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Election, Ethiopian Style [Al Jazeera]
Since the last election, the ruling party has exerted more control and increased its repression of basic liberties.
There are few ways for Ethiopians to peacefully express dissent, writes Horne [Al Jazeera]
By Felix Horne
This is what an election...
Separate, but not equal treatment plagues Israel’s Ethiopian Jews [The Times of Israel]
Special programs targeting immigrant community have led to segregation, not integration, say academics and activists
BY RENEE GHERT-ZAND
Ziva Birsaw immigrated to Israel from Ethiopia as a child in 1984. Today she works with Ethiopian youth...
Ethiopian Migrants: Suppressed at Home, Neglected Abroad [GRAHAM PEEBLES]
The first duty of any government is to protect its citizens from harm, at home and abroad – no matter who they are, or where they are. This is the primary moral and constitutional responsibility of the EPRDF government of Ethiopia, which,...
EVERYWHERE’S A PRISON - HRW
ZONE 9 BLOGGERS, GRANT AWARDED 2015
I was in Nairobi, Google-chatting to one of my fellow Zone 9 bloggers in Ethiopia when he told me: “The police are here for me, please call my family and let them know.” And then he went offline. I started...
WENDY SHERMAN AND THE ETHIOPIAN “ELECTION” THAT ISN’T [Professor Alemayehu G. Mariam]
The folly of willful ignorance
I did not vote for Ronald Reagan to become U.S. president. But I appreciated some of his witticisms before he became president. In 1964, two years after he dumped the Democrats and joined the Republicans, Reagan...
Ethiopians protest racist attack, clash with police: 'Israel will be like Baltimore' [ynetnews]
After Ethiopian says he was attacked by immigration officials, Israel’s Ethiopian community takes to the streets to protest.
Omri Efraim
Some 1,000 Ethiopian Israelis protested across Jerusalem on Thursday evening against two incidents...
The United States’ irresponsible praise of Ethiopia’s regime [Washington Post]
By Editorial Board April 30 at 8:43 PM
ETHIOPIA’S ELECTIONS, scheduled for May 24, are shaping up to be anything but democratic. A country that has often been held up as a poster child for development has been stifling civic freedoms and systematically...