By Tewodros, De Birhan Media Staffer 31 August 2012 Colonel Bezabih Petros Ethiopian prisoners of war (POW) in Eritrea such as Colonel Bezabeh Petros (younger brother of opposition politician Prof. Beyene Petros), Colonel Tadesse Muluneh and many others arrested during the 1998-2000 Ethio-Eritrea border war and other times by the Eritrean regime could soon be freed, a member of the exiled Ethiopian Orthodox synod, His Eminence Abune Mekarios ... Read More »
Monthly Archives: August 2012
District Youth Forum members attending Meskel Sq. In memoriam of Meles
By De Birhan August 31, 2012 In the successive events that are being held in memoriom of the late Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi, a young man Youth Forum Representative from Arada Sub city speaks on how they had organised youth to take part in today’s ceremony. Youth Forum are wings of the ruling EPRDF found at each district level of the country and ... Read More »
Empty funeral tents; a passerby exposes regime
By Tewodros, Staffer of De Birhan Media30 August 2012 The next video shot by a citizen reporter shows one of the many funeral tents built by the regime to remember the late Prime Minister of Ethiopia Meles Zenawi. Despite what the regime has successively been showing ” a large mass of public weeping and sorrowed with the death of the ... Read More »
USAID Ethiopia has a new Mission Director
By De Birhan 29 August 2012 Dennis Weller Dennis Weller has just been sworn in as the new Mission Director of United States Agency for International Development (USAID) in Ethiopia. Thomas Staal was USAID’s mission director in Ethiopia before he left for Iraq. Dennis was sworn in as USAID’s mission director in Rwanda in March 2008. There, he leads USAID’s programs in health, HIV/AIDS and malaria; ... Read More »
Ethiopia: Army Commits Torture, Rape : Human Rights Watch
August 28, 2012Human Rights Watch (Nairobi) – The Ethiopian military responded to an April 2012 attack on a large commercial farm in Gambella region with arbitrary arrests, rape, and other abuses against scores of local villagers. Forced displacement, inadequate resources, and other abuses against Gambella’s population persist in the second year of the government’s “villagization” program. On April 28, 2012, ... Read More »
What for Ethiopia “Arab Spring type protest”, reform, coup, revolution, status quo or what???
By T, Staffer of De Birhan Media August 27, 2012 Ethiopian opposition figures are calling for talks reported Anita Powell of the Voice of America on August 23, 2012. After the TPLF/EPRDF regime under the late Prime Minster, Meles Zenawi’s that ruled Addis Abeba since 1991, has duped and ripped off opposition parties under the ruse of dialogue, consensus, reconciliation and peace, ... Read More »
Teddy Afro didn’t sing for Meles Zenawi
By Birhan, Staffer of De Birhan Media 25 August 2012 Reports by few Ethiopian media that the legendrary young artist Tewodros Kassahun aka Teddy Afro has released a tribute song for the Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi who was declared dead last week, was refuted “fasle”. The artist however, did officially express his condolences over the death of Meles. According to sources close to the artist and Adika Communication and Events have ... Read More »
S&D Euro MPs call for the release of human rights activists in Ethiopia
Press Statement August 23, 2012 After the death of Ethiopian prime minister Meles Zenawi, Socialists & Democrats in the European Parliament Group spokeswoman for foreign affairs Ana Gomes today made the following statement: “Meles Zenawi was a dictator. His rhetoric on development, democracy and combatting terrorism only convinced those in the EU and the USA who wanted to be fooled. His words were clearly ... Read More »