Gemeda Humnasa
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December 15, 2007
Compared to the previous governments in Ethiopia, it appears the present government has helped media freedom to relatively thrive for the first time in history. But has it been enough??
Currently, more than 60 independent and private newspapers and magazines operate in Ethiopia. Also private rad...
October 03, 2007
There are many things that I don’t agree with the EPRDF ruling party in Ethiopia. Particularly, I don’t agree that the young democratic institutions are promptly improving in Ethiopia today. But under HR 2003, Ethiopia’s security, Ethiopia’s economic and political progress might get in jeopardy.
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August 20, 2007
More than six years ago in June 2001, ex-President of the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia. Negasso Gidada walked out from the meeting of the Council of the EPRDF (ruling party) which was engaging itself with the “Renewal Processes”. He announced to voluntarily resign from the Executive Commi...
August 17, 2007
The Ogaden Human Rights Committee (OHRC) has been attempting to benefit and acquire legitimacy in the fiasco of the Ogaden, Ethiopia during the last few months. For most of the intelligence community, the OHRC is a representative of yet another African militant/separatist group called ONLF, in this ...
June 22, 2007
According to Washington Post, some of the CUD/Kinijit opposition leaders, earlier found guilty, have now signed a document accepting partial responsibility for the violence in exchange for their release. This is definitely a very good news and executive powers should be utilized to pardon the convic...
June 18, 2007
In the middle of May, three New York Times journalists, including Jeffrey Gettleman, were arrested in the Ogaden desert of Ethiopia for unclear reasons ranging from security issues to lack of authorization. They were supposedly getting special tours of the Ogaden battleground with the help the ONLF ...
May 30, 2007
The current political developments inside Ethiopia are relatively encouraging. For the most part, there seems to be a closing of the gap between radical Amhara political parties and Tigrai parties. Even though some Amhara supporters of Amhara political parties have often labeled leaders like Beyene ...
April 19, 2007
Top Somali Islamist leader Sheikh Sharif Sheikh Ahmed has demanded for the end of Ethiopian support for the Somalia Transitional Federal Government (TFG) once again. But according to the Main & Guardian, together with the Eritrean government, the Islamists have now warned of an “all-out war” if Ethi...
March 31, 2007
There are more than 15,000 ethnic Oromo Ethiopians in Minnesota, enjoying a much cherished freedom and democracy in America. It is a democracy which they can only dream & wish their Oromo brothers and sisters back in East Africa would one day experience. And there is no lack of leadership for this l...
March 26, 2007
It is about to be almost two years since the leaders of the AEUP/CUD party have been put in prison following the 2005 elections. While most of the other opposition parties joined the Ethiopian parliament, AEUP/CUD has been mostly incarcerated. And the latest court adjournment, last Friday, would puz...
March 19, 2007
The Eritrean government, Monday, has finally claimed partial responsibility for the kidnappings of European and Ethiopian civilians. Broadcasted on the Eritrean government television – EriTV – the government tv hosted & entertained the Eritrean financed rebels who kidnapped the European and Ethiopia...
March 18, 2007
Going along with its promisingly successful East African destruction Foreign Policy, the Eritrean government has created, harbored & armed yet another non-Eritrean institution in its capital - Asmara. As expected and as feared by many regional analysts, a fresh political faction was formed by the As...
March 03, 2007
''Our country is a country formed by the unity of nations and nationalities and an icon of African culture and history,''-- Professor Mohammed Bedaso
The president of Adama University, Oromia, Professor Mohammed Bedaso asked Oromo and other Ethiopian Diaspora to return home and assist th...
February 18, 2007
Less than two months after the Ethiopian and Somali governments defeated the radical Islamic Courts Union (ICU), more evidence proving Eritrean government's massive support for Al-queda emerged.** According to a recent United Nations report, Eritrean government helped and transported Al-Queda terror...
February 16, 2007
Many Ethiopians, particularly in central and northern regions, are developing deep anti-Israeli sentiments by the day and it is not because they support palestine Arabs. Nor is it because these Ethiopians support any opposing sides of the Middle East quagmire. However, as the various operations that...
February 13, 2007
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"Ethiopia is your mother: Love her.
Ethiopia is your country: defend her.
