As you, all know, Ethiopians don’t have expire date on their government period. When the Prime Minster is ready to resign, you will be told by then. Till then, you have to wait and see. We do have a lot of rules and regulation’ Excessive power of charge is ample here in Ethiopia. There is high possibility that you could be arrested today, tomorrow or the day after tomorrow.

Many have been detained but few are charged. Charges have different scenarios. Here in Ethiopia Tax invasion is different from the general term for efforts to not pay taxes by illegal means. Tax invasion in Ethiopia is pure politics.

Haile Abera and three friends gathered in the shade of a big white tent after a soccer game at Spartan Stadium on Sunday, telling stories of their Ethiopian homeland and sharing a spicy meal.

Abera, a wartime refugee, had traveled from San Diego to participate in a weeklong soccer tournament and cultural festival, coming to San Jose to meet up with friends from the old country and celebrate their heritage.

"You feel like home," said Abera, 41. "You hear your own language and eat your own food."

Some 20,000 people, including players from 22 teams from Canadian and U.S. cities, are expected to descend upon downtown San Jose through the week for the Ethiopian Sports Federation of North America tournament. Many are spending their days at Spartan Stadium for the tournament and food festival, and their nights at downtown hotels and nightclubs listening to Ethiopian musicians.

Dozens of Ethiopian immigrants have gathered around a Netanya police station to protest an alleged attack by a police officer on an Ethiopian teen.


The victim's sister said the attack had drawn blood. Police, however, say it was the youth and his friend who attacked the officer, and that they should lodge an official complaint with the police if they see fit. (Raanan Ben-Zur)

Apart from being unable to express its stance on winning one seat in Benishangul Regional State parliament, All Ethiopian Unity Party(MEAD) has declared on several accounts that irrespective of who wins or loses in the election, it is struggling, first and foremost, to see democracy thriving in Ethiopia.

On 21 June 2010, a press conference was held in the party’s premises whereby it announced that it hadn’t welcome the decisions of both the Ethiopian Electoral Board and the Supreme Court for they didn’t take into account the evidences they handed in to prop up their claims against wrongdoings perpetrated during the election season.

Addis Ababa University is said to have been determined to buy the late eminent Ethiopian writer, Haddis Alemayehu’s place in order to build an academy to his name and treasure his works, sources revealed. According to the sources the university is negotiating with the legally entitled heirs through its Business and Development Vice President, Estifanos Gebrehawariat. The veep told the representatives of the inheritors that the writer’s works and abode would serve as a national relic and should not be sold in a way that would damage the value of these historical reminiscences.

Ayehualem Kebede, one of the heirs, said, “A government institution [I want to keep its name confidential] wants to buy the house and establish a center dedicated to cherishing Haddis’ works and life; we are close to reaching agreement.”

LONDON — A man was convicted on Friday of taking part in Britain's biggest ever gem heist — a 40 million pound armed raid on a luxury jewellers in London in which shots were fired.

Aman Kassaye, 24, was found guilty at Woolwich Crown Court of the "high stakes" raid at Graff Diamonds in Mayfair last Summer.

The gems taken in the robbery have never been recovered.

Kassaye, a native of Ethiopia, was convicted of kidnap, conspiracy to rob and possessing a firearm. He was acquitted of a further gun possession charge, the Press Association reported.

Evolution of fashion through the years represents eras and marks a significant change in culture and civilization. It inspires not only design but also a way of life and a way of good look.

Thus, the glory of contemporary fashion by itself depicts the combination of traditional outlooks and post-industrial era in this 21st century. As Mary McAllister says in her book “Ancient Costume and Modern Fashion”, clothing style is peculiar to the historical cycle of any country. Contemporary fashion attempts to strike a balance between traditional and futuristic styles.

“Democracy is Fair Play”, a film by Yared Shumete, has received the most vote as the best video film in the Democracy Video Challenge contest. The short film, which is about the Ethiopian traditional game of “More”, had been chosen as one of the top three films from Africa to compete in the challenge in the month of May 2010. And just end of last week, the Ethiopian film was chosen as the most viewed film making Yared Shumete the lucky winner.

“I heard that my film has won on Monday morning. Mr. Matt Endria, a movie buff who sponsored cameraman Tamirat Mekuria’s lesson in filmmaking, called me and told me my film has won.”
Democracy is Fair Play shows a children’s game in Ethiopia where two boys throw rocks towards a drawn line on the ground. Whoever gets the closest then climbs on the back of the other and will ride the loser to where the rocks are. Then the winner throws first and the carrier gets a chance to throw and hit the rock the boy on top has thrown. If he succeeds the roles will be reversed. The film suggests that everyone gets a chance to be on top.

