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In Ethiopia, a stranglehold on freedom - LA Times
By MERON AHADU AND LULIT MESFIN
When Secretary of State John F. Kerry traveled to Ethiopia last year, he met a young blogger named Natnael Feleke. When he returned a few months ago, Kerry found that Feleke, along with five other bloggers and...
Obama Should Press African Leaders to End Repression (HRW)
US-Africa: Make Human Rights Central to Summit
Obama Should Press African Leaders to End Repression
(Washington, DC) – US President Barack Obama should ensure that human rights concerns are a major focus of the US-Africa Leaders Summit, Human...
What is the Value of American Values in Africa? [Prof. Alemayehu G.Mariam]
We did a whole lot of things that were right, but we tortured some folks; we did some things that were contrary to our values. When we engaged in some of these enhanced interrogation techniques, techniques that I believe and I think any fair-minded...
CNN: Human rights shouldn't be sidelined at Africa summit
By Sarah Margon, Special to CNN
Editor’s note: Sarah Margon is the Washington director of Human Rights Watch. The views expressed are her own.
As he stood before Ghana’s parliament in July 2009, President Barack Obama set out some guiding...
Ethiopian photojournalist Aziza Mohamed held without charge
Nairobi, July 31, 2014- CPJ is alarmed by the detention of Addis Guday (“Addis Affairs”) photojournalist Aziza Mohamed, who has been in custody for two weeks without charge. Police arrested Aziza on July 18 while she was covering...
Local EU statement on the situation in Ethiopia
30/07/2014
The European Union Delegation issues the following statement in agreement
with the EU Heads of Mission in Ethiopia:
“The EU Delegation is deeply concerned about developments in the case of the ten bloggers and journalists...