EDP Press Release on Election 2010 Results

Donor darling: What Ethiopian poll can teach Africa
This joke is doing the rounds in Ethiopia after an almost embarrassing landslide victory for the governing EPRDF party and its allies left the opposition with just a lonely brace of seats in the 547 member parliament.

A new beginning for Diaspora: AYAA set a record of attendance and fund raised.
Washington DC May 30, 2010(Aigaforum) - The Atse Yohannes Alumni Association (AYAA) since its inception has been holding its annual get together every year in the month of May. May also is a historic month for Ethiopians! The repressive Mengistu Hailemariam government was defeated on May 20th 1990! Ethiopia also holds its national election in the month of May. Infact Ethiopia just concluded a historic fourth election a week ago.
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The London based Amhara development Association branch office conducted a successful fund raising event at the Ethiopian Embassy in London
The fund raising event is held on the 29th of May 2010 at the Ethiopian Embassy in the presence of his excellence Ato Hlawi Yosef board chair man of the all Amhara Region Development Association. On the day a record amount of more than �13,000 pounds similar to more than 260,000 birr is raised and pledged.

France pushes economic ties at new-look Africa summit
France on Monday bids to shore up its dwindling clout in Africa at a summit designed to launch a renewal of Franco-African ties and enlist big business in development....Giving Africa a strong voice in world governance will be a key topic and Ethiopia's Meles Zenawi chairs a round-table discussion on climate and development with a view to cementing a united Africa stance ahead of a key meeting in Cancun, Mexico later this year.

Burundi, Rwanda Expel Human Rights Watch Workers
May 31, 2010 -- The east African nations of Rwanda and Burundi have both asked human rights researchers from a New York-based organization to leave their countries within weeks of each other, an official said lastweek.
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*** 14 Opposition parties including EDP declared their intention to accept the election 2010 results. They vow to work hard to win the people's vote in the upcoming election for Addis Ababa City Administration! ***

Anniversary of Demise of Military Dictatorship Celebrated!!!
May 31, 2010 /Washington DC/ The 19th anniversary of the downfall of the brutal military junta and the dawn of a new era of peace, democracy and development in Ethiopia was colorfully celebrated at the premises of the Ethiopian Embassy in Washington DC last Saturday, May 29, 2010.

The international reactions
The elections were closely watched by Ethiopia�s partners in the international community, and after the declaration of provisional results indicating a landslide victory for the incumbent, a number of statements were issued, by the EU Observer Mission, by the European Union and the US as well as by the African Union Observer Mission. In a press release on May 25th, EU Commission Vice-President and High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, Lady Catherine Ashton, described ...
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