Murderer’s Row: Why this week’s Africa Summit needs to pay more than just lip service to human rights and good governance

Human Rights Watch By Daniel Bekele Three notorious African leaders – Zimbabwe’s Robert Mugabe, Eritrea’s Isaias Afewerki, and Sudan’s Omar al-Bashir – are not invited to this week’s U.S.-Africa Leaders Summit in Washington, D.C. But a number of other long-ruling African strongmen, like Angola’s José Eduardo dos Santos, Equatorial Guinea’s Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo, and Uganda’s Yoweri Museveni, will be there. In fact, over a dozen African countries which will be

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How Ethiopians in the US cling onto their heritage

By Damian Zane BBC Africa, Washington The traditional music plays and children, some dressed in Ethiopian costume, perform a traditional dance: Raising and lowering their shoulders to the beat. Like millions of other children in the United States, these American-Ethiopians are at summer camp. However, this one is about maintaining their connection with their roots

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US-Africa: Make Human Rights Central to Summit

Human Rights Watch Obama Should Press African Leaders to End Repression (Washington, DC) – US President Barack Obama should ensure that human rights concerns are a major focus of the US-Africa Leaders Summit, Human Rights Watch said today. Rights concerns should not be relegated to meetings in the margins of the summit. The theme of

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Is the US still giving aid money to Africa’s dictators?

Devex By Lorenzo Piccio Ethiopian Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn and U.S. President Barack Obama converse at the G-8 summit in Northern Ireland. While Addis Ababa remains one of the largest U.S. aid recipients in sub-Saharan Africa, U.S. aid flows to Ethiopia have fallen sharply over the course of the Obama administration. Photo by: Pete Souza Five years

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How Did US Ebola Patients Get ‘Experimental’ Drug? Why not Africans?

CNN By Dr. Sanjay Gupta and Danielle Dellorto, (CNN) - It’s a story that could have come from a cinematic medical thriller: Two American missionary workers contract Ebola. Their situation is dire. Three vials containing a highly experimental drug are flown into Liberia in a last-ditch effort to save them. And the drug flown in last

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7 Things to Consider Before Choosing Sides in the Middle East Conflict

THE Huffington Post BLOG By Ali A. Rizvi Are you “pro-Israel” or “pro-Palestine”? It isn’t even noon yet as I write this, and I’ve already been accused of being both. These terms intrigue me because they directly speak to the doggedly tribal nature of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. You don’t hear of too many other countries

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Op-Ed In Ethiopia, a stranglehold on freedom

LA Times By MERON AHADU AND LULIT MESFIN When Secretary of State John F. Kerry traveled to Ethiopia last year, he met a young blogger named Natnael Feleke. When he returned a few months ago, Kerry found that Feleke, along with five other bloggers and three journalists, had been arrested — the latest in a long

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UK summons Ethiopian diplomat over opposition official’s arrest

Reuters LONDON (Reuters) – Britain summoned Ethiopia’s chargé d’affaires on Monday to raise its concerns about the arrest of a British national being held in Ethiopia who has been sentenced to death over his involvement with an opposition political group. Andargachew Tsige was sentenced to death in 2009 in absentia and another trial handed him

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Miss Israel, Yityish Aynaw,  has been called up for the reserves.

By Steven Ahle
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The Israeli Army is in great shape.

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Miss Israel, Yityish Aynaw,  has been called up for the reserves.  The Miss Israel of 2013 certainly fills out the uniform nicely and it’s great the she willing accepted the call up.  I guess I am jaded because of the greedy and contemptible celebrities we have in the US.

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Elias Kifle files $120 million countersuit against a U.S. law firm, a Saudi billionaire, and Ethiopia’s government

Zegabi.com By Berhan Daniel PRESS RELEASE ATLANTA (August 4, 2014) – A U.S.-based blogger who operates a popular Ethiopian news and opinion website has filed a $120 million counter lawsuit against the Government of Ethiopia, a major U.S. lawfirm named DLA Piper, Saudi billionaire Mohammed Al Amoudi and others on Monday morning. The blogger, Mr. Elias

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