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November 2007 Headline News

Headline News November 22 2007

• Somali TFG President Abdullahi Yusuf Ahmed Appoints Nur Hassan Hussein as New PM (AFP  11/22/07)

• Ex-White House Spokesman Faults Bush in CIA Leak Scandal (AFP  11/21/07)

• Obang Metho Challenges Podium with Representatives from Major Regions of the Country and Challenges the Ethiopian Community to Rice Above Partisan and Ethnocentric Politics  (11/17/07)

• Anuak Justice Council Press Release on Human Rights Conference (11/20/07)

• The Deafening Silence of Unionists Ethiopians - a Personal Observation by Emebet S. Bekele (11/20/07)

• Somali Mothers Mourn As Crisis Grows (AP  11/20/07)

• Somali Refugees on Hunger Strike (BBC  11/21/07)

• Separatist Rebels Accuse Ethiopia’s Military of Killing Civilians in Remote Region (New York Times  11/20/07)

• Islamist Insurgency Grows in Somalia (Guardian  11/19/07)

• Survival Outweighs Politics In "Forgotten Kenya" (New Times Times  11/22/07)

• 'A growing Insurgency Has Developed' in Somalia (Guardian  11/16/07)
• Displaced in Somalia: Dr. "Abdullahi" Talks About Horror in Mogadishu (BBC  11/15/07)
• Zenawi Troops Shut Radio Station in Mogadishu (CNN 11/13/07)

Headline News November 16, 2007

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• Ethiopian Peoples' Prayer: God Save Us From Woyane Brutality (Courtesy B. Zeleke 11/16/07)

• Maid Abuse Under Scrutiny in Lebanon, Thousands of Ethiopians Exploited (Washington Post  11/15/07)

• Judge Rejects Rastafarian Religion Plea in Marijuana Case (AP  11/16/07)

• Adolescent 'NeoCons' Still Wining About Their Defeat at the Polls in Ethiopia, and What they Rote to Somalia (New York Times  11/15/07)

• Afeworki and Zenawi Urged to Settle Their "Dispute" Peacefully (AFP  11/14/07)

• UN Security Council Statement Addressed to Meles Zenawi and Isias Afeworki: Grow-Up, Stop the Carnage (UNSC  11/13/07)

• China in Africa: Developing Ties and Exploiting Resources and Cheap Labor (BBC  11/14/07)

• China in Africa: Developing Ties: Habtom Gebre Says the Chinese "Gift" is Actually a Loan "It will be repaid when the Chinese find oil in the south of Ethiopia." (BBC  11/14/07)

Headline News November 6 2007

• A Benefit for 266 AIDS Orphans in Ethiopia November 10, 2007 in Washington DC (SASO) Poster and Press Release

• Kenyans Including Her Husband Held in Ethiopia, Asserts Woman (Daily Nation  11/07/07)

• Cantankerous Cousins Zenawi and Afeworki on Verge Of Inciting Another Border War, Report Says (Washington Post 11/06/07)

• Zenawi Says He Wants Talks, Not War With Cousin Isaias (Reuters 11/06/07)

• Obang Metho Addresses Ethiopian Community at Fifth Anniversary of "Little Ethiopia" in Los Angles (AJC 11/06/07)

• UN to Open Office in Ethiopia's Troubled Ogaden Region (Reuters  11/06/07)

• Students Protest Singer Beyonce's Ethiopia Trip and Close Association With Zenawi Regime's 'Marxist Pastor' (Charlotte Observer  11/06/07)

• Somali Succession Poses Challenge for Yusuf, Zenawi, and the Opposition (VOA  11/05/07)

• TPLF/MLLT Plan to Create State-Run Exchange For Food Commodity (Financial Times  11/05/07)

• Ethiopia Rebels Say They Killed 270 More TPLF Troops (Reuters  11/04/07)

• TPLF Leader Meles Zenawi Reinforces Troops in Somalia - Witnesses (Reuters  11/04/07)

• Why Condi's Dreams Crashed -She had spun 180 degrees from the positions she'd held for the previous 30 years (Washington Post  11/04/07)

• Paula Radcliffe, Wins Women’s New York Marathon With Gete Wami of Ethiopia in Second Place (New York Times  11/05/07)

• Musharraf The Meles Zenawi of Asia Leaves White House in Lurch (New York Times  11/04/07) Watch Fox News Video of TPLF-Type Tyranny 

• Fresh Fighting Kills One in Mogadishu After Zenawi Deploys Additional TPLF Troops to Mogadishu (AFP 11/03/07)

• Eritrean People's Liberation Front Accuses Tigrean People's Liberation Front  of Invasion Plans Again (Reuters  11/03/07)

• Heavy Battles in Somali Capital: TPLF troops supporting Somalia's interim government have been involved in fierce battles with insurgents in Somalia's capital, Mogadishu. (BBC  11/02/07)

Headline News  November 2 2007

• Mogadishu Battles Stoke Humanitarian Crisis (Reuters  11/02/07)

• Meles Zenawi-A Brittle Western Ally in the Horn of Africa: While things are getting better in much of Africa, Ethiopia risks getting left behind (The Economist  11/01/07)

• The Global Competitiveness Report 2007-2008: Meles Zenawi's TPLF Regime Ranked 123rd out of 131 Countries (Global Competitiveness Report)

• Thousands of Somalis Flee Fighting in Capital (Washington Post  11/02/07)

