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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...
Flight Clearance Protocols Forced President Kenyatta Back [Citizennews]
Could failure to adhere to standard flight clearance protocols have been the reason behind President Uhuru Kenyatta’s aborted trip to the United States?
Aviation experts familiar with international travel procedures have dismissed...
