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Urgent Appeal on Behalf of Ethiopians Stranded in Yemen!
The Global Alliance for the Rights of Ethiopians (GARE) was established in response to the crisis emanating from the unexpected decision by the Government of Saudi Arabia to expel Ethiopian migrant workers. GARE campaigned vigorously and raised...
Ethiopia: The Meles Jinx, the GERD Nixed? [Professor Alemayehu G. Mariam]
To “build the dam” or to “abandon” it: That was Meles’ question!
Exactly four years ago, almost to the day, on April 2, 2011, the late Meles Zenawi gave a speech in Guba, Benishangul Gumuz in Western Ethiopia, setting out his dream...
Israel offers Eritrean refugees an option: deportation or jail [Martin Plaut]
Evidence from the Holot detention centre in Israel shows that Eritrean and Sudanese detainees are being given a choice between deportation to an unnamed “third country” or imprisonment.
This information was sent by Israeli human rights activists...
Exposed: Tedros Adhanom’s chief advisor is a phony prof from Bowie [By Abebe Gellaw]
(Addis Voice) The chief advisor of Ethiopia’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the minister, Tedros Adhanom, is a self-appointed professor with a PhD in “international studies” from a “university” labelled by a U.S. congressional investigation...
Andargachew Tsige: Ethiopian brutality, British apathy [By Graham Peebles]
A UK citizen who was a refugee from the one-party state that is Ethiopia has been spirited back into its clutches. Why is the Foreign and Commonwealth Office doing so little?
On 23 June 2014 Andargachew Tsige was illegally detained at Sana’a...
Ethiopia: The Dam Dammed by Cash Flow? [Professor Alemayehu G. Mariam]
In my March 2013 commentary, “Rumors of Water War on the Nile?”, I argued:
… Whether there will be an actual “Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam” [GERD] is the $5bn dollar question of the century. Because Egypt has been successful in...