• Mogadishu Violence Displaces 88,000 People (Reuters  11/01/07)

• Refugee Reporter Seeks Resettlement Away From Ethiopia-Eritrea Border (VOA  11/01/07)

• Best of World Marathoners Ready for NYC Run : Gete Wami Says She is Prepared to win (AP 11/01/07)

October 2007 Headline News

Headline News October 30 2007

• Child Hunger 'Crisis' in Ogaden Region of Ethiopia (BBC  10/30/07)
• Red Cross Repatriates 885 Victims of TPLF and EPLF Power Struggle in Ethiopia  (AFP  10/29/07)
• Black Gold: A Straightforward Documentary About the World Coffee Trade (Guardian  10/29/07)
• Weekend Fighting Between Woyane Troops and Somali Insurgents Drove 36,000 From Somali Capital-UN (Reuters  10/30/07)
• Somalia TFG Premier Resigns as Crisis Deepens (AFP 10/29/07)
• Somali Premier Resigns in Power Struggle (AP  10/29/07)
• Tamrat Ayalew Captures Marine Corps Marathon Washington Post  10/29/07)
• Several Killed as Zenawi's TPLF Forces Break Up Mogadishu Demonstration (AFP 10/28/07)
• Obang Metho Challenges US Senator Inhofe on Democracy in Ethiopia (AJC 10/24/07)
• Female Journalists Including an Ethiopian to Be Awarded (AP  10/23/07)
• U.N. Asks Somali TFG to Free Head of Word Food Program Chief  (CNN  10/17/07)
• A Benefit for 266 AIDS Orphans in Ethiopia November 10, 2007 in Washington DC (SASO) Poster and Press Release

Headline News October 17 2007

• Ethiopia's 'Own Darfur' as Villagers Flee Government-Backed Violence (Independent  10/17/07)

• Press Release by the Ogaden Human Rights Committee

• Isaias Afeworki's Police Gulag Ranked as the Worst Regime in Press Freedom (BBC 10/17/07)

• Isaias' EPLF Regime Ranked Last in Freedom of the Press Annual Report: Reporters Without borders Reporters Without Borders  10/16/07)

• Reporters Without Borders 2007 Index (Reporters Without Borders)

• How Top London Law Firms Help Vulture Funds Devour Their Prey (Guardian  10/17/07)

• Heavy Fighting Rocks Somali Capital (AFP  10/16/07)

• Somalia's Pirates Are 'Thriving' (BBC  10/16/07)

• Bush Backs TPLF Terrorist Regime Leader as Terror War Trumps Democracy Push (Bloomberg  10/15/07)

• Drug-Resistant Bacterium Spreading in the US (Washington Post  10/16/07)

Headline News October 11 2007

193 Ethiopian Peaceful Protesters 'Massacred' on October 19 2005 -We urge Ethiopians around the world to commemorate with protest the first anniversary of the TPLF regime sponsored violence. Meles Zenawi who orchestrated and led the brutal suppression of democratic and human rights must be held personally responsible and accountable.

• Dismissive TPLF Tyrant Meles Zenawi Tests US Indulgence in Ethiopian Politics (Financial Times  10/10/07)

• Somali Car Bomb Kills Ethiopians Somalia Tyrants Engaged in Power Struggle (BBC  10/11/07)

• Somalia Ministers Demand Confidence Vote in an Effort to Oust the Gedi/Zenawi TFG (IRIN 10/11/07)

• The Devastating Cost of Africa's Wars: £150bn and Millions of Lives (Guardian  10/11/07)

• Wars Strip $284 Billion From African Economies -Report (Reuters  10/11/07)

• Report: African Wars Cost Billions (CNN  10/11/07)

• Southern Sudan Suspends Participation in National Government (VOA News  10/11/07)

• የአሜሪካ ድምፅ ሬዲዮ የአማርኛው ቋንቋ አገልግሎት ምን ነካው? (Ethiolion.com)

• October 14 2007 CUDP Public Gathering in Washington DC- Engineer Hailu Shawel Will Address the Forum (Ethiolion.com)

• Bush Defends Interrogations, Saying Methods Aren’t Torture (New York Times  10/06/07)

Headline News October 5 2007

• UN Warns of Humanitarian Crisis in Somali Region of Ethiopia (Reuters  10/05/07)

• Merkel Promotes Human Rights and Pledges Support in Ethiopia (Deutsche Wellle  10/05/07)

• Germany's Merkel Calls for More Freedom in Ethiopia (AFP  10/04/07)

• TPLF Mouthpiece in Washington Furious Over Bill to Limit U.S. Aid (Washington Post 10/04/07)

• Meles Zenawi Angry at Proposed U.S. Aid Sanction (Reuters  10/03/07)

• Somalia's Transitional Government Cracks Down on Insurgents (VOA News  10/05/07)

• Hijackers Seize Cargo Plane in Northern Somalia (Washington Post  10/04/07)

• World Figures on Mission in Dafur Blast Sudan's Government (CNN  10/04/07)

Headline News October 3 - September 27 2007

• Bereket Habte Selassie-Head of Eritrea's Quisling League by Sophia Tesfamariam October 3, 2007

• Meles Zenawi's TPLF Regime in Ethiopia Angry at Proposed U.S. Aid Sanction (Reuters  10/03/07)

• Ethiopia Bill Faces George W. Bush Backlash (Financial Times  10/03/07)

