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Nov. 30 2007

Ethiopia-Eritrea border demarcation deadline passing
The deadline to set a boundary between Ethiopia and Eritrea will pass on Friday with the disputed frontier likely to be left as demarcated on their maps, and Ethiopia dismissing fears of a re-eruption of a border war. "We will never, ever go to war with Eritrea , unless there is full scale invasion," Meles said on Thursday. "I do not think that the Eritrean government would launch a full scale invasion, because it would be suicidal for them."

Meles Predicts Ethiopia-Eritrea Boundary Deadline to Pass Without Incident
"We will never, ever go to war with Eritrea unless there is a full-scale invasion," he said. "Not any old provocation. Full-scale invasion. That is the only condition that would force us to fight Eritrea. I don't expect the Eritrean side to carry out full-scale invasion because I think they know it is going to be suicide. So I'm very confident the deadline the boundary commission has set for itself is going to pass like any of those days that have passed since the beginning of the millennium." "As far as the virtual demarcation of the boundary is concerned, I have heard well-respected diplomats and lawyers describe it as 'legal nonsense'," he said. "Our lawyers agree with such characterization..."

Ethiopia launches US President's malaria initiative
Ethiopia Friday became a focus country for the historic US$1.2 billion, five-year effort backed by the United States government to fight malaria across Africa. "This is a tremendous opportunity to save lives and reduce disease by building upon successful malaria treatment and control activities already underway in Ethiopia," said Yamamoto.

Kenya arrests 12 suspected Ethiopian rebels
Kenyan police said on Friday they had arrested 12 suspected Ethiopian rebels and nine locals accused of helping them in a remote region on the border with Ethiopia. "The operation is still going on and we shall not allow any group to use our soil to fight a friendly government," he said. The rest will be deported if confirmed as OLF members.

Nov. 29 2007

Ethiopia may top the world in specialty coffee
Ethiopia is on the verge of becoming one of the leading forces in the specialty coffee market going by the support it is receiv i ng from Starbucks Corporation, one of the world's largest specialty coffee companies.

U.S.'s Rice to visit Ethiopia in rare Africa trip
U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice will visit Ethiopia next week for meetings on the conflicts in the volatile African Great Lakes region and Sudan and Somalia, said the State Department on Thursday. Tensions have been rising in recent months between Ethiopia and its neighbor Eritrea over its disputed border, with Eritrea accusing the United States of siding with Addis Ababa.

Nov. 28 2007

Eritrea-Ethiopia border deadline looms amid war fears
Analysts say it is unlikely much will change on the border even if the commission closes as expected on Friday -- except psychologically. The tensions of the past five years are unlikely to diminish. "It's highly possible that the end of the (commission) will be a non-event and will leave the situation in a vacuum," said Francois Grignon, Africa Programme director for the International Crisis Group.

Starbucks to open farmer-support center in Ethiopia
Starbucks plans to open a farmer-support center in Ethiopia next year, the company is announcing today as Chairman Howard Schultz meets with Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi. The prime minister invited Schultz to visit because of the strengthening relationship between the Seattle company and the coffee-growing country, Starbucks officials said.

More than a billion trees planted in 2007: UN
UNEP said the total number of trees planted is still being collated, but developing countries top the list with more than 700 million in Ethiopia and 217 million in Mexico.

Nov. 27 2007

Ethiopia plays down war talk ahead of border deadline
Three days before a deadline for demarcating their disputed border, Ethiopia said on Tuesday it had no plans for another bout of fighting with arch-foe Eritrea but would crush any attempt by Asmara to invade. "Ethiopia has no reason to launch another war against Eritrea. Our intention has always been to resolve all outstanding border problems with Eritrea through peaceful means," Prime Minister Meles Zenawi told parliament.

"Should Eritrea launch another war, we will make certain that Asmara would never, ever dream of even entertaining or thinking about war again." he said. Listen to the PMs full speech. Part one Part two

Ethiopia ups military budget, blames Eritrea threat
Ethiopia has boosted its defence budget by more than $54-million to gird for a possible resumption of hostilities with Eritrea over their disputed border, Prime Minister Meles Zenawi told Parliament on Tuesday. "Our military budget has been raised proportionally from three billion to 3,5-billion birr [a rise of 16,7%, equivalent to $54,3-million]," Meles said.

