UN says 4.5m Ethiopians will need aid after rains fail
Aljazeera
UN says numbers who will require food aid by end of this year has surged by more than 1.5 million after failed rains.
The number of Ethiopians who will need food aid by the end of this year has surged by more than 1.5 million from...
Ethiopian Bloggers in Kangaroo (Monkey) Kourt [Professor Alemayehu G. Mariam]
Kangaroo/monkey kourt (in)justice T-TPLF style
Last week, young Ethiopian bloggers collectively known as “Zone 9 Bloggers” (named after a cell block holding political prisoners at the infamous Meles Zenawi Kality Prison, a few...
IN ETHIOPIA, RUNNING FROM SEXUAL ABUSE [BY HANNAH BORENSTEIN]
OZY
Tucked in a lush valley surrounded by mountains, Yaya Village is nothing short of a runner’s mecca. There’s a four-star resort complete with a 3,500-square-foot gym and access to physiotherapists, not to mention meals “optimized for...
Ethiopia: Our Need for Unity in Divinity Facing Adversity![Professor Alemayehu G. Mariam]
The Thugtatorship of the Tigrean People’s Liberation Front (T-TPLF) has been pursuing a systematic program of religious persecution and fomenting religious antagonisms in Ethiopia for quite some time.
After the T-TPLF seized power in 1991,...
Man survives flight to Sweden in plane hold
THE LOCAL
UPDATED: An asylum seeker has been discovered alive in the hold of a plane that landed at Stockholm’s Arlanda airport on Friday morning, after smuggling himself on to an Ethiopian Airlines flight from Addis Ababa.
The stowaway...
Five men charged with murder of 200 migrants drowned in the Med [theguardian]
Suspected traffickers arrested by Italian police after boat tragedy allegedly threatened those on board with knives and beat them with belts
The five men arrested on suspicion of multiple homicide and human trafficking in the...
Aljazeera: US and European officials urge Ethiopia to release Andy Tsege
The father of three and lifelong crusader for democracy has been in secret detention for more than a year
by Amel Ahmed
Politicians from the United States, United Kingdom and the European Union have sent a letter to Ethiopian Prime Minister...
USCIRF Condemns Trial Outcome of Ethiopian Muslim Leaders
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
August 6, 2015
WASHINGTON, D.C. – The U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) strongly decries the convictions and sentencing of 18 Muslim leaders in Ethiopia. They were charged under Ethiopia’s...