Ethiopia is everything to you: die for her." -- Emperor Yohannes IV(1837-1889)
Exactly 133 years ago, after Emperor Yohannes IV of Ethiopia defeated his Egyptian enemies in the Battle of Gura'e, he reconciled w...
February 05, 2007
The Human Rights group Amnesty International sure has a decent reputation and defends the voiceless and persecuted people all around the world. But at times, such dedication and the will to help everyone has its weaknesses and comes at the cost of professionalism & impartiality. Sometimes by sacrifi...
January 05, 2007
Since European colonizers recklessly enforced national boundaries in the horn of Africa, Ethiopia and Somalia have been fighting, particularly about the ownership of the Ogaden land. Because of these colonizers and with the two east African nations being hi-jacked by radical nationalist governme...
December 19, 2006
The Federal government of Ethiopia spends well over 40% of the federal budget on Education, Communication infrastructure which includes improving roads, Power grid-lines, and Tele-communication. The Government has spent a lot on improving the road system. But this progress is not mirrored on the sou...
December 15, 2006
*Selected Article from Kilil5.com*
It is fair to analyze them [the Islamic Courts] now given their track record so far,taking into account their intended goals and actions. Let us analyze critically their background, their financial source and their ideology because that is what defines them now ...
December 14, 2006
According to an interview with the Washington Post, Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi says this might be his last term as the leader of the EPRDF ruling party of the government.
Meles Zenawi, who was the interim president of Ethiopia from 1991-1995, has also been leading his EPRDF-led govern...
December 14, 2006
The fact that the United Nations has been opposed to honestly addressing the terrorist leadership in UIC sums up how useless the UN organization is becoming by the day. But more importantly, the UN seems to have no memory of the mess it left in Somalia.
When Mr. Kofi Annan gave his last speech, w...
December 11, 2006
The Eritrean government has been using a lot of propaganda and supporting various rebels in an attempt to destabilize East Africa. For the sake of peace and democracy for Ethiopians, Somalis, Sudanese and Eritreans; the government might be running out of its tricks.
We know how corrupt both the E...
December 08, 2006
On Wednesday, the Somali Prime Minister stated that the Eritrean government is the only government supporting the extremists in southern Somalia and said that none of the governments of other suspected nations are involved at all.
Various U.N. documents, revealed during the last few weeks, indica...
December 06, 2006
An Organization called Mamma Ethiopia International has taken its first major task of building a stadium in the Oromia region of Ethiopia. Most importantly the stadium will be built in tribute to the famous Olympic runner, Abebe Bilika, considered one of the greatest African heroes of all time.
L...
December 06, 2006
The result of the looming Somali civil war; also accompanied by its various proxy wars, has vast significance on the development of Ethiopia and Somalia. Initially, the current near 10% economic growth of Ethiopia’s GDP will be damaged. But in the long run, if Ethiopia, T.F.G. and Puntland find vict...
December 06, 2006
A day after the Prime Minister of Somalia visited Ethiopia to strengthen his alliance, more ONLF militant officials also surrendered.
Ali Mohammed Gedi, the leader of the Somalia Transitional Federal Government (T.F.G) visited the Ethiopian capital, Addis Ababa to discuss on the threat of the ne...
December 05, 2006
According to Oxfam, Starbucks earned almost $5.8 billion in net revenues in just 9 months this year. But Starbucks’ refusal to allow Ethiopia to control the three names of its coffees might end up hurting the reputation of the company as well as spark activists against globalization & “Trade Injusti...
December 04, 2006
Ethiopia’s Haile Gebreselasie has just won another race in the Fukuaka International Marathon. Finishing the course in two hours, six minutes and 52 seconds, he barely missed the track record.
Gebreselassie, who also won this year’s Berlin Marathon, pushed ahead of Jaouad Gharib of Morocco with ...
December 04, 2006
In what was seen as a response to pressure from opposition parties inside Ethiopia, the Ethiopian government held another dialogue and probably the last talks with the Somali Islamists in an effort to stop the looming war.
Somalia, a country without a central government since 1991, has been on t...
December 04, 2006
(Dec 3, 2006) The new radical Islamic movement under the umbrella of U.I.C from the southern city of Somalia, Mogadishu, has spread rapidly but not without any difficulty.
The United Islamic Courts (U.I.C.) has strengthened their hold on southern Somalia since June and has brought a more strict ...