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 an enemy.

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 Army members of various ethnic groups keeps intensified from time to time.

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 through the imposition of the dominant Amhara culture. However, the lack of necessary reforms, notably, the maintenance of a system of land ownership reducing the southern peoples of Ethiopia to tenants, and the failure of the private sector, together with the proliferation of obstacles to economic progress, mostly due to corruption and nepotism, created an acute scarcity of resources. Access to these scarce resources depended on the control of state power, which was then used to include some groups and exclude others. The outcome was that the Amhara elite group, especially of Showan origin, by far benefited from the protection of the imperial state.

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 groups are the main impediment for unsuccessful path to freedom.

Sudan, Ethiopia agree to enhance security and joint projects
Monday 16 March 2009. March 15, 2009 (Al-DAMAZIN) – Sudan and Ethiopia agreed to enhance bilateral ties through joint security cooperation and development of agriculture projects and border trade.

Sudan’s spy chief praises security cooperation with Ethiopia
Saturday 14 March 2009. March 13, 2009 (Al-DAMAZIN) – The head of security and intelligence service praised the security cooperation between Sudan and Ethiopia saying the two neighboring countries made a considerable progress.

Ethiopia ONLF rebels 'seize town'
Rebels in Ethiopia fighting for the independence of the Somali-speaking Ogaden region say they have captured a town in the east of the country.

The Case Against Omar Hassan Ahmad Al-Bashir
The International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague, Netherlands, will announce on Wednesday March 4 its decision on an application for an arrest warrant for President Omar al-Bashir of Sudan on charges of genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes. The court's prosecutor, Luis Moreno-Ocampo, laid out his case – based on events in the conflict in Darfur – in a public redacted version of his application for the warrant. Excerpts from the prosecutor are summary

US Ambassador to Ethiopia Speaks
Addis Abeba — US ambassador to Ethiopia Donald Yamamoto on Monday met and held discussion on a host of outstanding issues in the context of the bilateral relations between the two countries.