Ethiopian News and Politics Journal
Land scarcity drives a bout of ethnic violence in Kenya, Ethiopia
May 11th
Africa Monitor: The Turkana of northwest Kenya and Daasanach of southern Ethiopia have been at odds for years, but food scarcity, drought, and changing lifestyles are exacerbating tensions. Read More…
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Itching the unitching (Yalbeluten Makek)
May 11th
By Elias Mengesha (Heppenheim-Germany): The recent campaign of the Meles regime throughout the Diaspora to raise funds by selling bonds and using the proceeds to build a dam on the Blue Nile river has met fierce resistance. Read More…
Ethiopian Inflation Accelerates to 29.5% as Food Costs Jump
May 10th
[Oops, wasn't the Meles regime chosen to host World Economic Forum on Africa 2012 for its emerging promise of economic growth?]
By William Davison: The inflation rate increased from 25 percent in March, the Addis Ababa-based agency said on its website today. Food prices, which make up more than half of the basket of goods used to calculate overall inflation, surged 32.2 percent from a year earlier, while non-food items rose 25.6 percent, it said. Read More…
Ethiopia Says It May Grant Additional Land to Karuturi Global
May 8th
[Weyane is lying as usual to cover up its sale out of Ethiopian land to foreigners.]
By William Davison: Karuturi Global Ltd. may receive an additional 200,000 hectares (494,211 acres) of land from the Ethiopian government if its current 100,000-hectare concession is developed within two years, the Agriculture Ministry said. … On April 29, Esayas said the government in November reduced Karuturi’s concession by two-thirds from 300,000 hectares because the area was too large for a single company to manage and to allow for an annual migration of antelope in southwestern Ethiopia. Karuturi yesterday denied the concession had been reduced. Read More…
Our dog of a life
May 8th
By Hama Tuma: No need to mention that most Africans survive on US$ 2 per day. Some do not feel guilty on such spending on their pets as they claim that $26.53 billion is spent on cafes, restaurants and takeaways while dogs (and to a certain extent even cats) at least greet you with joy and act as good and long lasting companions. Moreover, pampering dogs is not as costly or as bad for example as pampering George W. Bush who said recently “I miss being pampered” and Bush was no pet at all. Read More…
Migrant Boat Sinks off Lampedusa Island, Italy
May 8th
NTD TV: Officials believe up to 250 people are still missing while at least 15 people died following the accident. The boat, which appeared to be carrying mainly Eritrean and Somali migrants, left Libya two days ago. Rescuers picked up the survivors, including a number of women and children, after the boat sank early this morning, around 40 miles south of Lampedusa. Fifteen bodies had been seen in the water by mid-morning but high winds and rough seas have made it difficult for coast guard boats and police to operate. Read More…
The Sin of the Rest of the Animals Which Were Not Chosen By Noah
May 7th
By Henoke Yeshetlla: A few lines of thought drifted away from the blank pages facing me rectangularly , a miss- communication between my brain and my fingers tips, whose very task is to listen to the mind and engrave it on the Microsoft world; however, this are the questions that were engulfed my mind … Read More
Violation of the right to property and decent shelter
May 6th
SOCEPP: To compound matters, the repressive regime of Meles Zenawi has launched the brutal action of bulldozing no less than 5000 homes in the city of Makalle (Tigrai). 15, 000 people have been left without shelter. Two kinder gardens and a church are amongst those to be bulldozed. The homes were built by the people most of who forcefully deported from Eritrea … Read More
Outcast – the Plight of Black African Refugees
May 6th
Once again Yilma Tafere Tasew brings together a group of refugees, scholars, activists, and professionals to discuss the very important matter of African refugees. This book also includes his own autobiographical contribution providing more details of his experience as a refugee at the Kakuma Camp, in northeast Kenya. Tasew's contribution is heartfelt, blunt and revealing. For those of us used to encountering refugees in our own comfortable developed countries his writings offer a window into a trauma the majority of us will be spared. Read More…
