Jailed icon Birtukan and brewing political storms amid hunger By Robele Ababya | January 12, 2010 Almaz Gebregziabher and her granddaughter, Halley, hold a photograph of Halley’s mother, Birtukan Mideksa,…
Ethiopians in Minnesota rally to free an “Icon of Democracy” By Douglas McGill, TC Daily Planet January 12, 2010 Flanked by UDJ officials Hailu Araya (left) and Gizachew Shiferaw, Birtukan…
Banker father of underwear bomber asked to testify in US AFP | January 12, 2010 WASHINGTON (AFP) – The banker father of the young Nigerian suspected of trying to blow…
Ethiopia’s “silently” creeping famine Alemayehu G. Mariam | January 11, 2010 “Oh! What a tangled web we weave, when first we practice to deceive,” said Sir Walter Scott, the novelist…
Sex under wraps By Mercedes Sayagues | January 11, 2010 I saw the sexiest men in the world on stage recently. They are Etran Finatawa (“stars of tradition”), a band…
If it’s war, act like it By Benny Avni, NY Post | January 11, 2010 So now President Obama finds himself facing a new headache — Yemen. Indeed, by (finally)…
Race fans stunned as Bekele slides to defeat By Sandy Sutherland, Scotsman | January 11, 2010 WE shall probably never know exactly why Ethiopian legend Kenenisa Bekele slithered to a…
U.N. asked to investigate fate of Eritrean journalists The Reporters Without Borders | January 11, 2010 Fessaye (Joshua) reportedly died in prison in January 2007 Reporters Without Borders wrote today,…
Siye: A sinner in need of repentance or a self-appointed cosmic deliverer By Kindeneh Mihretie | January 11, 2010 The latest issue of Awramba Times, a weekly newspaper published in…
Ethiopia expels Bloomberg correspondent Ethiomedia | January 10, 2010 Although the crimes are his own orders, when asked by the media, Meles would pop out his eyes, and dryly say,…