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Ethiopians talk of violent intimidation as their land is earmarked for foreign investors[theguardian]
Ethiopia has long faced criticism for forcibly relocating tens of thousands of people from their ancestral homes. Photograph: Siegfried Modola/Reuters
David Smith
New report gives damning indictment of the government’s mandatory resettlement...
Urgent Appeal on Behalf of Ethiopians Stranded in Yemen!
The Global Alliance for the Rights of Ethiopians (GARE) was established in response to the crisis emanating from the unexpected decision by the Government of Saudi Arabia to expel Ethiopian migrant workers. GARE campaigned vigorously and raised...
Israel offers Eritrean refugees an option: deportation or jail [Martin Plaut]
Evidence from the Holot detention centre in Israel shows that Eritrean and Sudanese detainees are being given a choice between deportation to an unnamed “third country” or imprisonment.
This information was sent by Israeli human rights activists...
Exposed: Tedros Adhanom’s chief advisor is a phony prof from Bowie [By Abebe Gellaw]
(Addis Voice) The chief advisor of Ethiopia’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the minister, Tedros Adhanom, is a self-appointed professor with a PhD in “international studies” from a “university” labelled by a U.S. congressional investigation...
Andargachew Tsige: Ethiopian brutality, British apathy [By Graham Peebles]
A UK citizen who was a refugee from the one-party state that is Ethiopia has been spirited back into its clutches. Why is the Foreign and Commonwealth Office doing so little?
On 23 June 2014 Andargachew Tsige was illegally detained at Sana’a...
U.S. Students Feature Ethiopia’s Reeyot Alemu in ‘Press Uncuffed’ Campaign [Tadias Magazine]
Reeyot Alemu is one in a number of journalists who have been prosecuted under the vaguely worded and broad-reaching anti-terrorism laws passed by the Ethiopian legislature in 2009. (IWMF/Getty Images)
By Tadias Staff
New York — Students...
Latest Nile agreement is another TPLF giveaway[SMNE]
Geneva, Switzerland)– On March 23, 2015, a Tripartite Summit on the Nile was held in Khartoum, Sudan, hosted by Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir, and attended by Egyptian President Abdul Fattah Sisi, and Ethiopian Prime Minister Hailemariam...