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Ethiopia: Year of Brutality, Restrictions (HRW)
Restore Rights, Address Grievances
(Nairobi) – Ethiopia plunged into a human rights crisis in 2016, increasing restrictions on basic rights during a state of emergency and continuing a bloody crackdown against largely peaceful protesters,...
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Ethiopia: We MUST Keep Our Eyes on the Prize! [Professor Alemayehu G. Mariam]
I am calling for a truce in the war of words among Ethiopian scholars, intellectuals and others over history, historicity and historicism. I am also calling for an end to the histrionics surrounding the war of words.
Truth be told, it is the...
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The World Bankliars in Ethiopia [Professor Alemayehu G. Mariam]
The World Bank of Liars
I have been wrangling with the World Bank of Lies, Damned Lies and Statislies in Ethiopia for the past few years.
I have been trying to keep them honest. I once offered a deal to The World Bank: If they stopped lying...
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Ethiopia targets opposition who met with European lawmakers (AP)
By ELIAS MESERET
ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia — Ethiopia said Monday it will not release a leading opposition figure detained under the country’s state of emergency after meeting with European lawmakers in Belgium.
Prime Minister Hailemariam...