Ethiopian News and Politics Journal
News and Articles
Perth memorial for Ethiopian bus crash victims
Jan 21st
The Sydney Morning Herald: Two Perth sisters were among the 43 passengers killed in a fiery bus crash in Ethiopia on 
Tuesday. Seble and Maza Getachew had lived in Perth for a number of years and studied at Curtin University as international students before recently relocating to Melbourne. The Getachew sisters, aged in their 20s, were originally from the Ethiopian city of Dire Dawa but it is not yet known whether they were related to the Melbourne man, who was a permanent resident in Australia. Read More…
Bavarians block move to serialise Adolf Hitler autobiography
Jan 20th
Scotsman: A British publisher’s plans to begin selling extracts from Adolf Hitler’s hate-filled autobiography Mein Kampf at German newspaper kiosks and shops this week is set to be blocked. Read More…
Terrorism Verdict Quashes Free Speech
Jan 20th
HRW: The Ethiopian Federal High Court on January 19, 2012, convicted three Ethiopian journalists, an opposition leader, and a fifth person under an anti-terrorism law that violates free expression and due process rights, Human Rights Watch said today. Read More…
Gunmen kill tourists in northern Ethiopia
Jan 17th
By Aaron Maasho: Gunmen have killed five foreign tourists in Ethiopia's remote northern Afar region, after crossing into the Horn of Africa country from neighbouring Eritrea, state television said on Tuesday. A Western diplomat told Reuters German nationals were among those killed in the attack which happened late on Monday. He did not confirm the total number of dead. Read More…
The Proxy Game
Jan 17th
By Gemencho: The London conference of 1991 deserves the credit for engineering the coup d’ etat of 1991 in Ethiopia, and for manufacturing a democratic cover to the anti-Ethiopian narrative. Not surprisingly, this is what frames all colonial and imperial adventures. … The slogan is out, and it says: “forget ethnic politics, fight for democracy”. The entire ethnocentric cabal is coalescing against it. The game is reset to 1991, to be played by the proxies who are craving and competing to replace Meles. Read More…
What’s in a corpse?
Jan 15th
By Hama Tuma: American Marine soldiers were captured on video peeing on the corpses of Taliban fighters. They evidently enjoyed their act, these sons of Christian and civilized America which always strives to teach us Christian democratic values. At the risk of annoying some quarters let me ask the pertinent question: what is in a corpse? Corpses have been sold, mutilated and defiled in the past. Read More…
Philanthropic Imperialism: the National Endowment for Democracy (NED)
Jan 11th
By William Clark: The NED was devised to eliminate the stigma associated with CIA covert activities in the wake of Watergate and the Church Committee. According to William Blum it was a masterpiece 'of politics, of public relations, and of cynicism;' in effect, enabling the CIA to launder money through the NED. Read More…
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