Ethiopian man takes UK to court over resettlement policy

BBC A legal battle has been launched by an Ethiopian citizen who claims the UK has helped to fund a “brutal” resettlement programme in his country. The man, who can only be referred to as “O”, won permission to seek a judicial review at London’s High Court. He wants a ruling that the UK acted

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Yemen to deport 44 Ethiopian migrants

Yemen Times Forty-four Ethiopians who have been held since Monday in Taiz governorate are currently awaiting deportation and are not seeking refugee status. Coast Guard spokesperson Major Hussein Al-Harazi confirmed the arrest and said the 44 Ethiopians were taken to Mocha Security Department. Colonel Saleh Alfani, the director of operations for the Coast Guard, told

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‘Britain is supporting a dictatorship in Ethiopia’

The Guardian By David Smith It’s 30 years since Ethiopia’s famine came to attention in the UK. Now, a farmer plans to sue Britain for human rights abuses, claiming its aid has funded a government programme of torture and beatings as villagers have been removed from their homes “Life was good because the land was

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‘Britain is supporting a dictatorship in Ethiopia’

The Guardian By David Smith It’s 30 years since Ethiopia’s famine came to attention in the UK. Now, a farmer plans to sue Britain for human rights abuses, claiming its aid has funded a government programme of torture and beatings as villagers have been removed from their homes “Life was good because the land was

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‘Britain is supporting a dictatorship in Ethiopia’

The Guardian By David Smith It’s 30 years since Ethiopia’s famine came to attention in the UK. Now, a farmer plans to sue Britain for human rights abuses, claiming its aid has funded a government programme of torture and beatings as villagers have been removed from their homes “Life was good because the land was

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‘Britain is supporting a dictatorship in Ethiopia’

The Guardian By David Smith It’s 30 years since Ethiopia’s famine came to attention in the UK. Now, a farmer plans to sue Britain for human rights abuses, claiming its aid has funded a government programme of torture and beatings as villagers have been removed from their homes “Life was good because the land was

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IOM Ethiopia and Ministry of Foreign Affairs organize Diaspora Mapping Seminar

IOM The International Organization for Migration, in collaboration with the Ethiopian Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MOFA), is holding a five-day seminar on diaspora mapping in Addis Ababa. For this first-of-its-kind seminar, IOM has invited specialists on labour migration and development to deepen the knowledge and sharpen the skills of officials from MOFA in Ethiopia and

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IOM Ethiopia and Ministry of Foreign Affairs organize Diaspora Mapping Seminar

IOM The International Organization for Migration, in collaboration with the Ethiopian Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MOFA), is holding a five-day seminar on diaspora mapping in Addis Ababa. For this first-of-its-kind seminar, IOM has invited specialists on labour migration and development to deepen the knowledge and sharpen the skills of officials from MOFA in Ethiopia and

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KUWAIT SCAPEGOATS, CRIMINALIZES ETHIOPIAN DOMESTIC WORKERS

MIGRANT RIGHTS Kuwait’s low-income migrants endure daily discrimination but local media and authorities tend to particularly criminalize Ethiopian domestic workers. The March 2014 murder of a Kuwaiti woman by an Ethiopian domestic worker most recently inflamed rhetoric against Ethiopian migrants and incited national panic against domestic workers; state officials and local media fueled racist hysteria in

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Aid donors announce investigation into tribal evictions in Ethiopia 

Survival International Bulldozers clearing Mursi land in Mago National Park, where communities are being evicted from their land to make way for sugar plantations. © E. Lafforgue/Survival Representatives of some of Ethiopia’s biggest aid donors have announced that they will send a team to the southwest of the country to investigate persistent reports of human

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