Putting Lipstick on a Pig, Ethiopian Style

Last week, there was a great deal of teeth-gnashing, knuckle-cracking and gut-wrenching by Ethiopia’s dictators over Human Rights Watch’s (HRW) 2010 report. The dictators belched out much sound and fury that signified nothing. Their fury had to do with HRW’s conclusion that “Ethiopia is on a deteriorating human rights trajectory as [...]

Ethiopian Airlines ‘black box’ found

Searchers located the black box from an Ethiopian Airlines.
plane that crashed into the Mediterranean shortly after takeoff from Beirut, Lebanon, officials said.
The flight data recorder, critical to the accident investigation, was located about 4,300 feet under water and would soon be retrieved, CNN quoted the Lebanese army as saying Thursday.
Twenty-six bodies were recovered as of [...]

Ethiopia: British Council opens Ethiopian headquarters

The British Council’s new £1.18 million Ethiopian headquarters , developed in partnership with local practice RAAS Architects, has opened in the country’s capital, Addis Ababa.
Built on part of a site owned by the British Embassy and designed by the council’s in-house architecture team, the 500sq m structure faces on to one of the city’s recently [...]

A novel resolves childhood memories of the Ethiopian revolution

Author Maaza Mengiste left Ethiopia for the U.S. when she was four years old. It was 1974, two years after the revolution which toppled Emperor Haile Selassie from his throne.
But the experience was so traumatic she has very clear memories of what happened.
“I remembered so vividly my life in Ethiopia, and I remember very specific [...]

Ethiopian priest dies suddenly

Ethiopian priest Fr Daniel Manmektot Eshete, who was serving as assistant priest at Narooma, has died suddenly on a visit to his homeland.
Fr Eshete died in hospital on Monday while being treated for diabetes. He was visiting relatives and friends in Ethiopia following the sudden death by heart attack of his brother just before Christmas.
The [...]