February 8th, 2010 |
ADDIS ABABA (PANA) — Lebanon will hand over the recovered Flight Data Recorder (Black Box) of the crashed Ethiopian Airlines jet, ET 409, to the French authorities for investigations, Ethiopian Airlines Chief Executive Girma Wake said on Sunday.
'The flight data recorder has been recovered. The search crews are in the process of retrieving the cockpit [...]
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February 8th, 2010 |
Navy commandos have recovered the flight recorders from the Ethiopian Airlines jet that crashed off the coast of Lebanon last month, killing all 90 people on board.
The Lebanese military says navy commandos retrieved the jet's flight data recorder and cockpit voice recorder on Sunday.
The recorders were taken to a Beirut naval base, where they were [...]
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February 8th, 2010 |
Alemayehu G. Mariam
Last week, in a piece reporting on the eerie silence of Western diplomats in Addis Abeba on Birtukan Midekssa, the first woman political party leader in Ethiopian history and Ethiopia’s # 1 political prisoner, Xan Rice, a reporter for the Guardian wrote:
That foreign embassies, including Britain's, which have been refused permission to visit [...]
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February 7th, 2010 |
ADDIS ABABA (IPS) — Ethiopia's regime is building a 240-metre high dam on the Omo River that is intended to end the country's electricity shortage and supply power to neighbouring countries. Not everyone's happy.
The Gilgel Gibe III dam will hold back 14.7 million cubic metres of water. Its 1,870 MW generating capacity will be [...]
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February 6th, 2010 |
Eritrean communities around the world are organizing a worldwide protest demonstration calling for the annulment of the ill-advised U.N. Security Council resolution against Eritrea that was passed in December 2009. Eritrea is being victimized for standing up on the side of the oppressed people of Ethiopia and Somalia who are being brutalized by the West-backed [...]
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February 6th, 2010 |
By Legesse Allyn
As I sit here reading EthiopianReview.com report that China may be investing in and unfairly influencing Ethiopia, even too much for Ethiopia's own good, I reflect on my research of 20 years into the ancient Ethiopian investment and importation of goods and technology into ancient Gebts that led to my recent book. Like [...]
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February 6th, 2010 |
Searchers located the black boxes of an Ethiopian Airlines plane that crashed in the sea off Lebanon last month killing 90 people, Transport Minister Ghazi Aridi said on Saturday.
"The boxes have been found under the rear part of the fuselage" which was found on Saturday morning, the Lebanese minister told AFP.
"Lebanese army divers have gone [...]
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February 5th, 2010 |
Hanatzeb Ethiopian Art Gallery in Atlanta has invited Adey Gulilat, an accomplished Ethiopian artist and designer, to present her paintings this coming weekend.
Date: Saturday Feb. 6 and Sunday Feb 7, 2010
Time: 4:00 PM on Saturday and 2:00 PM on Sunday
Address: 49-B Bennett Street, Atlanta GA 30309
More info: 404 352 4373 or 404 838 8433
hanatzeb.com
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February 5th, 2010 |
By Peter Bosshard | International Rivers
On Januar 13, Ethiopia's Prime Minister [genocidal dictator] Meles Zenawi inaugurated the Gilgel Gibe 2 scheme, the country's biggest hydropower project. "It is possible to speed up development without polluting the environment," Zenawi proudly declared as he cut the ceremonial ribbon. Yet this was wishful thinking.
Due to shoddy preparation, the [...]
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February 5th, 2010 |
By Girmay Gebru
MEKELE, ETHIOPIA (VOA) — An estimated 400 Chinese employees on strike for the past two weeks at the Messebo Cement Factory in Mekele charge some have suffered physical injuries in clashes with company officials over wages.
[Messebo is one of the 60 mega-million-dollar companies in Ethiopia that is controlled by Meles Zenawi's wife, Azeb [...]
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