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Ethiopia devalues currency by 17%
• Devaluation sign of weak economy: Economist
By Jason McLure, Bloomberg | September 2, 2010
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. .... Full Text
Sept 2, 2010
• Mediation Institute - the Missing Necessity (Solomon G. Selassie)
• Australia to open embassy in Ethiopia (The Age)
• "From Tesfa to Tikva" - Photo exhibition in DC (Irene Fertik)
• Ethiopia bans distance education (Peter Heinlein, VOA )
• Obama: US combat in Iraq over, 'time to turn page' (AP)
• Several dead in Mogadishu (Agencies)
Sept 1, 2010
• Ethiopia: It's the development, stupid! (Ephrem Madebo)
• Somali journalist killed; president told to step down (Reuters)
• Analysis: Energy and Security Issues in the Red Sea ( Gregory R. Copley)
• Five Ethiopians killed at Saudi deportation center (AFP)
• Three organizations form alliance (Press release)
• Super talented Tamagne Beyene honored in Atlanta
(Mahdere Andinet)
• Why can't we just get along? (Alemayehu G Mariam)
August 30, 2010
• MLK's Dream: An Ethiopian Perspective (Tewodros Abebe)
• Concern over India's massive land grab in Ethiopia (AF)
• Somali militants grow more brazen in attack (Washington Post)
• Norway 'bomb plot' underscores al-Qaida pitfalls (AP)
• Siye Abraha and the Ethio-Eritrean War (Eskinder Nega)
• Ethiopia denies plan for Somalia intervention (Agencies)
• Make Addis prettier and cheaper (The Economist)
• The Ethiopian economy: big numbers & empty bellies (Fekade Shewakena)
August 26, 2010
• Economists discredit Zenawi's report (Neamin Zeleke)
• Suicide bomber attacks Somali hotel, killing 32 (AP)
• Reinventing Kenya (Alemayehu G. Mariam)
• Tiger Woods divorce final, say lawyers (Yahoo Sports)
• Moslem men attack Somali Christian preacher in Ethiopia (ICC)
August 23, 2010
• An incubator for jihad (The Washington Post)
• Somalia blast kills 'fighters' from India, Pakistan (AP)
• Sudan plans to build nuclear reactor (Reuters)
• The great controversy: Abune Paulos' statue (Eskinder Nega)
• White House says Obama is Christian, prays daily (AP)
• China's military growth alarming (AP)
August 21, 2010
• Irrelevant the OLF may be, the struggle is for justice (Oromsis Adula)
• Quo vadis Ethiopia (Ethiopia Wedet)? (Ayal-Sew Dessye)
• Five-year dev't plan bears questionable forecast (Tesfaye Kidane, Ph.D.)
• Opposition to adopt 'anti-Apartheid' form of struggle (Addis Voice)
• Zenawi to close embassy in Sweden over Birtukan Mideksa (Jimma Times)
August 19, 2010
• One-party rule threatens Ethiopia (Peter Heinlein, VOA)
• Ethiopian maid says killed employer in self-defense (7Days)
• Awramba Times attacked (Ethiomedia)
• Gambling: Meles Zenawi's new foreign policy (Jawar S. Mohamed)
• OLF is indeed irrelevant (Jjgga Wakko)
August 17, 2010
• Tamagn impresses Boston during ESAT promotion (Teodros Kiros, Ph.D.)
• Letter to the Editor: Book about Col. Mengistu (Reader)
• Georgia police arrest man with suitcases of "khat" (Fox News)
August 16, 2010
• Beware of those bearing olive branches (Alemayehu G. Mariam)
• A legitimate criticism or just a chauvinist's tirade? (Dumessaa Diimmaa)
• Top Hizbu Islam official gunned down (AP)
• Pathological liar, Mr. PM (Netsanet Zegeye)
• TPLF's obsession with ethnicity (Gizachew Admassu)
• China overtakes Japan as No. 2 economy (AFP)
• South Sudan: Postponement of vote 'not an option' (AFP)
August 14, 2010
• Mission impossible: Repackaging Meles Zenawi (Eskinder Nega)
• Six Eritreans 'shot dead on Egypt-Israel border' (AFP)
• Obama backs mosque near ground zero (AP)
• Tylenol tied to childhood asthma and allergies (Reuters)
• Owner of Halai Express in Wyoming arrested in $381,000 food stamp fraud case (Grand Rapids Press)
• Book Review: "Mengistu Haile-Mariam" (Fikre Tolossa, Ph.D.)
