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Dispatches: Yet Again, a Bloody Crackdown on Protesters in Ethiopia [HRW]
Felix Horne
Researcher, Horn of Africa
Student protests are spreading throughout Ethiopia’s Oromia region, as people demonstrate against the possibility that Oromo farmers and residents living near the capital, Addis Ababa, could be evicted...
Ethiopia’s worst drought in 50 years – over 10 million need food [Martin Plaut ]
This emergency appeal has just been put out by Save the Children.
Martin
ETHIOPIA DROUGHT: SAVE THE CHILDREN URGES INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY TO HEED EARLY WARNINGS OF LOOMING HUNGER CRISIS
An early response...
Ethiopian Spring in a Winter of Discontent? [Professor Alemayehu G. Mariam]
No one predicted the Arab Spring when it exploded on December 18, 2010sparking the Tunisian Revolution.
No one could have predicted a street vendor named Mohamed Bouazizi would set himself on fire to protest harassment, abuse and humiliation...
Ethiopia's Rastafarian community living in limbo [news24]
Rastafarians around the world see Ethiopia as their spiritual home. Many of them believe the country’s last king, Haile Selassie, was a descendent of King Solomon and the messiah.
Many of the men travelled thousands of kilometres to live...
Ethiopia and the World Bank of Lies, Damned Lies and Statislies[Professor Alemayehu G. Mariam]
John Milton wrote in Paradise Lost: “For no falsehood can endure/ Touch of celestial temper.”
Of course, Milton was writing about Satan and his “devilish art” of “forging illusions”.
I am seething in temporal temper over...
EATON AND DIBABA ARE CROWNED 2015 IAAF WORLD ATHLETES OF THE YEAR[IAAF]
USA’s Ashton Eaton and Ethiopia’s Genzebe Dibaba were named the male and female IAAF World Athletes of the Year for 2015 on Thursday (26).
Both athletes set world records during 2015, Eaton in the decathlon and Dibaba in the 1500m, and...