Ethiopia Not Closing rather digitizing Its Jail
By Dinberu Degnetu
Various news agencies are reporting that the Ethiopian Government on Friday April 6, 2018 announced it had closed its notorious detention center. What…
A group of Mafia in Military refuse the Prime Minister to…
A group of Mafia in Ethiopia Military refuse newly appointed Prime Minister to release Taye Dandaaa, a government spokes person in Oromia and Seyoum…
Ethiopia: More than 1,100 detained under state of emergency
State-affiliated media says 1,107 people have been arrested for violating the emergency decree announced last month.
Authorities in Ethiopia have arrested more than 1,100 people since the…
A tough road ahead for Ethiopia’s new leader Abiy Ahmed
Ahmed has a unique opportunity to unite a country riven by ethnic tensions – but he is facing deep-rooted challenges.
by Awol K Allo
31…
CPJ joins call for Ethiopia’s prime minister-designate to ensure journalists’ immediate…
March 30, 2018
The Committee to Protect Journalists, along with 40 civil society organizations, yesterday sent a joint letter to Ethiopia’s prime minister-designate, Abiy Ahmed,…
Journalist Temesgen Desalegn admitted to hospital, others kept in “inhuman condition”
Mahlet Fasil
Addis Abeba, March 30/2018 – Journalist Temesgen Desalegn, who has been rearrested last sunday along with ten other here in the capital Addis Abeba,…
Many detained by the army as crackdown intensifies in various cities…
among them recently released politicians and journalists
Addis Standard
Liyat Fekade
Addis Abeba, March 26/2018 – In what appears to be a fresh round of crackdown by the army…
AHRE Press Statement: Ethiopia arrests 11 journalist, bloggers and activists
Association for Human Rights in Ethiopia (AHRE)
March 26, 2018
AHRE has found that 11 journalists, bloggers and activists arrested during the weekend, including recently released…
Ethiopia crisis: Kenya must abandon indifference and speak up – HRW
Abdur Rahman Alfa Shaban
International rights group, Human Rights Watch (HRW) says as a matter of urgency, the Kenyan government must speak on the political…
Ethiopian Instability Could Have Huge Security, Humanitarian Impact on Kenya
Felix Horne
Senior Researcher, Horn of Africa
Over 9,000 Ethiopians, many of them women and children, have fled into Kenya’s Marsabit County over the last…
Washington Update – From Friends of Congressman Chris Smith (Mesfin Mekonen)
Representative Christopher Smith (R-NJ) has done more for Ethiopia, and taken a greater interest in Ethiopian human rights and democracy, than any American politician….
Rape and genital maiming/mutilation as a torture method in Ethiopian Prisons?
Evidence that prisoners of conscience, critical journalists, and activists have been abused
መረጃ አድራሻ:-
ግርማ ብርሃኑ Girma Berhanu
የትምህርትና ልዩ ትምህርት ትምህርት ክፍል(ፕሮፌሰር)
Department of…
MERCENARY MILITARY COMMAND POST REIGN OF TERROR IN ETHIOPIA
Author’s Note: This commentary is aimed at the Diaspora Ethiopian media. It aims to accomplish two objectives. First, I aim to openly challenge the…
Swedish foreign ministry calls Ethiopian Ambassador over protracted court case of…
addisstandard 2018-03-14
Mahlet Fasil
Addis Abeba, March 14/2018 – The Swedish Foreign ministry has on Tuesday March 13 called Ethiopia’s Ambassador to the country, Prof. Merga Bekana, for…
Ethiopia: AHRE condemns killings of civilians under the state of emergency…
Association for Human Rights in Ethiopia (AHRE)
Press Statement
11 March, 2018
Ethiopian military forces fired live ammunition into a crowd, injuring and killing civilians, on March 10,…
Ethiopia arrests critical blogger Seyoum Teshome
CPJ
Nairobi, March 9, 2018–Ethiopian authorities should immediately release Seyoum Teshome, who publishes theEthiothinktank blog, the Committee to Protect Journalists said today. Security forces yesterday arrested…
Ethiopia’s Model of Ethnic Federalism Buckles Under Internal Tensions
World Politics Review
William Davison Tuesday, Feb. 27, 2018
After almost three years of deadly, sporadic crises, 2018 brought signs of much-needed change to Ethiopia when…
Ethiopia: Killings, arrests under new State of Emergency (AHRE)
Association for Human Rights in Ethiopia (AHRE)
Press Statement March 09, 2018
On March 2, 2018, the Ethiopian Parliament approved a new six-month state of emergency…
TPLF’s rage against the Oromia duo.
Hindessa Abdul
The nation seems to have held its breath in anticipation of the next Prime Minister. The choice, as it stands now, doesn’t seem…
MORE THAN A DOZEN KILLED BY SECURITY FORCES IN ETHIOPIA’S OROMIA;…
Addis Standard
Etenesh Abera & Liyat Fekade
Addis Abeba, March 05/2018 – Following the news of the state of emergency, which the speaker of the house of people’s…
State of Emergency in Ethiopia! A Constitutional Coup D’état?
By Laalo Guduru
February 2018
Introduction
What an eventful and an emotional roller-coaster ride February 2018 was in Ethiopia. First, the Oromo People’s Democratic Organization (OPDO) released…
Ethiopia Authorities Order Security Forces to Quell Prote
By Nizar Manek
Blloomberg
Security forces instructed to use ‘all necessary measures’
Ethiopia’s government declared a state of emergency Feb. 16
Ethiopian authorities ordered the country’s security…
Canadians call for return of relative held in Ethiopia
Family and rights group demand release of a Canadian citizen imprisoned in Ethiopia for alleged ‘terrorist crimes’.
by David Child
A Canadian family is calling on…
To save Ethiopia from civil war, solutions must work from the…
BY ALEMAYEHU MARIAM
OPINION CONTRIBUTOR — 02/21/18
Ethiopia teeters on the edge of a precipice. For the past two years, waves of defiant public protests have made…
