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Bob Geldof should be held accountable

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By Alem Mamo | March 10, 2010 Geldof's defiance amounts to saying the photo to the left never existed at all 1984/85 - Gebremedhin Araya (L), Max Peberdy (center) and Tekleweyni Assefa, a TPLF senior cadre who to this day is the director of REST, the so-called 'humanitarian wing' of the criminal TPLF group. (more)

Digg It category: Politics | comment | | source: ethiomedia.com tags: Bob Geldof, election 2002, eprdf, Food, Gebremedhin Araya, TPLF

The BBC's allegations over Ethiopian aid: what is the truth?

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Aid workers must be pragmatic - if food was getting to people, then the money was doing its job. To suggest that the TPLF never pulled a fast one and took their share would be a very foolish .... (more)

Digg It category: Politics | comment | | source: www.newstatesman.com tags: Bob Geldof, election 2002, eprdf, Food, Meles Zenawi, TPLF

Sir Bob Geldof – Defending the indefensible | Abbay Media

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The year was 1984. A famine of unimaginable proportions was ravaging the northern region of Ethiopia. Besides the famine, that part of Ethiopia was also in the midst of a multi dimensional bloody civil war that took so many lives and destroyed infrastructure. The fighting parties were the Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF) and the Eritrean People’s Liberation Front (EPLF), operating in a close alliance, launching a coordinated political and military operation against the regime in Addis Ababa. In 19... (more)

Digg It category: Politics | comment | | source: abbaymedia.com tags: Bob Geldof, eprdf, Food, Meles Zenawi, TPLF

PM Meles Zenawi denies 1984-85 Ethiopia aid was diverted

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The Ethiopian Prime Minister, Meles Zenawi has denied the allegation which claimed that 95% of the $100m aid raised by Live Aid and others to fight famine in rebel-held northern Ethiopian in 1985 was diverted to be spent on weapons.He said the BBC had fallen for lies put out by his political opponents on the eve of a general election in Addis Ababa next month. (more)

Digg It category: Politics | comment | | source: www.africanews.com tags: election 2002, eprdf, ethiopia, Food, Meles Zenawi, TPLF

Woyane Blood Money

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The story of how the Tigray People's Liberation Front (TPLF), commonly known as Woyane, stole famine aid money in the 80's has been an open secret among Ethiopians for quite sometime. Only now it is getting the attention it deserves by the international press (see yesterday's BBC expose on the subject titled "Ethiopia famine aid 'spent on weapons"). (more)

Digg It category: Politics | comment | | source: www.enset.org tags: eprdf, Food, Meles Zenawi, TPLF

Ethiopia: food security situation in North Wollo - report

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Preliminary report of the joint multi-agency team (Disaster Risk Management and Food Security Sector (DRMFSS), Regional Disaster Prevention and Food Security Bureau, Regional Water Bureau, WFP, UNICEF, OCHA, GOAL and Save the Children UK) indicates that the food security situation in North Wollo and Wag Hemra zones (Amhara) (more)

Digg It category: Economy | comment | | source: www.reliefweb.int tags: economy, ethiopia, Food

BBC stands by its Ethiopia aid abuse report

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The BBC report claimed that 95 per cent of the $100m aid raised for famine in northern Ethiopia in 1985 was diverted by rebels to buy weapons. (more)

Digg It category: Politics | comment | | source: www.newstatesman.com tags: eprdf, ethiopia, Food, TPLF

It's Ethiopia Week in Washington DC

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If you live anywhere near Shaw, the U Street Corridor or Skyline in Alexandria, VA, you may be thinking – every week is Ethiopia week! But this week is different. (more)

Digg It category: Fun | comment | | source: www.examiner.com tags: ethiopia, ethiopia culture, ethiopian food, Food

BBC's Ethiopia weapons report denied

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Ethiopian officials and an aid agency have denied a BBC report that millions of dollars in aid for Ethiopian famine victims in the 1980s went to buy arms. (more)

Digg It category: Politics | comment | | source: news.bbc.co.uk tags: election 2002, eprdf, Food, TPLF

TPLF spent aid on weapons - while millions died in 1984 starvation

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The BBC has evidence that millions of dollars, earmarked for victims of the Ethiopian famine of 1984-85, went to buy weapons. The investigation found claims that a rebel movement in Ethiopia diverted the aid to fund its attempt to overthrow the government of the time. (more)

Digg It category: Politics | comment | | source: www.rocketnews.com tags: eprdf, Food, Meles Zenawi, TPLF

Ethiopia: The new breadbasket of the world?

