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Leisure time is generally spent at home. Individual games of skill such as board games and races are the most popular forms of recreation. Soccer is the most important holiday of the year. Some ethnic groups, including segments of the Oromo and Amhara people, remain displeased with the Ethiopian People’s Revolutionary Party (EPRP), which by the beginning of 1977 had launched a systematic campaign to undermine the military regime. The EPRP conducted urban guerrilla warfare against the regime, referred to as the “White Terror.” The government responded with its own view as to the preferred character of a new Ethiopia. Rather than allow democratic elections, the military regime attempted to co-opt potential opponents, giving the most significant political organizations representation in a deliberative body, the Politbureau. The EPRDF, led by Meles Zenawi, set up a national transitional government in Addis Ababa, and the EPLF established a provisional government in Eritrea. After a referendum in 1993, Eritrea declared its independence, and Ethiopia recognized the new Eritrean government. In June 1994 Ethiopian voters elected representatives to a Constituent Assembly, charged with writing a new democratic constitution. The EPRDF won 484 out of 547 seats in the assembly. A new constitution granting special rights to different ethnic groups in Ethiopia was ratified in December, and became effective in August 1995. In May 1995 a new legislative body, the Council of People’s Representatives, was elected, with the majority of seats going to the EPRDF. In August the Constituent Assembly officially transferred power to the new legislature, and the country was renamed the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia. In the same month the legislature elected Meles as the country’s prime minister. He was reelected in October 2000. According to the terms of the Allied peace treaty with Italy, signed in 1947, agreement was to be reached within a year on the disposition of the former Italian colonies of Eritrea, Italian Somaliland, and Libya. In the absence of such an agreement, however, the decision was left to the United Nations (UN). The UN General Assembly voted for the federation of Eritrea with Ethiopia, to be completed by September

Ethiopia popular singer released from jail - Sudan Tribune *People just seem to wanna bitch and moan about any ol' thing. We mean, really, was it a slow news day? Not to say that EURweb and affiliates have never pounced on a hot story that, in essence, was little more than smoke and mirrors. But really, the
Ethiopia popular singer released from jail - Sudan Tribune

Wurth-Thomas reaches finals at World Championships - Pantagraph MOGADISHU, Somalia - An insurgent attack on a peacekeeping base sparked gunbattles that killed at least 24 people Friday, as the undermanned African peacekeeping force tried to maintain the government's tenuous hold on Somalia's battered capital
Wurth-Thomas reaches finals at World Championships - Pantagraph

Ethiopia popular singer released from jail - Sudan Tribune *People just seem to wanna bitch and moan about any ol' thing. We mean, really, was it a slow news day? Not to say that EURweb and affiliates have never pounced on a hot story that, in essence, was little more than smoke and mirrors. But really, the
Ethiopia popular singer released from jail - Sudan Tribune