Ethiopia: Open letter to Meles Zenawi

Friday, February 10th, 2012

 Mr. Prime Minister,

This letter is prompted by your short speech at the inauguration of the new African Union Headquarters built by the government of China at a cost of 200 million US$ as a ‘gift’ to Africa.

In that speech you said “China, its amazing re-emergence and its commitment to win partnership is one of the reasons for the beginning of the African renaissance,” adding “Over the past decades, China-Africa cooperation has gone from strength to strength. The future prospects of our partnership are even brighter.”

Long live the king! AU’s lavish new home hit by statue row (Reuters)

Friday, February 10th, 2012

 (Reuters) – Perched under the shadow of a 100-metre tall marble monolith, a short-sleeved Kwame Nkrumah stands with his right hand raised in triumphant pose, his eyes gazing at the heavens.

Emperor Haile Selassie

The bronze statue, unveiled amid pomp and pageantry last month at the opening of the African Union’s new headquarters, immortalized Ghana’s beloved late leader in the heart of Ethiopia’s capital, in a glowing tribute to a trailblazer for African independence.

Arab Spring shot wins World Press Photo award

By TOBY STERLING | Associated Press – 2 hrs 41 mins ago

• Samuel Aranda/New York Times – In this photo provided on Friday Feb. 10, 2012 by World Press Photo, the 2012 World Press Photo of the year by Samuel Aranda, Spain, for The New York Times, shows a woman holding …more a wounded relative during protests against president Saleh in Sanaa, Yemen, Oct. 15, 2011. (AP Photo/Samuel Aranda/New York Times)  less

የሶርያ ስደተኞች ይዞታ

 February 10, 2012

የሶርያ የመንግሥት ፀጥታ ኃይሎች ተቃዉሞ በቀጠለባት የሆምስ ከተማ ጥቃታቸውን ማጠናከራቸውና ሩስያና ቻይናም በተመድ የፀጥታ ጥበቃ ምክር ቤት የቀረበውን የሶርያ ረቂቅ ውሳኔን ድምፅን በድምፅ የመሻር መብታቸው ተጠቅመው ያገቱበት ድርጊት ከያቅጣጫው ብዙ ወቀሳ ተፈራርቆበታል።

The Ethiopia of Ms Winter’s discontent

 February 10, 2012

Janice Winter, if one pays tighten courtesy to a tinge of her mainstay (a come-back to my essay The AU Summit: A singular ring of truth), appears to have an expert’s grasp of Ethiopian realities, so I’m going to assume during a opening that she’s visited a place recently. we returned from Addis Ababa final week, after a 10-day inquisitive outing focused on investigate for a stirring book on Chinese change in Africa. The usually thing we can contend about a republic with certainty is that we didn’t accommodate a singular internal who avowed anything nearby Winter’s assured expertise. In fact, I’ve got dual notebooks full of difficult opinions, a formula of interviews conducted with everybody from antithesis reporters to victims of Mengistu’s ‘Red Terror’ to corporate directors operative with a Meles regime. There are during many 3 threads common to a lot: nothing of a voices were non-Ethiopian, nothing were so vicious of Meles that they didn’t indicate out his saving facilities and nothing complained that their country’s mercantile expansion is a bad thing.

Boston Marathon attracts fastest fields for 2012

February 10, 2012

The fastest fields in Boston Marathon story will be chasing Kenyan fortifying champions Geoffrey Mutai and Caroline Kilel during a 116th book of a world’s many storied highway competition on Apr 16. The 34-member chosen assemblage announced yesterday by longtime unite John Hancock numbers mixed athletes who are expected to be competing in this summer’s Olympics in London, including 8 group who’ve posted times next 2 hours and 7 mins and 10 women who’ve been next 2 hours and 24 minutes.

Rep. Frank Wolf: Champion of Human Rights

February 10, 2012

Fifteen-term Congressman Frank Wolf of Virginia has trafficked to uneasy spots around a globe, such as Sudan, China, and Iraq, dynamic to see with his possess eyes a domestic hardship and eremite intolerance. He spoke Jan. 12 during a Heritage Foundation on his book, Prison of Conscience, combined with a assistance of Anne Morse. (Gary Feuerberg/ Epoch Times)

WASHINGTON—Virginia Congressman Frank Wolf is ardent about tellurian rights and eremite freedom. Stating that his faith and beliefs need him to be a voice for a oppressed, a Republican deputy has left to some really dangerous places in a world, experiencing firsthand Ceausescu’s Romania and comrade China’s hang-up of Tibetan culture.

In places where his standing as a U.S. congressman meant no pledge of personal safety, Wolf trafficked anyway, dynamic to make a disproportion in finale immorality and tyranny.

Frank Wolf spoke during a Heritage Foundation on Jan. 12 about a recover of his new book “Prisoner of Conscience: One Man’s Crusade for Global Human and Religious Rights.”

While a book is an comment of his regard for those persecuted around a world, he says he wasn’t a crusader for tellurian rights when he entered Congress, representing Virginia’s 10th District, in 1981.

The son of a policeman, he grew adult in a tough area of Philly, with bad grades and a stutter, and was an doubtful chairman to turn an inaugurated open figure. After unwell twice to win a Congressional seat, he finally won a third time, after withdrawing his life assets and campaigning for about a year, and, he adds, by roving a Reagan coattails.

Having focused on transport issues during his initial campaign, Wolf states that nonetheless he didn’t come to Congress meddlesome in tellurian rights, dual trips profoundly altered a march of his life.

Wolf became wakeful in 1984 of a harmful fast in Ethiopia, where scarcely one million had perished. His crony and colleague, Ohio Democratic Congressman Tony Hall, pronounced he had to transport to Africa and declare a predicament for himself, and indispensable a cosponsor for food aid. So Wolf went along.