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                                    <td bgcolor="#F0FDA6" height="26" valign="top" width="5">
                                        <img border="0" height="10" src="images/arrow2.gif" width="5">
                                    </td>
                                    <td align="left" bgcolor="#F0FDA6" height="26" valign="top">
                                        <b>
                                            <font face="Candara" size="1">
                                                <a href="https://www.sudanreeves.org/" target="https://www.sudanreeves.org/">
                                                    Sudan
                                                </a>
                                                <a href="https://darfurdaily.blogspot.com/" target="https://darfurdaily.blogspot.com/">
                                                    Darfur
                                                </a>
                                            </font>
                                        </b>
                                    </td>
                                </tr>
                                <tr>
                                    <td bgcolor="#F0FDA6" height="26" valign="top" width="5">
                                        <img border="0" height="10" src="images/arrow2.gif" width="5">
                                    </td>
                                    <td align="left" bgcolor="#F0FDA6" height="26" valign="top">
                                        <a href="https://www.hcs.harvard.edu/ethiohs/events.php" target="https://www.hcs.harvard.edu/ethiohs/events.php">
                                            <b>
                                                <font face="Candara" size="1">
                                                    Ethiopian
            Students Association at Harvard
                                                </font>
                                            </b>
                                        </a>
                                    </td>
                                </tr>
                                <tr>
                                    <td bgcolor="#F0FDA6" height="26" valign="top" width="5">
                                        <img border="0" height="10" src="images/arrow2.gif" width="5">
                                    </td>
                                    <td align="left" bgcolor="#F0FDA6" height="26" valign="top">
                                        <b>
                                            <a href="https://www.ginbot7.org/" target="https://www.ginbot7.org/">
                                                <font face="Candara" size="1">
                                                    Ginbot7
                                                </font>
                                            </a>
                                        </b>
                                    </td>
                                </tr>
                                <tr>
                                    <td bgcolor="#F0FDA6" height="26" valign="top" width="5">
                                        <img border="0" height="10" src="images/arrow2.gif" width="5">
                                    </td>
                                    <td align="left" bgcolor="#F0FDA6" height="26" valign="top">
                                        <a class="news" href="https://www.ethiopians.com/arts/nationalmuseum.htm" target="_blank">
                                            <b>
                                                <font face="Candara" size="1">
                                                    National
            Museum
                                                </font>
                                            </b>
                                        </a>
                                    </td>
                                </tr>
                                <tr>
                                    <td bgcolor="#F0FDA6" height="26" valign="top" width="5">
                                        <img border="0" height="10" src="images/arrow2.gif" width="5">
                                    </td>
                                    <td align="left" bgcolor="#F0FDA6" height="26" valign="top">
                                        <font face="Candara" size="1">
                                            <b>
                                                <a href="https://www.goodnewsethiopia.com/" target="https://www.goodnewsethiopia.com/">
                                                    <span style="mso-fareast-font-family: Times New Roman; color: green; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA">
                                                        Good
            News Ethiopia
                                                    </span>
                                                </a>
                                            </b>
                                        </font>
                                    </td>
                                </tr>
                                <tr>
                                    <td bgcolor="#F0FDA6" height="26" valign="top" width="5">
                                        <img border="0" height="10" src="images/arrow2.gif" width="5">
                                    </td>
                                    <td align="left" bgcolor="#F0FDA6" height="26" valign="top">
                                        <a class="news" href="https://www.africanews.org/" target="_blank">
                                            <b>
                                                <font face="Candara" size="1">
                                                    Africa 
            News Online
                                                </font>
                                            </b>
                                        </a>
                                    </td>
                                </tr>
                                <tr>
                                    <td bgcolor="#F0FDA6" height="20" valign="top" width="5">
                                        <img border="0" height="10" src="images/arrow2.gif" width="5">
                                    </td>
                                    <td align="left" bgcolor="#F0FDA6" height="20" valign="top">
                                        <font face="Candara" size="1">
                                            <a href="https://ethiopianamericanforum.com/">
                                                <b>
                                                    <span style="color: blue; mso-fareast-font-family: Times New Roman">
                                                        Ethiopianamerican
                                                    </span>
                                                </b>
                                            </a>
                                            <span style='font-size:12.0pt;
  font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"'>
                                                <o:p>
                                                </o:p>
                                            </span>
                                        </font>
                                    </td>
                                </tr>
                                <tr>
                                    <td bgcolor="#F0FDA6" height="16" valign="top" width="5">
                                        <img border="0" height="10" src="images/arrow2.gif" width="5">
                                    </td>
                                    <td align="left" bgcolor="#F0FDA6" height="16" valign="top">
                                        <a class="news" href="https://www.africalog.com/" target="_blank">
                                            <b>
                                                <font face="Candara" size="1">
                                                    Africalog
                                                </font>
                                            </b>
                                        </a>
                                    </td>
                                </tr>
                            </tbody>
                        </table>
                        <table bgcolor="#ffffff" border="0" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0" width="125">
                            <tbody>
                                <tr>
                                    <td align="center" bgcolor="#F0FDA6" colspan="2" valign="top">
                                        <b>
                                            <span class="head" target="_blank">
                                                INT'L 
            NEWS SITES
                                            </span>
                                        </b>
                                    </td>
                                </tr>
                                <tr>
                                    <td bgcolor="#F0FDA6" valign="top" width="5">
                                        <a href="https://www.africa-confidential.com/" target="_blank">
                                            <img border="0" height="10" src="images/arrow2.gif" width="5">
                                        </a>
                                    </td>
                                    <td align="left" bgcolor="#F0FDA6" valign="top">
                                        <a class="news" href="https://www.africa-confidential.com/" target="_blank">
                                            <font face="Candara">
                                                <b>
                                                    Africa
            Confidential
                                                </b>
                                            </font>
                                        </a>
                                    </td>
                                </tr>
                                <tr>
                                    <td bgcolor="#F0FDA6" valign="top" width="5">
                                        <img border="0" height="10" src="images/arrow2.gif" width="5">
                                    </td>
                                    <td align="left" bgcolor="#F0FDA6" valign="top">
                                        <a class="news" href="https://www.ifrc.org/" target="_blank">
                                            <font face="Candara">
                                                <b>
                                                    African
            Intelligence
                                                </b>
                                            </font>
                                        </a>
                                    </td>
                                </tr>
                                <tr>
                                    <td bgcolor="#F0FDA6" valign="top" width="5">
                                        <a href="https://news.bbc.co.uk/" target="_blank">
                                            <img border="0" height="10" src="images/arrow2.gif" width="5">
                                        </a>
                                    </td>
                                    <td align="left" bgcolor="#F0FDA6" valign="top">
                                        <a class="news" href="https://news.bbc.co.uk/" target="_blank">
                                            <font face="Candara">
                                                <b>
                                                    BBC
                                                </b>
                                            </font>
                                        </a>
                                    </td>
                                </tr>
                                <tr>
                                    <td bgcolor="#F0FDA6" valign="top" width="5">
                                        <a href="https://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/africa" target="_blank">
                                            <img border="0" height="10" src="images/arrow2.gif" width="5">
                                        </a>
                                    </td>
                                    <td align="left" bgcolor="#F0FDA6" valign="top">
                                        <a class="news" href="https://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/africa" target="_blank">
                                            <font face="Candara">
                                                <b>
                                                    BBC
            Africa
                                                </b>
                                            </font>
                                        </a>
                                    </td>
                                </tr>
                                <tr>
                                    <td bgcolor="#F0FDA6" valign="top" width="5">
                                        <a href="https://www.cnn.com/WORLD/" target="_blank">
                                            <img border="0" height="10" src="images/arrow2.gif" width="5">
                                        </a>
                                    </td>
                                    <td align="left" bgcolor="#F0FDA6" valign="top">
                                        <a class="news" href="https://www.cnn.com/WORLD/" target="_blank">
                                            <font face="Candara">
                                                <b>
                                                    CNN
                                                </b>
                                            </font>
                                        </a>
                                    </td>
                                </tr>
                                <tr>
                                    <td bgcolor="#F0FDA6" valign="top" width="5">
                                        <a href="https://www.reuters.com/home.jhtml;jsessionid=NLJXN0KSSEQQ4CRBAEKSFEYKEEATIIWD?action=check&amp;_requestid=306941" target="_blank">
                                            <img border="0" height="10" src="images/arrow2.gif" width="5">
                                        </a>
                                    </td>
                                    <td align="left" bgcolor="#F0FDA6" valign="top">
                                        <a class="news" href="https://www.reuters.com/home.jhtml;jsessionid=NLJXN0KSSEQQ4CRBAEKSFEYKEEATIIWD?action=check&amp;_requestid=306941" target="_blank">
                                            <font face="Candara">
                                                <b>
                                                    Reuters
                                                </b>
                                            </font>
                                        </a>
                                    </td>
                                </tr>
                                <tr>
                                    <td bgcolor="#F0FDA6" valign="top" width="5">
                                        <a href="https://www.guardian.co.uk/" target="_blank">
                                            <img border="0" height="10" src="images/arrow2.gif" width="5">
                                        </a>
                                    </td>
                                    <td align="left" bgcolor="#F0FDA6" valign="top">
                                        <a class="news" href="https://www.guardian.co.uk/" target="_blank">
                                            <font face="Candara">
                                                <b>
                                                    Guardian
                                                </b>
                                            </font>
                                        </a>
                                    </td>
                                </tr>
                                <tr>
                                    <td bgcolor="#F0FDA6" valign="top" width="5">
                                        <a href="https://www.angelfire.com/ga/FOPORACE/index.html" target="_blank">
                                            <img border="0" height="10" src="images/arrow2.gif" width="5">
                                        </a>
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                                    <td align="left" bgcolor="#F0FDA6" valign="top">
                                        <a class="news" href="https://www.angelfire.com/ga/FOPORACE/index.html" target="_blank">
                                            <font face="Candara">
                                                <b>
                                                    International
            News
                                                </b>
                                            </font>
                                        </a>
                                    </td>
                                </tr>
                                <tr>
                                    <td bgcolor="#F0FDA6" valign="top" width="5">
                                        <a href="https://www.independent.co.uk/" target="_blank">
                                            <img border="0" height="10" src="images/arrow2.gif" width="5">
                                        </a>
                                    </td>
                                    <td align="left" bgcolor="#F0FDA6" valign="top">
                                        <font face="Candara">
                                            <a class="news" href="https://www.msf.org/" target="_blank">
                                                The
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                                            </a>
                                        </font>
                                    </td>
                                </tr>
                                <tr>
                                    <td bgcolor="#F0FDA6" valign="top" width="5">
                                        <a href="https://www.independent.co.uk/" target="_blank">
                                            <img border="0" height="10" src="images/arrow2.gif" width="5">
                                        </a>
                                    </td>
                                    <td align="left" bgcolor="#F0FDA6" valign="top">
                                        <a class="news" href="https://www.independent.co.uk/" target="_blank">
                                            <font face="Candara">
                                                <b>
                                                    The
            Times
                                                </b>
                                            </font>
                                        </a>
                                    </td>
                                </tr>
                                <tr>
                                    <td bgcolor="#F0FDA6" valign="top" width="5">
                                        <a href="https://www.irinnews.org/" target="_blank">
                                            <img border="0" height="10" src="images/arrow2.gif" width="5">
                                        </a>
                                    </td>
                                    <td align="left" bgcolor="#F0FDA6" valign="top">
                                        <a class="news" href="https://www.irinnews.org/" target="_blank">
                                            <font face="Candara">
                                                <b>
                                                    IRIN
                                                </b>
                                            </font>
                                        </a>
                                    </td>
                                </tr>
                                <tr>
                                    <td bgcolor="#F0FDA6" valign="top" width="5">
                                        <a href="https://www.addistribune.com/" target="_blank">
                                            <img border="0" height="10" src="images/arrow2.gif" width="5">
                                        </a>
                                    </td>
                                    <td align="left" bgcolor="#F0FDA6" valign="top">
                                        <a class="news" href="https://www.addistribune.com/" target="_blank">
                                            <font face="Candara">
                                                <b>
                                                    Addis
            Tribune
                                                </b>
                                            </font>
                                        </a>
                                    </td>
                                </tr>
                                <tr>
                                    <td bgcolor="#F0FDA6" valign="top" width="5">
                                        <a href="https://allafrica.com/" target="_blank">
                                            <img border="0" height="10" src="images/arrow2.gif" width="5">
                                        </a>
                                    </td>
                                    <td align="left" bgcolor="#F0FDA6" valign="top">
                                        <a class="news" href="https://allafrica.com/" target="_blank">
                                            <font face="Candara">
                                                <b>
                                                    All
            Africa
                                                </b>
                                            </font>
                                        </a>
                                    </td>
                                </tr>
                                <tr>
                                    <td bgcolor="#F0FDA6" valign="top" width="5">
                                        <a href="https://www.telecom.net.et/~walta/" target="_blank">
                                            <img border="0" height="10" src="images/arrow2.gif" width="5">
                                        </a>
                                    </td>
                                    <td align="left" bgcolor="#F0FDA6" valign="top">
                                        <a class="news" href="https://www.telecom.net.et/~walta/" target="_blank">
                                            <font face="Candara">
                                                <b>
                                                    Walta
                                                </b>
                                            </font>
                                        </a>
                                    </td>
                                </tr>
                                <tr>
                                    <td bgcolor="#F0FDA6" valign="top" width="5">
                                        <a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/focusonafrica/" target="_blank">
                                            <img border="0" height="10" src="images/arrow2.gif" width="5">
                                        </a>
                                    </td>
                                    <td align="left" bgcolor="#F0FDA6" valign="top">
                                        <a class="news" href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/focusonafrica/" target="_blank">
                                            <font face="Candara">
                                                <b>
                                                    Focus
            on Africa
                                                </b>
                                            </font>
                                        </a>
                                    </td>
                                </tr>
                                <tr>
                                    <td bgcolor="#F0FDA6" valign="top" width="5">
                                        <a href="https://www.unhcr.ch/cgi-bin/texis/vtx/home" target="_blank">
                                            <img border="0" height="10" src="images/arrow2.gif" width="5">
                                        </a>
                                    </td>
                                    <td align="left" bgcolor="#F0FDA6" valign="top">
                                        <a class="news" href="https://www.unhcr.ch/cgi-bin/texis/vtx/home" target="_blank">
                                            <font face="Candara">
                                                <b>
                                                    UNHCR
                                                </b>
                                            </font>
                                        </a>
                                    </td>
                                </tr>
                            </tbody>
                        </table>
                        <table bgcolor="#ffffff" border="0" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0" height="246" width="127">
                            <tbody>
                                <tr>
                                    <td align="center" bgcolor="#BBF172" colspan="2" height="15" valign="top" width="121">
                                        <span class="head">
                                            <font face="Candara" size="2">
                                                <b>
                                                    &nbsp;RADIO
                                                </b>
                                            </font>
                                        </span>
                                    </td>
                                </tr>
                                <tr>
                                    <td bgcolor="#F0FDA6" height="16" valign="top" width="15">
                                        <font face="Candara" size="2">
                                            <b>
                                                <img border="0" height="9" src="images/audiopix.gif" width="12">
                                            </b>
                                        </font>
                                    </td>
                                    <td align="left" bgcolor="#F0FDA6" height="16" valign="top" width="100">
                                        <a class="news" href="https://www.tisjd.net./realaudio/audio.htm" target="_blank">
                                            <font face="Candara" size="2">
                                                <b>
                                                    Radio
            Solidarity
                                                </b>
                                            </font>
                                        </a>
                                    </td>
                                </tr>
                                <tr>
                                    <td bgcolor="#F0FDA6" height="16" valign="top" width="15">
                                        <font face="Candara" size="2">
                                            <b>
                                                <img border="0" height="9" src="images/audiopix.gif" width="12">
                                            </b>
                                        </font>
                                    </td>
                                    <td align="left" bgcolor="#F0FDA6" height="16" valign="top" width="100">
                                        <a class="news" href="https://www.dwelle.de/amharic/audio.html" target="_blank">
                                            <font face="Candara" size="2">
                                                <b>
                                                    German
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                                                </b>
                                            </font>
                                        </a>
                                    </td>
                                </tr>
                                <tr>
                                    <td bgcolor="#F0FDA6" height="30" valign="top" width="15">
                                        <font face="Candara" size="2">
                                            <b>
                                                <img border="0" height="9" src="images/audiopix.gif" width="12">
                                            </b>
                                        </font>
                                    </td>
                                    <td align="left" bgcolor="#F0FDA6" height="30" valign="top" width="100">
                                        <a class="news" href="https://www.voa.gov/horn/" target="_blank">
                                            <font face="Candara" size="2">
                                                <b>
                                                    Voice
            of America
                                                </b>
                                            </font>
                                        </a>
                                    </td>
                                </tr>
                                <tr>
                                    <td bgcolor="#F0FDA6" height="16" valign="top" width="15">
                                        <font face="Candara" size="2">
                                            <b>
                                                <img border="0" height="9" src="images/audiopix.gif" width="12">
                                            </b>
                                        </font>
                                    </td>
                                    <td align="left" bgcolor="#F0FDA6" height="16" valign="top" width="100">
                                        <a class="news" href="https://www.netsanet.com/" target="_blank">
                                            <font face="Candara" size="2">
                                                <b>
                                                    Nesanet
                                                </b>
                                            </font>
                                        </a>
                                    </td>
                                </tr>
                                <tr>
                                    <td bgcolor="#F0FDA6" height="16" valign="top" width="15">
                                        <font face="Candara" size="2">
                                            <b>
                                                <img border="0" height="9" src="images/audiopix.gif" width="12">
                                            </b>
                                        </font>
                                    </td>
                                    <td align="left" bgcolor="#F0FDA6" height="16" valign="top" width="100">
                                        <a class="news" href="https://www.un.org/" target="_blank">
                                            <font face="Candara" size="2">
                                                <b>
                                                    Radio
            UNMEE
                                                </b>
                                            </font>
                                        </a>
                                    </td>
                                </tr>
                                <tr>
                                    <td bgcolor="#F0FDA6" height="16" valign="top" width="15">
                                        <font face="Candara" size="2">
                                            <b>
                                                <img border="0" height="9" src="images/audiopix.gif" width="12">
                                            </b>
                                        </font>
                                    </td>
                                    <td align="left" bgcolor="#F0FDA6" height="16" valign="top" width="100">
                                        <a class="news" href="https://www.unicefusa.org/" target="_blank">
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                                                <b>
                                                    ETV
                                                </b>
                                            </font>
                                        </a>
                                    </td>
                                </tr>
                                <tr>
                                    <td bgcolor="#F0FDA6" height="16" valign="top" width="15">
                                        <font face="Candara" size="2">
                                            <b>
                                                <img border="0" height="9" src="images/audiopix.gif" width="12">
                                            </b>
                                        </font>
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                                    <td align="left" bgcolor="#F0FDA6" height="16" valign="top" width="100">
                                        <a class="news" href="https://www.care.org/" target="_blank">
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                                                <b>
                                                    Negat
                                                </b>
                                            </font>
                                        </a>
                                    </td>
                                </tr>
                                <tr>
                                    <td bgcolor="#F0FDA6" height="16" valign="top" width="15">
                                        <font face="Candara" size="2">
                                            <b>
                                                <img border="0" height="9" src="images/audiopix.gif" width="12">
                                            </b>
                                        </font>
                                    </td>
                                    <td align="left" bgcolor="#F0FDA6" height="16" valign="top" width="100">
                                        <a class="news" href="https://www.finote.org/toc.htm" target="_blank">
                                            <font face="Candara" size="2">
                                                <b>
                                                    Finote
            Radio
                                                </b>
                                            </font>
                                        </a>
                                    </td>
                                </tr>
                                <tr>
                                    <td bgcolor="#F0FDA6" height="16" valign="top" width="15">
                                        <font face="Candara" size="2">
                                            <b>
                                                <img border="0" height="9" src="images/audiopix.gif" width="12">
                                            </b>
                                        </font>
                                    </td>
                                    <td align="left" bgcolor="#F0FDA6" height="16" valign="top" width="100">
                                        <a class="news" href="https://www.medhin.org/" target="_blank">
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                                                <b>
                                                    Medhin
                                                </b>
                                            </font>
                                        </a>
                                    </td>
                                </tr>
                                <tr>
                                    <td bgcolor="#F0FDA6" height="29" valign="top" width="15">
                                        <font face="Candara" size="2">
                                            <b>
                                                <img border="0" height="9" src="images/audiopix.gif" width="12">
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                                    </td>
                                    <td align="left" bgcolor="#F0FDA6" height="29" valign="top" width="100">
                                        <a class="news" href="https://www.kfai.org/" target="_blank">
                                            <font face="Candara" size="2">
                                                <b>
                                                    Voice
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                                                </b>
                                            </font>
                                        </a>
                                    </td>
                                </tr>
                            </tbody>
                        </table>
                        <p align="left">
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                        <table bgcolor="#ffffff" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" height="43344" width="578">
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                                    <td align="left" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" height="43344" valign="top" width="440">
                                        <table border="1" bordercolordark="#800000" bordercolorlight="#800000" cellspacing="1" height="35583" width="89%">
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                                                                            For eighteen days, We witnessed with awe and great hope the people of Egypt conduct the most peaceful, the most courageous civil protest and topple the &iuml;&iquest;&frac12;Pharaoh&iuml;&iquest;&frac12; from his throne. You inspired us all with your sacrifices and nobility of spirit, and we admired your unwavering democratic commitment to the rights and dignity of Mankind. Egypt is a mosaic of Humanity. We hope every member of the Egyptian society, men and women, young adults and children, Moslems, Coptic Christians, Jews, and those belonging to other religious persuasions would ever live in equality, respect, love, and peace.  We share in the glory of your great victories. We are confident that you have both the wisdom and courage to complete the process of democratization as you have already started your wonderful journey. Today we are very proud of your historic victory. Today we all are Egyptians. Our heartfelt wish that you live in Peace with all of your neighbors.  Long live the People of Egypt and Glory be to each and every one of you.&nbsp;
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                                                                            Tecola W. Hagos, Editor
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                                                                                Bangladeshi Rape Victim Flogged To DeathBy Anushay Hossain,
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                                                                            February 7, 2011
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                                                                        Hena Begum, a 14-year-old old Bangladeshi girl, was publicly flogged recently in Shariatpur, 35 miles outside of the capital, Dhaka&iuml;&iquest;&frac12;after being
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                                                                        accused of having an affair with her 40-year-old old married cousin. According to the BBC, a village court made up of Islamic clerics and elders sentenced Begum to 100 lashes under Islamic Sharia law. The girl lost consciousness after 80 lashes and her family, who were also ordered to pay 50,000 taka (approximately&iuml;&iquest;&frac12;$700), took her to the hospital where she died six days later.
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                                                                                    Remembering the Ethiopians who died on the Streets of Addis
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                                                                            By Teodros Kiros
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                                                                        Revolts and revolutions are world historical events in which birth and death
      occur. Some humans are born on revolutionary streets. Other are born to the
      streets to which they flood in defense of their dignity, in defiance of tyranny, and for the sake of a dream, a vision and a plan of life.
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                                                                                PM Meles Zenawi&iuml;&iquest;&frac12;s responses to Ethiopia&iuml;&iquest;&frac12;s economic malaise are getting funnier
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                                                                            By Genet Mersha, 5 February 2011
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                                                                        he making of the current frustrations in Ethiopian society have been brewing over a long time. Their origins lay in the political crises that remain unresolved, not that the regime would admit. Then there are the ubiquitous economic crises that have been afflicting over 90 percent of the population. The only solution the government favours has been complete shut off of public space, as a primary step, politics by force and economics by decree,&nbsp;
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                                                                                Revolution and Discipline in Egypt; A lesson for Ethiopians
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                                                                            By Teodros Kiros
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                                                                        We Ethiopians, however, must stand with the aspirations of the heroic Egyptian people and support them in body and spirit.  Their struggles are our very own.
      Let us learn from their passions and work for their success.The revolution must succeed, as we too plan our own very soon, with the backbone of our youth, our country dwellers, and those millions of round Ethiopian eyes, impregnated with unshed tears of poverty and hopelessness.
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                                                                                Conversation with the Creator as an exercise of Care of the Self
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                                                                            By Teodros kiros, January 27, 2011
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                                                                        Two Ethiopians are engaged in a passionate conversation on the idea of
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                                                                        forgiveness and how it applies to the jailed Derg officials. The conversation
      leads both to an impasse, and they both say that they are going to leave the
      matter to the Creator.
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                                                                            FORGIVENESS,
      RECONCILIATION, AND PARDON:
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                                                                                A
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                                                                                    By
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                                                                            The best argument usually offered in support of &iuml;&iquest;&frac12;forgiveness, pardon, and
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                                                                            reconciliation&iuml;&iquest;&frac12; has to do with the possibility of settling irresolvable political conflicts through compromise and giving the parties to such conflicts new beginnings to live together in peace. The subjects of forgiveness are individuals or groups. Often, such criminal offenders are government officials or members of opposition political organizations. Usually the situation leading to such compromise is the possibility of resolving a political stalemate between such contending groups.
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                                                                                Justice and Atonement
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                                                                                A Statement by Le&iuml;&iquest;&frac12;ul Ermias Sahle-Selassie Haile-Selassie,
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                                                                            Grandson of Emperor Haile Selassie I
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                                                                        The recent activities by some respected Ethiopian Religious Leaders and others to plea for the pardon and the release of the former Derg (Military Officials) officials came as dismaying and perplexing news. It goes without saying that forgiveness and atonement are the moral duty of all of us, but equally adherence to our laws makes society function impartially and fairly. We each have a duty to be forgiving but not forgetting as we strive to uphold the law.
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                                                                                    The Problem of Pardon
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                                                                            By Waltenegus Dargie , January 24, 2011
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                                                                        The article is based on the last three articles of three persons, namely, &iuml;&iquest;&frac12;The way to forgive and pardon the Derg&iuml;&iquest;&frac12; by Eskinder Nega (Ethiomedia, January 14, 2010); &iuml;&iquest;&frac12;Reconciliation? With whom? For whom? To what end?&iuml;&iquest;&frac12; by Mekonnen Endalkachew (Ethiomedia, January 19, 2010); and &iuml;&iquest;&frac12;Forgiveness, reconciliation, and pardon: a challenge to society&iuml;&iquest;&frac12;, by Tecola W. Hagos (Ethiomedia, January 19, 2010). The articles express the insight and philosophy of people whose age, educational background, location, and past history are diverse. While the level and timing are different, all of them have experienced pain at a scale that cannot be considered small.
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                                                                                    he Care of the self
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                                                                            By Teodros Kiros
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                                                                        The care of the self demands that the individual attends to her soul by developing an internal relationship between self and self, and not self and the church. The latter relationship is remote and external to the soul.  The soul must be activated from the inside and the relationship between self and self is internal to the soul.  The activity of the soul is a conversation that the self enters into privately, as a conversation between the creator and the lost soul, or the soul, which wishes to become virtuous, become good.  The internal parts of the soul, which must be activated, are reason, the desires and spiritedness.
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                                                                            The
                                                                            Role of the Diaspora in the Quest for
                                                                            Democratization in Ethiopia
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                                                                                Ghelawdewos
                                                                                Araia, Ph.D.
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                                                                        Paper
                                                                        presented at the SOCEPP Canada Conference, January
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                                                                        What is to be done then? The
                                                                        first thing the Ethiopian Diaspora should do is
                                                                        reaching a consensus on some definitional issues
                                                                        with respect to democracy. What is democracy and
                                                                        could it be realized in Ethiopia given the
                                                                        prevailing deficient political culture and the
                                                                        domestic and global parameters that may preclude
                                                                        or promote the development of democracy in
                                                                        Ethiopia?
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                                                                                FORGIVENESS, RECONCILIATION, AND PARDON:&nbsp;
                                                                                <br>
                                                                                A CHALLENGE TO A JUST SOCIETY*
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                                                                            &nbsp;
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                                                                            By Tecola W. Hagos&nbsp;
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                                                                        Recent proliferation of articles and comments on the issues of forgiveness, reconciliation, and pardon concerning the convicted Derg Officials, some facing death sentences and others long prison terms, have brought out the confusion, misunderstanding, misapplication, and anger in many of the participants in the discourse and in the general public both in the Diaspora and back home in Ethiopia. I have contributed my fair share to that state of affair.
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                                                                                    Reconciliation? With whom? For whom? To what end?&nbsp;
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                                                                            By Makonnen Endalkachew | January 19, 2011&nbsp;
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                                                                        While the purpose of my desire to make public my views on this very sensitive and wrenching issue was never to get into a one-on-one public spat with any group or individual, but rather to share views which I felt needed to be shared (and potentially resonated with many Ethiopians), I have been forced to respond (very briefly, mind you) to one riposte that I received from Ato Mulugeta Aserate, who published a piece entitled &iuml;&iquest;&frac12;Forgiving, Not Forgetting, in Pardoning Convicted Former Derg Officials,&iuml;&iquest;&frac12; (Fortune, Vol. 11, No. 557, Jan. 2, 2011).&nbsp;
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                                                                                    Wife
      of deposed Tunisian leader despised by many
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                                                                            UNIS, Tunisia &iuml;&iquest;&frac12; Tunisians couldn't stand her even more than they couldn't stand him.
      The end of President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali's iron-fisted, 23-year rule brought joy to many ordinary people in this North African nation &iuml;&iquest;&frac12; and they were especially elated at the prospect of life without his wife and her rapacious family.More world news  New Tunisian government, but some old faces
      Tunisia's interim leaders on Monday announced a new national unity government following the ouster of President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali amid massive street protests. Full story&nbsp;
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                                                                                Cultural Decadence
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                                                                            By Teodros Kiros&nbsp;
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                                                                            January 14, 2011
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                                                                        One way by which to correct this deadly cultural decadence is to engage in thinking and attending to the fundamental condition, of our souls, that I suggested in my recent article, &iuml;&iquest;&frac12; Regime change without cultural transformation is empty&iuml;&iquest;&frac12; (Ethioquest, Ethiomedia, Ethiosun, ECAD, Addis Voice, Ethiosun, Tecolahagos.com and Ethiopian unity Diasporaforum.com) That question is; what is the condition of my Soul? I strongly suggest that we examine this question, every single day.
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                                                                                    MENGISTU HAILE MARIAM (EX-PRES.) GETTING AWAY WITH MURDER! (1) ARE THE UN AND THE INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL COURT (ICC) ALIVE?
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                                                                            By Kidane Alemayehu, January 13, 2011
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                                                                        In the final analysis, dictator Mengistu Hailemariam&iuml;&iquest;&frac12;s main victims were the Ethiopian
      people who should, therefore, be the ones who ought to be most keen in bringing him to
      justice. At the same time, it must be noted that for obvious reasons, the UN, ICC and the
      international community at large also have at least the moral responsibility to do their
      part to consider the gross impunity perpetrated by an Ethiopian dictator wherever he
      might be hiding. The notion that only a particular government should initiate with ICC a
      case against a dictator like ex-Pres.
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                                                                                Concern for Victims Outweighs Compassion for Derg Officials
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                                                                            By The Kassa Family*
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                                                                            January 13, 2011
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                                                                            However,
      our compassion for the perpetrators of these crimes against humanity
      cannot outweigh our concern for their victims, or our determination to
      prevent the atrocities of the Derg from ever being repeated. &iuml;&iquest;&frac12;When we
      neither punish nor reproach evildoers, we are not simply protecting their
      trivial old age, we are thereby ripping the foundations of justice from
      beneath new generations,&iuml;&iquest;&frac12; said A. Solzhenitsyn
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                                                                                    Is genocide vs crimes against humanity at issue today?&nbsp;
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                                                                            By Assefa Gultu | January 12, 2011&nbsp;
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                                                                            Nor
      is it fair to say that the likes of Professor Tecola's argument are out of
      line simply because he did so passionately. Both have made their case
      convincingly and, their difference to me is a matter of emphasis, not of
      substance.
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                                                                                Regime change without cultural transformation is empty and cultural
      transformation without regime change is Blind
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                                                                        By Teodros Kiros
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                                                                        Every Ethiopian ought to know that our country is contaminated by cultural
      decadence, which is going out of control. Friendships, marriages and collegiality are infested by the DDT of cultural decadence, that we are not
      even aware of, but which we must attend to as the activity of the soul.
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                                                                                    Aida, Verdi&iuml;&iquest;&frac12;s opera, stands out as reminder of the on-going Nile dilemma
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                                                                            By Keffyalew Gebremedhin, 10 January 2011&nbsp;
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                                                                        At a time of terrible slump in the global economy, when millions of workers and families across countries have been visited by its adverse consequences, the watchmaker Rolex f&iuml;&iquest;&frac12;ted the international public with six famous opera performances, via CNBC, transmitted at intervals from 24 Dec on. A good gesture as it was, the treat became part of the Christmas celebrations and best wishes for the New Year.
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                                                                                THE FUTILITY AND DAMAGING EFFECTS OF ETHIOPIAN PRICE CAPS
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                                                                            Seid Hassan - Murray State University
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                                                                            January 9, 2011
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                                                                        The government of Meles Zenawi announced that it was imposing price caps on select merchandize goods, the first round of the imposition affecting 18 food items as of January 6th, 2011. After gathering several hundred local merchants at the meeting hall of the PM Office, Messrs. Zenawi, Melaku Fanta who is the general director of Ethiopian Revenue and Customs Authority and State Minister of Trade, Ahmed Tusa, accused the businessmen and businesswomen of price gauging, hoarding and engaging in unhealthy competition.
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Editor&iuml;&iquest;&frac12;s Note:
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There is no doubt in my mind that Journalist Eskinder Nega is a highly
capable and dedicated professional. My criticism of his recent articles on
the forgiveness-pardon issues dealing with convicted Derg Officials ought
to be read in that limited range of discourse. Nevertheless, without any
condescension but only with my sincere appreciation, I would say that
Eskinder Nega has shown us all the right behavior and comportment when
facing writers, even rude ones, with his great restraint and professional
discipline one can see in his response to my sharp (maybe even
belligerent) criticism of his articles dealing with the pardon issue of
convicted Derg Officials.
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                                                                            <a href="Editor note on Eskender essay on Derg pardone.pdf">
                                                                                Ethiopia:
      The politics of imagined genocide
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                                                                        By
      Eskinder Nega | January 7, 2011
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                                                                        The
      cries of &iuml;&iquest;&frac12;Shame on you!!!&iuml;&iquest;&frac12; by groups of protesters occasionally
      resonate outside the offices of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU).
      A wide range of issues irk the protesters. Sometimes it would be the
      ACLU&iuml;&iquest;&frac12;s spirited defense of the First Amendment rights of the Ku Klux
      Klan. At other times, it would be the no less passionate defense of
      Neo-Nazis and scores of other fringe groups.
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                                                                                Eritrea executed 17 Ethiopian fighters: Report&nbsp;
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                                                                            Ethiomedia | January 5, 2011
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                                                                        WASHINGTON, DC - 17 members of the Ethiopian People's Patriotic Front (EPPF), including a former EPPF secretary general, have been summarily executed and buried in a mass grave in a remote part of Eritrea, according to a report by EPPF fighters who fled to Ethiopia.&nbsp;
      The rebels who had sought Eritrean support in their fight against the government of Prime Minister Meles Zenawi were murdered shortly after the end of a general congress held in February 2010 in rural Eritrea. The report couldn't be verified independently.
      Those killed were singled out for raising questions like:
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                                                                                    Genocide and the unfinished debates&nbsp;
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                                                                        <b>
                                                                            By Abebe Gellaw | January 4, 2011&nbsp;
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                                                                        s a matter of fact, I hold both writers in high esteem and have no desire to take sides except for the content of the arguments made with regard to genocide in the Ethiopian context. I would, however, be disingenuous if I fail to point out the fact that Tecola&iuml;&iquest;&frac12;s argument seems to make a pointed attack on the validity of Eskider&iuml;&iquest;&frac12;s analysis. Moreover, the writer used accusatory statements and phrases that have negatively impinged upon the quality of his points.
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      Note
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                                                                        : With his usual eloquence and incisive honesty and clarity, Prof Messay Kebede has presented us with an alternative explanation to the relationship between TPLF and EPLF, which also points out the contradiction in Asgede Gebre Selassie's main theme of conspiratorial stance of the Leaders of the TPLF. Messay has also challenged aspects of my take of Asgede's book, which I welcome greatly. This is the type of discourse and engagement of ideas that our Website greatly encourages.  As Editor, I am grateful and thankful to my distinguished friend Messay and to all who share with us views and ideas critical or otherwise. We all benefit from such criticisms and insights. This is one reality in life where no one loses. TH&nbsp;
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                                                                                    About
      Asgede Gebre Selassie&iuml;&iquest;&frac12;s
                                                                                    <i style="mso-bidi-font-style:
normal">
Gahdi I
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                                                                                    and the TPLF
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                                                                        <b>
                                                                            By Messay Kebede&nbsp;
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                                                                            January 3, 2011
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                                                                                Ethiopian ethnic federalism: grooming regions for independent statehood or a genuine coming together?&nbsp;
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                                                                        <font face="Candara" size="2">
                                                                            <br>
                                                                            Firew Kebede Tiba, PhD&nbsp;
                                                                        </font>
                                                                    </b>
                                                                    <b>
                                                                        <font color="#800000" face="Arial" size="2">
                                                                            January
      2, 2011
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                                                                    </b>
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                                                                        Commitment to a federalism project has to be full-hearted. I do not think that the makers of the constitution were fully committed to the modern federal Ethiopia project. The Constitution is based on the assumption that if this daring experiment succeeds, that is fine, if not we can pack up the willing pieces and move on and establish our independent fragmented states until the next bus stop. One either wants to be with Ethiopia or not, and that has to come out loud and clear in the constitution. It is important to look at the history of the TPLF to understand this half-hearted modern federal Ethiopia
      project.
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                                                                    <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal">
                                                                        <font color="#800000" size="3">
                                                                            <a href="Coptic_church.html">
                                                                                Coptic
      Church bombing in
                                                                                <st1:country-region w:st="on">
                                                                                    Egypt
                                                                                </st1:country-region>
                                                                                is latest assault on
                                                                                <st1:place w:st="on">
                                                                                    Mideast
                                                                                </st1:place>
                                                                                Christians
                                                                            </a>
                                                                            <o:p>
                                                                            </o:p>
                                                                        </font>
                                                                    </b>
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                                                                <p class="MsoNormal" style="word-spacing: 0; margin-left: 10; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0">
                                                                    <b>
                                                                        <font color="#800000" face="Arial" size="2">
                                                                            By
      Borzou Daragahi and Amro Hassan,
                                                                            <st1:place w:st="on">
                                                                                <st1:city w:st="on">
                                                                                    Los Angeles
                                                                                </st1:city>
                                                                            </st1:place>
                                                                            Times
                                                                        </font>
                                                                    </b>
                                                                </p>
                                                                <p class="MsoNormal" style="word-spacing: 0; margin-left: 10; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0">
                                                                    <b>
                                                                        <font color="#800000" face="Arial" size="2">
                                                                            January
      1, 2011, 3:39 p.m. Reporting from
                                                                            <st1:city w:st="on">
                                                                                Beirut
                                                                            </st1:city>
                                                                            and
                                                                            <st1:place w:st="on">
                                                                                <st1:city w:st="on">
                                                                                    Cairo
                                                                                </st1:city>
                                                                            </st1:place>
                                                                        </font>
                                                                    </b>
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                                                                        The violence lately has taken an ominous turn. In November, the militant
      group Al Qaeda in
                                                                        <st1:country-region w:st="on">
                                                                            Iraq
                                                                        </st1:country-region>
                                                                        announced that Coptic churches in
                                                                        <st1:country-region w:st="on">
                                                                            <st1:place w:st="on">
                                                                                Egypt
                                                                            </st1:place>
                                                                        </st1:country-region>
                                                                        would be targeted until two priests' wives who were allegedly locked up in
      Coptic monasteries after converting to Islam are freed. Al Qaeda militants
      in
                                                                        <st1:country-region w:st="on">
                                                                            Iraq
                                                                        </st1:country-region>
                                                                        have also referred to the women in justifying attacks on once-vibrant
      Christian communities in
                                                                        <st1:city w:st="on">
                                                                            Baghdad
                                                                        </st1:city>
                                                                        and around
                                                                        <st1:city w:st="on">
                                                                            <st1:place w:st="on">
                                                                                Mosul
                                                                            </st1:place>
                                                                        </st1:city>
                                                                        .
