By William Davison, Bloomberg Protests by Ethiopia’s largest community against a plan to integrate the capital, Addis Ababa, with surrounding towns have spiraled into fatal clashes between ethnic groups over land in one district, the Ethiopian Human Rights Council said. Conflict between Oromo and Amhara people in Ameya Woreda of Oromia state flared on Dec.
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By William Davison Ethiopian police killed 10 Oromo students who were demonstrating peacefully over plans to integrate the capital, Addis Ababa, with surrounding towns in Oromia region in the past three weeks, an opposition leader said. High-school and university students from across Ethiopia’s most-populous region are protesting to demand the government shelve a master plan
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By Michelle Kagari and Nani Jansen Today, on International Human Rights Day, the Ethiopian journalist Eskinder Nega, who was convicted on trumped up terrorism charges, will have spent more than four years in jail. Eskinder is just one of many Ethiopian journalists currently languishing behind bars, merely for doing their job. But unlike other journalists
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Human Rights Watch Student protests are spreading throughout Ethiopia’s Oromia region, as people demonstrate against the possibility that Oromo farmers and residents living near the capital, Addis Ababa, could be evicted from their lands without appropriate – or possibly any – compensation. Social media is filled with images of bloodied protesters; there are credible reports
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CPJ CPJ’s years-long advocacy paid off in July with the release from prison of Reeyot Alemu, a journalist who has been jailed in Ethiopia since 2011. Reeyot wrote columns critical of the government for the now-defunct independent weekly Feteh. In 2012, a court sentencedher on terrorism charges to 14 years in prison, which was laterreduced
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Deutsche Welle The Zone 9 bloggers and journalists The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has awarded its International Press Freedom Award to six Ethiopian bloggers who served more than a year in Ethiopia’s notorious prisons. Until the Zone 9 bloggers suddenly appeared on the Addis Ababa web scene under the motto “We Blog Because We
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Huffington Post Yohannes Woldemariam Associate Professor of International Relations and Environmental Studies at Fort Lewis College The Ethiopian Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn claims Al-Shabab is diminishing with Ethiopian support to the Somali government. He also told BBC Africa editor, Mary Harper, that “Ethiopians are satisfied with the system of government in the country.” During the
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ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia (AP) — An Ethiopian official says the country’s more than 730,000 refugees could go hungry if $55 million in food aid is not raised by the end of the year. Ayalew Awoke, deputy director of refugee affairs, said Monday that a $20 million donation by the U.S. will be used up by
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Global Research The Emirati Armed Forces has started to use actively the Eritrean ports. According to our information, at least, three landing craft belonging to the United Arab Emirates were docked in the port of Assab on September 16. A diplomatic row between Djibouti and UAE took precedence of these developments. On 28 April the
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By Katy Migiro, Reuters NAIROBI (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Donors are not responding fast enough to urgent calls for more aid to drought-stricken Ethiopia where record-breaking numbers of children are suffering malnutrition, the United Nations said on Monday. Ethiopia is experiencing its worst drought in decades, after low and erratic rainfall during the spring and
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