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  Samuel M. Gebru is reporting from Mekelle
The bad - the good ...
We woke up at 3:30 am today to prepare for our 6:30 flight to Mekelle. ET100 is our flight number. We got ready rather quickly because most of the packing was done yesterday night. To my surprise, when booking our tickets, we booked Cloud Nine tickets. Cloud Nine is the First Class of Ethiopian Airlines: Ethiopian has a two-class configuration, Cloud Nine - First Class with the price of Business Class - and Economy Class. More

   Global Political Theater and The Peripheral States of Africa
By Ghelawdewos Araia (June 16, 2008)
"The Ethiopian people have a stake in defending the territorial integrity of their nation and the government of Meles Zenawi should permit a national referendum for the final determination of the peaceful resolution to the Ethiopian-Eritrean conflict. In any peace initiative of paramount historical significance, the Ethiopian people should matter and should have a say, and the territorial integrity of Ethiopia matters at all times." More

In its formative years, the EPRDF government of Ethiopia had adopted agriculture-led industrial development with priority given to rural development, and that was a sound development strategy. In recent years, however, the initiative has been undermined by a cash crop mania. One famous and traditional Ethiopian cash crop that could play a pivotal role in foreign exchange or fair trade balance is coffee. But Ethiopia cannot depend on coffee alone for its development. More

  ETHIOPIA & PRESIDENTIAL ADVISOR
"They were an unusual army, though. Discipline was self-imposed. The troops didn't even have uniforms, and foot drill was unheard of. More amazing still, ... Read More ... [Source]

Peasant Revolution in Ethiopia: The Tigray People's Liberation Front, 1975-1991 (African Studies)
Almost unnoticed, in the wake of the overthrow of Emperor Haile-Selassie, the coming to power of the military, and the ongoing independence struggle in Eritrea, a band of students launched an insurrection from the northern Ethiopian province of Tigray. Calling themselves the Tigray People's Liberation Front (TPLF), they built close relations with Tigray's poverty-stricken peasants and on this basis liberated the province in 1989, and formed an ethnic-based coalition of opposition forces that assumed state power in 1991. This book chronicles that history and focuses in particular on the relationship of the revolutionaries with Ethiopia's peasants.

"Make sure that you check their shoes so that they don't take the soil of my country!" (Emperor Yohannes IV) "I am greedy for its land fragments, let alone for its territorial integrity" (Emperor Yohannes IV)

  Monthly Ethiopian Magazine in Tigrigna

   Vertical Ethiopia, Climbing Toward Possibility in the Horn of Africa

Ethiopia - Google News

Thousands cheer Ethiopian obelisk restoration - The Associated Press
Video parlour blast in Ethiopia - BBC News
Ethiopia deserves to be compensated for colonial ills - Business Daily Africa
Insurgents target Ethiopia army convoy in Somalia countryside, 5 ... - Garowe Online
Aksum obelisk unveiled in Ethiopia - Radio Netherlands
Horn of Africa children face malnutrition - Independent Online

  Union of Tigreans in North America (UTNA) (Press Release)

  Russia opens second front in Georgia

   The Wrong MAP for Ukraine and Georgia
Merkel is trying to save America from a dangerous mistake, one potentially worse than Iraq.
It is not easy to dismiss Merkel with the usual smears – as anti-American, or as a Russian puppet – but still the attempts are being made. America should be thanking her instead. As chancellor of Germany, she has done more than anyone else to rebuild trans-Atlantic relations in the last three years.

   Successful 5th Reunion of Awlaelo Schools Alumni Association
It was five years ago around this time that the Awlaelo Schools Alumni Association was established. Believing on the idea that education is the foundation of one country's development and prosperity, few individuals originally from the awlaelo area got together and organized them- selves under the name of Awlaelo Schools Alumni Association for the purpose of helping all schools of Kilte-Awlaelo to provide better education and to create a comfortable learning environment to all students who attend in the schools of Kilte-Awlaelo. From day to day the organization grew in size and stands strong to accomplish its goals. The number of member attendees of the event increased by huge percentage from year to year.

  ICI claims article was 'racially offensive'
The Immigrant Council of Ireland (ICI) is to make an official complaint to the Garda Síochána today about the publication of what it considers to be a racially offensive article that appeared in the Irish Independent last week.

   Kevin Myers' synthetic argument is palpable nonsense

  Ethiopian Community Finds Home In His Song
"It is an honor," said Seyoum, 59, of Alexandria, taking a break between his two full-time jobs one afternoon. "I know that the people appreciate me a lot."
Seyoum is a church musician, a highly respected position in the Ethiopian Orthodox Christian Church.

  Tourists flock to Ethiopia to see Ark of Covenant's home
The Chapel of the Tablet is part of a larger compound known as the Church of Our Lady Mary of Zion. The area contains an airy modern church completed in 1960 by former Emperor Haile Selassie; the 10th-century stone cathedral featuring breathtaking frescoes of a black Jesus and Mary; and the Chapel of the Tablet, set behind an iron fence, its trim painted a sky blue.

  Donors give $847 million to cut poverty in Ethiopia
ADDIS ABABA, July 4 ( Reuters) - Donors funding Ethiopia's programmes to cut poverty said on Friday they would provide $847 million in 2008/09 for projects such as free education and distribution of insecticide-treated bed nets.

A Journey to Ethiopia/Tigrai after 14 years (December 2, 2007 - January 4, 2008)

  As a media person, I have been watching closely the progress of Ethiopia for the last 14 years but this first trip was a surprising trip and helped me to see the reality of Ethiopia more clearly and closely than before.

   Tigray Rock Climbing Team
   Gonder Link
  Fest Ethiopia
   Tour Ethiopia
   AKABABI
   Tesfa

   Do you know about Ethiopia?

  Ethiopia is the cradle of humankind

  Ethiopia has its own ancient caledar

   Archaeologist Graham Hancock who is the author of The Orion Mystery believes that the Ark resides in a chaptel in Axum, a city in Ethiopia and is guarded by a dedicated monk sworn to protect the Ark.

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