Archive for the ‘World’ Category

By Oromsis Adula It was a wet-nippy day in Minnesota, the North Star State – the Land of 10,000 Lakes. At about 10 AM, October 3, 2009, brightly dressed members of the Oromo Community started arriving at Lake Nokomis in Minneapolis. For onlookers, especially the Americans, it must have been strange to see young children, women and elders dressed so lightly and colorfully on such a typical ... Full story

LOS ANGELES — Blood gushed from a student’s neck and formed a puddle on the floor of a UCLA lab as instructors struggled to stanch the wound. The 20-year-old woman was taken across the hall after being slashed in the neck by a classmate, and two staff members quickly applied pressure and put gauze on the wound. Stunned students watched in horror. “Her eyes rolled back in ... Full story

(HRW) — In the ever-shrinking space for freedom of expression and association in Ethiopia, Daniel Bekele has faced heavy-handed government repression as a prominent anti-poverty activist and human rights lawyer. Daniel has dedicated his life to building a vibrant civil society and strengthening human rights in a country where freedom of expression and other fundamental rights are severely constricted. After leading grassroots efforts to promote voter ... Full story

ADDIS ABABA, ETHIOPIA — Global Energy Ethiopia Plc. (GEE), a bio-energy company, has exported the first installment of raw castor and jatropha seeds, claiming that it had not been able to process them into crude oil due to the denial of a 75 million Birr loan from the Development Bank of Ethiopia (DBE). GEE, a subsidiary of a US company (Global Energy Pacific Ltd) based in ... Full story

By J. Calvitt Clarke III | Jacksonville University Often forgotten today, but often cited in the 1930s, many justified Italy's aggression against Ethiopia by the perceived need to blunt Japan's economic and racial charge into Ethiopia, Northeast Africa, and even Southeast Europe. (1) How do we explain this odd nexus uniting Ethiopia and Japan? Despite tenuous contacts with Africa for some time, only after the Meiji Restoration ... Full story

Ethiopian Airlines has begun flights to Liberia, with the first flight arriving at the Roberts International Airport (RIA) over this week. Ethiopian Airlines announced the opening of services to Monrovia as part of its first wave of destinations that will be added on its route network on October 25, 2009, including Mombasa, Kenya and Conakry, Guinea. The new service will link Monrovia to cities throughout ... Full story

(Oxfam) — Twenty-five years ago, Ethiopia was struck by one of the worst famines in its history. An estimated one million people died, and millions more suffered from extreme hunger and malnutrition. Today around 23 million people across East Africa are facing severe shortages of food and water after years of successive poor rains. Like other countries in the region, Ethiopia continues to suffer frequent droughts ... Full story

NAIROBI (Xinhua) — A vital air service providing humanitarian support to hundreds of thousands of vulnerable people in Ethiopia may be grounded in a matter of weeks due to shortage of funds, UN agencies warned this week. The UN Humanitarian Air Service (UNHAS) User Group, which includes UN agencies, non-governmental organizations and donor representatives, said the service urgently ... Full story

ADDIS ABABA (ST) — A newly formed coalition of Ethiopian opposition groups is accusing the ruling Tigrean People's Liberation Front (Woyanne) regime in Ethiopia of launching a new wave of arrests against opposition members, ahead of the approaching national election. The alliance, Forum for Democratic Dialogue in Ethiopia (FDDE), said that government cadres have intensified a new wave of arrests against opposition members on trumped-up charges ... Full story

The US Agency for International Development grants Global Team for Local Initiatives (GTLI), a Bainbridge, WA, nonprofit group, $387,000 to create clean water and sanitation programs in Ethiopia. The program is said to be aimed at aiding the Hamar tribe in southern Ethiopia and will deliver hygiene training, wells and cisterns to 3,000 people. “Many women travel up to three hours one way during the wet season ... Full story