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	Embassy of Ethiopia, Washington, DC (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-06)
		Election observers and executives in various parts of Addis Ababa city told ENA that electors are waiting in long queues with extreme patience to cast votes in secret ballot in the national elections in which some 1,574 party and independent candidates running for the federal parliament.
		The third national elections in Ethiopia, where 28 foreign journalists were assigned to cover, have also drawn the attention of international media.
		The Qatar-based Al Jazeera television reported that the third national elections in Ethiopia is indicative of the deepening of democratic culture in the country [Ethiopia].
	www.ethiopianembassy.org /EL004.shtml (694 words)

	Elections in Ethiopia
		Ethiopia is an ancient country, although it has been taken into account only since 1889 when Menelik II became Emperor and established a strong central authority.
		*Elections were conducted in the Somali Region on 31 August 2000.
		Elections were conducted in the Somali Region on 21 August 2005.
	africanelections.tripod.com /et.html (273 words)

	Ethiopia
		Within Ethiopia is a massive highland complex of mountains and dissected plateaus divided by the Great Rift Valley, which runs generally southwest to northeast and is surrounded by lowlands, steppes, or semidesert.
		After the 1974 revolution, the economy of Ethiopia was run as a socialist economy: strong state controls were implemented, and a large part of the economy was transferred to the public sector, including most modern industry and large-scale commercial agriculture, all agricultural land and urban rental property, and all financial institutions.
		Ethiopia's livestock population is believed to be the largest in Africa, and as of 1987 accounted for about 15 percent of the GDP.
	www.creekin.net /n63-ethiopia.html (1552 words)

	Ethiopia elections fell short of international standards: EU Final Report
		The legal framework for elections guarantees basic freedoms and is generally adequate for the conduct of democratic elections.
		The repeat elections in 31 constituencies on 21 August were generally well-administered, but with much lower turnout and considerably reduced presence of party observers from the opposition.
		Despite the shortcomings in these elections, the high level of participation by the Ethiopian people and the opening of public debate prior to election day marked a significant development towards democracy in Ethiopia, showing the eagerness of citizens to make use of new political freedoms, which should serve as an inspiration for the future.
	www.ethiomedia.com /courier/eu_final_report.html (1324 words)

	ethiopundit
		Ethiopia's levels of FDI are subterranean because of the very purposeful policies of the Ethiopian regime whose elite is busy sending money siphoned from aid and squeezed from Ethiopians onto investments and bank accounts in the West.
		Ethiopia has recieved billions in aid, loan forgiveness and direct budget support totalling far into the tens of billions since 1991 but every contract and dollar and euro spent has to make it through an impossible obstacle course of corruption and party/government hands that sees little to no benefit to Ethiopians in general.
		Ethiopia is not a setting of any chaos or instability that is endemic or that is independent of her government and its policies.
	ethiopundit.blogspot.com (16062 words)

	Destination Ethiopia. Travel and tourist information Ethiopia. Hotels World travel information.
		In July 1977, sensing the disarray in Ethiopia, Somalia attacked across the Ogaden Desert in pursuit of its irredentist claims to the ethnic Somali areas of Ethiopia.
		The election for a 547-member constituent assembly was held in June 1994, and this assembly adopted the constitution of the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia in December 1994.
		Ethiopia today has 10 semi-autonomous administrative regions which have the power to raise and spend their own revenues.
	www.hotels-world.com /travelinfo/af/ethiopia/country.htm (1404 words)

	Ethiopia to re-run elections in some areas
		Ethiopia will rerun parliamentary elections in at least 20 of the 524 seats contested during fiercely disputed polls, the chairperson of the National Election Board said on Friday.
		The election board also is awaiting details of investigations of 139 constituencies but has thrown out complaints in 75 other seats.
		The elections were seen as a key test of Meles' commitment to greater democratic reform in the country he has ruled for 14 years.
	www.ethiomedia.com /newpress/re_run_elections.html (435 words)

