By Tom Rhodes CPJ East Africa Representative People demonstrate in Addis Ababa on May 24 against security forces who shot at students at a peaceful rally weeks eearlier in Oromia state. (Reuters/Tiksa Negeri) “If they cannot indoctrinate you into their thinking, they fire you,” said one former staff member of the state-run Oromia Radio and Television
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By Graham Peebles Dissidentvoice.org Faced with a brutal repressive regime, the people of Ethiopia inside the country and within the worldwide diaspora –frustrated, angry and desperate – are considering all options to elicit fundamental change in the country. The EPRDF, who seized power from the communist Derg in 1991, rule the country through fear and
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BBC Ethiopian leader Hailemariam Desalegn: “If you have any connection with terrorists don’t think that the Ethiopian government will let you [go] free” Ethiopia had a moral obligation to arrest the opposition leader who was controversially extradited from Yemen last month, Ethiopian leader Hailemariam Desalegn has told the BBC. “Andargachew Tsege is a Trojan horse
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By Eurosport Ulster Rugby have been forced to apologise after a photo involving two of their players with black make-up pretending to be ‘Ethiopians’ appeared on Twitter. The photo, posted on the Twitter profile of Ireland player Paddy Jackson, shows him and international team-mate Chris Henry ‘blacked-up’ attempting to look African. The other three men
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Amnesty International The Ethiopian authorities are using a repressive Anti-Terror law as a pretext to crush dissent. The Ethiopian authorities must halt their continuing onslaught on dissent, Amnesty International said today, after the arrest of four more opposition party members this week, who are believed to be at risk of torture or other ill-treatment. All
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Al-Monitor Cairo is working on resuming the Ethiopian-Egyptian activities that were suspended on all levels. This comes in tandem with the preparations for the expected visit of Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi to Ethiopia, and as part of the restoration of dialogue aiming to settle the dispute between the countries over theRenaissance Dam under construction on the Blue Nile. The dialogue
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NY Daily News By JAN RANSOM MONASTER, THOMAS Starbucks Chief coffee beans He’s got a couple of beans up his sleeve. The Rev. Nicholas Richards, founder of the Abyssinian Fund, a nonprofit that supports coffee farmers in Ethiopia, is in the middle of hashing out a distribution deal to launch an Aby Fund-branded coffee in
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Yemen Times Forty-four Ethiopians who have been held since Monday in Taiz governorate are currently awaiting deportation and are not seeking refugee status. Coast Guard spokesperson Major Hussein Al-Harazi confirmed the arrest and said the 44 Ethiopians were taken to Mocha Security Department. Colonel Saleh Alfani, the director of operations for the Coast Guard, told
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By W.G. The Economist ADDIS ABABA-ANDARGACHEW TSIGE, an exiled Ethiopian opposition leader with British nationality, could be facing the death penalty after apparently being arrested and sent back to his country of origin while on a trip to the Gulf. While transiting in Yemen on June 23rd, during a journey from Dubai to Eritrea, Andargachew
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By Megan Cloherty , WTOP ALEXANDRIA, Va. – An Alexandria woman killed Friday was strangled to death, according to the Virginia Medical Examiner’s office. Asabech Worku, 43, is the city’s third homicide victim of the year. There were no obvious signs of trauma and no evidence of a break-in. Worku’s sister found her unresponsive Friday
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