• United States House of Representatives Seeks Democratic Benchmark in Ethiopia (AP  10/02/07)

• Fire in Mogadishu Engulfs Main Somali Market (BBC 10/03/07)

• Isaias Afeworki Says Meles Zenawi Can't Legally Scrap Border Ruling (Reuters  10/03/07)

• Isaias Afeworki Defends His Refusal of Foreign Aid (AP 10/03/07)

• The Secrets Of Intangible Wealth (NCPA  10/02/07)

• An Ethiopian Man Charged in Boston Airport Threat (AP 10/01/07)

• Eritrean Christians Tell of Torture (BBC 09/27/07)

• Haile Gebrselassie Sets Marathon Record (AP  09/30/07)

• Corrupt  US Religious Leaders Attempt to Prop-up Meles Zenawi's Brutal Dictatorship in Ethiopia: See-Hear-Speak-No-Evil Calvin O. Butts (AP  09/30/07)

• Isaias Afeworki Rejects Marxist Leninist League of Tigray Warning (BBC  09/26/07)

September 2007 Headline News

Headline News September 26 2007

• Somalia, Myanmar, Iraq Top Corruption Blacklist (AFP  09/26/07)

• Bush Scolds "Brutal Regimes" As He Pushes 'Democracy': He Has Amnesia Regarding Ethiopia (Reuters  09/25/07)

• Ibrahim Index of African Governance : Cousins Zenawi and Afeworki Not Doing Too Well (Mo Ibrahim Foundation  September 207)

• Meles Zenawi Threatens to Terminate Fragile Peace Accord With Isaias Afeworki (AFP  09/25/07)

• War Crimes in Somalia, Blame the White HouseToward Freedom  09/24/07)

• Sleeping With the Enemy Part I by Abel Belachew  September 2007  

• Ethiopian 'Opposition' Political Leaders' Identity Crisis  by Hamma Tumma September 24, 2007

• The Ethiopian Opposition Pentecostals (Indian Ocean Newsletter  09/22/07)

• Open Letter to Kinijit Leaders by Obang Metho September 22, 2007

• ZTE Brags About Global Contracts, including $478-M Deal in Ethiopia (ABS-CBN News  09/24/07)

• Three Somali Government Soldiers Killed in Fierce Battle (Washington Post  09/24/07)

• Somali Violence Amid Sacking Row (BBC  09/24/07)

• The Remix : Sleeping With the Enemy (New York Times  09/23/07)

• Risk of Fraud High in Visa Program (AP  09/22/07)

• Africa Flooding Spreads, 22 Countries Including Ethiopia Hit: UN (AFP  09/24/07)US Gives 'Strategically Important' TPLF Regime $97 Million (AFP  09/21/07)

• Isaias Afeworki's EPLF Regime: Victim or Newest Rogue State? (Guardian  09/21/07)

Headline News September 24 2007

• UN Seeks Inquiry Into Human Rights Abuses in the Somali Region of Ethiopia by Meles Zenawi Regime (BBC  09/20/07)

• UN Calls for Probe Into Alleged Eastern Ethiopia Rights Abuses (AFP  09/20/07)

• U.N. Sees Budding Crisis in Ethiopia (LA Times  09/20/07)

• UN Fears Humanitarian Crisis in Remote Ethiopian Region (Reuters  09/20/07)

• Somali Opposition Alliance Begins Fight Against Meles Zenawi's TPLF Regime (AFP  09/20/07)

• U.S. Endorses Arab-African Peace Force for Somalia (Reuters  09/20/07)

• Hornets' Nest in the Horn of Africa (Comment by Simon Tisdall  09/20/07)

• Villages Cut Off as Floods Inundate Middle Shabelle Region of Somalia (Reuters  09/19/07)

• Ethiopia's Opposition Wants US Support for Democracy Struggle (VOA News  09/18/07)

• Isaias Afeworki Denies American Accusations of Terrorist Ties (New York Times  09/17/07)

Headline News September 16 2007

• Harlem Church Members Leave on Pilgrimage to Ethiopia (AP  09/16/07)
• Disease Alert in Flood-Hit Africa- In Ethiopia, Deaths Have Been Reported (BBC 09/16/07)
• Torrential Rains And Floods Affect Millions In Africa (VOA News  09/16/07)
• Isaias Afeworki Backs Somali Opposition Against Meles Zenawi's TPLF Mercenary Troops (Reuters  09/15/07
• Islamist to Lead Somali Opposition Alliance (Washington Post  09/14/07)
• Scientists Recruit Worms for Fight Against Asthma (Guardian  09/15/07)
• Mali Says Rebels Fired on U.S. Military Plane Ferrying Supplies (New York Times 09/14/07)
• Ethiopia's Meseret Defar Jubilates as She wins the 2 Miles and Sets a New World Record at the Memorial Van Damme Golden League Meeting in Brussels, Friday Sept. 14, 2007 (Washington Post  09/14/07)

