Wahington,Dc (galbeed.com) The third anniversary of the failed Ethiopian National Election is almost here. As the time approaches, the Worldwide March Committee members are working hard to plan events in cities across North America, Europe, Asia and Africa. More on The Ethiopian Somali Advocacy council will march for freedom and justice
Its president stands idly by as Mugabe and his thugs ruin Zimbabwe.
The tendency to compare contemporary political events to the Third Reich is called reducto ad Hitlerum, so facile are the alleged similarities and so often is this tactic employed. With that caveat, when I saw a photograph Friday of smiling, garland-laden South African President Thabo Mbeki holding the hand of Zimbabwean dictator Robert Mugabe, I couldn't resist drawing a mental parallel: British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain in 1938 waving his copy of the Munich treaty before a crowd of thousands, boasting that he had achieved "peace for our time."
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Addis Ababa Mayor-Elect Dr Berhanu Nega and colleagues will give a press conference on Wednesday to announce the formation of a new political movement. The press conference will be held in the afternoon (4:00 PM) at the Ethiopian Television Network’s studio in Alexandria, Virginia — a suburb of Washington DC. More on Berhanu Nega aims to lead a movement for change
Landmine explosions have killed more than 12 Ethiopian Woyanne troops, and eight Somali government soldiers, in the war-torn East African nation.
Anti Ethiopian Woyanne groups detonated a massive landmine in Towfiikh district, killing at least eight soldiers, and destroying their vehicle, Press TV correspondent in Somalia reported on Monday. More on Landmine explosions have killed more than 12 Woyanne troops
Somalia has been without a central government for more than 17 years and, reportedly, for the past several months, the Ethiopian-backed interim government has been struggling to exert its control over the country. Last week the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs said the humanitarian situation in the strife-torn nation is deteriorating partly because of rising insecurity. More on Somalia:Real Concern About The Prospect Of A Major Emergency
By Alain Lallemand, lemonde
(Translated from the French)
No less than 80 percent of weapons and munitions sold today in the Somali black markets are transported by commanders of the Ethiopian Woyanne Army and the Transitional Federal Government (TFG), although the chiefs of staff of the former are interested in ceasing the traffic. The gun-running represents millions of dollars. More surrealist yet: while they purport to be there to stabilize the sub-continent, the Ugandan commanders of AMISOM (African Union Mission in Somalia) engage with abandon in the small but lucrative suicidal business; instead of destroying them, they resell arms seized during raids against the Islamist militia known as Shabaab in the clandestine market. One recent transaction alone has fetched 20,000 dollars. More on Woyanne commanders linked to Somali arms trafficking
