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British (In)Justice: The Persecution by Proxy Prosecution of Ethiopian Dissident Tadesse B. Kersmo [Professor Alemayehu G. Mariam]
Tadesse Biru Kersmo
I cut my “legal teeth” nearly four decades ago pouring over the Magna Carta, Blackstone’s “Commentaries” and Edward Coke’s legal treatises on the primacy of common law principles and the rule of law. Coke...
Elephant Kills Spanish Tourist in Ethiopia
ibtimes
July 24, 2017 – A Spanish tourist, who was visiting Ethiopia’s Chebera-Churchura Nature Park, died after being trampled and gored by an elephant in Chebera-Churchura Nature Park, located in Southern part of Ethiopia.
Ethiopian...
Ethiopia anti-tax protests spread (CNBC Africa)
by CNBC Africa
Jared Jeffrey, NKC African Economics – According to ESAT, protests by small business owners, which began last week in Addis Ababa and parts of Oromia, have spread to towns in the Southern Nations, Nationalities and Peoples’...
EU commend Ethiopia’s initiative to make political reforms (Sudantribune)
By Tesfa-Alem Tekle
July 20, 2017 (ADDIS ABABA) – The European Union (EU) on Thursday commended the ruling party, Ethiopia peoples Revolutionary Democratic Front (EPRDF) for opening space for dialogue with opposition parties.
Currently,...
Arrested Eritrean Patriarch Makes First Appearence in Decade at Sunday Mass (REUTERS)
(PHOTO: REUTERS/RONEN ZVULU)Eritrean Orthodox Christian pilgrims chant during a ceremony at the baptismal site known as Qasr el-Yahud on the banks of the Jordan River near the West Bank city of Jericho January 19, 2012.
For the first time since...
Ethiopia: Eternal Vigilance is the Price of Keeping One’s Land [Professor Alemayehu G. Mariam]
In memory of Liu Xiaobo, Chinese dissident, human rights advocate, co-author of Charter ’08, Nobel peace laureate (2010) and political prisoner who died in Chinese government custody on July 13, 2013.
An enemy mentality will poison...
Teddy Afro, Ethiopia’s biggest pop star: ‘Because of our government, our country is divided’
The musician’s latest album, with songs hailing Ethiopia’s glorious past, is the fastest-selling record in the country’s history. But his political views have made him enemies at home
Teddy Afro … somewhat unintentionally, a flag-waver...