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ABADULA GEMEDA RESIGNS AS SPEAKER OF THE FEDERAL PARLIAMENT (AddisStandard)
Addis Abeba October 07/2017 – Two credible sources told AS that Abadula Gemeda, speaker of the Ethiopian House of Peoples’ Representatives has resigned from his post.
According to one source, Abadula has “submitted a resignation letter...
The Crisis of Leadership and Legitimacy within Ethiopia’s TPLF Minority Regime
BY NETSANET BULTO
Ever since the death of the late TPLF chairman and Prime Minister, Meles Zenawi, the Tigrayan People’s Liberation Front (TPLF) has lacked a similarly dominant personality able to maintain consensus, either thru charisma,...
Unity v diversity: Ethiopia’s ethnic federalism is being tested (The Economist)
Violence between ethnic groups has put the country on edge
FOR centuries the city of Harar, on the eastern fringes of the Ethiopian highlands, was a sanctuary, its people protected by a great wall that surrounded the entire city. But in the...
Boris Johnson urged to intervene to save Briton on death row in Ethiopia [theguardian]
Heads of Law Society and Bar Council ask foreign secretary to seek release of Andargachew Tsege, who was kidnapped in 2014
Owen Bowcott Legal affairs correspondent
Boris Johnson has been urged by the heads of both branches of the legal profession...
How US Surveillance Helps Repressive Regimes—the Ethiopia Case
By Felix Horne
Recent stories from Edward Snowden’s disclosures show how the US government’s involvement with Ethiopia presents a case study in enabling repressive regimes to carry out surveillance on their own citizens. In the case of...
UN Declares Detention of Opposition Politician Andualem Aragie Arbitrary; Calls for Release
Freedom now
Washington D.C.: In response to a petition filed by Freedom Now, the United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention issued an opinion finding the detention of opposition politician Andualem Aragie by the Government of Ethiopia...