Headline News September 13 2007

• Ethiopians in Washington, DC Celebrate Their Millennium (VOA News  09/12/07)
• Arise Children of Light by Berhane Selassie
• What Will the Ethiopian Millennium Bring? (BBC  09/07/07)
• Ramadan Begins Across Muslim World (Aljazeera  09/13/07)
• Ethiopian Rebels Warn "African Genocide" Unfolding in Ogaden (AFP  09/13/07)
• Ethiopia's isolated Ogaden: Refugees Tell Tale of Repression (AFP  09/13/07)
• Somali Opposition Alliance Worries Some Analysts (VOA News  09/13/07)
• Somali Government Dismisses Opposition "Terrorist" Alliance (New York Times  09/13/07)
• UN Staff Member Killed in Somalia (IRIN News  09/12/07)
• University of Virginia Cartoonist Forced Out Over Image of African Famine (Washington Post  09/12/07)

Headline News September 10 2007

• US Official Urges Greater African Involvement in Somalia Peace Efforts (VOA  09/09/07)
• Week-Long Celebration of Ethiopia's Millennium Festivities in Washington DC (Washington Post  09/08/07)
• US Gives Stark Warning to Isaias Afeworki (BBC  09/08/07)
• Talks Between Two Eritro-Tigrean Tyrants Collapses in The Hague (AFP 09/08/07)
• Isaias Afeworki Blames Cousin Zenawi for Derailing Border Talks (Reuters  09/08/07)
• Somali Rebels Warn of Full-Scale War to Push Out Meles Zenawi's Mercenary  Troops (AFP  09/08/07)
• Somali Islamist Leader Emerges From Hiding (Guardian  09/07/07)
• TPLF Tyrant Meles Zenawi Ssays He Detained U.S. Troops in May 2007 (CNN  09/07/07)
• Villages Deserted, Burned in Ethiopia's Ogaden-MSF (Reuters  09/04/07)
• Norway to Cut Ethiopia Aid After Diplomats Were Expelled by Meles Zenawi (Reuters  08/31/07) 
• Time Magazine Interview: TPLF Tyrant Meles Zenawi (Time Magazine 09/06/07)

August 2007 Headline News

Headline News August 28 2007

• Seven Killed in Mogadishu Clashes Amid Fresh Humanitarian Warning (AFP  08/28/07)
• Meles Zenawi Accuses His Fertilizer Suppliers From Norway of Undermining TPLF Security (Reuters  08/18/07)
• TPLF Regime Expels 6 Norwegian Diplomats (AP  08/27/07)
• Norwegian Envoys to Leave Ethiopia (BBC  08/28/07)
• Sudan Expels Aid Agency Director (CNN  08/28/07)
• UN Agency Warns of Flood Risks for 100,000 in Ethiopia (Afrique  08/17/08)
• Flood Survivors Struggle One Year On (IRIN  08/28/07)
• Ethiopia's Bekele Wins Third Straight World Title at 10,000 Meters (Fox Sports  08/27/07)
• South Africa's Health Department Recalls 20 Million Condoms (CNN  08/28/07)
• UN Seeks Emergency Funds for Somalia (Reuters  08/28/07)
• New Blow to Bush as Attorney General Gonzales Resigns (Guardian  08/28/07)

Headline News August 26 2007

• Forgotten Eritrean Refugees in Sudan (VOA 08/26/07)
• 5 Somalis Killed in Violence, Nine Hurt (AP  08/26/07)
• Bomb Kills Two Somali Children (BBC  08/26/07)
• Threat of Stronger Insurgency in Somalia (Independent  08/25/07)
• Two Somalia Reconciliation Delegates Injured in Grenade Attack (VOA 08/25/07)
• Kenyan Anti-Rendition Campaigner Missing (AP  08/25/07)
• Tirunesh Dibaba Wins World Title in Miracle Fightback (Reuters  08/25/07)
• Tirunesh Dibaba Defends 10,000m in Thriller (AFP  08/25/07)

Headline News August 24 2007

• 'Lucy' Exhibit Worries Some Scientists (AP  08/24/07)
• US Announces Emergency Aid to Ethiopia's Ogaden Region (VOA News 08/24/07)
• Nine Killed in Somalia Unrest (AFP  08/24/07)
• Somali Radio Journalist Shot Dead (AP  08/24/07)
• Aid Workers in Somalia Fear Government Attack on Camps Near Mogadishu (VOA News  08/24/07)
• Sudan in Violation of UN Arms Embargo - Amnesty (Reuters  08/24/07)
• Terrence Lyons Says Ethiopia-Eritrea Conflict Fueling Somalia Crisis (Council on Foreign Relations  08/22/07)

Headline News August 21 2007

• Ketherine H Wheeler of Foreign Policy Magazine Interviews Samuel Assefa TPLT/EPRDF Ambassador to the United States -Watch YouTube Video (08/20/07)
• Freed Ethiopians Describe Threats, Abuse, Intimidation (Washington Post  08/21/07)
• In Ethiopia, One Man's Model for a Just Society (Christian Science Monitor  08/21/07)
• UN Extends Africa Union's Somalia Mission (BBC  08/21/07)
• Police Ranked Most Corrupt Institution in Kenya (CNN  08/21/07)
• Media Watchdog Criticizes Ethiopia's Press Freedom (VOA News  08/21/07)
• Three More Opposition Journalists Freed in Ethiopia Under (Reporters Without Borders  08/20/07)
• Expelled Eritreans Seek Damages From Ethiopia (Reuters  08/20/07)
• US Must Change Policy in Horn of Africa - Eritrea (Reuters  08/20/07)
• China’s Trade in Africa Carries a Price Tag (New York Times  08/21/07)
• Puntland, Somali Government Rift Grows over Oil Resources (VOA News  08/21/07)