	Ethiopia-Elections, 1st Writethru
		New elections have already been scheduled for 16 of the country's 34,000 polling stations because of irregularities.
		In a statement, EU observers said the trickle of results, competing claims of victory by the government and the opposition and the denial of access to the state-run media for government opponents was threatening the electoral process.
		Ethiopia was an absolute monarchy under Emperor Haile Selassie until the mid-1970s, when a brutal Marxist junta overthrew him.
	www.cbc.ca /cp/world/050530/w053009.html (516 words)

	Analysis: Ethiopia, Ethiopia: The 15 May 2005 elections and human rights
		In Ethiopia, where human rights are in theory protected by the Constitution, the laws and international treaties ratified by the government, elections are an important time of accountability and transparency of governance.
		Ethiopia has recently benefited from debt cancellation by several donor governments (including the USA, Italy, the United Kingdom and Russia) and is receiving considerable international development assistance from UN agencies, the European Union and others.
		The human rights component of election observation should include monitoring of observance of international and regional human rights treaties and standards, particularly the rights to freedom of expression, opinion, association and assembly, the right not to be subjected to torture, arbitrary detention, "disappearance" or extrajudicial execution, and the rights of human rights defenders.
	www.reliefweb.int /rw/RWB.NSF/db900SID/EVIU-6BWFF6?OpenDocument (7336 words)

	Free and Fair Elections in Ethiopia Act
		H. To urge the Government of Ethiopia to hold orderly, peaceful, and free and fair national elections in May 2005 and to authorize United States assistance for elections-related activities to monitor the Ethiopian national elections.
		To urge the Government of Ethiopia to hold orderly, peaceful, and free and fair national elections in May 2005 and to authorize United States assistance for elections-related activities to monitor the Ethiopian national elections.
		The decision by the Government of Ethiopia to engage the opposition in a constructive dialogue to resolve issues related to the upcoming elections, including access to the media by the opposition and reform of the electoral board, should be commended.
	www.theorator.com /bills109/hr935.html (588 words)

	Polity IV Country Report 2003: Ethiopia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-06)
		The elections for Ethiopia's first popularly chosen national legislature were held in May 1995.
		Executive authority in Ethiopia is currently vested in a prime minister selected by the dominant party in the legislature.
		The Amhara have long been the dominant ethnic group in Ethiopia, their cultural hegemony was solidified during the Selassie and Mengistu regimes as non-Amharas were actively excluded from positions of political and economic power.
	www.cidcm.umd.edu /inscr/polity/Eti1.htm (1273 words)

	USATODAY.com - Ethiopia's eastern Somali region holds vote (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-06)
		General elections were held in the rest of the country on May 15.
		The May elections were followed by days of violence as protesters angered by allegations of fraud clashed with security forces.
		On Sunday, electoral authorities were also holding a repeat of elections in 20 parliamentary constituencies where the ruling party complained of irregularities in the May vote and in 11 districts where the opposition filed challenges.
	www.usatoday.com /news/world/2005-08-21-somalia-elections_x.htm (532 words)

	IFES - Ethiopia
		Ethiopia’s main opposition group, the Coalition for Unity and Democracy (CUD), has refused to accept the election results.
		In July 2004, IFES conducted an assessment to evaluate Ethiopia’s electoral environment prior to the 2005 national and regional elections and the 2006 local elections.
		The focus of the project was to build the capacity of civil society to develop and disseminate voter and civic education for May elections and 2006 local elections.
	www.ifes.org /ethiopia.html (324 words)

