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Secure our Dad’s release from death row, family urges Foreign Office
Reprieve
A British family has urged a senior Foreign Office minister visiting Ethiopia this week to secure the release of their father from death row.
Foreign Office minister Tobias Ellwood is believed to be attending a summit later this week...
How British tabloids helped kill a women’s aid program in Ethiopia [washingtonpost]
By Paul Schemm
ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia — The headline in Britain’s Daily Mail couldn’t have been more triumphant: “Aid: Now they’re listening,” it shouted in huge letters.
The conservative paper was celebrating the withdrawal of...
Ethiopia: Another T-TPLF White Elephant for Sale? [Professor Alemayehu G. Mariam]
Is the T-TPLF setting up the “Ethiopian Railway Line” for a fire sale?
The “Ethiopian Railway Line” opened in October 2016 with all the bells and whistles. Today it is derailed and teeters on the edge of financial disaster.
The T-TPLF...
EALING AMNESTY GROUP DEMANDS THE RELEASE OF ESKINDER NEGA [Wondimu Mekonnen: London]
The Ealing Amnesty Group has recently declared that it has adopted Eskinder Nega as a focus for campaigning in 2017. This must be highly appreciated by the freedom and peace-loving citizens of the world. We hope other Groups also adopt other...
Ethiopia: Zone 9 [blog.amnestyusa]
By Adotei Akwei
By Adotei Akwei and Miho Mitobe
At the end of 2016 Amnesty International published a report titled Ethiopia Offline: Evidence of Social Media Blocking and Internet Censorship in Ethiopia. This report documented how social...