Ethiopian News and Politics Journal
Norway – Stop harassing refugees and the threatening deportation!
Jan 27th
SOCEPP: Sad as it is, the State of Norway has broken with its worthy past of being the land of asylum and refuge. Nowadays, xenophobia is the vogue and real politick determines the policy of the Norwegian government. Ethiopian refugees have become the visible victim of this callous and cruel slide into the realm of violator of human rights on the part of Norway. Read More…
Woyane Court Sentences Journalists, Politician for Terrorism
Jan 26th
By William Davison: An Ethiopian judge sentenced three journalists, an opposition politician and another person to prison terms ranging from 14 years to life in jail for terrorism-related crimes. Read More…
Denounce the repressive regime’s illegal sentencing of journalists and political dissenters
Jan 27th
SOCEPP: The State controlled court in Addis Abeba has sentenced a number of journalists and political dissenters to years of imprisonment and thousands of Birr fine. Thus, Journalists Woubshet and Ms Reyot have been sentenced to 14 years of imprisonment a 33,000 Birr fine. Read More…
Israeli-born college graduates earn twice as much as their Ethiopian counter
Jan 25th
By Revital Blumenfeld፡ Ethiopian immigrants with college degrees earn only half as much as native-born Israelis with similar degrees, even when the immigrants have been living here for 20 years or more, according to a new report prepared by a research institute at the request of the Immigrant Absorption Ministry. Read More…
Somalia’s al-Shabab attack Ethiopian base in Beledweyne
Jan 25th
24 Janauary 2012: Islamist militants have launched a suicide truck bomb attack on an Ethiopian military base in central Somalia, witnesses say. Al-Shabab says it killed 10 Ethiopian soldiers in the attack in the town of Beledweyne but this has not been confirmed. Ethiopian forces seized Beledweyne from al-Shabab last month. Kenyan troops have also entered Somalia to battle the al-Qaeda linked group which still controls many areas. Beledweyne is a strategic town, 30km (20 miles) from the Ethiopian border on the main road to the capital, Mogadishu, and also on the major artery linking the north and south of the country. "There was a heavy explosion that shook the whole the city," local security official Mohamed Osman told the AFP news agency.
Mass Murderer Mengistu cannot be allowed to benefit from his crimes
Jan 14th
Mass murderer and brutal dictator Mengsitu Haile Mariam (exiled in Harare, Zimbabwe) has written a 500+ pages book that 
has been published by Tsehai Publisher of Los Angeles. This mass murderer has not yet atoned or paid for his horrendous crimes and the mass killings of the Red Terror. He now hopes to benefit from the sale of his book of lies. We strongly feel that this criminal should be tried before a court of law and should be hindered from benefitting from his crime. Thus, we have published the book in PDF and we are posting it for free usage of all interested readers. Read More of our preface and the book…
French Senate passes bill outlawing genocide denial
Jan 24th
(24/01/2012): France's Senate passed a bill Monday outlawing the denial of a genocide that has been recognised by French law, namely the Holocaust or the 1915-1916 massacre of Armenians by Ottoman Turks. France and Turkey headed for a major diplomatic rift on Monday after French senators ignored threats from Ankara and approved a law outlawing the public denial of genocides. The draft law passed by the Senate makes it illegal for anyone to deny that the mass killing of ethnic Armenians at the hands of Ottaman Turks in 1915 amounted to genocide. Under the law public denial would be punished by a year’s jail sentence and a €45,000 fine.
