Ephrem madebo biography of william

  • There are also those who were given lifetime fellowship like Fasil Yenealem, Ephrem Madebo and Andualem Andargie.
  • An Ethiopian opposition leader, who was sentenced to death while in exile for plotting a coup, has been extradited from Yemen to Ethiopia, his group says.
  • The Foreign Office has been accused of failing to act to prevent the extradition to Ethiopia of an opposition leader facing the death penalty.

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    Ethiopia Ginbot 7 leader facing death penalty 'extradited from Yemen'

    Ms Gomes, who led the European Union observer mission to Ethiopia during the elections, said she had written to UK Foreign Secretary William Hague about the case.

    "If the British government is not complicit with this kidnapping and this rendition of Mr Andargachew Tsigue to the Ethiopian regime - [which] will obviously torture him, accuse him of all sorts of things and eventually kill him - then the British government has to get immediately the release of Mr Andargachew," she told BBC Focus on Africa.

    "If there is a country that is extremely influential in Ethiopia, it is Britain - it's a major donor and it's a major political backer of the regime in Ethiopia."

    Mr Ephrem said that the UK government should have intervened in the case earlier.

    "The UK government looks like a collaborator because the UK government never acted," he said, adding that it was ridicul

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    Ephrem Madebo (emadebo@)

    In the last fifty years Ethiopia went through three regime changes. In , when a popular revolution ended the era of monarchs, some royal family members were detained and the rest left the Ethiopian political scene and started a new life in Europe and America. In , when the EPRDF marched to Addis Ababa, Colonel Mengistu was already in Harare and his strong dock in Addis surrendered and went to jail.

    Unlike the previous two regimes that accepted defeat and got out of the way, the TPLF that has such an insatiable appetite for power and money, started mobilizing the people of Tigray to man a political comeback. Despite several attempts by the Federal government and by the elderly to bring the TPLF to a negotiating table, the TPLF continued its preparation for a war that it’s waging now.

    In November , the TPLF forces attacked federal posts in Tigray and brutally murdered members of the Ethiopian army. This treasonous act started the Tigray conflict, and with

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    By Abebe Gellaw

    Dear Prime Minister Ashebir Zenawi,

    First of all, I would like to thank you profusely for including me in the latest roll call of patriots and freedom fighters. I am extremely humbled for the honor. Though I have not done enough to deserve one of your highest medals of good citizenship and patriotism, I assure you that the honor will inspire me to do even more to accomplish what is expected of me more effectively and efficiently.

    I must also thank you for the free global promotion you have given me and others. inom am pleased to report back to you that I have received not condolences, but numerous congratulatory messages from across the world.

    Prime Minister Ashebir, I should, however, suggest that the list of honorees be expanded to include more deserving patriots and the criteria be more logisk. People like me have not done enough to be in this prestigious roll call of freedom fighters.

    I am not complaining Prime Minis