By Anita Powell,VOA JOHANNESBURG — After a protracted silence, South African President Jacob Zuma publicly has condemned a rise in attacks on foreign nationals in two major cities. But critics point out that the leadership in the Rainbow Nation — including Zuma himself — has been less than welcoming to foreign residents, and that a
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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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Zulu King accused of hate speech Hate speech charge laid against Zulu king over foreigners remar In a statement released on Friday‚ the HRC it had noted comments by the Zulu monarch disassociating himself from the actions of people involved in the recent attacks. The commission “is investigating complaints regarding such alleged comments” — one
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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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By Sasha Chavkin, Huffington Post The soldiers pointed their guns at Odoge Otiri and led the 22-year-old student into the forest outside his village in western Ethiopia. Then, he says, they began pounding him with their nightsticks, leaving him bloody and unmoving. “I was unconscious,” he recalls. “The reason they left me is they thought
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Arrests made in Gauteng province following overnight street battles in downtown Johannesburg. Arrests have been made in South Africa as anti-immigrant violence spreads to parts of Johannesburg’s commercial heart. Police fired more rubber-coated steel bullets at a crowd of anti-immigrant protesters in downtown Johannesburg on Friday afternoon, as they tried to separate the protesters from
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Arrests made in Gauteng province following overnight street battles in downtown Johannesburg. Arrests have been made in South Africa as anti-immigrant violence spreads to parts of Johannesburg’s commercial heart. Police fired more rubber-coated steel bullets at a crowd of anti-immigrant protesters in downtown Johannesburg on Friday afternoon, as they tried to separate the protesters from
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Why it’s time for East Africa’s big success story to change the way it does business. BY ROBERT LOONEYAPRIL Just over 30 years ago, Ethiopia’s famine regularly made the news. Gruesome accounts of up to a million deaths stemming from drought and civil war captured the attention of aid agencies, sympathetic governments, and humanitarian groups
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By Lerato Mbele BBC Africa Business Report, Addis Ababa Whenever we set up our camera and flapped open our sun reflectors in Ethiopia’s capital, Addis Ababa, passers-by became curious and eager to help. But getting them to talk on camera was another matter as in general residents of the city are reticent and keep their
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AP ROME – Survivors of a capsized migrant boat off Libya have told the aid group Save the Children that an estimated 400 people are believed to have drowned. Even before the survivors were interviewed, Italy’s Coast Guard said it assumed that there were many dead given the size of the ship and that nine
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