Headline News August 18 2007

• Oromo Diaspora Flocks State Capitol to Protest TPLF Regime-U.S. Alliance (Twin Cities  08/18/07)
• Where Khat Is King, But Not Much Else Works (Washington Post  08/19/07)
• Meles Zenawi's Regime Releases 32 More Opposition Members Held Without Trial Since June 2005 (AFP  08/18/07)
• Opposition Members Jailed by Meles Zenawi Freed in Ethiopia (BBC  08/18/07)
• Isaias Afeworki Rejects U.S. Accusation of Eritrean Terrorism (Reuters 08/18/07)
• Government Leaders Targeted in Somali Violence (VOA News  08/18/07)
• Fighting Over Resources Kills 18 Somalis (AP  08/18/07)
• Somalia is Still a Failed State: Even hope is in short supply as violence flares in Mogadishu (Economist  08/17/07)
• U.S. Considers Putting Eritrea on Terrorism List (Reuters  08/17/07)
• Ethiopia Volcano Erupts, 2 Missing (Guardian  08/17/07)

Headline News August 16 2007

• 2 Missing After Ethiopia Volcano Erupts (AP 08/16/07)
• Meles Zenawi is Having Nightmare and Claims He Thwarted New Year Eve Attack Against His Tyrannical Regime (BBC 08/15/07)
• Overstretched Uganda Bears Brunt of AU Mission in Somalia (CNN  08/16/07)
• Alarming Malnutrition Rates as Food Crisis Hits Mogadishu and Shabelle Region  of Somalia (IRIN NEWS 08/15/07)
• Somalia's Interim Prime Minister Said the Country's Capital, Mogadishu, Needs Baghdad Type "Green Zone" (BBC 08/15/07)
• In the Shadow of Ethiopia's Rebels (BBC  08/14/07)

Headline News August 13 2007

• Transitional Government of Somalia and Meles Zenawi's TPLF Regime Are Accused of War Crimes (New York Times  08/13/07)
• Meles Zwnawi's TPLF Regime Battles Opponents That It Labels as "Terrorists and "Suspected Islamic Extremists" in Ethiopia (NPR RADIO)       by Nick Wadhams   
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• War Crimes 'Rampant' in Somalia (BBC News  08/13/07)
• Civilian Toll Cited In Somali Conflict (Washington Post  08/13/07)
• Somalia Warring Sides Violate Law (AP  08/13/07)
• Somalia, Ethiopia, Rebels Commit Crimes, Group Says (Bloomberg Radio  08/13/07)
• U.S. Encouragement of Meles Zenawi’s Human Rights Violations (Geeska Africa  08/13/07)
• US Tells Eritrea to Close Down Consulate in California (VOA News  08/13/07)
• Eritrean Consulate Sent Packing (News24 08/13/07)
• Eritrea Lashes Out At U.S. Over Consulate Closure (New York Times 08/13/07)
• CORRECTED - UPDATE 1-Melels Zeanwi's TPLF Regime Signs Ogaden Gas Deal With Petronas (Reuters  08/13/07)
• U.N. peacekeepers may head to Somalia (AP  08/13/07)
• Karl Rove, Adviser to President Bush, to Resign (Washington Post  08/13/07)

Headline News August 12 2007

• Canadian Journalist Ali Shermarke Assassinated by Meles Zenawi's Mercenaries: Ali Sharmarke left Ottawa to fight for press freedom in war-torn country  (The Toronto Star 08/12/07)
• 2 Somali Radio Journalists Slain (Washington Post  08/12/07)
• Tensions between Eritrea, Ethiopia on the rise (Twin Cities, 08/11/07)
• Two Somali Journalists, Four Officials Killed in Mogadishu (AFP 08/11/07)
• Woyane ETV Deputy Manager Sacked (All Africa 08/11/07)
• Essien Backs African Nations Cup Switch (AFP  08/12/07)

Headline News August 10 20078

• SOMALIA: Five Police Stations Attacked Overnight in Mogadishu (IRIN News  08/10/07) 
• Fierce Fighting Between Meles Zenawi's TPLF Mercenary Troops and Somali Insurgents Rocks Mogadishu (BBC  08/10/07)
• Amnesty International Urges Release of Somaliland Political Prisoners (Reuters  08/09/07)
• The Tigrean People's Liberation Front (TPLF) Regime in Ethiopia Signs Ogaden Gas Deal With Malaysian State Oil Firm Petronas: The Regimes Nemesis ONLF Says No Way! (Reuters  08/10/07)
• Ethiopia Focuses on Oil Deals Despite Resistance From Rebels (VOA News  08/10/07)

Headline News August 9 20078

• Haile's Got a Brand New Bag: (Guardian  08/10/07)
• Extreme Floods Hit 500 Million People a Year (Reuters 08/10/07)
• Insurgency Endangering Somali Civilians(Ap 08/09/07)
• Sudan Says to Free Darfur Rebel Suleiman Jamous for Talks (Reuters 08/09/07)
• Unseen by Western Hysteria, Darfur Edges Closer to Peace (guardian 08/10/07)