	ETHIOPIA: parliamentary elections Yehizib Twekayoch Mekir Bete, 2000
		Elections were held for all the seats in the House of People's Representatives on the normal expiry of the members' term of office.
		On 1 October 1999, the National Election Board invited all political parties in Ethiopia to register for the 2000 national and regional elections, the second since the promulgation of the new Constitution in December 1994 which provided for multi-party democracy.
		Elections in the region of Somali, which had been hard hit by drought and severe food shortage, were held on 31 August 2000.
	www.ipu.org /parline-e/reports/arc/2107_00.htm (544 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Africa \| Q&A: Ethiopia votes
		On Sunday Ethiopians are going to the polls, in elections widely considered to be a test of the ruling party's willingness to bring democracy to the country.
		In March, six US election observers were expelled on the grounds they were operating illegally and "not invited".
		The chief EU observer in the country, Ana Gomez, has also raised a number of concerns about the election campaign, notably government accusations that the opposition is promoting ethnic hatred that could flare into violence similar to the 1994 Rwandan genocide.
	news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/africa/4541231.stm (761 words)

	Ethiopia Elections: Jimmy Carter Trip Report, Postelection Statement
		The May 2005 elections, the third to be held under the current constitution, showed great promise in the deepening of Ethiopian democracy.
		Domestic election observers, with their intimate familiarity with the country and their presence throughout the electoral process, have an important role to play and their future role should be encouraged.
		After election results have been finalized we will issue a final report which will be shared with the NEB, in compliance with Ethiopia's Code of Conduct for International Observers.
	www.cartercenter.org /news/documents/doc2097.html (1156 words)

	Ethiopia's Ruling Party Wins Repeat Polls (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-06)
		Ethiopia's ruling party won all the seats in repeat polls, Ethiopian election officials announced Friday.
		Ethiopia's ruling party, the Ethiopian Peoples Revolutionary Democratic Front, took all 31 seats in the parliamentary districts where the country's electoral officials found voting irregularities.
		The EU monitors reported last month they found evidence of widespread election fraud, intimidation of opposition leaders and human rights abuses during the post-election protests in which at least 36 people were killed as police allegedly fired into the crowds.
	www.voanews.com /english/2005-09-02-voa44.cfm (494 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Africa \| High stakes in Ethiopia stand-off
		Ethiopia has for the first time allowed foreign diplomats to visit a prison in which thousands of political prisoners are being held.
		They are attempting to persuade all sides to participate in the investigation of the complaints that the National Election Board is scheduled to begin undertaking on Monday.
		The future of Ethiopia is in the balance, as all sides decide whether they can live with the outcome of May's multi-party elections.
	news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/africa/4122350.stm (804 words)

	[AIN] Asmarino Independent News - Ethiopia Election
		These elections could embark Ethiopia on a course towards greater democracy and therefore stability if they are understood and treated in one way.
		Ethiopia's National Electoral Board has announced that it plans to hold a new election this weekend at six polling stations where irregularities were reported during Sunday's vote.
		Ethiopia's two main opposition groups say they are heading for victory in Sunday's poll, contradicting claims of victory from the ruling party.
	news9.asmarino.com /content/blogcategory/63/119 (557 words)

	2000 Elections in Ethiopia
		The EPRDF won a landslide victory in 1995 elections but they were marred by a boycott from almost all the country's opposition groups.
		Ethiopia, whose history and culture stretch back 3,000 years, has 80 different ethnic groups and most of its political parties are ethnically based.
		Ethiopia's opposition parties will try to put their differences behind them in Sunday's general elections in a bid to defeat the ruling Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Democratic Front (EPRDF).
	www.angelfire.com /ak/sellassie/politics/elections.html (1078 words)

	New elections in Ethiopia
		Addis Ababa - Ethiopians cast ballots on Thursday in new elections for six legislative seats after authorities found evidence of fraud and irregularities in the May 15 general polls, officials said.
		Authorities might order new elections in other areas based on evidence presented by political parties that have lodged complaints, he said.
		Parties contested 524 of the 547 seats in Ethiopia's lower house of parliament.
	www.news24.com /News24/AnanziArticle/0,,2-11-1447_1715308,00.html (306 words)

	USATODAY.com - 'Feeling is not good' after Ethiopia vote (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-06)
		ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia — Regulars at the Crocodile, a coffeehouse in the Ethiopian capital, pored over copies of an independent newspaper called Nestanet, which means "freedom" in the local Amharic language.
		A Ethiopian woman cast her vote at a polling station in Addis Ababa during the third democratic elections in Ethiopia's 3,000-year history.
		Ethiopia's elections in May, at first, seemed to enhance the country's image as a flourishing democracy.
	www.usatoday.com /news/world/2005-07-20-ethiopia_x.htm (1058 words)

