By RSF Reporters Without Borders calls on the European Union to condition additional aid to Eritrea via the European Development Fund (EDF) on a significant improvement in fundamental freedoms, including freedom of information. The EDF is the main instrument for EU development assistance. Under the 11th EDF, the EU’s Eritrean “partner” is to get 312
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Yikanu Yelma, mother of Ethiopian blogger Soliyana Shimeles, had her home searched after Shimeles was charged in absentia for her role in the Zone 9 blog. Human rights and press-freedom advocates say the arrests demonstrate a crackdown on critics of the government. Photograph: Simona Foltyn/Washington Post Group calling for greater rights and democracy faces terrorism
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Juba (AFP) – A South Sudanese opposition leader who has spoken out against both sides in the civil war said Saturday he was spending a second day under house arrest without any explanation from the government. Opposition politician Lam Akol said his home in the capital Juba, which is under the control of the government
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ASMARA- South Sudan dispatched a high-level envoy for talks with Eritrea’s president Saturday in spite of recommitting Friday to the IGAD mediation process led by Ethiopia. Chief Negotiator Nhial Deng Nhial and a delegation of other South Sudanese officials were received at the Eritrean State House on Saturday by President Isaias Afwerki. The negotiator was
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By UN News Release GENEVA (24 April 2015) – The Special Rapporteur on freedom of opinion and expression, David Kaye, and the Special Rapporteur on freedom of peaceful assembly and of association, Maina Kiai, today said the detention of the six so-called “Zone Nine” bloggers and three other journalists in Ethiopia over the past year
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By Ellery Roberts Biddle & Ethan Zuckerman Last April, late on a Friday, an email came over the Global Voices community list with the subject line: “Shocking”. A group of our authors and their fellow bloggers had been arrested earlier that day in Addis Ababa. Six of these men and women had worked with Zone9,
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By Mohammed Ademo US Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs Wendy Sherman spoke in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, on April 16. Sherman praised Ethiopian ‘democracy’ despite US assessments of the oppressive government. During a press briefing in Addis Ababa on April 16, US Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs Wendy Sherman praised Ethiopia as
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By Freedom House In response to today’s comments by Under Secretary for Political Affairs, Wendy Sherman, in which she referred to Ethiopia as a democracy and the country’s upcoming elections free, fair, and credible, Freedom House issued the following statement: “Under Secretary Sherman’s comments today were woefully ignorant and counter-productive,” said Daniel Calingaert, executive vice
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The human cost of Ethiopia’s “villagisation” programme is laid bare by damning first person testimony published on Tuesday. The east African country has long faced criticism for forcibly relocating tens of thousands of people from their ancestral homes to make way for large scale commercial agriculture, often benefiting foreign investors. Those moved to purpose-built communes
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GPDAM Press Release The Gambella People’s Democratic Alliance Moment (GPDAM) strongly condemned the double standard of Ethiopian government in negotiating peace deal between the government of Republic of South Sudan and SPLM-IO. The Addis Ababa regime is no longer neutral in mediating between the warring parties to South Sudan conflict that has displaced hundreds of
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