Headline News August 8 20078

• The Tigrean People's Liberation Front Regime Says it Killed 502, Captured 170 Ogaden Rebels (Reuters  08/08/07)
• Ethiopia Rebels Warn Oil Companies to Stay Away (Reuters  08/08/07)
• Ethiopian Strife Tests US Commitment (Guardian  08/08/07)
• New Fossils Discovery Challenges Old Evolution Theory: New research by famed paleontologist Meave Leakey shows our family tree is not so linear. (AP   08/08/07)
• U.N. Envoy Makes Surprise Somalia Visit (AP 08/07/07)
• In Africa, Beyond Humanitarianism (Washington Post  08/09/07)
• Somali Officials Deny Selling Oil Rights (VOA News  08/08/07)

Headline News August 7 2007

• Row Sparked by US Tour of 3.2m-Year-Old Lucy (Dinknesh) Skeleton: TPLF Gangsters Raid Ethiopian National Museum Under Cover of Darkness and Smuggle the Fossil Out of the Country (Guardian  08/07/07)
• Ethiopians Fret as "Lucy" Skeleton and 190 Other Heritage Items Heads to U.S. (Reuters  08/07/07)
• The Tigrean People's Liberation Front (TPLF) Regime Claims Gains Over Ogaden National Liberation Front (ONLF) Rebels (VOA News   08/07/07)
• Meles Zenawi Claims His TPLF Troops Killed 200 Somali and Oromo Insurgents/Elders in the Ogaden (Mail & Guardian  08/07/07)
• ANALYSIS-Somalis Still Talking, But Peace Elusive (Reuters  08/07/07)
• UK Asks U.S. To Free Residents From Guantanamo (New York Times 08/07/07)
• UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador Mia Farrow Offers to Be Held in Sudan (AP 08/07/07)

Headline News August 6 2007

• Meles Zenawi Executes Tsehaye Woldeselassie to Cover Up His Previous Execution of TPLF Rival Kinfe Gebremedhin (BBC  08/06/07)
• Ethiopia Carries Out Rare Execution (Ruters  08/06/07)
• Famous Fossil Lucy Leaves Ethiopia Over Objections of the People of Ethiopia and the Smithsonian Institute Meles Zenawi Commiting Another Treasonous Act (AP  08/06/07)
• Two Bombs in Ogaden Region of Ethiopia 1 killed, Wound 8: Meles Zenawi's Agents Blew Up a Church Just Like They did a Year Ago in Wellega to Incite Religious Conflicts (Reuters  08/06/07)
• Meles Zenawi's Mercenary Troops Kill a Man During Somalia Weapons Search (AP  08/06/07)
• Explosions Rock Mogadishu as Soldiers Search for Weapons (VOA News 08/06/07)
• Billed as the Best, Gebrselassie Holds True to Form (New York Times 08/06/07)
• FIFA Says Only 18 African Nations Have Safe Stadiums (NEw York Times 08/06/07)

Headline News August 5 2007

• Meles Zenawi's Dirty War: A New Humanitarian Crisis Has Developed in the Horn of Africa (Guardian  08/05/07)
• Haile Gebre Selassie Wins New York City Half Marathon (USA Today  08/05/07)
• At Long, Long Last, the UN Flexes Its Muscles in Darfur (Guardian 08/05/07)
• Sudan: A Country in Crisis (Washington Post Interactive Report) 
• Darfur Rebel Talks to Wind Up Monday (AFP 08/05/07)

Headline News August 4 2007

• Meles Zenawi Engages in Secret Talks With Islamists, Looking for a Way Out of the Quagmire He Created (shabelle  08/04/07)
• Isaias Afeworki Dismisses Extension of UN Border Mission (AFP  08/04/07)
• What I Expect From Our Leaders! (Sudan Tribune  08/03/07)
• Senate Votes To Expand Warrantless Surveillance As Requested by Bush- Caller Beware, George May be Listening to Your Conversation With Relatives Who the Bush/Zenawi Duo Labeled as "Terrorists." Remember the Charges Against the CUDP Leaders! (Washington Post  08/04/07)
• Robert Mugabe Mimics George Bush (BBC 08/04/07)
• Darfur's Fractious Rebels in Landmark Reconciliation Talks (AFP 08/04/07)

Headline News August 3 2007

• Anti-Poverty Campaigners Jailed in November 2005 Face Two-Month Wait for Verdict While Woyane Judges Go on Vacation (Reuters  08/03/07)
• U.N. Says Thousands Flee Mogadishu Because of Bombings and Gun Battles (Reuters  08/03/07)
• Idi Amin's Son Jailed Over Gang Killing in London (BBC  08/03/07)
• Red Cross Confirms Pullout From Somali Region in Ethiopia  (Reuters 08/02/07)
• A Warm Reception for Refugees: Center Rolls Out The Welcome Mat (Washington Post  08/02/07)

Headline News August 2 2007

• 8 killed, 20 wounded in Mogadishu (AP  08/02/07)
• Civilians Die in Mogadishu Battle (BBC  08/02/07)
• Tigrean People's Liberation Front (TPLF) Kangaroo Court Sentences Five Opposition Figures to Long Term Imprisonment (VOA News  08/02/07)
• AU Says Five Nations Pledge to Back Darfur Force, Meles Zenawi Offers Aagazi Troops (Washington Post   08/02/07)
• Congressman Donald Payne and co-sponsors have drafted legislation and sent it to the House Foreign Affairs Committee H.R. 2003: Ethiopia Democracy and Accountability Act of 2007 (Fantasy Congress) George W. Bush continues to nurture and sustain the TPLF Marxist dictatorship 
• In the US Senate Senator Christopher Dodd Seeks Answers from Secretary of State Rice (04/12/07) Secretary Rice continues to defy international laws and human rights advocates