                                                                    </font>
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                                                                <hr>
                                                                <h1 style="word-spacing: 0; margin-left: 10; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0">
                                                                    <font face="Arial" size="2">
                                                                        <b>
                                                                            <font color="#800000">
                                                                                <a href="brawl_nile.html">
                                                                                    On the brawl over the Nile waters&nbsp;
                                                                                </a>
                                                                            </font>
                                                                        </b>
                                                                        <br>
                                                                        <b>
                                                                            By Professor Seid Hassan | January 1, 2011&nbsp;
                                                                        </b>
                                                                    </font>
                                                                </h1>
                                                                <p style="word-spacing: 0; margin-left: 10; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0">
                                                                    <font face="Arial" size="2">
                                                                        Ethiopians should be united when it comes to the Nile but avoid placation&nbsp;
                                                                        <br>
                                                                        Given the deeply held unholy Egyptian bitter resentment against Ethiopia, what would democrats, who happen to disagree with the current regime, do if Egypt launches punitive actions against Ethiopia&iuml;&iquest;&frac12;s newly built projects?  Would the democratic forces ally themselves with Mr. Zenawi, even though they know that he is a despicable despot and has committed several treasonous crimes against the interests of their beloved country, if Egypt happens to trigger havoc against Ethiopia? My answer: &iuml;&iquest;&frac12;All things considered, and when push comes to shove:
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                                                                <h1 style="word-spacing: 0; margin-left: 10; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0">
                                                                    <a href="Derg_guilty.html" title="Derg guilty of genocide or politicide-a reply to Eskinder Nega by Firew Kebede Tiba, PhD">
                                                                        <font color="#800000" face="Arial" size="2">
                                                                            Derg
      guilty of genocide or politicide-a reply to Eskinder Nega by Firew Kebede
      Tiba, PhD
                                                                        </font>
                                                                    </a>
                                                                    <font face="Arial" size="2">
                                                                        <span style="color: black">
                                                                            <o:p>
                                                                            </o:p>
                                                                        </span>
                                                                    </font>
                                                                </h1>
                                                                <p class="byline" style="word-spacing: 0; margin-left: 10; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0">
                                                                    <b>
                                                                        <font face="Arial" size="2">
                                                                            January
      1, 2011
                                                                        </font>
                                                                    </b>
                                                                </p>
                                                                <p class="byline" style="word-spacing: 0; margin-left: 10; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0">
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                                                                        Eskinder
      also took issue with whether the number of victims fulfilled the threshold
      for genocide and obliquely referred to the jurisprudence of the
      International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia to support his
      argument. This could pass for a respectable argument in defense of the
      suspects before any court of law if pursued rigorously but nonetheless,
      must fail. The essence of the law against genocide is not about numbers.
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                                                                    <b>
                                                                        <font face="Arial" size="2">
                                                                            <font color="#800000">
                                                                                <a href="Mahal_Sefaris.html">
                                                                                    Re: Derg Members (Mahal Sefaris) in the Name of Free Press&nbsp;
                                                                                </a>
                                                                            </font>
                                                                            <br>
                                                                            <font color="#800000">
                                                                                From: Dereje Biru Yadete
                                                                                <br>
                                                                                Letter to the Editor:
                                                                            </font>
                                                                        </font>
                                                                    </b>
                                                                </p>
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                                                                        <span lang="EN" style="mso-fareast-font-family: Times New Roman; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA">
                                                                            Mengistu,
      after the killing of all those people, is laughing and smiling. One of the
      things he said in his interview is this " who was I supposed to live
      power to? Woyane?" and then he laughs. He laughs because, for him
      what a normal human being would call a &iuml;&iquest;&frac12;person", is an ant in the
      colony whose purpose in life is nothing but serving his master.
                                                                        </span>
                                                                    </font>
                                                                </p>
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                                                                <p class="MsoNormal" style="word-spacing: 0; margin-left: 10; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0">
                                                                    <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal">
                                                                        <font color="#800000" face="Arial" size="2">
                                                                            <a href="Silly_hair_splitting.html">
                                                                                Silly
      Hair Splitting:
                                                                                <span style="mso-spacerun:yes">
                                                                                    &nbsp;
                                                                                </span>
                                                                                No Pardon for
      Genocidal Criminals
                                                                            </a>
                                                                            <o:p>
                                                                            </o:p>
                                                                        </font>
                                                                    </b>
                                                                </p>
                                                                <p class="MsoNormal" style="word-spacing: 0; margin-left: 10; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0">
                                                                    <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal">
                                                                        <font face="Arial" size="2">
                                                                            <font color="#800000">
                                                                                The
      Crime of Genocide vs. the Crime of Politicide
                                                                            </font>
                                                                            <o:p>
                                                                            </o:p>
                                                                        </font>
                                                                    </b>
                                                                </p>
                                                                <p class="MsoNormal" style="word-spacing: 0; margin-left: 10; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0">
                                                                    <b>
                                                                        <font face="Arial" size="2">
                                                                            By
      Tecola W. Hagos
                                                                        </font>
                                                                    </b>
                                                                </p>
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                                                                    <font face="Arial" size="2">
                                                                        There
      seems to be a confused understanding of the interplay of international
      agreements with domestic sovereign power in Eskinder&iuml;&iquest;&frac12;s analysis. First
      of all, one must acknowledge the fact that a State&iuml;&iquest;&frac12;s national
      sovereignty and independence is reflected in its power to prosecute and
      punish crimes committed within its territory. In recent developments that
      fundamental power has been expanded with the concept of
      &iuml;&iquest;&frac12;extraterritoriality&iuml;&iquest;&frac12; having been incorporated in very many national
      laws to prosecute and punish crimes committed against the citizens or
      interest of such a nation else where in the world.
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                                                                        <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal; line-height: 115%">
                                                                            <span lang="EN-GB" style="line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">
                                                                                <a href="Desaleng_ITMN_intreview.html">
                                                                                    I
      too am aggrieved by DPM &amp; FM Haile Mariam Desaleng&iuml;&iquest;&frac12;s interview on
      the nifty ITMN
                                                                                </a>
                                                                            </span>
                                                                        </b>
                                                                    </font>
                                                                </p>
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                                                                    <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal; line-height: 115%">
                                                                        <span lang="EN-GB" style="line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">
                                                                            <font size="3">
                                                                                <o:p>
                                                                                    <span lang="EN-GB">
                                                                                        By Genet Mersha, 29 December 2010
                                                                                    </span>
                                                                                </o:p>
                                                                            </font>
                                                                        </span>
                                                                    </b>
                                                                </p>
                                                                <p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; text-align: justify; margin-left: 10; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0">
                                                                    <font face="Arial" size="2">
                                                                        It is natural for every people to expect to see an accomplished and informed diplomat representing their nation on the world stage. Unfortunately, most people are not aware that diplomacy requires quick thinking, ability to relate to reality and history, a sense of international law, economics and familiarity with precedents in international life. Ato Haile Mariam could be a good cadre, a loyal ally, and a good person for that matter. But he is not material for diplomacy. I would not worry much about the language side of his deficiency; in fact, it is quite all right. He can get by. The tragedy is that he lacks the facility for quick thinking,
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                                                                </p>
                                                                <hr>
                                                                <p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; text-align: justify; word-spacing: 0; margin-left: 10; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0">
                                                                    <a href="forgiveness.pdf">
                                                                    </a>
                                                                </p>
                                                                <hr>
                                                                <p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; text-align: justify; word-spacing: 0; margin-left: 10; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0">
                                                                    <b>
                                                                        <font color="#800000" face="Arial" size="2">
                                                                            <a href="Intreview_Hailemariam_Desalgen.html">
                                                                                On the Interview: Hailemariam Desalegn on India's ITMN TV&nbsp;
                                                                            </a>
                                                                        </font>
                                                                    </b>
                                                                </p>
                                                                <p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; text-align: justify; word-spacing: 0; margin-left: 10; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0">
                                                                    <b>
                                                                        <font face="Arial" size="2">
                                                                            By Ephrem Madebo | December 28, 2010&nbsp;
                                                                        </font>
                                                                    </b>
                                                                </p>
                                                                <p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; text-align: justify; word-spacing: 0; margin-left: 10; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0">
                                                                    <font face="Arial" size="2">
                                                                        The Ethiopian Diaspora knows unequivocally that the land grab has sparked fear and anxiety in Ethiopia and the Diaspora is worried that there are many troubling questions raised by the land acquisitions, particularly in terms of impacts on small farmers, their land, and their livelihoods. The Diaspora also knows that there is a lopsided power relation in Ethiopia that small farm holders have no political voice, making them vulnerable to exploitation.
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                                                                    <img align="left" border="0" height="93" src="index.1.jpg" width="95">
                                                                    <a href="dr_konjit_fekade.pdf">
                                                                        <img alt="" border="0" height="26" src="qonji.jpg" width="96">
                                                                    </a>
                                                                </p>
                                                                <p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; text-align: justify; margin-left: 10; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0">
                                                                    &nbsp;
                                                                </p>
                                                                <p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; text-align: justify; margin-left: 10; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0">
                                                                    &nbsp;
                                                                </p>
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                                                                    &nbsp;
                                                                </p>
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                                                                    &nbsp;
                                                                </p>
                                                                <hr>
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                                                                    <font color="#800000">
                                                                        <b>
                                                                            <font face="Arial" size="3">
                                                                                <a href="Two_concepts.html">
                                                                                    Revisiting &iuml;&iquest;&frac12;Two concepts of Ethnicity&iuml;&iquest;&frac12;
                                                                                </a>
                                                                            </font>
                                                                        </b>
                                                                        <font face="Arial" size="2">
                                                                            <br>
                                                                            <b>
                                                                                By Teodros Kiros
                                                                            </b>
                                                                        </font>
                                                                    </font>
                                                                </p>
                                                                <p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; text-align: justify; margin-left: 10; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0">
                                                                    <font face="Arial" size="2">
                                                                        What is Ethipianity other than syntheses of all the ethnics and language groups
      in modern Ethiopia? An Oromo is merely an Ethiopian who lives all over the vast
      stretches of the Ethiopian lands, so it the Tigrean, the Gambellan, the Shoan,
      the Gurage and the Southerners and all the others. The list is long but Ethiopianity is short
                                                                    </font>
                                                                </p>
                                                                <hr>
                                                                <p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; text-align: justify; margin-left: 10; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0">
                                                                    <font color="#800000" size="2">
                                                                        <b>
                                                                            <a href="EUDF_mary_Christmass.html">
                                                                                A MERRY CHRISTMAS AND A HAPPY NEW YEAR&iuml;&iquest;&frac12;(EUDF)
                                                                            </a>
                                                                            <br>
                                                                            December 25, 2010
                                                                        </b>
                                                                    </font>
                                                                </p>
                                                                <p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; text-align: justify; margin-left: 10; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0">
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                                                                        We, the Founding Members, are all Ethiopians who have come together for the purpose of upholding, defending, and promoting Ethiopia&iuml;&iquest;&frac12;s fundamental interests and nationhood. We hail from different social, religious, regional, and professional backgrounds. We are economists, educators, engineers, entrepreneurs, lawyers, physicians, military officers, enlisted men, and so on.
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                                                                </p>
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                                                                    <font face="Arial" size="2">
                                                                        <b>
                                                                            <a href="MISREADING OF pardon (2).pdf">
                                                                                THE MISREADING OF THE CONCEPT OF PARDON AND FORGIVENESS
                                                                            </a>
                                                                        </b>
                                                                        <br>
                                                                        <b>
                                                                            By Tecola W. Hagos [December 25, 2010]&nbsp;
                                                                            <br>
                                                                            Introduction
                                                                        </b>
                                                                        <br>
                                                                        I read the heart wrenching recent letter of Mekonnen Endalkachew, the son of the last Prime Minister of Emperor Haile Selassie I, Endalkachew Mekonnen, who was murdered along with about sixty high Ethiopian Government Officials by the order of Mengistu Hailemariam. The decision to execute the Officials, which included retired Patriots who fought the Italians five years occupation, was taken by a unanimous vote of the 109 Derg Members that included individuals who are at the present time either waiting execution or serving their prison sentences.
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                                                                </p>
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                                                                    <b>
                                                                        <font color="#800000" face="Arial" size="2">
                                                                            <a href="Pardoning_Derg_Officialls.html">
                                                                                Pardoning Derge Officials? Time to Reflect in Due Course
                                                                            </a>
                                                                        </font>
                                                                    </b>
                                                                </p>
                                                                <p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; text-align: justify; margin-left: 10; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0">
                                                                    <b>
                                                                        <font face="Arial" size="2">
                                                                            Getachew Mequanent
                                                                        </font>
                                                                    </b>
                                                                </p>
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                                                                        We all acknowledge that Derge had brought about fundamental change in Ethiopian society including radical land reform and establishment of autonomous local administration. In my experience, many Ethiopians also blame all political groups for creating the 1970s political anarchy and civil strife. Yet, Derge leaders adopted a policy that resulted in the arrest, torture and murder of not only their political opponents, but also innocent people including government bureaucrats. The practice of throwing the dead bodies of young people in front of their parents&iuml;&iquest;&frac12; houses, and asking parents to pay for bullets (wasted to kill their children),
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                                                                </p>
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                                                                    <b>
                                                                        <font color="#800000">
                                                                            <a href="federalism_unity.html">
                                                                                Unity or Ethnic Federalism: A brief response to Professor Andreas Eshete&iuml;&iquest;&frac12;s The
      uses and Abuses of Cultural Diversity: African Past and Ethiopian Present
                                                                            </a>
                                                                            .
                                                                        </font>
                                                                    </b>
                                                                    <br>
                                                                    <b>
                                                                        By Teodros Kiros
                                                                    </b>
                                                                </p>
                                                                <p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; text-align: justify; margin-left: 10; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0">
                                                                    <font face="Arial" size="2">
                                                                        This response is sketch of a longer scholarly article, in which I
      woul like to invite Professor Andreas to engage in a democratic dialogue on the
      behalf of the Ethiopian public. I know Professor Eshete loves his country as much as I do, and that we are
      merely expressing this love differently, a function of our human diversity and
      our sincere understanding of our Ethiopianity.
                                                                    </font>
                                                                </p>
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                                                                    <b>
                                                                        <a href="what_price.html">
                                                                            <font color="#800000" face="Arial" size="2">
                                                                                What price justice? What value life?&nbsp;
                                                                            </font>
                                                                        </a>
                                                                    </b>
                                                                </p>
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                                                                    <font face="Arial" size="2">
                                                                        <b>
                                                                            By Makonnen Endalkatchew
                                                                            <br>
                                                                            December 23, 2010
                                                                        </b>
                                                                    </font>
                                                                </p>
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                                                                    <font face="Arial" size="2">
                                                                        For those that are actively pursuing this issue and suggesting that justice has been already served, I have but one thing to say&iuml;&iquest;&frac12;&iuml;&iquest;&frac12;SHAME ON YOU! Using this very sensitive issue to advance whatever personal agenda you might have is despicable and a major disservice to this blessed country of ours, and shows great disrespect for the many valuable Ethiopian lives which were lost during those dark 17 years of Dergue repression.
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                                                                    <a href="https://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/40791595/" target="https://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/40791595/">
                                                                        <b>
                                                                            I
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                                                                                raqi Christians cancel Christmas amid threats&nbsp;
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                                                                        <br>
                                                                        'We cannot find a single source of joy that makes us celebrate,' archbishop says.
      KIRKUK, Iraq &iuml;&iquest;&frac12; Iraqi Christians on Wednesday called off Christmas festivities across the country as al-Qaida insurgents threatened more attacks on a beleaguered community still terrified from a bloody siege at a Baghdad church two months earlier.&nbsp;
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                                                                            <a href="https://www.christiantoday.com/article/people.traffickers.kill.orthodox.deacons.in.sinai.desert/27247.htm" target="https://www.christiantoday.com/article/people.traffickers.kill.orthodox.deacons.in.sinai.desert/27247.htm">
                                                                                People traffickers kill Orthodox deacons in Sinai DesertChristian Solidarity Worldwide calls on Egypt to take decisive action after two deacons murdered by people traffickers&nbsp;
                                                                            </a>
                                                                        </b>
                                                                        <br>
                                                                        <font color="#800000">
                                                                            by Brian HuttPosted: Wednesday, December 15, 2010, 17:12 (GMT)
                                                                        </font>
                                                                        <br>
                                                                        Fears for hundreds of refugees and asylum seekers being held captive in the Sinai Desert have intensified amid reports of the murder of two deacons.
      Christian Solidarity Worldwide heard of the killings in a report from Italian human rights group Agenzia Habeshia. The two deacons were among 100 Eritrean refugees separated by their captors from a larger group which also included Sudanese, Somalis and Ethiopians refugees.
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normal">
                                                                        <u>
                                                                            <a href="Teddros_book_review.html">
                                                                                <font color="#800000" face="Arial" size="2">
                                                                                    Book
      Review and Miscellaneous Comments
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                                                                            - Teodros Kiros,
      Philosophical
                                                                            <i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal">
                                                                                Essays
                                                                            </i>
                                                                            ,
                                                                            <st1:city w:st="on">
                                                                                Trenton
                                                                            </st1:city>
                                                                            , NJ: The
                                                                            <st1:place w:st="on">
                                                                                Red Sea
                                                                            </st1:place>
                                                                            Press, 2011, pages 101. $19.95.
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                                                                                - Teodros Kiros,
                                                                                <i style="mso-bidi-font-style:
normal">
Ethiopian Discourse
                                                                                </i>
                                                                                ,
                                                                                <st1:city w:st="on">
                                                                                    Trenton
                                                                                </st1:city>
                                                                                , NJ: The
                                                                                <st1:place w:st="on">
                                                                                    Red Sea
                                                                                </st1:place>
                                                                                Press, 2011, pages 236. $24.95.
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                                                                    <b>
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                                                                            By
      Tecola Worq Hagos
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                                                                        It
      is not an exaggeration when I state that there is much animosity and hate
      in the lives of Ethiopians, especially in the political lives of
      Ethiopians back home and/or in the Diaspora. Teodros&iuml;&iquest;&frac12;s essays are like a
      breath of fresh and clean air wafting down the stale and stinking writings
      of bloggers and chat-room intellectuals and those who write
                                                                        <i>
                                                                            ad nauseam
                                                                        </i>
                                                                        with a single theme of &iuml;&iquest;&frac12;I hate Tigrayans or Woyanes,&iuml;&iquest;&frac12; in hundreds of
      variations. Writing in the best interest of the public without biases or
      prejudices is a mark of a wise person, but it requires also moral courage
      and excellent academic training and native intelligence.
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                                                                        <b>
                                                                            <a href="Obama_global_development.html">
                                                                                Obama's man on global development&nbsp;
                                                                            </a>
                                                                        </b>
                                                                        <br>
                                                                        <b>
                                                                            From Edvige Jean-Francois, CNN | December 14, 2010&nbsp;
                                                                        </b>
                                                                        <br>
                                                                        CNN&nbsp; STORY HIGHLIGHTS
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                                                                        For a year now, Yohannes has headed the Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC), a U.S. government agency that gives grants to select countries to aid in their development.
      Born in Addis Ababa, the self-made businessman who came to the United States in search of a better life says his background helps inform his work at the MCC.
      "One thing you learn in growing up in Ethiopia and Africa at the beginning is poverty is dehumanizing," said Yohannes.
      The MCC's specific mission is to reduce poverty through long-term economic growth. To achieve that goal, the MCC is run "just like a business."
      It makes sure the countries that are on the receiving end of financial aid are creating a sustainable environment for growth, Yohannes says.Tapped to lead the agency by U.S. President Barack Obama, Yohannes says the role has given him an opportunity to give back to his adopted homeland.
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                                                                        <b>
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                                                                                <a href="Jane_Anna.html">
                                                                                    Jane
      Anna Gordon and Lewis R. Gordon,
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                                                                        </b>
                                                                        <a href="Jane_Anna.html">
                                                                            <i style="mso-bidi-font-style:
normal">
                                                                                <b>
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                                                                                        Of Divine Warning; Reading Disaster in
      the
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normal">
Modern Age
                                                                                        </i>
                                                                                        (Paradigm Publishers, 2010)
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                                                                            <b>
                                                                                Book
      Review by Teodros Kiros
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                                                                            Jane
      Gordon and Lewis Gordon have produced a masterpiece on reading disasters
      in the modern age. The book is at once analytic, historically sensitive
      and imaginative, feature that we have come to expect from these two
      committed writers, each time they collaborate and produce books of
      enduring quality.
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Nyala;mso-fareast-font-family:Nyala-Regular;mso-bidi-font-family:Nyala">
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                                                                                የመለስ
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Nyala-Regular;mso-bidi-font-family:Nyala-Regular">
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&iuml;&iquest;&frac12;
ጉዞ
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Nyala-Regular;mso-bidi-font-family:Nyala-Regular">
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Nyala;mso-fareast-font-family:Nyala-Regular;mso-bidi-font-family:Nyala">
&iuml;&iquest;&frac12;ሸውራራ
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Nyala-Regular;mso-bidi-font-family:Nyala-Regular">
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ብትኳል
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ለትዝብት
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Nyala;mso-fareast-font-family:Nyala-Regular;mso-bidi-font-family:Nyala">
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ከአረጋዊ
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በርሀ
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                                                                        <b>
                                                                            <a href="THE METAPHYSICS OF FRACTAL POLITICAL PHILOSOPH1.pdf">
                                                                                THE METAPHYSICS OF FRACTAL POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY*&nbsp;
                                                                            </a>
                                                                            <br>
                                                                            By Tecola W. Hagos&nbsp;
                                                                        </b>
                                                                        <br>
                                                                        From the outset, let me make it absolutely clear that the new Fractal Political Philosophy I am introducing into our discussion is not a diversionary tactic. My writing of this Article is not an underhanded and confusing intellectual endeavor aimed to divert the attention of heroic Ethiopians struggling against the brutal regime of Meles Zenawi and his Mehale Sefari supporters. They are equally responsible for the loss of our human rights and dignity. I believe Meles Zenawi and his Mehale Sefari supporters have committed treason against the Sovereign State of Ethiopia and Ethiopians.
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                                                                        <b>
                                                                            <a href="Press Release_Ethiojewish.pdf">
                                                                                A NEW BOOK AND MOVIE DVD BY DR. FIKRE TOLOSSA
                                                                            </a>
                                                                        </b>
                                                                        <br>
                                                                        Dr. Fikre Tolossa has released his book, The Hidden and Untold History of the Jewish People and Ethiopians, and his feature film, Multicolored Flowers, both in print and electronically.
      Did you know that Melchizedek,
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                                                                        builder and King of Jerusalem, the father of Ethiop, the forefather of Ethiopians, and Abraham, the forefather of the Jews, were friends as far back as 4000 years ago? Did you know that Abraham and kings in Palestine bowed to Melchizedek, the High Priest and King of the Most High God, and paid him tithes in return for his blessings?&nbsp;
      Did you know that in the veins of the Lord Jesus Christ did flow Ethiopian blood because he descends from King David whose mother, Adoli called by us Hable&iuml;&iquest;&frac12;, and whose great grandmother, Ruth, were Ethiopians?&nbsp;
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                                                                                Institute for Horn of Africa Studies
                                                                            </font>
                                                                        </a>
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                                                                            <br>
                                                                            San Diego, California&nbsp;
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                                                                    </b>
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                                                                        <br>
                                                                        <a href="https://www.ihasa.org/">
                                                                            www.ihasa.org
                                                                        </a>
                                                                        &nbsp;
                                                                        <br>
                                                                        <b>
                                                                            <font color="#800000">
                                                                                Ethiopia in Transition: War and Peace and the U.S. Role&nbsp;
                                                                                <br>
                                                                                Special report by the Institute for Horn of Africa Studies and Affairs (IHASA)&nbsp;
                                                                                <br>
                                                                                Dec 01, 2010&nbsp;
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                                                                        The discourse of the panelists focused on the historical and political manifestations of the nationality question in Ethiopia and its impacts on regional stability. Professor Edmond Keller, a re-known scholar in the affairs of the Horn, and a keen observer of ethnic politics in Ethiopia, presented a critical and historical evaluation of elections in the last few years in the Somali region under Ethiopian jurisdiction.
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                                                                                Thanksgiving:
      Thank You &iuml;&iquest;&frac12;The Good Old
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                                                                        By
      Tecola Worq Hagos
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                                                                    There
      is no substitute for the wonderful feeling of fulfillment I had in the
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                                                                    simple act of walking down to Lafayette Park, secure in my person without
      fear of any abuse by anyone, from my apartment a few blocks up 16
                                                                    <sup>
                                                                        th
                                                                    </sup>
                                                                    Street NW near Scott Circle, walking around for few hours on Weekends
      reveling in the Red, Yellow, and White tulips in full bloom and admiring
      the majestic trees surrounding the great statue of Lafayette, the hero of
      the great revolutionary war for independence. Of course, there, in the
      distance, is the White House with its classic Greek fa&iuml;&iquest;&frac12;ade (front), even
      though I prefer the back fa&iuml;&iquest;&frac12;ade. I always thought of the White House not
      being grand enough for a President of a powerful and wealthy country like
      the
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                                                                <a href="Ethiopian Federal Democratic Unity Forum3.pdf">
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                                                                            Ethiopian
      observer Editorial
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                                                                    <font face="Arial" size="2">
                                                                        <a href="racism-Santon-dark.html">
                                                                            <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">
                                                                                <font color="#800000">
                                                                                    An
      Image of Ethiopia: Racism in Santon's dark heart
                                                                                </font>
                                                                            </b>
                                                                        </a>
                                                                        <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">
                                                                            <a href="racism-Santon-dark.html">
                                                                                <o:p>
                                                                                </o:p>
                                                                            </a>
                                                                        </b>
                                                                    </font>
                                                                </span>
                                                            </p>
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                                                                    <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">
                                                                        <span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">
                                                                            November
      18, 2010
                                                                        </span>
                                                                        <o:p>
                                                                            &nbsp;
                                                                        </o:p>
                                                                    </b>
                                                                </font>
                                                            </p>
                                                            <p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none; margin-left: 10; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0">
                                                                <font face="Arial" size="3">
                                                                    <span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma">
                                                                        Our
      motive was none other than the best interest of our country and defend our
      ethnic identity as true Ethiopians. Your organization needs innovative
      discourse in order to get off the credibility tracks it is currently on.
                                                                    </span>
                                                                    As a President you must have vision and wide and far-reaching; but how can
      that vision be brought into action while you are advocating violence and
      havoc. A leader should not only be but luminously and unmistakably appear
      to be noble you are totally disconnected in every act of what your
      organization claim to become. The outcry against it as unduly and unwisely
      vindictive and we strongly condemn it.
                                                                    <span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
                                                                        &nbsp;&nbsp;
                                                                    </span>
                                                                </font>
                                                            </p>
                                                            <hr>
                                                            <p style="margin-left: 10; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0">
                                                                <font face="Arial" size="3">
                                                                    <b>
                                                                        HAILE
      GEBRESELASSIE:
                                                                    </b>
                                                                </font>
                                                            </p>
                                                            <p style="margin-left: 10; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0">
                                                                <font face="Arial" size="3">
                                                                    <b>
                                                                        <a href="Second thoughts on legends (2).pdf">
                                                                            Second
      Thoughts on a Legend
                                                                        </a>
                                                                    </b>
                                                                </font>
                                                            </p>
                                                            <font size="3">
                                                                <p style="margin-left: 10; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0">
                                                                    <font face="Arial">
                                                                        <b>
                                                                            Mitiku
      Adisu
                                                                        </b>
                                                                    </font>
                                                                </p>
                                                                <p style="margin-left: 10; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0">
                                                                    <img border="0" height="176" src="haille.jpg" width="420">
                                                                </p>
                                                                <hr>
                                                            </font>
                                                            <p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none; margin-left: 10; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0">
                                                                <b>
                                                                    <u>
                                                                        <font face="Arial" size="3">
                                                                            Book
      Review and Commentary
                                                                        </font>
                                                                    </u>
                                                                    <font face="Arial" size="3">
                                                                        <o:p>
                                                                        </o:p>
                                                                    </font>
                                                                </b>
                                                            </p>
                                                            <p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none; margin-left: 10; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0">
                                                                <b>
                                                                    <font face="Arial" size="3">
                                                                        <a href="Asgede Book Review and Commentary.pdf">
                                                                            Asgede
      Gebre Selassie,
                                                                            <u>
                                                                                GAHDI 1
                                                                            </u>
                                                                            , Signature Book Printing, 2007. Pages 240.
      $20.00
                                                                        </a>
                                                                        <o:p>
                                                                        </o:p>
                                                                    </font>
                                                                </b>
                                                            </p>
                                                            <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 10; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0">
                                                                <b>
                                                                    <font face="Arial" size="3">
                                                                        By
      Tecola Worq Hagos&nbsp;
                                                                    </font>
                                                                </b>
                                                            </p>
                                                            <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 10; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0">
                                                                <font face="Arial" size="3">
                                                                    <o:p>
                                                                    </o:p>
                                                                    <span style="mso-fareast-font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-family: Times New Roman; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA">
                                                                        The
      importance of the book is not for its literary beauty or eye-popping
      drama, but for more important pursuit of truth and understanding of the
      events that shaped and continue to shape our current Ethiopian political
      and economic life. In essence, this book is a record of the day to day
      dairy of a warrior, which was compiled later in a readable narrative form.
      Asgede included also a brief autobiography at the end of the book that
      helps his readers to place him in the historic sequences that shaped us
      all as Ethiopians of the Generation that came to its own in the 1960s and
      1970s. Asgede was one of the eleven original founders of the TPLF.
                                                                    </span>
                                                                </font>
                                                            </p>
                                                            <hr>
                                                            <p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-left: 10; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0">
                                                                &nbsp;
                                                                <a href="Evaluating%20the%20Political%20Position%20of%20ESFNA.pdf">
                                                                </a>
                                                            </p>
                                                            <p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-left: 10; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0">
                                                                &nbsp;
                                                            </p>
                                                            <hr>
                                                            <p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-left: 10; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0">
                                                                <a href="EFDF.pdf">
                                                                    <img border="0" height="44" src="EFDF.jpg" width="379">
                                                                </a>
                                                            </p>
                                                            <p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-left: 10; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0">
                                                                <a href="book_review_Aklog.html">
                                                                    <img align="left" border="0" height="264" hspace="10" src="waves.jpg" vspace="3" width="168">
                                                                </a>
                                                                <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal">
                                                                    <u>
                                                                        <span style="font-size:14.0pt">
                                                                        </span>
                                                                    </u>
                                                                </b>
                                                            </p>
                                                            <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0">
                                                                <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:
normal">
                                                                    <span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">
                                                                        <font size="3">
                                                                            <a href="book_review_Aklog.html">
                                                                                Aklog Birara
      Ph.D.,
                                                                                <i style="mso-bidi-font-style:
normal">
WAVES: ETHIOPIA&iuml;&iquest;&frac12;S ENDEMIC POVERTY THAT GLOBALIZATION WON&iuml;&iquest;&frac12;T TACKLE,
BUT ETHIOPIANS CAN
                                                                                </i>
                                                                                , Signature Books, 2010, pages 497. $25.00.
                                                                            </a>
                                                                        </font>
                                                                    </span>
                                                                </b>
                                                                <span style="font-size:14.0pt">
                                                                    <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:
normal">
                                                                        <o:p>
                                                                        </o:p>
                                                                    </b>
                                                                </span>
                                                            </p>
                                                            <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0">
                                                                <b>
                                                                    <font color="#800000">
                                                                        By
      Tecola Worq Hagos [October 28, 2010]
                                                                    </font>
                                                                </b>
                                                            </p>
                                                            <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 10; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0">
                                                                As
      I have stated many times,
                                                                <i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal">
                                                                    Waves
                                                                </i>
                                                                is truly a remarkable book that must be read by everyone capable of
      handling a complex, highly intellectual, deeply provocative, and
      analytical book. Aklog is a very optimistic individual as one can see his
      personality reflected and embedded in his brilliant book, and despite the
      fact that he ended his book with a pessimistic sentence:&iuml;&iquest;&frac12; The bleak
      socioeconomic reality presented in this book makes it urgent.&iuml;&iquest;&frac12; The
      effect of this monumental book on me, however, is to lose totally my hopes
      for
                                                                <st1:place w:st="on">
                                                                    <st1:country-region w:st="on">
                                                                        Ethiopia
                                                                    </st1:country-region>
                                                                </st1:place>
                                                                . I was depressed for days, dazed, and brooding over some of the
      statements of Aklog in his incredible book, which ideas seem to have been
      glued to me. The truth about the fragility of
                                                                <st1:place w:st="on">
                                                                    <st1:country-region w:st="on">
                                                                        Ethiopia
                                                                    </st1:country-region>
                                                                </st1:place>
                                                                is simply unbearable to me&iuml;&iquest;&frac12;obviously, a person of weak constituency. How
      could a nation buried under so much suffering and poverty, and horrible
      governmental policies, and corruption ever find its way out from such
      nightmare?
                                                                <span style="mso-spacerun:yes">
                                                                    &nbsp;
                                                                </span>
                                                                One may think of
      that overwhelming unvarnished truth presented by Aklog as the one
      deficiency of this great work for it forces us to look at ourselves and
      lose hope.
                                                            </p>
                                                            <hr>
                                                            <p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-left: 10; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0">
                                                                <font size="3">
                                                                    <b>
                                                                        <font color="#800000">
                                                                            <a href="reconcillation_Ghelawdewos.html">
                                                                                National
      Reconciliation and National Development in Ethiopia
                                                                            </a>
                                                                        </font>
                                                                    </b>
                                                                    <b>
                                                                        <span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt">
                                                                        </span>
                                                                    </b>
                                                                </font>
                                                            </p>
                                                            <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 10; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0">
                                                                <b>
                                                                    <span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt">
                                                                        <font size="3">
                                                                            Ghelawdewos
      Araia, PhD.
                                                                            <o:p>
                                                                            </o:p>
                                                                        </font>
                                                                    </span>
                                                                </b>
                                                            </p>
                                                            <h1 style="margin-left: 10; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0">
                                                                <font size="3">
                                                                    October
      22, 2010
                                                                </font>
                                                            </h1>
                                                            <p style="margin-left: 10; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0">
                                                                On the other
      hand, if the EPRDF initiates a more inclusive politics, iron out its
      differences with the opposition, especially with the opposition that is
      eager to contribute to Ethiopia&iuml;&iquest;&frac12;s development, the newly restructured
      Ethiopian politics will dialectically reveal new opportunities and it may
      even deliver unexpected but promising vistas for future generations of
      Ethiopians.
                                                            </p>
                                                            <hr>
                                                            <p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; text-align: justify; margin-left: 10; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0">
                                                                <font color="#800000">
                                                                    <b>
                                                                        Press Release&nbsp;
      October 19, 2010
                                                                        <br>
                                                                        <a href="Ali_mohammed.html">
                                                                            Ethiopian Community are fighting for justice at the savage Murder of Ali Mohammed in Washington, DC&nbsp;
                                                                        </a>
                                                                    </b>
                                                                    <br>
                                                                    <img align="left" alt="" class="size-full wp-image-2809" height="116" src="wp-content/uploads/2010/10/ali_ahmed_mohammed.jpg" title="ali_ahmed_mohammed" width="100">
                                                                    By Advocacy for Ethiopia, Ethiopian-American Civic Advocacy (For further information please call: 301-326-7469 or E-mail:
                                                                    <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#593d332f3c2b2a3c696f192038313636773a3634">
                                                                        <span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="fd99978b988f8e98cdcbbd849c959292d39e9290">
                                                                            [email&nbsp;protected]
                                                                        </span>
                                                                    </a>
                                                                    )
                                                                    <span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";
mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:
EN-US;mso-bidi-language:AR-SA'>
The unarmed man, Ali
                                                                        <b>
                                                                        </b>
                                                                    </span>
                                                                </font>
                                                                <span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";
mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:
EN-US;mso-bidi-language:AR-SA'>
Ahmed Mohammed, had already been apprehended,
tackled to the floor, and effectively restrained by the four DC9
employees, and thus couldn&iuml;&iquest;&frac12;t have caused any physical harm to them nor
fled. Nevertheless, the DC9 employees proceeded to repeatedly stomp him in
the head, kick him, and beat him in cold blood, killing the young
27-year-old man
                                                                </span>
                                                            </p>
                                                            <hr>
                                                            <p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; text-align: justify; margin-left: 10; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0">
                                                                <b>
                                                                    <a href="eritrean_students.html">
                                                                        <font face="Arial">
                                                                            Welcoming &iuml;&iquest;&frac12;Eritrean&iuml;&iquest;&frac12; Students at Addis Ababa University
                                                                        </font>
                                                                    </a>
                                                                    <br>
                                                                    Tecola Worq Hagos [October 14, 2010]
                                                                </b>
                                                                <br>
                                                                <font face="Arial" size="3">
                                                                    I read the news that Addis Ababa University has accepted almost two hundred students from &iuml;&iquest;&frac12;Eritrea.&iuml;&iquest;&frac12; This is one decision that I applaud greatly. I applaud the President of the University of Addis Ababa for making such a bold and wise decision. This is the type of political decision that endears the leadership of the Ethiopian Government to the People of Ethiopia that includes Eritrea. Despite the harsh reality at home of a brutal and violent Government of Meles Zenawi, the People of Ethiopia still have great decency and human compassion. At times, such benevolence rubs on to Meles Zenawi too.
                                                                    <a href="https://www.ethiotube.net/video/11035/Over-100-Eritrean-students-enrolled-at-Addis-Ababa-University" target="https://www.ethiotube.net/video/11035/Over-100-Eritrean-students-enrolled-at-Addis-Ababa-University">
                                                                        <b>
                                                                            Over 100 Eritrean students enrolled at Addis Ababa University
                                                                        </b>
                                                                    </a>
                                                                </font>
                                                            </p>
                                                            <hr>
                                                            <p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; text-align: justify; margin-left: 10; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0">
                                                                <a href="Speaking truth_searching truth-part II.pdf">
                                                                    <img border="0" height="45" src="truth.gif" width="377">
                                                                </a>
                                                            </p>
                                                            <p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; text-align: justify; margin-left: 10; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0">
                                                                <img border="0" height="41" src="fekadu.jpg" width="139">
                                                            </p>
                                                            <hr>
                                                            <p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; text-align: justify; margin-left: 10; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0">
                                                                <a href="UDJ Statement on the release of Birtukan Mideksa.pdf">
                                                                    <img border="0" height="72" src="udj2.jpg" width="355">
                                                                </a>
                                                            </p>
                                                            <hr>
                                                            <p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; text-align: justify; margin-left: 10; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0">
                                                                &nbsp;
                                                            </p>
                                                            <p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; text-align: justify; margin-left: 10; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0">
                                                                <img align="left" alt="????? ????? ???? ???" height="200" hspace="10" src="1089-news.jpg" width="147">
                                                                <strong>
                                                                    <span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: Times New Roman; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA">
                                                                        <font size="3">
                                                                            We,
      at this Website, &nbsp;are very
                                                                            <a href="https://www.ethiopianreporter.com/index.php?option=com_content&amp;view=article&amp;id=3694:2010-10-06-09-06-50&amp;catid=98:2009-11-13-13-41-10&amp;Itemid=617" target="https://www.ethiopianreporter.com/index.php?option=com_content&amp;view=article&amp;id=3694:2010-10-06-09-06-50&amp;catid=98:2009-11-13-13-41-10&amp;Itemid=617">
                                                                                Happy
      at the release of Judge Birtukan Mideksa
                                                                            </a>
                                                                            from prison. She should never
      have been imprisoned in the first place. We are absolutly supportive that&nbsp;Birtukan
      is home with her family (daughter and mother). We hope Meles Zenawi will
      release the thousands of political prisoners all over Ethiopia. There is
      no justice at all in imprisoning anyone for purly personal political
      reasons. God Bless Ethiopia!
                                                                        </font>
                                                                    </span>
                                                                </strong>
                                                            </p>
                                                            <hr>
                                                            <p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; text-align: justify; margin-left: 10; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0">
                                                                <font size="2">
                                                                    <b>
                                                                        <font face="Arial">
                                                                            By Zeg Fanta
                                                                        </font>
                                                                    </b>
                                                                    <br>
                                                                </font>
                                                                <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#d7adb2b0b1b6b9a3b6ba97b6b8bbf9b4b8ba">
                                                                    <font face="Arial" size="2">
                                                                        mailto:
                                                                        <span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="0c76696b6a6d62786d614c6d6360226f6361">
                                                                            [email&nbsp;protected]
                                                                        </span>
                                                                    </font>
                                                                </a>
                                                            </p>
                                                            <p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; text-align: justify; margin-left: 10; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0">
                                                                <font face="Arial" size="2">
                                                                    Finally, a prediction: Today, Ethiopians have to bury their grief and sorrow deep into their
      hearts and watch from distance a few men and women in the same league celebrating the
      crowning of another Meles in Seattle. Ethiopian-Americans and defenders of American
                                                                    <br>
                                                                    democracy shall celebrate their own commemoration of defiance and victory together with the
      Ethiopian people at Home when their time comes around. Tomorrow will not be like today for
      we shall be on the other side of the river, and as the Greek Philosopher Herodotus once said
      about the Fair and Just Men, the Ethiopians shall also be judged only by fair and just people and
      societies.
