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US Suspends African Refugee Program After Discovering Fraud

August 22, 2008 – 4:01 pm
US Suspends African Refugee Program After Discovering Fraud By David Gollust Source: VOA State Department 20 August 2008 The State Department said Wednesday that a U.S. family-reunification program for African refugees has been suspended after DNA testing of applicants revealed widespread fraud. The suspension affects family members seeking to join East Africans, and some Liberians, already in the United States. VOA's David Gollust reports from the State Department. Officials say the departments of State and Homeland Security decided to suspend the admissions program after DNA testing of applicants - begun in February in Kenya -- showed that only a fraction of them were actually blood relatives of refugees given residence in the United States. Under the family-reunification program, known as Priority Three or P 3, refugees already living in the United States are entitled to apply for permission to bring in immediate family members, including spouses, minor children, parents or siblings. Confirming a news report Wednesday by The ...

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Fourth Annual Celebration and Graduation day at Fregenet Kidan Lehitsanat School

August 19, 2008 – 9:43 am
Fourth Annual Celebration and Graduation day at Fregenet Kidan Lehitsanat School Graduation and the fourth annual School Day Ceremony were celebrated at Fregenet Kidan Lehitsanat School on July 12, 2008. On this occasion, parents and guardians of the students, board members and several guests of honor were invited. The program began with a speech made by the manager of the Fregenet Kidan Lehitsanat School and the introduction of the new Director. This was followed by performances by the students organized by the teachers, which included songs, poems, a short play and a musical drama. After the performances, a graduation ceremony was held for 33 students who have completed 2 years of kindergarten. Afterwards, awards were given to high performing students by the Fregenet Board Members and the School Day Ceremony Committee. A speech was made by the ...

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Elias Kifle: A dictator in the making?

August 5, 2008 – 10:39 am
Elias Kifle: A dictator in the making By Mulumebet Asfaw Elias Kifle of ER Photo Wikipedia The effort to democratize Ethiopia is not easy at all. Despite the fact that the opposition camp claims to aspire to demolish the monstrous tyranny of Meles Zenawi, there are many among his dissidents who have brought us nothing but division and rumour mongering. Like any ordinary citizen, I sometimes get confused and puzzled with the amount of information and disinformation tossed in cyber space to catch our attention, not only by Walta and Aiga but also the terribly mismanaged websites like the Ethiopian Review, Debteraw and Ethiolion. I will come back some other time with the issue of the two conduits of hatred and the extremism, Debteraw and Ethiolion. For now, allow me to deal with Elias Kifle, a miserably failed spin doctor. Elias Kifle, dictatorial publisher par excellence of a tabloid website called Ethiopian Review, ...

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Obama Team Hires Ethiopian-American Congressional Staffer

August 1, 2008 – 11:12 am
By Tadias Staff Published: Wednesday, July 30, 2008 New York (Tadias) - The presidential campaign of Senator Barack Obama has hired Selam Mulugeta, an Ethiopian American who formerly served as a Congressional Staffer and Special Assistant to Rep. Mike Honda (D-Calif.), founder and Chair of the Congressional Ethiopia and Ethiopian American Caucus. “I will be a Field Organizer in the Northern Virginia region”, Mulugeta told Tadias Magazine. She joined the Obama for America campaign in Virginia. “This means that I would be doing community organizing at the grassroots level to increase the number of registered voters, and most importantly, to increase voter turn-out in November.” Members of the Democratic support group Ethiopians for Obama (E4O), which is active in Virgina, often say that the November election may be decided by a few thousand votes, and the robust Ethiopian American presence in the state may end up being a deciding factor. Mulugeta agrees. “In states like Virginia, Ethiopians ...

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Amarigna/Tigrigna: World’s First Written Language of Commerce

July 23, 2008 – 3:09 pm
Study Shows Amara and Tigre Gave the World Its First Written Language of Commerce A new study shows that Amara and Tigre merchants, from today's Ethiopia and Eritrea, founded the ancient civilization of Gebts 5100 years ago and as a result developed the world’s first written language of business and trade. Gebts represented a prime location to sell their goods and products, which Amara and Tigre merchants appear to have done in the area since 6000 years ago. But the key to establishing the ancient civilization that we all know about was when the Amara and Tigre merchants moved their farms and production into Gebts. Once they did, they needed to develop a way to document workers, wages, productions and sales. Evidence is found in the word for "writing" in ancient Gebts, "matet", which of course means, "give a report," in Amarigna ("mehtat" in Tigrigna). Drawing objects to represent vowels and consonants, the Amara ...

