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8 Jun 2004 (IRIN)-ETHIOPIA: Major relief effort in progress for resettled people
Reviewing the Prime Minister’s ‘Interview’
By Fitsum Getachew
4 June, 2004(ADDIS TRIBUNE)-Government to Issue Broadcast Licences
4 June, 2004(IRIN)-ETHIOPIA: Food aid distribution in drought-hit areas still inadequate
26 May, 2004(afrol)-Eritrea markets role in "Coalition of the Willing"
25 May, 2004(IRIN)-ETHIOPIA: Human rights council criticises security forces and students
20 May, 2004(Reuters)-Ethiopia Sounds Alarm Over Rising HIV Infections
19 May, 2004(Amnesty Intl.)- Torture, arbitrary detention, "disappearances" and ill-treatment of political prisoners have become entrenched in Eritrea.President Issayas Afewerki's one-party government has stopped all dialogue on human rights and rejected any scrutiny of violations.
18 May, 2004(IPI/IFEX)-Ethiopia added to IPI Watch List
14 May, 2004(afrol News)-Mr Annan slams Eritrea over attacks
ADDIS ABABA,14 May 2004 (IRIN) -ERITREA-ETHIOPIA: Addis Ababa says militia trespass of TSZ prompted by cattle theft
11 May, 2004(afrol News)-UN tables ultimatum to Eritrea, Ethiopia
April 29, 2004 (CNN)-Ethiopian PM: Report of army killings 'fiction'
Geneva-Washington,5 May 2004(OMCT)-OMCT and Genocide Watch respond to Ethiopian Prime Minister's denial of massacres of Anuaks
6 May, 2004(BBC)-Ethiopian army 'involved' in clashes
ADDIS ABABA, 5 May 2004 (IRIN) -ERITREA-ETHIOPIA: Media watchdog deplores constraints on journalists
ADDIS ABABA, 5 May 2004 (IRIN) -ETHIOPIA-ERITREA: UN Security Council urges full cooperation with UNMEE
29 Apr 2004 13:06:06 GMT
(REUTERS)Ethiopia's Meles warns Eritrea not to attack
29 Apr 2004 20:10:06 GMT
(REUTERS)Grenade attack wounds four Ethiopian students
NAIROBI, 23 Apr 2004 (IRIN) - ETHIOPIA: World Bank announces US $3.3 billion debt relief under HIPC
How Much ‘Politics’ is There in the Current Student ‘Unrest’?
By Fitsum Getachew
ADDIS ABABA, 13 Apr 2004 (IRIN) - ETHIOPIA: Media watchdog calls for unity within journalists' association
Friday, 2 April, 2004(BBC)Net bid to bring Ethiopians home-A new website has been launched to reverse Ethiopia's "brain drain" - the flight of its skilled people abroad.
Addis Ababa, March 31(WIC)Diaspora Skills, Remittance said huge potential for Ethiopian Development
Amnesty International Report 2003 on Ethiopia
Amnesty Intrnational
24 March,2004(CNN)Ethiopia considers dam on the Blue Nile
Is ‘Gambella'a Timely Alarm?
By Fitsum Getachew
Taxi driver found slain
(Rocky Mountain News)
US Department of State’s human rights report on Ethiopia for year 2003
(released February 25,2004)
Reflections on Adwa: Menelik’s Masterpiece
By Fitsum Getachew
ADDIS ABABA, 9 Mar 2004 (IRIN) - Escalating tensions between Ethiopia and Eritrea are threatening their current military stability, United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan warned on Monday.
Of Books on Ethiopia, and "Organic Ethiopia"
By Fitsum Getachew
ADDIS ABABA, 27 Feb 2004 (IRIN) - Ethiopia’s political opposition groups are still being oppressed with little over a year before the next national elections in 2005, according to the US State Department. Full report
ADDIS ABABA, 23
Feb 2004 (IRIN) --
A government ban on the country’s besieged independent journalists'
association has been lifted ahead of court action seeking to overturn the
ruling, officials told IRIN on Monday.
THE EASTAFRICAN-
Tanzania last week launched a Tsh27.6 billion ($27.6 million) project to
draw water from Lake Victoria to supply Kahama in Shinyanga region, in
contravention of two treaties colonial Britain signed with Egypt and Sudan
controlling the use of water from the lake.
