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30 years on: Ethiopia and the business of hunger [Open Democracy]
NICK DEARDEN
30 years after images of Ethiopian famine haunted British TV screens, they still shape how we see Africa – and ensure we fail to understand.
It’s 30 years since Michael Buerke’s harrowing report of a ‘biblical famine’...
David Cameron writes to Ethiopian PM on behalf of British political dissident on death row [The Independent]
Andargachew “Andy” Tsege, a critic of the Ethiopian regime, was kidnapped in Yemen
The Prime Minister has personally intervened in the case of a British father-of-three facing the death sentence in Ethiopia, after the man’s children...
The Thugplomacy of the TPLF [Prof. Alemayehu G. Mariam]
I have often contended that the ruling regime in Ethiopia controlled by the Tigrean Liberation Front (TPLF) is a thugtatorship, the highest stage of African dictatorship. If democracy is government of the people, by the people and for the...
CPJ: Ethiopian authorities convict journalist in Addis Ababa
Nairobi, October 15, 2014–An Ethiopian court on Monday convicted journalist and magazine owner Temesghen Desalegn in connection with a 2012 defamation case, according to news reports and local journalists.
The Federal High Court in the...
US court issues arrest warrant for Ethiopian embassy gunman[By Abebe Gellaw]
US court issues arrest warrant for Ethiopian embassy gunman
By Abebe Gellaw
The United States Attorney’s Office has obtained an arrest warrant in the Superior Court of the District of Columbia for the Ethiopian embassy gunman, Solomon Tadess...