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British support for Ethiopia scheme withdrawn amid abuse allegations [theguardian ]
Department for International Development will no longer back $4.9bn project that critics claim has funded a brutal resettlement programme
An Anuak woman at work in Abobo, a village in Ethiopia’s Gambella region. It has been...
Language hitch delays case against 101 illegal migrants [Daily Nation]
By STELLA CHERONO
A case against 101 Ethiopians accused of being in Kenya illegally has delayed due to lack of an Amharic interpreter.
The foreigners, who are said to have been on their way to South Africa, did not have travel documents, police...
Kenya Police Arrest 101 Ethiopian Men
NAIROBI, Kenya
By TOM ODULA Associated Press
Kenyan police said Tuesday they arrested 101 Ethiopian nationals suspected of traveling illegally through Kenya on their way to South Africa.
The suspects appeared before Magistrate Victor...
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,...