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Yemen: Migrants Held at ‘Torture Camps’ Human Right Watch
Hold Traffickers, Officials Accountable for Role in Abuses
(Sanaa) –Traffickers in Yemen hold African migrants in detention camps, torturing them to extort payment from their families, with the complicity of local officials, Human Rights Watch...
''Medrek'' successful demonstration, blue party (Semayawi) took a part
Medrek Party (Federal Democratic Unity Forum) did a demonstration in Adddis abeba today. Hundreds of thousands of protesters demanded the TPLF Ethiopian regime to stop killing students,to stop evicting farmers and grabbing their land in the...
Ethiopian Guard Sentenced for Immigration Crimes
By SADIE GURMAN Associated Press
A man identified as a brutal Ethiopian prison guard has been sentenced to 22 years in prison for immigration violations.
Kefelgn Alemu Worku (kah-FEH’-lun ah-LEE’-moo WER’-koo)...
Bloggers of the World, Unite!
Today is the 25th day in jail for Zone 9 Bloggers in Ethiopia. They have not been charged; in fact, the government could not come up with reasonable cause for detaining the 6 bloggers and 3 journalists. It has now come to our attention that...
UNDERSTANDING THE POSITIONS OF THE STAKEHOLDERS IN THE ADDIS ABABA PEACE TALKS
By: Abraham Deng Lueth, USA, MAY/22/2014, SSN;
The ongoing peace negotiations in Addis Ababa have seen several difficulties that are caused by the confusions and misunderstandings regarding the positions of different stakeholders in the talks....
Ethiopia's independent publishers may face another hurdle
CPJ: In what appears to be one of a collection of measures to silence the press ahead of 2015 elections, Ethiopian authorities in the Communications Ministry are preparing a new system to control the distribution of print media. Privately...
Egypt's Hosni Mubarak jailed for embezzlement
BBC News: A court in Egypt has sentenced former President Hosni Mubarak to three years in prison after finding him guilty of embezzling public funds.
His two sons, Alaa and Gamal, were also convicted and given four-year terms.The three were...