Federal Aviation Administration Withdraws Prohibition Against Flights to Ethiopia

February 6, 2015, 10:09 am

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The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) on February 4 published a final rule in the Federal Register removing the prohibition of certain flights into and within Ethiopian airspace originally outlined in Special FAR 87 published in May 2000. The FAA said both the safety and security situation that prompted the original prohibition have significantly improved and that it is now safe for U.S. civil flights to be operated within the entire territory and airspace of Ethiopia.

All flights remain subject to the approval of and must be operated in accordance with the conditions established by the appropriate authorities of Ethiopia.

The original prohibition had applied to flight operations within Ethiopian airspace north of 12 degrees north latitude conducted by U.S. air carriers or commercial operators, as well as airmen holding U.S. pilot certificates.

Source: Ainonline.

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Ethiopia refuses to allow a delegation of parliamentarians to visit Andargachew Tsege

February 9, 2015, 9:29 am

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Andargachew Tsige

By Jonathan Owen

 (The Independent) -  Ethiopia has refused to allow a delegation of parliamentarians to visit a British dissident facing the death penalty in the African country.

Andy Tsege, who is the secretary-general of a banned Ethiopian opposition movement, was sentenced to death at a trial held in his absence in 2009.  He was travelling from Dubai to Eritrea last June when he disappeared during a stopover in Yemen, in what campaigners regard as a politically motivated kidnapping. Weeks later, he emerged in detention in Ethiopia.

A delegation led by Jeremy Corbyn, Mr Tsege’s constituency MP, was to visit Ethiopia in a bid to secure his release. But the trip was abandoned after a meeting with Ethiopian ambassador Berhanu Kebede in London last week.

Mr Corbyn told The Independent: “We had made plans to go and see him next weekend and they said we would be refused admission to the detention facility.”

Lord Dholakia, the vice-chairman of the all-party parliamentary group on Ethiopia, who was due to travel out with Mr Corbyn, said it was made clear that they would not be welcome. Mr Corbyn is demanding that the Ethiopian government allows Mr Tsege’s lawyer, Clive Stafford-Smith, the director of Reprieve, to visit him and will raise the issue in the Commons this week. The Ethiopian embassy in London has accused Mr Tsege – who came to Britain as a political refugee in 1979 – of being a member of a “terrorist organisation” which wants to “overthrow the legitimate government of Ethiopia”.  Read more

 

Sewlesew Tv drama award: Abebe Balcha Donates his 50,000 prize to mental health charity (Video)

February 12, 2015, 5:48 am

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Artist Abebe Balcha with his fans at the award ceremony, sheraton Addis (Photo Sisay Guzay/Awramba times)

Artist and Lawyer Abebe Balcha (aka Asnake on Sewlesew Tv drama), donated his financial reward to a good cause.

Abebe Balcha, winner of SewleSew drama’s best actor race has pledged to donate all of his 50,000 prize to mental health charity.

According to Awramba times sources, one of Abebe Balcha’s sons is victim of mental illness. Please watch the video below

Video Highlights of TPLF 40th Anniversary Celebration in Mekele

February 21, 2015, 2:24 am

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Video Highlights of TPLF 40th Anniversary Celebration in Mekele

Kiros from 9th street on TPLF 40th anniversary and Isaias Afeworki’s Interview with ESAT

February 23, 2015, 7:51 am

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Political satirist Kiros from Washington DC’s 9th street on TPLF 40th anniversary celebration and Isaias Afeworki’s recent interview with ESAT

Ginbot 7 Man Arrested for Assaulting TV Show Presenter in Virginia (Video)

February 24, 2015, 6:33 am

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Berhanu Nega (PhD), Charman of Ginbot 7

A member of the opposition Ginbot 7 is facing criminal charges for allegedly assaulting Mesfin Bezu, a TV show presenter, based in Fairfax Virginia.
According to media reports, the man assaulted Mesfin while he was taping in front of the Arlington courthouse, Virginia, on January 15, 2015. When the Arlington police arrived at the scene, the individual already left the scene But he was later arrested and charged of assaulting a man. Please watch below

Redwan Hussien and Shimles Kemal held a press conference on Current political events (Video)

February 26, 2015, 10:19 am

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Minister Redwan Hussien (L) and State minister Shimeles Kemal (R) of Government Communication Affairs Office of Ethiopia (Photo: Awramba Times/Sisay Guzay)

Redwan Hussien and Shimles Kemal, minister and state minister of Government Communication Affairs Office of Ethiopia respectively, held a press conference with local journalists on current political events in Ethiopia on Thursday. Please watch the video below.

