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FREEDOM NOW: Current Campaigns, Eskinder Nega
Eskinder Nega
Ethiopia
Eskinder Nega, 46, is a prominent Ethiopian journalist who was convicted and sentenced to 18 years in prison on treason and terrorism charges. Prior his current detention, Mr. Nega was a widely published independent journalist...
A license to torture [Amnesty International]
By Seyoum Teshome
Seyoum Teshome is a professor at a university in Ethiopia and writes to fight the spread of fear that has engulfed his country as a result of an increasingly repressive administration. In September 2016, Seyoum was arrested...
Letter on Ethiopia to the EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs / Vice-President of the European Commission Mogherini [HRW]
Federica Mogherini
High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs /
Vice-President of the European Commission
Rue de la Loi, Wetstraat 200
1049 Brussels
Brussels, March 23, 2017
Dear High Representative Mogherini,
Human Rights Watch wishes...
Ethiopia reports deadly raid by gunmen from South Sudan [Al Jazeera]
Murle bandits allegedly crossed into Ethiopia’s Gambella region and killed 28 people before fleeing with 43 children.
More than 1,000 gunmen from South Sudan have killed 28 people and kidnapped 43 children in neighbouring Ethiopia,...
Ethiopia has Declared Four National Mourning Seasons in Two Years [BefeQadu Z. Hailu]
1. 19th April 2015 – ISIS slaughtered Ethiopians who were illegally migrating through Libya to Europe in search of better life. Ethiopia mourned for three days.
2. 15th April 2016 – Gunmen from Murle tribe of South Sudan killed more...
'Israel doesn't want Ethiopians' [Israelnationalnews]
Ethiopian MK returning from visit to northern Ethiopia says hundreds of Jews are trapped because Israeli government doesn’t want them.
Immigration and Absorption Commitee Head MK Avraham Negusa (Likud) led a delegation of MKs to Ethiopia.
In...
Don't forget Ethiopia starvation risk, says German NGO (DW)
The Menschen für Menschen charity has said 5.7 million Ethiopians could die of a lack of food. Part of the problem is that other countries are faring even worse and thus getting most of the publicity.
Some 6 percent of Ethiopia’s population...