Nile, Ethiopia and Nation 5

London - Pro-democracy activists condemn Meles Zenawi over widespread human rights violations, including crimes against humanity and genocide. (Ethiomedia.com in cooperation with activists in London).

CAIRO - Egyptians continued to protest on Jan 26, calling for the removal of President Hosni Mubarak from power. They clashed with police who used tear gas and rubber bullets to disperse the crowds.

Hailemariam Desalegn, Deputy FM of the dictatorial regime in Ethiopia, appears on ITMN. He struggles to make sense when he faces as thorny and difficult questions as to why his government is selling large tracts of fertile land to foreign companies - despite growing domestic opposition which knows the Ethiopian farmer has no right to own land.

Gambella - Local Ethiopian farmers are being helplessly uprooted from their livelihoods to make way for incoming Indian and other foreign companies that have been given vast swathes of virgin land by the Meles Zenawi regime in Addis.

DALLAS - Ethiopians living in Dallas and all other cities in Texas raised $25000 to ESAT, the lone independent Satellite Television service.

WASHINGTON, DC - Accompanied by gifted artists, Shambel Belaineh entertains both the young and old at the Ethiopian Heritage Society's festival here in the Georgetown area of the nation's capital.