Humanitarian situation in eastern Ethiopia has improved, says U.N. humanitarian chief
John Holmes, the U.N.'s humanitarian chief, visited the remote region Tuesday. In recent months, Ethiopia has expelled the International Committee of the Red Cross and the Dutch branch of Medecins Sans Frontieres from Ogaden. But in recent weeks the government has allowed 19 non-governmental organizations to return to work in the Ogaden, where the rebel Ogaden National Liberation Front attacked a Chinese-run oil exploration field in April, killing 74 people.

Suspect in 2 killings 'snapped,' LAPD says
A South Los Angeles man who allegedly dismembered his father's body and dumped the pieces beside a freeway near Fresno had a "history of mental issues," police said Monday. Mulushewa Tebedge, 33, used a knife to cut off his father's arms and head in the family's apartment last week to better "handle the body." But Tebedge apparently had less of a problem handling his sister. After stabbing her to death, Tebedge allegedly dumped her clothed body beside a freeway in Santa Barbara, police said. The killings occurred during the Ethiopian family's traditional Sunday night dinner, police said.

China in Africa: Developing ties
In the second part of a special series on China's new relationship with Africa, the BBC's Adam Blenford reports on the new roads being built in the Ethiopian capital, Addis Ababa.

Nov. 26 2007

US pledges 25 mln dollars for restive Ethiopian region
The United States has pledged 25 million worth of food aid for Ethiopia's restive Ogaden region amid reports of a humanitarian crisis fueled by the army's crackdown on separatist insurgents. "We have committed 25 million dollars worth of food, grains and others supplies which have already been purchased and are on their way," Henrietta Fore, director of US Foreign Assistance, said Saturday.

Ethiopian Orthodox Church members battle for possession of Maxfield Avenue premises
The group - which is loyal to the mother church in Addis Ababa in Ethiopia and which recently won a law suit to claim the Maxfield Avenue headquarters - turned up with new locks and keys to reclaim the premises, and was met with hostility by the other members currently occupying the premises. Since 1992 there has been a split in the church when the mother church appointed a new patriarch and Archbishop Paulos to replace the incumbent Mekrios, who was ill. A section of the church, led by the late Abuna Yesehaq Mandefro who was in charge of the Western Hemisphere branches of the Ethiopian Orthodox Church, contended that the decision by the mother church was a violation of its cannon.

The childish but bloody drama of CUD has world wide ramification. Look at what is happening in the Ethiopian Orthodox Church in Jamaica. It is shameful but it is not more shameful than CUD being in bed with shabiya.
(Tigrai Online comment)

Nov. 23 2007

Israeli Experts Train Farmers in Hawzen On Modern Beekeeping
Over 100 farmers in Hawzien district, Tigray regional state received training in modern beekeeping techniques by two Israeli experts from MASHAV, Israel's international cooperation agency. According to a statement from the Israeli embassy in Addis Ababa, the training was given a priority because the honey production in this area is of high quality and has a great potential for future growth in enhancing the beekeeping industry in the country.

Assistant Secretary of State Jendayi Frazer Interview with VOA
Q. Getting back to Eritrea. There had been some discussion that the United States might actually list Eritrea as a state sponsor of terrorism. It that still an active issue?
A. Yes it certainly is. We are still deliberating it. As I said many times before, we are putting together the case. When we make a judgment we take it very seriously. To be a state sponsor of terror, it is a very small group of countries that are on that list, so we take it very seriously before we would put a country on the state sponsor of terror list so we are gathering all the evidence to make that determination.

NHPC eyes projects in Congo, Ethiopia
The National Hydroelectric Power Corporation (NHPC) is in talks with the governments of Ethiopia and Congo for setting up projects in Africa. The company is expected to take the joint venture route for its overseas expansion plans. “We had discussions with the official representatives of the two countries in the presence of the power ministry officials and expect to strike some deals soon,” NHPC chairman and managing director SK Garg told mediapersons on the sidelines of a function here on Thursday.

£75m loo aid 'a lifesaver'
The US will pledged over $100 million annually to Ethiopia for development projects across the country. The US is one of the leading aid donors to Ethiopia along with the UK, Canada and Ireland.The director of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) mission in Ethiopia Glenn Anders said the money will be used to assist US agencies in Ethiopia as well as other developmental programs in Ethiopia.

