Fundraising for A Church in Pochalla, South Sudan
Dear friend: Greetings to you in the Name of our Lord Jesus Christ; you’re invited for a fundraising Prayers to Support a Church in Pochalla, Sudan “Future Pastors are in Bible College and need your support”. The fundraising event will be held in Bloomington MN.  We ask for a donation of $20 a

Dear Omot (Omot O. Olum, Governor of Gambella),
  By Nyibola Deng   My name is Nyibola. I don't know whether you may know me or not. I have been out of the country for many years now. When I left, you were a very little kid then. I am sure that you don't know me. From where I am living, I have been hearing about your deeds more often

A Challenge to All Ethiopians
By Magn Nyang Emperor Yohannis IV, my hero, was killed at the Battle of Mettema, on March 11, 1889 fighting the Mahdists who had invaded Gojam and Begmdir (Gonder). Emperor Yohannis never gave up piece of land. He fought the Italians and Egyptians, even died for it. After his death, on May 2, 1889,

ELECTION AND/OR SELECTION 2010 IN GAMBELLA REGIONAL STATE
By Tsegaye Hailemariam   Gambella, Ethiopia - Despite the recent disputed national census, Gambella population has reached about three hundred thousand people. Population projection of 2.6 per annum does not seem to add on the total population year after year. Being small in size geographical

Meles Zenawi says he will authorize jamming VOA
By Peter Heinlein, VOAMarch 19, 2010  ABABA - Ethiopia's Prime Minister Meles Zenawi says he is prepared to order jamming of VOA broadcasts in Amharic, the country's main official language. Mr. Meles compared VOA Amharic to the hate media that incited the Rwanda genocide.

Marquee Ethiopia Election Matchup Pits PM vs Former Comrade
Peter Heinlein | Addis Ababa17 March 2010 Ethiopia's May 23 elections for parliament have produced some interesting match-ups, with several prominent government officials facing stiff competition.  One contest pits Prime Minister Meles Zenawi against a former comrade in arms, Aregash Adane{901

Meles Zenwai: Licensed to Steal
Alemayehu G. Mariam If democracy is a government of the people, kleptocracy is a government of thieves. GA_googleFillSlot( "AllAfrica_Other_InsetA" ); Last week the secret world of Meles Zenawi's kleptocracy, famine aid-sharking and money laundering in Ethiopia was exposed by two of

Dha Anywaa on web is coming soon
To Dha Anywaa users,   Gambelatoday is so happy to announce the upcoming of Dha Anywaa or Anywaa language web page on www.Gambelatoday.com. The section“Oduor” is located on the top right center of the website here. This opportunity will offer great advantage for the Anuaks to p

Genocide Watch Demands Meles Zewai be Brought to Justice
  (Sloga Letter to Justice Navanathem Pillay, U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights March 3, 2010 “Let us kill them all! From today forward there will be no Anuak! There will be no more Anuak land! No one will arrest us! Erase the trouble makers!”ns shouted by the Ethiopian People’s Re

A Close Look at Ethiopia’s Gambella
By Choul Babur   I went on vacation to Gambella in September, 2007.  There, most people appealed for investors and people with advanced education to return from Diaspora.  It appears change was what they needed in pleading for help from the Diaspora.  I was convinced by these p

Foreign agro firms scoop up Ethiopian farmland
By Peter Heinlein, VOA ADDIS ABABA - The Green Revolution that ended food shortages in parts of the world decades ago may be coming to East Africa, bringing the promise of bountiful harvests in a region more often associated with drought and famine.  But from the Oromia region of Ethiopia, cri

Community and Conflict
By Dr. Opiew Cham   Today, I would like you to think with me about the subject of Community and Conflict. These past months, I had the privilege of having some students at my class to discuss the challenges and realities of the multi-cultural community.  After reflecting upon that

Ethiopia’s investment policy Versus Anuaks
Ethiopia is one of the poorest nations in the world with bad record of human life catastrophe due to civil war, politics and recurring natural disasters which cause food shortage or poor economy management. Mostly Ethiopian leaders blame the existing economy problem on lack education, capital and te

ACANA
Dear Community Members, The Anywa Community Association in North America Executives Committee are invited all community members to attending general meeting on Saturday February 20th, 2010.  The meeting will be held at Augustana Lutheran Church in Downtown Minneapolis from 11:00am to 5:00pm. P

The new breadbasket of the world?
As swathes of their country’s land is leased, cleared and prepared for food production by foreign companies, Ethiopians are divided over whether this constitutes ‘agro-colonialism’ or much-needed development, writes MARY FITZGERALD Foreign Affairs Correspondent

Neo-Colonial” Dangers of Land Deals in Africa
By  Akhilesh Chandra Prabhakar   Africa, the world’s most famished continent, cannot currently feed itself. It depends on foreign markets. In a majority of African countries, their average real per capita income is lower than they were two or three decades ago. The ave

Meles Zenwai Violates Human Rights
Ethiopia is on a deteriorating human rights trajectory as parliamentary elections approach in 2010. These will be the first national elections since 2005, when post-election protests resulted in the deaths of at least 200 protesters, many of them victims of excessive use of force by the police. Broa

Ethiopia – country of the silver sickle – offers land dirt cheap to farming gian
This is a country of the bent back and the silver sickle, where virtually all the crops have felt the calloused fingers of the peasant farmer working his tiny parcel of state-owned land. The ox pulls the plough and the donkey the cart, and fertiliser counts as agricultural technology .

“The Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF) has Failed Tigraian
An Interview with Magn Nyang Where were you in May 1991 when the TPLF fighters entered Addis Ababa? I was in high school then, living in Addis Ababa.  On May 27, 1991, my friends and I were sitting around in the living room talking to each other when, unexpectedly, the lights went out. It wa

Ethiopian Farms Lure Investor Funds as Workers Live in Poverty
Dec. 31 (Bloomberg) -- Until last year, people in the Ethiopian settlement of Elliah earned a living by farming their land and fishing. Now, they are employees.

GRO Invitation Note
Dear Friends:   GRO cordially invites you and your guests to attend an evening of fundraising in your honor. You will be treated to dinner and with service and entertainment.  

Ethiopia's Omo Valley Surma
By Joe Van OS “Ethiopia is the most efficiently mis-managed country in the world,” my pilot tells me as we wait on the tarmac by the chartered plane for my baggage and camera gear to clear Customs.  It’s taking more than an hour as five officials debate whether my 500mm lens qualifies me as an

U.S. Urges Ethiopia to Improve Human-Rights Record
By Jason McLure Dec. 11 (Bloomberg) -- The U.S. called on Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi’s government to re-examine a law that limits foreign funding of human rights and pro-democracy groups, and expressed concern over the closure of the country’s biggest privately owned newspaper.

Ethiopian Despot Hijacks Copenhagen Leadership Role
  ROCHESTER, MN -- I'm going to break one of my own writing rules today. In the six years that I've written about Ethiopian immigrants and politics in Minnesota, I've never editorialized directly against the Ethiopian Prime Minister, Meles Zenawi.

Ex-Ethiopia President Negasso Gidada joins opposition
By bbc.com Ethiopia's former President Negasso Gidada has joined an opposition party, as the country builds up to an election scheduled for next May.