Letter to a beloved daughter of Ethiopia (By Abebe Gellaw)

Dear my good friend Birtukan Mideksa, First and foremost, I would like to tell you how very proud and honored I feel to see...

INDEPENDENT PUBLICATIONS IN THE FACE OF GRAVE THREAT IN ETHIOPIA

By Betre Yacob The Ethiopian authorities are once again moving to pass another legislation which would completely paralyze the last remaining independent publications circulating in...

Ethiopian Art, Crafts, and Icons

katysblog I was going to write a “Crafts in Ethiopia” blog entry like my Crafts in Rwanda entry from February.  Then I realized that in Ethiopia there is...

US EMBASSY WARNS AL-SHABAB ATTACKS IN ETHIOPIA

Indepthafrica Threat from Al-Shabaab against Ethiopia and western interests in Ethiopia Posted on 31 May 2014. Tags: AFRICOM, al-shabab, Bomb Attack,Ethiopia, somalia invasion, Travel Warning By U.S. Embassy (Addis Ababa), THE U.S. Embassy in Addis Ababa...

The Swiss government granted asylum to Co-pilot Hailemedhin Abera

(EMF) — The Switzerland government has granted asylum to the Ethiopian co-pilot who seized control of the Boeing 767-300 on 17 February 2014 and...

Guantanamo (By Asrat Abrha)

It was on a Saturday that a friend and I planned to visit our colleagues in Burayu jail. Burayu is a small town 23 kilometers...

BBC condemns Ethiopian broadcast jamming

 30.05.2014 Category: World Service Liliane Landor, acting Director of the BBC World Service Group, has called on the Ethiopian authorities to stop jamming BBC broadcasts in the...

Ethiopia under fire over journalist arrest

By AGENCE FRANCE PRESSE | May 29, 2014 ADDIS ABABA, May 29- The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) on Friday called on authorities in Ethiopia to release a...