                                                                </font>
                                                            </p>
                                                            <hr>
                                                            <p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; text-align: justify; margin-left: 10; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0">
                                                                <b>
                                                                    <a href="/">
                                                                        <font color="#800000" face="Arial" size="2">
                                                                            Towards a Policy of Engagement with Eritrea
                                                                        </font>
                                                                    </a>
                                                                </b>
                                                            </p>
                                                            <p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; text-align: justify; margin-left: 10; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0">
                                                                <b>
                                                                    <font face="Arial" size="2">
                                                                        &nbsp;Getachew Mequanent
                                                                    </font>
                                                                </b>
                                                            </p>
                                                            <p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; text-align: justify; margin-left: 10; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0">
                                                                <font face="Arial" size="2">
                                                                    The downfall of Issayas could result in the disintegration of this apparatus and the emergence of powerful military lords who will fight to protect their economic and power turf. It could result in a horrific situation more like that of Somalia. Al-Qaida could enter lowland Eritrea and Ethiopia will be faced with another security threat from the North. The consequences are serious.
      Ethiopians will gain nothing from seeing Eritrea slide into anarchy. Nor would it matter if the Ethiopian government later agrees to host displaced Eritreans or constructively engage with any post-Issayas governing entity.  The time is now to help the Eritrean people.&nbsp;
                                                                </font>
                                                            </p>
                                                            <hr>
                                                            <p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; text-align: justify; word-spacing: 0; margin-left: 10; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0">
                                                                <font face="Arial" size="2">
                                                                    <b>
                                                                        <a href="maiden_Birtukan_Clemency.html">
                                                                            <font color="#800000">
                                                                                President Girma W/Ghiorghis, Can You Feel the Family's Pain?
                                                                                <br>
                                                                                Revisiting Birtukan Mideksa's Re-incarceration Case&nbsp;
                                                                            </font>
                                                                        </a>
                                                                    </b>
                                                                    <br>
                                                                    <b>
                                                                        By Tesfaye Habisso
                                                                    </b>
                                                                </font>
                                                            </p>
                                                            <p align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 10; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0">
                                                                <font face="Arial" size="2">
                                                                    In politics, the pardon granted the culprit (who sometimes is but a vanquished adversary) produces the happiest effect in favour of the power granting it; it impresses the minds of the people with the spectacle of power and greatness, and at the same time disarms the parties. The grantor of pardon has so much to gain by clemency, he derives so much glory from it, that in almost every instance it is a piece of good fortune to have an opportunity to exercise clemency. Clemency, it is true, may have its dangers, but neither is implacable severity without its dangers; the latter produces terror, which offers but an unsteady basis to power, and provokes retaliation. If we cannot help going to extremes it is better to sin by an excess of clemency.
                                                                </font>
                                                            </p>
                                                            <hr>
                                                            <p align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 10; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0">
                                                                <font color="#800000" size="3">
                                                                    <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:
normal">
                                                                        <a href="conference_DC_sep24.html">
                                                                            "The delimitation (
                                                                        </a>
                                                                    </b>
                                                                    <a href="conference_DC_sep24.html">
                                                                        <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal">
                                                                            <span style="font-family: Nyala">
                                                                                ድንበር
                                                                            </span>
                                                                            <span style="font-family: Nyala">
                                                                                መተለም
                                                                            </span>
                                                                        </b>
                                                                        <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:
normal">
) and demarcation (
                                                                        </b>
                                                                        <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal">
                                                                            <span style="font-family: Nyala">
                                                                                ድንበር
                                                                            </span>
                                                                            <span style="font-family: Nyala">
                                                                                መትከል
                                                                            </span>
                                                                        </b>
                                                                        <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:
normal">
) of the Borders of
                                                                            <st1:country-region w:st="on">
                                                                                Ethiopia
                                                                            </st1:country-region>
                                                                            : The subtlety or illusions of international law and international
      relations, with focus on the Western Borders of
                                                                            <st1:country-region w:st="on">
                                                                                Ethiopia
                                                                            </st1:country-region>
                                                                            with the
                                                                            <st1:country-region w:st="on">
                                                                                <st1:place w:st="on">
                                                                                    Sudan
                                                                                </st1:place>
                                                                            </st1:country-region>
                                                                            , and the question of Badme and&nbsp;Port Assab."
                                                                        </b>
                                                                    </a>
                                                                    <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:
normal">
                                                                        <o:p>
                                                                        </o:p>
                                                                    </b>
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                                                                <font color="#800000" size="3">
                                                                    <b>
                                                                        By
      Tecola Worq Hagos [
                                                                        <span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language:EN-GB">
                                                                            September
      26, 2010
                                                                        </span>
                                                                    </b>
                                                                </font>
                                                                <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal">
                                                                    <u>
                                                                        <font color="#800000" size="3">
                                                                            <b>
                                                                                <span style="text-decoration:none">
                                                                                    &nbsp;
                                                                                </span>
                                                                            </b>
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                                                                        <span style="font-size:14.0pt">
                                                                        </span>
                                                                    </u>
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                                                                            The
      case or situation of the border dispute between
                                                                            <st1:country-region w:st="on">
                                                                                Ethiopia
                                                                            </st1:country-region>
                                                                            and
                                                                            <st1:place w:st="on">
                                                                                <st1:country-region w:st="on">
                                                                                    Eritrea
                                                                                </st1:country-region>
                                                                            </st1:place>
                                                                            should have been left to mature and for the fog of confusion of legal
      principles and factual matters to clear up. The main reason for all the
      controversy surrounding the decisions of the two Commissions has to do
      with immature and rushed process for adjudication a controversy that had
      its source in hundreds of years of history and rivalry. Temporary peace
      would have been maintained without the rush to settle the controversy in a
      legal forum. The
                                                                        </font>
                                                                    </span>
                                                                    <span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Times-Roman">
                                                                        <font size="2">
                                                                            Framework
      Agreement of 1999 and Agreement on Cessation of Hostilities of 2000, even
      with their limitations did provide such breathing space. The creation of
      the Boundary Commission was a serious failure of statesmanship of Former
      Presidents Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton.&nbsp;
                                                                        </font>
                                                                    </span>
                                                                </font>
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                                                            <hr>
                                                            <p class="MsoNormal" style="word-spacing: 0; margin-left: 10; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0">
                                                                <font face="Arial" size="2">
                                                                    <b>
                                                                        <a href="MEDREK_Ethiopia.html">
                                                                            EPRDF&iuml;&iquest;&frac12;s
      plot to undermine our resolve to build democracy in our countryshall be
      foiled by the peaceful struggle of our people
                                                                        </a>
                                                                    </b>
                                                                </font>
                                                            </p>
                                                            <p class="MsoNormal" style="word-spacing: 0; margin-left: 10; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0">
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                                                                    &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
                                                                    <b>
                                                                        <font color="#800000">
                                                                            A press statement from MEDREK
                                                                        </font>
                                                                    </b>
                                                                    <br>
                                                                    One of the defining characteristics of the EPRDF regime, as observed in the last 20 years, is that it is highly  erratic in its positions and as the result of the unpredictable nature of its system, we find it difficult to trust it and to plan anything in any meaningful way either individually or in group. &iuml;&iquest;&frac12;Despite this reality, EPRDF prides itself in being led by plan and continues to boast that it is bringing us &iuml;&iquest;&frac12;rapid growth.&iuml;&iquest;&frac12; Without explaining adequately what happened to the promises it had made to us five years ago, the EPRDF is currently engaged in a propaganda campaign telling us that it will enable us to be self-sufficient in food within the next five years, that the economic transformation will be fully realized and that it will be time for the economy to be led not by Agriculture but by Industry. This EPRDF habit of lining up an array of false promises in the economic sphere is becoming prevalent in the political field as well.
                                                                </font>
                                                            </p>
                                                            <hr>
                                                            <p class="MsoNormal" style="word-spacing: 0; margin-left: 10; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0">
                                                                <b>
                                                                    <a href="https://www.spiked-online.com/index.php/site/article/9557/" target="https://www.spiked-online.com/index.php/site/article/9557/">
                                                                        <font face="Arial" size="2">
                                                                            They don&iuml;&iquest;&frac12;t give a dam about development
                                                                        </font>
                                                                    </a>
                                                                    <font face="Arial" size="2">
                                                                        <br>
                                                                        Spiked.on-line, a conservative UK opinion website
                                                                    </font>
                                                                </b>
                                                            </p>
                                                            <p class="MsoNormal" style="word-spacing: 0; margin-left: 10; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0">
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                                                                    Recently, a group of international NGOs has been leading a campaign to stop the building of the Gibe III hydroelectric dam in Ethiopia. They say the dam will disrupt the local ecosystem and the traditional lifestyles of &iuml;&iquest;&frac12;indigenous people&iuml;&iquest;&frac12;. So why are these groups, normally so vocal about geographical displacement, not up in arms about the tragedy that has unfolded in Ethiopia over the past few weeks? At least 19 people have died and 25,000 have been displaced because of floods.
                                                                </font>
                                                            </p>
                                                            <hr>
                                                            <p class="MsoNormal" style="word-spacing: 0; margin-left: 10; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0">
                                                                <u>
                                                                    <span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">
                                                                        <a href="Shame_Feingold_Leahy.html">
                                                                            <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal; font-family: Arial, sans-serif">
                                                                                <font color="#660000" size="2">
                                                                                    Shame
      on You Senators Feingold and Leahy [Draft Bill S. 3757]
                                                                                </font>
                                                                            </b>
                                                                        </a>
                                                                    </span>
                                                                    <span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>
                                                                        <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal">
                                                                            <o:p>
                                                                            </o:p>
                                                                        </b>
                                                                    </span>
                                                                </u>
                                                            </p>
                                                            <p class="MsoNormal" style="word-spacing: 0; margin-left: 10; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0">
                                                                <span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>
                                                                    <font color="#660000">
                                                                        <b>
                                                                            By
      Tecola W. Hagos
                                                                            <o:p>
                                                                            </o:p>
                                                                        </b>
                                                                    </font>
                                                                </span>
                                                            </p>
                                                            <p class="MsoNormal" style="word-spacing: 0; margin-left: 10; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0">
                                                                <font color="#660000">
                                                                    <span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>
                                                                        <b>
                                                                            September
      5, 2010
                                                                        </b>
                                                                    </span>
                                                                </font>
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                                                                <span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>
The real reason for the
draft Bill &iuml;&iquest;&frac12;Support for Democracy and Human Rights in Ethiopia Act of
2010,&iuml;&iquest;&frac12;
                                                                    <span style="mso-spacerun:yes">
                                                                        &nbsp;
                                                                    </span>
                                                                    S. 3757 sponsored by
                                                                    <span style="color:black">
                                                                        Sen.
      Russell Feingold (D-WI) with Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-VT) as a co-sponsor
      (August 5, 2010)
                                                                    </span>
                                                                    is to benefit Eritrea through the scheme that was
      part of the Clinton Administration&iuml;&iquest;&frac12;s fraudulent involvement as a broker
      of &iuml;&iquest;&frac12;Peace&iuml;&iquest;&frac12; while promoting the single interest of Eritrea and its own,
      by setting up a corrupt arbitration entity called the Ethiopia-Eritrea
      Border Commission where the outcome of any of its decision was already
      predetermined by the Algiers Agreement of 2000 concessionary provisions
      that resurrected long dead and defective colonial period international
      instruments of over one hundred years ago. In section 3 (5) of the Senate
      draft Bill it is clearly stated:
                                                                </span>
                                                            </p>
                                                            <hr>
                                                            <p align="left" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="word-spacing: 0; margin-left: 5; margin-right: 0; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0">
                                                                <a href="Medrek Press One.pdf">
                                                                    <img border="0" height="96" src="MederekP.gif" width="493">
                                                                </a>
                                                            </p>
                                                            <hr>
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                                                                <b>
                                                                    <font face="Arial" size="2">
                                                                        <font color="#CC3300">
                                                                            <a href="/">
                                                                                More Questions For Colonel Mengistu &amp; Leadership
      Cri
                                                                            </a>
                                                                        </font>
                                                                        <a href="/">
                                                                            teria
                                                                        </a>
                                                                    </font>
                                                                    <font face="Arial" size="4">
                                                                        <br>
                                                                    </font>
                                                                    <font face="Arial" size="2">
                                                                        By Fikre Tolossa, Ph. D.
                                                                    </font>
                                                                </b>
                                                            </p>
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                                                                <font face="Arial" size="2">
                                                                    <font color="#CC3300">
                                                                        <b>
                                                                            Editor&iuml;&iquest;&frac12;s
      Note
                                                                        </b>
                                                                    </font>
                                                                    : This article by Dr. Fikre Tolossa is highly readable and pertinent to the on going focus on Mengistu Hailemariam, a brutal savage that ought to be hunted down like a rabid dog for the countless murders he committed and for the hundreds of thousands Ethiopians who died and suffered due to his direct or indirect orders. Although, I appreciate Fikre&iuml;&iquest;&frac12;s courteous language, I do not agree with his assessment that Mengistu Hailemariam was not corrupt. Even when Mengistu Hailemariam run away in fear in 1991, abandoning his loyal supporters, into Kenya and on to Zimbabwe, he stole millions of dollars and the national property of Palace limousines and furnishings of the old Imperial Palace. When it comes to pedigree, Mengistu Hailemariam is not even an Ethiopian. Just being born in Ethiopia does not make one automatically an Ethiopian for leadership of any kind in Ethiopia. One must be historically connected with the Ethiopian population for generations. Both of Mengistu&iuml;&iquest;&frac12;s parents were directly from Turkana area of Kenya and the Southern Sudan boundary region before they came into Ethiopia as first generation immigrants (to use a polite term). He has no real connection with the people or history of Ethiopia. Evidence: he does not have a single blood-relation, such as uncles, aunts, and/or cousins of what ever degree in Ethiopia on either of his parents&iuml;&iquest;&frac12; sides. Mengistu Hailemariam is just an apparition and a nightmarish character from the depth of Hell. I would also add long family history of decency and service to any Ethiopian community as criteria for leadership in addition to those enumerated by Fikre. TH
                                                                </font>
                                                            </p>
                                                            <hr>
                                                            <p align="left" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="word-spacing: 0; margin-left: 10; margin-right: 0; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0">
                                                                <font face="Arial" size="2">
                                                                    Arundhati
      Roy on Obama&iuml;&iquest;&frac12;s Wars, India and Why Democracy Is "The Biggest Scam
      in the World"
                                                                    <br>
                                                                    <font color="#CC0000">
                                                                        <b>
                                                                            Click the link below to watch the
                                                                        </b>
                                                                    </font>
                                                                    video:
                                                                    <a href="https://www.democracynow.org/2010/3/22/arundhati_roy_on_obamas_wars_india">
                                                                        https://www.democracynow.org/2010/3/22/arundhati_roy_on_obamas_wars_india
                                                                    </a>
                                                                    <br>
                                                                    ANJALI KAMAT: We spend the rest of the hour with acclaimed Indian writer
      and activist Arundhati Roy on the dark underbelly of India, a country that
      prides itself on being known as the world&iuml;&iquest;&frac12;s largest democracy.&nbsp;
      Earlier this month, when Forbes published its annual list of the world&iuml;&iquest;&frac12;s
      billionaires, the Indian press reported with some delight that two of
      their countrymen had made it to the coveted list of the ten richest
      individuals in the world.&nbsp;
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                                                            </p>
                                                            <hr>
                                                            <p align="left" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="word-spacing: 0; margin-left: 10; margin-right: 0; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0">
                                                                <a href="https://oilprice.com/Geo-Politics/Africa/Energy-and-Security-Issues-in-the-Red-Sea-Transforming-as-the-Age-of-Gas-Begins-in-Earnest.html" target="https://oilprice.com/Geo-Politics/Africa/Energy-and-Security-Issues-in-the-Red-Sea-Transforming-as-the-Age-of-Gas-Begins-in-Earnest.html">
                                                                    <font color="#800000" face="Arial" size="2">
                                                                        <b>
                                                                            Energy
      and Security Issues in the Red Sea Transforming as the Age of Gas Begins
      in Earnest&nbsp;
                                                                        </b>
                                                                    </font>
                                                                </a>
                                                                <font face="Arial" size="2">
                                                                    <br>
                                                                    Written by Gregory R. Copley&nbsp;
                                                                    <br>
                                                                    Thursday, 26 August 2010 13:56&nbsp;
                                                                    <br>
                                                                    Major new energy issues are about to transform still further the strategic
      balance of the Horn of Africa and the Red Sea, with foreseeable
      consequences for the global energy market over the coming decade.
      Soon-to-be-evident new wealth in the Red Sea/Horn of Africa region will
      transform the intensity of conflict there, which in turn will affect not
      only the region, but the world&iuml;&iquest;&frac12;s most important trading route: the Red
      Sea/Suez sea line of communication (SLOC)
                                                                </font>
                                                            </p>
                                                            <hr>
                                                            <p align="left" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="word-spacing: 0; margin: 0">
                                                                <a href="gkristosSpaceAlien[1].pdf">
                                                                    <img border="0" height="199" src="gk.jpg" width="502">
                                                                </a>
                                                            </p>
                                                            <hr>
                                                            <p align="left" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="MARGIN-TOP: 0px; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0px; WORD-SPACING: 0px">
                                                                <b>
                                                                    <font face="Arial" size="3">
                                                                        Fyodor
      Konyukhov preparing for an expedition to Africa
                                                                    </font>
                                                                </b>
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                                                                <font face="Arial">
                                                                    <a href="https://english.ruvr.ru/2010/08/26/17411145.html">
                                                                        <font size="3">
                                                                            <b>
                                                                                Voice
      of Russia, Read More
                                                                            </b>
                                                                        </font>
                                                                    </a>
                                                                    <font size="3">
                                                                        <br>
                                                                        The famous Russian traveler Fyodor Konyukhov has become the first European
      to see with his own eyes the legendary Arc of the Covenant that preserved
      the Scrolls received by Moses on the Mount Sinai.
                                                                    </font>
                                                                    <img align="left" height="135" hspace="10" src="3RIA-504269-Preview.jpg" width="227">
                                                                </font>
                                                            </p>
                                                            <div class="image_comments">
                                                                <font color="#0033cc" face="Arial">
                                                                    <b>
                                                                        Fyodor Konyukhov. Photo: RIA
        Novosti
                                                                    </b>
                                                                </font>
                                                            </div>
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                                                                <font face="Arial" size="3">
                                                                    This
      is the holiest relic of the Coptic Christianity. It has never been shown
      to any non-consecrated person. Most likely, this may be the reason that
      led to many theories about the place where it is being preserved. At a
      chapel in the ancient capital of Ethiopia, Aksum, the Ethiopian priests
      showed the Arc of the Covenant to Fyodor Konyukhov who has recently been
      ordained deacon by the Russian Orthodox Church, and is preparing for an
      African expedition with the blessings of the head of the Russian Orthodox
      Church Kyrill. Sharing his impression Fyodor Konyukhov has this to say.&nbsp;
                                                                </font>
                                                            </p>
                                                            <hr>
                                                            <p style="margin-left: 10; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0">
                                                                <a href="meglecha.pdf">
                                                                    <img border="0" height="28" src="meglecha5.gif" width="298">
                                                                </a>
                                                            </p>
                                                            <p style="margin-left: 10; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0">
                                                                <img border="0" height="139" src="meglecha.jpg" width="499">
                                                            </p>
                                                            <hr>
                                                            <p style="margin-left: 10; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0">
                                                                <font face="Arial" size="2">
                                                                    <a href="Crying in Silence EHCC.pdf">
                                                                        <b>
                                                                            Crying
      in Silence
                                                                        </b>
                                                                    </a>
                                                                    <br>
                                                                    During the last 35 years more than half a million Ethiopians have settled
      in Western Europe, North America, and Australia. Many Ethiopians in the
      Diaspora have been uprooted and exposed to various challenging social
      adjustments which are emotionally taxing starting from the very start of
      the flight and all the way to the safe haven that the West represented.
      Life as an immigrant in the West is never easy but comes with many daily
      challenges and existential insecurity.
                                                                </font>
                                                            </p>
                                                            <hr>
                                                            <b>
                                                                <p align="left" style="margin-left: 10; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0">
                                                                    <font face="Arial" size="2">
                                                                        <span lang="EN-CA">
                                                                            <a href="unifying_Ethiopian_church.html">
                                                                                <font color="#800000">
                                                                                    The
      Time is Right to Unify the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church
                                                                                </font>
                                                                            </a>
                                                                            <font color="#800000">
                                                                                <span style="mso-tab-count: 1">
                                                                                    &nbsp;
                                                                                </span>
                                                                            </font>
                                                                            <span style="mso-tab-count: 1">
                                                                                By&nbsp;
                                                                                <font color="#800000">
                                                                                </font>
                                                                            </span>
                                                                            Getachew Mequanent
                                                                        </span>
                                                                    </font>
                                                                </p>
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                                                                <font face="Arial" size="2">
                                                                    <span lang="EN-CA">
                                                                        Finally,
      we hope that Diaspora interest groups would take the initiative created by
      the Council of Peace and Unity of the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church
      positively, and restrain themselves from making negative remarks or taking
      sides. We all know that the Ethiopian Diaspora clergy consists of
      intellectuals who adhere to strict discipline and no one in the right mind
      should think that they would be swayed easily by anything less than the
      unity of this ancient church and addressing the interests and aspirations
      of the Diaspora masses.
                                                                    </span>
                                                                </font>
                                                                <span lang="EN-CA" style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>
                                                                    <b>
                                                                        <o:p>
                                                                        </o:p>
                                                                    </b>
                                                                </span>
                                                            </p>
                                                            <hr>
                                                            <b>
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                                                                    <font face="Arial" size="2">
                                                                        <a href="tamagn_beyne.html">
                                                                            <font color="#800000">
                                                                                Tamagn Beyene: The Artist as Critic exposes the interiors of hate inside the crucible of TPLF.
                                                                            </font>
                                                                        </a>
                                                                        <br>
                                                                        By Teodros Kiros (PhD)
                                                                    </font>
                                                                </p>
                                                            </b>
                                                            <p align="left" style="margin-left: 10; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0">
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                                                                    The artist heroically advised the audience to fight this vision through a counter vision of a genuine Ethiopianity, which ought to be promoted through the new media of Esat, the harbinger of change, unity and brotherhood of Ethiopians of the new generation.
                                                                </font>
                                                            </p>
                                                            <hr>
                                                            <b>
                                                                <p align="left" style="margin-left: 10; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0">
                                                                    <a href="BOOK REVIEW Genet.doc">
                                                                        <font face="Arial" size="2">
                                                                            BOOK REVIEW AND ANALYSIS
                                                                            <br>
                                                                            Ye Colenel Mengistu Tizita, Volume II (The Reminiscence of Colonel Mengistu Haile-mariam)&nbsp;
                                                                            <br>
                                                                            Published by Kibru Publishers. Addis Ababa. 2002 (Eth. Cal) Pages 183 Author, Genet Ayele.
                                                                            <br>
                                                                            Reviewer, Fikre Tolossa, Ph. D.
                                                                        </font>
                                                                    </a>
                                                                </p>
                                                                <hr>
                                                                <p align="left" style="margin-left: 10; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0">
                                                                    <a href="https://www.tecolahagos.com/Ethioobserver/NATIONAL%20CALL-%207-7-2010%20English%20Version.pdf">
                                                                        <font face="Arial" size="2">
                                                                            A
      NATIONAL CALL: A Reminder From
                                                                        </font>
                                                                    </a>
                                                                </p>
                                                                <p align="left" style="margin-left: 10; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0">
                                                                    <font face="Arial" size="2">
                                                                        The
      Ethiopian Border Affairs Committee
                                                                    </font>
                                                                </p>
                                                            </b>
                                                            <p align="left" style="margin-left: 10; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0">
                                                                <font face="Arial" size="2">
                                                                    July
      7, 2010
                                                                </font>
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                                                                <font size="2">
                                                                    <font face="Arial">
                                                                        The
      Ethiopian Border Affairs Committee is delighted to express its
      satisfaction with the substantive discussion carried out by the Conference
      on Good Governance, Peace, Security and Sustainable Development in
      Ethiopia and the Horn of Africa, held at Crystal City, Virginia, from
      April 9-11, 2010
                                                                    </font>
                                                                    .
                                                                </font>
                                                            </p>
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                                                                    <b>
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                                                                            World's first illustrated Christian bible discovered at Ethiopian monastery
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                                                                    <br>
                                                                    By Daily Mail Reporter
                                                                    <br>
                                                                    Last updated at 5:33 PM on 5th July 2010
                                                                    <img align="left" alt="A page from the Garima Gospels - the world's oldest hristian book found in a remote monastary in Ethiopia" class="blkBorder" height="286" hspace="10" src="i/pix/2010/07/05/article-0-0A53AA60000005DC-830_468x644.jpg" vspace="3" width="210">
                                                                    The world's earliest illustrated Christian book has been saved by a British charity which located it at a remote Ethiopian monastery.
      The incredible Garima Gospels are named after a monk who arrived in the African country in the fifth century and is said to have copied them out in just one day.
      Beautifully illustrated, the colours are still vivid and thanks to the Ethiopian Heritage Fund have been conserved
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                                                                                Watch Where You Point That Finger, Madam Clinton
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                                                                    <br>
                                                                    <b>
                                                                        July 07, 2010
                                                                        <br>
                                                                        By Tesfaye Habisso
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                                                                    What are American soldiers doing in Iraq today? Bringing peace, democracy and prosperity to the Iraqi people as often trumpeted by the occupiers, or dehumanization, exploitation of oil and other natural resources, mass destruction and havoc upon millions and millions of innocent civilians day in, day out, since they invaded Iraq? The U.S. public should know that the rest of the world does not hate Americans and America (as people from the whole world ardently yearn to immigrate to the USA, the land of freedom and great opportunities) but the arrogant and satanic policies of successive U.S. governments.&nbsp;
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                                                                                <a href="Editor.pdf">
                                                                                    Editor&iuml;&iquest;&frac12;s
      Note
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                                                                        <span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Nyala">
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                                                                                :
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                                                                            I do not know who ጎማ
                                                                        </span>
                                                                        <span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Nyala">
                                                                            እግሩ
      is, but the struggle he was engaged in and the many brave young Ethiopians
      he led may be very well known to me. He might have been in some command
      position when EPRDF finally entered Dessie. My own brother, Freedom
      Fighter Tekleabib Hagos (Tekleai) now deceased, was one of the fighters
      who came through that region and stationed in his place of birth, Dessie.
                                                                            <span style="mso-spacerun:yes">
                                                                                &nbsp;
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                                                                            This narration by ጎማ
                                                                        </span>
                                                                        <span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Nyala">
                                                                            እግሩ
      is of particular significance and importance to me and to all, I hope.
      What we have in ጎማ
                                                                        </span>
                                                                        <span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Nyala">
                                                                            እግሩ
      is a truly great Ethiopian, a patriot, a liberator, and someone with
      humility, and above all who had transcended petty ethnicism and envisioned
      the whole of
                                                                            <st1:country-region w:st="on">
                                                                                <st1:place w:st="on">
                                                                                    Ethiopia
                                                                                </st1:place>
                                                                            </st1:country-region>
                                                                            with all of its people as a great single family of impressive history and
      in the process of transformation. The reason for posting ጎማ
                                                                        </span>
                                                                        <span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Nyala">
                                                                            እግሩ&iuml;&iquest;&frac12;s
      fabulous narrative here is to remind us all that there is something worth
      fighting for in our
                                                                            <st1:country-region w:st="on">
                                                                                <st1:place w:st="on">
                                                                                    Ethiopia
                                                                                </st1:place>
                                                                            </st1:country-region>
                                                                            even when we are greatly discouraged, as I was due to the results of the
      2010 National Elections. And when the dust settles, we are after all a
      band of brothers and sisters. Thank you ጎማ
                                                                        </span>
                                                                        <span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Nyala">
                                                                            እግሩ
      for your sacrifice and faith in the
                                                                            <st1:country-region w:st="on">
                                                                                <st1:place w:st="on">
                                                                                    Ethiopia
                                                                                </st1:place>
                                                                            </st1:country-region>
                                                                            we all love.
                                                                            <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal">
                                                                                TH
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                                                                            Harvard student won't be deported
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                                                                            Undocumented 19-year-old gets immigration reprieve
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                                                                    <b>
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                                                                            Editor&iuml;&iquest;&frac12;s Note:
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                                                                        At this Website, we are most gratified and ecstatic about Harvard&iuml;&iquest;&frac12;s support of one of its brightest students, Eric Balderas, who was to be deported by the immigration authorities as an illegal alien residing in the United States without proper documentations. Harvard is not just the best and the greatest University in the World, but an institution with high moral and ethical standard of conduct.  I wish other institutions of higher learning will adopt such moral and ethical standards that transcend mere technicalities and look at the real human condition with compassion and understanding. Hooray for Harvard! TH&nbsp;
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                                                                    <b>
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                                                                            Editor&iuml;&iquest;&frac12;s Note:
                                                                        </a>
                                                                    </b>
                                                                    The distinguished sociology professor, author of numerous articles and books, and the great patriot on behalf of Ethiopia, Professor Donald Levine of the University of Chicago had written a short note on his reading of the essay by Tecola W. Hagos titled &iuml;&iquest;&frac12;New Version, Bonsai Ethiopia: Aesthetic Beauty and Artistic Beauty [A Diversion from Fixation on Politics]&iuml;&iquest;&frac12; posted on May 10, 2010 in this Website. Professor Levine has graciously permitted me to share his precious insights with my readers. I have herein posted the short but profound comment of Levine. I invite all to participate in a discourse on Aesthetics and Philosophy using this Website as a Forum. Many thanks to you all.
                                                                    <b>
                                                                        TH&nbsp;
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                                                                    Ijjig betam woud Tecola!I am glad you wrote this piece let alone shared it with me. It touches many spots where I live, as you doubtless intuited.  My own particular affinity for aesthetics used to lie with music, yet I have enormous if ungratified yearnings to immerse myself in all the worlds of aesthetics as of art.
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                                                                                <a href="quagmire.html">
                                                                                    The
      Quagmire of the Opposition and the Way Forward
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                                                                            Messay Kebede
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                                                                        Before
      reflecting on the way ahead, it is imperative to assess correctly the
      outcomes of the recent parliamentary election. People have reacted
      diversely to my previous article concerning the election (see &iuml;&iquest;&frac12;Yes, a
      Fake Election, but for what Purpose?&iuml;&iquest;&frac12;), with many disapproving my
      characterization of the outcome as a &iuml;&iquest;&frac12;defeat of the opposition.&iuml;&iquest;&frac12;
      According to my critics, the blame should be put on Meles, who rigged the
      results, intimidated both voters and candidates, and repressed the voice
      of opposition in more than a thousand ways.
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                                                                                    THE WORLD FULLY EMBRACES DEMOCRATIC SOUTH AFRICA
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                                                                        <br>
                                                                        <b>
                                                                            By Genet Mersha, 11 June 2010
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                                                                        I am enamoured by the glory South Africa has brought to Africa, much as by the greater attention this has focussed on the region. That should facilitate introspection and more outside eyes, especially in the light of the emergence of new crops of oppressive single party authoritarian states of latter concoction, which in the name of democracy are further damaging the already poor image of Africa with their undemocratic and corrupt practices.&nbsp;
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                                                                                <a href="Ethiopian_opposition.html">
                                                                                    Ethiopia&iuml;&iquest;&frac12;s Missing Opposition:  What Is To Be Done?&nbsp;
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                                                                            <br>
                                                                            by Tesfaye Habisso, June 08, 2010&nbsp;
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                                                                        We are still at the stage of democratization, embarking upon a process which, we hope, will lead us to a more open, participatory, less authoritarian society sooner rather than later. We have not yet reached a stage where we can claim to have realized a stable and sustainable democratic system of government which embodies, in a variety of institutions and mechanisms, the ideal of political power based on the will of the people. Further, little in the present or the past in Ethiopia promises the success of any such thing, yet people want democracy and many believe it is the only possible solution to the twin ills of poverty and misrule.
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                                                                            <a href="War Clouds Gather.pdf">
                                                                                &iuml;&iquest;&frac12;War Clouds
      Gather&iuml;&iquest;&frac12;&iuml;&iquest;&frac12;* Over the Nile
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                                                                        <b>
                                                                            By
      Challa Gudina
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                                                                        &iuml;&iquest;&frac12;War
      clouds gather as nations demand a piece of the Nile&iuml;&iquest;&frac12; is how the UK based
      Times-online has titled a recent article on the Nile issue. For several
      generations now, Egypt has been engaged on saber rattling and using
      various tactics to bully and control the waters of the Nile. It has been
      waving an old and moth bitten rag of a Colonial treaty paper giving it
      veto power on the River by Great Britain. The fact of the matter is that
      the Nile River, 85% of which come from Ethiopia, never belonged to
      Britain, and therefore, Britain had no right to give it away in the first
      place.
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                                                                            <a href="rigging_election.html">
                                                                                Rigging election legally: What you should know about Ethiopia&iuml;&iquest;&frac12;s election system?
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                                                                            <br>
                                                                            By Zekarias Ezra&nbsp;
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                                                                    The government has allowed EU observers. I for one would like to commend for that. I believe as a government they do not owe the international community or any one except the Ethiopian people to conduct a fair and open election. Having lived for so many years in the States, I have found that American election itself cannot be called fair and open in the true sense of the word.
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                                                                            CONSISTENCY
      WITH THE ENTIRE PROCESSES AFFIRMS NOTHING
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                                                                        UNUSAL
      IN ETHIOPIA&iuml;&iquest;&frac12;S MAY 23
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                                                                    <sup>
                                                                        <font color="#800000" size="2">
                                                                            RD
      ELECTORAL OUTCOME!
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                                                                    <font color="#800000" size="2">
                                                                        By
      Genet Mersha, 30 May 2010
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                                                                        The government has allowed EU observers. I for one would like to commend for that. I believe as a government they do not owe the international community or any one except the Ethiopian people to conduct a fair and open election. Having lived for so many years in the States, I have found that American election itself cannot be called fair and open in the true sense of the word.
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                                                                        <font color="#800000" size="2">
                                                                            <a href="consistencey.html">
                                                                                CONSISTENCY
      WITH THE ENTIRE PROCESSES AFFIRMS NOTHING
                                                                            </a>
                                                                        </font>
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                                                                        <font color="#800000" size="2">
                                                                            UNUSAL
      IN ETHIOPIA&iuml;&iquest;&frac12;S MAY 23
                                                                        </font>
                                                                        <sup>
                                                                            <font color="#800000" size="2">
                                                                                RD
      ELECTORAL OUTCOME!
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                                                                        </sup>
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                                                                        <font color="#800000" size="2">
                                                                            By
      Genet Mersha, 30 May 2010
                                                                        </font>
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                                                                </b>
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                                                            <p style="margin-left: 10; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0">
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                                                                    <span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin">
                                                                        I
      was quite surprised to read in the EU preliminary report of 25 May a
      reference to
                                                                        <span style="mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri;mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;
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Times-Roman">
the Association of Families of the Derg
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                                                                        <span style="mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri;mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;
mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri;mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin">
as a part of
the
                                                                        </span>
                                                                        <span style="mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri;mso-ascii-theme-font:
minor-latin;mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri;mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;
mso-bidi-font-family:Times-Roman">
Coalition of Ethiopian Civil Societies for
Election Observation (CECSEO). I strongly support the role of local civil
society organizations observing the election, only if they are allowed to
be free and independent. For instance, how free and independent could
members of that association of family members of former government who
already live in fear. If not about that, I was doubtful about the whole
idea, as I indicated in
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mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri;mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin">
my article of 30
March 2010, &iuml;&iquest;&frac12;
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                                                                                TPLF
      (EPRDF)&iuml;&iquest;&frac12;HARDLY GOOD MIDWIFE FOR THE FUTURE DEMOCRATIC ETHIOPIA&iuml;&iquest;&frac12; (
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                                                                        </span>
                                                                        <a href="/">
                                                                            <span style="mso-ascii-font-family:
Calibri;mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri;
mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin">
www.tecolahagos.com
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                                                                        </a>
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mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri;mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin">
).
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bold">
I used the following words to express that scepticism:&nbsp;
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                                                                        <a href="https://www.sudantribune.com/spip.php?article35223" target="https://www.sudantribune.com/spip.php?article35223">
                                                                            Sudan hands over 46 rebels to Ethiopia
                                                                        </a>
                                                                        <br>
                                                                        Saturday 29 May 2010&nbsp;
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                                                                    The Ethiopian National Intelligence and Security Service (NISS) said on Thursday in a statement aired by state-TV the opposition members had planned to launch attacks during the election in order to sabotage it
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                                                                        [Updated]
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                                                                <p style="margin-left: 10; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0">
                                                                    <font size="3">
                                                                        <a href="Election 2010 (3).pdf">
                                                                            A
      Perfect Fit: Meles Zenawi and the People of Ethiopia
                                                                        </a>
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                                                            </b>
                                                            <p style="margin-left: 10; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0">
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                                                                    <b>
                                                                        By
      Tecola W. Hagos [May 25, 2010]
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                                                                        I
      reject the result projected by the Election Board of the Government of
      Ethiopia as a matter of principle. I heed the many statements by the
      opposition and international journalists and civic organizations that
      repeatedly claimed that there was going on systematic marginalization of
      the opposition coupled with the implementation of repressive legislations
      against the opposition since the aftermath of the massacre of unarmed
      demonstrators after the Election of 2005.
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                                                                        <a href="Fake-election.html">
                                                                            Yes,
      a Fake Election, but for what Purpose?
                                                                        </a>
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                                                                <p style="margin-left: 10; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0">
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                                                                        Messay
      Kebede
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                                                                    From
      such a resounding demonstration of force, we can even expect a timid
      opening of the political space. Now that things have been straightened
      out, the game of &iuml;&iquest;&frac12;free election&iuml;&iquest;&frac12; can resume with the understanding
      that the right to oppose&iuml;&iquest;&frac12;&iuml;&iquest;&frac12;a gracious gift of the victor&iuml;&iquest;&frac12;&iuml;&iquest;&frac12;must
      never include the goal of defeating the TPLF.
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                                                                    <b>
                                                                        <a href="https://english.aljazeera.net/news/africa/2010/05/2010525932657745.html" target="https://english.aljazeera.net/news/africa/2010/05/2010525932657745.html">
                                                                            EU monitors slam Ethiopia polls&nbsp;
                                                                        </a>
                                                                    </b>
                                                                    <br>
                                                                    EU observers said the elections were conducted on an "uneven playing field" and favoured the EPRDF [Afp
                                                                    <br>
                                                                    The European Union's chief election observer in Ethiopia has said that last weekend's poll was conducted on an "uneven playing field" that favoured the party of the prime minister.
      Ethiopia's ruling party, the Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Democratic Front (EPRDF) won the elections, according to preliminary results.
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                                                                    <a href="https://www.hrw.org/en/news/2010/05/24/ethiopia-government-repression-undermines-poll" target="https://www.hrw.org/en/news/2010/05/24/ethiopia-government-repression-undermines-poll">
                                                                        <b>
                                                                            Ethiopia: Government Repression Undermines Poll&nbsp;
                                                                            <br>
                                                                            International Election Observers Should Condemn Voter Intimidation
                                                                        </b>
                                                                    </a>
                                                                    <br>
                                                                    <b>
                                                                        May 24, 2010&nbsp;
                                                                    </b>
                                                                    <br>
                                                                    Ethiopians vote inside a polling station in the capital Addis Ababa on May 23, 2010.
                                                                    <br>
                                                                    &iuml;&iquest;&frac12; 2010 Reuters..Related Materials: &iuml;&iquest;&frac12;One Hundred Ways of Putting Pressure&iuml;&iquest;&frac12;.Behind an orderly fa&iuml;&iquest;&frac12;ade, the government pressured, intimidated and threatened Ethiopian voters. Whatever the results, the most salient feature of this election was the months of repression preceding it.Rona Peligal, acting Africa director.(Nairobi) - Ethiopian government and ruling party officials intimidated voters and unlawfully restricted the media ahead of the May 23, 2010 parliamentary elections, Human Rights Watch said today.