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July 21, 2008 – 3:01 pm
About ethiox.com እንክዋን ደህና መጡ! ይህ ገጽ ለአንባቢዎች አስተያይት መስጫ ነው። ሐሳብዎን እዚህ መጻፍ ይችላሉ። about ethiox.com, Ethiox.com is administered and edited by a group of Ethiopian Volunteers to serve our Global Ethiopian Community to share and exchange resources. Our objective is to serve as an exchange point for Ethiopian News, Information, Articles, Documents, Reports, Ideas, Products and Services. We strongly believe that your feedback positive or negative is essential in our ability to serve our global community better, so please let us know so we can improve our services. Please Support Us: 1. By referring us to your coleagues, families, relatives and friends. 2. By submitting or contributing written and/or researched materials of relevance and use to you and your fellow Ethiopians. In short, by Volunteering to contribute. 3. By forwarding posted materials to Family, Friends, Other Ethiopian Electronic Forums and Websites and crediting us as a source. 4. By Purchasing products and services from those ...

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Ethiopia on the path of self destruction

July 10, 2008 – 4:49 pm
Ethiopia on the path of self destruction Written by Mammo Muchie Mammo Muchie July 11, 2008: Ethiopia is one of the oldest most suffering nations in this planet. It went through hell in the Second World War under Mussolini’s fascist aggression. It emerged from the war to confront a number of civil wars where external and internal actors coalesced to make the people, country and nation suffer. Its elite imported undigested ideas that simply became a reason to impose terror. It fell for a virulent form of ethnic and vernacular decomposition that has undermined Ethiopian citizenship rather than build it, despite the claim to the contrary by those who imposed this particular form of ethnocentrism. The age-old plague of famine continues. Ethiopia suffered worst famine in 1973. Sadly, today a spectre of famine re-haunts Ethiopia. This is not because the country cannot feed itself. It can. But the requisite values that ...

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CALL ME BY MY NAME: The SYMPOSIUM, XXX

June 30, 2008 – 11:56 am
CALL ME BY MY NAME: The SYMPOSIUM, XXX Obo Arada Shawl alias Wolde Tewolde July 1, 2008 Head-to-Head of EPRP Collective leadership Heart-to-Heart of EPRP Membership Face-to-Face of EPRP Army Soul-to-Soul of Ethiopians MAIN PURPOSE OF THE ONE DAY EVENT To reach consensus on how to fight for the release of Debteraw Tsegeye Two ways to look at Debteraw’s a One Day Event. The Inward and the Outward. THE INWARD will be a conversation with our self. It will be an examination of a dialogue that requires us the courage to be honest about who we are, what we are doing, and what we want. This requires the courage to sort those things we have come to cherish about ourselves from those things that we picked along the Long March of EPRP that caused us harm. THE OUTWARD is about engaging with ...

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Ethiopian and Eritrean Refugees in Central America?

June 25, 2008 – 7:40 am
UN welcomes Nicaraguan laws protecting refugees Somali asylum seekers leaving the migration holding center in Managua 5 June 2008 – After four years of collaboration between the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) and Nicaragua, the Central American nation’s Parliament has unanimously passed a new law to support refugees, it was announced today.The legislation details the need of legal counsel for asylum-seekers, in particular unaccompanied minors and vulnerable adults; the right of asylum-seekers and refugees to work and access state services; and the obligation of immigration officers, police and army to identify and quickly refer asylum-seekers to the country’s eligibility procedure. This “demonstrates how the refugee experience of a country can translate into a positive step forward in upholding refugees rights as human rights,” said Marion Hoffman, UNHCR’s regional representative, adding that the new legislation “is the expression of the Nicaraguan people to unite in their quest for protecting refugees.” In the 1980s ...

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CALL ME BY MY NAME: Solutions with DEBTERAW, XXIX

June 13, 2008 – 2:42 pm
CALL ME BY MY NAME: Solutions with DEBTERAW, XXIX Obo Arada Shawl alias Wolde Tewolde  June 13, 2008  There is the Natural Way And there is the Artificial Way There is the Wrong Way And there is the EWAY Ethiopia Introduction On Saturday morning, June 7, 2008, there was a race – a race not for power, not for time or for revenge but a race for a CURE (Breast Cancer). The winner was ABYOT ABEBE. He stood 1st out of the 40, 000 participants. What a name! He must have been born during the Ethiopian Revolution. Deciphering his name tells me that the Eway Revolution is still blooming as he won the race for cure to bring peace and prosperity for Ethiopia.  Nowadays, it seems to me that there is a race to cure Ethiopia and Eritrea from poverty, disease and from sell out for disintegration. To me there was no poverty in Ethiopia and Eritrea. The truth ...

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