Editors Note : Thanking CPJ for mentioning the blockage of De Birhan and other Ethiopian websites and blogs by the Ethiopian government, De Birhan announces that it is in a preparation to redesign and relaunch its page and be accessible in Ethiopia once again. — High-tech censorship on the rise in East Africa 29/06/2012 By Danny O’Brien/CPJ Internet Advocacy Coordinator Ethiopia has always been a country ... Read More »
Monthly Archives: June 2012
Over 40 Ethiopians asphyxiated in Tanzania buried
By T, Staffer of De Birhan Media June 30, 2012 It won’t be stunning if we call this era the “Golden Age of Ethiopians Exodus” as it is an era when the country has gained an ‘ 11% GDP growth’ and a -100% GNP,GNH, PCI and all other socio-political developments. The misery is not limited to economics but also to politics, social ... Read More »
‘Court’ finds Andualem Arage et al guilty – English Version of Andualem’s speech attached
By De Birhan June 27, 2012 Twenty-four Ethiopians, including a leading opposition figure and a prominent journalist, faced life in prison Wednesday after a court found them guilty on charges of terrorism. “Guilty as charged,” judge Endeshaw Adane said, referring to journalist Eskinder Nega, opposition member Andualem Arage and 22 others accused of links to US-based group Ginbot 7, considered a terrorist ... Read More »
Skin whitening Vs tanning
By T, Staffer of De Birhan Media 26 June 2012 Rupa Subramanya’s April 11, 2012 article titled Economics Journal: Is Fairer Skin Really ‘Better’? was a trailblazer and honest kind of article that I read when it came to skin colors and coloring the skin. She begins her famous piece by asking “If you could choose your identity, would you? ... Read More »
Higher education in Ethiopia on death row
By Tedla D. Staffer of De Birhan Media23/06/2012 Friedrich Wilhelm von Humboldt or Humboldt in short (22 June 1767 – 8 April 1835) was a Prussian philosopher. Humboldt reversed the role of the State in education: ‘Education of the individual must everywhere be as free as possible, taking the least possible account of civic circumstances. Man educated in that way must then ... Read More »
On Skype: Guest Blogger
By Nitsuh, Guest Blogger to De Birhan Media 21 June 2012 I learnt about the laws prohibiting the usage of Skype weeks before I learnt about Skype itself in 2005. Then it was a sort of regulation issued jointly by the Ethiopian Telecommunication and Corporation (ETC and the Federal and Regional Police). Not many people cared then saved the hundreds ... Read More »
Ethiopian Political Prisoners kick off hunger strike
17 June 2012 [ESAT News] Trusted sources from Ethiopia disclosed to ESAT that opposition political party leaders currently awaiting a verdict on their trial under the controversial anti-terrorism proclamation have started a hunger strike. Andualem Arage- Vice Chair and Head of Public Relations of UDJ party, Natnael Mekonnen- senior leadership in UDJ, Kinfemichael Bereded (aka Abebe Kesto), Mitiku Damte and ... Read More »
From the library desks
By T, Staffer of De Birhan Media June 15,2012 I am in a spacious European library. It is so neat and quite. The book I am reading is called In Ethiopia with Mule by Dervla Murphy and was written way back in 1968. Next to me is an African brother whom I don’t know, reading a newspaper and on the ... Read More »