Category: Politics

Two additional members of the Ethiopian opposition were killed this week following the beating to death of a parliamentary candidate

By William Davison (Bloomberg) – Two members of the Ethiopian opposition were killed this week following the beating to death of a parliamentary candidate from the Semayawi Party, Samuel Awoke, on June 15, opposition leaders said. Tadesse Abraha, an organizer for the Arena party, which is part of the Medrek opposition coalition, was assaulted on

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The Ethiopian General Election: An Insult to the People and Democracy

By GRAHAM PEEBLES Every five years the Ethiopian people are invited by the ruling party to take part in a democratic pantomime called ‘General Elections’. Sunday 24th May saw the latest production take to the national stage. With most opposition party leaders either in prison or abroad, the populace living under a suffocating blanket of

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US President Obama to visit Ethiopia

US President Barack Obama speaks following a forum with regional and US business leaders in Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania, 1 July 2013 Ethiopia will now feature in Mr Obama’s final official African tour Barack Obama will become the first sitting US president to visit Ethiopia, the White House says. Mr Obama will travel to the

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United Nations The Observer EU states in ‘deals to shut Eritrean borders’

UN raises concerns that secret deals are being brokered with ‘Africa’s North Korea’ in an effort to stop migrants coming to Europe Eritrean migrants, pictured in Calais, are the second largest African group fleeing to Europe. UN officials and human rights organisations are increasingly concerned at what they believe are secret deals being drawn up

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UK requested Andargachew be moved to a normal jail not demand his release.

AFP – Andargachew Tsege, 60, the leader of the outlawed Ginbot 7 group and who was granted political asylum in Britain, was convicted in absentia in 2009 for terrorism, and was imprisoned a year ago after being controversially extradited from Yemen. “Death sentences are very rarely carried out by the court in Ethiopia. His sentence

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Ethiopia Opposition Candidate Dies After Attack in Northwest

By William Davison An Ethiopian parliamentary candidate for the opposition Blue Party died after being assaulted in Debre Markos, a town in the country’s northwest, the group said. Two people attacked Samuel Awoke, 29, with a club and knife as he returned home alone from a night out with friends, spokesman Yonatan Tesfaye said by

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Ethiopia Opposition Candidate Dies After Attack in Northwest

By William Davison An Ethiopian parliamentary candidate for the opposition Blue Party died after being assaulted in Debre Markos, a town in the country’s northwest, the group said. Two people attacked Samuel Awoke, 29, with a club and knife as he returned home alone from a night out with friends, spokesman Yonatan Tesfaye said by

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SA soldiers held ‘hostage’ in Sudan as guarantee for Al-Bashir’s safe return

“Only after Al-Bashir safely touched down in Khartoum on Monday, were Sudanese troops withdrawn. While the fiasco around President Omar Al-Bashir’s possible arrest in Johannesburg escalated, the Sudanese troops held about 1 400 South African soldiers in Darfur “hostage,” according to a report. The South African National Defence Union’s Pikkie Greeff on Tuesday told EWN

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SA soldiers held ‘hostage’ in Sudan as guarantee for Al-Bashir’s safe return

“Only after Al-Bashir safely touched down in Khartoum on Monday, were Sudanese troops withdrawn. While the fiasco around President Omar Al-Bashir’s possible arrest in Johannesburg escalated, the Sudanese troops held about 1 400 South African soldiers in Darfur “hostage,” according to a report. The South African National Defence Union’s Pikkie Greeff on Tuesday told EWN

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African Union chief Mugabe says ICC unwelcome in Africa

Some African leaders say the International Criminal Court has unfairly targeted African heads of state Zimbabwean leader and African Union chairman Robert Mugabe on Tuesday harshly criticized the International Criminal Court (ICC) after Sudan’s president dodged an international arrest order by leaving early from a meeting of the continent’s leaders in South Africa, a news

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