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Ethiopia prime minister Hailemariam Desalegn resigns (Aljazeera)
Hailemariam Desalegn says he has submitted his resignation as both Ethiopia’s prime minister and chairman of the country’s ruling coalition.
Hailemariam’s announcement comes amid a political crisis and lingering unrest in...
Ethiopia: Eskinder’s release must herald a new dawn of respect for human rights (Amnesty
Commenting after Ethiopian journalist and Amnesty International prisoner of conscience Eskinder Nega walked out of prison a free man today, as part of a government pardon of 746 prisoners, Sarah Jackson, Amnesty International’s Deputy Regional...
Message from EskinderNega in his own handwriting
FREE from chains! Thank you!
By Eskinder Nega, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
Here I stand before you – my family, friends, fellow journalists and human rights activists, Ethiopians, the diaspora and international community – FREE from my chains,...
Ethiopia wants political prisoners to sign “confession” forms before release
Quartz
When Ethiopia announced last month that it would release political prisoners and close a controversial detention facility, many viewed it as a promising sign that the Horn of Africa nation was shifting toward real democracy.
Since then,...
Ethiopia's Eskinder Nega refuses to sign false confession in exchange for prison release (CPJ)
New York, February 9, 2018–The Committee to Protect Journalists condemns the Ethiopian government’s attempts today to compel Ethiopian journalist and blogger Eskinder Nega to sign a false confession before releasing him under a...
Ethiopia: journalist Eskinder Nega among 746 to be released (Amnesty)
He was arrested after writing about the Arab Spring, jailed for 18 years and named a ‘prisoner of conscience’ by Amnesty
‘He should not have spent a single day behind bars’ – Sarah Jackson
Commenting on news from Ethiopia that...
Ethiopian activists launching remittance embargo campaign on social media
Remittance embargo cyber campaign targets to mobilize Ethiopians living in North America, Europe, Australia, Middle East, among others, not “to feed the beast”
borkena, February 7, 2018 — Ethiopian activists living abroad are launching...