Monthly Archives: April 2010

MOGADISHU, Somalia, April 29 (UPI) — Somali al-Qaida affiliate al-Shabaab said it carried out a suicide attack on peacekeepers in Mogadishu in retaliation for the deaths of Iraqi al-Qaida leaders.Al-Shabaab said it targeted the base for peacekeepers with the African Union in Mogadishu in response to the killing of Abu Omar al-Baghdadi and Abu Ayyub [...]

In the past few years, Ethiopia has been ranked at the bottom of the list of nations with the worst records on press freedom. In the 2009 Freedom House’s ‘Press Freedom Rankings’, Ethiopia came in at a dismal 165/195 countries. Reporters Without Borders ranked Ethiopia at 140/175 countries in 2009. The Committee to Protect Journalists [...]

On October 19 of last year, the op-ed page of The New York Times contained a bombshell: a piece by Robert Bernstein, the founder and former chairman of Human Rights Watch (HRW), attacking his own organization. HRW, Bernstein wrote, was “helping those who wish to turn Israel into a pariah state.” Minority Report | The [...]

The United States Department said that Egypt has put forward new ideas on the international working group for combating piracy in the Gulf of Aden and for the security of the Suez Canal. It said that these ideas are being studied in Washington with the goal of implementing them.America In Arabic News Agency quoted a [...]

To better illustrate the overwhelming rejection of the forthcoming electoral fraud in Abyssinia (fake Ethiopia), I believe it is necessary to offer space to renowned Oromo scholars who made a significant career abroad because their occupied land, Oromia, does not offer chances for personal, educational, social and political achievement but to the few, shameful collaborators [...]

Corruption outrage rocks Somali Embassy in China.The Somali Embassy in China is currently trapped in a fraud scandal allegedly involving some of its top officers. The scam, which is reportedly causing ripples in Somali government, is over the misappropriation of the Somali Embassy property and diversion of visas, and aids meant for Somali students in [...]

Many Somali Parliamentarians were right when they challenged the president to select a prime minister who would contribute resources and soldiers to the TFG. They were also right when they said that the prime minister should not sit passively by when there is so much to be done. Why, then, didn´t Prime Minister Omar Abdirashid, [...]

Medrek, the biggest coalition of opposition parties in Ethiopia, has been steadily gaining momentum and has now recharged the Ethiopian public both inside and outside of the country as the Ethiopian elections draw near. Abugida Ethiopian American Information Center » Medrek Conducts Successful Campaign in North America Blogged with the Flock Browser

TPLF Party might dismiss complaints with the simple rebuff: Oh yah? So what are you gona do about it? So what are we in the opposition going to do about it? This piece attempts to answer the question beginning with the following true story for a start.The late Minister of Foreign Affairs and later Minister [...]

“… history offers a clear verdict: Governments that respect the will of their own people, that govern by consent and not coercion, are more prosperous, they are more stable, and more successful than governments that do not. … In the 21st century, capable, reliable, and transparent institutions are the key to success — strong parliaments; [...]