Al Qaeda moves to Africa
World Defense Review,...When I testified in Congress last month about the rising threat of the Islamists in Mogadishu, one of my fellow witnesses was in utter denial about the connections of Islamists in Africa and international terrorist groups.,

Questions Raised Over Contents of Newly Arrived Cargo Plane in Somali Capital

"We are getting highly reliable information that a vessel has unloaded 500 Eritrean fighters along the Somali coast, and they are going to join with forces in Moga:

Somali On the Brink: Tackle the UIC or we will: Meles tells int'l community Second plane arrives in Mogadishu with Eritrean officers, anti-aircraft, AK47s

 Doing Shabia's PR

Selemon, Demis - Glowing by the reception they got from Shabia's Isayas. Of all problems in that police state,what they were concerned about was Enjera - that comes from Ethiopia at a steep price.

Zone to build 700 condominiums in Axum, Adwa towns:  Axum, July 30, 2006 (WIC) - Some 700 condominiums would be built in Axum and Adwa towns of Central Tigray zone this fiscal year, according to the Deputy Administrator of the zone.

Floods kill 101 in eastern Ethiopia

ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) - Floods have killed more than 100 people and destroyed homes in eastern Ethiopia after heavy rains caused a river to overflow, police said on Sunday. "Floods from the overflowing Dechatu river hit Dire Dawa town in the middle of Saturday night while residents were sleeping," police inspector Benyam Fikru told Reuters.

Minister Neway GebreAb on the recent economic forum held in Manchester England where Prime Minister Meles was one of the participants. The forum touched on topics of African development and the experience of "Asian Tiger" countries as well as a paper presented by PM Meles on Ethiopia[African Development: Dead Ends and New Beginnings (prelimilary draft not for Quotation)]. Click here for Interview(from waltainfo.com)

Former US President Bill Clinton Arrives in Addis Ababa:       an

Bush names Courville to head new U.S. mission to AU ADDIS ABABA, July 26 (Xinhua) -- U.S. President George W. Bush plans to nominate Cindy Lou Courville to head the new U.S. mission to the African Union (AU). For the U.S. government, Addis Ababa will become one of five capitals where it has two missions, including Brussels and Geneva,

TDA Northern California Branch will help the people of Tabia Hinset to build an Elementary School at Kushet Chira Seg.(TDA NC, July 2006):-As many of you know TDA International have tasked it self to build many of the ninety elementary schools... TDA Northern California branch in cooperation with the Bay Area Tigrean Community has pledge to build one elementary school in Asgde Tsimbla, in Western Tigray. On June 30, 2006 members of TDA Northern California (TDA-NC) were fortunate enough to be present at the ground breaking ceremony

 

Agazi Operation will be made in to a Movie:
The famous Agazi Operation, an operation that was carried by TPLF to save over a thousand political and innocent prisoners from the jaws of the derge regime during the struggle years will be made in to a movie. For those who would like to know more about the operation read the book “AGAZI “ by Berhan Abadi and Haile Ayalneh. It was truly an amazing operation. The operation was lead and mastermind by the late General Hayelom. Many of the freed prisoners chose to join TPLF and many other chose to leave the country and live as refugees in neighboring countries. Today quite a few of them are leading a comfortable life in North America and Europe. Those who can should help this project succeed. This is a once in a life time chance to see ones own history made in to a movie!

National politics and the future    By:Imru Zelleke, from Ben's Page
Comment: Ambassador Imru has been lamenting for too long in the corridors of Washington DC to undo EPRDF's strong connection to the West. Today he is forced to look inward to his beloved Kinijit. On his account there are more than three Kinijit's. This clearly is a sign that the organization is terminally ill. One can only guess why the Good Old Ambassador can not see a failed organization and call it quit!. His latest article puts him squarely against his comrade in arm Dr. Getachew Haile who endorsed the new AFD

Development in Tigray since TPLF come to power: 

 

Mekelle Institute of Technology

 

Peasant Revolution in Ethiopia: The Tigray People's Liberation Front, 1975-1991 (African Studies)
Almost unnoticed, in the wake of the overthrow of Emperor Haile-Selassie, the coming to power of the military, and the ongoing independence struggle in Eritrea, a band of students launched an insurrection from the northern Ethiopian province of Tigray. Calling themselves the Tigray People's Liberation Front (TPLF), they built close relations with Tigray's poverty-stricken peasants and on this basis liberated the province in 1989, and formed an ethnic-based coalition of opposition forces that assumed state power in 1991. This book chronicles that history and focuses in particular on the relationship of the revolutionaries with Ethiopia's peasants.

