What else would you expect from Meles and Company?
These people would not know what the rule of law was if it bite them in the a$$.
It is only a matter of time before all will see that these trails were nothing short of comical as the famous scholar from the University of Chicago, Dr Levin stated correctly.
May God protect the jailed CUD leaders.

SODO

And you were expecting that something was going to happen???? Ferenjis are naive folks. Nothing will happen until the current government is gone or the MPs die.

...and of the last adjournment, was it not reported that one of the judges was training in Kenya, where the Chief prosecutor was also training?

Wow! I have never heard of a court being adjourned because the judges decided not to show up. Here is yet another example of how democratic and open Ethiopia is. In our system, individual freedom is afforded so much that even judges have a right to stay home when they feel like it. Now stop lecturing us about free societies and the like, and better start taking notes...

Andrew,

Please check this story again. I heard that the trials on October 13 went on. You might have gotten the wrong information.

Thanks.
DT

Hi Andrew,

Thought you might know someone worthy of a nomination:

Request for Information on Horn of Africa Development Projects

A CUPID member is seeking information regarding any active projects,
businesses and/or archived case studies from the Horn of Africa
(Djibouti, Ethiopia, Eritrea and Sudan) that demonstrate
development of a "win win" business enterprise model that is
pro-poor, meaning that it has development gains for the poor but
yet is commercially viable. Such a model in agriculture might
include improvements in the product supply chain from farmer to
market that increase the financial returns to farmers. Another
example could be an innovative approach in Information
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as in the case of fishermen utilizing cell phones to have an
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If you have such information, please contact Aisha Weaver at
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Meles couldn't fill the shoes of the likes of Mandella, even if he wanted to. If he handed over the power to others the first thing they will do will be, forget him. So, i presume he has decided not to hand over to ungrateful successors. Even at the risk of civil war, poverty and discontent. To be fair to him - what "below average" leader has done that before him? I think we will only see a transition of power from one dictator to another in Ethiopia. Mandella always knew he had his place in history, of not only his country but of the world. What does Meles have?

hay all