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1984 Great Ethiopian Famine: TPLF Still Licensed to Steal [Prof. Alemayehu G. Mariam]
1984 Great Ethiopian Famine: TPLF Still Licensed to Steal
Gebremedhin Araya (L), Max Perbedy (C), Tekleweyne Assefa (R)
Remembering the Great Ethiopia Famine of 1984 (Part II)
In my commentary last week, (Remembering the Great Ethiopia...
Britain axes aid to Ethiopian police amid human rights outcry [Telegraph]
Document warning that aid programme posed ‘high’ risk to human rights deleted from Government website as £27 million aid scheme axed
Britain has given £1 billion in aid, including around £70 million for “governance and...
Temesghen Dessalegn and Abraha Desta [Prof. Mesfin Wolde-Mariam]
31/10/2014
Within the last one year several young women and men have been unjustly detained and silenced. Among these are several
journalists and political leaders, as well as the zone-nine bloggers. I say unjustly detained because none of them...
Press Releases: U.S. Deeply Concerned by Sentence of Ethiopian Journalist
Washington, D.C. (United States) October 30, 2014
The United States is deeply concerned by the October 27 sentencing of Ethiopian journalist Temesgen Desalegn to three years in prison for “provocation and dissemination of inaccurate information.”...
Thousands of Ethiopians tortured by brutal government security forces... while Britain hands over almost £1 BILLION in aid money [THE DAILY MAIL]
Amnesty International says 5,000 people tortured, raped and ‘disappeared’
Over the last three years the UK Government has given Ethiopia £1 billion
It pocketed £261.5 million in 2012 and £284.4 million in 2013
By VANESSA ALLEN...
Ethiopia Advocate Ras Seymour Mclean Passes Away
By George Ruddock
29/10/2014
Jamaican-born activist lost his battle with a short illness on Oct 6
RAS SEYMOUR McLean, a well-known advocate for the return of priceless Ethiopian relics and hundreds of books and manuscripts of Ethiopian...
Temesgen Desalegn – an Ethiopian embodiment of courage [By Hindessa Abdul]
In one of his articles Temesgen discusses how the struggle of the Ethiopian opposition and other activists were reduced from raising political and civil liberty issues to merely demanding the release of opposition figures or imprisoned journalists....
The Great Ethiopian Famine of 1984 Remembered [Prof Alemayehu G. Mariam]
There is famine in Ethiopia in 2014, but it is known by other fancy names
Famine in Ethiopia is a topic that horrifies me. Over the years, I have written long commentaries on the subject often challenging with incontrovertible facts the fabricated...