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                                                                    <font face="Arial">
                                                                        <a href="straddling_a_political.html">
                                                                            <font color="#800000" size="2">
                                                                                Plunge
      In, No Straddling a Political Fence
                                                                            </font>
                                                                            <font size="2">
                                                                                <o:p>
                                                                                </o:p>
                                                                            </font>
                                                                        </a>
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                                                                <b>
                                                                    <font face="Arial" size="2">
                                                                        By
      Tecola W. Hagos
                                                                    </font>
                                                                </b>
                                                            </p>
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                                                                    We
      Ethiopians in the Diaspora need to pledge our loyalty to our Motherland in
      the manner the Hebrews directed their dedication every year promising to
      return one day to their Motherland from wherever, as lamented by King
      David in Psalms 137: 5-6: &iuml;&iquest;&frac12;If I forget you, O Jerusalem, may my right
      hand forget her skill. May my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth if I
      do not remember you. If I do not exalt
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                                                                        <st1:place w:st="on">
                                                                            Jerusalem
                                                                        </st1:place>
                                                                    </st1:city>
                                                                    above my chief joy.&iuml;&iquest;&frac12; By the same token let us pledge and dedicate our
      lives to unite, and to solidify our patriotism in promoting the
      Sovereignty and territorial integrity of
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                                                                        <st1:place w:st="on">
                                                                            Ethiopia
                                                                        </st1:place>
                                                                    </st1:country-region>
                                                                    .
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                                                                        &nbsp;
                                                                    </span>
                                                                    To that end let us all
      pledge to continue our struggle against the oppressive anti-democracy
      regime of Meles Zenawi at all times. Support and Vote for Medrek!&nbsp;
                                                                </font>
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                                                            <hr>
                                                            <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 10; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0">
                                                                <a href="Ethiopian Election Day of Shumet-Shiret.pdf">
                                                                    <img border="0" height="93" src="election.jpg" width="302">
                                                                </a>
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                                                                        <span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt">
                                                                            <b>
                                                                                <a href="Why_Ethiopians.html">
                                                                                    Why
      Ethiopians Must Support Medrek and Aspire for A Democratic and Peaceful
      Transition
                                                                                    <o:p>
                                                                                    </o:p>
                                                                                </a>
                                                                            </b>
                                                                        </span>
                                                                        <span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt">
                                                                            <b>
                                                                                <a href="Why_Ethiopians.html">
                                                                                </a>
                                                                                <br>
                                                                            </b>
                                                                        </span>
                                                                    </font>
                                                                    <font color="#800000">
                                                                        <b>
                                                                            Ghelawdewos Araia
                                                                        </b>
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                                                                    If
      the EPRDF acts in the same manner as it did during the 2005 election and
      grabs power by force, it should not be a shocking revelation, for it has
      become standard practice in EPRDF&iuml;&iquest;&frac12;s operations to stifle any democratic
      process that is perceived as threat to the status quo. The Ethiopian
      people knew too well about this kind of scenario and it is no longer a
      mystique obscurity. But they could be scared of government forces
      including the intimidating cadres, the police, the secret service, and the
      military forces.
                                                                </font>
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                                                            <hr>
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                                                                <b>
                                                                    <a href="John Donne.pdf">
                                                                        Food For Thought
                                                                    </a>
                                                                    <br>
                                                                </b>
                                                                <font face="Arial" size="2">
                                                                    I would like to share with you all, at this time of great tribulation in the life of our Motherland and our People, the soothing words of John Donne. John Donne addresses
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                                                                    both the universality of human aspirations as a community and the suffering of each individual in society. He gives us hope too, for he portrayed our activities are all in the presence of God. These thoughts of John Donne are appropriate for us to ponder at this point in the political life of our Motherland, for in a Week there will be a National Election in Ethiopia where our parents and brothers and sisters will go to the polling stations to enter their choices of our future leaders, with nothing more than their deep faith in the humanity of those who are in charge and in power, who have been rigging votes and oppressing the nation for years. TH
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                                                                    <a href="John Donne.pdf">
                                                                        <b>
                                                                            <font size="3">
                                                                                From
      John Donne (
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                                                                                    <span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">
                                                                                        1572
      &iuml;&iquest;&frac12; 1630
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                                                                                </b>
                                                                                <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:
normal">
)
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                                                                    </a>
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normal">
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                                                                    <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:
normal">
                                                                        <font size="2">
                                                                            <span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">
                                                                                Meditation
      XVII
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                                                                        </font>
                                                                    </b>
                                                                </a>
                                                                <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:
normal">
                                                                    <font size="2">
                                                                        <span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">
                                                                            : No man is an
      island..
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                                                                    </font>
                                                                </b>
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                                                                <b>
                                                                    <a href="Lemlem.html">
                                                                        Letters
      to the editors
                                                                    </a>
                                                                </b>
                                                            </p>
                                                            <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 10; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0">
                                                                Lemlem Tsegaw&nbsp;
                                                            </p>
                                                            <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 10; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0">
                                                                I
                                                                <font face="Arial" size="2">
                                                                    read the article titled "Meles Zenawi and His Distortion of Ethiopian History by Tecola W. Hagos May 15, 2010" with great interest and excitement.  I was not disappointed.  As a matter of fact I was proud and delighted that some one of his
      (Proffesor, Hagos&iuml;&iquest;&frac12; caliber) responded to such gross generalization and politically manipulated response by Meles.  To me Meles sounds still angry with a sense of compassion as though he is still in his gorilla fighting status - defending Eritrea.
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                                                                <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal">
                                                                    <font face="Arial" size="2">
                                                                        <a href="Meles%20Zenawi%20and%20the%20Distortion%20of%20Ethiopian%20History.pdf">
                                                                            Meles
      Zenawi and His Distortion of Ethiopian History
                                                                        </a>
                                                                        <o:p>
                                                                        </o:p>
                                                                    </font>
                                                                </b>
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                                                                <font face="Arial" size="2">
                                                                    <b>
                                                                        <font color="#800000">
                                                                            By
      Tecola W. Hagos May 15, 2010
                                                                        </font>
                                                                    </b>
                                                                </font>
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                                                            <p style="margin-left: 10; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0">
                                                                <font face="Arial" size="2">
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                                                                        <img align="left" height="215" hspace="10" src="news/2007/jan/images/meles_zenawi.jpg" vspace="3" width="174">
                                                                        I
      watched a truly despicable video of an interview given by Prime Minister
      Meles Zenawi of distorted representations of
                                                                        <st1:country-region w:st="on">
                                                                            <st1:place w:st="on">
                                                                                Ethiopia
                                                                            </st1:place>
                                                                        </st1:country-region>
                                                                        &iuml;&iquest;&frac12;s history, comments on the decision of the United Nations in regard to
      the disposition of Colonial territories, and on issues and concepts
      dealing withself-determination, as part of his bid for Office in the 2010
      elections. In lue of the fact that Ethiopia&iuml;&iquest;&frac12;s historians and
      international relations experts are not engaged to correct such
      distortions and are quietly allowing Meles Zenawi to keep propagating his
      lies and distortions of Ethiopian History and vital interests without
      proper challenge, I have stepped in to defend Ethiopia&iuml;&iquest;&frac12;s illustrious
      history and its historical and legal rights to all the territories that
      had been alienated through illegal means.
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                                                                <font face="Arial" size="2">
                                                                    <b>
                                                                        <a href="Quo Vadis Ethiopia Part I.pdf">
                                                                            Quo Vadis Ethiopia? (Ethiopia Wodet?)
                                                                        </a>
                                                                    </b>
                                                                    <br>
                                                                    <font color="#800000">
                                                                        <b>
                                                                            A personal opinion: By Ayal-Sew Dessye
                                                                        </b>
                                                                    </font>
                                                                    <br>
                                                                    (Note: This article was to be presented at the "Horn of Africa Conference" held at Pentagon City in Virginia. I'll state my observation about it at the end).
                                                                    <br>
                                                                    PART I
                                                                    <br>
                                                                    I. Background:
                                                                    <br>
                                                                    Why should, at this point and time, any Ethiopian care about where Ethiopia is heading? What exactly is at stake for Ethiopians as a people and Ethiopia as a country and why? What are Ethiopians' fears and hopes as individuals and as a people? Does the future of a country entirely depend more on a certain generation or generations than others and at a certain time under certain circumstances? Which generation's responsibility is it to care about the future of a country?
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                                                            <hr>
                                                            <p style="MARGIN: 0px 10px">
                                                                <b>
                                                                    <font face="Arial" size="2">
                                                                        <a href="ethiopian_reality.html">
                                                                            Ethiopian
      Reality: Quo Vadis* Opposition? [Ethiopian Reality: Where to From This
      Point On?]
                                                                            <br>
                                                                        </a>
                                                                    </font>
                                                                </b>
                                                                <span lang="EN-GB">
                                                                    <font face="Arial" size="2">
                                                                        <b>
                                                                            Tecola
      Hagos -
                                                                        </b>
                                                                    </font>
                                                                </span>
                                                                <font size="2">
                                                                    (
                                                                    <span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB">
                                                                        June
      13, 2005)
                                                                    </span>
                                                                </font>
                                                            </p>
                                                            <p style="MARGIN: 0px 10px">
                                                                <font size="2">
                                                                    <span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB">
                                                                        &nbsp;
                                                                        <font face="Arial">
                                                                            In
      order to build the Ethiopia of our future, we need to be cognizant of our
      past and current history in order to learn to avoid similar mistakes of
      our predecessors. We need to use history in a creative manner to solve
      future problems. We should not be held hostages by our history or put in a
      straightjacket of history. We should be able to communicate with each
      other in a non-confrontational manner to resolve political and economic
      problems. Our national security depends on how well we work with each
      other. This seems to be a new beginning for all of us. Some of us have
      hurt Ethiopia much more than others; nevertheless, there need be a change
      of attitude from feelings of being victim to feelings of empowerment. For
      whatever has happened in our past, in some way, we all are collectively
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                                                                            .......
                                                                        </span>
                                                                    </font>
                                                                </font>
                                                                <font color="#ffffff" size="2">
                                                                    <a href="ethiopian_reality.html">
                                                                        <img alt="Full Story" border="0" height="10" hspace="5" src="arrow2.gif" width="11">
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                                                                    <a href="https://www.ethioquestnews.com/Perspective/Teodros_Kiros/A_Short_Response.html" target="https://www.ethioquestnews.com/Perspective/Teodros_Kiros/A_Short_Response.html">
                                                                        A short response to Dr. Tecola Hagos's Endorsing Medrek&nbsp;
                                                                        <br>
                                                                        Liberal Democracy vs. Participatory Democracy vs.&nbsp;
                                                                        <br>
                                                                        Revolutionary Democracy
                                                                    </a>
                                                                    <br>
                                                                    14 May, 2010 | By Teodros Kiros (Ph.D)
                                                                    <br>
                                                                    I applaud Dr. Tecola Hagos&iuml;&iquest;&frac12;s characteristically honest response to my recent
      article, &iuml;&iquest;&frac12;in defense of Participatory Democracy and against Revolutionary&nbsp;
      Democracy" and Liberal Democracy".I think Dr. Hagos is very much mistaken&nbsp;
      in judging the article as neitherenlightening nor timely.  I think it is both,
      depending on the reader&iuml;&iquest;&frac12;s mood.
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                                                            <hr>
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                                                                <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal">
                                                                    <font color="#800000" size="2">
                                                                        <a href="Endorsing_Medrek.html">
                                                                            Endorsing
      Medrek:
                                                                        </a>
                                                                        <o:p>
                                                                        </o:p>
                                                                    </font>
                                                                </b>
                                                            </p>
                                                            <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 10; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0">
                                                                <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal">
                                                                    <font size="2">
                                                                        <font color="#800000">
                                                                            <a href="Endorsing_Medrek.html">
                                                                                Liberal
      Democracy vs. Participatory Democracy vs.
                                                                            </a>
                                                                            Revolutionary Democracy
                                                                        </font>
                                                                        <o:p>
                                                                        </o:p>
                                                                    </font>
                                                                </b>
                                                            </p>
                                                            <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 10; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0">
                                                                <b>
                                                                    <font size="2">
                                                                        By
      Tecola W. Hagos
                                                                    </font>
                                                                </b>
                                                            </p>
                                                            <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 10; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0">
                                                                <font face="Arial" size="2">
                                                                    <img align="left" height="106" hspace="10" src="media/images/45334000/jpg/_45334335_birtukan_226.jpg" vspace="3" width="137">
                                                                    We
      call upon all Ethiopians to set aside their ethnic based affiliations and
      their animosities, and support Medrek in all legally acceptable ways. This
      is the one chance, among many we had unnecessarily squandered, where we
      could be able to channel the course of our future history. Our single
      enemy is in the Person of Meles Zenawi, with his close associate. I even
      dare to say the Members of the TPLF are not our enemies, they are simply
      trapped in a
                                                                    <i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal">
                                                                        mafia
                                                                    </i>
                                                                    type
      structure where they are unable to exercise their democratic rights as
      Ethiopian Citizens. They are forced into adopting a divisive Ethnic
      identity that challenges and fractures our historic Motherland. The same
      could be said to each member of the other political Parties in the EPRDF.
      All such Members must know that there is a great life after Meles Zenawi
      and his criminal organization setup.
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                                                                <b>
                                                                    <span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt">
                                                                        <font color="#800000" size="2">
                                                                            <a href="Medrek_support.html">
                                                                                Medrek
      Support Group North America (MSGNA)
                                                                                <o:p>
                                                                                </o:p>
                                                                            </a>
                                                                            &nbsp;
                                                                        </font>
                                                                    </span>
                                                                </b>
                                                            </p>
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                                                                <b>
                                                                    <span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt">
                                                                        <font color="#800000" size="2">
                                                                            May
      13, 2010
                                                                        </font>
                                                                    </span>
                                                                </b>
                                                            </p>
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                                                                    In just ten days, the Ethiopian people will be
      heading to the polling stations to cast their votes and in all likelihood
      the majority will vote for candidates of the opposition party, Medrek or
      Forum. The ruling party, the Ethiopian Peoples Revolutionary Democratic
      Front (EPRDF), chaired by the Prime Minister, Meles Zenawi, is terrified
      and trembled than ever before in the face of Medrek, the voice of the
      Ethiopian people.
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                                                                <font color="#800000" face="Arial" size="2">
                                                                    <b>
                                                                        <a href="revolutionary_democracy2.html">
                                                                            In Defence of Participatory Democracy and against
                                                                            <br>
                                                                            Revolutionary Democracy and Liberal Democracy:
                                                                        </a>
                                                                    </b>
                                                                </font>
                                                            </p>
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                                                                    <b>
                                                                        9 May, 2010 | By Teodros Kiros (Ph.D)
                                                                    </b>
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                                                                    The historic nation of Ethiopia is populated by a historic people, who produced the Obelisks at Aksum, the   churches of Lalibela, the classical songs of King Yared, the literary productions of Emperor
      Zara Yacob, the philosophical orature of the Oromos, the art works of Gambella, the lash and green of the south,   and of course, the philosophical masterpieces of Zara Yacob.
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                                                                <b>
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                                                                        <span style="mso-fareast-font-family: Times New Roman">
                                                                            <font color="#CC3300">
                                                                                <a href="Medrek_vision.html">
                                                                                    All
      the way with Medrek driven by the vision of Birtukan
                                                                                </a>
                                                                            </font>
                                                                        </span>
                                                                    </font>
                                                                </b>
                                                                <font size="2">
                                                                    <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: Times New Roman">
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                                                                    <b>
                                                                        <span style="mso-fareast-font-family: Times New Roman">
                                                                            By
      Robele Ababya | May 11, 2010&nbsp;
                                                                        </span>
                                                                    </b>
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                                                            <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 10; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0">
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                                                                    The
      top leaders who represented Medrek &iuml;&iquest;&frac12; Engineer Gizachew Shiferaw, Ato
      Seye Abraha, Dr. Negaso Gidada, Ato Gebru Asrat, Dr. Hailu Araya and the
      young and vibrant Secretary General of UDJP, Ato Andualem Arag&iuml;&iquest;&frac12; - held
      their ground so well proving their worth in Medrek. I have some more to
      say here about Ato Seye to respond to some of my virulent critiques in
      respect of my article entitled &iuml;&iquest;&frac12;A question to ask &iuml;&iquest;&frac12; actions to
      take&iuml;&iquest;&frac12;. One of my critiques asked &iuml;&iquest;&frac12;Is Seye worth defending?&iuml;&iquest;&frac12; and
      another one demanded I should give up my name. But I will never give up my
      name given to me by my Oromo parents and I am proud to keep my Gobenite
      psyche of which OLF supporters accuse me.
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                                                                <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:
normal">
                                                                    <u>
                                                                        <font face="Arial" size="2">
                                                                            New Version
                                                                            <o:p>
                                                                            </o:p>
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                                                                    </u>
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                                                            <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; line-height: 100%; margin-left: 10; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0">
                                                                <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:
normal">
                                                                    <font face="Arial" size="2">
                                                                        <a href="Bonsai_Ethiopia.html">
                                                                            Bonsai
                                                                            <u1:place u2:st="on">
                                                                                <u1:country-region u2:st="on">
                                                                                    Ethiopia
                                                                                </u1:country-region>
                                                                            </u1:place>
                                                                            :
                                                                            <i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal">
                                                                                Aesthetic
                                                                            </i>
                                                                            Beauty and
                                                                            <i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal">
                                                                                Artistic
                                                                            </i>
                                                                            Beauty
                                                                        </a>
                                                                        <o:p>
                                                                        </o:p>
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                                                                <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:
normal">
                                                                    <font face="Arial" size="2">
                                                                        [A Diversion from Fixation on Politics]
                                                                        <o:p>
                                                                        </o:p>
                                                                    </font>
                                                                </b>
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                                                                <font color="#800000" face="Arial" size="2">
                                                                    <b>
                                                                        By
      Tecola W. Hagos [May 10, 2010]
                                                                    </b>
                                                                </font>
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                                                            <p style="margin-left: 10; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0">
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                                                                        Political
      courage is also sublime when practiced against an entrenched power
      structure and the leadership thereof. There were exemplary instances in
      history where sublime act of courage is manifested by few under most
      daunting situations. For example, the three hundred Spartans facing off
      half a million Persian soldiers at Thermopile, the throng of very poorly
      armed patriotic Ethiopians standing firm against well-equipped modern army
      of Italy in several parts of Ethiopia, or the handful Ethiopian opposition
      political parties engaging the violence of Meles Zenawi&iuml;&iquest;&frac12;s Government and
      its security machine in 2005 and now et cetera. Such are acts of sublime
      courage. Of course, the ultimate courage is to forgive those who do harm
      us, as the Christ did forgive from the Cross, in great pain, those who
      were responsible for his suffering. Such a life would be authentic and
      sublime. When Abraham expressed in our discourse at the Arboretum about
      his dream of becoming a &iuml;&iquest;&frac12;park ranger,&iuml;&iquest;&frac12; what he was seeking was
      precisely an authentic and sublime life, fully expressing the notion of
      &iuml;&iquest;&frac12;the courage to be.&iuml;&iquest;&frac12;
                                                                    </span>
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                                                                <font size="2">
                                                                    <a href="Bonsai_nation.html">
                                                                        <b>
                                                                            The Bonsai Nation: Stunted Ethiopia[Unwarranted Analogy]
                                                                        </b>
                                                                    </a>
                                                                    <br>
                                                                    <b>
                                                                        By Tecola W. Hagos&nbsp;
                                                                    </b>
                                                                </font>
                                                                <span lang="EN-GB">
                                                                    <font color="#800000" face="Candara" size="2">
                                                                        <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:
normal">
May 2, 2010
                                                                            <o:p>
                                                                                &nbsp;
                                                                            </o:p>
                                                                        </b>
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                                                                </span>
                                                                <font size="2">
                                                                    <br>
                                                                    <font face="Arial">
                                                                        Except for the very few lucky Ethiopians, growing in Ethiopia is a process that is akin to the training of Bonsai trees. We, Ethiopians in general seem to suffer delayed maturity; we are made to feel that we are in perpetual teenage years. This is a cruel distortion of our growth, no different than binding us down with wires and feeding us with minimal social responsibilities. This is not how one creates responsible citizens. This cruelty in the deformity of our personality, in the inhibitions and stunting of our mental growth can be observed in the many chat postings in the Internet.&nbsp;
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                                                                    <span lang="EN-GB" style="line-height: 115%">
                                                                        <font color="#800000" face="Candara" size="2">
                                                                            <a href="What_after.html">
                                                                                WHAT
      AFTER THE ELECTION?
                                                                            </a>
                                                                            <o:p>
                                                                            </o:p>
                                                                        </font>
                                                                    </span>
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normal">
                                                                    <span lang="EN-GB">
                                                                        <font color="#800000" face="Candara" size="2">
                                                                            By
      Genet Mersha, 1 May, 2010
                                                                            <o:p>
                                                                            </o:p>
                                                                        </font>
                                                                    </span>
                                                                </b>
                                                            </p>
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                                                                <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:
normal">
                                                                    <span lang="EN-GB">
                                                                        <font color="#800000" face="Candara" size="2">
                                                                            PART II
                                                                            <o:p>
                                                                            </o:p>
                                                                        </font>
                                                                    </span>
                                                                </b>
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                                                                            The
      past weighs heavily on the forthcoming election&nbsp;
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                                                                    </span>
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                                                                        In
      its conversations and policy approaches, the regime has always boxed the
      question of internal conflicts into a quixotic policy framework of denial.
      Mentioning of this problem is confronted with attacks, intimidation and in
      fact nowadays are used as subterfuge to discredit and subdue the legal
      opposition or independent minded critics. The problem is still there,
      despite denials. Innocent citizens are thrown to prisons for alleged
      support of insurgents, or being one.
                                                                    </span>
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                                                                <a href="Liberal Democracy2.pdf">
                                                                    <img border="0" height="46" src="lb5.gif" width="290">
                                                                </a>
                                                            </p>
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                                                                <img border="0" height="21" src="lb2.gif" width="81">
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                                                                    <font color="#800000" face="Arial" size="2">
                                                                        <font size="2">
                                                                            <b>
                                                                                <a href="forget_opposition.html">
                                                                                    <u>
                                                                                        <span lang="EN-GB">
                                                                                            <font color="#ff0000" face="Franklin Gothic Book">
                                                                                                <img border="0" height="20" src="flare.gif" width="20">
                                                                                            </font>
                                                                                        </span>
                                                                                    </u>
                                                                                </a>
                                                                            </b>
                                                                        </font>
                                                                        We
      have been informed by reliable sources about the ongoing registration by
      EPRDF members forcing voters to register to cast their vote for EPRDF
      ahead of the election. Such action may be considering as an election fraud
      a crime that corrupts the process.
                                                                    </font>
                                                                    <font color="#000099">
                                                                        <i>
                                                                            <b>
                                                                                <font face="Arial" size="2">
                                                                                    <a href="election[1].pdf">
                                                                                        Please
      see the registration form
                                                                                    </a>
                                                                                </font>
                                                                                .
                                                                            </b>
                                                                            <font size="2">
                                                                                <b>
                                                                                    <a href="forget_opposition.html">
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                                                                                            <span lang="EN-GB">
                                                                                                <font color="#ff0000" face="Franklin Gothic Book">
                                                                                                    <img border="0" height="20" src="flare.gif" width="20">
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                                                                                        </u>
                                                                                    </a>
                                                                                </b>
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                                                                        </i>
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                                                                    <o:p>
                                                                        &nbsp;
                                                                    </o:p>
                                                                </span>
                                                            </p>
                                                            <hr>
                                                            <p style="margin-left: 10; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0">
                                                                <a href="Current_Status_MSE.pdf">
                                                                    <img border="0" height="19" src="current.gif" width="399">
                                                                </a>
                                                            </p>
                                                            <hr>
                                                            <p style="margin-left: 10; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0">
                                                                <a href="Prof _Mesfin W-Mariam.pdf">
                                                                    <img border="0" height="21" src="mesfin.gif" width="307">
                                                                </a>
                                                            </p>
                                                            <hr>
                                                            <p style="margin-left: 10; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0">
                                                                <a href="Abundant_farming.html">
                                                                    <font color="#800000" face="Arial" size="2">
                                                                        <b>
                                                                            &iuml;&iquest;&frac12;
      Ethiopia&iuml;&iquest;&frac12;s Abundant Farming Investments Leave Many Still HungryJamming
      in Ethiopia Virtually Silences Free Voice, Experts Say &iuml;&iquest;&frac12;Cruel Ethiopia
                                                                        </b>
                                                                    </font>
                                                                </a>
                                                            </p>
                                                            <p style="margin-left: 10; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0">
                                                                <font face="Arial" size="2">
                                                                    New
      York Review of Books, US
                                                                </font>
                                                            </p>
                                                            <p style="margin-left: 10; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0">
                                                                <font face="Arial" size="2">
                                                                    Helen
      Epstein
                                                                </font>
                                                            </p>
                                                            <p style="margin-left: 10; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0">
                                                                <font face="Arial" size="2">
                                                                    May
      13, 2010
                                                                </font>
                                                            </p>
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                                                                <font face="Arial" size="2">
                                                                    The
      Western Renaissance helped to democratize &iuml;&iquest;&frac12;the word&iuml;&iquest;&frac12; so that all of us
      could speak of our own individual struggles, and this added new meaning
      and urgency to the alleviation of the suffering of others. The problem
      with foreign aid in Ethiopia is that both the Ethiopian government and its
      donors see the people of this country not as individuals with distinct
      needs, talents, and rights but as an undifferentiated mass, to be
      mobilized, decentralized, vaccinated, given primary education and pit
      latrines, and freed from the legacy of feudalism, imperialism, and
      backwardness. It is this rigid focus on the &iuml;&iquest;&frac12;backward masses,&iuml;&iquest;&frac12; rather
      than the unique human person, that typically justifies appalling cruelty
      in the name of social progress.
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                                                                <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:
normal">
                                                                    <font face="Arial" size="2">
                                                                        <font color="#800000">
                                                                            <a href="part2_rebirth.html">
                                                                                [Part
      Two] The Rebirth of
                                                                                <st1:country-region w:st="on">
                                                                                    <st1:place w:st="on">
                                                                                        Ethiopia
                                                                                    </st1:place>
                                                                                </st1:country-region>
                                                                                :
                                                                                <i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal">
                                                                                    Medrek
                                                                                </i>
                                                                                the Winner
                                                                            </a>
                                                                        </font>
                                                                        <o:p>
                                                                        </o:p>
                                                                    </font>
                                                                </b>
                                                            </p>
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                                                                <b>
                                                                    <font face="Arial" size="2">
                                                                        By
      Tecola W. Hagos [April 23, 2010]
                                                                    </font>
                                                                </b>
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                                                                    <span style="mso-fareast-font-family: Times New Roman; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA">
                                                                        Instead
      of skepticism and cynicism, all of us ought to rejoice by the fact that
      one or several of Ethiopia&iuml;&iquest;&frac12;s errant sons found their way back home to
      Mother Ethiopia and are ready to serve their fellow Ethiopians, even
      sacrificing their lives if need be. It requires great courage to admit
      ones mistakes and even more so to take a positive step to correct that
      mistake.
                                                                    </span>
                                                                </font>
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                                                                <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">
                                                                    <span class="style6" lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 11.0pt">
                                                                        <font color="#800000">
                                                                            <a href="Is_Confusion.html">
                                                                                Debate
      # Six: Another Miscalculation or Ignorance? The Fog over Ethiopia&iuml;&iquest;&frac12;s
      Two-Decade Old Foreign &amp; National Security Policy
                                                                            </a>
                                                                        </font>
                                                                        <o:p>
                                                                        </o:p>
                                                                    </span>
                                                                </b>
                                                            </p>
                                                            <p align="left" class="style2" style="margin-left: 10; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0">
                                                                <span lang="EN-GB">
                                                                    <b>
                                                                        By
      Genet Mersha, April 22, 2010
                                                                    </b>
                                                                </span>
                                                            </p>
                                                            <hr>
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                                                                <a href="EPRDF_Meeting in Seattle.pdf">
                                                                    <img border="0" height="20" src="EPRDF-.jpg" width="335">
                                                                </a>
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                                                                <img border="0" height="23" src="EPRDF2.jpg" width="70">
                                                            </p>
                                                            <hr>
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                                                                <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:
normal">
                                                                    <font face="Arial">
                                                                        <a href="reberth_medrek.html">
                                                                            <font color="#800000" size="2">
                                                                                The
      Rebirth of
                                                                                <st1:country-region w:st="on">
                                                                                    <st1:place w:st="on">
                                                                                        Ethiopia
                                                                                    </st1:place>
                                                                                </st1:country-region>
                                                                                :
                                                                                <i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal">
                                                                                    Medrek
                                                                                </i>
                                                                                the Winner
                                                                            </font>
                                                                        </a>
                                                                        <font size="2">
                                                                            <o:p>
                                                                            </o:p>
                                                                        </font>
                                                                    </font>
                                                                </b>
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                                                                <b>
                                                                    <font face="Arial" size="2">
                                                                        By
      Tecola W. Hagos [April 20, 2010]
                                                                    </font>
                                                                </b>
                                                            </p>
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                                                                <font face="Arial" size="2">
                                                                    <span style="mso-fareast-font-family: Times New Roman; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA">
                                                                        Negasso
      identified
                                                                        <st1:country-region w:st="on">
                                                                            <st1:place w:st="on">
                                                                                Ethiopia
                                                                            </st1:place>
                                                                        </st1:country-region>
                                                                        as &iuml;&iquest;&frac12;a wreath of flowers,&iuml;&iquest;&frac12; whereas each flower is beautiful on its own,
      but in the garland connected as one by strong ties all the diverse flowers
      transcend their individual limitations and become a field of greater
      beauty. I pondered that image long after the conference was over, and it
      still is fresh in my memory as I write, and I am ecstatic in having that
      profound image in my arsenal of love for our Motherland when I think of
                                                                        <st1:country-region w:st="on">
                                                                            <st1:place w:st="on">
                                                                                Ethiopia
                                                                            </st1:place>
                                                                        </st1:country-region>
                                                                        . Thank you my brother Negasso for such profound insight.
                                                                        <span style="mso-spacerun:yes">
                                                                            &nbsp;
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                                                                <a href="Sylvia Pankhurst _Ethiopian Patriot_.pdf">
                                                                    <img border="0" height="72" src="sylvia.jpg" width="364">
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                                                                <a href="2010/04/horn-of-africa-conference.pdf" target="https://articles2u.files.wordpress.com/2010/04/horn-of-africa-conference.pdf ">
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                                                                        <b>
                                                                            <a href="https://en.ethiopianreporter.com/index.php?option=com_content&amp;task=view&amp;id=2538&amp;Itemid=1" target="https://en.ethiopianreporter.com/index.php?option=com_content&amp;task=view&amp;id=2538&amp;Itemid=1">
                                                                                Ethiopian athletes make convincing victories at Paris, Daegu marathons&nbsp;
                                                                            </a>
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                                                                            Saturday, 17 April 2010&nbsp;
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                                                                        Atsede Baysa and Tadesse Tola produced an impressive Ethiopian double victory at the 34th Marathon de Paris in the French capital on Sunday. Other Ethiopian athletes Deressa Chimsa and Yeshi Esayais of Ethiopia took convincing victories at the second edition of the Daegu International Marathon on Sunday.Baysa broke the women&iuml;&iquest;&frac12;s race record with her 2:22:04 performance, the fastest in the world this year while Tola smashed his personal best by more than nine minutes to take the men&iuml;&iquest;&frac12;s title in 2:06:41.&nbsp;
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                                                                    <b>
                                                                        <span style="color: #C00000">
                                                                            <a href="Seye Abraha_ perspective.pdf">
                                                                                The
      past of Seye Abraha et al in perspective
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normal">
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                                                                        By Eskinder Nega |
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                                                                    April 16, 2010
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                                                                        Seye
      Abraha&iuml;&iquest;&frac12;s commanding presence and well delivered speech on foreign
      affairs in last week&iuml;&iquest;&frac12;s televised debate between political parties has
      vexed EPRDF leaders, say sources. Their only solace is Seye&iuml;&iquest;&frac12;s rather
      brash characterization of the recent row between the EPRDF and the Obama
      administration as &iuml;&iquest;&frac12;staged drama&iuml;&iquest;&frac12;; which went down well with the public
      but will hardly endear the opposition with the diplomatic community in
      Addis.
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                                                            <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0">
                                                                <a href="BOOKREVIEW-ETHIO-US.pdf">
                                                                    ETHIOPIA AND
      UNITED STATES HISTORY, DIPLOMACY AND ANALYSIS
                                                                </a>
                                                            </p>
                                                            <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0">
                                                                BY GETACHEW
      METAFERIA
                                                            </p>
                                                            <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 10; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0">
                                                                NEW
      YORK:ALGORA PUBLISHING, 2009 208 page.
                                                                <span style='font-size:11.0pt;line-height:115%;
font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-font-family:
"Times New Roman";mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:EN-US;
mso-bidi-language:AR-SA;mso-no-proof:yes'>
                                                                    <strong>
                                                                        <span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-ansi-language:
EN-US;mso-fareast-language:EN-US;mso-bidi-language:AR-SA'>
                                                                            <font color="#800000">
                                                                                The
      book is available at Amazon.com and also at Barnes and Noble
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                                                                    </strong>
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                                                                    From the Editor: I ask forgiveness for taking the privilege of an
      editor in imposing on my readers and visitors by reposting an article from some five years ago. The article is one thousand percent relevant to our own time, especially for the 2010 National Election. I could not have stated our historic dilemma any better a second time, Please, read carefully and critically. TH&nbsp;
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                                                                        <img align="left" border="0" height="227" hspace="10" src="Zewge_ethiopia.jpg" vspace="3" width="209">
                                                                        <a href="ethiopian_reality.html">
                                                                            <br>
                                                                            Ethiopian Reality: Quo Vadis* Opposition? [Ethiopian Reality: Where to
      From This Point On?]
                                                                            <br>
                                                                            <br>
                                                                        </a>
                                                                    </font>
                                                                </b>
                                                                <span lang="EN-GB">
                                                                    <font face="Arial" size="2">
                                                                        <b>
                                                                            Tecola
      Hagos -
                                                                        </b>
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                                                                    <font color="#800000">
                                                                        <b>
                                                                            (
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mso-fareast-font-family:Calibri;mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-ansi-language:
EN-US;mso-fareast-language:EN-US;mso-bidi-language:AR-SA'>
repost, April 14, 2010)
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                                                                        &nbsp;
                                                                        <font face="Arial">
                                                                            In
      order to build the Ethiopia of our future, we need to be cognizant of our
      past and current history in order to learn to avoid similar mistakes of
      our predecessors. We need to use history in a creative manner to solve
      future problems. We should not be held hostages by our history or put in a
      straightjacket of history. We should be able to communicate with each
      other in a non-confrontational manner to resolve political and economic
      problems. Our national security depends on how well we work with each
      other. This seems to be a new beginning for all of us. Some of us have
      hurt Ethiopia much more than others; nevertheless, there need be a change
      of attitude from feelings of being victim to feelings of empowerment. For
      whatever has happened in our past, in some way, we all are collectively
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                                                                            .......
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                                                                    <a href="ethiopian_reality.html">
                                                                        <img alt="Full Story" border="0" height="10" hspace="5" src="images/arrow2.gif" width="11">
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                                                                        <a href="https://www1.voanews.com/english/news/africa/east/Ethiopian-Airlines-Interested-in-Report-of-Bomb-Aboard-Crashed-Jet-89530077.html" target="https://www1.voanews.com/english/news/africa/east/Ethiopian-Airlines-Interested-in-Report-of-Bomb-Aboard-Crashed-Jet-89530077.html">
                                                                            <b>
                                                                                Ethiopian
      Airlines 'Interested' in Report of Bomb Aboard Crashed Jet
                                                                            </b>
                                                                        </a>
                                                                        <b>
                                                                            Source:
                                                                            <img alt="VOANews.com" border="0" height="16" id="footerLogo" name="footerLogo" src="designimages/footer-voa-logo.jpg" width="93">
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                                                                    A report on a U.S. Internet Web site says British intelligence agents have reopened their investigation into the mysterious crash of an Ethiopian Airlines jet January
      25.The "G2 Bulletin" Web site, which calls itself an independent online intelligence newsletter reports an operative of the group al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula told interrogators the aircraft was destroyed by a suicide bomber trained in Yemen.
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                                                                                    <a href="natinal_consciousness.html">
                                                                                        National
                                                                                    </a>
                                                                                </b>
                                                                            </span>
                                                                            <a href="natinal_consciousness.html">
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                                                                                    <span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">
                                                                                        Consciousness
                                                                                    </span>
                                                                                    <span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">
                                                                                        ,
      Nation-State and the Problem of Economic Development
                                                                                        <o:p>
                                                                                        </o:p>
                                                                                    </span>
                                                                                </b>
                                                                            </a>
                                                                        </span>
                                                                    </font>
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                                                                                    <i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal">
                                                                                        Discussion
      Paper for Seminar presented to the Conference on Good Governance,
                                                                                        <o:p>
                                                                                        </o:p>
                                                                                    </i>
                                                                                </b>
                                                                            </span>
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                                                                            <a href="natinal_consciousness.html">
                                                                                <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal; font-family: Arial, sans-serif">
                                                                                    Peace,
      Security, Sustainable Development in Ethiopia &amp; the Horn of Africa,
      from April 9-11
                                                                                </b>
                                                                            </a>
                                                                        </span>
                                                                    </font>
                                                                </i>
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                                                                <b>
                                                                    <span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-style: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">
                                                                        By
                                                                    </span>
                                                                </b>
                                                                <span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-style: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">
                                                                    <b>
                                                                        <span lang="EN-GB" style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-ansi-language:
EN-GB;mso-fareast-language:DE;mso-bidi-language:AR-SA'>
Fekadu Bekele, April 9,
2010
                                                                        </span>
                                                                    </b>
                                                                </span>
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                                                                <span lang="EN-GB" style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-ansi-language:
EN-GB;mso-fareast-language:DE;mso-bidi-language:AR-SA'>
The present Ethiopian
government which has sold its soul for the international financial
oligarchy has thrown our country into an economic system which is mere
service oriented. According to the philosophy of the regime, only trading
activities and export of unprocessed agricultural products must be the
basis of economic development. Ethiopia must not build a strong home
market on the basis of science and technology.
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                                                                        <a href="mederk_seattle.html">
                                                                            Seattle Welcomed Medrek political Leaders
                                                                        </a>
                                                                    </font>
                                                                    <font color="#800000" face="Arial" size="2">
                                                                        <br>
                                                                        Assefa Gebrewold (Our Reporter from Seattle) April 10, 2010
                                                                    </font>
                                                                </b>
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                                                                    Medrek leaders from Ethiopia namely Engineer Gizachew Shiferaw, Dr. Negaso Gidada, and Ato Gebru Asrat conducted a crucial meeting with more than 200 Seattle
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                                                                <font face="Arial" size="2">
                                                                    Ethiopian residents and residents from neighboring areas on Saturday, April 10, 2010 at Garfield Community Center. The meeting was very civil and familial.
      My observation came to mind during the meeting that was thrown as question and comment to the leaders of Mederk. The leaders expressed that politics is not static but dynamic force that frequently tune to the local and global contemporary politics. It is true at one historical junction we lead to dismantle the brutal regime of the Derg to its demise, than after we changed our views on a number of key issues. Experiencing this difference can cause thoughtful people to change their views, while still holding onto principle. Today Ethiopian politics to accommodate various forces it become an ideological tug-of-war.
                                                                </font>
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                                                            <hr>
                                                            <h1 style="margin-left: 10; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0">
                                                                <a href="pointers_justice.html">
                                                                    <font color="#996633" face="Arial" size="2">
                                                                        Pointers
                                                                        of Justice and the Ongoing Debates in Ethiopia
                                                                    </font>
                                                                </a>
                                                            </h1>
                                                            <h1 style="margin-left: 10; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0">
                                                                <font face="Arial" size="2">
                                                                    Ghelawdewos
                                                                    Araia, Ph.D&nbsp;&nbsp;
                                                                    <b>
                                                                        April
                                                                        10, 2010
                                                                        <o:p>
                                                                            &nbsp;
                                                                        </o:p>
                                                                    </b>
                                                                </font>
                                                            </h1>
                                                            <p style="margin-left: 10; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0">
                                                                <font face="Arial" size="2">
                                                                    Abstract: This article critically examines the
                                                                    current politics in Ethiopia pertinent to the rule
                                                                    of law, governance and the broad range of
                                                                    philosophical foundations of justice. Above all,
                                                                    the article discusses the ongoing pre-election
                                                                    debates, and as a matter of interest to the
                                                                    Institute of Development and Education for Africa
                                                                    (IDEA, Inc.), the focus will be on the education
                                                                    debate.
