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Ethiopia suspected of spying on independent TV network ESAT [CPJ]
New York, March 10, 2015–The Committee to Protect Journalists is alarmed by research that indicates the Ethiopian government used spyware to monitor journalists at U.S.-based Ethiopian Satellite Television (ESAT) in what appears to be...
Ten websites demand Tedros Adhnom to retract fabrication
– Editors voted to label him “top Pinocchio” for blatant lies
Press Release
Washington DC– Editors of ten leading Ethiopian websites have joined forces to demanded Foreign Minister Tedros Adhanom to retract his outlandish, outrageous...
Ethiopia's Blue Party Tries To Reacquaint Nation With Dissent [npr]
BY GREGORY WARNER
Feven Tashome is a study in blue. The 21-year-old’s toenails are painted a rich cobalt, her scarf is baby blue and her leather handbag is ultramarine. To ordinary passersby in the Ethiopian capital of Addis Ababa, it’s...
Spyware vendor may have helped Ethiopia target journalists – even after it was aware of abuses, [washingtonpost]
By Andrea Peterson
The Ethiopian government appears again to be using Internet spying tools to attempt to eavesdrop on journalists based in suburban Washington, said security researchers who call such high-tech intrusions a serious threat...
Jaw bone fossil discovered in Ethiopia is oldest known human lineage remains [The Guardian]
Around 400,000 years older than previous discovery of homo lineage, 2.8m-year-old jaw and five teeth was found on rocky slope in Afar region
A lower jaw bone and five teeth discovered on a hillside in Ethiopia are the oldest remains ever found...
WORLD BANK DENIES BLAME FOR VIOLENT ETHIOPIAN EVICTIONS [ICIJ]
By Sasha Chavkin
The World Bank has denied responsibility for the violent evictions of an indigenous group by a major client, the Ethiopian government, and declined to press for compensation for families that have been forced from...
Tedros Adhanom caught in $20 million teen prize scandal[By Abebe Gellaw]
– Government of Australia and Rotary Foundation deny funding teenager
ADDIS VOICE – The Foreign Minister of Ethiopia has been caught in an explosive web of lies with a schoolgirl as the Government of Australia and the Rotary Foundation...
PRESS RELEASE: WORLD BANK WHITEWASHES ETHIOPIA HUMAN RIGHTS SCANDAL
BANK ABSOLVES ITSELF OF RESPONSIBILITY AND DENIES REDRESS TO VICTIMS
by Inclusive Development International
(March 2, 2015) – The World Bank has whitewashed damning evidence of widespread human rights abuses in connection with its flagship...