· December, 2005

Stories about Ethiopia from December, 2005

Ethiopia: Gender barriers to education

Barriers to girls attending school in Ethiopia and elsewhere in Africa are numerous. Friends of Ethiopia comments that the lack of toilet facilities, privacy and water also act as a...

26 December 2005

Ethiopia: Overhearing conversations

Aqumada links to a site called “Overheardinnewyork” where people post conversations they have overheard in the city. He gives some examples ….”Puerto Rico chick: He likes that—what do you call...

22 December 2005

Ethiopia: Book reviews

Redeem Ethiopia reviews two books on Ethiopia: Survival and Modernization, written by Messay Kebede and Hagai Erlich’s Ras Alula and The Scramble for Africa – a political biography of Ras...

21 December 2005

Ethiopia and Western Interests

Ethiopundit accuses the West of wanting to forget about the “fake” Ethiopian elections and return to “business as usual”……..”Ethiopia desperately wants the subject changed from its naked despotism to the...

20 December 2005

Kebena Sefere: Meles

Kebena Sefere wonders why Western leaders believed Meles would be any different from his predecessors and saw him as an “aspiring leader of a new generation of African Renaissance leaders”……..

20 December 2005

Ethiopia: Blogging

In the last couple of months there has been a huge growth spat in Ethiopian blogs – one trend is they seem to be reviewing each other – Meskel Square...

19 December 2005

Ethiopia: Remembering Mengistu

Carpe Diem, Ethiopian blog remembers the Red Terror of former Ethiopian dictator, Mengistu……”In addition to the firing squads, security forces used other, more gruesome tactics to suppress opposition. One tool...

19 December 2005

Ethiopia: Ethnicity

Ethiopian Paradox discusses ethnicity in Ethiopia and ” Melese's strategy to establish a governing system of ethnic federalism emphasising rights of “nations, nationalities, and peoples.” He writes that in Ethiopia...

16 December 2005

Corporate evil doers

Friends of Ethiopia has a list of the 14 worst corporate “evil doers” – just the usual suspects…Nestle, Coke, Chevron etc

16 December 2005

Ethiopia: Meles and Jackie Brown

Ethiopundit puts Jackie Brown to the test against Meles and his gang, the violence in Ethiopia and the European Union.…”The obvious point is of course that like the cops in...

15 December 2005

Ethiopia/Sudan telephone link

Friends of Ethiopia writes that plans are underway to build a telephone fibre optic link between Ethiopia and Sudan...”Ethiopia and Sudan, two of the world's poorest and least-wired nations, want...

14 December 2005

Voices from the Horn of Africa and Sudan

Our look at what bloggers in the Horn of the African continent and Sudan are saying begins in Darfur and with some good news. Sleepless in Sudan is reporting that...

14 December 2005

Ethiopia: Pro Meles website

Redeem Ethiopia reports on a new “propaganda” website called “Himbasha Commentary” which they believe is an online outlet for the EPRDF (Meles Party) in Ethiopia….”We are convinced that the intended...

12 December 2005

Ethiopia: King Tut

Friends of Ethiopia asks if King Tut is African or European and goes on to explain some of the issues around the debate.

8 December 2005

This week in the Ethiopian Blogosphere

The Ethiopian blogosphere continues to hit hard at the repressive dictatorial government of Prime Minister Meles Zenawi. Meskel Square and Nazret.com both point to a Channel 4 special report entitled...

5 December 2005