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Ethiopia holds editor-in-chief without charge
New York, May 28, 2014–The Committee to Protect Journalists condemns the detention of a journalist without charge since Monday and calls on Ethiopian authorities to release him immediately. An Ethiopian court on Tuesday extended by 14...
Ethiopia tightens its grip on media ahead of 2015 elections
Jessica White
“The current regime follows this pattern: immediately before elections, they start to muzzle every critical voice,” protests Endalk Chala, a co-founder and member of the Ethiopian blogging collective called “Zone 9”...
South Sudan: The Phony Deal.
The Current Analyst
Both in terms of maintaining the integrity of the SPLM, state and peace building as well as democratization, the conflict is about the soul of South Sudan. Regional and international players have continued to ignore this...
A record-setting race weekend wraps up
MARIE-DANIELLE SMITH
Tigist Tufa celebrates with the Ethiopian flag after crossing the finish line first in the women’s marathon on Sunday,
It was a record-setting weekend in Ottawa.
A record 47,500 athletes in total registered for...
Ethiopia: Crimes Against University Students and Humanity (Prof. Alemayehu G. Mariam)
On May 2, 2014, BBC reported that the security forces of the regime in Ethiopia had massacred at least 47 university and high school students in the town of Ambo 80 miles west of the capital Addis Ababa. The regime dismissed the massacre and...
