Italy Is Finally Cracking Down on Slave Trade[thedailybeast]
Barbie Latza Nadeau
How braggadocio helped police crack a smugglers’ ring “in which people are bought and sold like merchandise.”
UPDATE: Italy's Interior Minister Angelino Alfano confirmed...
Ethiopia: Free Zone 9 Bloggers, Journalists [HRW]
A Year After Arrests, Drop Politically Motivated Charges
(Nairobi) – Ethiopian authorities should immediately release nine bloggers and journalists arrested a year ago who are...
Ethiopian bloggers on trial in case seen as crackdown on free expression [washingtonpost]
By Simona Foltyn
ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia — They met online in 2010 while raising money for a charity case: nine young, university-educated Ethiopian professionals. Eventually,...
US official praises Ethiopian ‘democracy,’ rest of world begs to differ [aljazeera]
Mohammed Ademo
During a press briefing in Addis Ababa on April 16, US Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs Wendy Sherman praised Ethiopia as a...
South Africa violence provokes anger of a continent [channel4]
South Africa is not like any other country - it has a special place in the hearts of ordinary Africans. But that could change...
Dear Secretary Kerry: U.S. Wrong to Endorse Ethiopia’s Elections [freedomhouse]
The Honorable John F. Kerry
Secretary of State
2201 C Street, NW
Washington, DC 20520
Dear Mr. Secretary:
We are deeply troubled over the comments made by Under Secretary...
GENZEBE DIBABA NAMED SPORTSWOMAN OF THE YEAR [IAAF]
DIBABA NAMED SPORTSWOMAN OF THE YEAR AT LAUREUS WORLD SPORTS AWARDS
World indoor champion Genzebe Dibaba was named sportswoman of the year at the Laureus...
What is Behind Ethiopia’s Most Recent Allegations Against Eritrea? [TN]
By Sharmini Peries,
THIS is the Glen Ford Report on The Real News Network. I’m Sharmini Peries coming to you from Baltimore.
Eritrea and Ethiopia, two of...