Eritrea accuses Ethiopia of having 'declared war'
Eritrea said on Wednesday arch-foe Ethiopia had "long since declared war" on Asmara by refusing to implement a five-year-old border ruling marking their shared frontier. "In undermining the values of international agreements and refusing to withdraw from sovereign Eritrean territories, the TPLF regime (Ethiopia) has already launched an aggression against the Eritrean people," said an article in the government-run Eritrea Profile newspaper.

Looming threat of renewed war casts pall over Eritrea
"Things have changed, we are so tired of a pointless situation," said the fighter's companion, careful not to be overheard and asking not to be named. "People are suffering and the arguments must stop to find a solution to the border." It is a growing complaint in a tightly restricted country where the young are conscripted into mass national service, critics are silenced, military police prowl the streets, and where trade, industry and investment are choked by an austere war-time economy.

The Rogue Regime in Eritrea is Entrapped as its Deceptions are Exposed
A brave Eritrean national, who sued in a court of law the Eritrean regime and its agent in Toronto, Canada, for illegal 2% “tax” and other fraudulent means of extracting money from citizens, has won the case and is now legally entitled to receive all money taken from him in addition to 6% annual interest of the illegally extracted money. The accuser is now legally entitled for refunding and compensation of well over $60,000. According to the court decision, the PFDJ regime in Asmara and its agent, Beilul, shall be obliged to pay Mr. Tewelde Yohannes the sum of $52,132 plus an annual 6% of this money and the accuser’s petty expenses of $1,320. On top of that, the defendants will pay all expenses incurred by the accuser for his attorney at court.

Nov. 20 2007

New Yorkers Seek Religious Roots in Ethiopia
"We believe that that's the real center of the redemption of Africa, the real heart of Africa," said the Rev. Calvin Butts III. "Because it's peaceful, it's never been colonized and its people are fiercely independent and self reliant, and that's how we see ourselves."

The Capital Interview: Envoy Seeks Support for Ethiopia, Aid for Somalia
Pending U.S. congressional legislation would connect some U.S. technical aid to reforms in Ethiopia. Some members in Congress say the Ethiopian government has come down too hard on the opposition and has not acted enough to respond to reports of abuses in the post-election period of 2005. How do you respond to this criticism?

£75m loo aid 'a lifesaver'
Ministers have pledged £75million to provide clean water and toilets to millions of poor families in Ethiopia. "This will mean thousands of lives saved - 15 per cent of all premature deaths in Ethiopia are as a result of diarrhoea."

Nov. 19 2007

Tigray State creates job to over 9,000 in quarter year
Tigray State said it has created more than 9,000 jobs in micro and small-scale enterprises this budget year. Civil Service Reform and Public Relations Department Head with Tigray Trade, Industry and Transport Bureau, Gizachew Taddis,said there are plans to reduce unemployment by expanding micro and small-scale enterprises and creating jobs to 50,000 inhabitants in the year.

Eritrean Regime’s Myth of Self-Reliance
Most, if not all, of the projects that the Eritrean regime brags about to Eritreans and foreigners alike are funded by donors. In fact, the projects are funded to the tune of $533 million USD (apx. 8.5 billion Nackfa), of which $75 million (apx. 1.4 Billion Nackfa) is for the 2007 fiscal year alone, according to OCHA documents that have been made available to Awate.com. OCHA stands for Office for Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, which is an arm of the UN. This amount given makes Eritrea, on a per-capita basis, one of the largest beneficiaries of donor groups. In fact, aid accounts for 29% of Eritrea’s GDP, ranking Eritrea third in the world as the most dependent on aid.

For your information, 29% of Eritreans GDP income comes from donors as you can see above making Eritrea number 3 in the whole world, Ethiopia is number 31 with 10.8%. Now who is living on food aid? The other 38% GDP comes from Eritreans living abroad as remittance, Ethiopians send 4.4% GDP. The total amount from both sources is 66% of the Eritrean economy. God knows where the 34% comes from, maybe stolen from neighboring countries? Remember Eritrea was number 13th coffee producer in the world at one point with out having a single coffee tree in the country. You know how that happened.
(Tigrai Online comment)

FACTBOX: Facts about Ethiopia's ONLF rebels
Here are some key facts about the ONLF:
* Formed in 1984 amid a resurgence of separatist sentiment in the Ogaden region on Ethiopia's border with Somalia, many of its first members supported Mogadishu in its failed war with Addis Ababa over the region in the late 1970s.
* Ethiopia accuses the ONLF of being terrorists supported by arch-foe and neighbour Eritrea, and launched an unprecedented offensive earlier this year after a rebel attack on a Chinese oil-field that killed 74 people.

