Press Release No. 15/286 End-of-Mission press releases include statements of IMF staff teams that convey preliminary findings after a visit to a country. The views expressed in this statement are those of the IMF staff and do not necessarily represent the views of the IMF’s Executive Board. Based on the preliminary findings of this mission,
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By GRAHAM PEEBLES Every five years the Ethiopian people are invited by the ruling party to take part in a democratic pantomime called ‘General Elections’. Sunday 24th May saw the latest production take to the national stage. With most opposition party leaders either in prison or abroad, the populace living under a suffocating blanket of
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US President Barack Obama speaks following a forum with regional and US business leaders in Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania, 1 July 2013 Ethiopia will now feature in Mr Obama’s final official African tour Barack Obama will become the first sitting US president to visit Ethiopia, the White House says. Mr Obama will travel to the
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UN raises concerns that secret deals are being brokered with ‘Africa’s North Korea’ in an effort to stop migrants coming to Europe Eritrean migrants, pictured in Calais, are the second largest African group fleeing to Europe. UN officials and human rights organisations are increasingly concerned at what they believe are secret deals being drawn up
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By Wired.Com In Ethiopia, Human Rights Watch works to free bloggers who were arrested on politically motivated charges. Throughout India and Brazil, the nonprofit Medicines for Malaria Venture fights a disease that still kills 500,000 people per year. Far to the north, the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute gathers international policymakers and researchers to unknot
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AFP – Andargachew Tsege, 60, the leader of the outlawed Ginbot 7 group and who was granted political asylum in Britain, was convicted in absentia in 2009 for terrorism, and was imprisoned a year ago after being controversially extradited from Yemen. “Death sentences are very rarely carried out by the court in Ethiopia. His sentence
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By Wilson Dizard @willdizard Dozens of journalists have been forced into exile in the last 12 months, fearing imprisonment or death at the hands of their own governments, according to a report released Wednesday. The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) issued its “Journalists in Exile” study on Wednesday, showing that at least 82 reporters were
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By William Davison An Ethiopian parliamentary candidate for the opposition Blue Party died after being assaulted in Debre Markos, a town in the country’s northwest, the group said. Two people attacked Samuel Awoke, 29, with a club and knife as he returned home alone from a night out with friends, spokesman Yonatan Tesfaye said by
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By William Davison An Ethiopian parliamentary candidate for the opposition Blue Party died after being assaulted in Debre Markos, a town in the country’s northwest, the group said. Two people attacked Samuel Awoke, 29, with a club and knife as he returned home alone from a night out with friends, spokesman Yonatan Tesfaye said by
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“Only after Al-Bashir safely touched down in Khartoum on Monday, were Sudanese troops withdrawn. While the fiasco around President Omar Al-Bashir’s possible arrest in Johannesburg escalated, the Sudanese troops held about 1 400 South African soldiers in Darfur “hostage,” according to a report. The South African National Defence Union’s Pikkie Greeff on Tuesday told EWN
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