By LAUREN FRENCH Half a dozen lawmakers will travel with Barack Obama to Kenya and Ethiopia next week in what is the president’s first trip to his ancestral homeland since being elected. The White House invited a large contingent of lawmakers, prominently members of the Congressional Black Caucus, to join him on the Africa trip.
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Washington (AFP) – More than 50 African and global human rights groups on Tuesday called on US President Barack Obama to publicly meet democracy activists when he visits Ethiopia and Kenya later this month. In a letter delivered to the White House, groups welcomed Obama’s planned visit but voiced concerns about “grave and worsening human
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“I’m still scared that I might go back to prison” says journalist Tesfalem Waldyes BBC: It’s never an easy decision: Should I interview someone who wants to talk in public, but who knows that a word out of line could mean arrest and imprisonment? I’ve wrestled with the issue before in Myanmar, also known as
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VIENNA (Reuters) – Iran and six major world powers reached a nuclear deal on Tuesday, capping more than a decade of negotiations with an agreement that could transform the Middle East, and which Israel called an “historic surrender”. Under the deal, sanctions imposed by the United States, European Union and United Nations would be lifted
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Global development professionals network sustainable development: preparing for 2015 What to expect from the Addis Ababa Financing for Development conference Development economist Owen Barder gives an insight into what the coming five days of plenaries, roundtables and side events will be all about On Monday 13 July, world leaders will gather in Ethiopia’s capital, Addis
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By Andrea Peterson Now we know what it takes to get your hacking tools taken away if you’re a repressive government. It’s not enough to get caught spying on U.S.-based journalists — or even to have the story plastered on the front page of a major U.S. newspaper. But if you get caught doing it
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ROME (Reuters) – Italian cyber-security firm Hacking Team said a government might have been behind a massive hack of its systems and warned that the subsequent leaking of its computer codes could prove a field day for criminals. Unknown hackers last week downloaded 400GB of data from the firm, which makes surveillance software that allows
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By William Davison, Guardian After more than a year of imprisonment, two Ethiopian women had no idea they were about to be released until a prison loudspeaker informed them they were free to go. “They were kind of stunned. Can you imagine what kind of emotion? They didn’t believe it at first – they thought
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