Nov. 17 2007

Ethiopian mother supports Angelina Jolie adoption
The mother of an Ethiopian baby adopted by Angelina Jolie denied on Saturday that she had ever challenged the adoption, and said she was happy her daughter had found a home with the Hollywood star. "I have never disputed the adoption," Mentwabe told Reuters. "This was a mistake. It was something I never said."

Insurgents attack Ugandan troops in Somali capital
Islamist rebels firing grenades attacked Ugandan peacekeepers early on Saturday in Mogadishu and briefly entered their base, but a spokesman for the African Union force said it suffered no casualties. "We killed one insurgent. His body is still lying there," AU spokesman Captain Paddy Ankunda told Reuters. "There are no casualties on our side. They attacked us in two groups using machineguns and rocket-propelled grenades and we defended ourselves. We have a mandate to defend ourselves."

Dream Team Campaign runners to support and protect Ethiopia’s children
UNICEF today called on the Ethiopian public to join efforts to realize the dreams of thousands of orphans and vulnerable children by taking part in this year’s Dream Team Campaign for the 2007 Toyota Millennium Great Ethiopian Run. “There is nothing more tragic than to see children losing their chance for a decent and fulfilling life because of lack of a caring, protective environment and resources to get a basic education,” said UNICEF Representative Bjorn Ljungqvist. “The Dream Team Campaign is a great way to support some of the most disadvantaged members of Ethiopian society.”

Nov. 16 2007

Al Qaeda in Somalia Promises to Behead Ethiopian Children In Addis Abeba
Aden Hashi Farah Ayro the leader of the African Courts Union's Hizbal Shabaab youth movement, warned that Somalian jihadis would someday reach the capital of Ethiopia and behead women and children there.

I am sure our heroic army is doing a great job destyoing the terrorists, however as long as shabiya is permited to train, arm and transport those deranged psychopathic religious fanatics, they will be poping up some where with more bloodlust than ever.

Hundreds of ONLF terrorists killed, wounded in Warder Zone
Hundreds of Ogaden National Liberation Front (ONLF) terrorists have reportedly been killed and wounded in the mop up operation underway since October 17,2007 in Warder Zone of Somali State. The terrorist group has been wrecking havoc in the surrounding with the logistical, training and leadership support of the Eritrean government, the commander noted, adding that two of the terrorists captured in the fight at Warder were soldiers of Shaebiya.

H.E. Foreign Minister Seyoum Mesfin's interview with the BBC Tuesday Nov. 13th
Zeinab Bedawi (ZB) Welcome Foreign Minister Seyoum Mesfin and thank you very much for joining me here today. Can I start by raising the issue of the 70 deaths that occurred when Ethiopia opened fire in a residential neighbourhood of Mogadishu. Was this a wise course of action?
Minister Seyoum (SM)) Ethiopian and TFG troops and the Somali police have been extremely cautious to avoid collateral damage and of course we feel regret for the loss of civilian lives, but Al Shabaab ..

The sunny side of bad times
New York - Here is a timely article: 2007 has been a difficult time for many Ethiopian-American home owners, as a large number have defaulted on their payments. However, there is a brighter side to the crashing real estate markets. In the following piece, Mesfin Ayenew, a former senior executive with Union Bank, Metrobank, Comerica Bank, First republic Bank and a developer of mixed use residential and retail developments, argues that the current bust can be a bonanza for smart investors.

Nov. 15 2007

Tigray State to Get 200m Br Vineyard
The new company's first venture will be an investment of 200 million Br, to develop a vineyard and farm on a 1,000hct leased plot, to be made available by the administration of Tigray Regional State. Of the total plot promised by the Regional State, Ethio Grapes has begun work on 400hct. Moges Mesfin, head of the Tigray Region Investment Office, confirmed that this is the largest amount of land ever divvied out in the State.

