ONLF commander denies his own death
13 May 2010: The deputy commander of Ogaden National Liberation Front (ONLF), Abdikarin Sheikh Muse says he still alive and continuing with the fighting to free Ethiopian-controlled Somali region. Speaking to Voice of America’s Somali service, Muse strongly deniedEthiopiaIs is using food as political weapon
13 Jan 2010: Accusations about food aid are very emotive. Especially when they are made in Ethiopia — a country that saw more than 1 million of its people starve to death in the 1984 famine. So everyone is tiptoeing carefully around recent allegations that food isEthiopia tries to cover up a new famine
18 Nov 2009: It wasn’t famine that killed Jamal Ali’s mother. She died in a cholera outbreak that swept through their Ethiopian village when at last the rains came. Twenty-five years later Jamal, now a parent himself, is lining up for handouts in a foodEthiopia rebels have captured seven towns
18 Nov 2009: Ethiopia on Monday denied that rebels fighting for independence for a region with potentially lucrative oil and gas reserves had seized seven towns near the border with neighbouring Somalia. The Ogaden National Liberation Front (ONLF) said on Saturday itICG: Ethiopian election violence
05 Sep 2009: The International Crisis Group has predicted violence in Ethiopia's upcoming June 2010 elections unless the country's leadership embraces democracy. The group, through its director for African Affairs Francois Grignon, called on the internationalEthiopia constructing over 110 million Birr worth health facilities
30 Aug 2009: Work on the construction of 442 health facilities launched in Somali State at a cost of over 110 million Birr is well in progress, the State's Health Bureau said. Bureau Deputy Head, Yusuf Mohammed told ENA on Saturday that the health facilities are beingBashir Makhtal - Canadian in Ethiopia guilty in separatism case
27 Jul 2009: Bashir Makhtal, a Canadian citizen who has been in jail in Ethiopia for the past two and a half years, has been found guilty in a court in Addis Ababa of charges relating to his involvement in a local separatist movement. Makhtal, who lived and worked inReport: Ethiopian troops cross deeper into Somalia
13 Jun 2009: Heavily-armed Ethiopian soldiers crossed into central Somalia on Friday and entered a town controlled by a pro-government militia nearly 30 kms (19 miles) from the border, residents said. "They came with battle wagons and trucks all full of soldiers andCholera out-break kills 11
17 Mar 2009: The world health organization (WHO) on Thursday said that at least 14 people have died in the past seven days of cholera outbreak in the town of Moyale, along the Kenyan-Ethiopian border. According to WHO’s latest updated, 11 deaths are confirmed inEthiopia claims killing of rebel leader in Ogaden
24 Jan 2009: Ethiopian authorities announced yesterday the killing of a local rebel leader in the troubled Somali region of Ogaden in the south-east of the country. Mohamed Serad, who was killed during clashes with the security members in remote region borderingEthiopia Quits Somalia, Declares 2-Year ‘Mission Accomplished’
06 Jan 2009: Jan. 5 (Bloomberg) -- Ethiopia declared its two-year occupation of Somalia a success as its forces began the last stage of withdrawal, leaving behind one of the world’s worst humanitarian crises and a government close to collapse. “MissionDo they know it's (il)legal?
05 Jan 2009: DAKAR, 23 December 2008 (IRIN) - Is a proposed law to regulate charities in Ethiopia an attempt to regulate a sprawling sector and block foreign political interference or a clampdown on civil society? A draft proclamation published and revised severalWhat is new in the empire state of Ethiopia?
20 Dec 2008: November 29, 2008 — Just as Haile Selassie’s regime used modernization as a code word for consolidation of Menelik’s empire, and the Dergue regime tried to use Marxism-Leninism to maintain Abyssinian domination, the TPLF regime found democratizationEthiopia accused of war crimes to quell insurgency
12 Jun 2008: Ethiopia's government has committed extensive war crimes and crimes against humanity during a brutal counterinsurgency campaign in the remote Ogaden region, a report says today. Human Rights Watch accuses the Ethiopian military of extrajudicial killings,Ethiopia breaks ties with Qatar
23 Apr 2008: Ethiopia has broken diplomatic ties with Qatar, accusing the Gulf state of supporting armed opposition groups across the Horn of Africa region. A statement from the Ethiopian government cited Qatar's "strong ties" with opposition groups inside the countryslashnews
Major quake shakes eastern city of Van
A 7.2-magnitude earthquake hit eastern Turkey yesterday, triggering the collapse of buildings and killing many people, according
to officials and experts. At least 50 people were taken to the single hospital in the city of Van, Anatolia news agency said,
The wretched scandal of Gaza
Past bombed suburbs and scrubland stands the house on the frontier of hell. Once, Abdullah Wahdem's home was a pleasant villa set
in the citrus groves of northern Gaza. Now its cream stucco frontage is pitted by the bullets and artillery salvos that
From Hate to Love -
Story of Adiy ibn Hatim
In the ninth year of the Hijrah, an 'Arab king made the first positive moves to Islam after years of feeling hatred for it. He
drew closer to faith (iman) after opposing arid combating it. And he finally pledged allegiance to the Prophet, peace be on him,
Microsoft Bing in search deal with China’s
Baidu
Microsoft has signed a deal with China’s top search engine, Baidu, to provide the site with censored web search services in
English. Baidu, which dominates 83 per cent of the local market and whose success is built on its Chinese language services, said
