Posts Tagged ‘meles zenawi’

Ethiopia government crackdown following aid investigation:BBC Video

September 24 | Posted by Ethiopiaforums | Ethiopia, Meles Zenawi, News, Politics, Uncategorized, Video, Wikileaks Tags: , , , , , , ,

A joint undercover investigation by BBC Newsnight and the Bureau of Investigative Journalism last month uncovered evidence that the Ethiopian government is using billions of dollars of development aid as a tool for political oppression. The team travelled to the southern region of Ethiopia where they found villages in which whole communities are starving, having allegedly... Read more

Ethiopia to Assess Impact of Nile Dam with New Egypt

September 19 | Posted by Ethiopiaforums | Egypt, Ethiopia, News, Nile, Uncategorized Tags: , , , , , , , ,

On Saturday, Egyptian Prime Minister Essam Sharaf agreed with his Ethiopian counterpart to set up a team of technical experts to assess the impact of the $4.8-billion Dam being built in Ethiopia. The dam will be one of two built along Ethiopia’s side of the Nile River as part of a plan to produce 20,000 megawatts of power... Read more

Ethiopia: Gov’t Denies Meles Zenawi Advising U.S. to Overthrow Sudan’s Government

September 16 | Posted by Ethiopiaforums | Ethiopia, News, Politics, Sudan, Uncategorized Tags: , , , , , ,

Khartoum — The Ethiopian government has disputed allegations that its Prime Minister Meles Zenawi advised the U.S. Administration that toppling the Sudanese government of president Al-Bashir is the “preferred option” for Washington. Allegations of Zenawi’s advice were revealed by the whistle-blowing website Wikileaks in a diplomatic cable detailing discussions that took place on 30 January 2009... Read more

Ethiopia: Govt Expelled Amnesty Delegates and Arrest 2 Politicians

August 31 | Posted by Ethiopiaforums | Ethiopia, Politics, Uncategorized Tags: , , , , , , , , , ,

Rights group Amnesty International says a group of its delegates was expelled from Ethiopia this week after meeting with two opposition leaders who have since been arrested. Amnesty said Wednesday that a delegation of foreign members was told by Ethiopian officials on August 27 to leave the country, after it held separate meetings with the opposition leaders. The... Read more

The bad boy of the Horn of Africa: How Eritrea’s strongman uses Kenya as a terror finance hub

August 9 | Posted by Ethiopiaforums | Africa, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Meles Zenawi, News, People, Politics, Somalia, Uncategorized Tags: , , , , , , , , , , ,

In early July, as Kenya’s President Mwai Kibaki headed to Addis Ababa to chair a meeting of the Intergovernmental Authority on Development (Igad), a six-country partnership formed to address issues of drought, security and development in the Horn of Africa, he sounded a stern warning to Eritrea. For Kibaki, a president who is not known for his love of dramatic public... Read more

Human Rights and the War on Terror in Ethiopia

August 3 | Posted by Ethiopiaforums | Ethiopia, Ethiopian Protest, News, Politics, Uncategorized Tags: , , , , ,

It is not entirely out of the ordinary to hear of the arrest of political dissidents in Ethiopia, but a recent cluster of arrests has drawn attention from the international human rights community.

Abigail Salisbury
Over the last few weeks, a group of at least nine journalists, Ethiopian National Democratic Party members... Read more

Ethiopia Inflation Rate Climbs to 38.1% in June From Year Ago

July 13 | Posted by Ethiopiaforums | Economy, Ethiopia, News, Politics, Uncategorized Tags: , , , , , ,

Ethiopia’s inflation rate climbed to 38.1 percent in June from a year earlier as food costs increased and the central bank boosted the money supply. Inflation accelerated from 34.7 percent in May, the Central Statistical Agency, based in the capital, Addis Ababa, said in an e-mailed statement today. Food prices surged 45.3 percent in June after rising 40.7 percent... Read more

Ethiopia jails 14 for African Union HQ bomb plot

June 9 | Posted by Ethiopiaforums | Eritrea, Ethiopia, News, Politics, Uncategorized Tags: , , , , , , ,

ADDIS ABABA — Ethiopia’s supreme court jailed 14 people for terms ranging from nine years to life for plotting bomb attacks, including on the African Union’s headquarters, court papers showed Thursday. In the verdict handed down on Wednesday, judges said the 14 had the backing of Eritrea for the plan to bomb key targets in Addis Ababa... Read more

Meles Zenawi named one of The world’s enduring dictator by CBS News

June 8 | Posted by Ethiopiaforums | Ethiopia, Meles Zenawi, News, People, Politics, Uncategorized, World Tags: , , , , , ,

This is an installment in the WorldWatch series, “The world’s enduring dictators,” inspired by events in Tunisia and Egypt, in which CBSNews.com takes a look at the men who continue to rule their lands unimpeded by law. Meles Zenawi, Ethiopia

Meles Zenawi
Length of rule: 16 years. Zenawi helped lead the rebel movement that... Read more

Ethiopia’s human rights record scrutinized

May 24 | Posted by Ethiopiaforums | Africa, Ethiopia, News, Politics, Uncategorized Tags: , , , , ,

Ethiopian leader Meles Zenawi shows it is hard to sustain democracy. NAIROBI, Kenya — It has proven notoriously tricky for Africa’s rebel armies to transform themselves into democratic governments and Ethiopia offers perhaps the clearest case study on the continent of how and why this transition so rarely happens. Ethiopia, under rebel fighter turned political leader Prime Minister ... Read more

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