BBC features Ethiopia’s best: Bethlehem Tilahun Alemu (plus Video)
BBC’s George Alagiah featured Ethiopia’s prominent entrepreneur Bethlehem Tilahun Alemu. You may watch below the video – aired yesterday on BBC. Read below her profile published on Forbes Magazine, when she was listed as one of the top 100 influential women in the world, last year. ************* ****** Africa’s Most Successful Women: Bethlehem Tilahun Alemu (Forbes Magazine – Jan 5, 2012) … Read more
Resettlement and Human Rights Watch’s unsound and shoddy methodology
(Jan. 20, 2012 – A Week in the Horn of Africa) This week, Human Rights Watch produced yet another of its deliberately emotive reports on Ethiopia, this time claiming the government under its villagization program was forcibly relocating some 70,000 ‘indigenous’ people in the Gambella Regional State to new villages that lack adequate food, land … Read more
Human Right Watch’s strange letter to UK on Ethiopian aid
Human Rights Watch wrote an open letter, titled ‘Ethiopia: Letter Regarding UK Development Assistance’, to UK’s Secretary of State for Development Aid, Andrew Mitchell, last Friday. Written by Jan Egeland, Deputy Executive Director and Europe Director of Human Rights Watch, the letter is directly addressed to Secretary Andrew Mitchell who is in charge of Department … Read more
Exposed: BBC Newsnight turns to Wikileaks for more deceit
On Sept. 21, 2011, BBC Newsnight program aired a segment, which was supposed to be a follow-up to the one Newsnignt aired last August on allegations of political distortions of aid. The August story was said to be a product of a ‘joint undercover investigation’ conducted by the Newsnight program of BBC and another recently … Read more
BBC busted again, UK’s field study disproved aid distortion claims | Ethiopia
On Wednesday, September 21, 2011, UK’s Secretary of State for Development Aid, Andrew Michell, emphatically dismissed allegations of systemic political distortion of British aid in Ethiopia. That was in an interview BBC Newsnight’s presenter Jeremy Paxman hosted as a follow-up to the allegations of aid misuse made in his last August program. The first three … Read more
The BBC’s Newsnight – viewers call it ‘morally questionable’
[From: A Week in the Horn of Africa, the weekly press release of the Ethiopian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Friday, Sept. 30, 2011 issue] The BBC’s Newsnight – viewers call it “morally questionable” As a former UK Ambassador to Ethiopia during the major famine of the 1980s pointed out recently: “someone at the BBC seems … Read more
Ethiopia: British official dismisses BBC’s allegations [interview - text]
It is to be recalled that an allegation of aid misuse had been made last month by BBC’s Newsnight program and another British news outlet called ‘the Bureau of Investigative Journalism (TBIJ)’ – the latter is financially linked with Human Rights Watch. The two outlets claimed to have conducted ‘a joint undercover investigative journalism’ and … Read more
Ethiopia: British media fuels aid apathy | Horn of Africa drought
At a time when about 12 million people in the horn of Africa suffer from the worst drought in 60 years , British media is busy disenchanting private donations. Ethiopia appealed on July to the international community for 398 million USD to help 4.5 million citizens until December. However, to date, only 37% of the … Read more
11plus blunders in BBC, TBIJ report of Ethiopia’s aid misuse
Two British news outlets made headlines last week when they published a story on Ethiopia claiming it is a product of their ‘joint undercover investigation’. The two are: Newsnight program of BBC (British Broadcasting Corporation) and a recently launched British media pompously named ‘The Bureau of Investigative Journalism (TBIJ)’. It was the Friday August 5 … Read more
MFA laments BBC’s land grab fears
BBC World Service published a story titled ‘Land grab fears for Ethiopian rural communities‘ on December 16/2010. The story by Ed Butler paints a grimly picture of Ethiopia’s effort to develop its agricultural sector by engaging foreign investors. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs(MFA) of Ethiopia lamented the story, citing its failings and inaccuracies, as cynic, … Read more