Headline News August 1 2007

• Rumblings of Trouble in East Africa (Chicago Tribune 08/01/07)
• Casting a Wide Web for Robbers- Market Owned by an Ethiopian Robbed Several Times, Community Comes to the Rescue (Washington Post 08/01/07)
• Watch You Tube Video of Robbery at Gun Point LeDroit Park Market at 1901 4st NW, Washington DC
• To Ethiopians in America, Bread Is a Taste of Home  (New York Times  08/01/07)
• Somali Suspect in US Plea Bargain (BBC  08/01/07)
• Israeli Spy Recalls Secret Mission Removing Ethiopian Jews Reuters  07/31/07)
• For Gephardt, a New Career in Lobbying -- And a Lot More- Lobbying For Meles Zenawi's Terrorist Regime in Ethiopia (Washington Post  07/31/07)

July 2007 Headline News

Headline News July 31 2007

• Four Killed As Rebels Attack Mercenary Troops in Mogadishu (Reuters 07/31/07)
• Somali Gunmen Attack Meles Zenawi's Mercenary Troops (BBC  07/31/07)
• US Congressman Tom Lantos Addresses What He Claims Erroneous Reports About Legislation on Ethiopia: Press Release (Foreign Affairs Committee  07/31/07)
• Ethiopia Treason Suspects "Acted Within Law" (Reuters  07/31/07)
• Opposition Denies Links in TPLF Regime Treason Trial (Reuters  07/30/07)
• U.S Government - Meles Zenawi Regime: A Double-Edged Partnership (Council On Foreign Relations   07/31/07)
• Sudan Floods Kill 62 People, Leave Tens of Thousands Homeless (CNN  07/31/07)
• Security Council Approves 26,000-Strong Peacekeeping Force for Darfur (International Herald Tribune  07/31/07)
• UN: The TPLF, EPLF Regimes Still a Concern- Cantankerous Cousins Spreading Terror in East Africa (Washington Post  07/30/07)

Headline News July 30 2007

• The Coptic Orthodox Mass at St Catherine of Italy Church, in Valletta (Times of Malta  07/30/07)
• Sample Letter to be Sent to the Honorable Speaker of the US House of Representatives- The Coalition H.R. 2003 ( Ethiopia Democracy and Accountability Act of 2007) has requested that you use the sample letter to send a message to the Speaker, the Majority Leader and members of the House Foreign Affairs Committee. sf.nancy@mail.house.gov  
• Speaker Nancy Pelosi As A Mother (Huffington Post  05/11/07)
• Kenya's Shame in the Horn of Terror (Nations Media  07/30/07)
• Meles Zenawi's ’Mission Accomplished’ in Somalia? (The Century Foundation  07/26/07)

Headline News July 29 2007

• Professor Ephraim Isaac on NPR Radio, All Things Considered Program,  July 29, 2007
• Kenenisa Bekele of Ethiopia Wins The 4th Gran Premio Internacional de Atletismo Gobierno de Aragón in Zaragoza, Spain (IAAF  07/29/07)
• Ethiopia's Gebrselassie Breaks World Record, Runs 21.285 Km in One Hour (National Post Canada 07/29/07)
• Four Killed in Somali Insurgent Grenade, Gun Attacks in Mogadishu (Washington Post  07/29/07)
• Breakaway Somali Republic Arrests Three Politicians (Reuters  07/28/07)
• Data Mining Figured In Dispute Over US National Sescurity Agency (Washington Post  07/29/07)
• July 29: Democrats still pursuing prosecutor for Gonzales (Washington post  07/29/07) 
• Rigged Zimbabwe Polls Would Be Fatal for Country: Opposition (news.yahoo.com -afp- 07/29/07) 

Headline News July 28 2007

• Kinijit (CUDP) International Leadership Group Hands Back Delegated Political Power [Adera] to Elected Party Leaders.
• H.R. 2003 Obstructed in the US House of Representatives- How to Deal With the Lobbyist Menace:  Bill Moyers a renowned journalist Talks about Stopping the Culture of Corruption and Promoting Open Government  in Washington (Common Dreams  04/06/06)
•  In a July 25, 2007 article Harper's Magazine Ken Silverstein  exposes the role the lobby firm of  DLA Piper
• Barack Obama Claims He Wants to Clean Up Washington's Corruption (Barack Obama) 
• Democrats Agree on Overhaul of Lobbying  (New York Times  07/28/07)
• Film Director Steven Spielberg May Quit Beijing Olympics Role Over Darfur (VOA News  07/28/07)
• Gorbachev: U.S. Government Is Sowing 'Global Disarray' (USA Today  07/27/07)
• SA Publishers Cancel 'Racist' Comic Book (AP  07/28/07) NOTE: A WARNING TO PARENTS OF YOUNG CHILDREN

