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Oromo Federalist Democratic Movement
The Oromo Federalist Democratic Movement , OFDM) was a political party in Ethiopia, created in 2005 by Bulcha Demeksa to further the interests of the Oromo people as an alternative to the armed Oromo Liberation Front. In the 15 May 2005 federal election, the party won 11 seats, all from the Oromia Region. In March 2006, the party Whip was Mesfin Nemera Deriesa from the West Wallaga Zone. The OFDM merged with the Oromo People's Congress (OPC), forming the Oromo Federalist Congress (OFC), in 2012. Creation The Oromo Federalist Democratic Movement was created as a non-armed political movement in early 2005 as an alternative to the armed Oromo Liberation Front (OLF) by Bulcha Demeksa. Bulcha described the refusal to use guns to obtain political change as the major and fundamental difference between the OFDM and the OLF, stating that the OFDM intended to work within the existing 1995 Constitution of Ethiopia, of which "many chapters" were acceptable to the OFDM. Bulcha state ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bulcha Demeksa
Bulcha Demeksa (9 July 1930 – 6 January 2025) was an Ethiopian politician and businessman. He was the founder of the Oromo Federalist Democratic Movement (OFDM), one of Ethiopia's largest opposition parties. Life and career Demeksa was born in Bodji, Wollega, Ethiopian Empire on 9 July 1930. In 1967, Demeksa was appointed vice-minister of Finance before representing his country at the board of the World Bank. In 1974, when the Ethiopian Revolution started, he left Ethiopia and was hired by the UN administration. Demeksa took his retirement in Ethiopia in 1991. In 1994, he created the Awash International Bank, which became a success. In early 2005, Demeksa founded the Oromo Federalist Democratic Movement (OFDM), which he saw as a non-military, democratic political party as an alternative to the armed Oromo Liberation Front. Demeksa has been one of the most outspoken opponents of the late Meles Zenawi's government and the opposition leader most referred to by the internat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Walta Information Center
Walta Media and Communication Corporate S.C. or Walta, previously called Walta Information and Public Relations Center S.C., or Walta Information Center, is an Ethiopian commercial media conglomerate owned and operated by the Ethiopian government. Walta, located in Addis Ababa, was founded in 1994 and supplies the Ethiopian News Agency and other media with local and national news. History Walta has been affiliated with the Ethiopian government since 1992 or earlier. , Walta supported the federal Ethiopian government and the Prosperity Party. Contents As part of the media conglomerate, there is an online medium in English, Amharic and Arabic Arabic (, , or , ) is a Central Semitic languages, Central Semitic language of the Afroasiatic languages, Afroasiatic language family spoken primarily in the Arab world. The International Organization for Standardization (ISO) assigns lang ... with local, national, and international news and a TV station, Walta TV, broadcasting ma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Addis Standard
''Addis Standard'' is an Ethiopian monthly social, economic and political news magazine published and distributed by Jakenn Publishing Plc, and was established in February 2011 by Tsedale Lemma, who is also the editor-in-chief of the magazine . The magazine has an independent political stance, and is headquartered in Addis Ababa. Distribution ''Addis Standard'' is distributed in Ghana Ghana, officially the Republic of Ghana, is a country in West Africa. It is situated along the Gulf of Guinea and the Atlantic Ocean to the south, and shares borders with Côte d’Ivoire to the west, Burkina Faso to the north, and Togo to t ..., Burundi and South Sudan in addition to its native country, Ethiopia. Repression ''Addis Standard'' discontinued its print edition in October 2016 in response to censorship, while continuing to publish online. It resumed a monthly print edition in 2018. During the Tigray War, one of the ''Addis Standard'' editors involved in covering Tigray ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Les Nouvelles D'Addis
