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Exiled Ethiopian Journalists in Nairobi Tell Their Struggle
By Abdi Latif Dahir NAIROBI, Kenya – Mastewal Birhanu thinks about the day he fled the city of his childhood. Even though he had made his mind to leave Ethiopia for Kenya, the thought of questioning and imprisonment at the airport agitated...
Women in Ethiopia struggle to survive without water
(MSNBC) By Mustafah Abdulaziz and Johnny Simon
In the Konso Region of southern Ethiopia, the struggle for clean, safe water is a daily reality for women and young girls.
“Bringing the water is not a simple task,” says Mariam Bakaule, a mother...
6.5 million Ethiopians needs food assistance
(Reuters)- The World Food Programme will help to feed nearly 6.5 million Ethiopians this year, the U.N. agency said on Tuesday, with the country hit by locusts, neighboring war and sparse rainfall.
“We are concerned because there is the...
Ethiopian Plane Hijacker May Finally Get Asylum in Switzerland but Only after 30-Year Prison Term
The co-pilot of Ethiopian Airlines flight ET702 who had hijacked his plane and got it to Switzerland, in a bid to claim political asylum in the country, may finally have his wish granted, though not exactly as he might have planned.
The Swiss...
PM Hailemariam threatened to arrest both Machar and him if they didn't sign the peace agreement.
By MABIOR MACH
Juba
South Sudan President Salva Kiir has claimed that he and former vice president turned rebel leader Dr Riek Machar signed a peace deal Friday in Addis Ababa to avoid threats of arrest by Ethiopian Prime Minister Hailemariam...
Journalist and activist Abebe Gellaw, letter to President Barack Obama
Open letter to President Barack Obama
Friday, May 9, 2014 @ 04:05 PM ed
Addis Voice– Journalist and activist Abebe Gellaw, who demanded the U.S President Barack Obama to support freedom in Ethiopia during a DNC event Thursday at Fairmont...
United Nations condemns new Ethiopia journalist arrests
(Globalpost/GlobalPost)
UN human rights chief Navi Pillay on Friday condemned the arrest of nine bloggers and journalists in Ethiopia, warning that the country increasingly was muzzling freedom of expression under the guise of fighting terrorism.
“I...