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Ethiopia tightens its grip on media ahead of 2015 elections
Jessica White
“The current regime follows this pattern: immediately before elections, they start to muzzle every critical voice,” protests Endalk Chala, a co-founder and member of the Ethiopian blogging collective called “Zone 9”...
Ethiopia: Crimes Against University Students and Humanity (Prof. Alemayehu G. Mariam)
On May 2, 2014, BBC reported that the security forces of the regime in Ethiopia had massacred at least 47 university and high school students in the town of Ambo 80 miles west of the capital Addis Ababa. The regime dismissed the massacre and...
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....