LES or Les may refer to: People * Les (given name) * Les (surname) * L.E.S. (producer), hip hop producer Space flight * Launch Entry Suit, worn by Space Shuttle crews * Launch escape system, for spacecraft emergencies * Lincoln Experimental Satellite series, 1960s and 1970s Biology and medicine * Lazy eye syndrome, or amblyopia, a disorder in the human optic nerve * The Liverpool epidemic strain of ''Pseudomonas aeruginosa'' * Lower esophageal sphincter * Lupus erythematosus systemicus Places * The Lower East Side neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City * Les, Catalonia, a municipality in Spain * Leş, a village in Nojorid Commune, Bihor County, Romania * ''Les'', the Hungarian name for Leșu Commune, Bistriţa-Năsăud County, Romania * Les, a village in Tejakula district, Buleleng regency, Bali, Indonesia * Lesotho, IOC and UNDP country code * Lès, a word featuring in many French placenames Transport * Leigh-on-Sea railway station, National Rail station code * Leyton ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sudan Tribune
The ''Sudan Tribune'' is an electronic news portal on Sudan and South Sudan and neighbouring countries including news coverage, analyses and commentary, official reports and press releases from various organizations, and maps. It is based in Paris Paris () is the Capital city, capital and List of communes in France with over 20,000 inhabitants, largest city of France. With an estimated population of 2,048,472 residents in January 2025 in an area of more than , Paris is the List of ci ..., France, and run by a team of Sudanese and international editors and journalists. The Sudan Tribune claims to have had over 5 million page views in 2005 and more than 12 million page views (almost a million absolute unique visitors) in 2008. History The ''Sudan Tribune'' was started in 2003. In July 2017, the South Sudanese media accused the government of blocking their websites, including that of the ''Tribune''. References External linksSudan Tribune Website [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bekele Gerba
Bekele Gerba (born 1961) is an Ethiopian politician and activist. He is a member of Oromo Federalist Congress (OFC) which promotes political change by nonviolence. He was imprisoned from 2011 to 2015, 2015–2018 and again on 30 June 2020 following the Hachalu Hundessa riots. Bekele and other imprisoned politicians started a hunger strike on 27 January 2021. The Federal High Court of Ethiopia ordered that he be taken to Landmark General Hospital, and repeated its order on 17 February. , Bekele's medical condition was worsening. Childhood and education Bekele Gerba was born in 1961 in West Welega Zone. He attended primary school in Boji Dirmaji and high school in Gimbi. He obtained a bachelor of arts in foreign language and literature at Addis Ababa University (AAU). As a postgraduate, he studied the teaching of English as a foreign language at AAU. Teaching Bekele taught English and Oromo at Adama Teachers' College. In 2005 he was fired for "supporting students' riot" in 2 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bekele Jirata
Bekele (Amharic: በቀለ, ''Bek’ele'') is an Ethiopian paternal name which may refer to: Runners *Abebech Afework Bekele (born 1990), Ethiopian female half marathon runner * Alemitu Bekele Aga (born 1976), Ethiopian female long-distance runner competing for Belgium *Alemitu Bekele Degfa (born 1977), 5000 metres runner competing for Turkey * Alemu Bekele (born 1990), Ethiopian long-distance runner competing for Bahrain *Azmeraw Bekele (born 1986), Ethiopian marathon runner *Bekele Debele (born 1963), Ethiopian cross country runner and 1983 world champion *Bezunesh Bekele (born 1983), Ethiopian female marathon and cross-country runner * Helen Bekele Tola (born 1994), Ethiopian female long distance runner *Kenenisa Bekele (born 1982), distance runner who holds world and Olympic records * Mekdes Bekele (born 1987), 3000 metres steeplechase competitor *Tariku Bekele (born 1987), Ethiopian long-distance runner and brother of Kenenisa *Girma Bekele Gebre (born 1992), Ethiopian ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Siye Abraha
Siye Abraha Hagos (also Seeye Abraha Hagos) (, ''siyә abräha''; born 12 June 1955) is an Ethiopian politician who served as Ethiopian Minister of Defense from 1991 to 1995. He was a top official of Tigray People's Liberation Front (TPLF) and Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Democratic Front executive committees until 2002. Since 2013, he has been working as Security Sector Reform Advisor for United Nations Development Programme in Liberia. Personal life and education Siye Abraha was born in the village of Addeha in Tembien, Tigray Province, Ethiopian Empire. He attended elementary school in Tigray and then General Wingate Secondary School in Addis Ababa. He then attended Addis Ababa University as medical student where he was active in the student movement but left his university study after his first year to join TPLF for armed struggle. He received a Master of Arts degree in Public Administration from Harvard University in 2012, and a Master of Business Administration deg ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ministry Of Defense (Ethiopia)