Proliferation Of Armed Resistance In Eritrea
Military Communique issued on October 31, 2007:
The Red Sea Afar Democratic Organization said its fighters have killed 23 Eritrean soldiers stationed around Bada area during an operation it launched to free imprisoned natives of Afar. The offensive launched on the 12th division of Shaebia is part of the struggle to overthrow the dictatorial regime and has killed 23 soldiers and wounded 15 others while the army's logistics warehouse was set ablaze.

Don’t Turn on Ethiopia
NINE years ago, two nations began the first modern war in sub-Saharan Africa, leaving in two years more than 100,000 dead. Today Eritrea and Ethiopia could reignite their old border conflict. Arms and money from radicals throughout the Middle East, as well as troops trained in Eritrea, have strengthened an insurgency in Ogaden Province, in southeastern Ethiopia.

Ethiopian adoption agency backs Angelina Jolie
Angelina Jolie's adoption of an Ethiopian baby was legal, the agency involved said on Thursday, rejecting reports that the child's relatives want her back. The court in Addis Ababa approved the adoption after studying the document her grandmother wrote ... saying her daughter, the mother of Zahara, had died and she was too poor to bring her up," Tsegaye Berhe, the head of Wide Horizons for Children, which conducted the adoption, told Reuters.

Ethiopia says accepting UN call on border row with Eritrea
Ethiopia fully accepts the call of the UN Security Council President made late Tuesday on the situation between Ethiopia and Eritrea, the Ministry of foreign Affairs said. "Ethiopia has repeatedly made clear its commitment to the demarcation according to international practice and norms, the statement said, adding Ethiopia fully accepts the President’s call the two parties to refrain from using force and to settle their disagreements by peaceful means, to normalize their relations, to promote stability, and to lay the foundation for sustainable peace in the region."

Nov. 14 2007

Ethiopia, Eritrea urged in Security Council presidential statement to implement boundary commission decision on disputed border
“The Security Council urges the parties to take concrete steps to implement immediately and without preconditions the delimitation decision of the EEBC, taking into account the parties’ commitments regarding the Temporary Security Zone, as expressed at the EEBC meeting of 6-7 September 2007, and to comply fully with the Algiers Agreements and prior Security Council resolutions and statements of its President, including on the issue of demarcation.

Angelina Jolie And Brad Pitt Buy Ethiopia
Ethiopia II: Son Of Ethiopia is off the coast of Dubai. According to the Emirates Today newspaper Bradgelina intend to use the reclaimed piece of land to showcase environmental issues and encourage people to live a greener life. They will do this from a manmade island.

Nov. 13 2007

Somali forces search for insurgents as mass exodus continues
Somali government soldiers Monday mounted a door-to-door search of a major marketplace in Mogadishu in search of Islamist insurgents as shell-shocked residents continued a massive exodus from the Somali capital.

Eritrea expels fourteen missionaries
“The government of Asmara, led by Isaias Afworki, has had a policy during recent years of running Westerner humanitarian workers out of the country. Since 2005, according to the ‘Proclamation’ which sent many organizations packing, the NGOs are no longer the ones who carry out projects but rather they are simply donors authorized to monitor. The government is the one that carries them out,” he explained.

Nov. 12 2007

Gebru's party intends to regain Assab Port through legal means
The chairman of the newly formed political party, the Union of Tigrians for Democracy and Sovereignty (UTDS), admitted that he and his previous party, TPLF, had committed serious mistakes concerning Ethio-Eritrean relations. The new party has included the agenda of regaining Assab port through peaceful and legal means, Gebru told The Reporter.

Mr. Chairman, congratulations! For legally establishing your new party. How ever I have one question. 17 years in TPLF in struggle, 10 years in power in EPRDF and 7 years in opposition; why did it take you 34 years to figure out that the 80 million Ethiopian people need a port and an outlet to the sea? Wouldn't it be fair for the people of Tigrai/Ethiopia if you come clean from the get go? How realistic is it that you will be regaining Assab port through peaceful and legal means? (Tigrai Online comment)

Firm builds steel, cement factories
Avornigia Technologies Ltd Ethiopia, an Israeli company, has secured a plot it needs for construction of the cement and steel factories it plans to build in the country. With a 10 mln birr capital, Avornigia' s factories company plans to create jobs for some 50 employees at the early stage. In a related development, another Israeli national is also investing on two projects: a five star hotel and farming of vegetable fruits and stevia for export in Oromia Region, with both projects expected to create a combined 7,500 jobs.

