By William Davison An Ethiopian court sentenced three British citizens to prison after finding them guilty of trying to establish Islamic rule in the country through acts of “terrorism,” according to a Justice Ministry official. Ali Adorus was sentenced to 4 1/2 years in Ethiopian prison, while Somalia-born Mohammed Ahmed and Ahmed Elmi were each
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By ICL ICL, a global manufacturer of products based on minerals that fulfill essential needs of the world’s growing population in the agriculture, processed food and engineered materials markets, announced that it launched a Potash for Growth program in Ethiopia. The program is designed to unlock the potential of agriculture in Ethiopia by promoting balanced
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Marthe van der Wolf, VOA Ethiopian opposition parties say they are facing roadblocks in their efforts to register for the May elections. The parties say the National Election Board is complicating procedures for no good reason, and raising doubt that the elections will be free or fair. The Unity for Democracy and Justice party has
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President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi met on Monday, Abune Matthias, the Patriarch of the Ethiopian Orthodox Church who is visiting Egypt. Pope Tawadros II of Alexandria and Fayza Aboul Naga, the presidential national security adviser, attended the meeting. Presidential spokesperson Alaa Youssef said President Sisi stressed that Egypt hopes the people of Ethiopia achieve development and
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Centre For Aviation Ethiopian Airlines is planning further fleet and network expansion in 2015, enabling the flag carrier to widen the gap with other leading African carriers. Ethiopian has already become the largest airline inAfrica based on fleet size and could overtake South African Airlines (SAA) in 2015 as the largest based on passengers
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Centre For Aviation Ethiopian Airlines is planning further fleet and network expansion in 2015, enabling the flag carrier to widen the gap with other leading African carriers. Ethiopian has already become the largest airline inAfrica based on fleet size and could overtake South African Airlines (SAA) in 2015 as the largest based on passengers
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Kenyans near world’s largest desert lake predict conflict, hunger and cultural devastation when hydroelectric project is completed An armed Turkana man on the shore of Lake Turkana. Locals fear the completion of the Gibe III dam could exacerbate tension in the region between Kenyans and Ethiopians. Photograph: Siegfried Modola/Reuters By John Vidal, The Guardian People living near
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Kenyans near world’s largest desert lake predict conflict, hunger and cultural devastation when hydroelectric project is completed An armed Turkana man on the shore of Lake Turkana. Locals fear the completion of the Gibe III dam could exacerbate tension in the region between Kenyans and Ethiopians. Photograph: Siegfried Modola/Reuters By John Vidal, The Guardian People living near
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ADDIS ABABA – A few days before fire burned down Ethiopia’s historic Taitu Hotel, a young woman reads out a satire in the company of a live jazz band:
A drop is just water but pierces the rock,
Let’s make noise till the nation wakes up,
Was my advice to you before I now know
That my whole idea is futile and hollow.
When film director and actor Meron Getnet read her satirical poem, it was like a lasting tribute to a country that has time and again failed to shrug off tyranny and rise up to honor.
Gone is Taitu Hotel along with the Jazzamba, where the gifted instrumentalists that kept Meron company used to play.
Taitu Hotel, EPRDF and ARSON
When on Monday the landmark hotel was going up in smoke, fire fighters began work after one hour, when the hotel was largely destroyed.
Witnesses said distance couldn’t be a reason as the fire station was only a five-minute drive away. The fire fighters were haggling how much they should be paid before the raging fire was brought under control and the hotel saved.
But ‘haggling’ was a cover-up. Well-informed sources say it is in the interest of the ruling party to keep destroying historical landmarks like Taitu’s, whose founder was the wife of Emperor Menelik II, a leader Ethiopians credit as the first modernizer of the country. Menelik is also hailed for leading a huge Ethiopian force that crushed Italian colonial invaders at the 1896 Battle of Adwa.
And such credits are what upset the ruling party, which has lived demonizing Emperor Menelik as a divider and conqueror of “nations and nationalities.”
“Taitu Hotel is destroyed as the work of an arsonist, and there is no better arsonist than EPRDF,” one source with close ties to the ruling party told Ethiomedia by phone. How many private businesses have been burned down because the ruling party wants to dominate the market, asked the source.
“If they can’t send you to prion,” he quipped, “they burn you down.”
Without the need for evidence, the foreign media may report Ethiopia as one of the fastest economies in Africa. For the citizens of the country, however, they believe their country is one of the failed states in Africa reeling under a regime that is not only a tyrant but also a merciless arsonist.
Source: Ethiomedia editor@ethiomedia.com