*A number of Students dying By Derese Tariku for De Birhan Media from Addis Abeba29-11-11 The protest of the students of University of Gonder, Ethiopia , that started on the 26th of November 2011 is on its fourth day today. Dozens of students have reportedly been dying. The University Adminsiatration and Police have refused to disclose the names, and number of dead students. ... Read More »
Monthly Archives: November 2011
University of Gondar students protest
By Derese Tariku for De Birhan Media from Addis Abeba28-11-11 Students of University of Gonder, Ethiopia have started protest against the University Administration and the regime in power. The protest began three days ago but turned deadly as students attempted to leave the campus today, 28 November 2011. According to sources in the University, the protest was sparked due to food poison that caused health problems on many students. ... Read More »
Ethiopian troops clashes with Afar rebel
Source : Addis Journal Ethiopian troops have clashed with a group of Afar rebel group close to the border with Eritrea, the latest in a series of recent clashes. Sources told Addis Journal that the clash erupted on Thursday, November 24, 2011, when a group calling itself the Ugugumo seized control of posts near the Ethio-Eritrean border town of Derrab. The ... Read More »
Racism: Where is the place for us?
http://ecadforum.com/News/2011/11/28/racism-where-is-the-place-for-us/comment-page-1/#comment-8171 27 November 2011 Two racially prejudiced reports broke out last week. The first one came out of a Mayor in the Western Part of Europe, from a country called Ireland that has one of the fewest numbers of black people in Europe. Darren Scully, the mayor of Naas, a small town in the Republic of Ireland came out on ... Read More »
Great Ethiopian Run : no major sign of protest
By Derese Tariku, Contributor of De Birhan Media, Addis Abeba 27-11-11 The Great Ethiopian Run 2011 was held in Addis Abeba today with little sign of protest voices as it used to be in the past years. Over 36,000 thousand participants took part in this year’s run sponsored by the Commercial Bank of Ethiopia. Most participants voiced their own local chants which were of little opposition toned. There ... Read More »
EFFORT has 2.7 billion Br in capital and 6 billion Birr in assets
By De Birhan Media 21-11-2011 The Addis Abeba based English weekly, Fortune Newspaper reported yesterday in its Fineline/Gossip section that the ruling party owned conglomerate Endowment Fund for the Rehabilitation of Tigray (EFFORT) has 2.7 billion Br in capital and 6 billion Birr in assets. According to the Newspaper, First established in the mid-1990s with 25 founding members, 16 of whom were central committee members ... Read More »
International Day to End Impunity Trailer
The International Day to End Impunity is a call to action to demand justice for those who have been killed for exercising their right to freedom of expression and shed light on the issue of impunity. Read More »
A rejoinder to Aklog Birara’s ( PhD) “Why Ethiopians must unite?” thesis
By T, Staffer of De Birhan Media 18-11-201 I read Dr. Aklog Birara’s five-part article entitled “Why Ethiopians must unite?” with profound interest. A good friend sent me an SMS text to read it last week while I was rambling in Paris. So I spent a week reading it. The most monotonously used cliché in the Ethiopian opposition discourse, unity, has been hard ... Read More »