Swine flu, Woyane flu, pick your virus
By Yilma Bekele | October 28, 2009Swine influenza is a flu virus usually found in pigs. This time it has mutated to infect humans. Symptoms include fever, cough, muscle ache, headache, diarrhea and vomiting among others. Despite the heightened hysteria most people are likely to recover without needing medical care. The swine flu scare started in the spring of 2009. Barely six months and scientists have already isolated the virus and come up with a vaccine.
On the other hand Woyane virus has been around twenty years. Woyane virus started in the western low lands of Tigrai, northern Ethiopia. Within a few years it has mutated and managed to infect most of Ethiopia. Woyane flu is highly contagious and can spread from human to human. Woyane flu is what you would call a hybrid. It means that it has been produced from two or more other viruses. Read more
A country you can never stop worrying about
By Brian Stewart, special to CBC News | October 9, 2009Ethiopia is one country that I can never stop worrying about. Nor can the world.
Each time that I have gone back over the past 25 years I am encouraged to see so much has changed since the great famine of 1984-85 that shocked the world and so moved us Canadians. Yet there is also much here that is alarmingly similar.
This time old friends — survivors of that earlier tragedy — are proud to show me the signs of progress in the northern province of Tigray, the very epicentre of a famine that killed over a million people. Read more
Déjà vu: Much ado about an already won election!
By Alemayehu G. Mariam | 21 September 2009Déjà Vu: Here We Go Again With the Charade
Last April, we commented that the whole business of elections in Ethiopia is “much ado about nothing”. We offered a catalogue of reasons why the whole election rigmarole and ritual under the current dictatorship was an exercise in futility and absurdity
The insufferably meaningless [2008] election ritual is now almost over. But for a few more days,
we’ll have to put up with the regime’s self-congratulatory blabber and vacuous sloganeering about
Ethiopia’s unstoppable march on the road to democracy. Mercifully, in another week or so, no one will even remember there was an ‘election’ in Ethiopia in 2008. Read more
Deserting a sinking ship or doing the right thing?
By Alemayehu G. Mariam | 3 August 2009Escapees of conscience or deserters from a sinking ship?
Over the past month, there has been a spate of reported official “defections” from Ethiopia. The alleged “defectors” said to be seeking asylum in the U.S. include a high level official attached to the “State Minister of Government Communications Affairs”, an individual identified as the “Director of Ethiopian Telecommunication Agency” and another person said to be a member of Ethiopia’s rubber-stamp parliament. A well-known Ethiopian novelist is also reported to be seeking asylum in the U.S.
The question is whether the recent defections signify the proverbial desertion of a sinking ship, or are simply episodic instances of individual “escapees of conscience”. Read more
Eritrean Independence: Is It Worth All the Sacrifice?
Thursday, 16 July 2009 Yosief G/hiwet (Eritrean)Is independence worth all the sacrifice the Eritrean people have gone through the last five decades? Read more from the following Articles, Part1 and Part 2. Part 1, pdf // Part 2, pdf
የኤርትራ የነጻነት ትግል፦ ይህ ሁሉ ዋጋ የተከፈለው ለዚህ ነው?
የወያኔው ባንዲራ
“የኢትዮጵያና ኤርትራ ፌዴሬሽን አስፈላጊነት”
በፕ/ር ዳንኤል ክንዴ | ምንጭ ኢትዮጵያ ዛሬ ዌብ-ሳይትበካሊፎርኒያ ሳን ዮሴ ባለፈው ግንቦት 7 ቀን 2001 ዓ.ም. በተካሄደው የኢትዮጵያውያንና የኤርትራውያን የወዳጅነት ኮንፈረንስ ላይ ፕ/ር ተስፋጽዮን መድኅኔ እና ፕ/ር ዳንኤል ክንዴ ተናጋሪዎች እንደነበሩ መዘገባችን አይዘነጋም። “የኢትዮጵያንና የኤርትራን ወንድማማች ህዝቦች ሊቀራርብ የሚችለው የኮንፌዴሬሽን ሥርዓት ነው” በማለት ፕ/ር ተስፋጽዮን መድኅኔ ”ኢትዮጵያና ኤርትራ ከየት ወዴት?” በሚል ርዕስ ባቀረቡትን ጽሑፍ አስነብበን የፕ/ር ዳንኤል ክንዴን ጽሑፍ ለማቅረብ ቃል ገብተን ነበር። ፕ/ር ዳንኤል ክንዴ “የኢትዮጵያና ኤርትራ ፌዴሬሽን አስፈላጊነት” በሚል ርዕስ ያቀረቡትን ጽሑፍ ታነቡ ዘንድ እንጋብዛለን። ሙሉ ጽሁፉን ለማንበብ ከዚህ ላይ ይጫኑ
የቀድሞው የኢትዮጵያ ካርታ
ወያኔ ከጎንደርና ከወሎ ቆርሶ/ዘርፎ የፈጠረው "ታላቋ" ትግራይን የሚያሳይ የኢዮጵያ ካርታ
