Speaker of Ethiopian Parliament Resigned

Abadula Gemeda: “I am resigning from chairmanship but will remain in parliament.” BY REUTERS The speaker of Ethiopia’s lower house of parliament submitted his resignation on Sunday, one of the highest-ranking officials to do so since the ruling EPRDF coalition came to power in 1991. Abadula Gemeda did not disclose reasons behind his decision, but […]

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10 Eritrean Football Players Request Asylum in Botswana

By The Voice of Botswana, News coming in from Francistown is that only 14 Eritrean players will be taking their flight home from Gaborone this evening while the other ten have refused and opted to remain in the custody of Kutlwano Police in Francistown. The visiting national team which was supposed to have jetted out […]

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More than 40 Members of the Ethiopian Air Force Fled

By TesfaNews, More than 40 members of the troubled Ethiopian Air Force have reportedly fled the country. Sources close to the Washington based Ethiopian Satellite Television (ESAT) today reports that a number of staff members from the Debre Zeyit Air force headquarters along with 14 aircraft technicians and unspecified number of pilots didn’t show up for work for […]

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Ethiopia Admits Defection of Two MI-35 Helicopter Gunships to Eritrea (VIDEO)

By TesfaNews, THE Ethiopian Defense Ministry today announced that two of its Air Force pilots and their two MI-35 helicopter gunships have defected to Eritrea. In a face saving message read out today on the state television (EBC), the defense ministry alleges that it was rather a hijack by two disgruntled pilots forcing the flight technicians and co-pilots to fly […]

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Response to Denden Hayelom’s Open Letter to Artist Michael Adonai

By Bahri Tecle, I READ Denden Hayelom’s open letter to Michael Adonai with great interest. As a committed follower of Eritrean news and affairs online, I was pleasantly surprised to read such a balanced and reasoned criticism of an issue at hand. Commendably, after offering his genuine compliments to an Eritrean comrade and extraordinary artist we […]

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