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World Bank: Address Ethiopia Findings [HRW]
Response to Inquiry Dismissive of Abuses
(Washington, DC) – The World Bank should fully address serious human rights issues raised by the bank’s internal investigation into a project in Ethiopia, Human Rights Watch said in a letter...
The Zone 9 Bloggers have not been forgotten [BBC]
BBC Trending
What’s popular and why
In April 2014 BBC Trending covered the arrest of six bloggers and three journalists in Ethiopia. The bloggers are part of a group known as Zone 9, and are well known for campaigning around censorship...
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...
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,...