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Obama Should Press African Leaders to End Repression (HRW)
US-Africa: Make Human Rights Central to Summit
Obama Should Press African Leaders to End Repression
(Washington, DC) – US President Barack Obama should ensure that human...
CNN: Human rights shouldn’t be sidelined at Africa summit
By Sarah Margon, Special to CNN
Editor’s note: Sarah Margon is the Washington director of Human Rights Watch. The views expressed are her own.
As he stood...
Rohrabacher: Ethiopia Must Release Opposition Leader
Jul 28, 2014
Press Release
WASHINGTON – Rep. Dana Rohrabacher on Monday urged Ethiopia’s prime minister to release Andargachew Tsige, a native-born opposition leader with British...
Missing Ethiopian runners: Athletes come from deeply troubled nation
By Bryan Denson
Four Ethiopian runners who vanished Saturday from the 2014 IAAF World Junior Championships in Eugene, perhaps seeking asylum in the U.S., would have...
Detention of bloggers is a violation of international law
Forty organisations have called on Ethiopia Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn to free Zone 9 bloggers and revise it's overly broad anti-terror law.
Six bloggers and...
Hailemariam humiliated as university withdraws honor [By Abebe Gellaw]
Wednesday, July 23, 2014
(AV) Ethiopian Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn faced a stinging humiliation as Azusa Pacific University (APU), whose motto is “God First”, has...
BBC: Ethiopia Zone 9 bloggers charged with terrorism
Zone 9's website has carried pieces critical of the government
Nine Ethiopian journalists and bloggers held in detention since April have been charged with terrorism...
