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Ethiopia drops terror, other charges against Swedish doctor
ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia (AP) — Ethiopia has dropped terrorism and other charges against a Swedish doctor who had been accused of corruption and orchestrating a prison fire, the state-owned Ethiopian News Agency reported Friday.
The Ethiopian-born...
Protesters Demand Ethiopia Cancel Billionaire's Gold-Mine Permit (Bloomberg)
Demonstrators say pollution caused illness, livestock deaths
Government extended mining license for a decade last month
By Nizar Manek
Protesters in Ethiopia’s restive Oromia region demanded the government withdraw a gold-mining permit...
The assassination of Gezahegn Gebremeskel: Who killed the Ethiopian activist? (M&G)
Simon Allison
Zagbo Pascal saw it happen. He was on the corner of Kerk and Polly streets in downtown Johannesburg, hanging out with some friends, when a single gunshot rang out. It was 5pm on Saturday, April 21, still broad daylight, and the...
Ethiopian state of emergency must end, says journalist freed from jail (Reuters)
Jackson Njehia
NAIROBI (Reuters) – Ethiopia’s prime minister Abiy Ahmed should fulfill his pledge to expand political freedoms by lifting a state of emergency, said a journalist released in February after six years...
How Ethiopian Americans changed US policy on their homeland (BY ALEMAYEHU MARIAM-THE HILL)
An old Ethiopian aphorism propounds, “If spiders could gather up their silk in a single twine, they could tie up a lion.” In other words, many weak and powerless people could band together and defeat a mighty adversary.
Marian Wright Edelman, founder...
Why I resigned as Ethiopian Prime Minister – Hailemariam (The New Times)
By Collins Mwai
Former Ethiopian Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn has said that he resigned early this year on realization that he could not inspire desired national reforms while still in the position.
He admitted that his country has been...
