Senior Air Force Pilots Among Those Killed in Mogadishu

Washington DC (TADIAS) – The four crew members killed on board the Ethiopian military plane that crashed on Friday at Mogadishu airport in Somalia were all experienced Ethiopian Air Force personnel, including two senior pilots who had also served under the previous regime, a source told Tadias Magazine.

A colleague of the former pilots who refused to be named said that those who died in the crash were experienced airmen who began work during the Derg era and were employed by the air force under the current government.

Tirunesh Dibaba Continues Her 10,000-Meter Dominance

 Tirunesh Dibaba of Ethiopia leads Belaynesh Oljira of Ethiopia and Gladys Cherono of Kenya in the women's 10,000 meters.

Ethiopian wins in 30:43.35, remaining unbeaten in 11 tries.

The lightning bolt spectators saw over Moscow's Luzhniki Stadium in the middle of the women's 10,000-meter final wasn’t a message from the gods signifying a changing of the guard. Instead, it was just a thunderous exclamation of a generation's top female track racer as she continued her dominance over the distance.

Ethiopia's Tirunesh Dibaba, the world and Olympic champion, proved once again Sunday that she is the perhaps the surest bet in distance running, as she won the world title in 30:43.35. It was her third gold medal at this distance in the world championships, and her fifth world gold overall. She is undefeated at this distance in 11 races.

Black Music Month feature: Yohannes Tona

Just thinking of Yohannes Tona's dizzying schedule is exhausting.

Tona, a native of Ethiopia, is known as the Twin Cities' most sought-after bassist – and with good reason. His outstanding ear for music, combined with his formal training and his love of multiple styles and genres have made Tona one of the busiest (and most likely the busiest) musicians in the area. For Tona, slowing down isn't even an option.

"My friends gave me the nickname 'Top Dollar' but I tell them my bank account isn't top dollar," said Tona, while laughing. "I say I'm 'Every Dollar.' I play everywhere – as long as it's good music."

Everywhere is not much of an exaggeration.

Men's 10,000m – Preview

Double London 2012 Olympic Games gold medallist Mo Farah may not have run over 25 laps of the track since his triumph on home soil last summer, but there is no doubting that he remains the favourite to go one better than he did in Daegu two years ago and take the gold medal in the longest event on the track.
Farah has shown over a variety of distances this summer that he is in great shape and his European 1500m record of 3:28.81 will only serve as a warning to the rest of the 37 men entered in Saturday’s race.
What should be obvious to everyone is that, although he was beaten by a 52.8 last lap from the Ethiopian surprise Ibrahim Jeilan, they cannot leave matters until the last one or two laps before stepping up the pace as Farah has also found another gear in the last two years.
Conversely, Jeilan has hardly looked like a World champion in the last 18 months. Injuries meant that he missed almost all of last year and he didn’t compete in London. This year he has not finished higher than third in any race over any distance, and his times have been modest, but his three compatriots lead the 2013 list for the distance.

Anti-campaigners of GMOs to convain in Ethiopia

The Alliance for Food Sovereignty in Africa (AFSA) will next week meet in Ethiopia to discuss strategies for resistance against genetically modified (GM) seeds.
AFSA is a Pan African platform comprising networks and farmer organisations working in Africa including the African Biodiversity network, Coalition for the Protection of African Genetic Heritage, Comparing and Supporting Endogenous Development Africa, Friends of the Earth- Africa, Indigenous Peoples of Africa Coordinating Committee and Participatory Ecological Land Use Management Association.
The rest are Eastern and Southern African Small Scale Farmers Forum, La Via Campesina Africa, World Neighbours, Network of Farmers’ and Agricultural Producers’ Organisations of West Africa, Community Knowledge Systems, Plate forme Sous Régionale des Organisations Paysannes d’Afrique Centrale  and African Centre for Biosafety.
The meeting will also oppose Bill Gate’s Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA) and the new G8 Alliance for food security.

Ethiopian man in North Carolina attacks his family with axe and knife

CHARLOTTE, NC (WBTV) -
A man accused of stabbing his wife and two teenage sons with a knife and axe overnight Monday appeared in court Tuesday.
Police say 57-year-old Muruts Hailu used a knife and axe to attack them at the family's apartment on Wendover Road.

Hailu was scheduled to have a bond hearing Tuesday, but he needed an Ethiopian translator so the hearing will have to be rescheduled.
The horror behind the walls of apartment C in the southeast Charlotte complex, are detailed in a police search warrant obtained by WBTV. 
Police received a 911 call around 2:30 a.m. from a distraught 16-year-old boy.



WBTV 3 News, Weather, Sports, and Traffic for Charlotte, NC When police arrived at the Hampton Crest apartments, they found the boy's 15-year-old brother lying on the hallway floor and his mother lying on a bedroom floor.

Ethiopian Scientist Appointed 4th Director General of icipe

Dr. Segenet Kelemu, an Ethiopian scientist, has been appointed the new Director General of icipe, taking over from Prof. Christian Borgemeister, who has been at the helm of the Centre for the past eight years. Dr. Kelemu becomes the fourth chief executive officer, and the first woman to head icipe.

Founded in 1970 by renowned Kenyan scientist, Prof. Thomas Risley Odhiambo,  icipe conducts research and assists resource-limited rural and urban communities in Africa to implement strategies that are environmentally safe, affordable and accessible, for the control of crop pests and disease vectors, and the exploitation of useful insects.

Announcing Dr. Kelemu’s appointment, icipe Governing Council Chairman, Prof. John Pickett, said: “We are extremely confident that Dr. Kelemu will ably advance the Centre’s overall mission of improving food security and the health of people in Africa. She has immense experience in agricultural research, in capacity building and in managing research for development. Indeed, over the past two decades, her own research and that of teams under her leadership has contributed to addressing a variety of key agricultural constraints in Africa, Asia, Latin America and North America.”