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                                                            <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 10; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0">
                                                                <span style="color: #C00000">
                                                                    <a href="Ethiopia _United States_Two.pdf">
                                                                        <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal; color: #C00000">
                                                                            <font size="3">
                                                                                Ethiopia
      and the United States: Hot and Cold Relationship
                                                                            </font>
                                                                        </b>
                                                                    </a>
                                                                    <font size="2">
                                                                        <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal">
                                                                            &iuml;&iquest;&frac12; A Challenge to
      the Future of Ethiopia
                                                                            <o:p>
                                                                            </o:p>
                                                                        </b>
                                                                    </font>
                                                                </span>
                                                            </p>
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                                                                <span style="color:#C00000">
                                                                    <font size="2">
                                                                        By
      Tecola W. Hagos&nbsp;&nbsp; April 10, 2010
                                                                    </font>
                                                                </span>
                                                            </p>
                                                            <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; line-height: 100%; margin-left: 10; margin-right: 5; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0">
                                                                <font face="Arial" size="2">
                                                                    What
      is ironic is the fact that it was
                                                                    <u1:country-region u2:st="on">
                                                                        Ethiopia
                                                                    </u1:country-region>
                                                                    that committed its modest resources on behalf and in support of the
      interest of the
                                                                    <u1:place u2:st="on">
                                                                        <u1:country-region u2:st="on">
                                                                            United States
                                                                        </u1:country-region>
                                                                    </u1:place>
                                                                    first. After the reestablishment of diplomatic relationship and exchange
      of Ambassadors for the first time in 1949, a year later in 1951
                                                                    <u1:country-region u2:st="on">
                                                                        Ethiopia
                                                                    </u1:country-region>
                                                                    sent its heroic soldiers to serve in
                                                                    <u1:country-region u2:st="on">
                                                                        Korea
                                                                    </u1:country-region>
                                                                    in support of the policy of the
                                                                    <u1:place u2:st="on">
                                                                        <u1:country-region u2:st="on">
                                                                            United States
                                                                        </u1:country-region>
                                                                    </u1:place>
                                                                    . They served from 1951 to 1954.
                                                                    <u1:country-region u2:st="on">
                                                                        Ethiopia
                                                                    </u1:country-region>
                                                                    sacrificed its brave sons (121 dead and 536 wounded) in that military
      engagement supporting the
                                                                    <u1:place u2:st="on">
                                                                        <u1:country-region u2:st="on">
                                                                            United States
                                                                        </u1:country-region>
                                                                    </u1:place>
                                                                    . [Getachew, 45] Nothing comparable had happened from the American side up
      to that point in time or later. Unlike the
                                                                    <u1:country-region u2:st="on">
                                                                        United States
                                                                    </u1:country-region>
                                                                    , the honorable Korean people and Government erected a monument to the
      brave Ethiopian soldiers that sacrificed their lives safeguarding
                                                                    <u1:place u2:st="on">
                                                                        <u1:country-region u2:st="on">
                                                                            Korea
                                                                        </u1:country-region>
                                                                    </u1:place>
                                                                    from the ravages of communism.
                                                                </font>
                                                                <strong>
                                                                    <span style="mso-spacerun:yes">
                                                                        &nbsp;&nbsp;
                                                                    </span>
                                                                </strong>
                                                            </p>
                                                            <hr>
                                                            <p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 100%; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0">
                                                                <span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt">
                                                                    <font color="#800000" face="Arial" size="2">
                                                                        <b>
                                                                            <a href="liben_Gebre_Etopiyahtm.html">
                                                                                Time
      to Move On?
                                                                            </a>
                                                                            <o:p>
                                                                            </o:p>
                                                                        </b>
                                                                    </font>
                                                                </span>
                                                            </p>
                                                            <p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 100%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0">
                                                                <span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt">
                                                                    <font face="Arial" size="2">
                                                                        <b>
                                                                            <font color="#800000">
                                                                                Donald
      Levine (Liben Gebre Etyopiya)
                                                                            </font>
                                                                        </b>
                                                                    </font>
                                                                </span>
                                                            </p>
                                                            <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 10; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0">
                                                                <font face="Arial" size="2">
                                                                    <span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt">
                                                                        <i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal">
                                                                            Gwadotchu
                                                                        </i>
                                                                        had big dreams and lived them out.
                                                                        <o:p>
                                                                        </o:p>
                                                                    </span>
                                                                </font>
                                                            </p>
                                                            <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 10; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0">
                                                                <span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt">
                                                                    <font face="Arial" size="2">
                                                                        Schools
      built&iuml;&iquest;&frac12;count them! Clinics made&iuml;&iquest;&frac12;count them!
                                                                        <o:p>
                                                                        </o:p>
                                                                    </font>
                                                                </span>
                                                            </p>
                                                            <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 10; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0">
                                                                <span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt">
                                                                    <font face="Arial" size="2">
                                                                        Industries
      stoked! Roads laid! Universities established!
                                                                        <o:p>
                                                                        </o:p>
                                                                    </font>
                                                                </span>
                                                            </p>
                                                            <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 10; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0">
                                                                <span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt">
                                                                    <font face="Arial" size="2">
                                                                        "And
      when we suffered in the bush,
                                                                        <o:p>
                                                                        </o:p>
                                                                    </font>
                                                                </span>
                                                            </p>
                                                            <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 10; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0">
                                                                <span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt">
                                                                    <font face="Arial" size="2">
                                                                        One
      thought, one dream, kept me going:
                                                                        <o:p>
                                                                        </o:p>
                                                                    </font>
                                                                </span>
                                                            </p>
                                                            <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 10; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0">
                                                                <span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt">
                                                                    <font face="Arial" size="2">
                                                                        To
      see the common people of my
                                                                        <o:p>
                                                                        </o:p>
                                                                    </font>
                                                                </span>
                                                            </p>
                                                            <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 10; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0">
                                                                <span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt">
                                                                    <font face="Arial" size="2">
                                                                        Country
      going to the polls and voting, freely."
                                                                    </font>
                                                                </span>
                                                                <span style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt">
                                                                    <o:p>
                                                                    </o:p>
                                                                </span>
                                                            </p>
                                                            <hr>
                                                            <p align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 10; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0">
                                                                <font face="Arial" size="2">
                                                                    <a href="Abune-Zenamarkos (2).pdf">
                                                                        <b>
                                                                            Abune Zenamarkos:  His Apostolic Mission Preparing Ethiopians
      For the Challenges in the New World
                                                                        </b>
                                                                    </a>
                                                                    <br>
                                                                    <b>
                                                                        By Zewge Fanta Seattle, U.S.A
                                                                    </b>
                                                                </font>
                                                            </p>
                                                            <p align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 10; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0">
                                                                <font face="Arial" size="2">
                                                                    <span style="mso-fareast-font-family: Times New Roman; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA">
                                                                        The
      Ethiopians in the Diaspora and the Ethiopians in the homeland cannot exist
      without each other.
                                                                        <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:
normal">
                                                                            <i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal">
                                                                            </i>
                                                                        </b>
                                                                        The well being of
      Ethiopians in the homeland is detrimental to the well beings of Ethiopians
      in the Diaspora. Ethiopians&iuml;&iquest;&frac12; human dignities were grossly violated in
      their own country and so, people in the outside World have acted the same
      way towards Ethiopians.
                                                                    </span>
                                                                </font>
                                                            </p>
                                                            <hr>
                                                            <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 10; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0">
                                                                <span class="eth1">
                                                                    <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal">
                                                                        <font face="Arial" size="2">
                                                                            <span class="eth1" style="mso-bidi-font-family: Nyala">
                                                                                <a href="Ethiopian_unity_Editorial.pdf">
                                                                                    Editorial:
      Most Pleasing Posting From
                                                                                    <i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal">
                                                                                        Warka
                                                                                    </i>
                                                                                    :
      The Great
                                                                                    <u1:country-region u2:st="on">
                                                                                        <u1:place u2:st="on">
                                                                                            Ethiopia
                                                                                        </u1:place>
                                                                                    </u1:country-region>
                                                                                </a>
                                                                                <o:p>
                                                                                </o:p>
                                                                            </span>
                                                                        </font>
                                                                    </b>
                                                                </span>
                                                            </p>
                                                            <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 10; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0">
                                                                <font face="Arial" size="2">
                                                                    <span class="eth1" style="mso-bidi-font-family: Nyala">
                                                                        I
      have taken the liberty by posting what appeared in
                                                                        <i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal">
                                                                            Warka
                                                                        </i>
                                                                        (April 3, 2010) as one of the most profound statements I have read in
      years about the hope of
                                                                        <u1:country-region u2:st="on">
                                                                            <u1:place u2:st="on">
                                                                                Ethiopia
                                                                            </u1:place>
                                                                        </u1:country-region>
                                                                        &iuml;&iquest;&frac12;s renaissance. By reposting such wonderful insights in my Website, I am
      imposing on my readers my deep commitment to bring back the glory of
                                                                        <u1:country-region u2:st="on">
                                                                            Ethiopia
                                                                        </u1:country-region>
                                                                        into the minced and fractured lives of Ethiopians despite the racist
      policies and activities of Arabs and the United States Government to
      divide and destroy
                                                                        <u1:country-region u2:st="on">
                                                                            <u1:place u2:st="on">
                                                                                Ethiopia
                                                                            </u1:place>
                                                                        </u1:country-region>
                                                                        . All Glory to
                                                                        <u1:country-region u2:st="on">
                                                                            <u1:place u2:st="on">
                                                                                Ethiopia
                                                                            </u1:place>
                                                                        </u1:country-region>
                                                                        and all of its diverse People. TH
                                                                    </span>
                                                                </font>
                                                                <span class="eth1" style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:
Nyala;mso-bidi-font-family:Nyala">
                                                                    <o:p>
                                                                    </o:p>
                                                                </span>
                                                            </p>
                                                            <hr>
                                                            <p align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; background-repeat: repeat; background-attachment: scroll; margin-left: 10; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0; background-position: 0% 50%">
                                                                <font color="#800000" size="2">
                                                                    <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:
 normal">
                                                                        <a href="Ethiopia_unites_states.html">
                                                                            Ethiopia
                                                                        </a>
                                                                    </b>
                                                                    <a href="Ethiopia_unites_states.html">
                                                                        <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal">
                                                                            and the
                                                                            <st1:place w:st="on">
                                                                                <st1:country-region w:st="on">
                                                                                    United States
                                                                                </st1:country-region>
                                                                            </st1:place>
                                                                            : Unhealthy Relationship
                                                                        </b>
                                                                    </a>
                                                                    <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal">
                                                                        <o:p>
                                                                        </o:p>
                                                                    </b>
                                                                </font>
                                                            </p>
                                                            <p align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 10; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0">
                                                                <b>
                                                                    <font color="#800000" size="2">
                                                                        &nbsp;By Tecola W. Hagos&nbsp;&nbsp;
      April 3, 2010
                                                                    </font>
                                                                </b>
                                                            </p>
                                                            <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 10; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0">
                                                                <b>
                                                                    <font color="#800000" size="1">
                                                                        &nbsp;
                                                                    </font>
                                                                </b>
                                                                <font face="Arial" size="2">
                                                                    <span style="mso-fareast-font-family: Times New Roman; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA">
                                                                        The
      reality on the American political stage was that Roosevelt as a consummate
      predatory politician was thinking of his own political life with an eye on
      the votes of the Italian-Americans most of whom campaign in support of
      Italy against Ethiopia. The Mafia of Sicily by way of
                                                                        <st1:city w:st="on">
                                                                            New York City
                                                                        </st1:city>
                                                                        and
                                                                        <st1:city w:st="on">
                                                                            Chicago
                                                                        </st1:city>
                                                                        had a hand in all that anti-Ethiopia and anti-black rhetoric in shaping
      the
                                                                        <st1:place w:st="on">
                                                                            <st1:country-region w:st="on">
                                                                                US
                                                                            </st1:country-region>
                                                                        </st1:place>
                                                                        policy of the time. &iuml;&iquest;&frac12;In the 1930s, the &iuml;&iquest;&frac12;Italian vote,&iuml;&iquest;&frac12; which had
      fluctuated between the two parties, became solidly Democratic in support
      of Franklin D. Roosevelt and the New Deal.&iuml;&iquest;&frac12;
                                                                    </span>
                                                                </font>
                                                            </p>
                                                            <hr>
                                                            <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 10; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0">
                                                                <span style="font-size:14.0pt;color:black">
                                                                    <a href="Ester Ethiopian Holiday.pdf">
                                                                        <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal">
                                                                            <span style="color:black">
                                                                                Happy
                                                                            </span>
                                                                        </b>
                                                                        <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal">
                                                                            Easter to All, Ethiopians and the
      World at Large
                                                                        </b>
                                                                    </a>
                                                                    <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal">
                                                                        <o:p>
                                                                        </o:p>
                                                                    </b>
                                                                </span>
                                                            </p>
                                                            <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 10; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0">
                                                                By
      Tecola W. Hagos
                                                            </p>
                                                            <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 15; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0">
                                                                <font face="Arial" size="2">
                                                                    Easter represent to me of renewed hope and renewed life. It is a symbol of the undying human spirit. It affirms the resilience of man, as symbolized by the death and resurrection of a simple and humble Jewish man, Jesus. The poet Shelley put it in a universalized symbolism fabulously by stating that &iuml;&iquest;&frac12;If winter comes, can spring be far behind?" It is the resurrection of the Christ that he was alluding to, but it is also the resurrection of the human spirit. For us Ethiopians, this particular Easter has special significance. We have suffered nineteen long years under the brutal yoke of oppression of Meles Zenawi and his anti-Ethiopia subversive Mafia-like organization. Meles Zenawi is the son of a banda traitor, who in turn had betrayed our national Sovereignty and territorial integrity. He is looting our gold and treasure to the tune of at least five billion dollars since 1992 in collusion with a greedy con man called Mohammed Al&iuml;&iquest;&frac12;Amudi.&nbsp;
                                                                </font>
                                                            </p>
                                                            <hr>
                                                            <p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center; margin-left: 10; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0">
                                                                <b>
                                                                    <font color="#800000">
                                                                        <a href="move_on.html">
                                                                            <span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt">
                                                                                <font size="3">
                                                                                    Move
      On?
                                                                                </font>
                                                                            </span>
                                                                        </a>
                                                                        <span style="font-size:14.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt">
                                                                            <o:p>
                                                                            </o:p>
                                                                        </span>
                                                                    </font>
                                                                </b>
                                                            </p>
                                                            <p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center; margin-left: 10; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0">
                                                                <b>
                                                                    <font color="#800000" size="2">
                                                                        <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif">
                                                                            Donald
      levine
                                                                        </span>
                                                                    </font>
                                                                </b>
                                                                <span style="font-size:14.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt">
                                                                    <o:p>
                                                                    </o:p>
                                                                </span>
                                                            </p>
                                                            <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 10; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0">
                                                                <span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt">
                                                                    <font face="Calibri" size="2">
                                                                        "HURRY
      UP PLEASE IT'S TIME"
                                                                        <o:p>
                                                                        </o:p>
                                                                    </font>
                                                                </span>
                                                            </p>
                                                            <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 10; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0">
                                                                <span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt">
                                                                    <font face="Calibri" size="2">
                                                                        The
      Waste Land lends me words, all I can think today
                                                                        <o:p>
                                                                        </o:p>
                                                                    </font>
                                                                </span>
                                                            </p>
                                                            <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 10; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0">
                                                                <span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt">
                                                                    <font face="Calibri" size="2">
                                                                        <span style="mso-spacerun:yes">
                                                                            &nbsp;
                                                                        </span>
                                                                        As
      sweet Ethiopia wades through swamps that choked it so long.
                                                                        <o:p>
                                                                        </o:p>
                                                                    </font>
                                                                </span>
                                                            </p>
                                                            <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 10; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0">
                                                                <span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt">
                                                                    <font face="Calibri">
                                                                        <font size="2">
                                                                            "If
      you don't like it you can get on with it."
                                                                        </font>
                                                                        <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:
normal">
                                                                            <i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal">
                                                                                <font size="2">
                                                                                    <o:p>
                                                                                    </o:p>
                                                                                </font>
                                                                            </i>
                                                                        </b>
                                                                    </font>
                                                                </span>
                                                            </p>
                                                            <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 10; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0">
                                                                <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal">
                                                                    <i style="mso-bidi-font-style:
normal">
                                                                        <font face="Calibri" size="2">
                                                                            <span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt">
                                                                                <span style="mso-spacerun:yes">
                                                                                    &nbsp;
                                                                                </span>
                                                                                Please
                                                                            </span>
                                                                        </font>
                                                                    </i>
                                                                </b>
                                                                <font face="Calibri" size="2">
                                                                    <span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt">
                                                                        don't say that to me.
                                                                        <span style="mso-spacerun:yes">
                                                                            &nbsp;
                                                                        </span>
                                                                        For I
      have watched,
                                                                        <o:p>
                                                                        </o:p>
                                                                    </span>
                                                                </font>
                                                            </p>
                                                            <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 10; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0">
                                                                <span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt">
                                                                    <font face="Calibri" size="2">
                                                                        While
      the best and brightest of ten generations
                                                                        <o:p>
                                                                        </o:p>
                                                                    </font>
                                                                </span>
                                                            </p>
                                                            <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 10; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0">
                                                                <span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt">
                                                                    <font face="Calibri" size="2">
                                                                        Have
      bled, screamed, groaned, died.
                                                                        <span style="mso-spacerun:yes">
                                                                            &nbsp;
                                                                        </span>
                                                                        My
      friends, my brothers and sisters.
                                                                        <o:p>
                                                                        </o:p>
                                                                    </font>
                                                                </span>
                                                            </p>
                                                            <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 10; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0">
                                                                <span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt">
                                                                    <font face="Calibri" size="2">
                                                                        I
      have tried, these fifty years, to show the patterns.
                                                                    </font>
                                                                </span>
                                                            </p>
                                                            <hr>
                                                            <p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; text-align: justify; margin-left: 10; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0">
                                                                <font face="Arial" size="2">
                                                                    <b>
                                                                        <a href="Ethiopian Current Issues March 27 2010.pdf">
                                                                            Symposium on Ethiopian Current Issues March 27 2010፡Report
                                                                        </a>
                                                                    </b>
                                                                    <br>
                                                                    <b>
                                                                        March 31, 2010
                                                                    </b>
                                                                    <br>
                                                                    Sponsored by the Ethiopian Unity Diaspora Forum
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                                                                    (EUDF), the United Ethiopian Democratic Forces (UEDF), and the Ethiopian People&iuml;&iquest;&frac12;s Revolutionary Party &iuml;&iquest;&frac12; D)
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                                                                    <b>
                                                                        <a href="FUTURE DEMOCRATIC ETHIOPIA.pdf">
                                                                            TPLF (EPRDF)&iuml;&iquest;&frac12;HARDLY GOOD MIDWIFE FOR THE FUTURE DEMOCRATIC ETHIOPIA&nbsp;
                                                                        </a>
                                                                    </b>
                                                                    <br>
                                                                    <b>
                                                                        By Genet Mersha, March 30, 2010&nbsp;
                                                                    </b>
                                                                    <br>
                                                                    PART II
                                                                    <br>
                                                                    At the end of Part I of my article, The People vs. TPLF&iuml;&iquest;&frac12;Tigrai&iuml;&iquest;&frac12;Addis Ababa Scale up Defiance of March 23, I closed with an idea from democratic law and legal precedents that voting is a form of free speech. This second part would pick up from there to state my reasons for denying my approval and support for the TPLF (EPRDF). Already the election environment is strained by shenanigans, widespread fears and undue pressure on voters by unfair and illegal vote canvassing. Widespread are ill-treatments, harassment and imprisonment of opposition candidates, party members and their supporters, so report news sources.&nbsp;
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                                                                <a href="San-Jose-2010-final_PDF.pdf">
                                                                    <img border="0" height="132" src="san.gif" width="291">
                                                                </a>
                                                                <br>
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                                                                    <font face="Arial" size="2">
                                                                        <b>
                                                                            <a href="Article The World.pdf">
                                                                                [Is
      Ethiopia the worst country for women? Read below for contrast.]
                                                                            </a>
                                                                        </b>
                                                                        <o:p>
                                                                        </o:p>
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                                                                <span lang="EN" style="mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN">
                                                                    <font face="Arial" size="2">
                                                                        The
      World's Best Country for Women
                                                                        <o:p>
                                                                        </o:p>
                                                                    </font>
                                                                </span>
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                                                                <span lang="EN" style="mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN">
                                                                    <font face="Arial" size="2">
                                                                        By
      Marie Claire
                                                                        <o:p>
                                                                        </o:p>
                                                                    </font>
                                                                </span>
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                                                                    <font face="Arial" size="2">
                                                                        If
      you want to be happy, healthy, and powerful, you might consider packing
      your bags and moving to a picturesque country on the other side of the
      Atlantic. According to a new report, Sweden tops out as the #1 place for
      women to live. Is it the year-long maternity leave? The chance to date
      four men at once? The unisex public bathrooms? (Ewww!)
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10.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN;font-weight:normal;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold">
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                                                                <b>
                                                                    <font face="Arial" size="2">
                                                                        <font color="#800000">
                                                                            <a href="people_EPRDF.html">
                                                                                THE PEOPLE vs. TPLF (EPRDF)&iuml;&iquest;&frac12;TIGRAI (ADOWA, AXUM, MEKELE, TEMBEIN), ADDIS ABABA&iuml;&iquest;&frac12; SCALE UP DEFIANCE
                                                                            </a>
                                                                        </font>
                                                                        <br>
                                                                        By Genet Mersha, March 23, 2010
                                                                        <br>
                                                                    </font>
                                                                </b>
                                                                <span lang="EN-GB">
                                                                    As the countdown to May 23
                                                                    <sup>
                                                                        rd election
      is ticking, the month of March has witnessed the most intense political
      activities in Ethiopia to date in this election season. We see a
      questioning public mood; we hear lots of accusations and counter
      accusations by the parties. There is no doubt that March has not been a
      favourable month for the governing party.&nbsp;The tide has been beyond
      the capacity of TPLF&iuml;&iquest;&frac12;s well-greased propaganda machine. It has failed to
      dispel the attack by opposition political parties in three out of four
      debates to date. Nor does the TPLF image appear well shielded from the
      arrogance of power that has now linked it to some horrendous crimes and
      scandals that it desperately is trying wash off Nonetheless, some appear
      too sticky to whitewash and may even have serious repercussions going
      forward, whether the Front wins the election or is booted out by popular
      decision.&nbsp;
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                                                                <span style="color:green">
                                                                    <a href="Symposium on Current Ethiopian Issues (2).pdf" title="Symposium on Current Ethiopian Issues">
                                                                        <font size="3">
                                                                            Symposium
      on
                                                                            <span style="color:#FF9900">
                                                                                Current
                                                                            </span>
                                                                            <span style="color:red">
                                                                                Ethiopian
      Issues
                                                                            </span>
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                                                                    <strong>
                                                                        T
                                                                    </strong>
                                                                </b>
                                                                he
      joint Committee consisting of the Ethiopian Unity Diaspora Forum (EUDF),
      the United Ethiopian Democratic Forces (UEDF), the Ethiopian Peoples
      Revolutionary Party (EPRP &iuml;&iquest;&frac12; D) &nbsp;extends its invitation to all
      Ethiopians in the Diaspora and Friends of Ethiopia to the Symposium on
      Ethiopian Current Issues, of March 27, 2010 to be held at Meriden Hill
      Hall, Howard University.
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                                                                    <o:p>
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                                                                    <font size="2">
                                                                        <font color="#800000">
                                                                            <a href="aregash_Meles.html">
                                                                                Opposing
      Meles Zenawi and the EPRDF: A Moral Imperative
                                                                            </a>
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                                                                        <o:p>
                                                                        </o:p>
                                                                    </font>
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                                                                    <b>
                                                                        By
      Tecola W. Hagos, March 21, 2010
                                                                    </b>
                                                                </font>
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                                                                    International
      accolade for Meles Zenawi is a slap to the opposition in Ethiopia, and an
      undeserved promotion of Meles Zenawi as an international statesman. Such
      irresponsible acts by the Secretary General and the leading Western
      Nations had dealt Ethiopia&iuml;&iquest;&frac12;s local political challenges to Meles Zenawi
      a devastating blow. The United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon
      selected Meles Zenawi and Gordon Brown to co-chair the Advisory Group on
      Climate Change Financing, on the World&iuml;&iquest;&frac12;s environmental issues, for
      funding and for the purpose of distribution of billions of dollars worth
      of funding, has given Meles Zenawi a new golden armor of invincibility.
      But the World Community that is held hostage by the powerful nations knows
      as much as Ethiopians do, the corruption and treason as well as crimes
      Meles Zenawi has committed against tens of thousands of Ethiopians and the
      State of Ethiopia itself. The leading Western Nations and the Secretary
      General of the United Nations owe us an apology
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                                                                        <a href="https://www1.voanews.com/english/news/Was-1915-Massacre-of-Armenians-by-Ottoman-Turks-Genocide--88437737.html" target="https://www1.voanews.com/english/news/Was-1915-Massacre-of-Armenians-by-Ottoman-Turks-Genocide--88437737.html">
                                                                            Was 1915 Massacre of Armenians by Ottoman Turks Genocide?&nbsp;
                                                                        </a>
                                                                    </b>
                                                                    <br>
                                                                    <font color="#800000">
                                                                        <b>
                                                                            By Andre de Nesnera | Washington 18 March 2010&nbsp;
                                                                        </b>
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                                                                    The Ottoman Empire sided with Germany "And they then carried out systematically, deportations of Armenians from eastern Anatolia, first demobilizing the Armenian soldiers who were serving with the Ottoman army, forcing them to dig their graves and shooting them. And then women and children, deporting them into the deserts of Syria, massacring them along the way and ultimately killing thousands and thousands when they reached Dayr az Zawr, the end point in the Syrian desert," he added.
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normal">
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                                                                        <a href="debate.html">
                                                                            Debates and the 2010
      Ethiopian Election:
                                                                        </a>
                                                                        <o:p>
                                                                        </o:p>
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normal">
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                                                                        Report and Philosophical Reflection
                                                                        <o:p>
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                                                                    By
      Teodros Kiros (Ph.D)
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                                                                    In
      direct contrast, living democracy builds on the hidden resources of
      individuals. Clarity, creativity, courage and internal power, the
      potential virtues of democratic citizens turn toward life.New Ethiopianity
      needs Living democracy with new eyes. We need to begin seeingdifferently,
      by engaging our clear, creative, appropriately fearful and internally
      powerful senses. Living democracy as a way of life, demands that we engage
      ourselves with life&iuml;&iquest;&frac12; challenges in a concrete way. Change is
      fundamentally an inner experience, which then spills over the external
      world. A changed individual can then seek to change the external world.
      The inner world is a world of fear, impossibility, but also hope and
      change. Living Democracy is dynamic cycle of hope and fear, fear and hope.
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                                                                        <a href="symposuim.html">
                                                                            Symposium
      on Current Ethiopian Issues
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                                                                    The
      joint Committee consisting of the Ethiopian Unity Diaspora Forum (EUDF),
      the United Ethiopian Democratic Forces (UEDF), the Ethiopian Peoples
      Revolutionary Party (EPRP &iuml;&iquest;&frac12; D), and extends its invitation to all Ethiopians in the
      Diaspora and Friends of Ethiopia to the
                                                                    <u>
                                                                        Symposium on Ethiopian Current
      Issues
                                                                    </u>
                                                                    , of March 27, 2010 to be held at Meriden Hill Hall, Howard
      University.
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                                                                    <a href="kaleb.html">
                                                                        Background
      to the Emergence of Dictatorship in
                                                                        <st1:country-region w:st="on">
                                                                            <st1:place w:st="on">
                                                                                Ethiopia&nbsp;
                                                                            </st1:place>
                                                                        </st1:country-region>
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                                                                    <span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt">
                                                                        <font face="Arial" size="2">
                                                                            Kaleb
      Gebremeskel&nbsp;
                                                                        </font>
                                                                    </span>
                                                                </b>
                                                                <font face="Arial" size="2">
                                                                    March 12,
      201
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                                                                    Given
      the brutality and intolerance of Meles and his party, the 2010 election,
      like the 2005 election before it, may end up in the bloody attack of the
      opposition by police forces. But if things go well and a relatively civil
      electoral process is conducted, Medrek may not capture state power but it
      would definitely secure sizable seats in the parliament and could enjoy
      legitimacy as the main opposition in the legislature.
                                                                </font>
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                                                                <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal">
                                                                    <a href="Fekade Shewakena March 11th.pdf" title="Permanent Link: Meles Zenawi's Action Plan for 2010">
                                                                        <font size="2">
                                                                            <span style="color:black">
                                                                                Meles
      Zenawi's Action Plan for 2010
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                                                            <p class="small" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 10; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0">
                                                                <font face="Arial" size="2">
                                                                    By
      Fekade Shewakena, March 11, 2010
                                                                </font>
                                                            </p>
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                                                                <font face="Arial" size="2">
                                                                    <span style="mso-fareast-font-family: Times New Roman">
                                                                        The
      stabbing of an
                                                                        <span class="ilad1" style='mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"'>
                                                                            opposition
                                                                        </span>
                                                                        <span style='mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"'>
                                                                            parliamentary candidate and the brutal beating of another in Tigrai by
      Meles Zenawi&iuml;&iquest;&frac12;s thugs last week, only days after the latter made a code
      loaded speech at the TPLF anniversary in Mekele, where he referred to his
      opponents as the mud, the riffraff, and the enemy, fall perfectly in line
      with the tactic and strategy set out for &iuml;&iquest;&frac12;winning&iuml;&iquest;&frac12; the May 2010
                                                                        </span>
                                                                        <span class="ilad1" style='mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"'>
                                                                            election
                                                                        </span>
                                                                        <span style='mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"'>
                                                                            .
      All indications, including the rush by government officials to explain how
      the victim died before even any preliminary
                                                                        </span>
                                                                        <span class="ilad1" style='mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman"'>
police investigation
                                                                        </span>
                                                                        <span style='mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"'>
                                                                            ,
      show that Meles Zenawi&iuml;&iquest;&frac12;s finger prints are all over the killing. Some
      ferenjis may be willfully fooled. We Ethiopians know the drill and we get
      it.
                                                                        </span>
                                                                    </span>
                                                                </font>
                                                                <span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman"'>
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Arial;color:black;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB'>
                                                                            <a href="Article on Levine poltalk.pdf">
                                                                                <span style="font-family:Nyala;mso-bidi-font-family:Nyala">
                                                                                    ፕሮፌሰር
                                                                                </span>
                                                                                <span style="font-family:Nyala;mso-bidi-font-family:Nyala">
                                                                                    ዶናልድ
                                                                                </span>
                                                                                <span style="mso-bidi-font-family:Cambria">
                                                                                </span>
                                                                                <span style="font-family:Nyala;
mso-bidi-font-family:Nyala">
ሌቪንና
                                                                                </span>
                                                                                <span style="mso-bidi-font-family:Cambria">
                                                                                </span>
                                                                                <span style="font-family:Nyala;mso-bidi-font-family:Nyala">
                                                                                    ፖለቲከኞቻችን
                                                                                </span>
                                                                            </a>
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                                                                            </o:p>
                                                                        </span>
                                                                    </b>
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                                                                            <span lang="EN-GB" style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black;
mso-ansi-language:EN-GB'>
Wednesday, 10 March 2010
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mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:Nyala;
color:black;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB;mso-fareast-language:EN-US;mso-bidi-language:
AR-SA'>
በየማነ
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mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB;
mso-fareast-language:EN-US;mso-bidi-language:AR-SA'>
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mso-bidi-font-family:Nyala;color:black;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB;mso-fareast-language:
EN-US;mso-bidi-language:AR-SA'>
ናግሽ
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                                                                            ሌቪን
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                                                                                እንደሚሉት፣
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                                                                                በተለያዩ
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                                                                                ወገኖች
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                                                                                የተለያዩ
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                                                                                ጥፋቶች
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                                                                                እየተፈጸሙ
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                                                                                ቢሆንም፣
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                                                                                    መንግሥት
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                                                                                    የአንበሳውን
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                                                                                    ድርሻ
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                                                                                    ይወስዳል፡፡
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                                                                                    በተለይ
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                                                                                    የተቃዋሚ
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                                                                                    ታርቲዎች
      አባላትና
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                                                                                    ደጋፊዎችን
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                                                                                    ማዋከብና
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                                                                                    ማንገላታት፣
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                                                                                    የምርጫው
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                                                                                    ሒደት
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                                                                                    ላይ
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                                                                                የሚፈጸሙ
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                                                                                ስህተቶችና
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                                                                                ክፍተቶችን
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                                                                                በመሙላት
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                                                                                ፕሬስ
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                                                                                ከፍተኛ
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                                                                                ሚና
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                                                                                እንደሚጫወት፣
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                                                                                ነገር
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                                                                                ግን
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                                                                                በጠላትነት
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                                                                                እየተፈረጀ
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                                                                                ስለመሆኑ፣
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                                                                                ግልጽነትና
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                                                                                ተቀራርቦ
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                                                                                አለመነጋገር፣
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                                                                                የመሰብሰብና
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                                                                                የመደራጀት
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                                                                                መብቶች
                                                                            </span>
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                                                                                አለመከባበር፣
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                                                                                ወዘተ
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                                                                                ይዘረዝራሉ፡፡
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                                                                                ገዢው
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                                                                                ፓርቲ
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                                                                                ኅብረተሰቡን
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                                                                                በሴቶች፣
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                                                                                በወጣቶች
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                                                                                ፎረሞችና
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                                                                                ሌሎች
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                                                                                ሊጎች
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                                                                                እያጨናነቀ
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                                                                                ስለመሆኑ፣
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                                                                                ሁሉን
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                                                                                ሰው
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                                                                                አባል
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                                                                                ለማድረግ
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                                                                                የሚያደርው
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                                                                                ሩጫ
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                                                                                በዘላቂነት
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                                                                                ዴሞክራሲ
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                                                                                ለመገንባት
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                                                                                ያለውን
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                                                                                ቁርጠኝነት
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                                                                                አጠያያቂ
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                                                                                ያደርገዋል
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                                                                                ይላሉ፡፡
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                                                                                ሌቪን፣
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                                                                                ኢህአዴግን
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                                                                                ብቻ
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                                                                                አልወቀሱም፤
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                                                                                ተቃዋሚዎችም
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                                                                                የአካሄድ
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                                                                                ለውጥ
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                                                                                ያስፈልጋቸዋል
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                                                                                ይላሉ፡፡
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                                                                                መግሥትንና
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                                                                                ተቋማቱን
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                                                                                ዕውቅና
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                                                                                መስጠት፣
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                                                                                ቅሬታቸውን
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                                                                                ለዓለም
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                                                                                አቀፉ
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                                                                                ኅብረተሰብ
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                                                                                ከመናገር
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                                                                                ይልቅ
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                                                                                አገር
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                                                                                ውስጥ
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                                                                                ላሉ
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                                                                                ሕጋዊ
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                                                                                አካሎች
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                                                                                ማቅረብ፣
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                                                                                መንግሥትን
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                                                                                ከማጥላላትና
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                                                                                ለማሸነፍ
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                                                                                ብቻ
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                                                                                ከመሮጥ
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                                                                                ለመተጋገዝና
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                                                                                ለመነጋገር
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                                                                                መሞከር
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                                                                                እንዳለባቸው
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                                                                                ይመክራሉ፡፡
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                                                                    <b>
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                                                                            <a href="Nicolae-Titulescu.html">
                                                                                Who
      was Nicolae Titulescu?
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                                                                    <b>
                                                                        <font color="#000066" size="2">
                                                                            March
      5, 2010
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                                                                <p style="margin-left: 10; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0">
                                                                    <b>
                                                                        <font color="#000066" size="2">
                                                                            By
      Professor Richard Pankhurst
                                                                        </font>
                                                                    </b>
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                                                                        Nicolae
      Titulescu, with whom we are concerned in this article, was a Romanian
      scholar and statesman who devoted his life and career to the principles of
      the League. Born in 1882 he undertook his primary and secondary studies in
      his native Romania, after which, graduating with distinction, he travelled
      to Paris to read international law, and was awarded a doctorate. He was
      also active at this time in the Romanian National Committee which worked
      for Romanian national rights
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                                                                                    <a href="democracy_paradox.html">
                                                                                        &iuml;&iquest;&frac12;The
      Democracy Paradox&iuml;&iquest;&frac12;: Electoral Preparations Hint Gearing up Towards Known
      Outcome
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                                                                        <b>
                                                                            By Genet Mersha, 5 March 2010
                                                                            <br>
                                                                        </b>
                                                                        <font face="Arial" size="2">
                                                                            The opposition sees devolution of power in
      Ethiopia as counterfeit. EDP started right from the centre, saying that
      the division of powers itself in the centre is not a true constitutional
      division between the three branches of government. It equated the present
      reality to cooperation between the powers. It accused EPRDF of hindering
      the true devolution of power to the regions through such an arrangement.
      It said that is designed for the TPLF to ensure its hold on power. The
      guise used for this is ethnic issues and group rights, which contradicts
      the rights of the individual citizens.&nbsp;
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"Geez Unicode"'>
                                                                                <a href="meles%20gedeb%20albanet.pdf">
                                                                                    የመለስ
      ዜናዊ ገደብ
      አልባነት
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                                                                                </o:p>
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                                                                            ካሕሳይ
      በርሀና ተስፋይ
      አፅብሃ
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                                                                                    የሕወሃት
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                                                                                    ኢሕአዴግ
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                                                                                    ታጣቂዎች
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                                                                                    በትግራይ
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                                                                                    የመድረኩ
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                                                                                </span>
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                                                                                    ተወዳዳሪዎችን
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                                                                                    መግደል
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                                                                                    ጀመሩ
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                                                                            March
      3, 2010
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                                                                            አቡጊዳ
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                                                                            የካቲት
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                                                                            የኢሕአዴግ
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                                                                            ሕወሃት
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                                                                            ካድሬዎች
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                                                                            በትግራይ
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                                                                            ከፍተኛ
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                                                                            ሽብር
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                                                                            እየፈጸሙ
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                                                                            እንደሆነና
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                                                                            የአገሪቱ
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                                                                            ሕገ
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                                                                            መንግስት
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                                                                            መድበለ
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                                                                            ፓርቲን
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                                                                            የሚፈቀድ
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                                                                            መሆኑም
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                                                                            እየታወቀም፣
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                                                                            የአገዛዙን
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                                                                            ጸረ
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                                                                            ኢትዮጵያና
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                                                                            ጸረ
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                                                                            ሕዝብ
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                                                                            ፖሊሲዎች
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                                                                            በመቃወም
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                                                                            በሚንቀሳቀሱ
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                                                                            ወገኖች
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                                                                            ላይ፣
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                                                                            ከማስፈራራትና
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                                                                            ከዛቻ
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                                                                            ያለፈ
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                                                                            የኃይል
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                                                                            እርምጃ
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                                                                            በመዉሰድ
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                                                                            ላይ
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                                                                            እንዳሉ
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                                                                            ከስፋራዉ
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                                                                            የደረሰን
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                                                                            ዜና
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                                                                            ያመለክታል።
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                                                                    <a href="https://www1.voanews.com/english/news/africa/Ethiopia-Opposition-Rethinks-Election-Campaign-After-Candidate-Killed-85971292.html" target="https://www1.voanews.com/english/news/africa/Ethiopia-Opposition-Rethinks-Election-Campaign-After-Candidate-Killed-85971292.html">
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                                                                            <b>
                                                                                Ethiopia
      Opposition Rethinks Election Campaign After Candidate Killed
                                                                            </b>
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                                                                    Peter Heinlein
      | Addis Ababa
                                                                    <!-- VOA iNews -->
                                                                    <span class="dateStamp">
                  02 March 2010
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                                                                        Ethiopia's main opposition bloc is reconsidering whether to contest the May parliamentary elections following brutal attacks on two candidates, one of them fatal. Opposition leaders are blaming Ethiopia's ruling party for inflaming passions in the tense Tigray region, where the attacks occurred.
      Arena-Tigray Party leader Gebru Asrat says candidate for parliament Aregawi Gebreyohannes was stabbed to death by intruders in his home in the early hours of Tuesday morning.
