Oromsis, Where Opinion Matters!

By John Vidal We turned off the main road to Awassa, talked our way past security guards and drove a mile across empty land before we found what will soon be Ethiopia's largest greenhouse. Nestling below an

By Howard LesserThe stabbing death of an opposition candidate in Ethiopia’s northern Tigray region is raising new calls for an inquiry and an easing of 2009 repressive legislation that critics say is restrain

By Andrew Whitehead A quarter of a century ago, the BBC's Michael Buerk achieved something very rare - he not only reported the world, but changed it a little bit. His vivid on-the-spot coverage of a famine "

As swathes of their country’s land is leased, cleared and prepared for food production by foreign companies, Ethiopians are divided over whether this constitutes ‘agro-colonialism’ or much-needed developm

By Africa Action and FPIF StaffEthiopia Meles Zenawi has been in power as prime minister of Ethiopia since August 23, 1995. He has forged very strong military ties to the United States, and his loyalty has res

Habte Banti Nagassa, an Oromo, is said to be the pilot of the Ethiopian Airliner that went down immediately after take off from Beirut International Airport. Habte is also identified as a brother of the late Yi

Ethiopia is on a deteriorating human rights trajectory as parliamentary elections approach in 2010. These will be the first national elections since 2005, when post-election protests resulted in the deaths of a

FromThe Economist print edition. Meles Zenawi will probably win the election. But that may not bring calm.WORRIES about Ethiopia’s election, due in May, are growing. Aid-giving Western governments hope it wi

By Xan Rice in BakoEthiopia – country of the silver sickle – offers land dirt cheap to farming giants. Addis Ababa sells vast fertile swaths to international companies in effort to introduce large-scale

EthioMedia reports that Jason McClure, a correspondent for Bloomberg News, was detained and eventually ordered to leave "the country within 48 hours".The unconfirmed report cites a prominent opposition figure w

TRADE SUMMARY The U.S. goods trade surplus with Ethiopia was $149 million in 2008, an increase of $70 million from $79 million in 2007. U.S. goods exports in 2008 were $302 million, up 80.1 percent from the pre

By Barry Malone ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) - Aid workers in Ethiopia will investigate how foreign humanitarian relief supplies are delivered after opposition political parties alleged that their members were being

By Lucas Liganga, This Day THE misunderstanding among Africans when it comes to making crucial decisions came to light last week during the UN Climate Change conference held in the Danish capital Copenhagen

Better to have no deal at Copenhagen than one that spells catastrophe. The only offer on the table in Copenhagen would condemn the developing world to poverty and suffering in perpetuity.By Naomi Klein

Oromsis notes : Is history repeating itself? As the UN climate talk nears conclusion, Ethiopia, led by a tribal leader, finds itself siding with western/industrialized nations at the expense of alienating the r

COPENHAGEN, Dec 17 (IPS) - Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi says Africa must compromise and be flexible towards other countries, if the U.N. Climate Conference ending on Dec. 18, is to reach an agreement.S

Amidst a growing protest of Meles Zenawi's selection to lead the African Negotiating team at the UN Climate Conference from Ethiopians across the globe, the Pan-African Climate Justice Alliance, a continental

Addis Ababa, December 10, 2009 – The United States congratulates the Government of Ethiopia for its participation yesterday in the UN Human Rights Council’s Universal Periodic Review (UPR) process in Geneva

By Geoffrey York Addis Ababa — From Monday's Globe and Mail Tamerat Negera was the editor-in-chief of Addis Neger, a weekly newspaper in Addis Ababa that has ceased publication after intimidation and harass

Doug McGill, a former New York Times reporter, makes a strong case against Ethiopian dictator Meles Zenawi's selection to represent all of Africa at the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen, D