KING KENENISA HEADS FOR DUBAI!
BEKELE CONFIRMED FOR STANDARD CHARTERED DUBAI MARATHON
Dubai Holding, the investment holding company, has announced that three-time Olympic Champion Kenenisa Bekele of Ethiopia will take...
Saving the ICC from African Thugtators [Professor Alemayehu G. Mariam]
International Criminal Court Prosecutor throws in the towel
It is a dark and gloomy month on the “Dark Continent”! It is the worst of times...
Ethiopian Opposition Activists Bailed After Poll-Protest Arrests [Bloomberg]
By William Davison
Ethiopian authorities released on bail about 80 activists, including the head of an opposition group, arrested while protesting for fair campaigning in...
ETHIOPIA: RELEASE PROTESTORS, STOP CRUSHING POLITICAL OPPOSITION [AMENSTY PRESS RELEASE]
On 5 and 6 December, security services in Addis Ababa arrested an estimated 90 people during attempts to stage a demonstration by a coalition...
Who Polices the Police in America?[Prof. Alemayehu G. Mariam]
Our government... teaches the whole people by its example. If the government becomes the lawbreaker, it breeds contempt for law; it invites every man...
Seventy Ethiopian migrants drown off Red Sea coast of Yemen [REUTERS]
REUTERS
SANAA, Dec 7 - At least 70 Ethiopians drowned when a boat used by smugglers to transport illegal migrants to Yemen sank in the...
Ethiopia Extends Court Proceedings against ‘Zone Nine’ Bloggers, Journalists [Freedom House]
Washington
December 4, 2014
Following another court hearing in Addis Abba, Ethiopia, on charges against the Zone Nine bloggers and journalists, and recess of the case...
The Zone9 Defense: Limits of International Law [By Ivan Sigal]
The international human rights system is broken – or perhaps it never worked at all.
In case after case, citizens’ human rights are violated under...
Ethiopia: Remember the 24th of November 1974 [Professor Alemayehu G. Mariam]
Last week, many Ethiopian families in the United States gathered in houses of worship with their relatives and friends to hold memorial services in...