August 13, 2010
• Autocracy, the Unsolicited Export of China (Ephrem Madebo)
• Some see worsening rights situation in aid donor 'darling' Ethiopia (Los Angeles Times)
• Ethiopian Opposition Official Criticizes Donor Report on `Manipulated' Aid (Bloomberg)
• Specter of war haunts South Sudan referendum (AP)
• Ethiopia under Zenawi world's 2nd poorest nation (Jimma Times)
• Djibouti bars Ethiopian Airlines (Capital)
• Knight Journalism Fellowship for Ethiopia, Nigeria (ICFJ/Knight Int'l)
August 12, 2010
• Ethiopia eyes end of food aid within five years - PM (Reuters)
• China's Biggest Bank "Not a Mercenary" in Africa (Peter Bosshard)
• Ethiopia may invade Somalia to rescue African peacekeepers: Zenawi (AFP)
• `Lucy' species used stone tools, fossil study says (AP)
• Meles Zenawi's maneuver in the Nile (Seifu Tsegaye Demissie)
• Rwanda's Kagame wins election by landslide (Reuters)
• Civilized politics is imperative to contemporary societies (Dejenie Lakew, Ph.D.)
• Ethiopia's PM says will probe export coffee defaulting (Barry Malone, Reuters)
• Identity politics in Ethiopia (pdf) (Berhanu Nega, Ph.D.)
August 10, 2010
• Irish club members condemn attack on Ethiopian athlete (Irish Times)
• Pride goes before ruin, arrogance before failure (Zekarias Ezra)
• A new book on Ethiopia's traditional medicine coming soon (Dr. Fekadu Fullas)
• Help us identify the 'hodams': TPLF hirelings (March4Freedom)
• Eritrean refugees free to live out of camps: Ethiopia (UNHCR)
• Report: wildfires cost Russia some $15 billion (AP)
• 14 more charged for supporting Somali group (AP)
August 9, 2010
• U.S. Foreign policy vs Ethiopia (Alemayehu G. Mariam)
• Are you an ESAT subscriber? (Kirubeal Tadesse)
• Book Review: Ethiopia - Endemic Poverty vs Globalization (Author: Aklog Birara; Review: Seleshi Telahun)
• "Green" energy boom destroys tribes � new report (Survival International)
• Ethiopian government's disingenous peace overture (Sadiq A. Abdirahman)
• EPRDF's myth of invincibility (Eskinder Nega)
• Ethiopia: 2010 Index of Economic Freedom (Economic Freedom)
August 6, 2010
• Defeat divisions to see the miracles of unity (Abebe Gellaw)
• Amare Aregawi: The Truth at Last! (Yetera Bolle)
• Seattle: Local Ethiopians seek help to open a community center (Seattle PI)
• Oh, Ethiopia! 10% economic growth, 90% poverty(pdf) (Ephrem Madebo)
Local Ethiopians seek help to open a community center
• Ethio-Kenyan showdown at London Grand Prix (Organizers)
August 5, 2010
• Activists burn Chinese flag, denounce Meles as 'mercenary' (Ethiomedia)
• President Obama's townhall meeting with young African leaders (Video & Text)
• Aster Kassa killed in Ottawa (Blog)
• The demise of the Ethiopian literature (Dr. Mehari K. Alemseged)
• A statement on the bogus TPLF rally (Ethio-Somali Advocacy Council)
• Meles, the opposition, and the future up to 2015 (Amoraw Ferrede)
• Another look at the Ethiopian economy (Tigabu Molla Meresa)
Urgent Notice (Addis Dimts Radio in Washington, DC)
August 4, 2010
• A response to "Church leaders hold secret talks" (Aleqa Hara Dingil)
• Letter to Dr. Mesfin Arega (Dabala Olana)
• A father's undying love (Tibebe Samuel Ferenj)
• TPLF: A self-claimed democracy without people (Gizachew Admasu)
• Video: ESAT Tombola winners (Hosts)
• The new scramble for Africa (Yetera Bolle)
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