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Rising Tensions: New uprising in Oromia extends to its second week
November 16, 2006 (EU) - Last year’s uprisings in Oromia marked a watershed in the rocky relationship between the Ethiopian regime and the Oromo, who make up close to half of the population in Ethiopia.Full Report

Oromo: EU Passes Resolution
November 17, 2006 (EU) - The European Parliament has passed a Resolution strongly critical of the Ethiopian Government’s treatment of opposition leaders and civil society activists, with particulate focus on its violent suppression of protests following the 2005 election crisis.Full Report

Rising Tensions: Three Generals-two Oromo, one Amhara- purged
November 16, 2006 (Finfinne) - Finfinne- the government-owned Ethiopian Television last night reported that three generals of the Ethiopian Army, Major General Alemshet Degife (Oromo), Brigadiers Kumera (Oromo) and Asaminew Tsige (Amhara), are suspended from their duties..Full Report

Ex-Member of TPLF Regime's Parliament Exposes Atrocities
November 15, 2006 (Shabait.com) - An Ex- member of the TPLF regime's parliament, Dr. Getachew Jiggy, stated that a number of innocent civilians killed by the regime for voicing protest against its election fraud last year is not less than 600.Full Report

Ethiopian judge tells of regime's massacres
November 15 , 2006  -The Ethiopian government is responsible for the killing of tens of thousands of students and other critics over the past 15 years, one of the country's most senior judges, who has defected to Britain, said on Wednesday..Full Report

Press Release by Getachew Jigi (Dr) MP of House of People’s Representatives of Ethiopia
November 11 , 2006  -The EPRDF regime is on a wide campaign of detaining Oromo nationalists, students, farmers and merchants for no crime committed.Full Report

The Targeting of Oromo students and youth does not serve any purpose aside from intensifying ethnic tensions in Ethiopia !
November 10 , 2006  -We have learned and are strongly alarmed by the cold blooded murder of a young Oromo student Shibiru Demissie at Mekele University.Full Report

A Short Life History of Student Shibiru Demise
November 10 , 2006  -Student Shibru Demise Bati was born in 1982 in West Wollega Zone, Homa County, in a village known as Siba Yesusi. He studied his elementary and middle school in The 51 st Sokato School from 1993 to 2001 and his high school in the Gimbi comprehensive Secondary School from 2001 to 2004.Full Report

First Year Anniversary of the Popular uprising in Oromia
November 9 , 2006  -November 9, 2006 marks the first anniversary of the popular nation-wide uprising in Oromia. It was on this day that the Oromo people heave their liberation struggle to a new height, covering the entire Oromo land in a highly coordinated manner that has never been seen before.Full Report

Top Ethiopian judge flees threats
November 7 , 2006  -Teshale Aberra will seek asylum in the UK, he says Ethiopia's most senior judge, Teshale Aberra, has left the country following threats and "continued harassment" from the government, he has told the BBC.Full Report

Rising Tensions: Oromo Student Killed in Makale, Tigray
November 7 , 2006 (ET)   - In increasing sign of tension in Ethiopia, a 4th year University student of Oromo descent is killed overnight in Makale.Full Report

Statement from Union of Oromo Students in Germany (UOSG)
November 7 , 2006  - Since the end of 19th century Oromo and the majority of Ethiopian peoples have been victims of open and systematic genocide polices of successive Abyssinian ruling classes..Full Report

Beware of the EPRDF hate plan to divide Muslims and Christians!
November 1 , 2006  - The Anuak Justice Council (AJC) calls Ethiopians to not seek revenge against Muslims or Christians for the recent religiously based killings in Ethiopia. Instead, .Full Report

Somalia At A Critical Juncture, A Status Report From Inside The Somali Parliamen
October 31, 2006  - Despite well known deficiencies in the system in which the Transitional Federal Government (TFG) was created, most Somalis embraced it as a first step in the right direction toward a beginning of a long reconciliation process for our nation and for our people.Full Report

Unterstand the undemocratic nature of the Ethiopian regime
October 28, 2006 - The Horn of Africa, which comprises primarily Ethiopia, Eritrea, Somalia, Djibouti, and the Sudan, is currently known to the world by three hot spots of conflicts: Darfur, Ethio-Eritrea border conflict and the turbulent situation in Somalia, each of which can potentially lead to regional war.Full Report