Activists express anger at US president’s trip to country widely criticized for human right abuses. Global Voices report, The Guardian Barack Obama during a to Wajir in Kenya, close to the Ethiopian border, before he was elected US president in 2008. Photograph: Stringer/AFP/Getty Images Barack Obama’s decision to visit Ethiopia has shocked human rights activists, who
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By Tom Miles GENEVA (Reuters) – Swiss police were guarding three U.N. investigators into Eritrea’s human rights record in Geneva on Wednesday after a top official said they had received threats on the street and at their hotel. The inquiry’s report published earlier this month showed human rights violations in Eritrea that may amount to
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US President Barack Obama’s last trip to Africa before his term ends will take him to Kenya and Ethiopia, where he’ll be the first sitting US president to visit. Obama first toured Africa nearly two years ago, making stops in Senegal, Tanzania, and South Africa. Obama’s decision to stop in Ethiopia has surprised human rights
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The UAE ambassador survived as he was in a bulletproof vehicle A military vehicle escorting a United Arab Emirates’ diplomatic convoy was hit by a car bomb in Somalia’s capital, killing at least 12 people, police say. The UAE ambassador survived the suicide attack as he was riding in a bullet-proof land cruiser vehicle, the
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By Felix Horne Elections where a ruling party wins 100 percent of the seats in parliament should always ring alarm bells. Results in Ethiopia from the May 24 general election, released yesterday, are no exception. According to Ethiopia’s National Electoral Board, the ruling Ethiopian People’s Revolutionary Democratic Front (EPRDF) coalition won 546 parliamentary seats (with
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According to the global land monitoring agency Land Matrix, India is the biggest investor in land in Ethiopia, accounting for 70 per cent of the land acquired by foreigners since 2008. Firms from India have acquired over 600,000 hectares of land in the country, which is more than 10 times the land acquired by the
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Rally follows decision by Attorney General not to open criminal probe into beating of Ethiopian soldier Hundreds of Ethiopian Israelis took to the streets of Tel Aviv once more on Monday to protest against discrimination following a decision by the Attorney General not to open a criminal investigation into the beating of a 21-year-old Ethiopian
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Press Release The late Tadesse Abraha The suspicious murder of opposition leaders and wide-spread human rights violations against opposition party members over the past few weeks raises questions about Ethiopia’s elections, said Amnesty International as the parliamentary poll results were announced yesterday. The organization has also expressed concerns about the failure of the Africa Union
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Studies by international consultant reveal GERD’s social, economic and environmental threats on Egypt and Sudan Egypt’s Ministry of Irrigation and Water Resources received on Monday two international studies on the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD). The two studies were conducted by two European offices, one in the Netherlands and one in France, and thoroughly outlined
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Ethiopian Israelis protest despite agreement reached with the Israel Police; hundreds of officers deployed to keep calm. About 500 Ethiopian-Israeli protestors demonstrated in Tel Aviv on Monday, despite a series of agreements reached with the Israel Police before the protest designed to stop the string of demonstrations. The participants demonstrated in front of the government
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