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Britain Is Too Busy Co-operating with Ethiopia On Anti-Terrorism to Help a UK Citizen On Death Row[VICE]

by Oscar Rickett Andargachew Tsege, known to his friends and family as Andy, is a British citizen who has been held in a secret prison in Ethiopia since June last year. The government of the East African country has used its stringent anti-terrorism...

Al Jazeera: The Stream - Ethiopia's media war [Video]

Ethiopia: stealing the Omo Valley, destroying its ancient Peoples [Megan Perry /Sustainable Food Trust ]

A land grab twice the size of France is under way in Ethiopia, as the government pursues the wholesale seizure if indigenous lands to turn them over to dams and plantations for sugar, palm oil, cotton and biofuels run by foreign corporations,...

Gagging the media in Ethiopia [By Graham Peebles]

Suffocating dissent Nobody trusts politicians, but some governments are more despicable than others. The brutal gang ruling Ethiopia is especially nasty. They claim to govern in a democratic pluralistic manner, they say they observe human rights...

Exposed: “Honorable” Speaker Abadula Gemeda has fake degrees [By Abebe Gellaw]

Addis Voice can reveal that the 4th term speaker of the House of People’s Representatives has bought and used two fake degrees from a bogus university selling non-accredited diplomas online. ”Honorable” Abadula Gemeda, who is the chief...

Andy Tsege case: Ethiopia refuses to allow access to imprisoned British citizen [The Independent]

JONATHAN OWEN  Ethiopia has refused to allow a delegation of parliamentarians to visit a British dissident facing the death penalty in the African country. Andy Tsege, who is the secretary-general of a banned Ethiopian opposition movement,...

Ethiopia’s stifled press [Washington post]

By Editorial Board WHILE ENJOYING its status as an international development darling, Ethiopia has been chipping away at its citizens’ freedom of expression. The country now holds the shameful distinction of having the second-most journalists...

ETHIOPIA : DICTATORSHIP WRESTLED BEFORE DEATH,OPPOSITION PARTY HOPES TO WIN IN THE NEXT ELECTION [diplomat.so]

BY TAJUDIN Addis Ababa ( DIPLOMAT.SO) – According to some Ethiopian and Eritrean websites , A Week ago, the opposition party Unity for Justice and Democracy (UDJ)- widely known by its Ethiopian name ‘Andenet‘ – was brimming with confidence...