Vice WARNING: This article contains disturbing images Ethiopia, one of the world’s hungriest countries, is selling off vast chunks of its land to foreign investors who are growing food products for export — and those who get in the government’s way are being killed or silenced, according to a new investigation. Under the country’s controversial “villagization”
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Thinktank accuses Ethiopian government of stirring ethnic tensions as Suri displaced to make way for large plantations Suri boys with water gourds herd cattle along a road in Tulgit, Omo valley, Ethiopia. Photograph: Danita Delimont/Alamy David Smith, Africa correspondent, The Guardian Ethiopia’s policy of leasing millions of hectares of land to foreign investors is encouraging human
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(RSF) – At least six publications have had to close in recent months and around 30 journalists have fled abroad since the start of the year as a result of the biggest crackdown on the privately-owned press since 2005, one reflecting a government desire to make a clean sweep of independent media before parliamentary elections
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By Michael Igoe Men and women on the steps of the Church of St. Mary of Zion in Axum, Ethiopia. A deeply religious nation, Ethiopians ascribe much of what happens in life — such as having a child who displays behavioral differences — to God’s will. Photo by: A. Davey / CC BY A church
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HuffPost Germany | By Sebastian Christ When the crisis in Ukraine first escalated in February, many German experts on Russia were caught off guard. Almost none of them had foreseen that the revolution in Kiev would be followed by the events in Crimea. Not least because many journalists and scientists had misjudged Vladimir Putin. While much
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By Kevin Montgomery, Gawker We already know tech’s diversity reports are dismal. Now a black female engineer who works at Google adds a narrative to the corporate numbers that are so easy to dismiss. In eight years at the company, she has cycled through harassment, isolation, being passed over for promotions, and surrendering her identity to fit
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By Kevin Montgomery, Gawker We already know tech’s diversity reports are dismal. Now a black female engineer who works at Google adds a narrative to the corporate numbers that are so easy to dismiss. In eight years at the company, she has cycled through harassment, isolation, being passed over for promotions, and surrendering her identity to fit
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By Adam Taylor, The Washington Post (Anthony England / @EbolaPhone) Ebola is a frightening, unpredictable disease. Nearly 5,000 West Africans have died from the current outbreak with more than 13,000 people thought infected. However, so far the problem remains largely limited to Liberia, Guinea and Sierra Leone. Two other countries, Nigeria and Senegal, have had cases,
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Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation – Author: Kagondu Njagi More on: Adapting to Climate Change Ethiopian farmers make their way towards agricultural plantations in search of work as migrant laborers. GONDAR, Ethiopia (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – When increasingly erratic weather ruined his crops of maize, wheat and barley in highland Maksegni, the middle-aged farmer migrated to
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Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation – Author: Kagondu Njagi More on: Adapting to Climate Change Ethiopian farmers make their way towards agricultural plantations in search of work as migrant laborers. GONDAR, Ethiopia (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – When increasingly erratic weather ruined his crops of maize, wheat and barley in highland Maksegni, the middle-aged farmer migrated to
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