The Ministry of Defense () is a cabinet-level office in charge of defense-related matters of Ethiopia. The current minister is Aisha Mohammed (Ethiopian politician), Aisha Mohammed since 2024. History This institution can trace its origins back to the Ministry of War, which Emperor Menelik II of Ethiopia, Menelik II established in 1907, and made ''Fitawrari'' Habte Giyorgis Minister over it. Emperor Haile Selassie re-established the Ministry of War in 1942, making ''Ras (title), Ras'' Abebe Aregai its Minister. The Ministry is headed by a civilian minister which is a requirement of Article 87 of the 1995 Constitution of Ethiopia, current constitution of Ethiopia. It was established 23 August 1995 with the passing of Proclamation 4/1995, which also established the other 14 Ministries. On 9 January 2022, a new building of the Ministry of Defense was inaugurated. The five floor building of more than 700 offices and facilities serves now as the headquarters of the ministry, and is ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Negasso Gidada
Negasso Gidada Solon (; 8 September 1943 – 27 April 2019) was an Ethiopian politician who was the president of Ethiopia from 1995 until 2001. Biography Negasso was the son of Gidada Solon, one of the first local ministers of a Protestant church in the Dembidolo area in western Ethiopia. Negasso held a doctorate in social history from the Goethe University Frankfurt and was a part-time lecturer of history at Addis Ababa University. The title of his doctoral thesis was "History of the Sayyoo Oromo of Southwestern Wallaga, Ethiopia, from about 1730 to 1886". He was married to Regina Abelt, a German nurse and midwife. Being the First Lady of Ethiopia while holding the German Citizenship earned Abelt considerable, yet unwanted, attention by the German and European tabloid press. In marked contrast, Regina Abelt was virtually invisible in Ethiopia and never enjoyed the official title of First Lady which was instead used by the wife of the Prime Minister. Negasso died in German ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gebru Asrat
Gebru Asrat is an Ethiopian politician, former president of Tigray Region (1991–2001), and one of the top leaders of the Tigray People's Liberation Front (TPLF) and the Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Democratic Front (EPRDF) until around 2000, when he founded a new party, Arena Tigray. Early life Gebru was born in Mekelle, Ethiopia and attended ''Atse'' Yohannes High School and Haile Selassie I University during the early 1970s. He holds an undergraduate and graduate degree in economics. Career After the TPLF defeated the Derg in the Ethiopian Civil War, Gebru became President of Tigray Region. Under Gebru a number of institutions of higher education, industries, hospitals and infrastructures were established in Tigray. In May 1998, Eritrea started a border war which led to the death of tens of thousands of people on both sides. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arena Tigray
Arena Tigray For Democracy and Sovereignty (), also known as Arena Tigray, is an Ethiopian political party based in the Tigray Region and participating in the Medrek coalition federally. Creation Arena Tigray was created by Gebru Asrat in the early 2000s, when he left the Tigray People's Liberation Front (TPLF) and the Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Democratic Front. ''Addis Fortune'' counts Arena Tigray as the second oldest political party in Tigray Region. Leadership Arena's first leader was Gebru Asrat. In 2017, at Arena's fourth congress, Abraha Desta, a philosophy lecturer who had spent two years in prison under TPLF rule, was elected as the new chair. , Amdom Gebreselassie was head of public relations for Arena Tigray. He held the position of vice head of the Public Relations Bureau of the Transitional Government of Tigray until mid-March 2021, when he was dismissed by the federal government for publicly calling for legal action against perpetrators of sexual violen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