Ethiopian-Somali forces descend on Mogadishu's main market
Joint Ethiopian and Somali forces on Monday descended on Mogadishu's main market to search for weapons in a bid to stem an escalating insurgency in the capital, an official said. "Anybody who will be absent from his premises will be perceived to be hiding something. The operation will continue for a week," said Mogadishu's mayor, Mohamed Omar Habeb.

The rivers in Eritrea are swelling the lakes in Somalia so, dry the rivers in Eritra and Somalia would dry by itself. (Tigrai Online comment)

Nov. 10 2007

US urges restraint to avert new Eritrea-Ethiopia war
The United States on Friday urged Eritrea and Ethiopia to pull back troops from key border areas and use "maximum restraint" to avert a new war. "We are concerned about the military build up and tension on the border between Eritrea and Ethiopia," State Department spokesman Sean McCormack said in a statement.

President Isaias holds talks with UN Assistant Secretary General for Peacekeeping Operations
As regards the border issue, the UN official pointed out that both the Secretary General and the Security Council are concerned with the Boundary Commission’s decision on the finalization of demarcation only on paper. Mr. Mulet also stated that they believe that actual demarcation on the ground should take place and is Eritrea’s right. Moreover, he gave extensive clarification about the complications such a situation would create.

The visit by UN Assistant Secretary General for Peacekeeping Operations to Eritrea shows things are heating up. (Admin Comment)

Terrorists locked up after anti-terrorist operation by Somali TFG, Mogadishu residents
The Ministry of Information said the activities of the insurgents of the UIC has been locked up to an area called Bakara after the joint operation launched by the forces of the TFG of Somalia and residents of Mogadishu.

Nov. 09 2007

EIIPD President Professor Kinfe passes away
President of the Ethiopian International Institute for Peace and Development (EIIPD), Professor Kinfe Abraham, passed away yesterday after a brief illness. Professor Kinfe was an economist, educator, diplomat and political historian who holds Graduate and Doctoral Degrees from several European and US universities.

Corpses litter Mogadishu after new battles
Corpses were scattered on Mogadishu streets on Friday after fighting between Islamist-led insurgents and Ethiopian troops killed at least 20 people, witnesses said. Twelve more bodies, including two women, lay in an insurgent stronghold in the north of the city -- a district where rebels dragged dead Ethiopian soldiers along the roads on Thursday.

Ethiopia says it won't invade Eritrea
Ethiopia said on Friday it had no plans to invade arch-foe Eritrea, even as Asmara claimed for the fourth time in two weeks that Addis Ababa was preparing to launch an assault on the Red Sea state. "If at all there existed anything new and any military movements around the Eritrea-Ethiopian border, it will be only the Eritrean government which shall be the cause of the problem and which shall take full responsibility," he said.

Nov. 08 2007

American general seeks to play down fears over new Africa command
Somali rebel leader vows to fight on against Ethiopia
Slain Ethiopian soldier dragged in Mogadishu streets

Nov. 07 2007

UN chief concerned at troop buildup along Eritrea-Ethiopia border

Nov. 06 2007

Eritrea: Who Knew? Status as State Sponsor of Terrorism Seems Self-Evident
UN to open office in Ethiopia's troubled Ogaden
Ethiopia says wants talks, not war with Eritrea

Nov. 05 2007

Ethiopia and Eritrea: Stopping the Slide to War
INDIA HOLDS TALKS WITH FOUR AFRICAN COUNTRIES
When Ethiopian and local Sudanese music rocks Juba

Nov. 04 2007

Ethiopian farmers: new income cash crops

Nov. 03 2007

Eritrea accuses Ethiopia of invasion plans again
Ethiopia tackles Aids with coffee-flavour condoms
Ethiopia deploys more troops to Somali capital

Nov. 02 2007

Ethiopians in north want no repeat of border war
Rebels kill 23 Eritrean troops
A brittle Western ally in the Horn of Africa Ethiopia reaffirms backing for war-torn Somalia

Nov. 01 2007

Demonstration By United Eritreans - Washington, DC
Waiting for War
US Navy aids 2 seized ships off Somalia

PUBLIC ANNOUNCEMENT

TDVA night in Washington DC
They paid with their blood, the least we can do is to show our support, so lets do it.

