Jessica White “The current regime follows this pattern: immediately before elections, they start to muzzle every critical voice,” protests Endalk Chala, a co-founder and member of the Ethiopian blogging collective called “Zone 9”...

Hold Traffickers, Officials Accountable for Role in Abuses (Sanaa) –Traffickers in Yemen hold African migrants in detention camps, torturing them to extort payment from their families, with the complicity of local officials, Human Rights Watch...

Medrek Party (Federal Democratic Unity Forum) did a demonstration in Adddis abeba today. Hundreds of thousands of protesters demanded the TPLF Ethiopian regime to stop killing students,to stop evicting farmers and grabbing their land in the...

By SADIE GURMAN Associated Press   A man identified as a brutal Ethiopian prison guard has been sentenced to 22 years in prison for immigration violations. Kefelgn Alemu Worku (kah-FEH’-lun ah-LEE’-moo WER’-koo)...

Today is the 25th day in jail for Zone 9 Bloggers in Ethiopia. They have not been charged; in fact, the government could not come up with reasonable cause for detaining the 6 bloggers and 3 journalists. It has now come to our attention that...

BBC News: A court in Egypt has sentenced former President Hosni Mubarak to three years in prison after finding him guilty of embezzling public funds. His two sons, Alaa and Gamal, were also convicted and given four-year terms.The three were...