Ethiopia’s renowned and acclaimed painter the most honorable Maitre Artiste World Laureate Afewerk Tekle has died late last night at the age of 80 at Kadisco Hospital, Capital learnt. The country’s much-admired artist died due to a severe illness after receiving treatment in the capital Addis Ababa, a close family, who didn’t want to...
By Janet Shoko Former Ethiopian dictator Mengistu Haile Mariam, who oversaw the murder of several thousands of his countrymen during the "Red Terror" campaign could be living on the edge in Zimbabwe as his future after the demise of his friend President Mugabe is uncertain. Mengitsu also known as "Butcher of Addis" has lived...
PEN American Center has named Eskinder Nega, a journalist and dissident blogger in Ethiopia, as the recipient of its 2012 PEN/Barbara Goldsmith Freedom to Write Award. Mr Nega, a leading advocate for press freedom and freedom of expression in Ethiopia, was arrested on September 14, 2011, and was currently being tried under the country’s...
Peter Heinlein, VOA A dissident Ethiopian journalist on trial for terrorism has categorically denied the charges and warned the court that history would judge its verdict. A three-judge panel listened Wednesday as journalist Eskinder Nega described himself as a prisoner of conscience and rejected accusations that he had conspired to overthrow the...
By William Davison, Bloomberg News March 28 (Bloomberg) — A partial fossil of a pre-human foot has been found in Ethiopia, which researchers said proves there were two species of hominins existing around 3.4 million years ago. It was previously thought that Australopithecus afarensis, a slender-built hominid known as Lucy, was...
By ECX ADDIS ABABA (March 23) — Mr. Wondwossen Mezlekia is an Ethiopian-born resident of Seattle, Washington, working as a process owner at Symetra Financial, a retirement, insurance, and financial services company. He is also a self-professed coffee blogger and activist who, in his view, is helping to improve the lives of coffee...
By Wondwossen Mezlekia The Ethiopian Federal Ethics and Anti-corruption Commission’s annual report presented to the Parliament in May 2011 added Ethiopia Commodity Exchange (ECX) to the list of institutions whose practices are open for corruption, without disclosing what impelled the Commission to review ECX's working procedures and practices. Curiously, what the Commission avoided mentioning is...
Press Release: Ethiopian Heritage Society of North America For Immediate Release Ethiopian Heritage Society Alarmed by Government Plans In yet another egregious assault on its own Ethiopian citizens, the regime of Prime Minister Melees Zenawi and the Tigrayan People's Liberation Front (TPLF) are preparing to raze 18 ancient churches, to bulldoze the surrounding...
BEIRUT: Beirut’s general prosecutor has charged Ali Mahfouz with contributing to and causing the suicide of Alem Dechasa-Desisa, the Ethiopian domestic worker who committed suicide after a widely publicized beating outsider her consulate. A judicial source told The Daily Star that Mahfouz was charged Thursday, adding that he is not currently in custody. A...
Ethiopia’s government denied a Reuters report that it made further attacks inside Eritrea. “That’s not correct,” Getachew Reda, the Foreign Ministry’s public diplomacy and communications director, said by phone from Ethiopia’s capital, Addis Ababa, today. “There’s been no further attacks” after a raid two days ago inside Eritrea’s territory, he said. Ethiopian troops...
