Monthly Archives: March 2010

LONDON – Ethiopians living in the United Kingdom will on Wednesday take to the streets to protest against the presence at the Climate Talks of Ethiopia’s mercenary tyrant, Meles Zenawi, who is representing no one but African despots.Zenawi, who betrayed Africa at the last Climate Talks in Copenhagen, is re-elected by the shameless African despots. [...]

Somalia’s president wants thousands of troops trained in Kenya to be deployed to Mogadishu for an upcoming offensive against Islamist militants, but Kenya has denied the request – yet another complication for a military campaign that has already been delayed several times, officials said.The fact that Kenya could veto Somali wishes for the deployment of [...]

At the EU-ACP Joint Parliamentary Assembly meeting this week in Tenerife (Canary Island, Spain), MEP Ana Gomes (S&D, Portugal) questioned the European Commission on the credibility of the coming elections in Ethiopia if, apart from the lack of media freedom and other crucial conditions, the leader of the main opposition party could not run for [...]

ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) – U.S. funded-broadcaster Voice of America said on Monday that Ethiopia may have blocked its website in a move which may lead to further U.S. criticism of its closest ally in the Horn of Africa.Ethiopia holds national elections on May 23 and international press freedom advocacy groups say the government is intimidating [...]

The United States urges Ethiopian political forces to continue democratic reforms and to boost them in this year’s national elections.Recent democratic backsliding in Ethiopia was one of several topics discussed at a House Foreign Relations Sub-Committee hearing on Wednesday on Capitol Hill.Ethiopia, a top U.S. ally in the Horn of Africa, enjoys strong political and [...]

ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) – U.S. funded-broadcaster Voice of America said on Monday that Ethiopia may have blocked its website in a move which may lead to further U.S. criticism of its closest ally in the Horn of Africa.Ethiopia holds national elections on May 23 and international press freedom advocacy groups say the government is intimidating [...]

“I fear the EU will embark in legitimising a farse. As Head of the EU Election Observation Mission in 2005 I know that Meles Zenawi regime, despite all the rethoric on transition to democracy and development, only seeks international endorsement to continue its oppressive and repressive rule in Ethiopia”, Ana Gomes said.Ana Gomes noted that [...]

In five earlier articles titled “Devastating HRW Report: Forthcoming Elections in Abyssinia (Fake Ethiopia) Are A Fraud” (http://www.americanchronicle.com/articles/view/148331), “There Cannot Be Free Elections in the Terrorist State Abyssinia (Fake Ethiopia)” American Chronicle | Abyssinia (Fake Ethiopia): HRW Report, Forthcoming Electoral Fraud, and Oppressed Nations´ Future -Read more – Blogged with the Flock Browser

Continuing the revelation of the tragic situation that has befallen on the Somalis but still leaves the cynical TFG president Sheikh Sharif indifferent, I herewith republish several recent IRIN reports.Despite the present tragic situation, which is extensively described within these reports, the appointed pseudo-president Sheikh Sharif continues his divisive policies, engaging his forces in battle [...]

Somalia has a long history of near-total impunity for serious abuses by all warring factions since the collapse of its last functional government in 1991. Throughout 2007 and 2008, the country was embroiled in a brutal conflict pitting the TFG and its Ethiopian military ally against a broad array of insurgent groups. Every side to [...]