Ethiopians protest racist attack, clash with police: 'Israel will be like Baltimore' [ynetnews]
After Ethiopian says he was attacked by immigration officials, Israel’s Ethiopian community takes to the streets to protest.
Omri Efraim
Some 1,000 Ethiopian Israelis protested across Jerusalem on Thursday evening against two incidents...
Letter from an Ethiopian prison [theguardian]
Natnael Feleke has been imprisoned for a year without trial. In a letter smuggled out of jail, he asks the US secretary of state to stop supporting the regime
Dear John Kerry,
I first came to know about you back in 2004, during the US presidential...
Europe response to Mediterranean migrant and refugee tragedy falls short[Oxfam]
Europe’s leaders have just missed a crucial opportunity to make a real difference in the lives and deaths of the people suffering daily in the Mediterranean. Instead of heeding calls to restore immediately a search-and-rescue operation in...
Ethiopia: Free Zone 9 Bloggers, Journalists [HRW]
A Year After Arrests, Drop Politically Motivated Charges
(Nairobi) – Ethiopian authorities should immediately release nine bloggers and journalists arrested a year ago who are being prosecuted on politically motivated charges, Human Rights...
US official praises Ethiopian ‘democracy,’ rest of world begs to differ [aljazeera]
Mohammed Ademo
During a press briefing in Addis Ababa on April 16, US Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs Wendy Sherman praised Ethiopia as a democracy, suggesting it had made great strides toward an open and inclusive...
