The Queen of Sheba January 25, 2021 The notorious Iraqi Muhammad Saeed al-Sahhaf, better known as Comical Ali, and Nazi Germany’s Joseph Goebbels are distinctly remembered as two of history’s wickedest liars—par excellence. It is fresh in our memory that Muhammad, a former Iraqi diplomat and politician, shot to global fame for his theatrical daily briefings fraught with lies and fabrications during the invasion of Iraq in 2003. In one occasion as Baghdad was falling and artillery fire could be heard from a near distance, he famously told the media that Iraq is beating the US-led coalition. The callous canon…
By Barry Malone ADDIS ABABA, May 18, 2010 (Reuters) – Ethiopians vote on Sunday in the first elections since a disputed 2005 poll — touted as the country’s first truly democratic vote…
MoreNext Sunday’s election in Ethiopia is a contest for 547 seats in the House of People’s Representatives, or parliament. Of those, a third are in Oromia, a vast farming region that stretches…
MoreMay 17, 2010 Protesters recently marched by the State Department demanding pressure for democratic change in Ethiopia Members of the Ethiopian diaspora and U.S. human rights groups want the U.S. government to…
MoreVOA/ May 16, 2010 Next week, Ethiopia holds its fourth national polls since the Ethiopian People?s Revolutionary Democratic Front (EPRDF) overthrew the 17-year-old Marxist government of Mengistu Hailemariam in May, 1991. Nationwide,…
MoreWill Ross BBC News, Ethiopia Ethiopia’s opposition leaders have called for a rerun of Sunday’s elections, saying they were flawed. Head of the main opposition coalition Merera Gudina said he will not…
MoreBy Sioum Gebeyehou Fighting Evil with Evil Breeds more Evil Change Your Behavior from Adversarial to Cooperative for a Transformative Reconciliation. If you act like their adversary– they will respond in kind…
MoreBy William Easterly and Laura Freschi | Aid Watch Helen Epstein, author of The Invisible Cure: Why We Are Losing The Fight Against AIDS in Africa, has a stunning piece on aid…
MoreEthiopian artists in the Washington Metro Area are organizing a special tribute to Tilahun Gessesse in remembrance of the first anniversary of his passing away. The event will be broadcast live by ethiov.com.…
MoreBy Mentesnot Mengesha Recently I have attended a music and drama show presented by household names in London Ethiopian Artists’ community including Behailu Nekatebebe and Yagersew Yayehyirad in collaboration with St Mary…
MoreAddis Ababa (DPA) — An Ethiopian opposition activist has been beaten to death in a politically motivated murder in the run-up to elections in May, an opposition leader said Friday. “Our activist…
MoreBy Teddy Fikre I will admit, I am by no means an expert on the Ethiopian community. In fact, having been away from Ethiopia for over 27 years and growing up in…
MoreI will commence a hunger strike in front of the White House to get President Obama or someone from his administration to acknowledge Birtukan Mideksa as a prisoner of conscious and to…
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