AFP Addis Ababa – The lawyer for a group of detained Ethiopian bloggers and reporters said on Thursday he was filing a civil suit against the country’s police for holding them without charge for nearly three months. The six members of the blogging collective Zone Nine and three journalists were arrested in April and accused
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The Star Ethiopian and Namibian envoys accused of role in murder trial A lawyer in the Venezuelan envoy murder trial yesterday accused the Ethiopian and Namibian ambassadors of playing a role in the arrest of his client. Lawyer Katwa Kigen, who is representing the former first secretary of the Venezuelan Embassy Dwight Sagaray, said ambassadors
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University of Mississippi A University of Mississippi civil engineering doctoral student’s research into the early detection of dam and levee problems has launched him onto the national and global stage. Leti Wodajo of Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, has been conducting research in applications of geophysics and geotechnical engineering since becoming a master’s student at Ole Miss.
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Egypt Independent By Al-Masry Al-Youm Egypt’s Ministry of Irrigation and Water Resources received official approval from the Ethiopian government on holding a tripartite meeting for water ministers of the eastern Nile basin countries that would include Egypt, Ethiopia and Sudan. The meeting is set to take place in August at the Sudanese capital, Khartoum, to
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By Ariel Zirulnick The Christian Science Monitor More than 70 percent of Ethiopian women have said transportation and distance prevented them from giving birth in a health facility. But Ethiopia’s push for a modern road network is changing that. Ergedu Mitiku rocks her seven-week-old son in her home in Mosebo, a village in Ethiopia’s Amhara Region
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The Africa Report By Elissa Jobson (Addis Ababa) A programme to improve production in simple ways has doubled yields of this gluten-free staple crop for two million farmers. Tef is a national obsession in Ethiopia. The tiny grain the size of poppy seeds has been consumed in this East African country for centuries. Because
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By Addis Getachew Anadolu news agency The Ethiopian government said Tuesday that it had proposed the third week of August for holding tripartite talks with Sudan and Egypt to discuss Ethiopia’s multibillion-dollar hydroelectric Nile dam project, suggesting that the meeting be held in Sudan. “Sudan is a suitable venue for the resumption of tripartite talks
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BY STEPHEN ASTARIKO The Star Garissa county commissioner Rashid Khator has warned illegal immigrants from Ethiopia against committing crimes in Kenya. Khator said the criminals are sent from Ethiopia as hired assassins. The criminals are part of the Oromo Liberation Front rebels, who oppose the national government. Last week, a rebel crossed into Kenya and
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CPJ Nairobi, July 14, 2014–The Ethiopian government should end its politicized prosecution of nine Ethiopian journalists arrested in April. The journalists and their lawyers were shut out of court room hearings in recent days. In hearings at the Arada First Instance Court in the capital Addis Ababa on Saturday and Monday, police said that they
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BBC William Hague MP Newsnight’s Allegra Stratton looks back at William Hague’s political career William Hague has stood down as foreign secretary and will stay in the cabinet as Leader of the Commons, Downing Street has said. Mr Hague is to leave Parliament at the 2015 general election after 26 years as MP for Richmond,
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