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USCIRF Condemns Trial Outcome of Ethiopian Muslim Leaders
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
August 6, 2015
WASHINGTON, D.C. – The U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) strongly decries the convictions and sentencing of 18 Muslim leaders in Ethiopia. They were charged under Ethiopia’s...
Ethiopia hands lengthy prison terms to Muslim activists [BY AARON MAASHO]
Reuters
An Ethiopian court sentenced 17 Muslim activists on Monday to prison sentences ranging from seven to 22 years on charges they plotted to create an Islamic state in the majority Christian country.
A journalist for a Muslim newspaper was...
Obama and the circus of clowns in Ethiopia [By Abebe Gellaw]
The historic state visit of U.S. President Barack Obama to Ethiopia has just accomplished what was expected all along. On the one hand, TPLF and its cronies tried to use it as a spectacle full of absurdities, comedic political circus and amateurish...
Barack Obama! Tell the Truth About Ethiopia! [Professor Alemayehu G. Mariam]
Warning!
Stop!
Do not read further if you can’t handle the truth about Barack Obama. “Truth sounds like hate to those who hate the truth.”
“I speak my mind because it hurts to bite my tongue.”
Bite your tongue, Barack Obama!
When...
Exclusive: Dibaba allowed to double in 1500m and 5,000m by Ethiopia at IAAF World Championships
By Mike Rowbottom at the Nordic C Hotel in Stockholm
Genzebe Dibaba, controversially selected only for the 5,000 metres at next month’s International Association of Athletics Federations World Championships in Beijing four days after...
Laughing at Ethiopia’s 2015 Elektion[Professor Alemayehu G. Mariam]
It is said that “smile and the world smiles at you.”
Does it follow that if you laugh at the world’s most ridiculous election, the world will join you laughing?
Last week, Susan Rice, President Barack Obama’s National Security Adviser,...
Lawsuit Points to Hacking by Ethiopia as Obama Makes Visit [By Jack Gillum]
NEWSFACTOR
As President Barack Obama faces pressure to discuss human rights in his first official visit to Ethiopia, a unique lawsuit back home is challenging whether the African country can spy on an American by turning his computer into...