Rights groups press Obama to meet activists on trip to Kenya and Ethiopia [AFP]
The groups voiced concerns about “grave and worsening human rights challenges” in the two countries.
US president Obama: Told of “shrinking civic space” in Kenya and Ethiopia. (Photo/AFP).
MORE than 50 African...
Hacking Team boss: we sold to Ethiopia but ‘we’re the good guys’ [theguardian]
Samuel Gibbs
Attack that revealed data exposing deals with dictatorships was on a ‘governmental level’ and ‘planned for months’, says David Vincenzetti in first statement
Hacking Team founder speaks out about attacks that...
Ethiopian journalist on fear of returning to prison [Andrew Harding - BBC]
“I’m still scared that I might go back to prison” says journalist Tesfalem Waldyes
It’s never an easy decision: Should I interview someone who wants to talk in public, but who knows that a word out of line could mean...
Thus Spoke Ethiopia’s Reeyot! [Professor Alemayehu G. Mariam]
Reeyot Invictus!
Thus spoke Reeyot Alemu to the Voice of America- Amharic Service on July 9, 2015, a few hours after she was literally thrown out of the infamous Meles Zenawi Prison in Kality, (Ethiopia’s “Robben Island”) on the outskirts...
EXCLUSIVE: SA troops 'held hostage' in Sudan over al-Bashir
By: Erika Gibson, Netwerk24
Johannesburg – The Sudanese government of president Omar al-Bashir literally held a gun to South Africa’s head to secure his safe return to Khartoum.
Netwerk24 can reveal that about 1 400 South African soldiers...
Dibaba world record tradition the aim for Genzebe in Oslo
Athletics-Africa
In a special tribute to the 50th anniversary of the ExxonMobil Bislett Games, Ethiopia’s world indoor 3,000m champion, Genzebe Dibaba has officially revealed to the media her intent to break the world 5,000m record on...