Weekly message of Minilik Salsawi 14.12.2014
Weekly message of Minilik Salsawi 14.12.2014 Click here to view the embedded video.
View ArticlePope Francis & Pres. Obama on epic current issues By Robele Ababya
Greetings of the Season! The European Year 2014 is coming to a draw to usher in 2015. So I am exceedingly delighted to extend my Greetings of the Season and a Happy New Year to my readers. I seize the...
View ArticleEthiopia: One of the top ten worst jailers of journalists – A CPJ special report
More than 200 journalists are imprisoned for their work for the third consecutive year, reflecting a global surge in authoritarianism. China is the world’s worst jailer of journalists in 2014. A CPJ...
View ArticleCAN WE COLLECTIVELY OWN BOTH THE GOOD AND THE UGLY PARTS OF OUR PAST SO WE...
SMNE FORUM SERIES II: MINNESOTA STARTING THE CONVERSATION BETWEEN DIVERSE ETHIOPIANS IN MINNESOTA First of all, I would like to thanks Ato Girma Biru,all members and supporters of the SMNE in Minnesota...
View ArticleChina is world’s worst jailer of the press; global tally second worst on...
More than 200 journalists are imprisoned for their work for the third consecutive year, reflecting a global surge in authoritarianism. China is the world’s worst jailer of journalists in 2014. A CPJ...
View ArticleThe Role of Civil Society Organization (CSOs) in the Upcoming Elections in...
Fourth International Conference of Ethiopian Women in the Diaspora March 7, 2015 Washington DC, USA The Role of Civil Society Organization (CSOs) in the Upcoming Elections in Ethiopia Call for papers...
View ArticleIF LONGING FOR FREEDOM AND HAPPINESS, SAY EMPHATICALLY ENOUGH TO TPLF By a...
In my most recent posting, referring to an article in the Financial Times of December 2, 2014, I wrote about the unusual revelations of the current mafia-like TPLF regime holding power in Ethiopia. The...
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CPJ “hero” Dawit Kebede says group is tool for Western hegemony by Tamiru Ayele
The managing editor of Awramba Times and former CPJ “press freedom hero” has accused the Committee to Protect Journalists of being one of the tools of imposing “Western hegemonic ambition” and a single...
View ArticleBRIEFING THE STRATEGY OF EMPOWERING OPPOSITION POLITICAL ORGANIZATIONS AND...
General I want to start this brief essay with full acknowledgement of Ato Belay Fekadu’s tele-conference with media personalities of the Diaspora in North America and Europe (presentations) of 29...
View ArticleThe 40th TPLF despicable anniversary By Robele Ababya
I am compelled to write this short piece in order to counter the pathological lies of TPLF blaming past governments – for wars, civil strife and poverty- to cover its own failures by painting a rosy...
View ArticleDiverse Ethiopians in Minnesota find new and promising relationship SMNE
What does it mean—in real life—to appreciate the common bond of humanity above ethnicity or any other distinctions? If you had attended the recent SMNE Forum in Minnesota on December 6, 2014 that...
View ArticleAndargachew Tsige and the struggle for freedom. By Yilma Bekele
Andargachew Tsige was taken prisoner by the TPLF Woyane regime on June 24/’13 while on transit at Sana, Yemen International Airport. He was removed from the airplane and flown to Ethiopia. What was...
View ArticleHailemariam’s fake “top 10 educated” list falls apart By Abebe Gellaw
The official website of India TV that had published a dubious online ranking two weeks ago that it claimed to be a list of the “top 10 most educated politicians in the world” has retracted the story....
View ArticleWhat does it take to get the helicopters back? By Yilma Bekele
Normally regimes do not lose such an important asset like a helicopter. Fighter jets or helicopters just do not fly out of the coop so easily. But we are talking about Ethiopia here and no matter how...
View ArticleTPLF has become in my view the Graziani regime – GK
The TPLF technically banned the UDJ. They formed their own “UDJ” and basically made the UDJ an “illegal” party. The UDJ cannot now rent hall for meetings, run in the elections, field candidates, call...
View ArticleTPLF/WOYANNE AS A CRIME SUSPECT FOR THE BURNING OF THE ICONIC ITEGAE TAITU...
In the last several days, it has been widely reported in the Ethiopian news media that the historic Itegae Taitu Hotel at the heart of the Ethiopian capital, Addis Abeba, was destroyed by fire beyond...
View ArticleFree speech alive in France; dying in Ethiopia By Robele Ababya
Thank God, free speech, the basis for all other freedoms, is alive in France The French Revolution (1789 – 1799) was preceded by the Age of Enlightenment in Western Europe in which intellectual giants...
View ArticleEthiopian Opposition Faces Difficulty in Entering Upcoming Elections
Ethiopian opposition parties say they are facing roadblocks in their efforts to register for the May elections. The parties say the National Election Board is complicating procedures for no good...
View ArticleElections and helicopter-an Ethiopian drama. By Yilma Bekele
I am thinking you must have read my last report on Ethiopian helicopters that made an unauthorized trip to Eritrea. I felt I left the story hanging out there and it is not just fair to my readers not...
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