Dispatches: Ethiopia’s Opposition Leaders on Hunger Strike [HRW]

Protesting Against Mistreatment in Prison Felix Horne Researcher, Horn of Africa@felixhorne1 It has been nine days since prominent Ethiopian opposition leader Bekele Gerba and several other senior...

A call to the true sons and daughters of Tigray [By...

“Nothing is stronger than an idea whose time has come” the great Victor Hugo uttered these enduring words more than a century ago. And...

ODF Statement on continued people’s struggle in Ethiopia

Reiterating our unwavering support for non-violent resistance by the Oromo people and others in Ethiopia for human rights, freedom, and democracy we want to...

Nine federal police, one soldier dead as residents of Gondar defend...

ESAT News (July 15, 2016) Unrest in the historic town of Gondar continued on Thursday, the third day of protest against the tyrannical regime in...

Exiled prominent journalist, activist wrote open letter to Ethiopia’s security chief...

ESAT News (July 6, 2016) Exiled journalist Sisay Agena and Tamagn Beyene, an activist and a well-known critic of the Ethiopian government wrote an open...

Eritrea escapes U.N. Security Council referral over human rights [Reuters]

By Tom Miles GENEVA (Reuters) - Eritrea may escape censure by the U.N. Security Council over its human rights record after the U.N. Human Rights...

Exiled Ethiopian journalists on hunger strike [BBC]

Emmanuel Igunza BBC Africa, Nairobi A group of Ethiopian journalists living in exile in Kenya are holding a hunger strike to protest against the treatment of an opposition...