By FAUSTINE RWAMBALI
The ‘Feud?
over Addis: Prospecting ‘Ethnic Politics?
By Fitsum Getachew
BBC,Crossing Continents-No
Easy Walk To Freedom
The
international community appears to be gearing up to try to end the
stalemate over the Ethiopia-Eritrea border dispute.
By Martin
Plaut BBC, London
U.K.(P.A.News)“It is very
difficult for the outside world to understand when two small, extremely
poor countries get involved in a war that consumes perhaps nearly 100,000
lives over a very small amount of territorial difference on the border,?
Mullin said. “You have to start compromising and moving toward the bigger
picture.?"
A few days
ago, a friend of mine came to me, filled with rage and fury, and asked :
“did you know that here in Addis there is a hospital, run under a foreign
umbrella, that without scruples, trades on the skin of our sisters??
By Fitsum Getachew
ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia(SSI) - The
Nihongo property Development Company of Japan in association with Chinese
investors announced that it is in the final stages of tabling a proposal
to the Ethiopian Government to build what will be Africa’s tallest
building in Addis Ababa. Full report
ADDIS ABABA, 19 December (IRIN) - The
European Union has stepped up a “twin track?approach aimed at resolving
the stalled peace process between Ethiopia and Eritrea, officials said on
Friday. Full report
2003-11-05 (The Reporter)"Should
a political party in power become a common trader, a common businessman?"
The Managing Director of United Insurance Company (S.C) says there will
not be fair competition as long as there are party-owned and
government-owned companies. Ato Eyessus-work Zafu made the remark in an
interview with Melese Telahun of The Reporter on the involvement of the
private insurance businesses in the Ethiopian economy and the obstacles
they are facing in carrying out their activities. Full Story
ADDIS ABABA, 20 Nov 2003 (IRIN)
- Ethiopia is predicting a good harvest after one of the worst droughts in
its history left 13 million facing starvation, government officials said
on Wednesday. Full report
Whatever
nasty things may be said about it and its government, America has the
reputation of being prospected as ‘the land of infinite opportunities?
And even if one is understood to pay a lot of unpleasant sacrifices in the
first years, in the long run, many are convinced it is worth the
trial.
By Fitsum Getachew
NAIROBI, 22 May 2003 (IRIN) -Regional
observers point to the fiercely independent, “go-it-alone?Eritrean
psyche, borne out of a 30-year struggle that was largely unsupported by
the international community. In independent Eritrea, officials frequently
state their refusal to “play the game?
ADDIS ABABA, 29 Oct 2003 (IRIN)
During a tour of the Horn of Africa region, IRIN was granted an interview
with Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi in which he discussed at length
problems concerning the peace process with Eritrea. He also talked about
Somalia and domestic issues.
New snag
in Horn border dispute
By Martin Plaut BBC regional analyst
Badme is an issue
on which the Ethiopian government, for once and for all, lost the very
people it was supposed to serve and exhibited its political and diplomatic
nakedness.
By Kaleab Tamene
Beyond the
'puzzle' of 'Badme' .
By Fitsum Getachew
“Suffering. There is
too much suffering going on in this world. People suffer for all kinds of
reasons. Some of it just don't make no sense. There's enough for everybody
under the sky and all the suffering is caused by greed.?
-Surafel
Assaminew(SELEDA:The Paranoia and ... Issue)
WHO IS ADI
AMIN?
By Fitsum Getachew
The
plight of our sisters emigrating to arab countries in search of a better
life is getting increasingly grisly. Our contributor Fitsum Getachew
writes on this gruesome journey across the red sea in search of a better
life and the price paid.
Are you
fond of chewing tchat? Our contributor Fitsum Getachew pulls his pen to
attack what many consider to be the 'spice of the soul'
Night
clubs in Addis have sarcastically progressed one step higher with the
introduction of streaptease shows where girls entertain their audience
fully naked.
By Fitsum Getachew
Where
does our football stand today? Fitsum Getachew writes.
I
couldn’t understand the merciless killing of an Ethiopian immigrant
striving to make ends meet in a country that is bragging of its democratic
culture-a nation trying to set the standards of justice in the world while
at the same time is trampling upon its own.
By Kaleab
Tamene
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