Final Election Results from Election Board
The National Election Board of Ethiopia (NEBE) has announced the official results of the 4th National and Regional election held on May 23/2010 as follows:
‘Election-win-EPRDF-style’ in 8 Liberal Countries
“Can you think of any government that purports to be a multi-party democracy, but manages to win all but two seats in the 547-seat parliament?” Jody Clarke asked the readers of Irish Times. It was on her last Wednesday news report titled ‘Turning a blind eye to Ethiopia’s crimes against its own people’, but doesn’t … Read more
‘Addis Neger’: when deceit becomes the norm
It took International Press Institute (IPI) only two days after the polling to make a press statement alleging “Independent Media Voices Absent in Ethiopian Election Coverage.” IPI corroborated its claim by quoting an email of a self-exiled journalist. It was Mesfin Negash, managing editor of the now-defunct Addis-Neger, an Amharic weekly, who took the initiative … Read more
Media Darling: HRW’s 10 flagrant blunders
Several western newscasts and blogs misleadingly blended sound bites from the EU Observers Preliminary Report with the Human Rights Watch statement when reporting the provisional results of the Ethiopian election. All alike picked none but the phrases “marred by narrowing political space”, “uneven playing field” and “use of state resources” from the first page of … Read more
Election: EU, USA & UK Press Statements(full text)
Presumably, you have heard about the press statements made by the European Union, the United states, and the United Kingdom on the 4th National and Regional election of the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia(FDRE). However, noting that not a few media outlets are quoting, and misquoting, the statements at will, I gathered and posted the … Read more
