Ethiopian forces ‘kill 140’ in land row over Addis Ababa expansion

By AFP Nairobi (AFP) – At least 140 people have been killed in Ethiopia over the past two months in a crackdown on anti-government protests sparked by plans to expand the capital into farmland, Human Rights Watch said Friday. “Security Read More ...

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Kenya and Ethiopia: A cross-border initiative to advance peace and development

TRUST Author: Ambassador Amina Mohamed & Dr Tedros Adhanom Ambassador Amina Mohamed (right) and Dr Tedros Adhanom (left) sign an MOU in Moyale, Kenya. Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta and Ethiopian Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn look on, December 7, 2015. CREDIT: Read More ...

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Kenya and Ethiopia: A cross-border initiative to advance peace and development

TRUST Author: Ambassador Amina Mohamed & Dr Tedros Adhanom Ambassador Amina Mohamed (right) and Dr Tedros Adhanom (left) sign an MOU in Moyale, Kenya. Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta and Ethiopian Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn look on, December 7, 2015. CREDIT: Read More ...

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Ethiopia’s drought overlooked as aid funneled to more desperate crises

By James Jeffrey, Al Jazeera Health clinics such as this one in the town of Idaga Hamus, about 30 miles south of the border with Eritrea, aren’t yet inundated with malnourished children — but there are some, like this mother’s Read More ...

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Hand grenade attack kills two at Ethiopian university

By Aaron Maasho ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) – A hand grenade attack killed two students and injured six in a university in southern Ethiopia, police said, the second such attack in the country in three weeks. An attacker or attackers hurled Read More ...

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Hand grenade attack kills two at Ethiopian university

By Aaron Maasho ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) – A hand grenade attack killed two students and injured six in a university in southern Ethiopia, police said, the second such attack in the country in three weeks. An attacker or attackers hurled Read More ...

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Ethiopia: What if they were really set free?

If the government let people breathe, they might fly ADDIS ABABA AND LALIBELA I The Economist THE Ben Abeba restaurant is a spiral-shaped concrete confection perched on a mountain ridge near Lalibela, an Ethiopian town known for its labyrinth of Read More ...

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Ethiopia: What if they were really set free?

If the government let people breathe, they might fly ADDIS ABABA AND LALIBELA I The Economist THE Ben Abeba restaurant is a spiral-shaped concrete confection perched on a mountain ridge near Lalibela, an Ethiopian town known for its labyrinth of Read More ...

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Egypt’s Sisi tells Egyptians ‘not to worry’ about Ethiopian dam

Ahram Online The Egyptian president’s statement comes 24 hours after signing a new agreement between Egypt, Ethiopia and Sudan on the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam Renaissance dam meetings extended to third day amid ‘hopes of positive results’ Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi told the Egyptians on Wednesday not to worry about the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam,

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Statement by National Security Council Spokesperson Ned Price on the Arrest of Journalists in Ethiopia

Whitehouse Having welcomed developments in Ethiopia earlier this year–including the release of several detained bloggers–that suggested increased protections for the fundamental right of free expression, we are deeply concerned by the recent arrests of other journalists in Ethiopia. We continue to urge the Ethiopian Government to build on earlier developments by strengthening free speech protections

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