Use a sledgehammer to smash a butterfly! That is the exquisite art of war unleashed on Ethiopia’s independent press by the dictatorship of Meles Zenawi today.
The latest near-casualties in Zenawi’s war on Truth have just escaped by the skin of their teeth. Their distress signal ricocheted across cyberspace last week. In a press release they announced: “Following legal and political harassment and intimidation by the Ethiopian government, Addis Neger Publishing announced that its major... Read Full Story
Ethiopian Prime Minister and African Union climate negotiator Meles Zenawi downplayed Friday the chances of a deal to tackle global warming being struck at UN talks in Copenhagen. "We know for sometime already that there won't be a binding treaty signed in Copenhagen....The question is not the treaty but if we'll have a binding political agreement," Meles told reporters in Addis Ababa. He said it is important that global warming should not go beyond two degrees Celsius (3.6 Fahrenheit), but... Read Full Story
A leading Ethiopian newspaper said Friday it had closed down as a result of months of government "persecution and harassment" against its staff. "This is the culmination of months of persecution, harassment and black propaganda by the Ethiopian government on Addis Neger," the name of the paper launched two years ago, said executive editor Abiye Teklemariam. Addis Neger, a weekly newspaper often critical of government policies published its last edition on Saturday before some of its staff... Read Full Story
ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) - African leaders agreed on Tuesday on how much cash to demand from the rich world to compensate for the impact of climate change on the continent but kept the figure secret ahead of next month's Copenhagen talks. The United Nations summit in Denmark will try to agree on how to counter climate change and come up with a post-Kyoto treaty protocol to curb emissions. "We have set a minimum beyond which we will not go," Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi, who will... Read Full Story
A senior United States official voiced concerns on Friday about the restrictions on opposition parties and human rights abuses in Ethiopia ahead of elections next year. "The US is concerned by what we see as reduction in political space and the ability of opposition parties to operate and do what opposition parties should do," Karl Wycoff, deputy assistant secretary of state for East African Affairs, told reporters. "There are continous reports of human rights abuse," said Wycoff, who... Read Full Story
African demands for climate change compensation and emission cuts by rich nations are unlikely to be met in next month's Copenhagen summit, Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi said Tuesday. "We have only a few weeks between now and Copenhagen... the indications that we get are not very encouraging," Meles said after a meeting of an African Union panel set up to represent the continent at the December 7-18 gathering. "Indeed we have prioritised our requirements. First and foremost we need... Read Full Story
An Ethiopian human rights activist who was jailed for 2 1/2 years said Friday that his country is less free today than it was during its disputed 2005 election. Daniel Bekele, 42, is crisscrossing the U.S. and Canada on a speaking tour after being honored for his human rights work by New York-based Human Rights Watch. The soft-spoken lawyer — who won a court order that allowed him serve as an election monitor in Ethiopia in 2005, only to be arrested and charged with treason and attempted... Read Full Story
COPENHAGEN (Reuters) - Denmark upgraded U.N. climate talks in Copenhagen next month to a summit of world leaders to try to end deadlock between rich and poor on how to fight global warming. In Addis Ababa, Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi, who will help represent Africa in Copenhagen, criticized world efforts to slow climate change that many African nations say is already causing floods, heatwaves, desertification and disease. Facing long-running splits about a new U.N. climate pact... Read Full Story
ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) - Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi, who will represent Africa at next month's Copenhagen climate change talks, said on Thursday it was unlikely the world was serious about tackling global warming. The United Nations summit in Denmark will try to agree on how to counter climate change and come up with a post-Kyoto treaty protocol to curb harmful emissions. "It is highly improbable ... the world is serious about climate change and (will decide) to take effective... Read Full Story
A US citizen who alleges he was illegally detained and interrogated in Kenya, Ethiopia and Somalia has filed a lawsuit seeking compensation from the FBI agents he says were responsible for his ordeal. In legal documents obtained by AFP on Wednesday, Amir Meshal says he was held "in stark and inhuman conditions without charge or legal basis" and subjected to "intense interrogation" by US agents. Meshal, a Muslim born and raised in the US state of New Jersey, was first detained in January 2007... Read Full Story
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