Journalists Discussion on TPLF 40th Anniversary celebration and its aftermath

February 28, 2015, 1:14 pm

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Senior leaders of TPLF

Concluding remark by Journalists Fanuel Kinfu and Dawit Kebede on TPLF 40th Anniversary celebration and its aftermath. Please watch below

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Awramba Times presents a short documentary on TPLF 40th Anniversary

February 28, 2015, 1:39 pm

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First human jawbone fossil discovered in Ethiopia

March 5, 2015, 11:02 am

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Scientists have unearthed the jawbone of what they claim is one of the very first humans.

The 2.8 million-year-old specimen is 400,000 years older than researchers thought that our kind first emerged.
The discovery in Ethiopia suggests climate change spurred the transition from tree dweller to upright walker.
The head of the research team told BBC News that the find gives the first insight into “the most important transitions in human evolution”.

Prof Brian Villmoare of the University of Nevada in Las Vegas said the discovery makes a clear link between an iconic 3.2 million-year-old hominin (human-like primate) discovered in the same area in 1974, called “Lucy”.
Could Lucy’s kind – which belonged to the species Australopithecus afarensis – have evolved into the very first primitive humans? “That’s what we are arguing,” said Prof Villmoare.

But the fossil record between the time period when Lucy and her kin were alive and the emergence of Homo erectus (with its relatively large brain and human-like body proportions) two million years ago is sparse. The 2.8 million-year-old lower jawbone was found in the Ledi-Geraru research area, Afar Regional State, by Ethiopian student Chalachew Seyoum. He told BBC News that he was “stunned” when he saw the fossil.

“The moment I found it, I realised that it was important, as this is the time period represented by few (human) fossils in Eastern Africa.” The fossil is of the left side of the lower jaw, along with five teeth. The back molar teeth are smaller than those of other hominins living in the area and are one of the features that distinguish humans from more primitive ancestors, according to Professor William Kimbel, director of Arizona State University’s Institute of Human Origins. Read morefrom BBC News

Kiros from 9th street wraps up efficient Ethiopia trip

March 9, 2015, 11:14 am

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Political Satirist Kiros from Washington DC’s 9th street wraps up efficient Ethiopia trip. Please watch below

Launching event of Ambassador Helawi Yoseph’s ‘Tarik ena Tibeb’ book

March 9, 2015, 12:10 pm

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Launching event of Ambassador Helawi Yoseph’s ‘Tarik ena Tibeb’ book at Addis Ababa’s National Theater.

PM Hailemariam Desalegn Leaves for Egypt

March 13, 2015, 3:16 am

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Ethiopian Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn left Friday for Egypt to participate in the Egypt Economic Development Conference, due to start later in the day in the Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheikh. The Ethiopian premier is accompanied to the three-day conference by Finance and Economic Development Minister Sufian Ahmed, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs said in a statement. For months, relations between Addis Ababa and Cairo had soured over the former’s construction of a $6.4-billion hydroelectric dam on the Nile’s upper reaches. The project has raised alarm bells in Egypt, which relies on the river for almost all of its water needs. Ethiopia says the dam project won’t impact Egypt’s traditional share of Nile water, which has long been regulated by a colonial-era water-sharing treaty that Addis Ababa has never recognized. But ties between the two states picked up again as both countries agreed to resume tripartite talks – which also included downstream country Sudan – following a June meeting between Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi and Desalegn in Equatorial Guinea.

Source: Ministry of Foreign Affairs

Ethiopian Airlines pilot found guilty of hijacking his plane

March 18, 2015, 3:36 am

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By Aaron Maasho

(Reuters) – An Ethiopian Airlines pilot has been convicted in absentia of hijacking his own plane and flying it to Geneva, 13 months after he surrendered to police there and sought asylum.

The high court in Addis Ababa issued its ruling on Monday and said it would sentence Hailemedhin Abera Tegegn on Friday. If he ever returns to his home country he could face up to 20 years in jail.

