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...
Ethiopia hands lengthy prison terms to Muslim activists [BY AARON MAASHO]
Reuters
An Ethiopian court sentenced 17 Muslim activists on Monday to prison sentences ranging from seven to 22 years on charges they plotted to create an Islamic state in the majority Christian country.
A journalist for a Muslim newspaper was...
Exclusive: Dibaba allowed to double in 1500m and 5,000m by Ethiopia at IAAF World Championships
By Mike Rowbottom at the Nordic C Hotel in Stockholm
Genzebe Dibaba, controversially selected only for the 5,000 metres at next month’s International Association of Athletics Federations World Championships in Beijing four days after...
Laughing at Ethiopia’s 2015 Elektion[Professor Alemayehu G. Mariam]
It is said that “smile and the world smiles at you.”
Does it follow that if you laugh at the world’s most ridiculous election, the world will join you laughing?
Last week, Susan Rice, President Barack Obama’s National Security Adviser,...