"Make sure that you check their shoes so that they don't take the soil of my country!" (Emperor Yohannes IV) "I am greedy for its land fragments, let alone for its territorial integrity" (Emperor Yohannes IV)

The Ethiopian Millennium – and the Question of Ethiopia’s Cultural Restitution:By Professor Richard Pankhurst 

 

Stability and Continuity; By G. E. Gorfu   PART I   PART II   PART III   PART IV   PART V   PART VI   PART VII   PART VIII   PART IX   PART X (Final)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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UN to donate 722 million USD to Ethiopia’s development activities:
Addis Ababa, October 13, 2006 (WIC) – The United Nations, through its three agencies, plans to donate 722 million USD for the execution of development works Ethiopia...

A new jihad:

Ethiopia: Why are Christians always the first to know? On Monday Somali jihadists declared holy war against Horn of Africa rival Ethiopia. But at least 48 hours before the pronouncement, church leaders in southwestern Ethiopia already had discovered they were at war with radical Islamists. Locals say the radicals include Somalis. If true, the clashes could mark a  a dangerous new regional conflict. | Mindy Belz

 

Over 6,200 tourists visit historical, religious sites in Tigray state:

The New Crisis in Somalia:
(By Prof.Kinfe Abraham, Oct 12, 2006):-The conflict which erupted in the months of May to June 2006, between the Somali faction leaders and a grouping of leaders of eleven Islamic (Sharia) Courts which controlled different parts of Mogadishu that resulted in more than 400 causalities and over 2000 wounded civilians, has heightened international concern about Somalia’s political future:

Ethiopia's obelisk to be erected after Sept - UN

Reuters

Axum obelisk to be re-erected after September:       ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) - Ethiopia's 1,700 year-old obelisk, returned to the country 14 months ago, will be re-erected after the rainy season that ends in September, the U.N. agency in charge of culture said on Monday. Stolen by Italian fascist invaders in the 1930s, the Ethiopian national treasure was returned in April 2005, but has remained in boxes awaiting re-installation at its original site in Axum, once the centre of a powerful trading empire. "Everything needed to re-erect the obelisk including funding and technical experts are ready," Awad Elhassan, the U.N. Educational, Science and Cultural Organization's (UNESCO), representative told Reuters in an interview. "But re-erection will have to wait until the end of the rainy season which goes up to the end of September."

Interveiw with Samuel Gebru

An Ethiopian youth club based in the United States expressed its readiness to work in collaboration with various youth associations in Ethiopia in the efforts towards democratization and marking accelerated growth and development. In his recent visit to Ethiopia , founder of the Club, Samuel Gebru told the press that Ethiopians around the globe should work hand-in-hand toward the efforts of building a better Ethiopia.......Source : ENA

Ato Ledetu Ayalew on VOA

  The rest of the Delegation on VOA

[New] Interview With Ayele Chameso of CUDP on VOA

Ethiopia First
Interview with Lidetu Ayalew
Part I   PartII

 Birhan Woldu, an epitome and paragon of Ethiopia:

Face of Live Aid appeal graduates  In Agriculture: An Ethiopian girl who became the face of African famine when she was filmed starving and in tears in 1984 has graduated from college. Birhan Woldu appeared as a healthy young woman at the Live 8 concert in London last year alongside Madonna. 

Speaker, MPs to Visit UK, India for Political Insight :

 Three Members of Parliament (MPs) and the Speaker of the House Teshome Toga, are scheduled to visit the United Kingdom (UK) and India for two weeks with the hope that they will have insight on how parliamentary politics functions in these countries. . . . "EPRDF is coming to its senses and allowing itself to be more open to consensus," Gebru Gebre Mariam of UEDF told Fortune

Defending national security and peace

Editorial Ethiopian Observer

 Somali On the Brink:  

Tackle the UIC or we will: Meles tells int'l community Second plane arrives in Mogadishu with Eritrean officers.