Ethiopian News and Politics Journal
Meles casts the tax net wide for his dam
Sep 22nd
The Indian Ocean: Meles Zenawi's private lender. During a ceremony held in Addis Ababa on 11 September to thank the leading acquires of treasury bonds, Meles Zenawi bestowed particular satisfaction to the Saudi-Ethiopian magnate Mohammed Hussein Al Amoudi. This EPRDF partisan who was already the main contributor to the organization's congress last year (ION 1285) undertook this year to acquire bonds for 1.5 billion Birrs (€ 64 million). Read More…
US Building Drone Bases in Africa, Arabian Peninsula
Sep 21st
VOA: Citing U.S. defense officials, The Washington Post reported that the U.S. is building a new military installation to host the unmanned aircraft in Ethiopia, where drones can more easily attack members of the militant group al-Shabab that is fighting for control of neighboring Somalia. Read More…
Anti Terror or Anti Free Press? Brutal repression against independent journalists
Sep 18th
SOCEPP: The repressive regime of Meles Zenaw has decreed a convenient anti terrorism law that is invoking to justify its repression against free journalist and all political dissidents. The so called law is such that a mild critic of the regime qualifies as terrorism. Read More…
Ethiopians in the Sudan facing danger
Sep 17th
SOCEPP: Andualem Alemayehu, an Ehiopian who had been expressing, over the Eritrean Television, his disapproval of the Meles Zenawi regime is presently in the central prison of Khartoum awaiting possible deportation. Read More…
SOCEPP denounces the intensified repression in Ethiopia
Sep 17th
The ruling EPRDF regime is panicking. It has arrested and tortured many journalists, dissidents and political personalities in the last few months so viciously that may are suggesting it is in a state of panic. Referring to a convenient anti terrorism law it has unleashed its repressive dogs against all and sundry and detained many political personalities. Read More…
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