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                                                                        <a href="Medrek Support Group North America.pdf">
                                                                            <b>
                                                                                Medrek
      Support Group North America (MSGNA)
                                                                            </b>
                                                                        </a>
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                                                                        <b>
                                                                            February
      22, 2010
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                                                                        The
      EPRDF and the Meles regime represent a corrupt system and they preside
      over patronage politics that have ignominiously devastated the Ethiopian
      political and social milieu. Medrek, on the contrary, represents an ideal
      of a democratic transformation of Ethiopia through the democratic process
      and not by the barrel of gun as the EPRDF does. While the EPRDF regime
      enjoys at suppressing freedom of expression and jails journalists and
      politicians of the opposition, Medrek, as its name implies, favors
      democratic dialogue.
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                                                                    <b>
                                                                        <font color="#800000">
                                                                            <a href="multiparty.html">
                                                                                &iuml;&iquest;&frac12;DEMOCRACY AND MULTIPARTY ELECTION IN ETHIOPIA&iuml;&iquest;&frac12;&iuml;&iquest;&frac12;DEBATE EXPOSES DEEPENING DISTRUST OF RULING PARTY&nbsp;
                                                                            </a>
                                                                            <br>
                                                                            <span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";
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Genet
Mersha&nbsp;
                                                                            </span>
                                                                            February 25, 2010
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                                                                            What
      is astonishing is that how much between November 4 and early February
      things have turned 360 degrees, despite high hopes the agreement has
      aroused amongst the signatories. Instead, it has now become vindication of
      Medrek&iuml;&iquest;&frac12;s refusal to be a part of, despite the hounding from every corner
      that it should sign. If AEUP&iuml;&iquest;&frac12;s threat becomes real, undoubtedly it would
      become the first serious verdict against the behaviour of the ruling party
      that the nation has known all along and that international observers
      cannot go against this time around.
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                                                                            Meanwhile,
      this initial warning shot by the AEUP leader has turned TPLF/EPRDF into a
      beaver trying to salvage the situation before the case is made against the
      electoral processes. Surely, one of these days we may read in the news
      about a new split within AEUP or EDP, for which the ruling party has
      achieved unmatched notoriety. The fact that the electoral processes are
      not controlled by an independent electoral body simply means, as in the
      past, anything less than victory for the TPLF/EPRDF, God forbid, would end
      up turning the situation into a bloodbath and greater human sufferings.
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                                                                        <b>
                                                                            <a href="The Great Confusion-development theory.pdf">
                                                                                The Great Confusion - The Poverty of Development
      Economics&nbsp;
                                                                            </a>
                                                                        </b>
                                                                    </font>
                                                                    <br>
                                                                    <font face="Arial">
                                                                        <b>
                                                                            Fekadu Bekele&nbsp;
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                                                                        In order to build a harmonious society, we must abandon such kinds of buildings that are common in many Arab and Asian countries. Such kinds of buildings do not reflect the wishes of the masses and they disturb the human mind. We must turn to city buildings which incorporate all aspects of human life, and bring imaginations to human soul.  Forty or fifty story buildings are not necessary in Africa, and maintenance costs cannot be affordable. For an aesthetical building style we can use the knowledge of foreign forces that are ready to work and live in Africa. We can go to the extent that we can invite those gifted individuals with all kinds of practical knowledge to come, to live there and teach us. Instead of inviting those so-called experts who until now distort the African economy, it is by far better to invite those Europeans who have practical knowledge, like handicraft activities of all types. Only this way Europe could develop.&nbsp;
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                                                                            <a href="follow_up.html">
                                                                                Article
      Follow-up and Response: If I were &iuml;&iquest;&frac12;
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                                                                <b>
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                                                                        By
      Tecola W. Hagos
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                                                                        If
      our goal is to modernize our beloved
                                                                        <st1:country-region w:st="on">
                                                                            <st1:place w:st="on">
                                                                                Ethiopia
                                                                            </st1:place>
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                                                                        , we will not be able to do it where our export is less by three times
      than our import. We will not be able to do it wearing three piece suit of
      expensive wool. We need to adopt Mahatma Gandhi&iuml;&iquest;&frac12;s concept of self
      reliance and humility. We need to wear with pride our homespun and ride
                                                                        <i style="mso-bidi-font-style:
normal">
gharis
                                                                        </i>
                                                                        or walk to work. We need to develop our mass transport and
      cut drastically our conspicuous consumption of manufactured Western goods.
      These are recommendations easier said than done because they demand
      attitude changes: they require new and profound patriotic commitment on
      most Ethiopians
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                                                                        <a href="EDITORIAL Zena Markos.pdf">
                                                                            <b>
                                                                                WE GRIEVE AT THE PASSING OF HIS GRACE ABUNA ZENA MARKOS, OUR  GREAT CHURCH FATHER  OF THE ETHIOPIAN ORTHODOX CHRISTIAN CHURCH
                                                                            </b>
                                                                        </a>
                                                                        (Tewahdo)
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                                                                            Abuna
      Zena Markos died on Saturday February 13, 2010.
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                                                                            We
      celebrate the exemplary life of Abuna Zena Markos, a life of service and
      compassion, of one of the great Fathers of our Ethiopian Orthodox
      Christian Church. Let us all remember the life he lived and be lifted from
      our daily grind in the glory of God&iuml;&iquest;&frac12;s infinite grace for favoring us
      with the service of one of his most dedicated and humblest servants, Abuna
      Zena Markos. Let us not be discouraged in his passing, but be uplifted by
      his Christian life&iuml;&iquest;&frac12;s work. For he had dutifully followed in the
      footsteps of the Christ in the service of his fellow man, he continues to
      live in the heart of all of us. We thank also
                                                                            <u>
                                                                                ethiomedia.com
                                                                            </u>
                                                                            and
      several other media for posting in timely manner the sad news of the
      passing of our much loved and admired Spiritual Father, His Grace Abuna
      Zena Markos.
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                                                                        <strong>
                                                                            <font face="Arial">
                                                                                Requiem Eternum.&nbsp;
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                                                                                Growth
      &amp; Unt&nbsp;&nbsp;
                                                                                <a href="The Contradictions the Nation Has Become.pdf">
                                                                                    Growth &amp; Unrest Said To Taunt Ethiopia in 2010: The Contradictions the Nation Has Become&iuml;&iquest;&frac12;
                                                                                </a>
                                                                                <br>
                                                                                By Genet Mersha, February, 13, 2010PART V
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                                                                                &nbsp;
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                                                                            <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal">
                                                                                The
      World in 2010&iuml;&iquest;&frac12;s testimony of positive growth
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                                                                                prospects
      in Ethiopia is likely to arouse expectations amongst citizens. However,
      notice that beyond the headline and the details of the numbers, its
      forecast is deliberately accentuated with implied concerns over its
      sustainability and the economy&iuml;&iquest;&frac12;s lack of internal dynamism. It states,
      &iuml;&iquest;&frac12;As the global economy emerges from recession most of the leading
      performers in 2010 will be minor emerging markets, especially aid-driven
      countries in Sub-Saharan Africa.&iuml;&iquest;&frac12; It then attributes Ethiopia&iuml;&iquest;&frac12;s to
      IMF&iuml;&iquest;&frac12;s financial support on one hand and favourable weather for
      agriculture on the other that could make it &iuml;&iquest;&frac12;one of the world&iuml;&iquest;&frac12;s
      fastest-growing economies&iuml;&iquest;&frac12; this year.
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                                                                            <font color="#660000" size="2">
                                                                                <a href="DL_responce_Tesfaye.html">
                                                                                    Barking
      Up All Kinds of Trees: A Response to Tesfaye Habisso
                                                                                </a>
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                                                                            Donald
      Levine
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                                                                            I
      find it difficult to imagine that many EPRDF members accept this claim.
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                                                                                &nbsp;
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                                                                            Apart from the
                                                                            <span style="mso-spacerun:yes">
                                                                                &nbsp;
                                                                            </span>
                                                                            peculiarity
      of blaming the United States for instigating Ethiopians' violence
      following the 2005 elections, just voicing such a claim stands to
      discredit international concerns about human rights violations and modern
      electoral standards&iuml;&iquest;&frac12;which Tesfaye staunchly supports as has the
      Ethiopian Government.&nbsp;
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                                                                                <a href="Rural Industrialization in Ethiopia.pdf">
                                                                                    Rural
      Industrialization in Ethiopia:
                                                                                </a>
                                                                                Time for Action
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                                                                                Getachew
      Mequanent
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                                                                                <b>
                                                                                    On
      behalf of the Ethiopian Diaspora
                                                                                </b>
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                                                                                Eighty-three
      perecent of Ethiopians live in rural areas still deriving their
      livelihoods from subsistence agriculture. The concentration of crop and
      livestock productions in the highland areas, coupled with population
      growth and inappropriate land use, has resulted in the depletion of
      resource bases (land, water and vegetation). Despite the gains in
      agricultural production in recent years, Ethiopia still remains faced with
      the problem of food insecurity. The time has thus come to consider
      concerted efforts that support rural industrialization which would lead to
      a reduced reliance on subsistence agriculture as a main source of
      livelihoods while transforming the economy and promoting long-term food
      security.
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                                                                            <b>
                                                                                <a href="effort final.pdf">
                                                                                    EFFORT emptied Development Bank of Ethiopia
                                                                                </a>
                                                                            </b>
                                                                            <br>
                                                                            <b>
                                                                                By Abebe Gellaw | February 5, 2010
                                                                            </b>
                                                                            <br>
                                                                            In mid-January, the ailing Development Bank of Ethiopia (DBE) declared once again that it is in need of rescue fund. The business weekly, Addis Fortune, reported that the bank called on the National Bank of Ethiopia (NBE) to inject more capital  to refill its empty cash registers.&nbsp;
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                                                                                    I
                                                                                    <a href="INCREASING ROLE OF PARTY-OWNED ENTERPRISES IN BUSINESSES THE ECONOMY SOURCE OF FUTURE TROUBLE FOR ETHIOPIA.pdf">
                                                                                        NCREASED
      ROLE OF PARTY-OWENED ENTERPRISES IN BUSINESSES &amp; THE ECONOMY RAISES
      SEVERAL SERIOUS CONCERNS. FOR MANY, THE QUESTION IS WHAT IS HAPPENING TO
      THE EXPRESSED NATIONAL OBJECTIVES OF
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                                                                                    <a href="INCREASING ROLE OF PARTY-OWNED ENTERPRISES IN BUSINESSES THE ECONOMY SOURCE OF FUTURE TROUBLE FOR ETHIOPIA.pdf">
                                                                                        :
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                                                                        <font color="#800000">
                                                                            <b>
                                                                                By
                                                                                <span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";
mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman";
mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:EN-US;mso-bidi-language:AR-SA'>
Genet
Mersha
                                                                                </span>
                                                                            </b>
                                                                        </font>
                                                                    </p>
                                                                    <p align="left" style="margin-left: 10; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0">
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                                                                            <font face="Arial">
                                                                                It
      is extremely troubling why the ruling party is so driven about pushing new
      visible and invisible policy doors. It has opened immense political and
      legal support to its business enterprises, including the country&iuml;&iquest;&frac12;s banks
      made to give them priority over others.
                                                                                <span style="mso-spacerun:yes">
                                                                                    &nbsp;
                                                                                </span>
                                                                                Could
      that be the reason why only TPLF/EPRDF members preside over the boards of
      party-owned businesses and major government enterprises including banks?
                                                                            </font>
                                                                        </span>
                                                                    </p>
                                                                    <hr>
                                                                    <p align="left" style="margin-left: 10; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0">
                                                                        &nbsp;
                                                                    </p>
                                                                    <p align="left" style="margin-left: 10; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0">
                                                                        <font face="Arial">
                                                                            <b>
                                                                                <a href="The Politicization of Food Aid Under One.pdf">
                                                                                    The Politicization of Food Aid Under One-Party Rule in Ethiopia
                                                                                </a>
                                                                            </b>
                                                                            <br>
                                                                            <font color="#800000">
                                                                                <b>
                                                                                    By Seeye Abraha&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
      February 1, 2010
                                                                                </b>
                                                                            </font>
                                                                            <br>
                                                                            The West has provided hundreds of millions of dollars of food aid to Ethiopia in the past several years. However, donor countries have placed few monitoring and accountability mechanisms to ensure that the aid provided is delivered to the target populations. As a result, the ruling party has been able to effectively use relief aid to mobilize support for itself and undermine support for its opposition.
                                                                        </font>
                                                                    </p>
                                                                    <hr>
                                                                    <p align="left" style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0">
                                                                        <font face="Arial">
                                                                            <b>
                                                                                <a href="UDJ  press statement Amharic.pdf">
                                                                                    <img border="0" height="121" src="udj.jpg" width="507">
                                                                                </a>
                                                                            </b>
                                                                        </font>
                                                                    </p>
                                                                    <p align="left" style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0">
                                                                        <font face="Arial">
                                                                            <b>
                                                                                &nbsp;
      Press Statement
                                                                            </b>
                                                                        </font>
                                                                    </p>
                                                                </span>
                                                            </font>
                                                            <p align="left" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin-left: 10; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0">
                                                                <font size="2">
                                                                    <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal">
                                                                        <font color="#800000">
                                                                            <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif">
                                                                                <a href="press-udj.html">
                                                                                    The
      United Nations Human Rights Council officially
                                                                                </a>
                                                                                declared
                                                                                <o:p>
                                                                                </o:p>
                                                                            </span>
                                                                        </font>
                                                                    </b>
                                                                </font>
                                                                <font size="2">
                                                                </font>
                                                                <span lang="EN">
                                                                    <font size="2">
                                                                        <font color="#800000">
                                                                            <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif">
                                                                                <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal">
                                                                                    that
      UDJ Chairperson W/t Birtukan
                                                                                </b>
                                                                                <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif">
                                                                                </b>
                                                                                <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal">
                                                                                    Mideksa is among those
      prisoners
                                                                                    <o:p>
                                                                                    </o:p>
                                                                                </b>
                                                                            </span>
                                                                        </font>
                                                                        <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal">
                                                                            <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif">
                                                                                <font color="#800000">
                                                                                    who
      are
                                                                                    <span style="mso-spacerun:yes">
                                                                                        &nbsp;
                                                                                    </span>
                                                                                    arbitrarily arrested
                                                                                </font>
                                                                            </span>
                                                                        </b>
                                                                    </font>
                                                                </span>
                                                            </p>
                                                            <p align="left" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin-left: 10; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0">
                                                                <span lang="EN">
                                                                    <font face="Arial" size="2">
                                                                        UDJ will continue to pursue its course of
      peaceful endeavor to see our leader Birtukan Mideksa and other prisoners
      of conscience released and freedom and democracy become a reality in
      Ethiopia. We call upon the international community to stand on our side in
      the pursuit of this noble and common cause. It would be a serious mistake
      to believe that anyone&iuml;&iquest;&frac12;s interest could be protected in an environment
      where repression rules.
                                                                    </font>
                                                                    <span style='font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>
                                                                        <o:p>
                                                                        </o:p>
                                                                    </span>
                                                                </span>
                                                            </p>
                                                            <hr>
                                                            <font size="2">
                                                                <p align="left" style="margin-left: 10; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0">
                                                                    <u>
                                                                        <font face="Arial">
                                                                            <b>
                                                                                <a href="Pope_Pius_XII.pdf">
                                                                                    WHY
      IS THE
                                                                                    <st1:country-region w:st="on">
                                                                                        VATICAN
                                                                                    </st1:country-region>
                                                                                    ADDING INSULT TO INJURY ON
                                                                                    <st1:country-region w:st="on">
                                                                                        <st1:place w:st="on">
                                                                                            ETHIOPIA
                                                                                        </st1:place>
                                                                                    </st1:country-region>
                                                                                    ?!
                                                                                </a>
                                                                            </b>
                                                                        </font>
                                                                        <b>
                                                                            <o:p>
                                                                            </o:p>
                                                                        </b>
                                                                    </u>
                                                                </p>
                                                                <b>
                                                                    <p align="left" style="margin-left: 10; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0">
                                                                        Kidane
      Alemayehu.
                                                                    </p>
                                                                </b>
                                                                <p align="left" style="margin-left: 10; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0">
                                                                    <font face="Arial">
                                                                        I
                                                                        <img align="left" border="0" height="239" hspace="10" src="pius.jpg" vspace="3" width="154">
                                                                        feel sure you're aware of the fact that the Vatican is in the process of
      beatifiying Pope Pius XII into sainthood although it is well known that he
      was a major supporter of the Italian Fascists who committed genocide in
      Ethiopia. The Jewish community is expressing its serious objections
      because of the Pope's collaboration with the Nazis. Ethiopians have more
      cause for objections to the process.
                                                                    </font>
                                                                </p>
                                                                <p align="left" style="margin-left: 10; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0">
                                                                    &nbsp;
                                                                </p>
                                                                <p align="left" style="margin-left: 10; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0">
                                                                    &nbsp;
                                                                </p>
                                                                <hr>
                                                                <b>
                                                                    <p align="left" style="margin-left: 10; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0">
                                                                        <a href="https://www1.voanews.com/english/news/usa/Millennium-Challange-Corporation-ceo-voa-82157602.html" target="https://www1.voanews.com/english/news/usa/Millennium-Challange-Corporation-ceo-voa-82157602.html">
                                                                            <font face="Arial">
                                                                                Ethiopian
      Banker Leads Development Agency for Obama Administration
                                                                            </font>
                                                                        </a>
                                                                    </p>
                                                                </b>
                                                                <p align="left" style="margin-left: 10; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0">
                                                                    <font face="Arial">
                                                                        As
      chief of the Millennium Challenge Corporation, Daniel Yohannes, is the
      highest
                                                                        <img align="left" alt="" border="0" height="210" hspace="10" src="images/300-448/MMC-400-Yohannes1.jpg" title="" vspace="3" width="139">
                                                                        ranking
      Ethiopian American in Obama's government.
                                                                    </font>
                                                                </p>
                                                                <p style="margin-left: 10; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0">
                                                                    <font face="Arial">
                                                                        An Ethiopian
      immigrant is making history as the highest Ethiopian-American official in
      the Obama administration. Daniel Yohannes was born in the Ethiopian
      capital. He completed his elementary school at Addis Ababa&iuml;&iquest;&frac12;s Nativity
      Boy&iuml;&iquest;&frac12;s School and later transferred to St. Joseph&iuml;&iquest;&frac12;s, a prestigious
      Catholic high school in Addis Ababa. &iuml;&iquest;&frac12;In those days people of my
      generation were idealistic, full of energy, with a lot of love for each
      other, as well as love and respect for our parents, elders, and teachers,&iuml;&iquest;&frac12;
      Yohannes says Yohannes tells about some of the successes. Ghana, he points
      out, is making commercial agriculture more profitable and reduce the cost
      of transporting food from rural areas to markets.&nbsp;
                                                                    </font>
                                                                </p>
                                                                <hr>
                                                            </font>
                                                            <b>
                                                                <p align="left" style="margin-left: 10; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0">
                                                                    <font color="#800000" face="Arial" size="2">
                                                                        <a href="crying_out.html">
                                                                            Residents
      of Addis Ababa crying out for freedom
                                                                        </a>
                                                                    </font>
                                                                </p>
                                                            </b>
                                                            <p align="left" style="margin-left: 10; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0">
                                                                <font face="Arial" size="2">
                                                                    <b>
                                                                        By
      Astway Yared
                                                                    </b>
                                                                </font>
                                                            </p>
                                                            <p align="left" style="margin-left: 10; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0">
                                                                <font face="Arial" size="2">
                                                                    According
      to residents of Addis Ababa, the regime has put in place multiple
      controlling mechanisms, which are designed to control the daily activities
      of citizens. Currently, the regime has established new structures called
      Urban citizens&iuml;&iquest;&frac12; league (&iuml;&iquest;&frac12;Yeketema Newariwoch League&iuml;&iquest;&frac12;), &iuml;&iquest;&frac12;Women
      League&iuml;&iquest;&frac12;, &iuml;&iquest;&frac12;Youth League&iuml;&iquest;&frac12;, and &iuml;&iquest;&frac12;Youth Forums&iuml;&iquest;&frac12;. League and forums
      are a newly introduced organizing techniques intended to control citizens.
      One woman said &iuml;&iquest;&frac12;if citizens decide to abandon these League and Forum
      meetings, they will be under the threat of receiving no social services
      from their Kebele, including wheat&iuml;&iquest;&frac12;.
                                                                </font>
                                                            </p>
                                                            <hr>
                                                            <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none; margin-left: 10; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0">
                                                                <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal; color: #C00000">
                                                                    <span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; color: #C00000; mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">
                                                                        <font face="Arial" size="2">
                                                                            <a href="Protecting Ethiopia.pdf">
                                                                                Protecting
      Ethiopia?: On Outside Support for Human Rights
                                                                            </a>
                                                                            <o:p>
                                                                            </o:p>
                                                                        </font>
                                                                    </span>
                                                                </b>
                                                            </p>
                                                            <p style="margin-left: 10; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0">
                                                                <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal; color: #C00000">
                                                                    <span style="mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; color: #C00000; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">
                                                                        <font face="Arial" size="2">
                                                                            By
      Donald Levine
                                                                        </font>
                                                                    </span>
                                                                </b>
                                                            </p>
                                                            <p align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 10; margin-right: 0; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0">
                                                                <font face="Arial" size="2">
                                                                    <span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial">
                                                                        It
      is in this age-old spirit that some Ethiopians warn today of new dangers
      of encroachment in their country and in Africa generally. This fear may
      well be exacerbated by recent leases of expanses of land to Saudi Arabia,
      India, and Egypt, and by published reports that some 50pc of Chinese
      businesses reportedly operate in Ethiopia illegally.
                                                                    </span>
                                                                </font>
                                                                <span style='mso-bidi-font-size:
12.0pt;font-family:"Cambria","serif";mso-ascii-theme-font:major-latin;
mso-hansi-theme-font:major-latin;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial'>
                                                                    <o:p>
                                                                    </o:p>
                                                                </span>
                                                            </p>
                                                            <hr>
                                                            <p align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 10; margin-right: 0; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0">
                                                                <span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>
                                                                    <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal; font-family: Arial, sans-serif">
                                                                        <font size="2">
                                                                            <a href="Haiti.pdf">
                                                                                <font color="#0000FF">
                                                                                    Haiti:
      Our Great Friend in Need
                                                                                </font>
                                                                            </a>
                                                                        </font>
                                                                    </b>
                                                                </span>
                                                            </p>
                                                            <p align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 10; margin-right: 0; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0">
                                                                <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:
normal">
                                                                    <span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>
                                                                        <o:p>
                                                                        </o:p>
                                                                    </span>
                                                                </b>
                                                                <b>
                                                                    <font size="2">
                                                                        Tecola W. Hagos&nbsp;&nbsp;
                                                                    </font>
                                                                </b>
                                                                <span lang="EN-GB">
                                                                    <b>
                                                                        <font color="#800000" face="Arial" size="2">
                                                                            January
      18, 2010
                                                                        </font>
                                                                    </b>
                                                                </span>
                                                            </p>
                                                            <p align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 10; margin-right: 0; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0">
                                                                <span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>
We urge our Ethiopian
brothers and sisters to give and help as much as possible to the victims
of this horrendous devastation. The suffering of every single Haitian is
ours as well. Let us remember how our Haitian brothers and sisters,
without exception, helped our cause during the Fascist Italian aggression
and occupation of our beloved country
                                                                    <st1:country-region w:st="on">
                                                                        <st1:place w:st="on">
                                                                            Ethiopia
                                                                        </st1:place>
                                                                    </st1:country-region>
                                                                    in 1935-41.
                                                                    <img align="left" height="189" src="wp-dyn/content/photo/2010/01/13/PH2010011301299.jpg" width="274">
                                                                    Please, participate actively in every way you can by denoting money to
      charitable organizations, and by volunteering to Work in the recovery
      process in
                                                                    <st1:country-region w:st="on">
                                                                        <st1:place w:st="on">
                                                                            Haiti
                                                                        </st1:place>
                                                                    </st1:country-region>
                                                                    . Please, contact the Red Cross, the Haitian Embassy et cetera for such
      humanitarian purposes. Let us use our wide network of families, friends,
      neighbors, colleagues, and community members for such purpose. It is our
      duty to help our fellow human beings in time of their greatest needs, and
      it is also our obligation of gratitude to the kindness shown to us by
      Haitian in our time of great need.
                                                                    <span style="mso-spacerun:yes">
                                                                        &nbsp;
                                                                    </span>
                                                                    <o:p>
                                                                    </o:p>
                                                                    <o:p>
                                                                    </o:p>
                                                                </span>
                                                            </p>
                                                            <hr>
                                                            <p align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 10; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0">
                                                                <font color="#660000" size="2">
                                                                    <font face="Arial">
                                                                        <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:
normal">
                                                                            <a href="tigrean_natinalism.html">
                                                                                Passion and Interest: The Faking of
      Tigrean Nationalism
                                                                            </a>
                                                                            &nbsp;
                                                                        </b>
                                                                    </font>
                                                                    <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:
normal">
                                                                        <o:p>
                                                                        </o:p>
                                                                    </b>
                                                                </font>
                                                            </p>
                                                            <p align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 10; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0">
                                                                <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:
normal">
                                                                    <font size="2">
                                                                        Messay
                                                                        <span style="mso-spacerun:yes">
                                                                            &nbsp;
                                                                        </span>
                                                                        <o:p>
                                                                            Kebede
                                                                        </o:p>
                                                                    </font>
                                                                </b>
                                                                <font size="2">
                                                                    <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">
                                                                        &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
                                                                    </b>
                                                                </font>
                                                                <span lang="EN-GB">
                                                                    <font color="#0000FF" face="Arial" size="2">
                                                                        <b>
                                                                            January
      18, 2010
                                                                        </b>
                                                                    </font>
                                                                </span>
                                                            </p>
                                                            <p align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 10; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0">
                                                                <font face="Arial" size="2">
                                                                    Our
      surprise should decrease even more in light of ethnic discourse
      authorizing oppressive behavior. The clear message of ethnonationalist
      discourse in Ethiopia is that there is nothing common between Amhara,
      Oromo, Tigreans, and other groups. They are all different nations that the
      Amhara state held together by sheer force. Given this image of Ethiopia as
      a &iuml;&iquest;&frac12;prison-house of nations,&iuml;&iquest;&frac12; what can we expect from TPLF fighters
      when they land in Wollega, Gondar or Wolaita? Obviously, they come as
      conquerors and occupiers since no bonds exist between them and the
      indigenous people. In denying the existence of a country called Ethiopia,
      the TPLF fighter is thereby invited to behave as a foreigner occupying an
      alien land that he/she will ransack without the slightest
      hesitation.&nbsp;
                                                                </font>
                                                            </p>
                                                            <hr>
                                                            <p align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 10; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0">
                                                                <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal">
                                                                    <font color="#000000" face="Arial" size="2">
                                                                        <span lang="EN-GB">
                                                                            <a href="ethio-egypitian.html">
                                                                                AS
      ETHIO-EGYPTIAN ACCORD TAKES EFFECT,
                                                                            </a>
                                                                            <o:p>
                                                                            </o:p>
                                                                        </span>
                                                                    </font>
                                                                </b>
                                                            </p>
                                                            <p align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 10; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0">
                                                                <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:
normal">
                                                                    <font color="#000000" face="Arial" size="2">
                                                                        <span lang="EN-GB">
                                                                            <i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal">
                                                                                AL
      AHRAM
                                                                            </i>
                                                                            RUBS SALT ON OLD WOUNDS
                                                                            <o:p>
                                                                            </o:p>
                                                                        </span>
                                                                    </font>
                                                                </b>
                                                            </p>
                                                            <p align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; margin-left: 10; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0">
                                                                <span lang="EN-GB">
                                                                    <font color="#000000" face="Arial" size="2">
                                                                        By
      Genet Mersha, January 12, 2010
                                                                    </font>
                                                                </span>
                                                            </p>
                                                            <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 10; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0">
                                                                <span lang="EN-GB">
                                                                    <font face="Arial" size="2">
                                                                        In
      fact, Mr. Nikrumah insinuates as though Ethiopia has said, &iuml;&iquest;&frac12;take
      whatever you want, but make sure you cooperate with me in the economic
      field. Even then, the best he could is to state, &iuml;&iquest;&frac12;Egypt, too, [compared
      with Israel] stands poised to prove that it can offer technical assistance
      to Ethiopia. Though no small challenge, it is one that can be met.&iuml;&iquest;&frac12;
                                                                    </font>
                                                                </span>
                                                            </p>
                                                            <hr>
                                                            <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 10; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0">
                                                                <a href="SudanEthiopiaborderissue_123109.pdf">
                                                                    <img border="0" height="87" src="sudanEthio.jpg" width="345">
                                                                </a>
                                                            </p>
                                                            <hr>
                                                            <p align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 10; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0">
                                                                <font size="2">
                                                                    <span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #C00000; mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">
                                                                        <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:
normal">
                                                                            <a href="POVERTY ERADICATION PART III.pdf">
                                                                                POLITICS HAMPERS
      PROGRESS ON POVERTY ERADICATION,
                                                                                <o:p>
                                                                                </o:p>
                                                                            </a>
                                                                        </b>
                                                                    </span>
                                                                </font>
                                                                <a href="POVERTY ERADICATION PART III.pdf">
                                                                    <font size="2">
                                                                        <span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #C00000; mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">
                                                                            <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:
normal">
BALANCED GROWTH, FAIRNESS,
                                                                            </b>
                                                                        </span>
                                                                    </font>
                                                                </a>
                                                                <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:
normal">
                                                                    <span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #C00000; mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">
                                                                        <font size="2">
                                                                            DEMOCRACY AND JUSTICE
                                                                            <o:p>
                                                                            </o:p>
                                                                        </font>
                                                                    </span>
                                                                </b>
                                                                <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:
normal">
                                                                    <span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">
                                                                        <font size="2">
                                                                        </font>
                                                                    </span>
                                                                </b>
                                                            </p>
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                                                                <span lang="EN-GB">
                                                                    <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal">
                                                                        <font size="2">
                                                                            By
      Genet Mersha, January 4, 2010
                                                                        </font>
                                                                        <o:p>
                                                                        </o:p>
                                                                    </b>
                                                                </span>
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                                                                        In
      Ethiopia&iuml;&iquest;&frac12;s case, the slogan is growth with distribution. To that end,
      numerous actions have been undertaken. Nonetheless, in spite of these and
      significant GDP growths, the data suggest loud and clearly that poverty is
      on the rise, instead of declining. This speaks of a strategy anchored on
      shifting grounds. This could be the outcome of growth processes hijacked
      by the dictates of political interests rendering pro-poor growth
      toothless.
                                                                        <span style="mso-spacerun: yes; mso-fareast-font-family: Times New Roman; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA">
                                                                            &nbsp;
                                                                        </span>
                                                                        Obviously,
      the desire to break out of the shackles of poverty is there, although
      priorities have changed to overcoming the damage the tragic 2005 election
      has caused. As the French would say
                                                                    </span>
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                                                                <font face="Arial" size="2">
                                                                    <b>
                                                                        <a href="vengence.pdf">
                                                                            Journalists facing supreme court vendetta&nbsp;
                                                                        </a>
                                                                        <br>
                                                                        By Abebe Gellaw*&nbsp;
                                                                    </b>
                                                                </font>
                                                            </p>
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                                                                    The people at the helm of the Federal Supreme Court know the difference between justice and vengeance. They know that justice is blind, a concept that underlines the neutrality of the judiciary. But blinded by political and ethnic interests, the Supreme Court judges have preferred to dispense injustice with vehement vendetta against the perceived political enemies of the regime.&nbsp;
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                                                                <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal">
                                                                    <font size="2">
                                                                        <a href="Birtukan Mideksa.pdf">
                                                                            Birtukan
      Mideksa:
                                                                            <st1:country-region w:st="on">
                                                                                <st1:place w:st="on">
                                                                                    Ethiopia
                                                                                </st1:place>
                                                                            </st1:country-region>
                                                                            &iuml;&iquest;&frac12;s Freedom Supernova
                                                                        </a>
                                                                        <o:p>
                                                                        </o:p>
                                                                    </font>
                                                                </b>
                                                            </p>
                                                            <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 10; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0">
                                                                <font size="2">
                                                                    By
      Abebe Gellaw, January 1, 2010
                                                                </font>
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                                                                    <span style="mso-fareast-font-family: Times New Roman; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA">
                                                                        Those
      who have been consumed with self-destruction and bickering even within her
      party in stead of unifying against the rise of Stalinism and Apartheid in
      our homeland should remember a woman, who has chosen to suffer in harsh
      jails than kneeling down to despotism
                                                                    </span>
                                                                </font>
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                                                            <hr>
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                                                                <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:
normal">
                                                                    <font color="#800000" face="Arial" size="2">
                                                                        <a href="tele_salvano.html">
                                                                            Book
      Review: Tadesse Tele Salvano&iuml;&iquest;&frac12;s Ay Massawa!
                                                                        </a>
                                                                        <o:p>
                                                                        </o:p>
                                                                    </font>
                                                                </b>
                                                            </p>
                                                            <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-left: 10; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0">
                                                                <font color="#800000" face="Arial" size="2">
                                                                    By
      Messay Kebede, December 31, 2009
                                                                </font>
                                                            </p>
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                                                                    The book presents an encircled army defending with courage and determination the port of Massawa against the ferocious attacks of the EPLF&iuml;&iquest;&frac12;s military forces assisted with units of the TPLF. This army unit of 17000 men resisted for ten long days even though it had no other choice than death or mere surrender: it could neither retreat as the Red Sea blocked any backward move, nor receive reinforcements given that the EPLF firmly controlled the road to Asmara. The book is all together an epic, an immense tragedy, and a great tribute to Ethiopian nationalism. Many combatants were killed on both sides although the book does not offer figures of the dead, the wounded, and the prisoners.
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                                                            </p>
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                                                                <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal">
                                                                    <font size="2">
                                                                        EDITORIAL:
                                                                        <o:p>
                                                                        </o:p>
                                                                    </font>
                                                                </b>
                                                            </p>
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                                                                <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal">
                                                                    <font face="Arial" size="2">
                                                                        <a href="Editorial Sanction Against Eritrea.pdf">
                                                                            UN
      Sanction against Eritrea is ill Advised,
                                                                        </a>
                                                                        <o:p>
                                                                        </o:p>
                                                                    </font>
                                                                </b>
                                                            </p>
                                                            <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 10; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0">
                                                                <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal">
                                                                    <font size="2">
                                                                        <a href="Editorial Sanction Against Eritrea.pdf">
                                                                            <font face="Arial">
                                                                                Not
      Beneficial to Ethiopia
                                                                            </font>
                                                                        </a>
                                                                        <o:p>
                                                                        </o:p>
                                                                    </font>
                                                                </b>
                                                            </p>
                                                            <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 10; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0">
                                                                <i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal">
                                                                    <b>
                                                                        <font size="2">
                                                                            &iuml;&iquest;&frac12;Ahyawin
      tito Dawlawoon&iuml;&iquest;&frac12;
                                                                            <o:p>
                                                                            </o:p>
                                                                        </font>
                                                                    </b>
                                                                </i>
                                                            </p>
                                                            <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 10; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0">
                                                                <b>
                                                                    <font size="2">
                                                                        By
      Tecola W. Hagos,
                                                                        <font color="#800000">
                                                                            December 29, 2009
                                                                        </font>
                                                                    </font>
                                                                </b>
                                                            </p>
                                                            <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 10; margin-right: 5; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0">
                                                                <span style="color:#C00000">
                                                                    <o:p>
                                                                    </o:p>
                                                                </span>
                                                                <font color="#000000" face="Arial" size="2">
                                                                    Both China and Russia in some ways may act in their own self interest, which may restrict the ever growing imperialistic and hefty decisions of the West.  My dissatisfaction of the decisions of the powerful Western nations is not an opposition to their economic structure that had brought about unheard of wealth to the World in general, but their poor foreign relations and terrible foreign policies. I particularly resent their subservient relationship and difference to Saudi Arabia, which should not even be considered as a government, but a family business with abominable and absolutely dictatorial primitive system of law and system of management. It is laughable that the West would be imposing on little and poor Eritrea sanction for &iuml;&iquest;&frac12;destabilizing&iuml;&iquest;&frac12; the Horn region, while Saudi Arabia, the Gulf Emirates, and Egypt, the main forces that have caused havoc in the region for the last half century are held in reverence.
                                                                </font>
                                                            </p>
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                                                                <font face="Arial" size="2">
                                                                    <b>
                                                                        <a href="UN DATA INDICATE ETHIOPIA-S PROGRESS ON MAJOR MDG TARGETS HAS LONG WAY TO GO PART II.pdf">
                                                                            UN DATA INDICATE ETHIOPIA&iuml;&iquest;&frac12;S PROGRESS&nbsp;
                                                                            <br>
                                                                            ON MAJOR MDG TARGETS HAS LONG WAY TO GO&nbsp;
                                                                        </a>
                                                                    </b>
                                                                    <br>
                                                                    <b>
                                                                        By Genet Mersha, 27 December, 2010
                                                                    </b>
                                                                    <br>
                                                                    Part I of this article rang the bell that poverty and inequality have deepened in Ethiopia. With the help of data, it showed where Ethiopia stands in respect of attaining the three targets of Goal One of the United Nations Millennium Development Goals (MDG). The internationally defined objective of Goal One is to eradicate extreme poverty and hunger.
                                                                </font>
                                                            </p>
                                                            <hr>
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                                                                <font color="#800000" face="Arial" size="2">
                                                                    <b>
                                                                        PART FIVE:&nbsp;
                                                                        <br>
                                                                        <a href="PART FIVE Lacrimosa for Ethiopia.pdf">
                                                                            Lacrimosa for Ethiopia: Political Liquidation of EPRDF/TPLF
                                                                        </a>
                                                                        &nbsp;
                                                                    </b>
                                                                </font>
                                                                <br>
                                                                <b>
                                                                    By Tecola W. Hagos  [December 23, 2009]
                                                                </b>
                                                            </p>
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                                                                    There is an Ethiopian aphorism that is always a source of
                                                                    <img align="left" height="148" hspace="10" src="pub/artikkel/4/46/460/460727/melesXcopy.jpg" vspace="3" width="248">
                                                                    fascination to me every time I think about Meles Zenawi and his close associates: When Totit (a young agile ape) was asked what type of contest-game she liked best, she answered, &iuml;&iquest;&frac12;Ye zaf ly tigle.&iuml;&iquest;&frac12; [trans.  &iuml;&iquest;&frac12;Wrestling on tree branches.&iuml;&iquest;&frac12;] What Meles does best in politics is the equivalent of wrestling on tree branches metaphorically speaking, where he is adept with arboreal acrobatics of lies and deceptions. To counter his form of contest is not to go after him to tree tops up in the air, but to pull him down to Earth with pragmatic strategy and short term tactics. Medrek is a group I believe destined to rescue Ethiopia from destruction. It is the best aggregation of politicians and intellectuals that could effectively transform Ethiopia into a unitary and multi-ethnic nation-state and on to a strong rich and humane country in the near future.&nbsp;
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                                                                <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal">
                                                                    <span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">
                                                                        <font face="Calibri" size="2">
                                                                            The
                                                                            Honorable Judge Birtukan Mideksa,
                                                                            <span style="mso-spacerun: yes; mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">
                                                                                &nbsp;
                                                                            </span>
                                                                            We at the Website
                                                                            <a href="/">
                                                                                www.tecolahagos.com
                                                                            </a>
                                                                            are wishing you Melkam Genna and Year 2010 of Justice. We
                                                                            want you to know that you are never far from our thoughts
                                                                            every single Day. We Protest your illegal and barbaric
                                                                            imprisonment by the Government of Meles Zenawi and his
                                                                            Close Associates, in the strongest terms possible. We
                                                                            offer you as part of our greeting a Poem by Dr.
                                                                            Ghelawdewos Araia. TH
                                                                            <span style="mso-spacerun: yes; mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">
                                                                                &nbsp;
                                                                            </span>
                                                                        </font>
                                                                    </span>
                                                                </b>
                                                                <span style="font-size:16.0pt">
                                                                    <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal">
                                                                        <o:p>
                                                                            &nbsp;
                                                                        </o:p>
                                                                    </b>
                                                                </span>
                                                            </p>
                                                            <hr>
                                                            <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 10; margin-right: 5; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0">
                                                                <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal">
                                                                    <font face="Arial" size="2">
                                                                        <a href="birtukan_tell_me.html">
                                                                            Birtukuan,
      Tell Me!
