The “Law” as State Terrorism in Apartheid Ethiopia [Professor Alemayehu G....
Author’s Note: This is the third installment in a series of ongoing commentaries that I expect to post regularly under the rubric, “Apartheid in...
Ethiopia must release opposition politician held for Facebook posts [AMNESTY]
PRESS RELEASE
MAY 6, 2016
The Ethiopian authorities must immediately and unconditionally release a prominent opposition politician facing a possible death sentence on trumped-up terrorism charges...
Ethiopia: Bekele Gerba’s Trial in T-TPLF Monkey Kourt [Professor Alemayehu G....
In American legal lore, there is the Scopes Monkey Trial.
In 1925, a high school teacher named John Scopes was prosecuted in Tennessee for teaching...
Ethiopia hands dissident 9-year jail term [THE FINANCIAL TIMES]
©Charlie Bibby/FT
The large Saudi Star farm in Gambella. Its owners want to grow 140,000 tonnes of rice by 2018
Tom Burgis in New York
An Ethiopian...
How Ethiopia’s New Internet Crime Bill Could Stop Online Dissent [Okayafrica]
An Ethiopian internet cafe. Creative commons image via UNICEF
When things get a little too hot for the powers that be, a sure fire way...
Bekele Gerba: Ethiopia’s Mahtama?[Awol Kassim Allo]
He speaks of equality, freedom, and justice. He wants democracy to realize these ideals. He not only preaches peace but practices it by scrupulously...
My Brother, Eskinder (“Invictus”) Nega: You Are Not Alone and We...
We remember our brother Eskinder Nega
There is nothing more the T-TPLF (Thugtatorship of the Tigrean People’s Liberation Front) would like to see than the...