Teddy Yo, the Ethiopian hip hop star that is best known for his hit single Gurageton, has come up with other unique hip hop singles, Oromoton and T-Reggae. As he finalizes the preparation of his songs that are scheduled to be released next week, The Reporter had a sneak peak. “Gurageton is a single that should have had lots of remixes, but I have not been asked to do a feature with other artists, except for Johnny Ragga.” Teddy Yo speaks how he has not managed to take the song further. “We have to mix our country’s beats with the West if we want to get international audience.” But despite not receiving any requests for a mixing, he has made a progress of his own. Teddy Yo has released a full hip hop album, Dimts Albaw Mesaria (silent weapon), Meringue Cha, and many more hits following his début single. But none of them has been a fusion of ethnic mix except Gurageton.

One of the major musical contributions to Gurageton is attributed to the music arranger FZ, and Teddy has used a new flavor in the latest fusion, Oromoton. The arrangement is attributed to a new music arranger, Kam Zu, and a new mixer by the name Peace. Ahmed Dimbi will feature on Oromoton.

Paul Le Guen has quit as Cameroon coach following their dismal performance at the 2010 World Cup in South Africa. The Indomitable Lions lost 2-1 to Netherlands on Thursday to cap a miserable Group E campaign which also featured defeats to Japan and Denmark.

"My contract is coming up, and it was clear all along I would stop now," said former Lyon and Rangers boss Le Guen, whose men finished bottom of the group.

"Maybe I didn't succeed in unifying the team and bringing it together."
Le Guen's appointment as Cameroon coach in July 2009 prompted celebrations in Yaounde and he was widely credited with turning around a World Cup qualification campaign which was in danger of going off the rails.

Egypt will hand over chairmanship of the Nile Council of Ministries (Nile-COM) to Ethiopia at the 18th Ordinary meeting of the council which will be held for two days staring from today in Addis Ababa. Ethiopia will hold the rotating chairmanship of the Nile-COM for one year effective June 2010, Tefera Beyene, Director, Trans and Trans-boundary Rivers Administration Directorate with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, told The Reporter.

He disclosed that the agenda of the meeting is to review the activities and performance of NBI during the fiscal year 2009/2010 as well as to approve the work plan and budget for the fiscal year 2010/2011.”
The meeting will be held under the theme “Working together for a better future.”

Independent media can be likened to a spick-and-span looking-glass. They reflect the reality in direct and impartial ways. Besides painting a clear picture of the status quo, they don’t only touch upon what has taken place in retrospective but also provide a prognosis of what the future holds. Genuine work of the media more often than not goes down in history as spectacular feat. Who can imagine the Watergate Scandal in the history of American politics without the involvement of the media?


Impartiality can be achieved if the media manage to drive clear of the influence of the government as well as other institutions and authorities and operate according to the journalistic principles of truthfulness, accuracy, and

The Ethiopian Bible Society said Friday that it would embark on inscribing the Bible in collaboration with Bible Valley.

Secretary General of the society, Yilma Getahun told Negadras Newspaper that the event would be launched as part of the international project known as ‘People of the World Inscribe the Bible’.

Friday, 24 June 2010, the happening kicked off in the United Nations Convention Center in Addis Ababa in the presence of His Holiness Paulos, Israeli ambassador to Ethiopia and other guests of honor from various places.

‘It’s better to kill us first,” Olikoro says, naked apart from a piece of cloth slung over his shoulder. An AK 47 rests by his side as he stares at the Omo river and ­contemplates his stark, ruined future.

Olikoro, a man from the Mursi tribe, is talking about the Gibe III dam: the latest in a cascade of dams being built on the Omo river in south-west Ethiopia. The river begins its 500-mile journey in Ethiopia’s emerald highlands and drops through steep gorges to a sun-scorched valley before twisting towards the jewel of Lake Turkana in Kenya.

In Addis, Ethiopia’s capital, the dam is seen as essential for progress. But travelling along the river, deep into the Omo valley, one can see how the tribal people depend on the river – and how they dread the impact it will have on the lives of the half a million people.

The Ethiopian government claim that it had concluded a deal with a large ONLF faction is a self-serving blatant lie intended to mislead the international community. It is not the first time that Ethiopia used this cheap trick concerning agreements with ONLF. In 1995, it used few stooges to promote ‘a faction of ONLF that it claimed to have accepted the constitution and participated in the so called elections’ of that time. Recently, in her usual self-deception, Ethiopia was celebrating for signing peace agreement the defunct former Al-Itihad elements, but that does not change the situation on the ground.

The regime in Addis Ababa is so desperate to show that it has reached an agreement with ONLF in order to divert attention from its war crimes in the Ogaden and the daylight robbery of the Ethiopian peoples’ right to democracy and representative governance by stealing the election. Ethiopia, which has disenfranc...