TPLF Regimes Sets Up Special Force to Crash Popular Uprising, Say Defecting Ethi
By Shabait.com   Asmara — Ethiopian soldiers who arrived in Eritrea recently opposing the TPLF regime's policies said that the regime has set up a special force to crash the mounting popular uprising in that country.

Petronas to revamp exploration work in Ethiopia
Malaysian oil and gas giant, Petronas, is to revamp its oil exploration projects in Ethiopia, which was in a kind of limbo after the massacre of 74 civilian workers, including nine Chinese nationals in the Ogaden basin Abole exploration site, in the remote eastern part of Ethiopia.

Gambella Current Affairs Report
By  Okach O. Kwot                                       Gambela Today Commentator What goes up must c

Ruling party tightening grip on Ethiopia ahead of poll
By FRED OLUOCH   Ethiopia will be holding elections next year, but all indications are that the ruling party, the Ethiopian Peoples Revolutionary Democratic Front (EPRDF) will win, and there could be a repeat of the 2005 post-election violence because of two factors.

Gambella Current Affairs Report
 By Okach O. KwotGambela Today Commentator Once again the Ethiopian regime is cornered and panicking. Ever since the genocide watch open letter to the UN high commissioner for human rights was made public, the Meles genocidal regime has been in desperate situation. Our sources from Gambe

Strategic Musical Chairs
  By Gérard Prunier During the years of civil war in Sudan, both the Eritrean People’s Liberation Front (EPLF) and the Ethiopian Peoples’ Revolutionary Democratic Front (EPRDF) considered the Sudan People’s Liberation Army (SPLA), then closely allied to the communist Derg, to be

TPLF Regime Intensifying Arrest Moves Against Army Members
Shabait.com (Asmara) Eritrea: TPLF Regime Intensifying Arrest Moves Against Army Members, Say Defecting Ethiopian Soldiers 6 April 2009   Asmara — Defecting Ethiopian soldiers who arrived in Eritrea recently abandoning the TPLF regime said that the regime's resort to arrest moves against A

Ethnicity and the tilting balance of Ethiopian politics
By Messay Kebede (Ph.D.) | March 31, 2009   We know that the genesis of ethnic conflicts and mobilization in Ethiopia sprung from Haile Selassie’s policy of nation-building. Not only did the policy mean centralization and authoritarianism, but also the integration of different ethnic groups

Ethiopia’s Tigray region awards hundreds of farmers
Tuesday 24 March 2009. By Tesfa-alem Tekle March 23, 2009 (MEKELLE) — Ethiopia’s northern Tigray state on Saturday rewarded 366 outstanding Farmers whom it called development heroes.

Ethiopia - Justice does not come without a cost
Tesfaye Z. Yigzaw In spite of numerous lives and materials scarifies for too long to bring justice and freedom, Ethiopians continues to suffer under different brutal dictatorships. This is in part due to the lack in political strategies, erroneous political views, and disunity among the opposition