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Al Amoudi’s Saudi Star Agricultural Development Plc, receives 10,000 hectares in Gambella to farm rice for 60 years rent-free. As swathes of their country’s land is leased, cleared and prepared for food production by foreign companies, Ethiopians are divided over whether this constitutes ‘agro-colonialism’ or much-needed development, writes MARY FITZGERALD Foreign Affairs Correspondent ‘WHY ATTRACTIVE?” reads an [...] (more)

Digg It category: Economy | comment | | source: abbaymedia.com tags: economy, Food

Dishes of Ethiopian Cuisine From New York’s Queen of Sheba

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FoxNews.com’s Diane Macedo explores how to prepare authentic Ethiopian cuisine at New York’s Queen of Sheba restaurant. The eatery was also one of thirty-three favorite restaurants of Voice food critic Robert Sietsema, author of Secret New York. Sietsema has reviewed more than 2,000 restaurants in the last 14 years. (more)

Digg It category: Fun | comment | | source: www.tadias.com tags: ethiopia, ethiopia culture, Food

Disputed dam fuels Ethiopia-Kenya border attacks

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Six Kenyans have been killed and over 2,000 villagers forced to flee home in Lokitaung district in attacks by Ethiopian militia, a Kenyan official said on Tuesday. (more)

Digg It category: Economy | comment | | source: english.people.com.cn tags: economy, ethiopia, Food

Ethiopian famine girl set to marry

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A girl who became the symbol of the Ethiopian famine during Live Aid 25 years ago has got engaged. (more)

Digg It category: Fun | comment | | source: www.ethioguardian.com tags: ethiopia, Food

The Checkered Face of Famine in Ethiopia

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Ethiopia’s “Silently” Creeping Famine “Oh! What a tangled web we weave, when first we practice to deceive,” said Sir Walter Scott, the novelist and poet. Is there “famine” in Ethiopia, or not? Are large numbers of people “starving” there, or not? Is convulsive hunger a daily reality for the [...] (more)

Digg It category: Economy | comment | | source: ethioforum.org tags: economy, Food

Faces of Climate Change: Ethiopia at Tadias Magazine

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It’s midday in the tiny village of Gutu Dobi, in southern Ethiopia, and Loko Dadacha, a widow who is supporting her family single-handedly, has been at work since before dawn. That’s ... (more)

Digg It category: Economy | comment | | source: www.tadias.com tags: ethiopia, Food

Mix of traditional food and entertainment at DC’s Little Ethiopia

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By Tom Sietsema WASHINGTON DC — Ethiopian Yellow Pages of the Washington Metro Area estimates there are more than 45 dining rooms serving doro wot and injera. So how does Yehune Belay, who just added the title of restaurateur to his résumé, hope to distinguish his place in Shaw from the pack? By re-creating the atmosphere of [...] (more)

Digg It category: Fun | comment | | source: www.ethiopianreview.com tags: Food

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Bob Geldof should be held accountable

The BBC's allegations over Ethiopian aid: what is the truth?

Sir Bob Geldof – Defending the indefensible | Abbay Media

PM Meles Zenawi denies 1984-85 Ethiopia aid was diverted

Woyane Blood Money

Ethiopia: food security situation in North Wollo - report

BBC stands by its Ethiopia aid abuse report

It's Ethiopia Week in Washington DC

BBC's Ethiopia weapons report denied

TPLF spent aid on weapons - while millions died in 1984 starvation

Ethiopia: The new breadbasket of the world?

Dishes of Ethiopian Cuisine From New York’s Queen of Sheba

Disputed dam fuels Ethiopia-Kenya border attacks

Ethiopian famine girl set to marry

The Checkered Face of Famine in Ethiopia

Faces of Climate Change: Ethiopia at Tadias Magazine

Mix of traditional food and entertainment at DC’s Little Ethiopia

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