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Exiled prominent journalist, activist wrote open letter to Ethiopia’s security chief following threats to their family back home by security operatives [ESAT]
ESAT News (July 6, 2016)
Exiled journalist Sisay Agena and Tamagn Beyene, an activist and a well-known critic of the Ethiopian government wrote an open letter to the country’s security chief, Getachew Asefa following intimidation against...
Eritrea escapes U.N. Security Council referral over human rights [Reuters]
By Tom Miles
GENEVA (Reuters) – Eritrea may escape censure by the U.N. Security Council over its human rights record after the U.N. Human Rights Council passed a watered-down resolution against the African state on Friday.
A U.N. investigation...
Exiled Ethiopian journalists on hunger strike [BBC]
Emmanuel Igunza
BBC Africa, Nairobi
A group of Ethiopian journalists living in exile in Kenya are holding a hunger strike to protest against the treatment of an opposition politician who is critically ill in Ethiopia.
The authorities have denied...
Press Release: Allow Ethiopian opposition politician to obtain treatment abroad for torture-sustained injuries [Amnesty International]
The Ethiopian authorities must allow an opposition politician who is now unconscious due to injuries sustained in torture and other ill-treatment to obtain life-saving medical treatment abroad, said Amnesty International in a letter to Ethiopian...
OGADEN: Ethiopia's Hidden Shame [Graham Peebles (Video)]
Ethiopia is regularly cited as an African success story by donor nations; the economy is growing they cry, more children are attending school and health care is improving. Well GDP figures and millennium development statistics reveal only a...
Ethiopia: Protest Crackdown Killed Hundreds [HRW]
(Nairobi) – Ethiopian security forces have killed more than 400 protesters and others, and arrested tens of thousands more during widespread protests in the Oromia region since November 2015. The Ethiopian government should urgently support...
SEC: Ethiopia’s Electric Utility Sold Unregistered Bonds in U.S.
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Washington D.C., June 8, 2016 —
The Securities and Exchange Commission today announced that Ethiopia’s electric utility has agreed to pay nearly $6.5 million to settle charges that it violated U.S. securities...