EXCLUSIVE - 'Please just let me speak to my daughter': Biological mother of Angelina Jolie’s adopted girl Zahara, 12, demands access from Ethiopia after Brangelina love split (Daily Mail)
Mentewab Dawit Lebiso was forced to give her daughter up after she was raped
Poverty stricken 31-year-old was attacked then fell sick after her baby was born
Jolie adopted the daughter from Ethiopia believing she was an ‘Aids orphan’
Now...
New drought strikes millions in Ethiopia, still reeling from El Nino
Reuters
By Katy Migiro
NAIROBI (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Millions of Ethiopians face a hunger crisis for a second consecutive year after drought hit sub-Saharan Africa’s second most populous nation, the United Nations said on...
Ethiopia: Year of Brutality, Restrictions (HRW)
Restore Rights, Address Grievances
(Nairobi) – Ethiopia plunged into a human rights crisis in 2016, increasing restrictions on basic rights during a state of emergency and continuing a bloody crackdown against largely peaceful protesters,...
Dare to Dream With Me About the New Ethiopia in 2017 [Professor Alemayehu G. Mariam]
“Your sons and your daughters shall prophesy,… [and] see visions, and your old men shall dream dreams.”
Author’s Note: I get to celebrate New Year twice every year. The first on September 11, the Ethiopian New Year. The second on January...
Memoirs of my detention at Awash 7: tales of indoctrination, of laughter and the unknown [BefeQadu Z. Hailu]
Addisstandard
Wakoma Tafa was planning to get married on Sunday, Oct.10, 2016. But just three days before his wedding he was arbitrarily detained around Alem Gena, 25k west of Addis Abeba, a city within the special zone of the Oromia Regional...