Yearly Archives: 2008
Ethiopia: Much ado about nothing

[Author’s Note: This post first appeared in Ethiomedia on April 21, 2008 as an “editorial” without a byline.  (Ethiomedia Editor’s Note – Ethiomedia will offer periodic editorial commentary on the…

Ethiopia: The emperor has no clothes!

[Author’s Note: This post first appeared in Ethiomedia on April 12, 2008 as an “editorial” without a byline.  (Ethiomedia Editor’s Note – Ethiomedia will offer periodic editorial commentary on the…

Ethiopia: Listen to the voice!

Author’s Note: This post first appeared in Ethiomedia on April 7, 2008 as an “editorial” without a byline.  (Ethioemdia Editor’s Note – Ethiomedia will offer periodic editorial commentary on the…

Ethiopia: Grab This!

Editorial Grab this! Ethiomedia | March 31, 2008 [Originally appeared in Ethiomedia] http://www.ethiomedia.com/abai/grab_this.html Amb. Samuel “Oh! what a tangled web we weave, when first we practice to deceive!” Such was…

Ethiopia: Scapegoats and Thieves

Editorial Ethiomedia Editorial | March 24, 2008 http://www.ethiomedia.com/abai/scapegoats_and_thieves.html The scenario is becoming all too familiar in Ethiopia. Whenever fraud, abuse, waste, mismanagement, incompetence, malfeasance and corruption are detected or made…

Ethiopia: All That Glitters is Gold

[Author’s Note: This post first appeared in Ethiomedia on March 17, 2008 as an “editorial” without a byline.  (Ethiomedia Editor’s Note – Ethiomedia will offer periodic editorial commentary on the…

President Bush nominates Mimi Alemayehou to the U.S. Director of African Development Bank

For Immediate Release Office of the Press Secretary The White House President George W. Bush today announced his intention to nominate three individuals and appoint two individuals to serve in…

Failed State, Genocidal Regime, Thugs in the Hood and What to do About Them

Editorial Ethiomedia | March 10, 2008 http://www.ethiomedia.com/abai/ethiomedia_031008.html A few days ago, Senator Russ Feingold, Chairman, Senate Subcommittee on Africa, gave a speech in the U.S. Senate saying the Horn of…

Sister cities and Trojan Horses

Editorial Ethiomedia | March 3, 2008 http://www.ethiomedia.com/abai/sister_cities.html Lately, news of a proposed sister cities program with Addis Ababa has been buzzing in the Ethiopian community in Oakland, California. This program,…

NO GOOD DEED WILL GO UNPUNISHED!

“Charity begins at home,” goes the old saying. But with the Zenawi regime, it is, “No good deed will go unpunished.” The so-called “Charities and Societies Draft Proclamation No. 00/2007”…

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