Archive: Current Affairs / News Subscribe to Current Affairs / News
He Owns Much of Ethiopia. The Saudis Won’t Say Where They’re Hiding Him. (The New Work Times)
By Danny Hakim and Ben Hubbard
He supplies coffee to Starbucks. He owns much of Ethiopia. And he is known as “Sheikh Mo” in the Clintons’ circle.
But the gilded life of Sheikh Mohammed Hussein Al Amoudi took a sharp turn in...
Jailed, freed, defiant: Ethiopian journalist fights on (The Citizen)
by Chris Stein/AFP
More than six years in jail have not blunted Ethiopian journalist Eskinder Nega’s criticism of the government that put him there.
He was released in February, as part of a broad prisoner amnesty, and remains just as defiant,...
Oppositions Out; OPDOs in. (Befqabu Z Hailu)
A few months ago, when OPDO officials adopted dissent voices as their own, I joke-tweeted saying [in AM] “now OPDOs are struggling our struggle; we will see if they would be detained on our behalf”. It seems it has already become...
Killing of civilians by Ethiopia troops no accident: residents (News24)
Addis Ababa – Residents of a town in Ethiopia’s restive Oromia region on Monday disputed the government’s characterisation of a deadly shooting that left nine civilians dead as an accident.
Ethiopian state media said Sunday...
Ethiopia: Prominent blogger jailed (by Engidu Woldie)
ESAT News (March 9, 2018)
Ethiopian regime security detained a prominent blogger and university professor on the day U.S. Secretary of State, Rex Tillerson was in the capital Addis Ababa and had commended the release of political prisoners last...
Ethiopia’s next Prime Minister (BY MOHAMMED ADEMO)
Aricanarguments
The last week has been a highly dramatic and unpredictable one for Ethiopia. On 14 February, hundreds of political prisoners, journalists and opposition leaders were released from prison. A day later, Prime Minister Hailemariam...