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...
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...
Ethiopia-Eritrea Wargames of Mass Distraction? [Professor Alemayehu G. Mariam]
De ja vu: Haven’t we seen that movie (circus) before?
In April 2011, I wrote a commentary about the T-TPLF’s art of war by mass distraction.
The T-TPLF (Thugtatorship of the Tigrean People’s Liberation Front), the ruling regime in...