Luck was out for Assefa Kesito, a former Minister for Justice and special advisor to Ethiopian President Girma Woldegiorgis. He was forcibly evicted last week from his home in Nafas Silk, Kebelle number 12, Addis Ababa.
He did try to remonstrate with the policemen, but this was to no avail. He explained to them that he could not be evicted because he was a top civil servant and had the right to official accommodation and added that President Girma Woldegiorgis had promised that he could stay, but it was no good. The policemen told him that they had "orders from above" to carry out the eviction. His belongings and his family were all turfed out into the streets. Assefa Kesito was no doubt a victim of a settling of scores instigated by Azeb Mesfin, the wife of Prime Minister Meles Zenawi. She has been nursing a heavy grudge against him ever since his spell as minister of justice. As for Girma Woldegiorgis, the mere fact of being President was not enough to prevent his assistant from being evicted. Kesito now has to find new accommodation!
Source: The Indian Ocean Newsletter

1.. all the rebel groups in ethiopia should meet possibly in Asmara and discuss ways they can help each other and coordinate attacks. should focus on strenghtening ties and communication, and maybe even troops integrations and single command and control to coordinate attacks.
2... the rebels should focus their strategies on first weakening the regime, by that you need to weaken it economically. financially weak government is weak militarily. How do we weaken it economically? simple, you bring the country to are stand still no movement of products and goods. no movement of products and goods, no business, no business no taxes to government covers. You do this by attacking and burning transport trucks and their cargo, and derailing the only cargo train that brings products to landlocked Ethiopia. Then the government will try to protect the roads and rail lines. they need massive Numbers of troops to do so. now the rebels have diverted some ethiopian troops to non essential non battle related tasks that are costly to the regime and beneficial to the rebels, because now the rebels will have to confront lesser numbers of Ethiopian troops. and the government road and rail line troops will be weak and easily outnumbered.
3....The rebels should focus on flipping the Ethiopian generals and high ranking military official to their side. this can be done by bribing them or promise of high government post when the dictatorial regime is over thrown. If the rebels succeed in flipping are general, they can get massive weaponry with him or valuable military secret that can change outcomes of battles.
4... In every struggle The hearts and minds of the people is crucial to success. let it be the people inside Ethiopia or Outside. propaganda and PR campaign should be launched to make the rebellion "THE PEOPLES REBELLION".
5.. the rebellions should observe the elements {droughts and rainy season} this is crucial to victory or defeat. when there is a drought rebels should seek a place they can get food and water, and continue fighting unabated. We have seen the ONLF nearly destroyed when in a drought the Ethiopian regime burned villages and buried boreholes, and used food as a weapon to starve the rebels to death. This should be avoided with alliance of rebels. when one rebel groups region is in drought they should be allowed to come to another rebel groups land so they can get food and water undisturbed by locals.
6...Oil drilling in Ethiopian should be stopped at any cost and by any means necessary. a rich enemy is a strong enemy. stopping oil drilling in Ethiopia can be done by combination of site attacks and buying TV advertisement in home country of the oil drilling company and even protest at that company's headquaters in their country. that will embarrass the company and make it costly for them to drill for oil in Ethiopia.
7... peoples rights should be respected and human rights violations must be avoided. if the rebels start abusing the people they will lose the support of the people because people will say their is no difference between the rebels and the government.
8...when the regime colapses Ethiopia should be divided into 8 countries immediately.