Hailemedhin, second-in-command on the Feb. 17, 2014 flight to Rome, took control of the aircraft when the main pilot left the cockpit for a toilet break, Swiss police said.

He then sent a coded signal announcing he had hijacked his own plane.

With the jet on the tarmac, an unarmed Hailemedhin scrambled down an emergency rope and surrendered to police without harming the 193 passengers on board the Boeing aircraft, 139 of them Italians, 11 Americans and four French.

Swiss police have said Hailemedhin asked for asylum because he did not feel safe in Ethiopia.

Opposition politicians and rights campaigners often accuse the government of stifling dissent, a charge dismissed by the government.

Authorities say there have been growing numbers of people from north and east Africa traveling to Europe to flee poverty and conflicts — though Hailemedhin left behind a well-paid job on the flagship airline in one of Africa’s fastest-growing economies.

Ethiopian officials said at the time Addis Ababa may ask for his extradition.

There were no details on his current whereabouts.

Ethiopia’s Largest Hydro Plant to Produce Electricity This Year

March 19, 2015, 2:23 am

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(Bloomberg) – Ethiopia’s government plans to start generating electricity from its largest hydropower plant, Gibe III, in the second half of the year if annual rains sufficiently fill its reservoir, Water and Energy Minister Alemayehu Tegenu said.

The wet season from June through August should allow the state-owned Ethiopian Electric Power Office, or EEPO, to begin producing 187 megawatts of electricity from one of the 10 turbines installed at Africa’s tallest dam, he said by phone on Tuesday from Addis Ababa, the capital. The dam is 243 meters (797 feet) high.

“Gibe III will start power generation after the rainy season,” Alemayehu said. “It will be this year.”

 The 1,870-megawatt capacity Gibe III is the latest of four large-scale Ethiopian dams built by the government since 2004 to supply nascent manufacturing industries and produce surplus electricity to sell to neighboring countries. Ethiopia is seeking to capitalize on its hydropower-generating capacity of 45,000 megawatts, which the World Bank ranks as Africa’s second-largest after the Democratic Republic of Congo.

EEPO plans to bring a turbine online every month after the plant starts generation, though that will depend on the amount of rainfall in the Gibe-Omo river basin, Alemayehu said.

“If there is sufficient water in the reservoir it will be possible to generate the maximum,” he said. “If there’s no water, you will limit the number of turbines.”

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[Must-Listen] Political Satirist Kiros Blasts Abebe Gelaw and Al Mariam Over smear Campaign Against Dr.Tedros

March 20, 2015, 1:18 pm

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Political Satirist Kiros, from Washington DC’s 9th street blasts Abebe Gelaw and Al Mariam over recent smear campaign against Ethiopia’s Foreign Minister Dr.Tedros Adhanom. Please listen

Ethiopian Air Force Jets Attack key targets Inside Eritrea, High ranking military officer confirmed

March 22, 2015, 5:05 am

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Awramba Times (Addis Ababa) – High ranking Ethiopian military officer confirmed to Awramba Times, on condition of anonymity, that Ethiopian Air Force jets bombarded two key targets inside Eritrea.
According to the official, the airstrikes were conducted separately in two key targets, at a gold mine processing facility, near the capital Asmara and a military depot in Southern AkaleGuzai, Mai Edaga.

The current regime in Eritrea is widely considered as a State Sponsor of Terrorism in the horn of Africa. On July 2012, U.S. Treasury Department had placed sanctions on several Eritrean government officials and frozen their assets for supporting al-Shabaab, Al-Qaeda’s branch in Somalia.

Virginia TV station Exposes the number of lies ESAT Journalists Speak per day

March 24, 2015, 5:47 am

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Mesfin Bezu, Excutive Producer of TG Television, a TV station based in Virginia, exposed the number of lies ESAT journalists tell per day, which includes both white lies and more serious lies. Please watch and enjoy.

Colorful Celebration of OPDO’s 25th Anniversary in Jimma (Video)

March 25, 2015, 3:33 am

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OPDO (Oromo People’s Democratic Organization) colorfully celebrated its 25th founding anniversary in Jimma. Please watch the video highlights of the event.

OPDO 25th Anniversary Celebration in Finfinnee (Pictures)

March 26, 2015, 9:53 am

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Oromo People Democratic Organiation (OPDO) celebrated its 25th Anniversary in Finfinnee today.