Headline News July 27 2007

• Meles Zenawi's TPLF Regime Turns Its Critics Into Untouchables: Lessons For Naive and Opportunistic Politicians (Globe and Mail  07/27/07)
• Hearing Today for Final Two in Ethiopia Treason Trial (One World  07/27/07)
• US Government and TPLF Regime in Ethiopia Accused Over Military Weapons and Atrocities in Somalia (Financial Times  07/27/07)
• A U.N. Report on Somalia Accuses the EPLF Regime in Eritrea of Adding to the Chaos (New York Times  07/27/07)
• Is the Genocidal Conflict in Somalia a Proxy War Between Two Eritrean Warlords Meles Zenawi and Isaias Afeworki? (VOA News  07/27/07)
• Blasts Kill 5 in Somali Capital (AP  07/27/07) 
• France's Kouchner Calls for Urgent UN Force in Somalia (AFP  07/27/07) 
• France's Sarkozy Takes Stick for New Africa Vision (AFP  07/27/07)
• Meles Zenawi's TPLF Regime Denies Looming Humanitarian Crisis in Somali Region IRIN News\ , 07/26/07)
• Red Cross Rejects EPRDF Cadre Accusations (Mail & Guardian  07/27/07)
• BBC Launches Free Internet TV Service (Reuters  07/27/07)

Headline News July 26 2007

• Press Release by Released CUDP Leaders; ENGLISH VERSION (pdf) AMHARIC VERSION (pdf) July 25, 2007
• Ethiopian Opposition Pledges Reconciliation, Democracy (AFP  07/26/07)
• Letter to Ethiopian Canadians by Obang Metho July 25, 2007
• Meles Zenawi and Woyane Gangsters Have Plundered and Sold Ethiopia, Now They Want to Dig Up and Defile Ethiopian Heroes Who They Despise So Much (AFP  07/26/07)
• Red Cross: Expulsion From Ethiopia Will Hurt Local People (NASDAQ  07/26/07)
•  Red Cross Told to Leave Ethiopia (Independent Online  07/26/07)
• U.N. Confirms Isaias Afeworki Has Armed Islamic Fighters in Somalia (AP  07/26/07)
• New Camp Opened for Somali Refugees in Ethiopia (IRIN News  07/26/07)
• Somali Islamists Reject Reconciliation Talks (VOA News  07/26/07)

Headline News July 25 2007

• Bipartisan Duo of US Ex-Congressional Heavyweights Blocking Action Against Ethiopia (Harpers   07/25/07)
• Abdil Ahmed of EPRDF Declared Five Ethiopian Opposition Members Pleaded Guilty, Sought Pardon (AP  07/25/07)
• Meles Zenawi Orders Red Cross to Leave Ogaden Region (VOA News 07/25/07)
• Isaias Afeworki Asks China to Help Break 'Border Deadlock' With Meles Zenawi (AFP  07/25/07)
• Somali Peace Talks Open to Islamists and Insurgents: An Act of Desperation (Reuters  07/25/07)
• Mogadishu Violence Kills One, Wounds At Least Nine (VOA News  07/25/07)

Headline News July 24 2007

• CCEM News Release:"Ethiopian Millennium Day" Proclaimed by Mayor Adrian M. Fenty of Washington D.C. July 24, 2007
• Tatek: Amharic Poem by Bezabeh Zeleke (07/24/07)
• Meles Zenawi's Regime Orders the ICRC Out of the Ogaden Region- Cover Up of Another Crime Against Humanity (BBC  07/24/07)
• The ICRC Advocates the Pursuit of Neutral and Independent Humanitarian Action (International Committee of Red Cross  060707)
• U.N. Seeks $48 Million to Help Fleeing Somalis (CNN  07/24/07)
• Ethiopia's Meles Goes From Strategic Starver to UN Partner in a Day, Ogaden Games in the Times (Inner City Press  07/23/07)
• Battles Around Peace Talks Send Somalis Fleeing Again (Reuters  07/24/07)
• Djibouti Airways Cargo Plane Crashes in East Ethiopia's Somali Region (People  07/24/07)

Headline News July 23 2007

• Ethiopia Rebels Warn Catastrophe Looming in Ogaden (CNN  07/23/07)
• Ethiopia Rebels Seek U.N. Investigation Into Aid Cutoff Claims (International Herald Tribune   07/23/07) 
• Ethiopia Rebels Urge U.N. to Probe Aid Claims (Reuters  07/23/07)
• More Civilians Fleeing Mogadishu Violence (Reuters  07/23/07)
• Four Civilians Killed in 2 Separate Attacks in Somali Capital  (Sudan Tribune  07/23/07) 
• At Least Four Killed in Latest Mogadishu Violence (VOA News  07/22/07)

Headline News July 22 2007

• Meles Zenawi's Regime Is Said to Block Food to Ogaden Region (New York Times  07/22/07)
• Four Killed, Several Wounded in Mogadishu Explosion (Indian Times  07/22/07)
• Death and Destruction in Ethiopia's Somali Region: Opinion Garowe 07/22/07)
• Open Letter to the U.S. Senate Committee on Foreign Relations: Concerning Ethiopia  by Obang Metho July 18, 2007
• Reflection on the Release of CUDP Leaders and Other Prisoners of Conscience by HG  July 21, 2007

Headline News July 21 2007

• Ban Ki-moon Calls for Efforts to Break Woyane-Shaibia Peace Process Stalemate (United Nations  07/20/07)
• Report of the Secretary-General on Ethiopia and Eritrea (UN  07/18/07)
• Four Journalists Convicted of Treason are Pardoned and Freed (Reporters Without Borders  07/20/07)

Headline News July 20 2007

• Tyrant Meles Zenawi Frees 38 Jailed Opposition Figures (news.yahoo.com -afp- 07/20/07)
• Despite Pardons, Others Still Face Trial in Ethiopia (VOA