                                                                        </a>
                                                                        <o:p>
                                                                        </o:p>
                                                                    </font>
                                                                </b>
                                                            </p>
                                                            <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 10; margin-right: 5; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0">
                                                                <span style="mso-font-kerning:18.0pt">
                                                                    <font face="Arial" size="2">
                                                                        <b>
                                                                            By
      Ghelawdewos Araia
                                                                        </b>
                                                                        <span style="mso-tab-count:4">
                                                                            <b>
                                                                                &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
                                                                            </b>
                                                                            &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
                                                                        </span>
                                                                        <o:p>
                                                                        </o:p>
                                                                    </font>
                                                                </span>
                                                            </p>
                                                            <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 10; margin-right: 5; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0">
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                                                                    What
      have you done my dear
                                                                </font>
                                                            </p>
                                                            <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 10; margin-right: 5; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0">
                                                                <font face="Arial" size="2">
                                                                    To
      be thrown into the jail of Qaliti
                                                                </font>
                                                            </p>
                                                            <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 10; margin-right: 5; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0">
                                                                <font face="Arial" size="2">
                                                                    Is
      it your elegant appearance?
                                                                </font>
                                                            </p>
                                                            <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 10; margin-right: 5; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0">
                                                                <font face="Arial" size="2">
                                                                    Or
      your formidable political stance
                                                                </font>
                                                            </p>
                                                            <hr>
                                                            <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 10; margin-right: 5; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0">
                                                                <b>
                                                                    <a href="oh_africa_africa.pdf">
                                                                        Oh Africa!
                                                                    </a>
                                                                </b>
                                                            </p>
                                                            <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 10; margin-right: 5; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0">
                                                                By
                                                                <b>
                                                                    Haileselassie Girmay
                                                                </b>
                                                                <br>
                                                                <font face="Arial" size="2">
                                                                    What is this thing I carry - empty sack,
                                                                    <br>
                                                                    Funny enough
                                                                    <br>
                                                                    It is tough,
                                                                    <br>
                                                                    It weighs me down
                                                                    <br>
                                                                    Like no other thing has done,
                                                                    <br>
                                                                    I have no use for the paunch,
                                                                    <br>
                                                                    Whatsoever none,
                                                                    <br>
                                                                    Please take it if you can.
                                                                    <br>
                                                                    This grey matter
                                                                    <br>
                                                                    Inside the skull,
                                                                    <br>
                                                                    Ideas together it could not pull
                                                                </font>
                                                                .
                                                            </p>
                                                            <hr>
                                                            <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 10; margin-right: 5; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0">
                                                                <a href="The_Beauty_Faith.pdf">
                                                                    The Beauty of Faith: The Lalibela Ethiopian Cross -
                                                                    <br>
                                                                    The Most Beautiful Cross in the World&nbsp;
                                                                </a>
                                                                <br>
                                                                <b>
                                                                    <font color="#800000">
                                                                        By Tecola W. Hagos, December 18, 2009
                                                                    </font>
                                                                </b>
                                                                <br>
                                                                Reprint as Season&iuml;&iquest;&frac12;s Greetings, Melkam Genna and a
                                                                <font color="#008000">
                                                                    <b>
                                                                        Happy New Year&nbsp;&nbsp;
                                                                    </b>
                                                                </font>
                                                                &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
                                                                <a href="/">
                                                                    www.tecolahagos.com
                                                                </a>
                                                            </p>
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                                                                    In this one design, the Christian dogma and the history of the Church are both encapsulated in an exquisitely balanced expressive design. [The first Lalibela Cross depiction at the top herein in this article is the base for all Lalibela Cross variations.] The Cross is based on two elongated circles intertwined with each other, where one simply continues or merges into the other, symbolizing the temporal and the eternal, or Heaven and Earth, or the Spiritual and the Physical aspects of Creation.
                                                                </font>
                                                            </p>
                                                            <hr>
                                                            <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 10; margin-right: 5; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0">
                                                                <font face="Arial" size="2">
                                                                    &nbsp;
                                                                </font>
                                                                <b>
                                                                    <span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";
color:red'>
                                                                        <a href="eternal_flame.pdf">
                                                                            Eternal flame&iuml;&iquest;&frac12;
                                                                        </a>
                                                                        .
                                                                        <o:p>
                                                                        </o:p>
                                                                    </span>
                                                                </b>
                                                            </p>
                                                            <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 10; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0">
                                                                <b>
                                                                    <span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";
color:blue'>
Locke me in a fridge
                                                                        <o:p>
                                                                        </o:p>
                                                                    </span>
                                                                </b>
                                                            </p>
                                                            <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 10; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0">
                                                                <b>
                                                                    <span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";
color:blue'>
I will not get cold
                                                                        <o:p>
                                                                        </o:p>
                                                                    </span>
                                                                </b>
                                                            </p>
                                                            <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 10; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0">
                                                                <b>
                                                                    <span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";
color:blue'>
And my blood clot.
                                                                        <o:p>
                                                                        </o:p>
                                                                    </span>
                                                                </b>
                                                            </p>
                                                            <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 10; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0">
                                                                <b>
                                                                    <span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";
color:blue'>
If I hold on to you - eternal flame
                                                                        <o:p>
                                                                        </o:p>
                                                                    </span>
                                                                </b>
                                                            </p>
                                                            <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 10; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0">
                                                                <b>
                                                                    <span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";
color:blue'>
Death will not triumph and claim.
                                                                    </span>
                                                                </b>
                                                                <span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"'>
                                                                    <o:p>
                                                                    </o:p>
                                                                </span>
                                                            </p>
                                                            <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 10; margin-right: 5; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0">
                                                                &nbsp;
      By
                                                                <b>
                                                                    Haileselassie Girmay
                                                                </b>
                                                            </p>
                                                            <hr>
                                                            <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 10; margin-right: 5; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0">
                                                                <b>
                                                                    <font color="#800000" face="Arial" size="2">
                                                                        <a href="Clientele of Failed States.pdf">
                                                                            IMF/World Bank &amp; the Clientele of Failing States:&nbsp;The case of Ethiopia&iuml;&iquest;&frac12;s chronic famine syndrome
                                                                        </a>
                                                                    </font>
                                                                </b>
                                                                <br>
                                                                <b>
                                                                    <font color="#800000">
                                                                        Laeke Gebresadik&nbsp;
                                                                    </font>
                                                                    &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
                                                                </b>
                                                                <font color="#800000">
                                                                    December 12, 2009
                                                                    <br>
                                                                </font>
                                                                <font face="Arial" size="2">
                                                                    The problem of food crisis has its deep
      roots in the structural changes of the farming sector since the 1984
      famine. The commercialized food aid and austerity programs of the
      IMF/World Bank and World Trade Organization (WTO) on the agricultural
      sector, and the economy at large, are the forces that have failed Ethiopia
      to achieve food security for its people since the great famine.
                                                                    <span style="mso-fareast-font-family: MS Mincho; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: JA; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA">
                                                                        By
      the year 2004, twenty years after the great famine, farmers and their
      families in Ethiopia trapped in a cycle of draught and government
      mismanagement became established customers of human misfortune for rich
      farmers and mill companies in the United States.
                                                                    </span>
                                                                </font>
                                                            </p>
                                                            <hr>
                                                            <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 10; margin-right: 5; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0">
                                                                <font face="Arial" size="2">
                                                                    <b>
                                                                        <a href="POVERTY  INEQUALITY DEEPEN DESPITE ECONOMIC GROWTH PART I.pdf">
                                                                            POVERTY &amp; INEQUALITY DEEPEN, DESPITE ECONOMIC GROWTH:
                                                                        </a>
                                                                        <br>
                                                                        <a href="POVERTY  INEQUALITY DEEPEN DESPITE ECONOMIC GROWTH PART I.pdf">
                                                                            IS IT SYMPTOMATIC OF POLICY FAILING THE POOR, OR GROWTH?
                                                                        </a>
                                                                    </b>
                                                                </font>
                                                                <br>
                                                                <b>
                                                                    By Genet Mersha, December 17, 2009
                                                                </b>
                                                            </p>
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                                                                    In making this conclusion, this writer declares her awareness that accelerated economic growth in Ethiopia has begun from a low base, and real growth is only six years old, out of the eighteen, since the regime has been in power. Even then, unfortunately, the momentum of growth and national development has been taking place in a climate beset by policy inconsistencies, political polarization, uncertainty and corruption. At the individual level, rife is state-inspired fear and insecurity and public resentment against curtailment of civil liberties.&nbsp;
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                                                            </p>
                                                            <hr>
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                                                                <strong>
                                                                    <font size="2">
                                                                        <span style="mso-fareast-font-family: Times New Roman">
                                                                            <font face="Arial">
                                                                                <a href="Remarks by MCC CEO Daniel _Yohannes _Board Meeting.pdf">
                                                                                    Remarks
      by MCC CEO Daniel Yohannes at the Public Outreach Meeting after the
      December 2009 Board Meeting
                                                                                </a>
                                                                            </font>
                                                                        </span>
                                                                    </font>
                                                                </strong>
                                                                <font size="2">
                                                                    <span style="mso-fareast-font-family: Times New Roman">
                                                                        <font face="Arial">
                                                                            <o:p>
                                                                            </o:p>
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                                                                    </span>
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                                                                <p style="word-spacing: 0; margin-left: 10; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0">
                                                                    <font color="#800000">
                                                                        <b>
                                                                            December
      10, 2009 - As prepared
                                                                        </b>
                                                                    </font>
                                                                </p>
                                                            </font>
                                                            <p style="word-spacing: 0; margin-left: 10; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0">
                                                                <font face="Arial" size="2">
                                                                    I&iuml;&iquest;&frac12;m
      grateful for the Senate&iuml;&iquest;&frac12;s swift confirmation of my nomination. Congress
      is an important partner for us, and I am looking forward to working with
      the many men and women on Capitol Hill who are dedicated to MCC&iuml;&iquest;&frac12;s
      mission of reducing poverty. I am also looking
      forward to getting to know, and working with, all of you.&nbsp;This is my
      second week on the job and this is what I know for sure: MCC is expanding
      opportunities for the world&iuml;&iquest;&frac12;s poor through a system built on
      transparency, results, and new thinking in development.&nbsp;
                                                                </font>
                                                            </p>
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                                                            </font>
                                                            <h1 align="left" style="margin-left: 10; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0">
                                                                <font color="#800000" face="Arial" size="2">
                                                                    <span style="mso-fareast-font-family: Times New Roman">
                                                                        <a href="bonapartes.html">
                                                                            The
      two Bonapartes and the whiff of the
                                                                        </a>
                                                                        <o:p>
                                                                        </o:p>
                                                                    </span>
                                                                </font>
                                                            </h1>
                                                            <h1 align="left" style="margin-left: 10; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0">
                                                                <font color="#800000" face="Arial" size="2">
                                                                    <span style="mso-fareast-font-family: Times New Roman">
                                                                        grapeshot
      of the Ethiopian Revolution
                                                                        <o:p>
                                                                        </o:p>
                                                                    </span>
                                                                </font>
                                                            </h1>
                                                            <p align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 10; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0">
                                                                <strong>
                                                                    <font color="#800000" face="Arial" size="2">
                                                                        By
      Aymro
                                                                    </font>
                                                                </strong>
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                                                                    <span style="mso-fareast-font-family: Times New Roman">
                                                                        Ato
      Meles, cuts a similar figure to Louis Napoleon, the same arrogant pride,
      deceitfulness, monarchic aspirations (overt in Louis &amp; covert in
      Meles) and &nbsp;bloody-mindedness. They both turned out quite costly to
      the countries they misruled; Louis Napoleon foolishly conquered Mexico
      with disastrous consequences and was then manipulated by Bismarck into
      declaring war on Germany and then soundly beaten. Ato Meles, has given
      away the seacoast, fought a foolish war with Eritrea and invaded Somalia a
      few times. All these wars have been disastrous to Ethiopia&iuml;&iquest;&frac12;s economy
      with no benefit to anyone.
                                                                    </span>
                                                                </font>
                                                            </p>
                                                            <hr>
                                                            <b>
                                                                <u>
                                                                    <p style="margin-left: 10; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0">
                                                                        <font face="Arial" size="2">
                                                                            <a href="A%20leap%20of%20faith%20to%20Ethiopia.pdf">
                                                                                The
      Mystery and the Glory of Ethiopia
                                                                            </a>
                                                                        </font>
                                                                    </p>
                                                                </u>
                                                            </b>
                                                            <p style="margin-left: 10; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0">
                                                                <b>
                                                                    <font face="Arial" size="2">
                                                                        A
      leap of faith to Ethiopia's ancient holy sites
                                                                    </font>
                                                                </b>
                                                            </p>
                                                            <p style="margin-left: 10; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0">
                                                                <font face="Arial" size="2">
                                                                    By
      Mark Sissons | December 12, 2009
                                                                </font>
                                                            </p>
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                                                                    The
      mind tends to wander when you're trying to catch a glimpse of the only man
      on Earth who's allowed to see the Ark of the Covenant, the shiny gold box
      said to hold the tablets of the Ten Commandments.
                                                                </font>
                                                                <font face="Arial" size="2">
                                                                    How
      do you get that job? Is there a security clearance? Does it come with
      medical and dental, or is your well-being pretty much overseen by the
      Almighty?
                                                                </font>
                                                                <font face="Arial" size="2">
                                                                    I couldn't help but think:
      Indiana Jones would have loved Axum.
                                                                </font>
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                                                            <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 10; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0">
                                                                <font face="Arial" size="2">
                                                                    <b>
                                                                        <a href="Embassy_USA_Ethiopia.html">
                                                                            Press
      Release: U.S. URGES FURTHER ETHIOPIAN ACTION ON HUMAN RIGHTS
                                                                        </a>
                                                                    </b>
                                                                    <o:p>
                                                                    </o:p>
                                                                    <br>
                                                                    The United States considers a vibrant and independent media to be one of
      the pillars of a strong
                                                                </font>
                                                                <font face="Arial" size="2">
                                                                    democracy. As
      such, we are concerned about the recent closure of the
                                                                    <em>
                                                                        Addis Neger
                                                                    </em>
                                                                    newspaper,
                                                                </font>
                                                                <font face="Arial" size="2">
                                                                    and the allegations of harassment and
      intimidation of private media. The outstanding charges
                                                                </font>
                                                                <font face="Arial" size="2">
                                                                    against
      private journalists, editors, publishers, and media houses may also
      contribute to a
                                                                </font>
                                                                <font face="Arial" size="2">
                                                                    perception that space
      for independent media in Ethiopia is constrained. Ethiopia&iuml;&iquest;&frac12;s
      constitution
                                                                </font>
                                                                <font face="Arial" size="2">
                                                                    guarantees freedom of the
      press and that the press shall enjoy legal protection to ensure its
                                                                </font>
                                                                <font face="Arial" size="2">
                                                                    capacity to entertain diverse opinions.
                                                                </font>
                                                            </p>
                                                            <hr>
                                                            <b>
                                                                <p align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 10; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0">
                                                                    <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:
normal">
                                                                        <font size="2">
                                                                            <font color="#800000">
                                                                                <a href="manifesto_UDJ.html">
                                                                                    A
      MANIFESTO FOR UDJ: Moral Economy, an Alternative to Capitalism and
      Socialism
                                                                                </a>
                                                                            </font>
                                                                            <span style="color: black">
                                                                                <o:p>
                                                                                </o:p>
                                                                            </span>
                                                                        </font>
                                                                    </b>
                                                                </p>
                                                                <p align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 10; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0">
                                                                    <font size="2">
                                                                        By
      Tewodros Kiros, PhD
                                                                    </font>
                                                                </p>
                                                            </b>
                                                            <p align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 100%; margin-left: 10; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0">
                                                                <font face="Arial" size="2">
                                                                    When
      famines occurred and deep inequalities became a way of life, it was the
      duty of the rulers to uphold Maat and measure the depth and extent of the
      suffering. Not that this ideal was perfectly upheld, particularly when
      nature overwhelmed the rulers ideals, but there was at least an absolute
      and objective standard by which social/ political life was judged and
      measured.&nbsp;
                                                                </font>
                                                            </p>
                                                            <hr>
                                                            <b>
                                                                <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 100%; margin-left: 10; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0">
                                                                    <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal">
                                                                        <a href="EDITORIAL_Addis_Neger.pdf">
                                                                            <font size="2">
                                                                                EDITORIAL:
                                                                                <span style="mso-spacerun:yes">
                                                                                    &nbsp;
                                                                                </span>
                                                                                <i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal">
                                                                                    Addis
      Neger
                                                                                </i>
                                                                            </font>
                                                                        </a>
                                                                        <span style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">
                                                                            <a href="EDITORIAL_Addis_Neger.pdf">
                                                                                <font face="Arial">
                                                                                    <font size="2">
                                                                                    </font>
                                                                                </font>
                                                                                <font size="2">
                                                                                    <font face="Arial">
                                                                                        <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">
                                                                                            <span style="mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-font-style: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">
                                                                                                [victim
      of Meles Zenawi's
                                                                                            </span>
                                                                                        </i>
                                                                                    </font>
                                                                                    <span>
                                                                                        <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">
                                                                                            <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-font-style: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">
                                                                                                Oppression]
                                                                                            </span>
                                                                                        </i>
                                                                                    </span>
                                                                                </font>
                                                                            </a>
                                                                        </span>
                                                                        <font size="2">
                                                                            <o:p>
                                                                            </o:p>
                                                                        </font>
                                                                    </b>
                                                                </p>
                                                                <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 10; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0">
                                                                    <font size="2">
                                                                        By
      Tecola W. Hagos
                                                                    </font>
                                                                </p>
                                                                <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 10; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0">
                                                                    <font size="2">
                                                                        December
      9, 2009
                                                                    </font>
                                                                </p>
                                                            </b>
                                                            <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 10; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0">
                                                                <span style='font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:
"Arial","sans-serif"'>
Nothing infuriates me more than the
mistreatment of mothers and children. I could easily go into epileptic
convulsion when I hear about harm done to the most valuable and yet the
most vulnerable members of society. The next groups of people that I
believe deserve all the protections we can muster are reporters, editors,
and publishers, people who inform, educate, and galvanize us. Without free
press and open communication, a nation and a people have no life and no
future. Of all the fundamental freedoms, the right to free speech and
expression is the most foundational and cannot be delaminated from the
right to life.
                                                                </span>
                                                            </p>
                                                            <hr>
                                                            <b>
                                                                <p align="justify" style="margin-left: 10; margin-right: 5; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0">
                                                                    <font color="#800000" face="Arial" size="2">
                                                                        <a href="udj_press_statement.html">
                                                                            UDJ
      Press Statement
                                                                        </a>
                                                                    </font>
                                                                </p>
                                                                <p align="justify" style="margin-left: 10; margin-right: 5; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0">
                                                                    <font face="Arial" size="2">
                                                                        December
      7, 2009
                                                                    </font>
                                                                </p>
                                                            </b>
                                                            <p align="justify" style="margin-left: 10; margin-right: 5; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0">
                                                                <font face="Arial" size="2">
                                                                    In
      a matter of one week, open lawlessness wins twice in Addis Ababa. On 29
      November 2009, Unity for Democracy and Justice (UDJ) had called an
      Extra-ordinary Congress scheduled to be held at the Imperial Hotel. The
      meeting was permitted by the Addis Ababa City Administration in writing.
      The permit was copied to the relevant security and law enforcement bodies.
      UDJ also had delivered a copy of the permit to the Police Command, under
      whose jurisdiction Imperial Hotel is, to make sure that it had reached the
      immediately responsible body. The
                                                                    <a href="https://www.ethiomedia.com/course/4566.html">
                                                                        <u>
                                                                            <font color="#000099">
                                                                                Extra-ordinary
      Congress was openly disrupted
                                                                            </font>
                                                                        </u>
                                                                    </a>
                                                                    by a group of individuals who
      were dismissed from the party for disciplinary reasons and UDJ asked for
      police help. No help came. The government failed to uphold the rule of law
      and lawlessness reigned at the Imperial Hotel.
                                                                </font>
                                                            </p>
                                                            <hr>
                                                            <b>
                                                                <p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center; margin-left: 10; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0">
                                                                    <span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>
                                                                        <a href="Do You Remember Me.pdf">
                                                                            Do
      You Remember Me?
                                                                        </a>
                                                                    </span>
                                                                    <a href="Do You Remember Me.pdf">
                                                                        <span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>
                                                                        </span>
                                                                        <span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>
                                                                            Ethiopia
                                                                        </span>
                                                                    </a>
                                                                    <span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>
                                                                        .......!
                                                                    </span>
                                                                    <span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>
                                                                        <o:p>
                                                                        </o:p>
                                                                    </span>
                                                                </p>
                                                                <p style="margin-left: 40; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0">
                                                                    <span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:
Calibri;mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman";
color:blue;mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:EN-US;mso-bidi-language:
AR-SA'>
&iuml;&iquest;&frac12;Do You Remember Me? &iuml;&iquest;&frac12;
                                                                        <br>
                                                                        &iuml;&iquest;&frac12;&iuml;&iquest;&frac12;Yes! I do! How couldn't I!
                                                                        <br>
                                                                        I am the river you found me dry.
                                                                        <br>
                                                                        Your parched throat about to crack,
                                                                        <br>
                                                                        Water, plenty that I have &amp; that I don't,
                                                                        <br>
                                                                        Was what you were heard cry!
                                                                    </span>
                                                                </p>
                                                                <hr>
                                                                <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 10; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0">
                                                                    <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal">
                                                                        <font face="Arial" size="2">
                                                                            <a href="From Arsenic and Humor.pdf">
                                                                                Poems
      from
                                                                                <u>
                                                                                    Arsenic and Humor: A Book of Verses
                                                                                </u>
                                                                            </a>
                                                                            <u>
                                                                            </u>
                                                                        </font>
                                                                    </b>
                                                                    <font face="Arial" size="2">
                                                                        [manuscript]
                                                                        <o:p>
                                                                        </o:p>
                                                                    </font>
                                                                </p>
                                                                <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 10; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0">
                                                                    <font face="Arial" size="2">
                                                                        By
      Tecola W. Hagos [Phineaus] (three poems)
                                                                    </font>
                                                                </p>
                                                                <hr>
                                                                <font size="2">
                                                                    <p style="margin-left: 10; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0">
                                                                        From Abbay
      Media
                                                                        <br>
                                                                        <a href="Addis_neger.html">
                                                                            <u>
                                                                                <font color="#800000">
                                                                                    Addis Neger ceases
      publication
                                                                                </font>
                                                                            </u>
                                                                        </a>
                                                                    </p>
                                                                    <p style="margin-left: 10; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0">
                                                                        Posted in
      December 4th, 2009
                                                                    </p>
                                                                    <p style="margin-left: 10; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0">
                                                                        by
                                                                        <a href="https://abbaymedia.com/News/?author=1/oPosts by Editor">
                                                                            <u>
                                                                                Editor
                                                                            </u>
                                                                        </a>
                                                                        in
                                                                        <a href="https://abbaymedia.com/News/?cat=42/oView all posts in Press Freedom">
                                                                            <u>
                                                                                Press
      Freedom
                                                                            </u>
                                                                        </a>
                                                                        ,
                                                                        <a href="https://abbaymedia.com/News/?cat=40/oView all posts in Press Release">
                                                                            <u>
                                                                                Press
      Release
                                                                            </u>
                                                                        </a>
                                                                    </p>
                                                                    <hr>
                                                                    <p style="margin-left: 10; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0">
                                                                        &nbsp;
                                                                    </p>
                                                                    <p style="margin-left: 10; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0">
                                                                        <font color="#800000" face="Arial">
                                                                            LETTER
      TO THE EDITOR
                                                                        </font>
                                                                    </p>
                                                                </font>
                                                                <p style="margin-left: 10; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0">
                                                                    <strong>
                                                                        <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: Times New Roman; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA">
                                                                            <font color="#800000" size="2">
                                                                                On
      Professor Mesfin, UDJ, and Medrek
                                                                            </font>
                                                                        </span>
                                                                    </strong>
                                                                </p>
                                                                <font size="2">
                                                                    <p style="margin-left: 10; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0">
                                                                        <font color="#800000" face="Arial">
                                                                            <a href="test_of_difficult.html">
                                                                                The
      test of a difficult time can hardly be overcome by slicing one another
                                                                            </a>
                                                                        </font>
                                                                    </p>
                                                                    <p style="margin-left: 10; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0">
                                                                        <span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";
mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman";
mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:EN-US;mso-bidi-language:AR-SA'>
By
Genet Mersha
                                                                        </span>
                                                                    </p>
                                                                </font>
                                                            </b>
                                                            <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 10; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0">
                                                                <font face="Arial" size="2">
                                                                    Lately the actions of the man I respect have reminded me of the words of the famous economist Paul Samuelson. He emphasized that, in a changing world, the risks are too many, especially as &iuml;&iquest;&frac12;customs may be so unyielding that societies become extinct defending their traditions.&iuml;&iquest;&frac12; Ethiopian pride comes to mind, cherished as it is. However, I mean no disrespect in saying I turned into the Doubting Thomas the day Prof. Mesfin pushed further into political activism as his latest vocation. For all I understand, his well-recognized trademark has been opposing whatever everyone supports, the type of which he has unwisely demonstrated now. It seems his frailty&iuml;&iquest;&frac12;not in the least in the physical sense&iuml;&iquest;&frac12;has become more evident now than anytime before.
                                                                </font>
                                                            </p>
                                                            <hr>
                                                            <b>
                                                                <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 10; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0">
                                                                    <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:
normal">
                                                                        <u>
                                                                            <span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language:EN">
                                                                                <font color="#800000" size="2">
                                                                                    PART
      FOUR
                                                                                    <span style="mso-spacerun:yes">
                                                                                        &nbsp;
                                                                                    </span>
                                                                                    <o:p>
                                                                                    </o:p>
                                                                                </font>
                                                                            </span>
                                                                        </u>
                                                                    </b>
                                                                </p>
                                                                <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 10; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0">
                                                                    <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:
normal">
                                                                        <font color="#800000">
                                                                            <span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN">
                                                                                <font size="2">
                                                                                    <a href="lacrimosa_part_four.html">
                                                                                        Lacrimosa
      For
                                                                                        <st1:place w:st="on">
                                                                                            <st1:country-region w:st="on">
                                                                                                Ethiopia
                                                                                            </st1:country-region>
                                                                                        </st1:place>
                                                                                        : Medrek and the &iuml;&iquest;&frac12;Code of Conduct&iuml;&iquest;&frac12;
                                                                                    </a>
                                                                                </font>
                                                                            </span>
                                                                        </font>
                                                                        <span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN">
                                                                            <font size="2">
                                                                                <o:p>
                                                                                </o:p>
                                                                            </font>
                                                                        </span>
                                                                    </b>
                                                                </p>
                                                                <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 10; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0">
                                                                    <span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language:
EN">
                                                                        <font size="2">
                                                                            By Tecola W, Hagos &iuml;&iquest;&frac12; December 1, 2009
                                                                        </font>
                                                                    </span>
                                                                </p>
                                                            </b>
                                                            <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 10; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0">
                                                                <span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language:
EN">
                                                                    <font face="Arial" size="2">
                                                                        How many Ethiopians, among the opposition or in general, would have the type of personal individualized courage as some of Ethiopia&iuml;&iquest;&frac12;s heroes from our past, such as Abraha Deboch, Moges Asghedom, Belai Aschenaki, Zerai Deres, Abuna Petros et cetera? I am not advocating here recklessness or terroristic activities, but focusing on the mental preparedness and courage of such individuals. By contrast, I find Ethiopian politicians in the opposition camp in general (I know or heard about) to be not forthcoming and secretive. However, I do not want to be misunderstood here, for there are very heroic Ethiopians like Judge Birtukan Mideksa and others who are facing the brutal Government of Meles Zenawi with exemplary courage.
                                                                    </font>
                                                                    <b>
                                                                    </b>
                                                                </span>
                                                            </p>
                                                            <hr>
                                                            <b>
                                                                <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 10; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0">
                                                                    <a href="The corruptive structure of the so-called Safety Net Prgram in Ethiopia.pdf">
                                                                        <img border="0" height="58" src="corruptive.jpg" width="439">
                                                                    </a>
                                                                </p>
                                                                <hr>
                                                                <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 10; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0">
                                                                    <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:
normal">
                                                                        <span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN">
                                                                            <font color="#800000" face="Arial" size="2">
                                                                                <a href="part_three_lacrimosa.html">
                                                                                    Part
      Three: Lacrimosa for
                                                                                    <st1:country-region w:st="on">
                                                                                        <st1:place w:st="on">
                                                                                            Ethiopia
                                                                                        </st1:place>
                                                                                    </st1:country-region>
                                                                                </a>
                                                                            </font>
                                                                        </span>
                                                                    </b>
                                                                    <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:
normal">
                                                                        <span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN">
                                                                            <font face="Arial" size="2">
                                                                                <a href="part_three_lacrimosa.html">
                                                                                    <font color="#800000">
                                                                                        Hailu Shawel&iuml;&iquest;&frac12;s Posse
                                                                                    </font>
                                                                                </a>
                                                                            </font>
                                                                            <font color="#800000" face="Arial" size="2">
                                                                                <o:p>
                                                                                </o:p>
                                                                            </font>
                                                                        </span>
                                                                    </b>
                                                                </p>
                                                                <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 10; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0">
                                                                    <span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language:
EN">
                                                                        <font face="Arial" size="2">
                                                                            By Tecola W. Hagos, November 27, 2009
                                                                        </font>
                                                                    </span>
                                                                </p>
                                                            </b>
                                                            <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 10; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0">
                                                                <font face="Arial" size="2">
                                                                    <span lang="EN" style="mso-fareast-font-family: Times New Roman; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA">
                                                                        The
      claims of Mankelkilot and of chat room vulgar amateur politicians, who
      hide behind strange false names, that I helped in the conceptualization
      and drafting of the Kilil system are patently and utterly false and silly.
      I had already left the country when the 1995 Constitution was being
      drafted. I was already in friction with Meles Zenawi and his support group
      for a year by then (1992-1993).
                                                                    </span>
                                                                </font>
                                                            </p>
                                                            <hr>
                                                            <b>
                                                                <font size="2">
                                                                </font>
                                                            </b>
                                                            <p style="margin-left: 10; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0">
                                                                <b>
                                                                    <font size="2">
                                                                        <img align="left" border="0" height="190" hspace="10" src="seeye.jpg" vspace="3" width="220">
                                                                    </font>
                                                                </b>
                                                            </p>
                                                            <p style="margin-left: 10; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0">
                                                                <b>
                                                                    <a href="Seeye speech _Amharic_english.pdf">
                                                                        <font size="3">
                                                                            Event at Ghion
                                                                        </font>
                                                                    </a>
                                                                    <font size="3">
                                                                        <a href="Seeye speech _Amharic_english.pdf">
                                                                            i
                                                                        </a>
                                                                    </font>
                                                                    <font color="#800000" size="2">
                                                                        (Amharic &amp;English)
                                                                    </font>
                                                                </b>
                                                            </p>
                                                            <font size="2">
                                                                <p style="margin-left: 10; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0">
                                                                    <font face="Arial">
                                                                        Although I realize that there
                                                                    </font>
                                                                    <b>
                                                                    </b>
                                                                    <font face="Arial">
                                                                        are many remaining tasks that have to be carried out to make
      UDJ even a strong national party and an inviting common home for all Ethiopians, I
      would like to assure you all that I am in full agreement with the pillar values enshrined in
      the draft programme. I have full confidence that, based on these fundamental pillars
      values, we can make this party with great potentials, a truly strong party.
                                                                    </font>
                                                                </p>
                                                                <hr>
                                                                <p style="margin-left: 10; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0">
                                                                    <font face="Arial">
                                                                        <b>
                                                                            <a href="Dr.Negaso-s speech.pdf">
                                                                                Dr.
      Negaso's Speech
                                                                            </a>
                                                                        </b>
                                                                    </font>
                                                                </p>
                                                                <p style="margin-left: 10; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0">
                                                                    <img height="136" src="Copy_of_DSC00669_2.JPG" width="178">
                                                                </p>
                                                                <p style="margin-left: 10; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0">
                                                                    <img border="0" height="104" src="index.3.jpg" width="475">
                                                                </p>
                                                                <hr>
                                                                <p style="margin-left: 10; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0">
                                                                    <font face="Arial">
                                                                        <b>
                                                                            <a href="Eng. Gizachew Speech.pdf">
                                                                                Eng.
      Gizachew Speech
                                                                            </a>
                                                                        </b>
                                                                    </font>
                                                                </p>
                                                                <p style="margin-left: 10; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0">
                                                                    <img border="0" height="182" src="gezachew.jpg" width="156">
                                                                </p>
                                                                <p style="margin-left: 10; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0">
                                                                    <img border="0" height="204" src="index.4.jpg" width="511">
                                                                </p>
                                                                <hr>
                                                                <b>
                                                                    <p style="margin-left: 10; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0">
                                                                        &nbsp;
                                                                    </p>
                                                                    <p style="margin-left: 10; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0">
                                                                        <font face="Arial">
                                                                            <a href="Article_Copenhagen.pdf">
                                                                                Ethiopia: Meles Zenawi's Ploy for Copenhagen Conference
                                                                            </a>
                                                                            <br>
                                                                            By Selam Beyene, November 23, 2009
                                                                        </font>
                                                                    </p>
                                                                </b>
                                                                <p style="margin-left: 10; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0">
                                                                    <span style="font-size: 10.0pt">
                                                                        <font face="Arial">
                                                                            The
      dictator has instituted draconian laws to restrict the activities of NGOs
      who work in the field of human rights and other areas that are
      incompatible with the corrupt and repressive policies of the regime. In
      particular,
                                                                            <span class="ilad1">
                                                                                the law
                                                                            </span>
                                                                            has severely curbed the
      ability of environmental NGOs to educate
                                                                            <span class="ilad1">
                                                                                the public
                                                                            </span>
                                                                            at large on climate change issues and to expose the destructive
      environmental policy of Zenawi&iuml;&iquest;&frac12;s deceitful government.
                                                                        </font>
                                                                    </span>
                                                                    <span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>
                                                                        <b>
                                                                            <o:p>
                                                                            </o:p>
                                                                        </b>
                                                                    </span>
                                                                </p>
                                                                <hr>
                                                                <b>
                                                                    <p style="margin-left: 10; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0">
                                                                        <a href="https://www.mcc.gov/mcc/press/releases/us-senate-confirms-daniel-w-yohannes-as-ceo-of-mil.shtml" target="https://www.mcc.gov/mcc/press/releases/us-senate-confirms-daniel-w-yohannes-as-ceo-of-mil.shtml">
                                                                            U.S.
      Senate Confirms Daniel W. Yohannes as CEO of Millennium Challenge
      Corporation
                                                                        </a>
                                                                    </p>
                                                                </b>
                                                                <p style="margin-left: 10; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0">
                                                                    <font face="Arial">
                                                                        Washington,
      D.C. -- Today the United States Senate unanimously confirmed President
      Barack Obama&iuml;&iquest;&frac12;s nomination of Daniel W. Yohannes as the new Chief
      Executive Officer of the U.S. Government&iuml;&iquest;&frac12;s Millennium Challenge
      Corporation (MCC).&nbsp;As CEO, Mr. Yohannes will undertake MCC's mission
      to reduce poverty through economic growth.
                                                                    </font>
                                                                </p>
                                                                <hr>
                                                                <b>
                                                                    <p style="margin-left: 10; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0">
                                                                        <font color="#800000" face="Arial" size="2">
                                                                            <span lang="EN-GB">
                                                                                <a href="much_ado.html">
                                                                                    Much Ado about Nothing
                                                                                </a>
                                                                            </span>
                                                                        </font>
                                                                    </p>
                                                                    <p style="margin-left: 10; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0">
                                                                        <font face="Arial" size="2">
                                                                            <span lang="EN-GB">
                                                                                Messay Kebede
                                                                            </span>
                                                                        </font>
                                                                    </p>
                                                                </b>
                                                                <span lang="EN">
                                                                    <span lang="">
                                                                        <span lang="EN-GB">
                                                                            <p align="left" style="line-height: 100%; margin-left: 10; margin-right: 5; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0">
                                                                                <font face="Arial">
                                                                                    Articles
      fulminating against Hailu Shawel&iuml;&iquest;&frac12;s signing of the code of conduct
      proliferate on Ethiopian websites. For these articles, the unilateral and
      hasty agreement with Meles while other opposition groups, such as Medrek,
      are still in contention about some important issues, constitutes nothing
      less than betrayal on Hailu&iuml;&iquest;&frac12;s part. This act of sabotage suggests,
      according to some articles, a prior agreement with the Meles regime
      promising Hailu a post in the future government in exchange for his
      contribution in dividing and weakening the opposition.
                                                                                </font>
                                                                            </p>
                                                                            <hr>
                                                                            <b>
                                                                                <p align="left" style="line-height: 100%; margin-left: 10; margin-right: 5; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0">
                                                                                    <font color="#800000">
                                                                                        <a href="election2010.html">
                                                                                            ELECTION
      2010: WHO WOULD WIN&iuml;&iquest;&frac12;POLITICS OR THE PEOPLE?
                                                                                        </a>
                                                                                    </font>
                                                                                </p>
                                                                                <p align="left" style="line-height: 100%; margin-left: 10; margin-right: 5; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0">
                                                                                    By
      Genet Mersha, November 17, 2009
                                                                                </p>
                                                                            </b>
                                                                        </span>
                                                                        <p style="margin-left: 10; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0">
                                                                            <span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA">
                                                                                <font face="Arial">
                                                                                    Even
      then, nothing irks Eng. Hailu Shawl as much as Medrek&iuml;&iquest;&frac12;s complaints about
      the imprisonment of its members. His advice to Medrek is not to waste its
      breath (
                                                                                    <i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal">
                                                                                        The Reporter
                                                                                    </i>
                                                                                    , 8 Nov), as
      his party also continues to suffer similar fate. He says, &iuml;&iquest;&frac12;We do not cry
      loud. We follow up with letters. Sometimes we get positive responses,
      sometimes not. They [the EPRDF] do not like it when one is loud about such
      things
                                                                                </font>
                                                                            </span>
                                                                        </p>
                                                                        <hr>
                                                                    </span>
                                                                </span>
                                                            </font>
                                                            <b>
                                                                <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 10; margin-right: 5; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0">
                                                                    <a href="sne megbar silu.pdf">
                                                                        <img border="0" height="21" src="senemegbar.gif" width="186">
                                                                    </a>
                                                                    <img border="0" height="23" src="senemegbar2.gif" width="77">
                                                                </p>
                                                                <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin: 0">
                                                                    <img border="0" height="258" src="sene.jpg" width="505">
                                                                </p>
                                                                <hr>
                                                                <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 10; margin-right: 5; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0">
                                                                    <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:
normal">
                                                                        <u>
                                                                            <span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">
                                                                                <font color="#800000" face="Arial" size="2">
                                                                                    PART
      TWO
                                                                                    <o:p>
                                                                                    </o:p>
                                                                                </font>
                                                                            </span>
                                                                        </u>
                                                                    </b>
                                                                </p>
                                                                <p class="MsoHeader" style="margin-left: 10; margin-right: 5; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0">
                                                                    <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal">
                                                                        <span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">
                                                                            <font color="#800000" face="Arial" size="2">
                                                                                <a href="Article PART TWO Lacrimosa for Ethiopia.pdf">
                                                                                    Lacrimosa
      for
                                                                                    <st1:country-region w:st="on">
                                                                                        <st1:place w:st="on">
                                                                                            Ethiopia
                                                                                        </st1:place>
                                                                                    </st1:country-region>
                                                                                </a>
                                                                            </font>
                                                                        </span>
                                                                        <font size="2">
                                                                            <span lang="EN" style="font-size:14.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN">
                                                                                <o:p>
                                                                                </o:p>
                                                                            </span>
                                                                        </font>
                                                                    </b>
                                                                </p>
                                                                <font size="2">
                                                                    <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 10; margin-right: 5; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0">
                                                                        <span style="mso-ansi-language: EN">
                                                                            <font color="#800000">
                                                                                By
      Tecola W. Hagos November 15, 2009
                                                                                <o:p>
                                                                                </o:p>
                                                                                <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:
normal">
                                                                                    <u>
                                                                                        <span style="mso-ansi-language:EN">
                                                                                        </span>
                                                                                    </u>
                                                                                </b>
                                                                            </font>
                                                                        </span>
                                                                    </p>
                                                                    <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 10; margin-right: 5; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0">
                                                                        <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:
normal">
                                                                            <span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language:EN">
                                                                                <font color="#800000">
                                                                                    III.
