Blanket US support for the Ethiopian regime risks dismantling the country’s already beleaguered opposition By Awol Allo It was only two months ago during the Israeli election that the White House was scrambling to convince the American public that the United States does not intervene in the electoral processes of other democracies. “This administration goes
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Blanket US support for the Ethiopian regime risks dismantling the country’s already beleaguered opposition By Awol Allo It was only two months ago during the Israeli election that the White House was scrambling to convince the American public that the United States does not intervene in the electoral processes of other democracies. “This administration goes
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Since the last election, the ruling party has exerted more control and increased its repression of basic liberties. Felix Horne is a Horn of Africa researcher at Human Rights Watch. This is what an election campaign looks like in Ethiopia, where the ruling coalition took 99.6 percent of parliamentary seats in the last national elections,
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The tragic but fleeting headlines about the plight of Ethiopian migrants in Libya, Yemen and South Africa have shadowed another more consequential event: Ethiopia’s parliamentary elections, slated to take place in less than a month on May 24. This will be Ethiopia’s first vote without Meles Zenawi, the country’s leader of two decades, who died
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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 Mwaura Samora NAIROBI: The recent attack on Garissa University College, where more than 150 lives were cut short by Al-Shabaab bullets, has evoked anger among Kenyans. This and other bloody attacks in Mandera, Lamu and Nairobi have triggered numerous debates, drawing parallels between Kenya and Ethiopia in the war against terrorism. Despite Ethiopia
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Map: The 54 countries that helped the CIA with its torture-linked rendition program By Max Fisher ,vox.com The CIA torture program was even bigger than the details released in the Senate Intelligence Committee torture report might suggest. The reason is that the CIA didn’t just have its own torture program, run out of its “black
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Map: The 54 countries that helped the CIA with its torture-linked rendition program By Max Fisher ,vox.com The CIA torture program was even bigger than the details released in the Senate Intelligence Committee torture report might suggest. The reason is that the CIA didn’t just have its own torture program, run out of its “black
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Ex-mayor of Addis Abeba OPDO’S Kuma Demeksa According to the Ethiopian News Agency, the ex-mayor of Addis Abeba and one of the key leaders of the OPDO-EPRDF has been appointed as an Ambassador by Ethiopian President Dr. Mulatu Teshome. The News did not detail to which country Kuma has been assigned. The report added that
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