Press Release by Union of Tigreans in North America (UTNA)
Members of the Tigrean community and partners are bracing themselves up and are in full gear to crown the Tigrean Disabled Veterans Association/TDVA/ support project with a resounding triumph. Preparations that are in full swing in major cities across the US and Canada are winding their pre-event activities with the necessary conditions already in place. The TDVA delegation that is going to tour North America by canvassing the cities of Washington DC, Las Vegas, Seattle, San Jose, Denver, Boston and Toronto will be accorded with a warm welcome by the Tigrean Community and friends, who are eager to see the events for fund raising and networking bear the desired fruit.

Asfaw Jebjeb and Aden Gebreslase Millenium tour in the Twin Cities

Free Book on Ancient History of Tigrai
"Queen of Sheba and Biblical Scholarship." (3rd edition 2007)

250 pages and appendices with maps and original documents in Ge'ez with transliteration and English translations.

The book argues that the ancient history of Tigrai is the key to resolving the present crisis in Biblical archaeology which is divided into two camps: (i) One that argues (Finkelstein, Silberman, Thompson, Hertzog) that since excavations began in the Holy land in 1920 no evidence has been forthcoming to support the belief that Moses, Joshua, David, Solomon ever existed and therefore the Old Testament is a fantasy or highly exaggerated; (ii) the other maintains that archaeological evidence will eventually be discovered.

This book argues that the Old Testament is a true story but its events up until 586 B.C.E. (the Babylonian destruction of Jerusalem) occurred in western Arabia and to a lesser extent in Tigrai. The book uses evidence from the life of the Queen of Sheba that includes inscriptions near Mekele, the structure and vocabulary of the Ancient West Arabian language, place names in Asir and Jizan, an analysis of the Sheba-Menelik Cycle within the Kebra Nagast, and data from remnant groups such as the Latos of Hamasien, the Ibro/Yibir of Somalia, the Beta Israel, the Qemant and the Lemba.
Dr Bernard Leeman

Check out this video it is very funny, it made wedi afom soooo!mad.

The Ethiopian Millennuim and Thanksgiving Night in Washington DC

New CD released by Rishan Gebre
Support your own home grown talent!

Meskel and Millennium party in Washington DC

Nov. 07 2007
It should be crystal clear to every one by now; the sociopathic dictator of Eritrea is behind ONLF, CUD, OLF, SNLF, GLF, EPPF and many other terrorist groups in Ethiopia. No matter what Ethiopia does to resolve the conflict peacefully, Eritrea is as much determined to do every thing to destabilize and destroy our country. Should we sit down and wait until our total destruction? The resounding answer by any red blooded Ethiopian should be NO! Believe me I know what the ugly consequence of war is, but Ethiopia and its people are slowly bleeding to death by the Eritreans. There is no other option but one, and that option is we should hit back and hit back really hard with out mercy. There is no development with out peace and security and there is no peace and security while Shabiya is in power.
(Tigrai Online comment)

Call to promote free press and media development in Ethiopia
This millennium petition is inspired by the unity of Ethiopians following the massacre of 65 Ethiopians by the ONLF rebels and by our courage to face numerous other rebels who are ready to massacre Ethiopians instead of joining the peaceful opposition parties inside the current Ethiopian parliament.

Sample letters to be sent to the three important personalities to oppose the bill HR 2003.
Please fill out the form in the following letters and send them via your email or regular mail. You could highlight, copy and paste them from this page.

Happy Ethiopian Millenium
Now that we are here in the year 2000, what should we do in the next 1000 years? We should use the Millennium to rid of our social problems, like hunger, diseases, illiteracy, and backwardness. We should use the new Millennium as a spring board to propel us towards the new era of prosperity, peace, and unity of our people, strength, technology, and the information highway.
Check out some of the third Ethiopian Millennium celebrations videos and more

PRESS RELEASE
Afar Community Association in UK
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August 27 2007

Check out the new album from Haftom G/Michael. More details on www.haftomgmichael.com
July 23 2007