Starbucks to open farmer-support center in Ethiopia (SeattleTimes)

Now it is building a farmer-support center in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia's capital. Like the support center Starbucks opened in 2004 in Costa Rica, it will work with farmers, exporters and others to improve the quality of their coffee so that Starbucks can buy more of it...Full Text

Soldiers continue human rights abuses in Ethiopia's beleaguered southeast, say residents (IHT)

The man also described gang rapes and public hangings in the region and said that villagers had been told not to speak to international observers. Officials in the area also said villagers had been told not to speak to outsiders, and that also was mentioned in a September report by a U.N. fact-finding mission....more

Eritrea-Ethiopia border deadline looms amid war fears (Reuter)

Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi on Tuesday said Ethiopia had no plans of fighting another war, but would make sure Eritrea "never, ever dreamed" of conflict if Asmara unilaterally launched one.

Eritrean Information Minister Ali Abdu reacted to the comments on Wednesday reiterating longstanding allegations Ethiopia is planning to invade. "This is just what's been said on TV screens, but we know what's happening on the ground and behind closed doors," he said...more..

Ethiopia turns waste plastic into fuel(African News)

With the objective of replicating India’s experience in other African countries, the joint venture is also on the way of installing fuel generating plants in Ghana and Mauritius. It is also negotiating with other countries such as Tunisia...more

UN to visit Ethiopia trouble spot (BBC)

..There have been persistent reports of army abuse of the civilian population but for a long time no outside agencies were able to get in to the worst-affected areas to verify the claims or to act as a restraining presence....full Text

Ethiopia:Defar wins prestigious continental award (Africa News)

Ethiopia's World and Olympic 5000m champion Meseret Defar won the premier 2007 Abdou Diouf Foundation Award for Sport Virtues in Dakar, Senegal, on Wednesday...Full Text

Ethiopia 'bogged down' in Somalia (BBC)

...Their presence is unpopular in Mogadishu and earlier this month, insurgents dragged the bodies of Ethiopian troops through the city....Full Text

PM Meles: Ethiopia Prepared for War, Wants Peace With Eritrea (VOA)

Ethiopia's Prime Minister Meles Zenawi says his country is prepared for a possible war with neighboring Eritrea, and warned that an invasion by Eritrea would lead to that country's destruction. His comments came three days before a deadline for demarcating their common border. As VOA's Peter Heinlein reports from Addis Ababa, Mr. Meles also acknowledged that Ethiopia is bogged down in another conflict in Somalia....more

Remembering the martyrs of 2005(Ethiomedia)

But resistance to tyranny and oppression need not be violent or require the use of arms. Civil disobedience is a mighty weapon of patriots everywhere as they confront the repressive state, be it foreign or domestic. Gandhi defeated the mighty British army not by swords or guns, but through peaceful resistance, civil disobedience and non-cooperation. His “Quit India Movement” was the greatest challenge to British colonial rule. Martin King helped America realize the true meaning of its creed that all men are created equal through mass nonviolent civil disobedience....more

Ethiopia: Dying regime with curious supporters (Biddho)

The US Administration, through its representatives at the State Department, and most vocally through Jendayi E. Frazer, the Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs, has gone out of its way to publicly and aggressively defend and protect the minority regime in Ethiopia, as it violates international law, rejects the Final and Binding decision of the Eritrea Ethiopia Boundary Commission (EEBC), refuses to allow for the unconditional demarcation of the Eritrea Ethiopia border, invades and occupies sovereign territories of neighboring states, violates the human rights of the Ethiopian and Somali peoples, commits genocides, rapes and untold international crimes against humanity, tortures political detainees and employing Menghistu's scorched earth policies, uses food as a weapon of war against the people of Ethiopia...Full text

FEATURE-Ethiopia's Ogaden refugees recount horrors of conflict (Reuter)

Osman Omar Abdi's journey from the Ogaden district of Jarar began in May after, he says, his wife was shot dead in front of him, his six children scattered, and his house burned during a chaotic morning raid by foot-soldiers.

"The Ethiopians say that all the Ogaden people are part and parcel of the ONLF, they don't differentiate, so they kill everyone," he said, displaying a scar on his hand that he described as a bullet-wound.

"I heard the grandparents got three of my children. I don't know about the others," added Abdi, revealing at the end of an interview that he had been a "member of the ONLF resistance."....more

Ethiopia 'bombs' Ogaden villages (BBC)

n separate interviews reported by the Reuters news agency, the Ogadenis claimed Ethiopian soldiers had been entering villages over and over again to kill, rape and burn in a campaign to flush out ONLF rebels....more

European parliament calls for war crimes probe in Somalia (AFP)

The UN secretary general's special envoy to Somalia, Ahmedou Ould-Abdallah, said Tuesday that war crimes suspects in the shattered African nation should be prosecuted at the International Criminal Court to end impunity.

In April, a European Union envoy to Kenya, Eric van der Linden, asked Brussels to investigate whether Ethiopian and Somali forces had committed war crimes in their recent crackdown on Islamist and clan insurgents in Mogadishu...more

Ethiopian opposition to brief media today in DC before heading home (Ethiomedia)

WASHINGTON DC - The Coalition for Unity and Democracy Party (CUDP) delegation to the United States is giving a press conference at 3:00 PM Eastern Time today November 15, 2007 on the premises of the Ethiopian Television Network (ETN)..more

Who is in power? On the horns of a dilemma (Ethiomedia)

The official word from the Ethiopian government is that they have violated the terms of their release. They are accused of abusing the government’s gesture of good will in releasing them from prison. They have been talking to Congress. They said there is no democracy in Ethiopia . They have been badmouthing the government in the international press. They said there are gross human rights abuses in Ethiopia . They are consorting with the enemy. They are working with the OLF and ONLF. Reportedly, Meles held a recent video conference with the so-called regionanl council presidents, asking them to petition the federal government to charge the Kinijit leaders with treason for their support of H.R. 2003......more

Unjustly bullying and intimidating Kinijit leaders(Ethiomedia)

Important Video Clips (Ethiopian Mdia)

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Big Marathon Payday Becomes More Than a Dream (Newyork Times)

By FRANK LITSKY

Published: November 6, 2007

Gete Wami remembered the first time she earned prize money for running.

“I went to Italy and won $500,” said Wami, a 33-year-old from Ethiopia. “I took the money and built a two-room adobe back home.”

Robert Cheruiyot remembered the poverty of his youth, when he was limited to one meal a day at age 4 and had no shoes until he was 10 or 11.

“I got my first prize money when I went to Brazil, and they gave me $5,000,” said Cheruiyot, 29, from Kenya. “I went home and gave it to my mother.

“Getting this check here, I wasn’t expecting in my life to get this.”..Full txet

Students Protest Beyonce's Ethiopia Trip (Washington Post)

By ANITA POWELL

The Associated Press
Tuesday, November 6, 2007; 12:03 PM

ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia -- Students at Ethiopia's top religious college are protesting the close ties between the Ethiopian Orthodox Church and the government, alleged restrictions on their speech _ and Beyonce's recent meeting with their patriarch...full text

Ethiopia, Eritrea on Verge Of Border War, Report Says (Washinton Post)

Ethiopia also has been building up its air force and jamming Eritrean radar, according to a U.S. government source, who speculated that Ethiopia may strike by air in the Eritrean capital, Asmara, hoping to topple the government there....more