	Opposition Parties Boycott Elections in South Ethiopia
		Two Opposition Parties boycotted Kebele council elections held last Sunday (December 30, 2001) in the Southern Nations Nationalities and Peoples' Regional State saying their members and supporters have been harrassed, imprisoned, beaten and had their properties expropriated by cadres and members of the rulling party.
		The parties in a statement said their members were issued with their candidature identity cards only one day before the election day and their names were not announced as candidates while some of the names were concelled from the list.
		In many polling stations, cadres of EPRDF and Kebele administrations were assigned by the Board as election executives against the demand by the parties for the appointment of independent election executives, the statement said.
	www.addistribune.com /Archives/2002/01/04-01-02/Opposition.htm (243 words)

	SudanTribune article : Ethiopia to rerun elections in 20 Of 523 constituencies (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-06)
		Ethiopia to rerun elections in 20 Of 523 constituencies
		ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia, July 22, 2005 (AP) — Ethiopia will rerun parliamentary elections in at least 20 of the 524 seats contested during fiercely disputed polls, the chairman of the National Election Board said Friday.
		Opposition parties have dismissed the probe as a "complete failure," accusing the board of bias in favor of the ruling party, a claim dismissed by the board and the government.
	www.sudantribune.com /article_impr.php3?id_article=10762 (405 words)

	Ethiopia to return elections
		Addis Ababa - Ethiopia will rerun parliamentary elections in at least 20 of the 524 seats contested during fiercely disputed polls, said the chairman of the National Election Board on Friday.
		The election board also was awaiting details of investigations of 139 constituencies, but had thrown out complaints in 75 other seats.
		The elections were seen as a key test of Meles' commitment to greater democratic reform in the country he had ruled for 14 years.
	www.news24.com /News24/Africa/News/0,,2-11-1447_1741853,00.html (465 words)

	On the Upcoming National Elections in Ethiopia and some Reflections on Democracy
		We have not yet moved far enough from the politics of confrontation that has bedevilled the political arena in Ethiopia for a very long time, going as far back to the days of the student movement in the 1960s and 70s.
		It is believed that Ethiopia could build upon its manifest potential and significantly transform its democratization and developmental prospects if its principal political parties were to pursue a more constructive approach to politics.
		After all, elections are peaceful competitions to serve the people and be ready to shoulder the formidable challenge of extricating our peoples from the quagmire of abject poverty and under-development.
	www.addistribune.com /Archives/2004/04/09-04-04/On.htm (967 words)

	Representative Christopher H. Smith - (NJ04) - Smith Calls on Ethiopian Government End Political Crisis, Respect Human ...
		Smith also noted the importance negotiating with the two main political party coalitions to end the stalemate on the limited rights of opposition members of Parliament and investigating killings of protestors by government forces.
		The May, 2005 elections were widely acknowledged to be the most open elections ever held in
		An unknown number of Ethiopians, including minors, have been jailed for protesting the delayed election results and limitations on the rights of opposition Members of Parliament.
	www.house.gov /apps/list/press/nj04_smith/prEthiopiaElectionAnniv.html (446 words)

	The Crown Council of Ethiopia
		Ethiopia’s Solomonic dynasty, which traces its origins back to the union of Israel’s King Solomon and the Queen of Sheba, is the oldest leadership institution in the world today, extending back some 3,000 years.
		Ethiopia is under assault from many forces, internal and external, and there are those radicals in the Sudan who have threatened to embark on a campaign to dismember our country, and break it up into a patchwork of insignificant states.
		Ethiopia is vital to the security of the Horn of Africa, and therefore the security of the Red Sea and Suez Canal sea lanes.
	www.ethiopiancrown.org /statements.htm (13314 words)

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