Israel offers Eritrean refugees an option: deportation or jail [Martin Plaut]
Evidence from the Holot detention centre in Israel shows that Eritrean and Sudanese detainees are being given a choice between deportation to an unnamed “third country” or imprisonment.
This information was sent by Israeli human rights activists...
Exposed: Tedros Adhanom’s chief advisor is a phony prof from Bowie [By Abebe Gellaw]
(Addis Voice) The chief advisor of Ethiopia’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the minister, Tedros Adhanom, is a self-appointed professor with a PhD in “international studies” from a “university” labelled by a U.S. congressional investigation...
Andargachew Tsige: Ethiopian brutality, British apathy [By Graham Peebles]
A UK citizen who was a refugee from the one-party state that is Ethiopia has been spirited back into its clutches. Why is the Foreign and Commonwealth Office doing so little?
On 23 June 2014 Andargachew Tsige was illegally detained at Sana’a...
U.S. Students Feature Ethiopia’s Reeyot Alemu in ‘Press Uncuffed’ Campaign [Tadias Magazine]
Reeyot Alemu is one in a number of journalists who have been prosecuted under the vaguely worded and broad-reaching anti-terrorism laws passed by the Ethiopian legislature in 2009. (IWMF/Getty Images)
By Tadias Staff
New York — Students...
Egyptian leader defends Nile rights in Ethiopia's Parliament [ASSOCIATED PRESS]
ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia — Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah el- Sissi on Wednesday urged Ethiopia’s leaders to put aside “centuries of mistrust” and cooperate on sharing Nile River waters as Ethiopia presses ahead with the construction...
Ethiopia denies Temesghen Desalegn access to medical care in jail [CPJ]
Nairobi, March 16, 2015—Authorities in Ethiopia have denied medical attention to Ethiopian journalist Temesghen Desalegn, who has been imprisoned since October, according to sources close to the journalist.
Temesghen Desalegn, owner of...
Celebrating Adwa Victory as the Significant African Victory [Professor Mammo Muchie]
Inspiration
”Although it had been conquered dozens of times, Ethiopia was the birthplace of African nationalism.” Nelson Mandela, in his Long Walk to Freedom, p.402
“Ethiopia has always held a special place in my own imagination and the...
Ethiopia's lions at risk of dying out [ABC Environment]
Black-maned lions were once the symbol of Ethiopia, today there are fears they could become extinct.
ETHIOPIA’S BLACK-MANED LIONS once represented a former emperor, “Lion of Judah” Haile Selassie, and were immortalised in a...