Ethiopian journalists must choose between being locked up or locked out

By Nicole Schilit/Journalist Assistance Associate Journalists who fled to Nairobi over security fears perform a traditional Ethiopian coffee ceremony in one of the cramped apartments they share. (CPJ/Nicole Schilit) A sharp increase in the number of Ethiopian journalists fleeing into exile has been recorded by the Committee to Protect Journalists in the past 12 months.

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Rapprochement on the Nile

By Goitom Gebreluel, Aljazeera The Egypt-Ethiopia dispute over the Nile basin can evolve into a strategic partnership. Ethiopia and Egypt have successfully managed to end their millennia-long rivalry over the river Nile. Ethiopia’s announcement in 2011 of its intention to construct Africa’s largest hydropower plant on its share of the Blue Nile led to developments

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Ethiopians in India: From Slaves to Reformers and Rulers

By Vikas Pandey, BBC This painting shows a reservoir built by an Abyssinian eunuch in the 17th Century India and Africa have a shared history in trade, music, religion, arts and architecture, but the historical link between these two diverse regions is rarely discussed. Many Africans travelled to India as slaves and traders, but eventually settled

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Ethiopians in India: From Slaves to Reformers and Rulers

By Vikas Pandey, BBC This painting shows a reservoir built by an Abyssinian eunuch in the 17th Century India and Africa have a shared history in trade, music, religion, arts and architecture, but the historical link between these two diverse regions is rarely discussed. Many Africans travelled to India as slaves and traders, but eventually settled

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Bill Gates Faces Trial In India For Illegally Testing Tribal Children With Vaccines

Natural Society By Christina Sarich Bill Gates Faces Trial in India for Illegally Testing Tribal Children with Vaccines. Have Bill Gates and his eugenicist foundation’s crimes against humanity finally caught up with him? If the Supreme Court of India has anything to say about it, he will face the ramifications of poisoning millions of Indian

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I’m longing for you, comrades

By Zelalem Kibret From Kilinto prison, Addis Ababa Ethiopia O! The mighty reminiscence! Of all the thoughts nothing is more haunting than reminiscence. When I read, walk; sleep — in all of my daily routines I recall yesterday. Yesterday as if it is painted by one of the renaissance realist painters. Those yesterdays are here

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Internet freedom in Africa: Ethiopia and The Gambia most repressive; South Africa and Kenya freest

By Christine Mungai African governments are remarkably sophisticated when it comes to surveillance, spying, and the use of malware ETHIOPIA, The Gambia and Sudan are some of the most repressive places in Africa for online freedom, a new report by watchdog organisation Freedom House indicates, while South Africa and Kenya are the among the most

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Kidnapped, raped and left for dead: who will protect Ethiopia’s girls?

By Rediet Wegayehu, The Guardian One day in early October, Hanna Lalango, 16, did not return from school to her home in the Ethiopian capital, Addis Ababa, at the usual time. Her father Lalongo Hayesso was worried about his youngest daughter. “We waited for her at her usual time … but we had to wait

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የኢትዮጵያ መንግሥት ገመና: ተመስገን ደሳለኝ (ከዝዋይ እስር ቤት)

መሐሙድ የሱፍ የተወለደው በ1980ዓ.ም ከሶማሌ ክልል ርእሰ-መዲና ጅጅጋ 500 ኪሎሜትር ርቀት ላይ በምትገኘውዶሀን ከተማ ነው፡፡ ለቤተሰቡ ሰባተኛ ልጅ ሲሆን፤ አምስት እህቶችእና ሦስት ወንድሞች አሉት፡፡ በጅጅጋ ሁለተኛ ደረጃ ት/ቤት እስከ አስረኛ ክፍል ድረስ መዝለቁቢሳካለትም፤ ከዚህ በላይ ግን ሊቀጥል አልተቻለውም፡፡ ምክንያቱ ደግሞ የኢትዮጵያመንግስት የደህንነት ሠራተኞች የ1999ዓ.ም የግንቦት ሃያ በዓል በጅጅጋ ከተማ ስታዲዬም በተከበረበት ዕለት፣ የኦጋዴን ነፃአውጪ ግንባር

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Ethiopia and Other 54 countries that helped the CIA with its torture-linked rendition program

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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