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Disability advocate Yetnebersh Nigussie receives Right Livelihood Award (DW)
The Ethiopian lawyer spoke with DW about the importance of education and supporting the disability community in Africa and around the world. The award honors those who have found practical solutions to global problems.
Right Livelihood Award...
HRW details abuses by Ethiopia security forces at festival
[JURIST] Human Rights Watch [advocacy website] released a report [text] on Monday detailing the violence carried out by the Ethiopian security forces during the Irreecha festival, the annual harvest celebration observed by the country’s...
Ethiopia must step up political reforms, U.S. 'disturbed' over ethnic clashe (Africanews)
The United States says Ethiopia must open up its political space if its is to cement its place in the future as a “strong, prosperous and democratic nation.”
This was contained in a press statement released by the U.S. Embassy in Addis...
The world loves Ethiopian pop star Teddy Afro. His own government doesn’t. (The WashingtonPost)
By Paul Schemm
ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia — Monday marked the first day of the new Ethiopian year, but it hasn’t been much of a holiday for Teddy Afro, the country’s biggest pop star.
First, the government informed him that his New Year’s...
South Sudan’s Ongoing Civil War Tests Ethiopia’s Foreign Policy (WPR)
The Editors Thursday, Sept. 14, 2017
For years, Ethiopia has been actively engaged in the civil war in neighboring South Sudan, providing troops and diplomatic support to help stabilize the ravaged country. But Ethiopia’s relations with...
A call to Ethiopian elders and leaders from SMNE: A time for moral heroism (Obang Metho)
The greatness of a nation lies in its fidelity to its constitution and strict adherence to the rule of law and above all the fear of God.
These are the words of Kenyan Chief Justice David Maraga, a respected Kisii elder, who explained the basis...
A Victorious Happy Ethiopian New Year (2010)! [Professor Alemayehu G. Mariam]
Let us look forward happily to the new year with confidence in our hearts and resolve in our minds. Let us learn from the lessons of the past year and apply them even more magnificently in the new. Those great lesson are mass civil disobedience...
ONLF Response to the Somali Cabinet Decision on the Refoulement of Mr Abdikarin Sh Muse to Ethiopia
Statement by Ogaden National Liberation Front (ONLF)
September 8, 2017
On September 6, 2017 the minister of information of Somalia read a statement in which he claimed that ONLF has a relationship with Al-Shabab and was involved in Activities...