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Amnesty International Authorities in Ethiopia should immediately stop the ill treatment of political opposition members and human rights defenders who were beaten in detention and then forced to appear before the court inadequately dressed,...

ESAT  Family and friends of Eskinder Nega, a prominent Ethiopian journalist and one of the many prisoners of conscience in the country’s dungeons, have not been allowed to visit him since last week. Eskinder was sentenced to 18 years in prison...

There is  “no famine in Ethiopia… Ethiopians aren’t starving to death… People aren’t dying… Animals are dying of thirst…” Alex de Waal Last week, in an op-ed piece in the New York Times (International Edition), Alex de...

Congo-Kinshasa, Congo-Brazzaville, Burundi, Uganda, Rwanda, Benin. Ask Robert Mugabe, Africa’s longest reigning president, about these countries and doubt not he would beam with pride. This is a partial litany of African countries, whose presidents...

PRESS RELEASE MAY 6, 2016 The Ethiopian authorities must immediately and unconditionally release a prominent opposition politician facing a possible death sentence on trumped-up terrorism charges over comments he posted on Facebook, said...

©Charlie Bibby/FT The large Saudi Star farm in Gambella. Its owners want to grow 140,000 tonnes of rice by 2018 Tom Burgis in New York  An Ethiopian court has handed down a nine-year jail sentence to a leading dissident from the restive...