Brukye

I love you so much!!

Part of Dr.Berhanu Nega's book

This is the scrap of Dr.Berhanu Nega's book. I like to coat a part from Ethio-zagol blog appreciating the book http://seminawork.blogspot.com/
"I am not a kind of person who usually questions about the meaning and value of life,When I read the book, I really felt ashamed of myself. I questioned whether my life right now was worth living." yes it is so intriguing book, even reading this few pages made me to think of how his mind was fileing each and every details.

Click here to read 7 pages of the book

Band

Bole 2 Harlem it's a band. They played the contemporary Ethiopian traditional songs like HOYA HOYE and HAYLOGA..HO with new style.
They are able to make good rhythm out of the songs we used to know through our culture and life in Ethiopia.
The song called bole2harlem is one of the great work of the band.

check out the Band here http://www.bole2harlem.com

Continental rifting

This was my second time to read this title so I clicked it. Well it is amazing news. This things never happen so often....often???Not even in hundreds of years but why in Ethiopia? and why now?

"The Red Sea is parting again, but this time Moses doesnÂ’t have a hand in it.Satellite images show that the Arabian tectonic plate and the African plate are moving away from each other, stretching the Earth's crust and widening the southern end of the Red Sea, scientists reported in this week's issue of journal Nature.
Last September, a series of earthquacks started splitting the planet's surface along a 37-mile section of the East African Rift in Afar, Ethiopia. "

"Over a period of three weeks, the crust on the sides of the rift moved apart by 26 feet and magma—enough to fill a football stadium more than 2,000 times—was injected along a vertical crack, forming a new crust. "
"This latest split, added to the long-term rifting process, which is tearing the northeast of Ethiopia and Eritrea from the rest of Africa, could eventually create a huge new sea. Although such processes could take millions of years to occur, this event has given scientists an unprecedented opportunity to monitor the rupture in real time.
"Read more here
news.yahoo.com/s/space/20060719/sc_space/theredseapartsagain

GIGI

GIGI's new album Gold & Wax, is gonna be released soon.I was able to listen 4 of the songs thanks to myspace.com . One of the songs called UTOPIA is in both Amharic and English.It is fantastic work. organic blend of African songs mixed with elements of Jamaica, India and America.

Zeritu's Music Video

I put Zeritu Kebede's music Video with interview.

Alamn Ale

Teddy Afro's Music Video

Zeritu on a tour

My favorite zeritu Kebede is on a concert tour in Ethiopia. I learnt that she had one of the successful single singer concerts with off the hook crowd.
Congratulation Zeritu

Interest to explore Ethiopia`s oil

News from
http://www.angolapress-angop.ao/noticia-e.asp?ID=435198

 Ethiopia said Sunday the number of foreign companies showing interest in the Horn of Africa country`s petroleum exploration and development has been increasing.

Abiy Hunegnaw, head of Petroleum Department of the Ministry of Mines and Energy, told journalists that the increase was due to shortage of fuel in the international market.

The regulation that Ethiopia issued in 2002 has also contributed for the rise in the number of foreign companies interested to work in Ethiopia, said Abiy.

Seven foreign companies, including Malaysia`s Petronas and PEXCO, a Netherlands-based company, have been licensed and are working in Ethiopia in petroleum exploration and development activities, he said.

The companies have been paying some 100 million U.S. dollars annually for the land they are working on.

A total of 17 foreign companies have shown interest and took bid documents to take part in the development of Calub and Hilala gas in east Ethiopia`s Somali state, he said.

The gas reserve in Calub, 1200 km east of Addis Ababa, is estimated at 2.7 trillion cubic feet and the reserve in Hilala, a locality found 75 km east of Calub, is estimated at 1.7 trillion cubic feet. The total area of the two gas fields is 285 square km of land.

Ethiopia is endowed with energy resources such as coal, oil and natural gas. Current natural gas reserves are estimated to be 24 million cubic meters.

Mastawekiya

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Zeritu kebede

Her name is zeritu. I strongly believe she is the first music revolutionist residing in Ethiopia. Her songs are totally different than the songs U used to hear. She have amazing resemblance with Shakira(Lebanese Colombian artist) mainly the song called Alekefam .
she make me her fan after few minutes of listening her songs.

The Red Terror is back

It is so Disturbing to know that people are bing asked to signe and pay money to get the body of their relatives........

Yehe New abesha

I am getting confused about the things going this days and I think things look out of hand for CUD. changing plans frequently, in a place where communicating with the people is hard. Please try to have one firm and strong Goal to build trust.

This kid(I wish I know Ur name) is doing his best going for protest in Melbourne, Australia

Mesekel Square 2

A picture Just after
The DEMERA was lit up.

Stepping on the Grass!

Warning! "stepping on the grass is strictly forbidden"

The whs up's in Addis

My God people are writing some good stuff ha .....Come on youth U can do better than that..............

The God Who Begat a Jackal

This is the second book and the first Novel from Nega Mezlekia Ethiopian - Canadian former agricultural engineer who become a writer. His first book "Notes From Hyna's Belly" a boyhood from JIJIGA at the time of Ethio Somali war make a world wide hit Getting Governor Generals award and also best African book on New York times.
I was able to read some pages of this book in which I found it too similar to the book by HADIS ALEMAYEHU'S "HADIS" .Feudalism and its effects on the society With strong character called ASTER......
anyone read both books hope U comment on it.....

cheers

One of the Great scene in life

This is one of the great scenes on our planet........just a bit attention diversion from EU and Meles argument. This picture shows the space shuttle Discovery takes off attached to a Boeing 747 from Edwards Air Force Base in California. Discovery began the return journey to its Florida main base called Kennedy space Center from its landing site in California on Friday after having to land at Edwards Air Force base because of thunderstorms in Cape Canaveral prevented the space shuttle from landing in Florida.

hey by the way I am so happy by the reaction of the people of Addis Ababa to CUD meetings I felt we really got leaders who are inside the society and responsible don't U think?

poooh

At a press conference, the prime minister, Meles Zenawi, said: "The statement in my view shows that the [EU] mission has turned out to be something worse than a farce.

"We shall in the coming days and weeks see what we can do to expose the pack of lies and innuendoes that characterise the garbage in this report."

"Mr Zenawi, a former guerrilla commander who came to power after overthrowing the Marxist Derg regime, hinted that relations with the EU could take a sharp turn for the worse"

Guardian
http://www.guardian.co.uk/hearafrica05/story/0,15756,1558890,00.html

I mean who is the looser here Ethiopia or EU? I don't really know what to think about this guy is he smart or he acts and talk like smart so that everyone will think of him as smart.

Ato Mulatu

Look carefully on the Names and u will see Mulatu Astatke's name next to Bill Murray 's face.
Ethio Jazz Mender gose to Hollywood.