      The
                                                                                    <i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal">
                                                                                        Mahel Sefaris
                                                                                    </i>
                                                                                    Back in Power
                                                                                </font>
                                                                                <o:p>
                                                                                </o:p>
                                                                            </span>
                                                                        </b>
                                                                    </p>
                                                                </font>
                                                            </b>
                                                            <font size="2">
                                                            </font>
                                                            <p style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 10; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin-bottom: .0001pt">
                                                                <font size="2">
                                                                    <span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language:EN">
                                                                        <font face="Arial" size="2">
                                                                            I
      share in principle with Fayyisa the signing of the Code of Conduct by
      Meles Zenawi on one side and Hailu Shawel, Lidetu Ayalew, and Ayalew
      Chemiso on the other is a betrayal. The best way to learn the point of
      view of an opposition group is to the source as far as possible and read
      what the members and supporters write or state in public forums. The best
      way to show how a stick is crocked is not by arguing about it, but by
      laying a straight one next to it.
                                                                            <span style="color: black; mso-ansi-language: EN">
                                                                                <o:p>
                                                                                </o:p>
                                                                            </span>
                                                                        </font>
                                                                    </span>
                                                                </font>
                                                                <font size="2">
                                                                    <span lang="EN">
                                                                        <font face="Arial" size="2">
                                                                            <span lang="EN" style="mso-fareast-font-family: Times New Roman; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA">
                                                                                I
      am using as my subsection title after my favorite book title
                                                                                <u>
                                                                                    The Oromo
      of
                                                                                    <st1:place w:st="on">
                                                                                        <st1:country-region w:st="on">
                                                                                            Ethiopia
                                                                                        </st1:country-region>
                                                                                    </st1:place>
                                                                                </u>
                                                                                (1994) by Professor Mohammad Hassen. Without sounding divisive,
      insincere, or patronizing, I cannot think of any other group of Ethiopians
      of my parents and my generations as dynamic in heroic deeds.......
                                                                            </span>
                                                                        </font>
                                                                    </span>
                                                                </font>
                                                            </p>
                                                            <font size="2">
                                                                <span lang="">
                                                                    <b>
                                                                        <hr>
                                                                        <p style="margin-left: 10; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0">
                                                                            <a href="Mengistu HM Letter1.pdf">
                                                                                <img border="0" height="196" src="mengestu.gif" width="503">
                                                                            </a>
                                                                        </p>
                                                                        <hr>
                                                                    </b>
                                                                </span>
                                                                <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 10; margin-right: 3.75pt; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0">
                                                                    <a href="medusa.html">
                                                                        <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:
normal">
                                                                            <span lang="" style="color: #660000">
                                                                                <font face="Arial">
                                                                                    THE MEDUSA AND THE
      NUDIBRANCH:
                                                                                </font>
                                                                            </span>
                                                                        </b>
                                                                    </a>
                                                                </p>
                                                                <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 10; margin-right: 3.75pt; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0">
                                                                    <a href="medusa.html">
                                                                        <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:
normal">
                                                                            <span lang="" style="color: #660000">
                                                                                <font face="Arial">
                                                                                    An assessment of
      the political life of Ethiopians
                                                                                </font>
                                                                            </span>
                                                                        </b>
                                                                    </a>
                                                                </p>
                                                                <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 10; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0">
                                                                    <span lang="">
                                                                        <font face="Arial">
                                                                            <i>
                                                                                <b>
                                                                                    Tecola W. Hagos -
                                                                                </b>
                                                                            </i>
                                                                            <span style="mso-ansi-language:EN-GB">
                                                                                <span style="color:red">
                                                                                    May 22, 2006
                                                                                </span>
                                                                                &nbsp;[Reposted November 14,
      2009]&nbsp;
                                                                                <o:p>
                                                                                </o:p>
                                                                            </span>
                                                                        </font>
                                                                    </span>
                                                                </p>
                                                                <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 10; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0">
                                                                    <span lang="">
                                                                        <font face="Arial">
                                                                            If some Ethiopian Opposition leaders or supporters lash
      out and take extreme positions and blame by association this or that
      ethnic group along with the current or past political leaders, it is very
      understandable. Nevertheless, I will try to point out where we failed to
      bring about effective leadership and suggest further solutions to our
      monumental problems. The decision of very many Ethiopians in the
      Opposition to stand against an oppressive government is something to be
      applauded and supported. However, even the slightest hint of using ethnic
      difference as a political rallying tool is to be condemned and quashed in
      its infancy. We have learned a very expensive lesson how the current
      government has alleged against the Opposition leadership and supporters of
      promoting ethnic animosity as their tool for political opposition, and
      proceeded to arrest and charge them with treason and attempted genocide.
                                                                        </font>
                                                                    </span>
                                                                </p>
                                                                <span lang="EN">
                                                                    <span lang="">
                                                                        <b>
                                                                            <hr>
                                                                            <p style="margin-left: 10; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0">
                                                                                <a href="Lacrimosa for Ethiopia.pdf">
                                                                                    Lacrimosa
      for Ethiopia
                                                                                </a>
                                                                            </p>
                                                                        </b>
                                                                    </span>
                                                                </span>
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                                                                <span lang="">
                                                                    <p style="margin-left: 10; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0">
                                                                        <b>
                                                                            By Tecola
      W. Hagos
                                                                        </b>
                                                                        <b>
                                                                            <span lang="">
                                                                                &nbsp;
                                                                            </span>
                                                                        </b>
                                                                        <span lang="EN">
                                                                            <font face="Arial" size="2">
                                                                                <span style="color: black">
                                                                                    <b>
                                                                                        November
      10, 2009
                                                                                    </b>
                                                                                </span>
                                                                            </font>
                                                                        </span>
                                                                    </p>
                                                                    <span lang="EN">
                                                                        <p style="margin-left: 10; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0">
                                                                            <span lang="">
                                                                                <span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language:
EN">
                                                                                    <font face="Arial">
                                                                                        The losers in the current game of the signing of the Code
      of Conduct and realignment of the EPRDF with its newest Member Hailu
      Shawel (AEUP) are the people of
                                                                                        <st1:place w:st="on">
                                                                                            <st1:country-region w:st="on">
                                                                                                Ethiopia
                                                                                            </st1:country-region>
                                                                                        </st1:place>
                                                                                        , not Hailu Shawel and his Party, not Medrek or anybody else. Meles Zenawi
      has gained another day to prepare for far longer and devastating fight
      against all those who are concerned about the vital interest of
                                                                                        <st1:place w:st="on">
                                                                                            <st1:country-region w:st="on">
                                                                                                Ethiopia
                                                                                            </st1:country-region>
                                                                                        </st1:place>
                                                                                        , the Opposition et cetera. He has extended his life to do more damage to
      the state of
                                                                                        <st1:place w:st="on">
                                                                                            <st1:country-region w:st="on">
                                                                                                Ethiopia
                                                                                            </st1:country-region>
                                                                                        </st1:place>
                                                                                        entrenching his divisive Killel system, alienating Ethiopian territory,
      selling/leasing huge chunk of Ethiopian land to foreign investors and
      states while millions of Ethiopians starve to death. He will keep looting
                                                                                        <st1:place w:st="on">
                                                                                            <st1:country-region w:st="on">
                                                                                                Ethiopia
                                                                                            </st1:country-region>
                                                                                        </st1:place>
                                                                                        &iuml;&iquest;&frac12;s gold in collaboration with Alamoudi.
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                                                                                    <o:p>
                                                                                    </o:p>
                                                                                </span>
                                                                            </span>
                                                                        </p>
                                                                        <hr>
                                                                    </span>
                                                                </span>
                                                            </font>
                                                            <p style="margin-left: 10; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0">
                                                                <strong>
                                                                    <u>
                                                                        <font color="#800000" face="Arial" size="2">
                                                                            DIFFERENT
      VIEW
                                                                        </font>
                                                                    </u>
                                                                </strong>
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                                                                    <span style="color: black">
                                                                        <o:p>
                                                                        </o:p>
                                                                    </span>
                                                                </font>
                                                            </p>
                                                            <p style="margin-left: 10; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0">
                                                                <font face="Arial" size="2">
                                                                    <span style="color: black">
                                                                        <u1:country-region u2:st="on">
                                                                            <a href="https://gadaa.com/oduu/?p=1464" target="https://gadaa.com/oduu/?p=1464">
                                                                                <b>
                                                                                    Ethiopia
                                                                                </b>
                                                                            </a>
                                                                        </u1:country-region>
                                                                        <a href="https://gadaa.com/oduu/?p=1464" target="https://gadaa.com/oduu/?p=1464">
                                                                            <b>
                                                                                : The Zenawi-Shawel Handshake &iuml;&iquest;&frac12; the Anti-Thesis of Liberty &amp;
      Democracy (Analysis)
                                                                            </b>
                                                                        </a>
                                                                        <o:p>
                                                                        </o:p>
                                                                    </span>
                                                                </font>
                                                            </p>
                                                            <p style="margin-left: 10; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0">
                                                                <font face="Arial" size="2">
                                                                    <span style="color: black">
                                                                        <b>
                                                                            By
      Fayyis Oromia [November 5, 2009]
                                                                        </b>
                                                                        <o:p>
                                                                        </o:p>
                                                                    </span>
                                                                </font>
                                                            </p>
                                                            <p style="margin-left: 10; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0">
                                                                <font face="Arial" size="2">
                                                                    <span lang="EN" style="mso-fareast-font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; color: black">
                                                                        What
      do these two persons have in common? Why did the handshake happen? Why was
      it surprising to most Ethiopians, in general, and &iuml;&iquest;&frac12;shocking&iuml;&iquest;&frac12; to
      Amharas, in particular? Did the &iuml;&iquest;&frac12;Oromo factor&iuml;&iquest;&frac12; play a certain role for
      the handshake to happen? What is the relation of this handshake to the
      hitherto attempts made to achieve the necessary compromise between Amhara
      democratic forces and Oromo federalist movements in the formation of the
      recent alliance aka Medrek?
                                                                    </span>
                                                                </font>
                                                            </p>
                                                            <hr>
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                                                                    <span lang="EN" style="color: #444444; mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">
                                                                        <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal; color: #444444">
                                                                            <a href="MajorGeneralDemissieBultoandthecoupd.html">
                                                                                Major
      General Demissie Bulto and the coup d&iuml;&iquest;&frac12;&iuml;&iquest;&frac12;tat of May 1989:
                                                                                <o:p>
                                                                                </o:p>
                                                                            </a>
                                                                        </b>
                                                                    </span>
                                                                </font>
                                                                <a href="Major General Demissie Bulto and the coupd.doc">
                                                                    <span lang="EN">
                                                                        <font size="2">
                                                                            <span lang="EN" style="color: #444444; mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">
                                                                                <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal; color: #444444">
                                                                                    a
      book review
                                                                                </b>
                                                                            </span>
                                                                        </font>
                                                                    </span>
                                                                </a>
                                                                <span lang="EN">
                                                                    <span style="font-size:14.0pt;color:#444444">
                                                                        <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal">
                                                                            <o:p>
                                                                            </o:p>
                                                                        </b>
                                                                    </span>
                                                                </span>
                                                            </p>
                                                            <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 10; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0">
                                                                <span style="color:#444444">
                                                                    <b>
                                                                        By
      Teodros Kiros (PhD)
                                                                        <o:p>
                                                                        </o:p>
                                                                    </b>
                                                                </span>
                                                                <span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman";color:#444444;mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:
EN-US;mso-bidi-language:AR-SA'>
                                                                    <br>
                                                                </span>
                                                                <font face="Arial" size="2">
                                                                    <span lang="EN" style="mso-fareast-font-family: Times New Roman; color: #444444; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA">
                                                                        Great
      books arrive on the reading scene at the right time and for the right
      reason. So does Derege Demissie&iuml;&iquest;&frac12;s,
                                                                        <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal">
                                                                            <u>
                                                                                Abate
      Yachin Se&iuml;&iquest;&frac12;at: Major General Demissie Bulto and the Coup d&iuml;&iquest;&frac12; etat of May
      1989
                                                                            </u>
                                                                            .
                                                                        </b>
                                                                        Such books create their own readers. The book is so
      compellingly presented that readers cannot wait until they wrap themselves
      around with it. It has created a new CULTURE OF WRITING and with it a new
      breed of readers. The newness of the readers is unction of the literary
      merits of the author. Derege writes well.
                                                                    </span>
                                                                </font>
                                                            </p>
                                                            <hr>
                                                            <p style="margin-left: 10; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0">
                                                                <font size="2">
                                                                    <font face="Arial">
                                                                        <b>
                                                                            <a href="AfricanConference.pdf">
                                                                                የአፍሪቃን
      የጠለቀ ችግር
      ለመወያያት
                                                                            </a>
                                                                        </b>
                                                                    </font>
                                                                </font>
                                                            </p>
                                                            <p style="margin-left: 10; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0">
                                                                <font size="2">
                                                                    <b>
                                                                        <font face="Arial">
                                                                            በአ
                                                                        </font>
                                                                    </b>
                                                                </font>
                                                                <b>
                                                                    <font face="Arial" size="2">
                                                                        .አ
      ከ29-10 እስከ 31.10.2009
                                                                    </font>
                                                                </b>
                                                            </p>
                                                            <font size="2">
                                                            </font>
                                                            <p style="margin-left: 10; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0">
                                                                <font size="2">
                                                                    <b>
                                                                        <font face="Arial">
                                                                            ስብሰባ
      ተካሄደ
                                                                        </font>
                                                                    </b>
                                                                </font>
                                                                <b>
                                                                    <font face="Arial" size="2">
                                                                        !
      እኛስ ምን እየሰራን
      ነው?
                                                                    </font>
                                                                </b>
                                                            </p>
                                                            <hr>
                                                            <p style="margin-left: 10; margin-right: 5; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0">
                                                                <b>
                                                                    <font face="Arial" size="2">
                                                                        <a href="A_guide_for_perplexed_on_Ethiopia.html" target="https://www.tecolahagos.com/perplexed.htm">
                                                                            &iuml;&iquest;&frac12;A Guide for the Perplexed&iuml;&iquest;&frac12; (On the Future
      of Ethiopia)&nbsp; Tecola W. Hagos
                                                                        </a>
                                                                        <br>
                                                                    </font>
                                                                    <font color="#800000" face="Arial" size="1">
                                                                        [Reposted October 30, 2009, originally posted May 10, 2002]
                                                                    </font>
                                                                </b>
                                                            </p>
                                                            <p style="margin-left: 10; margin-right: 5; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0">
                                                                <font face="Arial" size="2">
                                                                    <span lang="EN" style="mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA">
                                                                        We
      too, the &iuml;&iquest;&frac12;educated&iuml;&iquest;&frac12; few Ethiopians of the last fifty years, stagnated
      within narrow wells of conformity, and hardly ever allowed original
      thinking to seep in, which would have helped us move away from the
      doldrums of political ideology. Even worse, we desperately tried to
      imitate our aristocrats and feudal class in our personal behavior. We
      never truly internalized any of the democratic principles we pontificated,
      in our own daily lives. We are hypocrites and delusional. Whether we are
      promoting universal suffrage, or democratic centralism, it seems we were
      always the center of every political structure we intended to erect for
                                                                        <u1:country-region u2:st="on">
                                                                            <u1:place u2:st="on">
                                                                                Ethiopia
                                                                            </u1:place>
                                                                        </u1:country-region>
                                                                        . We seem to have no genuine respect of our fellow Ethiopians who toil
      from Sun Rise to Sun Set maintaining the continued existence of our
      nation. Even though most of us are the sons and daughters of such people,
      we have no stomach for rural life or for work that requires physical
      exertion.
                                                                    </span>
                                                                </font>
                                                            </p>
                                                            <hr>
                                                            <b>
                                                                <p style="margin-left: 10; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0">
                                                                    <font face="Ethiopia" size="3">
                                                                        <a href="Economic Growth-Ethiopia.pdf">
                                                                            የሚያድግ
      ኢኮኖሚ ነገር ግን
      የማይታይ
      የማይዳሰስ
                                                                        </a>
                                                                    </font>
                                                                    <font size="2">
                                                                        <font face="Ethiopia">
                                                                        </font>
                                                                        <font face="Times New Roman">
                                                                            !
                                                                        </font>
                                                                        <font face="Times New Roman">
                                                                            &nbsp;&nbsp;
                                                                        </font>
                                                                        <font face="Ethiopia">
                                                                            ፈቃዱ በቀለ
                                                                        </font>
                                                                    </font>
                                                                </p>
                                                                <font face="Ethiopia">
                                                                    <p align="LEFT" style="line-height: 100%; margin-left: 10; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0">
                                                                        <font size="1">
                                                                            በአለፉት
      አስር ዐመታት
      በጠቅላይ
      ሚንስተሩና
      በፊናንስና
      በኢኮኖሚ ዕድገት
                                                                        </font>
                                                                    </p>
                                                                </font>
                                                            </b>
                                                            <p align="LEFT" style="line-height: 100%; margin-left: 10; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0">
                                                                <b>
                                                                    <font face="Ethiopia">
                                                                        <font size="1">
                                                                            ሚንስተራቸው
      በአቶ ሱፍያን
      አህመድ፣ እንዲሁም
      ደግሞ አገዛዙን
      በሚደግፉትና በልዩ
                                                                        </font>
                                                                    </font>
                                                                </b>
                                                                <font size="1">
                                                                    <font face="Ethiopia">
                                                                        <b>
                                                                            <span lang="EN">
                                                                                ዓለም ውስጥ
      የሚኖሩት፣ በየፓል
      ቶክ ውስጥ
      የሚደነፉት
      ጀግኖች፣ አገራችን
      ከዚህ ቀደም
                                                                            </span>
                                                                        </b>
                                                                    </font>
                                                                    <font face="Ethiopia">
                                                                        <b>
                                                                            <span lang="EN">
                                                                                ታይቶ የማይታወቅ
      ዕድገት የሚታይባት
      አገር እንደሆነችና
      ህዝቡም በኑሮው
      እንደተሻሻለ
                                                                            </span>
                                                                        </b>
                                                                    </font>
                                                                    <font face="Ethiopia">
                                                                        <b>
                                                                            <span lang="EN">
                                                                                ሲምሉ ሲገዘቱ
      ይሰማል። በተለይም
      ደግሞ፣ አዲስ አበባ
      እዚህና እዚያ
      የተተከለው ህንፃና
                                                                            </span>
                                                                        </b>
                                                                    </font>
                                                                    <font face="Ethiopia">
                                                                        <b>
                                                                            <span lang="EN">
                                                                                የመጨፈሪያ ቤት
      የአንድ አገር
      ኢኮኖሚ ዕድገት
      ምልክት ሆኖ
      የሚታያቸውና፣
      ይህንን
                                                                            </span>
                                                                        </b>
                                                                    </font>
                                                                    <font face="Ethiopia">
                                                                        <b>
                                                                            <span lang="EN">
                                                                                በቪዲዮ በመቅረጽ
      ሊያሳምኑን
      የሚሞክሩት፣
      እዚያው በዚያው
      ደግሞ ሺህ በሺህ
                                                                            </span>
                                                                        </b>
                                                                    </font>
                                                                    <font face="Ethiopia">
                                                                        <b>
                                                                            <span lang="EN">
                                                                                የሚቆጠረው
      ህዝባችን በድህነት
      ዓለም ውስጥ ዘፍቆ
      በመኖር የዕለት
      ምግቡን ከቆሻሻ
                                                                            </span>
                                                                        </b>
                                                                    </font>
                                                                    <font face="Ethiopia">
                                                                        <b>
                                                                            <span lang="EN">
                                                                                እየለቀመ
      እንደሚበላ በመካድ
      ነው። አገር ቤት
      በየዐመቱ
      እየተመላለሱ
      ከጉብኝት ሲመለሱ
                                                                            </span>
                                                                        </b>
                                                                    </font>
                                                                    <span lang="EN">
                                                                        <b>
                                                                            <font face="Ethiopia">
                                                                                ስለአገራችን
      ሁኔታ ከሚነግሩን
      እህቶቻችንና
      ወንድሞቻችን
      የምንሰማው ግን
      በስታትስቲክስ
                                                                            </font>
                                                                        </b>
                                                                    </span>
                                                                    <span lang="EN">
                                                                        <b>
                                                                            <font face="Ethiopia">
                                                                                ከተደገፈ
      ማስረጃ ሺህ ጊዜ
      እንደሚበልጥና፣
      ስለሁኔታውም
      አስከፊነት አንድ
      የኢኮኖሚ
                                                                            </font>
                                                                        </b>
                                                                    </span>
                                                                    <font face="Ethiopia">
                                                                        <b>
                                                                            <span lang="EN">
                                                                                ምሁር ነኝ ባይ ከሚል
      የበለጠ እየዘረዘሩ
      የሚነግሩን እንደ
      ህያው ማስረጃ
      መሆኑን
                                                                            </span>
                                                                        </b>
                                                                    </font>
                                                                </font>
                                                                <span lang="EN">
                                                                    <font size="1">
                                                                    </font>
                                                                    <b>
                                                                        <font face="Ethiopia">
                                                                            <font size="1">
                                                                                ማረጋገጥ
      ይቻላል
                                                                            </font>
                                                                            <font size="2">
                                                                                ።
                                                                            </font>
                                                                        </font>
                                                                    </b>
                                                                </span>
                                                            </p>
                                                            <hr>
                                                            <p align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 10; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0">
                                                                <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:
normal">
                                                                    <font size="2">
                                                                        <font color="#800000">
                                                                            <a href="dropping_substance.html">
                                                                                Dropping
      the Substance for the Shadow?
                                                                            </a>
                                                                        </font>
                                                                        <o:p>
                                                                        </o:p>
                                                                    </font>
                                                                </b>
                                                            </p>
                                                            <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0">
                                                                <font size="2">
                                                                    <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:
normal">
                                                                        <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">
                                                                            &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
                                                                        </b>
                                                                    </b>
                                                                    <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">
                                                                        Messay Kebede
                                                                    </b>
                                                                </font>
                                                            </p>
                                                            <p style="margin-left: 10; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0">
                                                                <font face="Arial" size="2">
                                                                    <span style="color:black;
background:white">
Jawar makes me say that &iuml;&iquest;&frac12;leftist ideology is responsible for
growth of &iuml;&iquest;&frac12;ethnic&iuml;&iquest;&frac12; nationalism, secessionist demand, and armed
struggle&iuml;&iquest;&frac12; and then contests my alleged statement by citing liberation
movements that are not leftist. Yet, my reference to leftist ideology was
only echoing his own analysis of the legacy hampering the OLF. To quote
him,
                                                                    </span>
                                                                    &iuml;&iquest;&frac12;OLF is a foster child of the student movement that brought
      the revolution; as such it shares some common organizational behaviors and
      characteristics with all other organizations that came out that era, such
      as the EPRP, TPLF and EPLF&iuml;&iquest;&frac12;; &iuml;&iquest;&frac12;the political forces that emerged from
      the student movement were led by individuals who worshiped Mao Zedong and
      Stalin, so they embraced such undemocratic, rigid and control freak
      organizational model.&iuml;&iquest;&frac12; True, there are non-leftist nationalist
      movements, but in the particular case of Ethiopia,
                                                                </font>
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                                                            <hr>
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                                                                        የኢትዮጵያ
      ፋዯራሊዊ
      ዳሞክራሲዊ
      አንዴነት መዴረክ (መዴረ
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                                                                            2009 Laureate
      Gebisa Ejeta
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                                                                            Editor's
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                                                                        We,
      at&nbsp;this Website are very proud of the distinguished Ethiopian
      Agronomist Dr. Gebisa Ejeta for his&nbsp;outstanding and pioneering&nbsp;scientific
      work in developing&nbsp;&nbsp;"sorghum hybrids resistant to drought
      and the devastating Striga weed"&nbsp; where by advancing the well
      being of vulnerable millions of human beings in Africa and elsewhere.&nbsp;
      We congratulate Dr. Gebisa for being the winner of &nbsp;the 2009 World
      Food Prize. We hope the rest of the World applaud the great work of this
      great&nbsp;scientist whose life work is dedicated to the service of
      mankind. We believe if any one deserves to be awarded the 2010 Nobel&nbsp;
      Prize for outstanding scientific work, the Nobel Committee would award the
      Nobel to Dr. Gebisa Ejeta, under one of the categories such as
      Humanitarian, Peace awards, or create a new one on&nbsp;Feeding the Poor;
      Advancing Scientific Work et cetera. Let us start the nominating process
      of awarding the 2010 Nobel to Dr. Gebisa Ejetaby by writing to the Nobel
      Committee.TH
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                                                                                    Strategic
      and Cleaver-Politick: A Response to Tedla Asfaw
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                                                                            By
      Tecola W. Hagos
                                                                            <o:p>
                                                                                October
      14, 2009
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                                                                        I
      wish the author had shown some restraint from labeling the leading members
      of the opposition who have formed Medrek as &iuml;&iquest;&frac12;TPLF known loyalists&iuml;&iquest;&frac12; a
      phrase that simple discredit his otherwise profound concern about the
      &iuml;&iquest;&frac12;politicks&iuml;&iquest;&frac12; of Ethiopia. The people named as &iuml;&iquest;&frac12;loyalist&iuml;&iquest;&frac12; by
                                                                        <https: "https:="" ?p='2951"' abbaymedia.com="" https:="" news="">
                                                                            <i>
                                                                                Tedla
      Asfaw in his short essay are not newcomers
                                                                            </i>
                                                                            to the political scene
      of dissent or controversies in
                                                                            <st1:country-region w:st="on">
                                                                                <st1:place w:st="on">
                                                                                    Ethiopia
                                                                                </st1:place>
                                                                            </st1:country-region>
                                                                            . Just like all great politicians they have evolved.
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                                                                            Withdrawal
      of Book Review and Commentary [Henze&iuml;&iquest;&frac12;s Book]
                                                                        </a>
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                                                                        By
      Tecola W. Hagos
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                                                                            As
      a result of my rereading and reconsideration of material overlooked by me
      and on the basis of new information as indicated below, I have withdrawn
      my recent review and commentary of Henze&iuml;&iquest;&frac12;s book. [Paul B. Henze,
                                                                            <u>
                                                                                Ethiopia
      in Mengistu&iuml;&iquest;&frac12;s Final Years: The Derg in Decline
                                                                            </u>
                                                                            , Vol. I, Shama Books,
      Addis Ababa: Ethiopia, 2007;
                                                                            <u>
                                                                                Ethiopia in Mengistu&iuml;&iquest;&frac12;s Final Years:
      Until the Last Bullet
                                                                            </u>
                                                                            , Vol. II, Shama Books, Addis Ababa: Ethiopia,
      2007.]
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                                                                            Moreover,
      as an issue of regional policy, the whole scheme of fracturing and land
      locking Ethiopia was absurd and against well established principles and
      norms of international law&iuml;&iquest;&frac12;against principles of
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                                                                                jus
      cogens
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                                                                            .&nbsp;
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                                                                        World&iuml;&iquest;&frac12;s
      oldest human-linked skeleton found [In Ethiopia]
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                                                                                &iuml;&iquest;&frac12;Ardi&iuml;&iquest;&frac12;
      predates Lucy by a million years, changes scientific view of origins
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                                                                <b>
                                                                    By Randolph E. Schmid
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                                                                        AP
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                                                                    <br>
                                                                    October 1, 2009
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                                                                    WASHINGTON - The story of humankind is reaching back another million years with the discovery of &iuml;&iquest;&frac12;Ardi,&iuml;&iquest;&frac12; a hominid who lived 4.4 million years ago in what is now Ethiopia.
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                                                                    The 110-pound, 4-foot female roamed forests a million years before the famous Lucy, long studied as the earliest skeleton of a human ancestor.
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                                                                    This older skeleton reverses the common wisdom of human evolution, said anthropologist C. Owen Lovejoy of Kent State University.
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                                                                                Follow
      up on Professor Messay Kebede&iuml;&iquest;&frac12;s Article
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                                                                            &iuml;&iquest;&frac12;
                                                                            <a href="right_self_determination.html">
                                                                                <u>
                                                                                    On
      the Right to Self-Determination
                                                                                </u>
                                                                            </a>
                                                                            &iuml;&iquest;&frac12; of August 19, 2009. [Taken from
      chat discussions.]
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                                                                            <a href="right_self_determination.html">
                                                                                On
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                                                                            By
      Messay Kebede&nbsp;&nbsp;
                                                                            <font color="#800000">
                                                                                August 19, 2009
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                                                                        Let me begin by what amazes most: the defenders of the right to self-determination have rejected everything of Stalin (Lenin and the Soviet Union), except his view of nations and nationalities. It is for me next to impossible to understand how scholars and politicians stop short of being critical of the Stalinist doctrine of self-determination even as they know that Stalin has been entirely wrong in everything. What are the chances for a doctrine whose inherent perversion led to such disastrous consequences to be right on the crucial issue of nation-building? My contention is that, far from promoting free union, the right to self-determination actually blocks it. It is when union becomes unconditional that it forces peoples to find a form of accommodation that suits them all. Here is an illustrative analogy: if two competing individuals decide to build a house together, their cooperation makes sense if the house becomes their common interest, that is, if both intend to live in the same house. However, if one of the partners is at the same time building another house, whatever partnership they had becomes so suspicious that it comes to an end.
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                                                                            PRESS
      RELEASE
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                                                                            August
      17, 2009
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                                                                                ERITREA-ETHIOPIA
      CLAIMS COMMISSION RENDERS FINAL AWARDS ON
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                                                                                DAMAGES
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                                                                            The
      armed conflict between these two Parties caused serious injury and damage
      to the people
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                                                                            and infrastructure of these two countries,
      which the Commission recognized are among the
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                                                                            poorest on earth. While the compensation
      awarded to each Party is substantial, the
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                                                                            Commission recognized that it is probably much
      less than each Party believes it is due. The
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                                                                            Commission stated: &iuml;&iquest;&frac12;The difficult economic
      conditions found in the affected areas of
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                                                                            Ethiopia and Eritrea must be taken into account
      in assessing compensation here.
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                                                                            &iuml;&iquest;&frac12;
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                                                                            <a href="laughable_process.html">
                                                                                Meles
      Zenawi&iuml;&iquest;&frac12;s Laughable Democratic Process
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                                                                        <i>
                                                                            Letter
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                                                                            16th
      August, 2009
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                                                                        <i>
                                                                            <font color="#800000">
                                                                                Addis
      Ababa, Ethiopia
                                                                                <br>
                                                                                To All,
                                                                                <b>
                                                                                    Mob Disrupts UDJ public Meeting !!!!
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                                                                            Experts worry about negative consequences
                                                                            <br>
                                                                            <a href="international_agriculture.html">
                                                                                INTERNATIONAL AGRCULTURAL LAND DEALS AWARD:
      ETHIOPIAN VIRGIN LANDS TO FOREIGN COMPANIES
                                                                            </a>
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                                                                    </b>
                                                                    <br>
                                                                    <b>
                                                                        By Genet Mersha, 12 August 2009
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                                                                        During the last one year, the international media have reported with noticeable frequency on international agricultural land deals in Ethiopia. In Ethiopia, land is under government control and, therefore, cannot be sold or bought. Of the dozen or so African countries engaged in such deals, for varied reasons the cases of Ghana, Madagascar, Mali and the Sudan have also attracted similar attention.
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                                                                                Ethiopian Israeli Filmmaker Pulls No Punches
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                                                                        Shmuel Beru, who arrived in Israel in 1984 in the first wave of Ethiopian Jewish immigrants, tells his people's story in the award-winning 'Zrubavel.' But not that many white Israelis are listening.
                                                                        <b>
                                                                            <br>
                                                                            By Edmund Sanders Los Angeles Times Staff Writer&nbsp;
                                                                            <br>
                                                                            August 14, 2009
                                                                        </b>
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                                                                    <b>
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                                                                            Ethiopia's
      resilient prime minister
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                                                                                Dear Editor:
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                                                                        I saw the article, "
                                                                        <a href="https://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3760647,00.html" target="https://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3760647,00.html">
                                                                            <i>
                                                                                Israeli bus driver to Ethiopian:
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                                                                        </a>
                                                                        No blacks allowed", posted on your website www.tecolahagos.com. It is something we should all learn from. As far as the rest of the world are concerned we are all black, sometimes derogatorily called "niggers", "jungle monkey", "Kushite", etc.  Nobody gives crap whether we are Oromos, Amharas, Tigres, Gurages, etc. All &iuml;&iquest;&frac12;niggers&iuml;&iquest;&frac12; according to many !!
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                                                                        <b>
                                                                            Israeli bus driver to Ethiopian: No blacks allowed
                                                                        </b>
                                                                    </a>
                                                                    <br>
                                                                    Posted in August 12th, 2009&nbsp;
                                                                    <br>
                                                                    by Editor in Current News
                                                                    <br>
                                                                    Woman recounts humiliating experience in which bus driver told her, &iuml;&iquest;&frac12;Kushit, in Ethiopia you didn&iuml;&iquest;&frac12;t even have shoes and here you do, so why don&iuml;&iquest;&frac12;t you walk?&iuml;&iquest;&frac12;; Egged to investigate incident&nbsp;
      A 23-year-old woman of Ethiopian descent claimed that the driver of an Egged No. 5 bus in Rishon Lezion refused to allow her to board his bus because of the color of her skin.
      Speaking to Ynet, Yedno Verka recounted last Wednesday&iuml;&iquest;&frac12;s incident: &iuml;&iquest;&frac12;As I prepared board the bus, the driver suddenly shut the door. I banged on the glass, but he ignored me. Then a young woman came running towards the bus, and he opened the door for her. I stayed close to her and boarded the bus.
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                                                                        የሼክ
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                                                                            ሌላው
                                                                        </font>
                                                                        <font size="2">
                                                                        </font>
                                                                        <font face="Nyala" size="2">
                                                                            የኢንቨስትመንትና
                                                                        </font>
                                                                        <font face="geez" size="2">
                                                                        </font>
                                                                        <font face="Nyala" size="2">
                                                                            የማኔጅመንት
                                                                        </font>
                                                                        <font size="2">
                                                                        </font>
                                                                        <font face="Nyala" size="2">
                                                                            አካሄድ
                                                                        </font>
                                                                    </a>
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                                                                    </font>
                                                                </span>
                                                            </p>
                                                            <font face="Nyala" size="2">
                                                            </font>
                                                            <p style="margin-left: 10; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0">
                                                                <font face="Nyala" size="2">
                                                                    ውጤታማ
                                                                </font>
                                                                <font size="2">
                                                                </font>
                                                                <font face="Nyala" size="2">
                                                                    ስላልሆነ
                                                                </font>
                                                                <font size="2">
                                                                </font>
                                                                <font face="Nyala" size="2">
                                                                    በወርቁ
                                                                </font>
                                                                <font size="2">
                                                                </font>
                                                                <font face="Nyala" size="2">
                                                                    ያለው
                                                                </font>
                                                                <font size="2">
                                                                </font>
                                                                <font face="Nyala" size="2">
                                                                    ውጤታማ
                                                                </font>
                                                                <font size="2">
                                                                </font>
                                                                <font face="Nyala" size="2">
                                                                    ሊሆን
                                                                </font>
                                                                <font size="2">
                                                                </font>
                                                                <font face="Nyala" size="2">
                                                                    ይችላል
                                                                </font>
                                                                <font size="2">
                                                                </font>
                                                                <font face="Nyala" size="2">
                                                                    ወይ
                                                                </font>
                                                                <font size="2">
                                                                </font>
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                                                            </font>
                                                            <p style="margin-left: 10; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0">
                                                                <font face="Nyala" size="2">
                                                                    የሚል
                                                                </font>
                                                                <font size="2">
                                                                </font>
                                                                <font face="Nyala" size="2">
                                                                    ሥጋት
                                                                </font>
                                                                <font size="2">
                                                                </font>
                                                                <font face="Nyala" size="2">
                                                                    አለ፡፡
                                                                    <font color="#FF0000">
                                                                        <b>
                                                                            Reporter
                                                                        </b>
                                                                    </font>
                                                                </font>
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                                                            <hr>
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                                                                </a>
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                                                            <hr>
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                                                                <a href="Ato-endergachew.pdf">
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                                                                </a>
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                                                            <hr>
                                                            <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 10; margin-right: 5; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0">
                                                                <font face="Arial" size="2">
                                                                    <b>
                                                                        <a href="The_hype_behind_the_Ethiopian_Commodity_Exchange[1].pdf">
                                                                            The Dangerous Hype behind the Ethiopian Commodity Exchange (or
      Commodity Invasion?)
                                                                        </a>
                                                                    </b>
                                                                    <br>
                                                                    By: Seid Hassan, Murray State University
                                                                    <br>
                                                                    It is our hope that many Ethiopians have watched the PBS/WNET documentary film under the title of The Market Maker/Wide Angle, which was
      broadcast beginning on July 23, 2009. This documentary followed the Ethiopian
                                                                    <br>
                                                                    economist, Dr. Eleni Gabre-Madhin who is the CEO of the relatively newly established Ethiopian Commodity Exchange. Many of us were waiting for the
      documentary to show us how the ECX could &iuml;&iquest;&frac12;&iuml;&iquest;&frac12; transform the Ethiopian economy by
      becoming a global commodity market of choice,&iuml;&iquest;&frac12; as claimed in the ECX&iuml;&iquest;&frac12;s main web
      page. That was not to be.
                                                                </font>
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                                                            <hr>
                                                            <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 10; margin-right: 5; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0">
                                                                <strong>
                                                                    <font face="Arial" size="2">
                                                                        <span style="mso-fareast-font-family: Times New Roman">
                                                                            <a href="Outrage_over_EFFORT.pdf">
                                                                                Outrage
      over EFFORT-led corruption
                                                                            </a>
                                                                        </span>
                                                                    </font>
                                                                </strong>
                                                                <font face="Arial" size="2">
                                                                    <span style="mso-fareast-font-family: Times New Roman">
                                                                        <a href="Outrage_over_EFFORT.pdf">
                                                                        </a>
                                                                        <o:p>
                                                                        </o:p>
                                                                    </span>
                                                                </font>
                                                            </p>
                                                            <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 10; margin-right: 5; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0">
                                                                <font face="Arial" size="2">
                                                                    <strong>
                                                                        By
                                                                    </strong>
                                                                    <span class="ecgoog-spellcheck-word">
                                                                        <b>
                                                                            <span style="background-color: yellow; background-repeat: repeat; background-attachment: scroll; background-position: 0%">
                                                                                Abebe
                                                                            </span>
                                                                        </b>
                                                                    </span>
                                                                    <strong>
                                                                    </strong>
                                                                    <span class="ecgoog-spellcheck-word">
                                                                        <b>
                                                                            <span style="background-color: yellow; background-repeat: repeat; background-attachment: scroll; background-position: 0%">
                                                                                Gellaw
                                                                            </span>
                                                                        </b>
                                                                    </span>
                                                                    <strong>
                                                                        ǀ July 27, 2009
                                                                    </strong>
                                                                    <o:p>
                                                                    </o:p>
                                                                </font>
                                                            </p>
                                                            <p style="margin-left: 10; margin-right: 5; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0">
                                                                <font face="Arial" size="2">
                                                                    <span style="mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Times New Roman; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA">
                                                                        <img align="left" border="0" height="279" hspace="10" src="azeib_meles.jpg" vspace="3" width="208">
                                                                        In
      response to
                                                                        <i>
                                                                            Ethiopia and Zenawi&iuml;&iquest;&frac12;s gangster
                                                                        </i>
                                                                        <i>
                                                                            capitalism
                                                                        </i>
                                                                        , an
      article I published a few weeks back that tried to highlight the biggest
      and most flagrant corruption scheme in Ethiopia, the Endowment Fund for
      the Rehabilitation of
                                                                        <span class="ecgoog-spellcheck-word" style="background:
yellow">
Tigray
                                                                        </span>
                                                                        [EFFORT], I received
      numerous comments via email
                                                                    </span>
                                                                </font>
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                                                                        Ethiopian
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                                                                        Tigress
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                                                                        A
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                                                                &iuml;&iquest;&frac12;
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                                                                        <font color="#800000">
                                                                            THE
                  CRYSTAL EAGLE AWARDS&iuml;&iquest;&frac12;
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                                                                    BY
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                                                                        <font color="#800000" face="Candara" size="2">
                                                                            The
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                  2005 MacArthur Fellow Award
                                                                        </font>
                                                                    </b>
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                                                                        Ethiopia - 2004 annual report
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                                                                &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
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                                                                y&nbsp;
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                                                                IN
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                                                                            <font color="#800000">
                                                                                <b>
                                                                                    <br>
                                                                                </b>
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                                                                            </font>
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                                                                        Egypt
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                                                                    <b>
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                                                                    Ethiopia calls for diplomatic solution for equal use of Nile
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                                                                &nbsp;
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                                                                    Egypt
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