egg”, with slums spreading out from the rim, says Mr Hebel. But Addis is “more of a scrambled egg”. A lack of crime and a tradition whereby the rich seem to tolerate the poor living among them mean that Addis’s slums often lie in the seams between office buildings and flats in the more affluent parts of the city. [ Read the rest... ]
Ethiopia: Establishment of Alliance for Liberty, Equality, and Justice in Ethiopia (ALEJE) Press Release When the TPLF/EPRDF forces controlled Addis Ababa and ended 17 years of tribulation, the majority of Ethiopians gave the TPLF leaders the benefit of the doubt and received them with a warm welcome hoping that change towards freedom, justice and democracy was around the corner. However, 19 years and four elections latter, the only change the Ethiopian people have witnessed is the swing from military dictatorship to a naked ethnocentric dictatorship. Today, unlike any other time Ethiopia’s survival as a nation is endangered by the very regime claiming to lead it. Consequently, there are calls from all corners of Ethiopia for liberty and justice that must be answered to safeguard the continuity of the country and the freedom of the Ethiopian people. [ Read the rest... ]
Thursday 26 August 2010 Ethiopia: Flooding displaces thousands in Ethiopia By Irinnews.org, ADDIS ABABA, 25 August 2010 (IRIN) - Heavy flooding in the Amhara region of northern Ethiopia has displaced more than 8,000 people, say officials. The floods hit the Dawa Chefa, Hartuma Fursi and Bishee Edida districts after three days of torrential rain, according to the zonal disaster and food security coordination office, which also reported an urgent need for tents to shelter the displaced. Nineteen people are reported to have died. [ Read the rest... ]
Ethiopia: Fear expressed over India’s massive land grabs in Gambela Gambela, one of the nine regional states of Ethiopia is fast growing into what the local media has described as “a land grabbing” hub among Indian companies. Gambela’s new tag as a land grabbing hub comes as BHO Agro Plc becomes the third Indian firm to begin operations in the region after two other Indian companies, Karuturi and Ruchi Group, moved into Gambela in 2008 and early 2010, respectively. Official reports have indicated that Ethiopia’s Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development, responsible for the regulation of land acquisition by foreign entities, has allowed the lease of 27,000 hectares of land to BHO Agro Plc. [ Read the rest... ]
Ethiopia: The Ethiopian Economy: Big Numbers and Empty Bellies By Fekade Shewakena Poverty is Ethiopia’s persistent reality and has long been the country’s definer. The country’s mainstay, agriculture, is predominantly subsistence and is still only one drought season away from a multimillion killer famine unless we beg in time. Meles Zenawi often talks of poverty as being the number one problem of the country. I have yet to meet any Ethiopian who disagrees with this. But there are disagreements on the kinds of approaches, economic and political governance and accountability and the kind of policy tools we must use to fight poverty. Had we been a lucky, vibrant and freely debating country, these disagreements and debates should have been considered healthy and encouraged. [ Read the rest... ]
Tuesday 24 August 2010 Ethiopia: Economists discredit Zenawi's double digit economic growth report By Neamin Zeleke, On its August 9, 2010 issue, the Financial Times published an article by Mr. William Willis, the newspaper's Africa Editor. Headlined “Perfidious Donors Betray African Democrats”, Willis wrote: "...in Ethiopia, the same is almost true but with a disturbing caveat. It is an open secret that the double-digit growth of recent years is supported by dubious statistics. Yet the same figures are bandied around by development experts arguing that a trade-off between growth and civil liberties is inevitable..." [ Read the rest... ]
Ethiopia: Oromo struggle in Ethiopia has changed says OSA President, defends Berhanu Nega By Jimma times, In an interview with OLF media, the President of the Oromo Studies Association (OSA) defended the participation of Dr. Berhanu Nega in OSA's recent conference and declared that Oromo struggle has transformed into Ethiopian struggle. OSA president Dr. Haile Hirpa said "Oromo people's struggle can not proceed as before." Oromo people "must work together with other Ethiopian forces who want to change the government and democratize the country" added Dr. Haile Hirpa. Dr. Berhanu Nega is the leader of the Diaspora based Ginbot 7 organization which opposes the current Meles Zenawi government of Ethiopia. Analysts say diaspora based Oromo and other politicians want to follow the example of Oromia based groups like MEDREK (Forum for Justice and Democratic Dialogue) which has managed to unite opposition forces by breaking ethnic, regional and ideological barriers. [ Read the rest... ]
Monday 23 August 2010 Ethiopia: Meles threatens to close Sweden Embassy over Birtukan By Jimma Times, Ethiopia's Prime Minister Meles Zenawi is threatening to close his government's Embassy in Sweden due to Stockholm's continued pressure for the release of top opposition leader Judge Birtukan Mideksa, according to local media sources. Judge Mideksa has been imprisoned for nearly 600 days and supporters say she was denied medical assistance after her long hunger strike. The first woman leader of an Ethiopian political party whose ancestry comes from multiple ethnicities, she has crossed various barriors to become a common national icon and the symbol of Ethiopian resistance against tyranny. [ Read the rest... ]
Ethiopia: The great controversy: Abune Paulos' statue  By Eskinder Nega, Clad in the distinctive black robe of the Orthodox clergy, Abune Petros, one of Ethiopia’s four native-born Abuns (equivalent to Bishops) under an Egyptian Copt Patriarch, stood in a manifestly noble pose before an Italian military tribunal in 1936, the year that Fascist Italy invaded Ethiopia. A preposterously pompous Colonel presided over the proceedings. He was visibly relishing his moment in the spotlight. “The Patriarch has acceded to Italian rule,” began the Colonel darting his eyes dramatically between the hushed audience and the towering Abun. “Why then do you alone,” -- a deliberate stop here for effect -- “choose to disagree? Why did you rebel?” [ Read the rest... ]
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