Hifikepunye Pohamba was a founding member of Namibia’s Swapo liberation movement The outgoing Namibian President Hifikepunye Pohamba has won the world’s most valuable individual award, the Mo Ibrahim prize for African leadership. The $5m (£3.2m) award is given each year to an elected leader who governed well, raised living standards and then left office. But
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British support for Ethiopia scheme withdrawn amid abuse allegations Department for International Development will no longer back $4.9bn project that critics claim has funded a brutal resettlement programme The Guardian By Sam Jones and Mark Anderson The UK has ended its financial support for a controversial development project alleged to have helped the Ethiopian government
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By Andrew Wig A judge on Friday, Feb. 20, sentenced Amreya Shefa to seven years and two months in prison for the death of her husband, Habibi Tesema. The sentencing came nearly a month after Shefa was convicted of first-degree manslaughter, stemming from the Dec. 1, 2013, stabbing of Tesema, 48, in the married couple’s
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By STELLA CHERONO A case against 101 Ethiopians accused of being in Kenya illegally has delayed due to lack of an Amharic interpreter. The foreigners, who are said to have been on their way to South Africa, did not have travel documents, police told the Nation. They were arrested on Monday in Tassia Estate in
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danielle@vox.com Enough money to retire *and* buy snazzy flannel shirts. Mr. Money Mustache When do you hope to retire? 65? 60 if you really get frugal? Mr. Money Mustache left the working world at 30, and he wants you to, as well. The popular personal finance blogger (who only reveals that his first name is
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danielle@vox.com Enough money to retire *and* buy snazzy flannel shirts. Mr. Money Mustache When do you hope to retire? 65? 60 if you really get frugal? Mr. Money Mustache left the working world at 30, and he wants you to, as well. The popular personal finance blogger (who only reveals that his first name is
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The Associated Press NAIROBI, Kenya — Kenyan police said Tuesday they arrested 101 Ethiopian nationals suspected of traveling illegally through Kenya on their way to South Africa. The suspects appeared before Magistrate Victor Wakumile but were not charged because they did not understand English and there was no Amharic interpreter. Wakumile postponed the case to
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(Washington, DC) – The World Bank should fully address serious human rights issues raised by the bank’s internal investigation into a project in Ethiopia, Human Rights Watch said in a letter to the bank’s vice president for Africa. The bank’s response to the investigation findings attempts to distance the bank from the many problems confirmed
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By Tewodros Abebe, Accokeek The Feb. 9 editorial “Ethiopia’s stifled press” raised fundamental issues of human rights, democracy and governance. The journalists and bloggers languishing in prison committed no crime except to criticize the ruling party. If the government of Ethiopia is concerned for its citizens, as a spokesman asserted in a Feb. 13 letter
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By India Rakusen, BBC The Free Zone 9 Bloggers In April 2014 BBC Trending covered the arrest of six bloggers and three journalists in Ethiopia. The bloggers are part of a group known as Zone 9, and are well known for campaigning around censorship and human rights issues in Ethiopia. Ten months on from their
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