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...

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...

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...

South Africa is not like any other country – it has a special place in the hearts of ordinary Africans. But that could change after the recent fatal attacks on immigrants. Africans worldwide have taken to social media to...

The Honorable John F. Kerry Secretary of State 2201 C Street, NW Washington, DC 20520 Dear Mr. Secretary: We are deeply troubled over the comments made by Under Secretary Wendy Sherman yesterday in Addis Ababa. The Under Secretary’s...

Ethiopia has long faced criticism for forcibly relocating tens of thousands of people from their ancestral homes. Photograph: Siegfried Modola/Reuters David Smith New report gives damning indictment of the government’s mandatory resettlement...