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Europe response to Mediterranean migrant and refugee tragedy falls short[Oxfam]
Europe’s leaders have just missed a crucial opportunity to make a real difference in the lives and deaths of the people suffering daily in the Mediterranean. Instead of heeding calls to restore immediately a search-and-rescue operation in...
Ethiopia: Free Zone 9 Bloggers, Journalists [HRW]
A Year After Arrests, Drop Politically Motivated Charges
(Nairobi) – Ethiopian authorities should immediately release nine bloggers and journalists arrested a year ago who are being prosecuted on politically motivated charges, Human Rights...
Ethiopian bloggers on trial in case seen as crackdown on free expression [washingtonpost]
By Simona Foltyn
ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia — They met online in 2010 while raising money for a charity case: nine young, university-educated Ethiopian professionals. Eventually, they decided to launch a blog about social and civic issues in...
US official praises Ethiopian ‘democracy,’ rest of world begs to differ [aljazeera]
Mohammed Ademo
During a press briefing in Addis Ababa on April 16, US Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs Wendy Sherman praised Ethiopia as a democracy, suggesting it had made great strides toward an open and inclusive...
South Africa violence provokes anger of a continent [channel4]
South Africa is not like any other country – it has a special place in the hearts of ordinary Africans. But that could change after the recent fatal attacks on immigrants.
Africans worldwide have taken to social media to...
Dear Secretary Kerry: U.S. Wrong to Endorse Ethiopia's Elections [freedomhouse]
The Honorable John F. Kerry
Secretary of State
2201 C Street, NW
Washington, DC 20520
Dear Mr. Secretary:
We are deeply troubled over the comments made by Under Secretary Wendy Sherman yesterday in Addis Ababa. The Under Secretary’s...
What is Behind Ethiopia’s Most Recent Allegations Against Eritrea? [TN]
By Sharmini Peries,
THIS is the Glen Ford Report on The Real News Network. I’m Sharmini Peries coming to you from Baltimore.
Eritrea and Ethiopia, two of the world’s poorest countries, spent hundreds of millions of dollars in a war between...