The Ethiopians News

“Nearly 20 people died and 100 others were severely wounded when two bombs went off in crowed area near the Bossaso port”

Mogadishu, Feb 6 : At least 20 people, most of them Ethiopians, were killed and some 100 were wounded overnight after two bombs exploded in a busy area in the port city of Bossaso in northeast Somalia, hospital ... via Newkerala.com

“After my three good blocks of training at Falls Creek, I feel ready now for world class competition”

World Junior 5000m champion Tariku Bekele and fellow Ethiopian Abreham Cherkos Feleke will both contest the 5000m national title against Australia's 2005 Worlkd Championship bronze medallist Craig Mottram at ... via Iaaf.org

Women squealed as the headliner took the stage at S.O.B.'s late on Friday night, elegant in a dark suit with a yellow necktie. via New York Times

It was still possible, this summer, to see some hope in Somalia. The country was in dire need of some. via Time

“The international community should condemn these attacks and hold combatants accountable for violations of humanitarian law, including mutilating captured combatants and executing detainees”

A victim of clashes between Ethiopian troops and Islamist-led insurgents in Somalia was buried. via New York Times

The Ethiopians in Somalia have discovered to their cost the same harsh reality confronting the Americans in Iraq: it is easy for a well-equipped and trained army to defeat in short order an inferior enemy. via Arab News

“The patients are overwhelming us”

MOGADISHU, Somalia : At least 80 Somalis have been killed in heavy fighting in the capital within the past 48 hours, witnesses and doctors said Saturday. via International Herald Tribune

Incredible atrocities are being perpetrated by the rancorous Abyssinian dictator Meles Zenawi's soldiers these days in the South of Somalia where the heroic resistance to the Abyssinian occupying forces took ... via American Chronicle

Reports from central Somalia say Ethiopian armed forces have crossed the border entering in Goldogob district in Mudug region in central Somalia on early Saturday morning. via AllAfrica.com

“That's not true. The Ethiopians and anybody in Eritrea have unlimited freedom”

More than 800 Ethiopians living in Eritrea have been repatriated across the militarised Eritrean-Ethiopian border, the Red Cross said on Monday, amid rising tensions between the two Horn of African neighbours. via AlertNet

Some 365,000 have fled the fighting in Mogadishu Somalia's Ethiopian-backed transitional government faces a new challenge after the Islamists and opposition groups agreed to form a new alliance to overturn the ... via BBC

“So, basically, when I go home, I can tell America to shut up?”

Meles Zenawi, Ethiopia's prime minister, sat stiffly at a table as the frontman of the Black Eyed Peas strutted to the tip of the stage with the standard swagger of a Los Angeles hip-hop star. via OromiaTimes

I first visited Ethiopia in 1997, having just left college. I went there for a few months with an organisation that is now called Link Ethiopia. via The Independent

The first Canadian coffee company to become licensed distributor of Ethiopia's trademarked coffees GUELPH, ONTARIO - October 3, 2007 - Planet Bean, a Canadian pioneer fair trade coffee roaster joins the growing ... via CSRwire.com

“We have never seen fighting as bad as it is now”

Every time I arrive in Somalia, it is a slightly surreal experience. This time I get off a small twin-engine United Nations plane onto the dirt airstrip and into the blinding equatorial sun. via CBC News

“Following interrogation, we established that they are not criminals, but illegal Ethiopian immigrants hiding away from the authorities.”

A group of 55 Ethiopian illegal immigrants had been detained in Mozambique after they were found living off wild animals and shrubs deep in a forest in central Zambezia province, said police on Thursday. via News24